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...Based on James L Swanson’s 2006 bestseller of the same name, it is part howcatchem thriller, part historical drama that looks at the issues facing a bifurcated nation entering a post-slavery, post-Civil...
...In a work of 1919, what did the artist Marcel Duchamp add to the Mona Lisa? Which US national park straddles the California/Nevada border?...
...She is an enigma not quite rivalling the Mona Lisa, but nonetheless one of the strangest portraits in all the Renaissance....
...In Defence of Witches by Mona Chollet was really great. And I loved Satanic Feminism by Per Faxneld. But for something lighter, I like rock biopics, mainly from the ’70s....
...Harmony L’Extrait is a serum that promises to strengthen and re-densify the vertical skin structures. Santa Baby, just put a bottle under the tree?...
...On my last pre-pandemic visit to the museum, I had walked into the room with the “Mona Lisa”, only to hit a ruck of a couple of hundred people taking photographs....
...An Anglo-Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo featured a very precise bronze model, and the Mona Lisa gained one courtesy of Duchamp....
...She stands there, one foot raised, arms stretched out, proffering something lost long ago, staring past me as inscrutable as the Mona Lisa. It feels new to be seeing beauty in Brescia....
...“Those with [Hizbollah] pull out stacks of crisp L£100,000 notes, while the rest of us are counting petty change to buy our groceries,” said Mona....
...including Rita Hayworth as Salome, and Gloria Swanson as Salome-obsessed Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard....
...Escorted by a military band, it was carried through the grounds of L’Echangeur, a tower built in 1974 as a monument to Lumumba....
...Écrasez l’infâme — “crush infamy” — the phrase he had coined in 1759, became his war cry, used over and again, occasionally as his signature....
...What bitcoin is to the US dollar, an NFT is to the “Mona Lisa”....
...But before his assassination, Slim had been in touch with a Hizbollah money launderer, exploring ways the latter could defect, according to consultant Mona Alami....
...This was a tremendous success, Lagarde said in a speech at the University of the West Indies’ Mona Campus in June 2014....
...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....
...“If Mona Lisa could speak, who would she be? I’m creating images of these women, but does the world really get the sense of their lives?”...
...On a back wall is a vision of “Le déjeuner sur l’herbe”, painted on a 7 x 12 metre curtain....
...Monumental, mesmerising, enigmatic, the barmaid is Courtauld’s Mona Lisa....
...He clothed the most beautiful women of an elegant time: Gloria Guinness, Babe Paley, Daisy Fellowes and Mona von Bismarck among them....
...Misty, delicate, with the slightest squinty unevenness, these are quite unlike the intense and luscious berry-eyes of the Mona Lisa — but they have just the same unnerving way of following you, the same...
...Egyptian columnist Mona Eltahawy claimed it as the perfect anthem for the youth-backed 2011 uprising against dictator Hosni Mubarak....
...“Racing Thoughts” (1983), which opens the show, is typical: a play of trompe l’oeil illusion and allusion across a surface of text and pictures within a picture, it features the Mona Lisa, a photograph of...
...Coaltown Coffee, from £7, coaltowncoffee.co.uk Photographs: Benjamin Swanson Styling and set design: Imogen Frost...
...The final room opposes Marcel Duchamp’s “L.H.O.O.Q” (1919), a postcard image of the Mona Lisa with her schoolboy pencilled moustache and beard, with Richard Prince’s series of rephotographed images, “Four...
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