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...A broad, brown river steers its way though slopes forested with spruce and birch....
...She has one blue eye and one brown. She herds me! She thinks I’m a sheep and fiercely protects me....
...“There’s a historic trauma among many Congolese today,” Mona Pembele, a Congolese-Belgian activist, told me. Many of the older people I spoke to felt anger or grief....
...Across our table in the bar at Brown’s Hotel in London’s Mayfair, he acknowledges that convincing socially conscious millennials of his bona fides is no easy task....
...Human hair also crops up in the multimedia work of Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum – as single strands hanging from a steel bed frame in her 2010 installation Interior/Exterior, and wrought into a delicate...
...But in company heartlands the fuel was seen as “brown gold”, providing vital income....
...It made me think of Mona von Bismarck, the mid-century American socialite who had her gardening clothes handmade by the couture ateliers of Balenciaga....
...Egyptian columnist Mona Eltahawy claimed it as the perfect anthem for the youth-backed 2011 uprising against dictator Hosni Mubarak....
...Here’s former prime minister Gordon Brown on why Brexit is an opportunity to make a federal UK, and Martin Wolf on why Brexiters must lose for the process to succeed....
...Government Art Collection at London’s Whitechapel Gallery in 2011, has infiltrated the urban shrine to foundling children with Found, a subtle assembly by her peers including Edmund de Waal, Laure Prouvost and Mona...
...But draw closer and you’ll notice a surprising addition: a triangle of lustrous brown pubic hair that seems to grow out of the seat....
...All solo shows this summer are devoted to women (Mona Hatoum, Georgia O’Keeffe) or non-western artists (Bhupen Khakhar, Wifredo Lam). Inclusive and culturally diverse? Or a retreat from history?...
...Clearly, my usual riposte to this attack — that the Mona Lisa was someone’s ancestor — was not going to work. So I ordered them off the stand. Yet the maddening thing was that they were right....
...Mona Lisa, a spotted rose-pink, and Muscadet, a white with maroon spots, are two of the best in that class....
...Our mantra is that brown is the new green,” says Jensen. There has been some success....
...Among those already on board are London and Hong Kong’s Ben Brown, New York’s Edwynn Houk, Istanbul’s Zilberman and Paris’s La Galerie Particulière....
...(It is hard to imagine anyone trying that with his predecessor, Gordon Brown.)...
...: Gordon Brown Reconsidered, by William Keegan, Searching Finance RRP£9.99, 124 pages Gordon Brown may not have been a brilliant election tactician; and he sulked too much while waiting to succeed Tony...
...The “Isleworth Mona Lisa”, supposedly an earlier version of the famed portrait, now belongs to an “international consortium” and is being promoted by a non-profit Swiss foundation....
...My favourite was at Sotheby’s, where Glenn Brown’s perfectly nice portrait “Little Death” (2000) was juxtaposed with Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”, presumably on the basis that both are portraits....
...Dresden’s “Sistine Madonna”, Raphael’s greatest altarpiece and best answer to the “Mona Lisa”, is never lent, but another magnificent late Madonna, the Prado’s “La Perla” – the “pearl” of Philip IV’s collection...
...For 500 years, men shaped art’s possibilities by painting women: Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa”, Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”, Velazquez’ Infanta and her maids in “Las Meninas”, Manet’s “Olympia”, Picasso’s “Demoiselles...
...The team reported that the chemical composition of the black material was similar to pigment found in brown glazes on Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa” and “St John the Baptist”, with Mr Seracini noting that Leonardo...
...A small, tired, brown creek sifts through the trees – all that’s needed in the desert for a blaze of life. As always at dawn, patience is rewarded....
...Brown’s characters are too busy scrutinising parchment and cracking symbols to bother with it; the Borgias bother with little else....
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