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...The attack drone is made by Anduril Industries, a defence company founded by a 31-year-old Californian inventor called Palmer Luckey....
...A hitherto uncatalogued games board by him here and the crucifix probably presented to Pope Paul V have also been added to the corpus of his works....
...At a Brookings Institution event in September, Ryan called Moore v US a “misguided challenge” adding: “I’m not for a wealth tax, but I think if you use this as the argument to spike a wealth tax, you’re...
...Enjoy your weekend, Elaine Moore Deputy head of Lex...
...Tim Walker: Wonderful Things, from 2 May to 20 August Simon Palmer: Observation of Landscape at Yorkshire Sculpture Park As a child growing up in Bromley, south-east London, Simon Palmer recalls being...
...In the V&A’s latest annual review he also referred to talks with Ghana around the V&A collection of Asante court regalia, including gold ornaments, rings and badges, which entered the collection following...
...It’s a novel-length tale that serves as both billet-doux and poison pen letter to a medium — comics — in which Alan Moore, as the writer of such seminal works of graphic fiction as Watchmen, V for Vendetta...
...Two years before that, she played Henry V at Regent’s Park, and insists that both times, rather than wanting to “play a man”, she wanted to understand how to play Henry or Hamlet....
...Henry Moore was constantly beguiled by the ancient forms at Stonehenge, Picasso was consumed by primitive Polynesian Tiki figures, and Constantin Brâncuşi and Isamu Noguchi made them too....
...readers brief flashes of hope — for example, when Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind and issued a ringing dissent defending the right to unpopular political opinions in Abrams v...
...Since launching his eponymous label in 2005, his feminine designs have attracted clients including the Princess of Wales, Julianne Moore and Michelle Obama....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...At the heart of the fair, the V&A’s Melanie Vandenbrouck has curated a sculpture display on the east-west axis previously occupied by the bar....
...According to his notes, most meetings seem to start by someone saying how busy and tired they are: Henry Moore is “harassed”, Zandra Rhodes is “quite drowsy”, Rudolf Nureyev is “exhausted”....
...However, the “monarchical bragging rights” go to Norway’s Harald V, under whom GDP per capita has increased by 3.8 per cent a year on average since he ascended to the throne in 1991....
...I think back to something Moss had said earlier about her friendships with Courtney Love and Demi Moore. She described them as “strong and vulnerable....
...Photographer’s assistants, Ivano Pagnussat, Charlotte Ellis and Rob Palmer. Stylist’s assistant, Ady Huq. Hair assistant, Yuri Kato. Set design assistant, Rufus Wilkinson....
...Those who donate to the V&A want to memorialise their own or another’s life through style....
...Peter Davidson’s haunting book, The Last of the Light (2015), offered a marvellously imaginative study of how artists, from Caspar David Friedrich to Samuel Palmer, have made use of twilight....
...“I still miss London life — especially the V&A — but the village has been tremendously welcoming,” says Frances, 76, who prefers not to give her full name....
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...Ultimately, it’s a period eclipsed by the likes of Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and the London School painters — who really found their stride after 1945....
...Yet Merckx comes out in his jeans and V-neck jumper to wave us off. There is a genuine smile on his face as we roll into a downpour....
...But renouncing US citizenship is “not a step to take lightly,” said Mike Hayes, a tax partner at Moore Kingston Smith, an accountancy firm....
...His semi-abstract drawings are now considered works of art in their own right and have been exhibited in London’s V&A Museum....
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