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...But where, for example, the “Mona Lisa” holds court and smiles at adoring crowds in the Louvre, Friedrich’s wanderer had his back to the countless followers who had flocked to the Kunsthalle to see him....
...Among her holdings are works by Kiki Smith (“Me in a corner” (2025), highlighting “the ostracising of women from the mainstream”), Lynda Benglis, Elizabeth Peyton (a portrait of Lord Byron), Mona Hatoum...
...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....
...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....
...At an auction in May a 300 SLR Coupé — one of two racing models kept by Mercedes-Benz since new and described as the Mona Lisa of cars — sold for $142mn, becoming the most expensive car ever sold....
...What bitcoin is to the US dollar, an NFT is to the “Mona Lisa”, explains global technology correspondent Tim Bradshaw in this explainer on how non-fungible tokens work....
...More recently, JPMorgan’s co-chief operating officer Gordon Smith — a top lieutenant of Dimon’s — stepped down with Marianne Lake and Jennifer Piepszak taking on the role....
...“Artists such as Kiki Smith and Tom Friedman use hair as a material – mortal and domestic.”...
...We Are All Beirut encompasses art, design and jewellery, from makers including Palestinian installation artist Mona Hatoum and French fashion designer Hervé van der Straeten....
...“Cinema now and again has to be outrageous,” protests its chastened director, Brian Trenchard-Smith. Everyone wants a good word from Stratton, it seems....
...(FT, BuzzFeed) Searching for ‘Salvator Mundi’ Mona Lisa may be famously inscrutable, but “Salvator Mundi” is surely Leonardo da Vinci’s most enigmatic work: its whereabouts are unknown two years since...
...Alongside Gallaccio, there’s work by Tony Cragg, Mona Hatoum and Gavin Turk....
...The music school proposal has drawn support from cultural leaders, including author Alexander McCall Smith and violinist Nicola Benedetti....
...Among the seductively beautiful, often unnerving works in Mona Hatoum’s spectacular current show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, it’s easy to miss a small object tucked away in one corner....
...Inviting senior conceptual artists – Mona Hatoum, Christian Marclay – who rarely or never show here, Parker orchestrates the space sparsely and thoughtfully, with a dramatic wall piece by Richard Woods,...
...In Egypt itself, they are seen as somewhat kitsch, according to Mona Hussein, an award-winning interior designer based in Cairo....
...The matter is complicated by the fact that, according to Mona Harb, an associate professor at the American University of Beirut, Hizbollah has integrated its institutions into the Shia community so successfully...
...Mona Charen is not a fan of Edinburgh’s Fringe. In the National Review, the columnist writes of her shock (shock!)...
...There’s a raw poignancy to her shot of a well-put-together young man in a dark suit displaying a Mona Lisa smile and a card saying “I’m Desperate”....
...Mona von Bismarck (Balenciaga’s muse) and Audrey Hepburn (Hubert de Givenchy’s) are two of the most famous examples of this....
...The Lost Mona Lisa By RA Scotti Bantam Press £17.99 272 pages FT Bookshop price: £14.39 The 1911 Paris theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” – and its recovery in Florence two years later – is well...
...The show – which included works by Mona Hatoum, Gilbert & George and a crucifixion by Damien Hirst – attracted 50,000 mainly young visitors, its popularity surprising even its organisers....
...And that Paul Smith has just launched his new fragrance: Paul Smith Rose. Rose!...
...After his death, Leonardo’s stature continued to grow, but the “Mona Lisa” wasn’t his most famous work....
...As the novelist Alexander McCall Smith once said of the programme: “Talking about music that one loves is like baring the soul....
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