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...(or Victory over Japan) Day William Walton Xanadu Yangtze Zara Phillips...
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...from Henry V, “Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood”, an exhortation to action....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...This month, it’s Dutch National Ballet’s turn to throw its hat in the Forsythe ring, with a triple bill that is part of the country’s Holland Festival....
...On June 30, a 1998 painting of him by Elizabeth Peyton sold at Phillips for £385,000 (£488,950 with fees)....
...I’d pair it with a brief description of the life of its inventor, Bill Phillips, who had more adventures than Indiana Jones....
...Holland and Sons, Whytock and Reid, Hampton and Sons and Cornelius V Smith are also good names to type into your search browser....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...“It’s going to make us an institution that’s as well regarded as the V&A or the National Portrait Gallery for photography,” says Phillip Roberts, the man who has been hired as the Bern and Ronny Schwartz...
...Once successful for his industrial and railway work, only a few small buildings survive, including his green shelters for cab drivers — there is one rather battered version outside the V&A....
...“It will have performance spaces and rehearsal rooms; it’s next to Westfield Stratford and the V&A East – it’s going to be a cultural quarter almost,” says Bargh....
...Studio Tudor medium earthenware vase, £225, matchesfashion.com The Backward Vendor leather Hubbard Basket V, £2,880, thenewcraftsmen.com Brunello Cucinelli hourglass timer, £400, harrods.com Jil Sander...
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...It’s the holiday season in Moscow, where the city has put up symbols of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine outside the entrance to Gorky Park: the Latin letters Z, V and O in throbbing neon, looming over...
...Such artefacts would be at home in the V&A or the Smithsonian; instead, they make up Krishna’s family’s private collection of relics from India’s past, when the craftsmanship of precious jewels was at an...
...The world’s big museums, including the V&A in London (which is building a large accessible archive in the Olympic Park with architects Diller Scofidio & Renfro), seem to have suddenly, collectively, decided...
...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....
...The message from the V-A-C Foundation, which runs the recently opened and vast GES-2 House of Culture museum in Moscow, is more muted....
...“It’s an interesting circular economy story,” says V&A festivals curator Meneesha Kellay....
...As Tomasz Orynski, a Polish truck driver and journalist, told me: “Why would you want to go to Britain, jump all these hoops, face all this hostile environment, if you could go to Ireland or Holland and...
...Roy Strong, once director of London’s National Portrait Gallery and the V&A, has about 480 items from his former home for sale at Chorley’s Auctioneers in Gloucestershire on Tuesday....
...Or Rose Uniacke, who did the Beckhams’ evolved Holland Park house. I heard about what sounded like huge changes....
...One example is Sluishuis in IJburg (also known as the IJ), an inverted V-shaped building that forms the centrepiece of a new residential neighbourhood in North Amsterdam built on artificial islands, with...
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