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...There are several player kings in Robert Icke’s fresh, fleet, state-of-the-nation staging of Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays — all of them between a rock and a hard place....
...It also reminds us that Henry IV usurped the throne. “It occurred to me that Henry IV’s only been on the throne for four or five years,” says Icke. “And this situation was never the plan....
...one kinda hero painter,” and who himself loved an armchair floating in the middle of nothingness, usually with a blurry body (topped with a blurry screaming head) in tow....
...argued that inequality has inexorably increased in modern times because the returns on economic capital held by the rich keep outstripping growth — a view challenged last year in a book by Phil Gramm, Robert...
...broken consensus are not described as “pro-immigration activists”?...
...One morning I set out to hike part of the Malerweg — the “Painters’ Way” that meanders in the footsteps of Friedrich and others through these hills....
...Sotheby’s will offer a Diego Velázquez full-length portrait of Isabel de Borbón, queen of Spain and the first wife of Philip IV, for a princely $35mn in New York on February 1 2024....
...The 19th-century American painter William Sidney Mount created the work “The Power of Music” in 1847....
...Send us your thoughts: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...The painter, Jacometto, has come up with an elaborately clever way to honour his patron’s loyalty and, at the same time, his love of poetry and music....
...Yinka Shonibare’s “Wind Sculpture in Bronze IV,” resembling a contorted scrap of windblown batik in sea-green and tangerine, embodies an intriguing paradox with its weightless metal in arrested dynamism....
...French Modernist architect and designer Robert Mallet-Stevens conjured a 15-bedroom home that became known as the Cubist château....
...with prices to be announced shortly. landmarktrust.org.uk Georgia O’Keeffe in Chicago “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt,” said Georgia O’Keeffe, America’s first great Modern painter...
...Ben is a portrait painter whose fiancée Cara has left him to work on Pemberley’s project. Looking to win her back, Ben travels to the island....
...At one end, astronaut Robert Lawrence, the first African-American in space, looks baffled, as if just landed on another planet. At the other, a glum guy in a hoodie turns away....
...A few years later, in 1981, Sugimoto’s first private buyer was the artist Robert Rauschenberg, who also bought a Diorama work after he saw the artist’s show at Sonnabend Gallery....
...Portrait painters have been helping the royals for centuries....
...Demand for the 18th-century French painter Jean Siméon Chardin has gone into overdrive since his 1761 painting of wild strawberries sold to a US dealer for €24.3mn (with fees) through Artcurial and Cabinet...
...When his parents divorced, Rothschild’s mother remarried a Greek painter, Nicolas Ghika, and he grew up surrounded by artists and intellectuals....
...There’s more attention-grabbing work inside the house: to the right of the main entrance hangs Robert Rauschenberg’s “Forge”, a two-metre-high Combine piece, uniting metal, paper, a sock and a necktie, while...
...So shouldn’t painters profit from the newly acquired liberty to do other things?”...
...Centred around the theme of love, power and fame, it will pull together some of the movement’s major works, from Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein to Robert Indiana and Claes Oldenburg....
...The critic and curator Robert Storr coined the term “retinal hysteria” to describe this kind of calculated offence to good taste. Enjoy. 2....
...Was Reynolds, scholar, friend of Dr Johnson and Edmund Burke, too cerebral, literary, historicising, to be a truly great painter?...
...Until February 11; further information here Performance ‘Seventeen’, Southbank Theatre A cast of theatre veterans including Robert Menzies, Fiona Choi and Richard Piper regresses to teenagerdom in this...
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