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...Zeitz remains co-chair of the museum’s board with David Green, chief executive of the V&A Waterfront, developer of the surrounding harbour district; there is also a “global council” of art-world luminaries...
...has built a module that will provide back-up systems to the Orion spacecraft....
...The Orion bag (£780; doverstreetmarket.com) is composed of nylon ribbon — more than 250 yards of it — and is crocheted by hand in the UK. Each bag is unique and produced on a made-to-order basis....
...Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter , by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, Orion, RRP£7.99 Stepping into the sizeable shoes of Goscinny and Uderzo for a fourth time, Ferri and Conrad produce yet another...
...sale to Orion European Real Estate Fund V. 4.30pm BST - Before we knock off for the week a quick line on Marston’s brewing joint venture with Carlsberg’s UK lager division....
...Orion will look quite similar to Apollo. It will be sent up on SLS, a rocket that has a similar shape, size and lift to the Saturn V, used in the Apollo missions....
...As the concert progresses, a short dialogue of scampers and scuttles is followed by body-swaying township lilt and lullaby melodies by rolling country soul....
...Its champions say it will be a “happy city” made up of 27 self-sufficient townships, each with its own places of work, religious sites, shopping areas and schools....
...Carving concrete with GPS tracking is “cutting-edge technology”, says David Green, chief executive of the V&A Waterfront, whose shareholders funded the Silo’s £35m renovation....
...What makes it a particularly exciting venture is that on the floors below it and right beside it is being created the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, a not-for-profit partnership between the V&A...
...On the one hand, the tradition of European landscape painting that he had been schooled in, with its lushness, its incised V-shapes and receding planes....
...During the last week of February, the Cape Town Art Fair also grew, extending itself throughout the V&A Waterfront, linking into a public art programme from the under-construction Zeitz Museum of Contemporary...
...The small event, located at the Lookout on the V&A Waterfront, included five commercial galleries and a selection of non-profit organisations and institutions....
...The likes of Sylvia and her rapacious admirer Orion seize the moment....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...“Let Them Talk” by Spoek Mathambo “Township Tech” is how Spoek Mathambo, the Soweto-born rapper/producer, describes his style, where Afrobeat, Iggy Pop, OutKast, the South African strain of house music...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...The Lethabong Tavern in Alexandra, one of South Africa’s poorest townships, is a humble affair: corrugated metal roof, plastic chairs, basic pool table....
...The tours aren’t intended as slum voyeurism, as can now be found in the favelas of Rio and the townships of Cape Town....
...In addition, the packaged retail investment products directive, Ucits V and the Mifid review are at consultation stage with the European Commission....
...In addition, the V-shaped industrial recovery has ensured that the labour market is tight again....
...The company’s Luyanda Mpahlwa and Mphethi Morojele presented designs for low-income housing in Cape Town townships that feature energy efficient timber and sandbag frames and cost only R50,000 (£3,400) each...
...Scat By Carl Hiaasen Orion, £9.99 Essentially one of Hiaasen’s Florida-set crime comedies slanted towards teenage readers. A schoolchild is falsely accused of starting a wildfire in the Everglades....
...Ben Thompson is the author of ‘Ways of Hearing’ (Orion) and presents ‘The London Ear’ on Resonance 104.4FM...
...Qiang Yan, Chinese author of a book on the Premiership, describes 100 million Chinese sitting up at 1am to watch two Chinese play in Everton v Manchester City. “That’s ridiculous, right?” he asks....
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