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...London dealer Richard Saltoun opens his first US gallery on May 2, during New York’s Frieze Week....
...We chat with the head chef, Richard Cox, from the West Country in England....
...Two opera companies evidently agree, and are offering new online filmed versions of a pair of operas based on Gothic stories by Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe....
...But there was another strand of literature, the 19th-century apocalypto-utopian novels — HG Wells’s The War of the Worlds, William Morris’s News from Nowhere, Richard Jefferies’s After London, Edward Bellamy...
...— Richard II Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, Penguin Books, £5.99 I’m reading Barchester Towers. It may not fit the mood of the time but I’m finding it superlative entertainment....
...How could I not, the schoolboy who lost himself in Poe and Hawthorne; Mailer and ee cummings; Runyon and Nathanael West; Bellow and Carver; I, who can tell you where to find the best ribs in the world off...
...Blum & Poe plans a Harvey Quaytman exhibition in LA next year, and will bring his large “Mirror to Damascus” (1971) painting to Art Basel in June ($350,000)....
...Among the most substantial discoveries are fragments from an early comédie lyrique entitled Diane au bois and his unfinished Edgar Allan Poe opera La Chute de la Maison Usher, performed in their original...
...In Altered Carbon (Netflix, from Friday), adapted from the novel by Richard K Morgan, human bodies are known as sleeves, as disposable as a cheap shirt....
...In Dan Brown’s execrable Inferno it doubles up as Florence while in John Cusack’s Poe-inspired The Raven it’s mid-19th-century Baltimore....
...Blum & Poe, 2727 La Cienega Boulevard (+1310-836 2062; blumandpoe.com). Eames Foundation, 203 Chautauqua Boulevard (+1310-459 9663; eamesfoundation.org)....
..., October 5-8; frieze.com Portraits by Yael Malka Photographs: Courtesy of Marilyn Minter, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Salon 94, New York; Penny Slinger courtesy of Blum & Poe...
...Richard Javad Heydarian, a local political analyst, compares Mr Duterte to Donald Trump, who has virtually sown up the Republican nomination for US president....
...Richard Heydarian, a political analyst at De La Salle University in Manila, describes Mr Duterte as a demagogue who presents his crude behaviour as a sign that he is a common man without pretence....
...Richard Javad Heydarian, political science professor at De La Salle University, believes Mr Roxas has some way to go to convince voters....
...The second candidate, Grace Poe, a 47-year-old first-term senator, has benefited from a wave of sympathy since the death of her adoptive father, film star Fernando Poe Jr, who ran for office in 2004....
...Put together Rachmaninov and Edgar Allan Poe and the result was always likely to be romantic gloom. The theme of the “Dies Irae”, an “idée fixe” for Rachmaninov, intones ominously throughout....
...choice of the venue is inspired; this is the only fair in a working movie studio,” said Tim Jefferies of London’s Hamiltons Gallery, speaking in his elegantly tricked-out booth showing works by artists from Richard...
...Getty’s one-act opera, based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, has been slotted into WNO’s new “British premieres” series alongside Jonathan Harvey’s Wagner Dream and Richard Ayres’ Peter Pan....
...Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe, it looks inside the mind of a man who has committed murder and cannot stop talking about it....
...The invitation from the Royal Opera was perfect timing as he had been looking for the opportunity to write another opera based on Poe....
...Richard North Patterson, 63, has sold more than 20m novels worldwide, including Balance of Power, The Race and Eclipse. His 17th book, The Spire, was published earlier this year....
...This year 195 dealers are exhibiting, with a swathe of prestigious newcomers or returnees, including London’s Victoria Miro, Los Angeles’ Blum & Poe, Berlin’s Contemporary Fine Arts, Mexico’s Kurimanzutto...
...“Richard Dawkins is the name that springs to mind, he’s about the most radical....
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