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...Where it gets strange is that, sometimes, the two things appear to be much the same. The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...In 1850, a strange essay called “A Christmas Pudding” appeared in Charles Dickens’s weekly journal, Household Words....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...The last thing I bought and loved was some strange bow-legged blue metallic jeans from Ganni....
...The V&A’s installation on Tropical Modernism, initially a European colonial project but one adopted and adapted by African nations, notably in post-independence Ghana by the Nkrumah government (Ghana is...
...“I go for anything strange or fun. The more bonkers the better.” His latest addition is a miniature heart in glass....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...It’s a novel-length tale that serves as both billet-doux and poison pen letter to a medium — comics — in which Alan Moore, as the writer of such seminal works of graphic fiction as Watchmen, V for Vendetta...
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...Arrival is merging with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V, paying a huge premium in order to add $300mn to its balance sheet. It is a desperate move that is unlikely to trigger a Spac revival....
...She is openly jealous of London’s V&A museum, to which the Bowie archive was donated in February. “I knew very young, as a teenager, that I was going to work in art, but I was quite a movie buff . . ....
...Once again, Martinez could not watch. This time, Argentina scored....
...“Steve Strange decided who could come in and who couldn’t. He’d turned Mick Jagger away for wearing the wrong shoes....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...It’s a strange Britain that discovers the one person to whom the nation looks in time of crisis is no longer here to reassure us things will be OK....
...Hey/We just left EU/and Truss is crazy/£45bn’s a big number/so rate us BBB Yesterday was a strange day: an awful lot happened, economically speaking....
...A strange game from the weekend Bundesliga: White plays passively, but nothing much happens until White resigns at move 12 (!) and the computer declares him completely lost....
...Then, over the past decade, something strange happened: Garzón’s abandoned homes opened up as high-end restaurants, wine bars and art galleries....
...A successful artist’s house can be a strange hybrid. It is much more than a home: it is a studio, a gallery and a showroom — a space that mixes domesticity with business....
...Puzzle 2475 Andrew Ledger v Andrew Paterson, 4NCL 2022. Black to play. Black’s next move was plausible, but it led to immediate disaster. With this clue, can you work out what happened?...
...After the publication of Strange Justice in 1994, some Democrats told us they planned to initiate impeachment....
...(Lilah laughs) It’s like Act V, Macbeth, and nothing good happens in Act V of Macbeth....
...After all, a photo of Selassie’s coronation in 1930 showed King George V’s son on bended knee before him....
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