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...And in the Democratic camp, Ruben Gallego, the congressman now running for one of Arizona’s US Senate seats, told Lauren that since Trump killed the bipartisan border deal and abortion protections, “those...
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...Starliner was launched last Thursday atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and docked at the ISS the next day....
...The room features Gainsborough’s own copies of a Rubens and a Van Dyck. But the room is in a part of the house built a few decades after the artist himself had died....
...In reduced version, Donatello is at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie (to January 8), then arrives at London’s V&A in February; both museums contribute key loans....
...Rubens Ricupero, a former top diplomat and government minister, said that Lula had found a “dream subject” with the environment....
...It kept emperors (Charles V, then Philip II) at suspicious arm’s length but wilted when their stewardship stiffened into close-up domination....
...Rubens’ pupil Van Dyck brought the movement’s bravura dazzle, without its spiritual substance, to the court of Charles I....
...“It’s not like the standard V-shaped recession in emerging markets, such as in Indonesia in 1998 where it’s only a year and a half of real economic hardship,” he said....
...“If we play like we did against Germany, we can reach the final,” said Sergio Lira, a local council worker watching a rerun of Portugal v Morocco as he ate lunch....
...Although not formally groundbreaking — the style derives from Titian and Rubens — in their virtuosity and vivacity, dazzle yet intimacy, high colour, bravura loose brushwork and baroque gestures, Van Dyck...
...The museum has been designed by Thomas Heatherwick’s studio on the V&A Waterfront, whose management company has funded the building’s ZAR500m ($38m) redevelopment....
...Another highlight from the Louvre is Titian’s “Supper at Emmaus” (c. 1530), while the Prado will send “Charles V with a Dog” (1533) by the same artist....
...Martin Roth, V&A director, said the exhibition “shows that Constable’s art, so well-loved and familiar to many of us, still delivers surprises”....
...While all this is enlightening, the V&A’s real triumph is to show how Constable absorbed yet transcended tradition to become an expressive, naturalistic painter, distilling effects of sunlight or fleeting...
...Even gentle critics, such as the salsa singer Rubén Blades, are dismissed as imperialist stooges....
...“The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man” was a trophy, acquired by 18-year-old Prince William V, last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and a passionate collector since childhood....
...He gave the examples of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, labour activists and co-founders of the United Farm Workers union....
...Plus: why Dilma snubbed Barack; Samsung v HTC; Chávez’s shadow; and Ukraine should fall into the EU’s lap....
...- Roach v. Pettis (on China). - A flat ECB learning curve. - Government debt, inflation and money. - On a wing and a credit card. - Chavez’s gold bet. - Das Wort “Shitstorm”....
...Mr Correa may now be trying to step into Chávez’s shoes. “One gets the impression from Mr Correa’s behaviour that sometimes he wants to out-Chávez Chávez,” said a Latin American diplomat....
...“She is a curvy girl and quite petite, so it was important to show her bump,” says Chavez....
...No wonder he is the painter’s painter; the touchstone for Rubens, Velázquez and Delacroix. (The latter said that all great painters were Titian’s “flesh and blood”.)...
...Some of that was beautiful – sheath dresses with felted wool and satin appliquéd on the front like arts of abstract art; a simple V-neck sweater over a skirt given shape not through pleating, but rather...
...Related reading: Chevron invests $2bn in Venezuelan oil, beyondbrics Russia’s Rusoro takes Venezuela to court, beyondbrics Venezuela v Multinationals, beyondbrics...
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