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...“We’re seeing different ways of capitalising on biodiversity,” Pablo Arosemena, Ecuador’s finance minister, told the FT. “We have a portfolio of various projects of this sort.”...
...exhibition juxtaposing pioneers of the first Parisian avant-garde in the 1860s-80s demonstrated the Orsay in full force: Manet’s “The Balcony” and Degas’s “The Bellelli Family”, Manet’s “Olympia” and Degas’s “L’...
...the enduring symbiosis between the two disciplines takes many forms: from the early-20th-century collaborations between Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and avant-garde artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo...
...Modern Art’s 2,000 sq ft, second-floor space will be in a Haussmann-designed building on Place de l’Alma in the city’s central eighth arrondissement....
...One business happily buying from this season’s sales was Opera Gallery, which has added works by the likes of Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso to its inventory....
...Drawing à l’infini presents nearly a thousand works — notebooks, drawings and engravings. The drawings illustrate Picasso’s constant process of reinvention and renewal....
...The group also includes the most beautiful of the six simplified, tender-sombre “L’Arlésienne” portraits, depicting Madame Ginoux, proprietress of Arles’ Café de la Gare; only in this version are the flat...
...The movement’s three frontmen — Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris — took a hatchet to conventions of perception....
...His relationship to prehistory is explored in an exhibition recently unveiled at the Musée de l’Homme....
...There is social chronicle here: Arsène Houssaye, editor of the Paris magazine L’Artiste, argued that Second Empire women “emancipated themselves, knew the power of money, used it to the hilt . . ....
...Diana Widmaier Picasso, historian, curator and granddaughter of the legendary Pablo, is sitting in front of an 18th-century Indian map of the cosmos in her Paris apartment....
...Picasso: The Impossible Collection hardcover, published by Assouline, £695, mrporter.com L’Objet + Lito vanity mirror, £800 Christofle Mood Party cutlery case, £1,050, harrods.com Brunello Cucinelli...
...Having studied at the London Film School and worked with Bernardo Bertolucci on L’assedio and Anthony Minghella on The Talented Mr Ripley, she now directs features informed by the art she loves....
...The song devoted specifically to that incident, “Cigarettes”, begins with the brutal line: “Ma fille s’est foutue en l’air” (“My daughter fucked up,” Birkin’s own translation)....
...After a six-month search, Hidalgo has just completed the purchase of a €1.9m four-bedroom duplex penthouse in the city’s central Dreta de l’Eixample neighbourhood, while Nath is still in the early stages...
...Artists in this auction span the 20th and 21st centuries and include Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Agnes Martin....
...It’s as if l have climbed up into the night sky. I am swimming through stars, diving through nebulas. I plunge faster until, like the Enterprise, I hit warp speed. Galaxies pass....
...Indeed, in the informative catalogue, the curators of the Basel exhibition, Yina Jiménez Suriel and Pablo Guardiola, describe the Basel peace accord as an exercise in “historical futility”....
...In 2014, Brochard was awarded a chevalier de l’ordre national du mérite and in 2018 was made an officier des arts et des lettres....
...The bar has a particularly impressive range of inventive martinis named after the professions (L’Architetto, Il Giornalista, Il Dottore . . .) but it also offers the more standard Dirty, Gibson and Gimlet...
...Prices range from $1,200 (Richard Armendariz at Ruiz-Healy Art) to $75,000 (Luis Jiménez at McClain Gallery) at cultureplace.com. Happy shopping!...
...The surrealist painter, sculptor and ceramicist Joan Miró, who was born in the same city, also took his art to the streets, and his colourful abstract Pla de l’Os mosaic can still be seen on the pavement...
...“We sought to rid ourselves of the trompe l’oeil in order to find the ‘trompe l’esprit’.” Picasso spent a lifetime exploring those implications, recasting representation as invention....
...Palacio Solecio, a £30m restoration project overseen by tastemaking hotelier Pablo Carrington, ticks this box decisively....
...Nord-Pinus off the Place du Forum, a favourite with Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso and toreadors preparing to perform at the nearby amphitheatre....
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