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...V&A Craft Symposium (May 16) Panel discussions and keynote speeches on the topic of craft, as well as demonstrations of goldwork, featherwork, silversmithing and weaving....
...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...Then, in June 2015: “My dear Leon. How are you? I need to meet with you. It’s both urgent and important.”...
...At a Brookings Institution event in September, Ryan called Moore v US a “misguided challenge” adding: “I’m not for a wealth tax, but I think if you use this as the argument to spike a wealth tax, you’re...
...“In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, special operations are no longer driven by Communist ideology, but they still use the same tools and methods,” said one of the report’s authors, Oleksandr V Danylyuk....
...Kahlo may also have had an affair with the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky when he and his wife stayed with Kahlo in the 1930s....
...A woman who says she was raped at convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s New York home by Leon Black, the co-founder of US investment group Apollo Global Management, has sued the former executive and Epstein...
...Free-flowing improvisation was sorely missed. ★★★☆☆ No such worries with Trinidad-raised steel pan-player Leon Foster Thomas, who spoke warmly to the audience and raised technique to a virtuosic pitch....
...Nasa asked Raymond Loewy to help turn the hull of the third stage of a Saturn V rocket into a home in which a three-man crew could live for three months at a time....
...ASA took effect, additional plaintiffs have filed complaints in New York courts over historic crimes, with cases brought against Atlantic Records, a former gynaecologist at Columbia University, financier Leon...
...featured five pairs of mentors and protégés, including British conductor Sir Colin Davis matched with Spain’s Josep Caballé Domenech and American theatre director Robert Wilson guiding Argentina’s Federico León...
...v=Tx9yrdjPKQ4 – FT Magazine cover, ‘A 12 year journey into Ukraine’ by Christopher Miller: https://www.ft.com/content/f1983056-c34f-4646-946a-6328200d65e7 – A year in review: ‘How Putin blundered into...
...On TikTok, #grandpacore — a trend describing clobber synonymous with seniors, such as V-neck novelty knits, pleat-front trousers and tweed blazers — has had almost 16mn views....
...“You need society to contribute at every level,” said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Kyiv-based Centre for Defence Reforms think-tank....
...In Monday’s attacks, the white, V-shaped drones carrying payloads of up to 30kg targeted buildings in central Kyiv, their noisy engines humming along like mopeds, which is what the Ukrainian forces now call...
...v=TPyHuCZzsVA – An interview with Shirin in the FT from September 2021: https://on.ft.com/3zVaVk8 – How science is getting closer to a world without animal testing, by Clive, Hannah and Joe Miller: https...
...Miller or his corporate Christmas cards for Tiffany & Co, Warhol’s fabrics were not designed to sell or promote anything; they were pure design....
...Control of the Hendrix estate, currently estimated to be worth around $175mn, was passed to Janie after Al’s death in 2002, a decision that was unsuccessfully contested by Hendrix’s brother Leon in a legal...
...dress than cool-girl endorsement, and in 2018, Vogue called the Falconetti the “Dress of the Year” after famous faces including Tilda Swinton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Florence Welch, Jennifer Aniston, Sienna Miller...
...It says it had helped fund the development of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine....
...The sudden boom in orders last autumn, in the wake of a sharp, pandemic-induced drop, resembled “a very sharp V . . . in China it was a very, very sharp V,” Busch said....
...The message from the V-A-C Foundation, which runs the recently opened and vast GES-2 House of Culture museum in Moscow, is more muted....
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