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...The author is honest enough to describe some early Vermeers as “weird” and “ugly”, while using Marcel Proust’s encounter with the “View of Delft” in 1902 as “the most beautiful painting in the world”, and...
...Roux’s father Albert and uncle Michel opened the restaurant in 1967 on Lower Sloane Street in Chelsea....
...Winter season at the New York City Ballet The company’s winter season introduces exciting new ballets to the repertory, including world premieres and a revival of late principal dancer/repertory director Albert...
...So peerless is the curation of textiles, tableware and furnishings in the ground-floor design store – everything from Ludwig Lobmeyr champagne flutes to a Marcel Breuer tea trolley – that the most stylish...
...She gave a Surrealist farewell dinner to refugee artists on their way to the US, including Bauhaus School members Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy....
...They met Marcel Duchamp and Jackson Pollock, and in 1950 had shown American and European painters such as Jean Dubuffet and Mark Rothko....
...Loop, which marks its 25th anniversary this year, was a breakthrough piece, now held in the permanent collections of both the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London...
...modern Hebrew, and Albert Ballin, father of transatlantic shipping and possible inventor of the hamburger....
...After so many previous outings, however, this first-person persona puts you in mind not so much of Albert Camus as Alan Partridge....
...with a different guest every week Not so good for: a dry lunch — it’s hard to resist Drouant’s 2,000-strong cellar, where wines from the Rhône Valley take pride of place FYI: to mark the centenary of Marcel...
...The Formula: The Five Laws Behind Why People Succeed, by Albert-László Barabási Suspicion of any non-academic publication that offers a “formula”, let alone a formula for success, may deter potential readers...
...Peering down from the staircase is “Secrets” (1990), Tuymans’s tiny, abbreviated portrait of Albert Speer with his eyes closed....
...From sumptuous opening galleries of African masks and Cézanne’s quivering/solid compositions — “La Femme à la cafetière”, “La Table de cuisine” — to the concluding display of Marcel Duchamp’s bicycle wheel...
...When I interviewed the designer Marcel Breuer in the 1970s about this possible flip-flop in direction, he said van Doesburg had no influence: the party line has held for 100 years....
...Couturiers like Marcel Rochas quickly smartened up their showrooms with a coat of grey paint and whipped up their own buoyant gowns....
...He went on to do postgraduate studies at Southampton university and then post-doctoral studies, including at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, where Albert Einstein spent much of his later research...
...Marcel Gauchet referred to this mysterious dynamic as the “democratic miracle”....
...Victoria and Albert Museum As the festival’s official hub, the V&A will host talks about the future of design and a series of installations....
...Is there any value, I ask, to reading a scientific text in its original language, like reading Marcel Proust in French rather than translation? “How did you know I’m reading Proust!”...
...Albert Camus was one such critic, condemning those “who have never done anything more than turn their armchair in history’s direction”. Here, Bakewell’s generosity is perhaps excessive....
...Spheres move like planets along curved wires in “A Universe”, an abstract vision of the cosmos, which held Albert Einstein transfixed for the full 40 minutes of its cycle when it was first shown at MoMA...
...Royal Albert Hall, London, August 8. www.bbc.co.uk/proms...
...Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O Hirschman, by Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University Press, RRP£27.95/$39.95, 758 pages Albert Hirschman, who died last December aged 97, was one of the most distinguished...
...Neither is Jules Michelet nor Marcel Proust nor Antoine de Saint-Exupéry nor Jean-Paul Sartre. Nor is Albert Camus (but only because his family would not allow his body to be moved)....
...In the same way, when Ai Weiwei published his influential White Cover, Grey Cover and Black Cover books in the mid-1990s, they were full of references to artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Jenny Holzer and...
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