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...The sixth — Mary — received a production at the Hampstead Theatre in 2022 but is yet to be seen in Scotland. This is the fifth — and it is utterly unlike any of its predecessors....
...In January, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen of The Row presented unattainably priced shallow V-neck sweaters worn with tailoring....
...Patterson points to a pewter beaker from the 1690s engraved with wrigglework portraits of William III and Mary II that sold at Christie’s for £14,400....
...“Duchesses would shop in her shop and also people who worked as secretaries,” says the V&A’s Lister. But careful marketing by the trio also played a role in the brand’s success....
...The works of art that changed everything for me were Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies illustrations....
...Mary is collapsing, the Magdalene rushes forward with raised arms and dishevelled hair, St John withdraws in silent grief....
...In 1738, the statue of Handel as Orpheus, now in the V&A, was unveiled at Vauxhall’s Spring Gardens in London....
...Thankfully I had the opportunity to tell Birkin I adored her a few years ago on a big stage somewhere deep in the guts of the V&A museum....
...The V&A show aims to reclaim the word by focusing on the power of star performances, where image is often key....
...v=Tx9yrdjPKQ4 – FT Magazine cover, ‘A 12 year journey into Ukraine’ by Christopher Miller: https://www.ft.com/content/f1983056-c34f-4646-946a-6328200d65e7 – A year in review: ‘How Putin blundered into...
...The Korean Wave” exhibition at the V&A Lola Shoneyin Writer and festival organiser by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lola Shoneyin’s subversion is deliciously sly, her humour mordant, her eyes pitiless and...
...When Denzil Lush was a child, his grandmother was about to throw away a mass-produced coronation beaker with a portrait of King George V and Queen Mary. “This was the early 1960s,” he says....
...In a break from recent tradition, Camilla, Queen Consort has not commissioned a new crown for the coronation but will use Queen Mary’s Crown, made by Garrard for the consort of King George V in 1911, after...
...She also often collaborated with writers such as Jan Morris and VS Pritchett – most famously shooting the photographs for Mary McCarthy’s seminal literary study The Stones of Florence....
...The V&A’s Africa Fashion also has works by Ami Doshi Shah (pictured top), of Kenya, including her necklace of brass, sisal and salt....
...“It seemed dictatorial and nothing really interested me except Mary Quant, which at least seemed fresh,” she says....
...Joaquín Sorolla’s serene swimmer emerges from a luminous sea like a modern “Birth of Venus” in “After the Bath”, and polychrome sculptures of a fervent Mary and Jesus carved by 17th-century nun Andrea de...
...As always, drop your story ideas to me at sid.v@ft.com and have a great week....
...Just think of girls in Mary Quant minidresses strutting a path through the revolutions of the 1960s, or women in the ’70s heading off to work in a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress. The dress of now?...
...Her father, known as Bertie in the family, was the second son of King George V and Queen Mary. His elder brother, David, was expected to become king....
...At the request of King George V, it mounted the 520-carat Cullinan I diamond, which is also known as the Great Star of Africa, in the royal sceptre....
...Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in London on April the 21st 1926. The eldest child of the former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Prince Albert....
...In London, images of masculinity at the V&A, an exploring of feminine power at the British Museum. In Venice, a vast celebration of female talent at the Biennale....
...The latter, the V&A’s gently graduated relief, with weeping angels in the void of the tomb, is a poetic highlight, asserting Donatello, even in tragic themes, as fundamentally consoling and tender....
...Hazardous ruptures scar the stone niche that hosts Mary Magdalene in Crivelli’s painting of the saint (c1491-94) on display opposite the V&A’s Madonna....
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