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...I look in markets like Spitalfields for trinkets, charms or stones that I swap around and hang off them....
...Oprah Winfrey is a global media leader, producer and philanthropist Barbara Kingsolver Author by Ann Patchett Barbara Kingsolver has been reminding readers to open our eyes for a long time: open our...
...Since his release in November 2018, after a global campaign that included Arundhati Roy, Amal Clooney and Sharon Stone, his photographs, many focused on Bangladesh’s battle for civil rights, have travelled...
...Stalita gold-plated stone earrings, £79....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...She and her husband Jonathan, the owner of Marlborough Rare Books, the antiquarian book dealer in London, gave their collection of paper peepshow printed scenes to the V&A museum in 2016....
...It was subject to an export ban in 2004, which is how it ended up in the V&A, and that is testament to the craftsmanship of the London workshops.” She continues with barely a breath....
...King George V’s December message to the empire 88 years ago had families gathered around their radio sets....
...Indian Textiles: Nature and Making (V&A) Google Arts & Culture were ahead of the game when it came to digitising art works and entire exhibitions, and this deep dive into the V&A’s lustrous textiles collections...
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Peter Lely’s haughty court mistresses simper and sneer, semi-clothed as if emerging from the king’s bed: “Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Gramont” rustles in pink and gold; “Barbara Villiers, Countess of...
...There, the young Barbara Hepworth felt “the hills were sculptures, the roads defined the forms.”...
...Alexandrine Roy of Domaine Marc Roy also makes Phelps Creek Pinot....
...Nilanjana Roy is author of ‘The Wildings’ and ‘The Hundred Names of Darkness’. @nilanjanaroy Photograph: Reuters...
...“It doesn’t really have a name,” says Barbara Allen, residential director of Savills Knightsbridge. “Even we don’t know what to call it.”...
...One early morning, Muller had asked a group to pipe down and a kid had thrown stones at his blinds. There was no respect any more, Muller and several other residents lamented....
...Rhodes, who studied at Medway College with influential textile designer Barbara Brown, and at the Royal College of Art, describes the 1960s as “a wonderful period.”...
...Shakespeare transformed drama and poetry and immortalised England as “this precious stone set in the silver sea”. The Strong creed is not at all afraid of restating what was once well known....
...Such moves will bestow a much-needed collective identity on the MBAs, and feed into the rolling-stone momentum of today’s art market....
...I have not been stalking the slightly doughy man sitting opposite me in a blue V-neck sweater and open-collared white shirt....
...Stone walls do not a museum make: great art does. Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s visual art critic. Read her review of the V&A’s new show ‘The Cult of Beauty’ ………………………………………….....
...In the 1960s, too, the play MacBird, written by Barbara Garson, became a sensation: based on Macbeth, it showed Lyndon Johnson, then president, plotting to kill Ken O’Dunc (Kennedy)....
...Louise Nevelson and Andy Warhol greet guests beside the door, while in the living-room Stone Roberts mingles easily with Roy Lichtenstein, Donald Sultan, Brian Hunt and Jim Dine....
...Contemporaries – usually American – as varied as Barbara Kruger (“the absolute artist of the age of mechanical reproduction in its late capitalist phase”), Matthew Barney (“the Picasso of our time, or the...
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
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