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...Ruben Östlund, maker of Force Majeure and Palme d’Or-winning The Square, returns to Cannes and to outlining the geometry of human folly and hypocrisy with Triangle of Sadness....
...“Until now there has been a basic consensus on issues such as immigration and gender [in parliament],” said Sandra León, a political scientist at Madrid’s Carlos III university....
...Postwar and Contemporary Art Christie’s London, June 25-26 Prominent figures of 20th-century art such as Jean Dubuffet, Leon Kossoff and Philip Guston feature here, plus a 1984 Jean-Michel Basquiat priced...
...If there’s any doubt that we’ve arrived at the Holy Grail for all salseros, there’s a giant mural over the dance floor based on Leonardo’s “Last Supper” — but with Oscar D’León, Rubén Blades and Johnny Pacheco...
...Tuymans calls these “authentic forgeries”, and for this show he inserts layers of quasi-fake installations, plus works by himself and Ostend symbolist Léon Spilliaert, to disrupt familiar responses to Ensor...
...This is an artist which is called Leon Spilliaert, which probably not a lot of people know here....
...Homicides in Mexico’s Federal District have increased 14 per cent in the first half of 2015 compared to a year ago, while extortion in Nuevo León, a northern industrial hub, has grown more than 30 per cent...
...The walk through the National Gallery that I am taking with Leon Kossoff, on a bright autumn afternoon in advance of Frieze Masters, where his Drawing Paintings will be on the booths of Annely Juda and Mitchell-Innes...
...I kept wishing that Diamond and her director, Kenny Leon, had trusted their actors to let us infer aspects of race and class rather than banging us over the head with them textually....
...His greys are as fine as Velázquez and his reds as fine as Rubens. As a painter I do claim he has never been surpassed.”...
..., fluid, spontaneous yet majestic, such depictions introduced the baroque to England, yet their restrained elegance shows how native moderation tempered the bombastic extravagance of Van Dyck’s teacher Rubens...
...“I never thought I would live to see the day when the government renovated this place,” says Rubén Reina Ruiz, the caretaker. “Now, I guess I will.”...
...People talk about Rubens, Ensor, the grotesque, but the roots are in Van Eyck – the most effective, powerful painter in the western hemisphere, because of his hardened form of realism....
...‘Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting’, National Gallery, London WC2, until July 1 2007, tel 20 7747 2885...
...From Rubens, the baroque master of colour, there are only drawings – and a 1948 monochrome film of his oil paintings....
...It was Rubens’ and Rembrandt’s success as painters that allowed them to live in such impressive residences....
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