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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...It’s a bet that sports will keep pulling back the curtain to attract new fans, and shows that there are more ways to bet on the sector than buying a team....
...His work Daylight Studio Mirror (0X5A1713), which features in De Profundis: Oscar Wilde, centres on a lush black-velvet curtain, a camera on a tripod and a pair of partially obscured legs....
...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
...The sea of dancers in blue when the curtain rises is reminiscent of Balanchine’s Serenade, but instead of Tchaikovsky, a distinctly pop “woo!” from Blake sets them into motion....
...“You know when they did that [David] Bowie show at the V&A? For a long time I’ve thought, Pam could do that,” says Lucas. “So in a way, this is a small step towards Pam’s big retrospective.”...
...“It will have performance spaces and rehearsal rooms; it’s next to Westfield Stratford and the V&A East – it’s going to be a cultural quarter almost,” says Bargh....
...Also in February, Game of Thrones star Kit Harington plays Henry V in a new, modern staging of Shakespeare’s play that promises to explore our relationship with Europe and what it means to be English (Donmar...
...Models stepped out from behind smoke and black curtains as if from a 1930s jazz club in hourglass-shaped cocktail dresses with pointed shoulders and corseted waists, their faces shadowed by broad, flat boater...
...“The topmost business families of India do not move without consulting good astrologers,” said Anupam V Kapil, an astrology columnist for the Times of India....
...And no massive swags and tails above the curtains....
...“Heavy oak doors, curtains, no window displays, nothing to attract passing trade,” he says....
...Meanwhile backstage, props, costumes and wigs need to be separated, and keeping cast members safe is a military operation worthy of Henry V. Shakespeare was not a man for a two-hander....
...Check out the top-floor penthouse, which spills over two storeys and has its own garden – a full, glorious 600sq m of planted terraces, with 360-degree views of the city. bulgarihotels.com, from €1,250 Curtain...
...There was also a V-shaped neck pillow and a sort of snake-like one that reminded me of something I used during the latter stages of pregnancy....
...Kumail Nanjiani is surrounded by the luxe trappings of London’s Corinthia Hotel — thick curtains, intricate flowers. Although we are in the same city, Covid protocols restrict us to Zoom....
...It emerges that she spent four years on short-term contracts with the V&A (where she was not deemed “keeper material”) before leaving to study art at Camberwell, eventually returning to the V&A in a full-time...
...Joshua Henry lifts the showbiz curtain with the rousing “Saturn Returns”. The high-octane wordplay of “Icarus” takes flight thanks to duo Mykal Kilgore and Norm Lewis....
...I think the virus has pulled back a curtain on how fragile and financialised our economy is....
...There will be no fast, perfect, V-shaped recovery for economies given the substantial areas that remain damaged....
...It is what makes her shows, season after season, so suspenseful: one never knows what will emerge from behind the curtain when the music starts....
...The directors of the Science, Natural History, British and V&A museums, as well as the National and Tate galleries, said in a joint statement: “We welcome the chancellor of the exchequer’s declaration of...
...One image shows him backstage at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, peering around the curtain, literally waiting in the wings....
...“I was born in Budapest in 1982, seven years before the fall of the Iron Curtain. As a city it’s had its share of hardship, through political turmoil and war, but it’s always come out stronger....
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