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...It all began in the spring of 1959, when bassist and composer Charles Mingus entered Columbia Records’ 30th Street studio in New York and recorded a tribute to the great tenor saxophonist Lester Young, who...
...These are contrasted with the late Charles Jencks’s visualisation methods, which include Plasticine models: anything and everything to get the picture right....
...At one of them, Birdland in midtown Manhattan, she saw many of that era’s greats: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus and Lester Young....
...Charles Dickens could stride for miles at night and never worry about a thing; George Sand had to dress as a man to do the same....
...Bourgeois mothers pimped their daughters to get enough to eat. Workers battled with business owners. Gaudily glad petty criminals became the jaunty symbols of a frenzied time....
...Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950-1970 collects abstract art made by women artists in the 20 years following the second world war, featuring works by Ruth Asawa, Louise Bourgeois, Barbara Hepworth,...
...A feeling shared by Lester Sloan, a black American veteran photojournalist, who revisited Saint-Paul in 2022 after first photographing Baldwin’s house in 1990....
...King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, grins in a carefree way not seen much in the five decades since....
...Then there are the subtle stained glass in pink pastel tones by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the UK or the elaborate designs of Louis Majorelle in France....
...They are bringing the dandy to Paris+ because they see a strong strand of dandyism in artists, who are always reinventing themselves against bourgeois society....
...Susan Sontag dismissed Surrealism as a bourgeois disaffection (“That its militants thought it universal,” she wrote, “is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois”)....
...Designed half a century later by Hans Hollein (who once said “everything is architecture”), this little metal storefront with its phallic window (critic Charles Jencks called it “the smallest great building...
...The floors are larch planks — a hallmark of 18th-century Lombardian bourgeois homes, and an unexpected moment of rustic Gemütlichkeit in an otherwise conspicuously polished whole....
...Charles Duncan, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, says institutional investors are interested, but so far only “very casually”....
...And actually, a lot of the time, a lot of the accounts that you talk about, they seem quite banal and bourgeois, I say bourgeois a lot....
...His house, too, is at once historic and unusual, a sort of bourgeois Helvetian Taj Mahal in whose romantic past he revels....
...Just over 60 years ago English National Opera gave the first English-language production of Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen under the advocacy of former music director Charles Mackerras, who made the...
...In 1962 he joined the infant Royal Shakespeare Company and began to push hard at the boundaries that constrained bourgeois theatre....
...Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise traces its ancestry to the radical republican, democratic socialist and internationalist traditions of the 1789 and 1848 revolutions and the Paris Commune, while Macron’s bourgeois...
...The women wore full skirts and frilly blouses and the kind of elaborate hair styles that I thought had gone out with Charles de Gaulle....
...Like the Queen, Wintour had a powerful father (Charles Wintour, editor of London’s Evening Standard newspaper), and like the Queen, she was not academically bright....
...Storms are coming — fierce expressionists Francis Bacon, Van Gogh, Louise Bourgeois are the major openings in the city in the next three weeks — but for now “The Blue Boy” serenely holds court, a high point...
...But just as gin – once the most blazered and bourgeois of boozes – has been restored to full fashion, the cravat too has found its way back into modern life....
...A Louise Bourgeois spider. A James Turrell Skyspace. An entire Frank Lloyd Wright house. Admission is free, I discover, thanks to a $20mn donation from Walmart....
...Two men and a woman in their sixties, who were described to us as bourgeois “revisionists”, stood on a podium, their heads bowed....
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