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...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...American minimalist counterparts include Agnes Martin’s trembling grids, Donald Judd’s gold-hued stacks, Robert Ryman’s white paintings....
...Shankill Road, the centre of the largely Protestant, unionist community that cherishes its British identity, blinked back tears as they laid flowers at a giant mural to honour the late Queen Elizabeth II...
...And though the precinct is definitively manufactured, with a roster of shops from leading designers — Zimmermann, Lee Mathews, Bassike, Dion Lee, Sir The Label — somehow there’s the energy of a more natural...
...He’s a collector, and a curator — the latter often expressed through his clothes, which have showcased collaborations with Sterling Ruby and the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation....
...Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panthers, Frank Langella the fractious Judge Julius Hoffman....
...In Virginia, the statue of Robert E Lee will be removed from its site in Richmond, the erstwhile capital of the Confederacy....
...All of this puts serious doubts on Vision Fund II....
...Smart reads Junk behaviour Lee Stowell, a Wall Street veteran and junk bond saleswoman says she was bullied and harassed at the brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald. Now she wants her day in court....
...The controlled site had to expand to include Kasulo II — a 10-hectare extension, with further relocations. Kasulo III is under consideration....
...A New York Times report in 1890 on the unveiling of a statue of the Confederate general Robert E Lee in Richmond, Virginia declared that just as Lee’s memory belonged to “the American people”, so the monument...
...The new Samba II device under test is designed for such a greater range. “One of the biggest constraints is dust,” says Dr Lee. “It’s pervasive and clogs up the electronics.”...
...In the Tanks, visitors throw long blue shadows against blank walls in Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s light installation “Séance de Shadow II (bleu)”, while Robert Morris in his 1965 walk-round glassy mirrored...
...Reeve pursues its legacy through Thomas Barrett’s Lee Priory, in Kent, and William Beckford’s Gothic skyscrapers in Bath and at Fonthill, Wiltshire....
...Robert Icke’s adaptation grapples with big questions about justice, justification and storytelling....
...Would-be warriors can lead a division of soldiers from the armies of Robert the Bruce or Edward II who fought in 1314....
...Lee Friedlander’s landscapes through his car window get better every time I see them....
...His reconstruction of the dispute with King Henry II that led to Becket’s murder is masterful and makes for a compelling read....
...If he can appease the demonstrators by doing that, he could emerge as the Arab world’s Lee, who brought Singapore from African levels of development into the first world....
...But should the regime collapse, and Seoul and Washington challenge Beijing’s influence over northern Korea, “Korean War II” is the nightmare scenario....
...Other offerings include Shakespeare’s Richard II, with Comédie Française star Denis Podalydès in the title role, and an adaptation of Robert Musil’s monumental Man without Qualities (well, the first third...
...The artist has referred to Robert Rauschenberg’s twin paintings “Factum I” and “Factum II” as a starting point. But photography has always looked at controlled series....
...Paul Mortimer-Lee, BNP Paribas The OBR is too pessimistic about this year’s likely out-turn and too optimistic about the improvement from 2010/11 to 2011/12....
...Paul Mortimer-Lee, BNP Paribas The most serious would be if inflation remains very high or goes higher – it could even get to 4 per cent – and that inflation expectations rise....
...Berners-Lee tells us how much carbon dioxide is emitted by (almost) everything we buy, including its production, transport and operation....
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