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...February 14 to May 6; further information and tickets here ‘Sargent and Fashion’ at Tate Britain Discover how John Singer Sargent used fabric and fashion in his paintings to capture identity and individuality...
...When organisers brought this to the general assembly, the crowd was not “fussed”, Colvin recalls with a chuckle. “Nobody cared. They just weren’t interested in engaging with it at all.” V....
...(FT) Schwarzman v Urbano Cairo Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest private equity firm Blackstone, has found himself in a legal battle with one of Italy’s...
...The firm expedited a case, League of Women Voters v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to push for a decision in time for the midterm elections....
...Hans Mielich’s earnest “Albrecht V of Bavaria” has brought his wide-eyed pet lion....
...Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends, National Portrait Gallery, London An outstanding selection of Sargent’s more intimate, idiosyncratic portraits shows him fresh and experimental across four decades...
...Viewed as even more degenerate was the debutante Mary Blomfield, who when presented at court refused to curtsy to George V, instead kneeling to implore him to stop torturing women....
...These stupid children should be dragged by the scruff of their necks to see the Picasso in Madrid and the Sargent at the Imperial War Museum....
...Indeed, the v-shape that results from a diamond position might even make it uncomfortable for your back, with two symmetrical bits of hollowness on your spine, thereby making the cushion not quite fit for...
...John Kay: The random shock that clinched a brave Nobel prize Last week, Thomas Sargent was awarded the Nobel prize for economics....
...Fisher and James V. Koch, argues otherwise. It reasons that a substantial proportion of entrepreneurial behaviour is genetically determined....
...But they also cautioned that there may not be a simple V-shaped recovery....
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