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...The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Portrait Society of America have established programmes, linked to their exhibitions, that offer exposure to a smorgasbord of styles and sensibilities, and...
...This week, rock legend Alice Cooper tells us about selling the multi-million dollar artwork he found rolled up in his garage — a story that involves Andy Warhol, Salvador Dalí and Dennis Hopper....
...In 2017, Yale decided to change the name of Calhoun college [named after John C Calhoun, a US statesman and defender of slavery] to Grace Murray Hopper, a computer scientist....
...Kinmel was intended to act as a social stepladder, its construction and size on par with royal palaces, not to mention its quality: hand-finished hoppers, handmade bricks and special slate for the roof,...
...Jonathan Hopper, chief executive of the real estate consultant Garrington Property Finders, said: “The breathless pace of price rises seen in the latter half of 2020 was always going to be unsustainable....
...Nationally, surveyors expect prices to fall in London but to rise in most other regions, according to the latest survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors....
...“Everything the original valuation was based on is now irrelevant,” says Hopper....
...According to the December monthly survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, published on Thursday, inquiries by new buyers, the number of agreed sales and price expectations all saw marked...
...And I remember by the end of that year I got a scholarship to the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and within 10 years extraordinary things happened in my life....
...But the noir sensibility, already present in his Hopper-like oil portrait of the magazine’s editor, “Felix Fenéon”, working at night by a window, the dark panes framing piles of blank white paper, intensifies...
...in several styles, at one point creating a series of images of couples in interiors suggestive of adultery or duplicity — claustrophobic paintings that were later admired by Alfred Hitchcock and Edward Hopper...
...Mr Sturgis acknowledged that the show will follow a string of UK exhibitions this year devoted to American 20th century artists, including those at the Royal Academy, Tate Modern and British Museum....
...The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is planning a £7.6m eradication project for 9,100ha Gough Island....
...James Shaw is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Art’s design products programme....
...“There’s a poignancy about some of these works,” said Adrian Locke, senior curator at the Royal Academy....
...By itself, the Royal Academy’s America after the Fall, upstairs in the Sackler Gallery, is a serious, significant display including several sombre masterpieces — “Gas”, Edward Hopper’s desolate petrol station...
...American Gothic, one of the best-known images of 20th century US art, will leave North America for the first time next year as part of an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London exploring the clash...
...It would meanwhile reassure company lifers everywhere they aren’t the losers that job hoppers assume....
...The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors reported that the average stock of houses per surveyor had fallen to the lowest level since it started collecting this data in 1978....
...For a moment I feared there’d been some dreadful public competition to create a people’s livery for the Queen’s preferred city-hopper and that’s why there were these wavy, ribbonlike patterns down the aircraft...
...To March 28 then at Norwich Theatre Royal April 14-18, northernballet.com...
...At the Royal Academy’s private view for Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album, I spoke to a number of people younger than myself who had never seen Easy Rider, barely even heard of it....
...It reminded me of those Edward Hopper paintings, those totally desolate places.”...
...When Ben van Beurden was head of chemicals at Royal Dutch Shell, the then chief executive Peter Voser presented him with an ultimatum....
...The sound of 25 tonnes of fruit dropping into a hopper is a comforting early morning wake-up call for Barry Chevallier Guild, chairman of Aspall cider makers, as the apple harvest gets into full swing at...
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