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...That the relationships they commemorated were often tainted as well as painted in no way detracts from these images’ powerful charm. To October 1, holburne.org...
...I look in markets like Spitalfields for trinkets, charms or stones that I swap around and hang off them....
...Rather than painting from life, Yiadom-Boakye charms her subjects out of her own imagination, building them, as writers build fictional protagonists, out of an internal scrapbook in which she has squirrelled...
...The gift of a simple keychain of Mary and Child — which he describes as like a “rabbit’s foot” lucky charm — became for him “in all her brokenness . . . the ideal Mary: the Mary of the keys, the Mary of...
...Beneath her easy charm, Sabanci is a big thinker. “There are three major challenges facing us right now,” she says, “climate, women’s engagement and urbanisation.”...
...But no one had accounted for 11-year-old Molly Kavanagh, a braided, bespectacled child poised beyond her years and seemingly immune to Mr Robinson’s charm....
...With a population of only 40, Machuca radiated a sleepy, Wild West charm, its adobe houses baked by the sun to a dead-leaf drab....
...Over at Asos, you’ll find 288 items embellished with pom poms; headbands, sandals and the now ubiquitous bag charm....
...That passion for living life on the edge undoubtedly accounts for his work’s quizzical, precarious charm....
...Its location close to the coast gives the house a secluded charm but it also makes it a challenge to attract visitors....
...That Rousseau found inspiration for his animals in the taxidermy creatures displayed in the Jardin’s vitrines explains why his tigers and lions have the ludic, immobile charm of stuffed toys....
...Stephen”, now in the Louvre, he is less interested in the accuracy with which he depicts bodies — although the ubiquity of long masculine thighs in tight breeches suggests he was not immune to physical charms...
...Marcus Haddock’s Don José oozes masculine charm, more so than Laurent Naouri’s Escamillo. The dialogue comes across snappily, with a keen sense of live stage performance....
...In his navy shirt and dark trousers, salt-and-pepper hair flopping into kind, brown eyes, Penone, at 65, still boasts the Felliniesque charm that saw Tate choose him as their poster-boy for the 2001 retrospective...
...Like the man, the music spoke of charm, intelligence, imagination. That man was Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski (1913-94), then at the height of his international fame....
...By then the artist, who was born in 1939, had established a reputation for surreal visual puns whose charm lay in the games they played between word and image and idea and material....
...Yet he is also blessed with a thoroughly Mediterranean charm, expressing perplexity with the workings of the cafetière – “I am not sure what that is exactly” – and asking courteously if he may remove his...
...In an age when neither art nor architecture has ever been more narcissistic, the self-effacing charm of Bonnard and his new home are to be enthusiastically welcomed....
...The Renaissance historian John Addington Symonds described the art of Bronzino as “brilliant but hard, cold, calculated, never fused by the final charm of poetry or music into a delightful vision”....
...Lucas Meacham’s Giovanni is both dangerous and alluring, with daredevil charm matched by vocal noblesse....
...The Stone Roses: War and Peace, by Simon Spence, Viking, RRP£20, 352 pages Intended as a history of a British band who professed they’d never get back together, but arriving just ahead of the Stone Roses...
...Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence are both actors. Both have a strong record on stage. But Hammond is 4ft tall; Spence is of normal stature....
...Above all, a wave of takeovers spurred by falling productivity left newly expanded groups such as Pfizer with thousands of sales “reps”, often recruited more for their charm than their medical expertise,...
...Gentler than Arbus, more light-hearted than Frank, less detached than Friedlander, he is a conjurer of witty, insouciant moments that, even if occasionally staged, possess a beguiling, off-the-cuff charm...
...Although possessing vintage charm, the lack of contemporary sensibility suggests their creator has confused postmodernity with nostalgia....
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