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...The first photographer in the 60-year history of the Pirelli calendar to shoot it three times – in 1996, 2002 and 2017 – Lindbergh has been shown in museums around the world including the V&A, Centre Pompidou...
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) or me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts. Happy reading!...
...Dressed in a shirt with no tie and sitting in an office adorned by works by pop art luminaries Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, Mr Utermann could be mistaken for the youthful founder of a dynamic start-up...
...Last year these included a pair of 14th-century marble lions from the tomb of Charles V of France (sold for £9.3m) and a Jiaqing period dinner service (c1805, $1.1m)....
...This week, a student body at Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape called for its name to be changed, while a statue of King George V was defaced at KwaZulu Natal University....
...In the city of Natal, about half the infrastructure projects planned for the World Cup were not even started....
...The V-necked sweater in a delectable shade of lavender-bluish-pink speaks of personal self-confidence (at 72 he retains a thatch of well-cut white hair and a distinct physical magnetism) as well as the expertise...
...There is also a dedicated “A/V bar” for those with questions about purchasing video art and the technicalities of displaying it....
...Described recently by the V&A curator Susannah Brown as “contemplative and timeless”, it was first exhibited at Sir Roy Strong’s great Cecil Beaton exhibition in 1968....
...“Those ‘pow’ shapes come from Lichtenstein.”...
...Read her review of the V&A’s new show ‘The Cult of Beauty’ ………………………………………….....
...The best game that I saw was Spain v Portugal. The most dramatic game, without doubt, was Friday night’s heartbreaking defeat of Ghana by Uruguay....
...I have just arrived in Durban and later this afternoon, I will be attending the Lusophone derby: Brazil v Portugal....
...Meanwhile, as part of Vienna Design Week, Swarovski Crystal Palace is showing items by designer Arik Levy at the Lichtenstein Museum and Sotheby’s Vienna....
...We’re laying the ground with our designs but you’ll soon see it coming through in commercial products such as Microsoft’s Xbox 360 hand-free Project Natal....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...In the past few months there have been instances in San Francisco, San Diego, Lichtenstein, and a host of other instances of IT staff abusing their privileges....
...And there’s Johnson v. Johnson, her story of the court battle surrounding J. Seward Johnson’s $500m will, and her novel The Straw Man....
...Where MoMA and the Fondation Maeght’s histories of the genre celebrated America and France as cradles of modernism, the V&A focuses on pop, minimalism, art as object in a consumer age, the collapse of media...
...Rauschenberg’s “Trophy V (for Jasper Johns)” evokes the artist by items – map, window frame, ruler – connected with him....
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