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...As his touring exhibition Wonderful Things – which first showed at the V&A in 2019 – opens at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles next month, a new selection of Walker’s works will also be available to...
...But there’s also a restless sense of postwar turbulence and Norris retains the scope of the novel with a silent chorus of people on the move....
...Meanwhile backstage, props, costumes and wigs need to be separated, and keeping cast members safe is a military operation worthy of Henry V. Shakespeare was not a man for a two-hander....
...A terrific climactic confrontation shortly before the end burns with a superficially noble brutality not unlike the newly crowned King Henry V’s rejection of Falstaff, yet even then and afterwards it becomes...
...I became riveted by this impossible dress while writing a book on Balenciaga a few years ago and came upon a picture of it in the Vogue archive, taken by Irving Penn....
...There is a wealth of younger talent waiting in the wings: when Sir Nicholas Hytner stepped down from the leadership of the National Theatre last year, he was replaced by Rufus Norris (b 1965); Sandy Nairne...
...” – The Essar-Rosneft (et al) deal made StanChart v happy. – A Penn Wharton tax budget policy simulator. – Unemployment in America, mapped over time. – Hindus for Trump sounds like it was… fun....
...(Gizmodo) Lunch with Sean Penn The Oscar-winning actor doesn’t want to eat at Chez Jay, a steaks and beer joint in Santa Monica. He is in debt to “every bookmaker that waterhole hosts”....
...The first half shows Norris at his best, peppered with witty one-liners and underscored by a poignant sense of loss, the friends mourning Frankie, themselves and a childhood suddenly ended. E.V....
...George V is described as “The Unexpected King”....
...Experimentation was integral to his work (the V&A also features his nature and travel reportage), as was his great personal charm....
.../ From Thomas V Czarnowski Mysterious workings of German postal service / From Indermohan Virk An expensive luxury whose day is over / From Jan Manning...
...… Veruschka: From Vera to Veruschka, by Johnny Moncada, (Rizzoli £47.50/$75) Veruschka (born Vera von Lehndorff) was photographed by Irving Penn, Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon....
...In addition to Miyake’s own definitive private archive in Tokyo, his work is in the permanent collections of the V&A in London, MoMa in New York and key museums worldwide....
...We don’t even particularly associate our big moments with great photographs: Eisenstaedt’s “V-J Day in Times Square” has no London equivalent....
...Electronic Arts spent heavily promoting Battlefield 3, and games such as Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Activision’s World of Warcraft with advertisements featuring actors including Chuck Norris....
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Most in the markets believe the global economic recovery will be anything but V-shaped – although such a scenario actually looks increasingly likely, says Barry Norris, partner at Argonaut Capital....
...However, he says he takes a contrarian view of markets, believing a recovery is likely to be V-shaped....
...Barry is a big believer in a V-shaped recovery and I am absolutely not. The case for the V is straightforward....
...Fact v fantasy: How farfetched is it? “If you believe in spooks, clap your hands.”...
...The result is a masterpiece of symbolic representation and nostalgia: Penn called the portraits “residual images of enchantment”....
...The Queen Mother faced a financial crisis in 1959 that threatened public humiliation, her faithful servant Sir Arthur Penn claimed in a begging letter to the prime minister....
...The notorious 2006 Supreme Court decision in Ebay v MercExchange started the ball rolling by undermining the ability of private patentees to gain injunctive relief as a matter of course for patent infringements...
...What led to the Democrats cancelling a television debate between presidential candidates and saw Sean Penn, Holly Hunter and Jay Leno appear in a series of dialogue-free short films? 34....
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