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...Through early-career and recent artworks and items shipped from these places of making, Wagstaff will spotlight Maggi Hambling, Mona Hatoum, Lucia Laguna, Arlene Shechet and Hyun-Sook Song....
...Having some of the marbles in London and the rest in Athens was like cutting the “Mona Lisa” in half, he said....
...She is openly jealous of London’s V&A museum, to which the Bowie archive was donated in February. “I knew very young, as a teenager, that I was going to work in art, but I was quite a movie buff . . ....
...With the Louvre they gave the “Mona Lisa” the VR treatment, allowing visitors to get intimate with the painting without having to peer over tourists’ heads....
...Eventually, he was stabbed to death in a conspiracy backed by Charles V, and his body was hung from the window of his Piacenza palace....
...Palazzo Strozzi devoted to Andrea del Verrocchio, the 15th-century artist who was Leonardo’s teacher, the terracotta sculpture of a shy Madonna and her giggling babe were attributed to the maker of the “Mona...
...“We pulled out subjects like the Mona Lisa-style drawing, which is a great piece, then worked in beads and printed it on various fabrics and knitted pieces.”...
...On the stone façade of Palazzo Chiaramonte in Palermo, there are grooves left by the iron cages in which hung the severed heads of aristocrat rebels against Emperor Charles V....
...A green V-sweater was oversized, trackpants sat slouchy. All well and good, but there’s a sticking point....
...What makes it a particularly exciting venture is that on the floors below it and right beside it is being created the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, a not-for-profit partnership between the V&A...
...He reportedly outbid three kings for it, including Britain’s King George V – today it remains the only rare stamp not in the Queen’s collection....
...Celebrated today as the Dutch Mona Lisa, the girl with the translucent eyes and sublime blue and yellow headscarf is as elusive as Leonardo’s....
...On the day when Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, Kafka was in Paris and he made a point of visiting the blank space left on the wall from the theft....
...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...
...Another such east-west mélange is a real rarity: the portrait of a lady, an Indian Mona Lisa with her face to the world and a don’t-mess-with-me expression....
...Charlotte Mullins is the editor of the V&A Magazine. “Phallacy” runs at the New End Theatre, Hampstead, London NW3, until May 14....
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