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...At last year’s SIAR, Swiss house Bovet sold an Alma 1822 Récital 26 Brainstorm, Chapter Two LatAm edition with a price tag of $450,000....
...Autumn Sonata Alma towel, also available in three other designs, €78 Spoons for sugar, spice and all things nice Using pebbles she collects from the shores of Greece, artist Thalia Maria Silver makes delicate...
...What appears to be an ashtray filled with discarded cigarette butts is Alma Berrow’s In the big smoke artwork; it is placed insouciantly atop a Tracey Emin book (the artist’s Dark Cross painting hangs in...
...The other two — Cecilia McDowall’s “Alma Redemptoris” and Will Todd’s “Vidi Speciosam” — are no less individual....
...Director Maria Schrader has a whole other career as an actor, particularly in the Deutschland 83, 86, and 89 mini-series....
...We read tales of fearsome witches like the Baba Yaga or of tiger cubs fostered in the Alma-Ata mountains, folding Russian characters into our own folktales....
...Kokoschka’s Dollby Afonso Cruz, translated by Rahul Bery, MacLehose Press £14.99 The tale of Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka, who was so distraught by his separation from Alma Mahler that he commissioned...
...We start on a late spring afternoon in Rome, where we pop into the Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena just around the corner from the Pantheon....
...Then because I worked at The New York Times and I feel it’s my alma mater to some degree, I’ll listen to The Daily....
...Gere recalls how his friend, the dancer Ana Maria Alvarez, director of the Contra-Tiempo dance theatre, has forged a new tradition....
...It drew socialites from New York, among them Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt, who suffered from bouts of malaria....
...The Argentine said he wants to avoid a legal battle over a €700m buyout clause, but lambasted Barcelona’s management including under-fire president Josep Maria Bartomeu....
...The devastating loss of her first child, little Maria Mahler, had been followed by the premature death of Mahler himself and Alma’s subsequent guilt about two-timing Gropius with Kokoschka....
...Whatever may transpire during Mr Conte’s tenure, one should never underestimate the durability of Alma Mater Italia....
...“I was the whole Famous Five, including the dog, or Maria von Trapp escaping the Nazis,” she says, laughing. “I wasn’t thinking in terms of writing, though....
...Perhaps Alma-Tadema was not exactly the kind of artist that Tate director Maria Balshaw was thinking of when she said that in Manchester or Liverpool you can take risks (Lunch with the FT, July 1), but it...
...I recall a cruel joke from my alma mater: that the most important phrase for an arts student to learn was, “Do you want fries with that?”...
...Then Maria Balshaw, Tate’s new director, walks in, and mural and restaurant instantly come to life....
...The show also exposes the unsung role of women in the pop art movement, with works from Slovak artist Jana Želibská, Brazilian Anna María Maiolino and Argentina’s Delia Cancela among others....
...He also taught occasionally at his alma mater, the University of Calgary....
...A century ago, the film star Alma Taylor was voted the most popular British performer by the magazine Pictures and the Picturegoer, rated higher than Charlie Chaplin....
...Nimrod Borenstein’s commissioned score (played live by a quintet from the Camerata Alma Viva) was agile and atmospheric and Maria Grozova’s no-nonsense costumes — jeans for the jugglers, natty leotards for...
...Innovative educators such as Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner began to extol creativity over rote learning, while dress reformers crusaded for freedom of movement....
...This is the alma mater not just of Wellington, Gladstone and Salisbury but also of Guy Burgess, Simon Mann and Darius Guppy What troubles me is the tendency to both self-aggrandisement and self-destruction...
...George Petean is Figaro and Shawn Mathey is Almaviva, while Maria Bayo takes the part of Rosina. The first performance is on Friday, after which stagings will continue until May 29....
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