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...A giant violin made almost entirely from oranges and lemons stands in the gardens outside Menton’s Palais de l’Europe, in tribute to Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro....
...“Bigger banks could facilitate this quite easily, whereas smaller providers like building societies could team up with the likes of L&G or BlackRock to offer a simple range of trackers,” suggests Jason Hollands...
...In a work of 1919, what did the artist Marcel Duchamp add to the Mona Lisa? Which US national park straddles the California/Nevada border?...
...Behind Alfred were the brotherhood — la Confrèrie de l’Ordre de la Dinde de Licques — with men in cavalier-like costumes and women in blue and white robes....
...These included the top lot of the art auction, another Monet — “Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, temps couvert” (1891) — for $26.5mn ($30.8mn with fees, est $30mn-$40mn)....
...L’affaire Raac? Raac-gate?) continues to cause a political headache for the government....
...Plus, a classic Provençal mas in towns and villages like Ménerbes, St-Rémy, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Gordes (where Knight Frank is selling a seven-bedroom house for €2.35mn) and, of course, Cézanne’s native...
...She is an enigma not quite rivalling the Mona Lisa, but nonetheless one of the strangest portraits in all the Renaissance....
...That’s B-O-L-A underscore S-O-L. Claer Barrett And Damien? Damien Jordan If you just put Damien Talks Money into Google, or Making Money is the podcast if that’s more your thing....
...Those in on the hoax at Modern Painters magazine, where Boyd was on the editorial board, included the musician David Bowie, who hosted a launch party while Boyd himself created Tate’s art....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...On my last pre-pandemic visit to the museum, I had walked into the room with the “Mona Lisa”, only to hit a ruck of a couple of hundred people taking photographs....
...An Anglo-Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo featured a very precise bronze model, and the Mona Lisa gained one courtesy of Duchamp....
...She stands there, one foot raised, arms stretched out, proffering something lost long ago, staring past me as inscrutable as the Mona Lisa. It feels new to be seeing beauty in Brescia....
...Lisa Parkes, a private banker at Investec, describes a longstanding British client with a £3mn mortgage facility on a £5mn home....
...Titled “Something to make you smile”, the email from art collector Lisa Perry contained a photo of a Niki de Saint Phalle sculpture....
...part of a collection celebrating the London Underground. adamnathanielfurman.com Wooden side table by Swyft £195 This flat-pack design is a practical yet stylish gift. swyfthome.com Jewellery pot by Lisa...
...Conran cool in Marrakech When Jasper Conran opened L’Hôtel Marrakech, his peerlessly stylish Marrakech riad, it was to great fanfare....
...‘From Breakthrough to Blockbuster: The Business of Biotechnology’, by Donald L Drakeman, Lisa Natale Drakeman and Nektarios Oraiopoulos Medtech, pharmatech and biotech are firmly established in the start-up...
...“Whether made by hand or with tufting guns, rug-like materials will be used for cushions, carpets and car interiors,” says Lisa White, WGSN’s creative director....
...What bitcoin is to the US dollar, an NFT is to the “Mona Lisa”....
...Sotheby’s London had the sale of the only known painting of an auction room by the beloved British painter L. S. Lowry, which went for £2.1m (£2.6m with fees, est £1.2m-£1.8m) on Tuesday....
...William Boyd’s new novel, “TRIO”, will be published in October Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...“My mother, Lisa Ponti, had kept both the photographic archive from his studio (a collection of images of Ponti’s work from the 1920s to the 1970s) and his correspondence for years, in order to work on the...
...Liverpool; Nik Morrell, London; Ian Dempsey, New Jersey Polymath 1,015: Richard Otley, Wakefield Crossword 16,123: Michael Baylor, France; Scott Forbes, London; Judith Hadley, USA Polymath 1,014: Peter Boyd...
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