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...Acts announced so far include Andrea Bocelli and Robbie Williams — with plenty more to come. 2023’s line-up included Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Guns N’ Roses....
...The writer William Gibson’s famous line about the “future”, that it “is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed”, certainly applies to London....
...The King referred to his eldest son, Prince William, in his speech, saying that “the prince and princess of Wales” had recently made a successful public visit to Wales....
...William Kentridge Contemporary exhibition of the year was the Royal Academy’s William Kentridge....
...In New York, the Neue Galerie’s 20th anniversary celebrations continue this month with the stunning collection of its co-founder Ronald S Lauder....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...First is the Narcissus Hall and, beyond that, the Arab Hall....
...The room called the “old hall” is not grand and barely a hall. Rather it is a simple space with a window seat, a big fireplace and some hangings — some of Morris’s earliest designs....
...She rode horses with Ronald Reagan in 1982, during the Falklands war, when Britain was determined to solidify its alliance with America....
...Williams called it “a strange, very tense, slightly violent shape” — it evokes birds, predators, migration....
...The company wasn’t exactly sorry to leave the Royal Festival Hall in 1997....
...Not exactly fit for the V&A, but it worked just fine in a foyer around the corner from the Gare du Nord....
...The three-way wiring between media, crown and public that reshaped the modern monarchy did not, in fact, begin with Elizabeth II, but with her grandfather George V....
...radical acts was the relinquishing of a group of treasures from the collections, including the “Chatsworth Apollo”, one of the few surviving pieces of bronze sculpture from antiquity, and also Hardwick Hall...
...It is based on “Manchester from Kersal Moor”, an 1852 watercolour by William Wyld — a forest of distant, smoking factories marching toward a bucolic idyll....
...John Van Reenen, Ronald Coase chair in economics at LSE: The UK will lag behind other developed countries....
...of Orange and Shirley Williams) 4 and 7 (Lauryn Hill and Adam Hills) 5 and 9 (Evan Davis and Edith Evans)...
...“The hardest thing to do was marry the protected facades with the interior floors and halls.”v The residences open in mid-September, the culmination of years of work at Lamela’s company....
...Procter skewers William Hamilton, whose sale of antiquities to the British Museum in 1772 was a founding column of its collection....
...The last thing I bought and loved was a blue sea-glass bracelet from the jeweller Lisa Hall. She and I have been collecting sea glass all our lives....
...apogee — directness, vigour, suggestions of contained power — was Titian’s “Charles V” and Velázquez’s “Philip IV”....
...“More whisking,” advises Sokoloff’s chef Ben Hall, who is quarantined with him in sunny Lyford Cay in the Bahamas. I myself am housebound in drizzly Brooklyn. Hall’s head pops up on my computer screen....
...“They have talked a very good game on reform,” says William Jackson, chief emerging market economist at Capital Economics....
...One has a curving V-shaped base (£12,000) and the other stands on a solid column (£8,000)....
...John Van Reenen, Ronald Coase School professor, LSE: It will not regain its size....
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