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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...
...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....
...” – 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”....
...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....
...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....
...To Joan Didion, V.S. Naipaul and Tom Wolfe, I owe the inspiration and ambition to write non-fiction that rises to the level of fiction, but All the King?...
...Michael V....
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