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...A later artist, Ayana V Jackson, poses her “Anarcha” (2017) like an Orientalist odalisque, but the tender image of her turned back suggests not so much exotic allure as vulnerability....
...It’s a real art deco icon and was featured in the landmark Art Deco exhibition at the V&A in 2003, as well as the Cooper Hewitt’s recent The Jazz Age show.”...
...“There is no desire to live outside our means,” said Ming Maa, president of Grab. “Our current business plan does not require any additional capital being raised by outside investors.”...
...Two highly polished, 50m-year-old fossilised Brazilian mako shark teeth are each set with a V of black pavé diamonds and hung on two chains: a gold one and a diamond-cut, silver snake chain with flecks of...
...But, Mr Ni concluded, Chinese-made chips based on RISC-V architecture are not controlled by other countries and have a future in emerging markets....
...So a Californian lawyer might like to know, for instance, that Judge Seeborg’s favourite US Supreme Court decision is Ashcroft v Iqbal, a 2009 case concerning the responsibility of a senior official for...
...Neuroscientist Vivienne Ming argues parents will have to educate children to work things out for themselves and become “craftsmen”. (FT)...
...The chief executive and creative director of the company lets her jewellery take centre stage: fingers adorned with her stackable Glam’Azone and bold Queen V diamond rings, and gems from her Kate collection...
...There is also a glimpse en passant of one great who hated television: Peggy Ashcroft is seen enjoying a radio rehearsal, brushing aside a producer’s timid suggestion with a brisk “later on!”...
...Look out for the Doigt de Charles Quint, a jam-filled, chocolate-dipped sponge cake named after the gouty finger of Charles V ● Le Touquet is a high-end seaside resort with a casino that inspired Ian Fleming...
...Had Emperor Charles V not thought it worth demanding that his Mexican viceroy Antonio de Mendoza construct an account of the Aztec civilisation, we would not have the Codex Mendoza: a once-in-an-epoch hybrid...
...These objects sit deliberately awkwardly among the Ming vases and Mackintosh chairs, but they also indicate a trend towards curators acquiring products that have precipitated new events rather than artefacts...
...Fascinatingly, the V&A showed us a far earlier image of this very same garden, painted in 1551 in pen and ink on eight pages of an album....
...Equally revealing is “Court Ladies in the Inner Palace” (1465-1509) by Ming-dynasty painter Du Jin....
...There is also a dedicated “A/V bar” for those with questions about purchasing video art and the technicalities of displaying it....
...They are now in the V&A. Two centuries later, they have come “home”....
...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?...
...Rosalind and Orlando from As You Like It, the sweet, silly antics of the lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the quiet yearning of Viola in Twelfth Night or the droll wooing of Katherine by Henry in Henry V....
...it was certainly bedlam down the front on Thursday as the Leicester outfit – bolstered by an extra guitarist, a keyboardist and a three-piece horn section – limbered up aggressively for last weekend’s V...
...Not that it got much better for Straw: one question began with an odd reference to Clegg’s “new-found friend, Lord Ashcroft”, before mentioning how few voters think the Lib Dems are having an effect on government...
...Here, the Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez is Giacomo (James) V, Colin Lee – praised for his Narciso in the Royal Opera’s recent production of Rossini’s Il turco in Italia – is the Highland chieftain Rodrigo...
...Our hosts also took us to a gigantic Ming Dynasty edifice built into the face of a cliff near the river junction....
...www.decodame.com ii Yoke-back armchair Chinese This chair was made in China in the 17th century, during the late Ming or early Qing dynasty – a period in which increased trade with the west had created...
...The most high-profile of these projects has been the revival of Kun opera, an art form that thrived under the Ming dynasty....
...There is a two-metre high turquoise-glazed sceptre from Egypt, Sèvres porcelain busts of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette made shortly before their execution, and vases from China’s Ming dynasty....
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