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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 Vicki Hollub flew Occidental Petroleum’s Gulfstream V jet to Omaha for a meeting with billionaire investor Warren Buffett in April 2019, she needed cash to place a bet....
...Cue the 1999 episode of Friends named “The One with Joey’s Bag”, in which Matt LeBlanc’s character is admonished for carrying a black leather tote....
...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....
...John Kay: The random shock that clinched a brave Nobel prize Last week, Thomas Sargent was awarded the Nobel prize for economics....
...Sebald; Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather; A House for Mr Biswas by V.S....
...But they also cautioned that there may not be a simple V-shaped recovery....
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