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...This grand, fizzing, full show — Velázquez and Sorolla, polychrome Madonnas, fanciful mapmakers, medieval Alhambra silks — recalled the glory days in the 2000s-10s when the RA’s vast genre-crossing exhibitions...
...given the particularly fractious state of the legislative body, a deal to stop the world’s biggest economy from defaulting on its debt may be harder to seal this time, said JPMorgan’s chief US economist Michael...
...Another is Francis Bacon’s “Study for a Pope VI”, last of six depictions following Velázquez in an important 1961 series....
...themselves: Sebastián López de Arteaga, emigrating from Seville to Mexico in 1640, established a tenebrist Baroque school in his adopted home, with violently theatrical compositions exemplified by “St Michael...
...Additional reporting by Michael Stott in London This article has been amended since first publication to make clear that Hugo Velázquez is considered an ally of the president...
...attention to heartfelt causes: in 1914 suffragette Mary Richardson, protesting against the violent arrest of Emmeline Pankhurst, took a butcher’s cleaver to the National Gallery in London and viciously slashed Velázquez...
...The exhibition does more than connect Armitage with Goya and teach us about both: Armitage is in dialogue with Goya, yes, but with Manet, Velázquez and Gauguin, too....
...The curators, who include Michael Peppiatt, Bacon’s close friend and biographer, have done a tip-top job....
...“The government needs to open up every opportunity possible to the private sector,” says Cuban economist Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva a former University of Havana professor....
...Michael Camina, the city’s chief legal officer, told Nikkei that the municipality has observed upward pressure on both commercial and residential prices....
...The young Kenyan-British painter based the nude seen from the back, a sumptuous sweeping curve of black flesh, on Velázquez’s “Rokeby Venus”....
...Completing the team is Alberto Velázquez, a university economics professor, as Pemex finance chief. None responded to requests to be interviewed for this article, nor did Mr López Obrador....
...Embodiments of guilt, “the Furies were a personal reality for Bacon”, says his biographer Michael Peppiatt....
...Michael Corbat said: “Since the crisis, Citi has become a smaller, safer, stronger, and far less complex institution.”...
...And, by his own admission, Leguizamo’s suggestions such as Moctezuma (whom he deems a gutless turncoat) and Loreta Velázquez (Confederate soldier) always seem to come up short....
...These range from Bacon’s raw, urgent, silken screaming Pope (“Study after Velázquez”) and howling animal stand-ins for psychological agony “Dog” and “Study of a Baboon” in the early 1950s, to Freud’s 1990s...
...Mike Rosenwasser, Michael Swidler, Adorys Velazquez and Catherine Gallagher will all focus on master limited partnerships deals, which are common in the energy sector....
...It’s a black box,” says Mr Velázquez of Acerinox....
...Michael Landy’s destructive tendencies never lie dormant for long....
...Luckily for us Michael Jacobs did, and reported that the tiny things tasted “of bitter cod’s roe with a texture of sand”....
...Godfrey’s intricately plotted, tremendously gripping time-travel thriller evokes Michael Crichton at his best....
...An exhibition at the Pompidou in Paris in 2010 inspired Lucian to revisit the city and then we went on to Madrid to see one of his favourite works, Velázquez’s “Las Meninas”, at the Prado....
...There is a very beautiful Gabriel from the early 1630s, and an armed Michael painted almost two decades later....
...“The big warning sign for Venezuela is its plummeting foreign exchange reserves,” says Michael Riddell, a bond fund manager at M&G Investments in London....
...He remained, however, closer in style to the Old Masters, especially Rembrandt and Velázquez, whose portraits of everyday life and historical or Biblical scenes are echoed in his works....
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