Hints and tips:
...She pulls out her iPhone — “Augustus Leopold Egg; isn’t that a great name” — to show me his 1862 painting “The Travelling Companions”, of two nearly identical women seated in a train, the spark behind the...
...I’m deeply in thrall to this arcane, transformative power of the ribbon....
...But, she adds: “I’m interested in creating an atmosphere – a bit like when you try to explain a dream to someone.”...
...Something is out there, an imageless configuration, which I must get inside my head, if I’m to have any peace....
...Although I often dislike holidays when I’m on them, I love the idea of going away as much as the next person....
...“Twenty-five years ago this wasn’t a nice area,” explains Christophe Ysewyn, owner of the minimalist, 17-room Hotel Pilar that sits on a corner of the leafy Leopold de Waelplaats square that fronts KMSKA...
...I’m not....
...Finally, my fifth guest is that most enigmatic of fictional figures, the grand cuckolder of (half-Jewish) Leopold Bloom in Joyce’s Ulysses, Molly Bloom....
...Instead, I made a precious discovery I’m only sharing because I’ve already reserved my slot for 2023....
...You know, I’m a Belgian, so I should be willing to talk about this....
...I’m naturally a ‘small c’ conservative and believe it is best to take things gradually and bring people along.”...
...“Of course I’m very honoured. It’s the Royal Academy! But I’m also happy because it’s about the spaces in between buildings, the public realm as a gathering place....
...Now, it’s an H&M, but the late-19th-century building remains untouched....
...Gryseels has refused to remove all traces of colonial legacy in the museum, which is inseparably linked to Leopold II, the Belgian king who long ruled Congo as his personal colony....
...“I’m doing this because I have to eat.”...
...Books I’m reading Five Go on a Strategy Away Day — Bruno Vincent King Leopold’s Ghost — Adam Hochschild News reports Snakebites: Like having my hand smashed by a hammer As Kofi Annan once said: “Snakebite...
...In 1988, she met Robert Louis-Dreyfus, the great grandson of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, who founded the company in 1851, on a flight between Zurich and New York....
...It germinated early last year in the archives of the Royal Museum for Central Africa at Tervuren near Brussels — formerly the Congo Museum, built in the 1890s to showcase King Leopold II’s Belgian Free State...
...These days Richemont is a global business, and there is less place for intuition, as Mr Léopold-Metzger concedes: “Every time I see a product I’m excited, I want to launch it, and probably we have too many...
...“I’m a settler by character, a diplomat, I’m always looking for that option and I would love to have a solution, a quick solution and settlement,” Ms-Louis-Dreyfus says of the dispute....
...He knew all about the Jewish opposition: anti-Zionists, the grandees of the Anglo-Jewish Association and the Conjoint Committee — Claude Montefiore and those Rothschilds, Leopold in particular — who were...
...“I’m arriving at that. I’m arriving at that,” he smiles, chewing his food. “I’m arriving at that.” And then without prompting, “I’ve never killed anyone.”...
...A few years ago, I organised an exhibition called Leopold, Richard and Robert Seyffert that travelled to galleries in New York and Washington, DC. I’m winding down my hunt for the paintings....
...“Looking at my Picasso and Braque paintings, Modigliani would exclaim, ‘I’m 10 years behind them,’ and I would be hard-pressed to comfort him,” Dutilleul recalled of sitting for this portrait....
...We round the corner into an exhibit on Authenticité, the wave of post-independence cultural nationalism, with a cloth portrait of Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first president of independent Senegal and a poet...
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