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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....
...Nemer said committing to funding levels of $10bn-$15bn for R&D would be justified to tackle other pathogens....
...Having some of the marbles in London and the rest in Athens was like cutting the “Mona Lisa” in half, he said....
...By his teens, he’d attained a drama school scholarship; at 23, he won the American TV talent show Star Search....
...People thought I’d lost my mind but it was the smartest thing we could do to align demand with supply.” It was, he says, “the first step towards acting like a true luxury company”....
...But I’ve always said I’d rather be a happy two than a miserable three.”...
...Ronaldo is the footballing equivalent of the Mona Lisa. He’s a household name, a global brand, a star attraction....
...I thought I’d quite like to be a writer.”...
...Viewed on Instagram stories, Mona and her friends looked sun-kissed, beautiful and wholesome....
...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....
...Two women in their fifties gave me the pseudonyms Abigail and Mona because Abigail bunked work to be here. Her employer thinks she’s at a hospital appointment in London....
...We have published the picture of the Mona Lisa advertising beer because Leonardo da Vinci has been dead for 500 years, taking his work out of copyright....
...The artwork I would buy if I could is the Mona Lisa. I had a private audience with Mona at the Louvre and I would love to own it for a few hours. To start with, it would be very good for name-dropping....
...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....
...They are less popular with the crowds than the “Mona Lisa”, the “Venus de Milo” or the 450-metre-long great gallery of Spanish and Italian paintings (Des Cars was not joking when she predicted that her 30,000...
...— looking “like she’d just walked out of a detective novel in which her destiny was to be murdered by a minor character”; and Philippe, who hopes (in vain) that no one will notice his attempt to pass off...
...There’s a dizzying array to choose from, but I’d suggest finishing with a warm, flaky glazed butter tart: a Canadian speciality that’s similar to a treacle tart....
...Stefanidi then embellished the spaces with modernist designs from Shila’s “maison d’objets” design studio (all of which are available for purchase)....
...Even in the early days, I was doing T-shirts and I’d have gallery interest, I’ve just kept expanding. It’s never been one or the other for me....
...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....
...I’d also highlight one final risk, which came up in a podcast I recorded with the platform’s eloquent chief executive Scott Lynn....
...It’s like you’ve taken the Mona Lisa and cut it in half.” Osborne listened intently as Mitsotakis set out his case....
...It was held in New York at the newly opened Villa Albertine, an institution that plays ambassador for French culture in the US....
...Miguel MoraI literally googled what is the value of the Mona Lisa because I felt like I’m buying 1/10,000th of the new Mona Lisa for the digital age....
...“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....
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