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...Sadler’s Wells stages the 20th anniversary edition of the Breakin’ Convention festival at the weekend but first came Boy Blue, whose Cycles premiered at the Barbican in London on Tuesday....
...Odedra’s midnight blue robe licks around him as he spins, Mangaldas’s cinnamon silks unfurl in her wake....
...The event was held in aid of the Liberal International Anti-Racialist Appeal Fund and allowed the Liberal party’s flamboyant new leader Jeremy Thorpe (in black tie) to pose with Hendrix (in blue velvet by...
...Louise Hague, Labour’s shadow transport secretary, called for an end to “Tory chaos and indecision” on key rail infrastructure: “It’s time for ministers to come clean on these plans which could strangle...
...The setting, co-conceived by Tanowitz, Harriet Jung, Clifton Taylor and Reid Bartelme, features a circular plinth, an L-shaped catwalk and a long bench, all painted a dazzling swimming-pool blue....
...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,...
...The work of art that changed everything is Louise Bourgeois wearing the shirt covered in boobs – sort of protrusions. I think about her a lot....
...shaped by Joséphine’s story; the house was originally commissioned to make jewels for Napoleon’s coronation in 1804, after which Joséphine became a client (followed later by Napoleon’s second wife, Marie-Louise...
...Marianne’s first-hand account has wide tonal shifts: the self-important Simon with his baby-blue Morris Minor; Marianne’s blustering retired colonel of a father; and his wife Lavender, an emotionally unavailable...
...Along with Woolf, Abbs gives us Louise Bourgeois and her “insomnia drawings”, and Sylvia Plath with her penchant for “that still, blue, almost eternal hour . . . before the glassy music of the milkman, settling...
...The long evening ended with some slick moves from France’s Les Twins (who have performed as Beyoncé’s backing dancers) but the smart choice for a finale would have been Kenrick Sandy’s Boy Blue, British...
...A dark-blue 1968 Jaguar E-Type is estimated at just £40,000 to £50,000, while a sleek 1993 Jaguar XJS, in Jaguar Racing Green, is listed at £13,000 to £18,000....
...Timed to coincide with the big Modern and contemporary auctions, Tefaf New York dealers are spurred to focus on blue-chip 20th-century art....
...But the slowdown in US production growth removes some of the pressure from Opec+ producers to cut production to buoy prices, said Ann-Louise Hittle, vice-president of oil markets at Wood Mackenzie....
...The capacity matinee audience is cheering heartily for the cast of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s five-star Swan Lake, but the ovation grows louder still for the smiling man in blue velvet who slips on from the...
...Consagraciòn de la Primavera uses the dazzling two-piano reduction of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring score supplemented by a Scarlatti sonata (K87), Frederic Rzewski’s 1980 piano duo Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues...
...Kitted out in blue-grey practice dress, the 21-strong ensemble ebb and flow across the stage in a succession of groups, trios and duets....
...When bailiffs threatened to change her locks out of the blue, Elizabeth’s first thought was to ring her landlord for help....
...The not-too-broad rim casts enough of a protective shadow over the eyes and face, it’s breathable (lined in a pretty blue-and-white graphic-printed cotton), and looks good on both the sand and the summit...
...A few are eager to swap the Golden Triangle for the south Cotswolds’ Five Valleys, says Lindsay Cuthill of the Blue Book estate agency....
...Louise Haigh, shadow transport secretary, said the north of England would have to “pay the price for staggering Conservative failure”....
...Louise Giovanelli is explaining the inspiration behind one of her new paintings, set to appear in her debut show at Bermondsey’s White Cube....
...This has always struck me as a revealingly tribal way of viewing the world: is the only critical judgment they make about politics whether to tick a red or blue box at election time?...
...To date, Christopher Farr has produced carpets from artworks by Louise Bourgeois and Josef Albers as well as with contemporary creatives, including Japanese ceramicist Makoto Kagoshima, architect John Pawson...
...Shades of Blue, an ambitious choreographic response to Black Lives Matter, was originally seen in extract as part of the Wells’s Dancing Nation lockdown season....
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