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...Lowe’s life story makes her one of the most fascinating and admirable American designers of the 20th century. She was born in around 1898 in Alabama to a family of black dressmakers....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...’s self-portraits which, according to the V&A, “critique the canon of westernised photography . . . as an indigenous woman of colour” — deadly dull....
...of contemporary art provides an alternative view of the Eternal City....
...He made two tombstones for a nephew and niece who died in a house fire in his home city of Birmingham, Alabama....
...It was written in 1964 in the George V luxury hotel in Paris, a city to which McCartney and Lennon had hitchhiked only a few years previously. What money could buy was at the forefront of their minds....
...But people involved in arranging the deals say Pipe investors are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of transactions and put off by rising valuations....
...The “refreshment room” of Tate Britain once had all the relaxed charm of a dungeon. Diners were squeezed between imposing iron pillars. Water pipes criss-crossed the walls....
...While based in Fort Devens, Massachusetts, he met Alma Johnson of Birmingham, Alabama, then an audiologist in Boston....
...That march is what drove me out of the South. I took a Greyhound bus to New York City.” Instead of continuing to live the violence, he made art about it....
...The V&A’s reconstructions of shabby but infinitely layered and complex ad hoc British mosques is very striking and among the most memorable displays....
...in order to increase sales, in litigation brought by three California counties and the city of Oakland....
...For example, the windiest and the sunniest provinces of Vietnam are both right near Ho Chi Minh City, so if they were to connect those sources into the grid, here’s a place that would not need to use that...
...The poolsides are quiet in Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront district....
...Details Neville Hawcock was a guest of the tourist boards of Alabama and Huntsville; he flew with Virgin from London to Huntsville via Atlanta....
...McCullin on the favourites in his collection 16th-century Syrian tiles I bought a pair of tiles for $60 in the old city of Damascus, which is the most amazing city in the world....
...They might respond: How many times do institutions like MoMA, The Smithsonian or the V&A have to spotlight gaming before the medium is taken seriously?...
...On Giudecca island, E&V is marketing a four-bedroom apartment for €3.5m. The heavy footfall of visitors to Venice has boosted the short-let investment market....
...In the City, it just comes down to: is there still a risk?...
...talks in the Russian city of Sochi....
...Alabama senators approved a near-total ban on abortion, a move aimed at overturning the Roe v Wade ruling that gave women the right to terminate pregnancies....
...The biggest blow came in late October when Mr López Obrador vowed to uphold the results of a "public poll" that called for the cancellation of a new Mexico City airport....
...find and fix leaks in water pipes....
...But, like all such giant projects, it has strong political winds at its back: the benefit of Nasa contracts spreads across many cities and states, with Alabama, home state to attorney-general Jeff Sessions...
..., writes Miranda Green Free Lunch: Racism v economics, again What sort of anxiety got Trump across the line?...
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