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...For the opening night of his V&A exhibition, Yousefzada had commissioned a dance performance from the choreographer Dickson Mbi — “like a Sufi poem, or the dances we do around shrines,” says Yousefzada —...
...Visitors to the V&A can still peep through its window into miniature glass-painted scenes from nature, illuminated by candles, which the young Gainsborough artfully placed behind a light-diffusing silk screen...
...Neither did I troop along to the 1974 game-changing exhibition at the V&A, “The Destruction of the English Country House”, at which the images went on show of more than a thousand country houses, castles...
...“Poor”, when the Keats siblings’ tangled legacy (from a wealthy grandmother) inspired Dickens’s Bleak House account of the interminable Jarndyce v Jarndyce case?...
...George V’s horse Anmer caused whose death on June 4 1913? Which cocktail is made with vodka and orange juice (above)?...
...Indian Textiles: Nature and Making (V&A) Google Arts & Culture were ahead of the game when it came to digitising art works and entire exhibitions, and this deep dive into the V&A’s lustrous textiles collections...
...The V-A-C team explains that GES-2 will not, technically, be a museum: there will be no permanent collection, for one thing....
...The V&A is certainly trying hard....
...It’s a place for mixed grills, ox heart, buttered carrots and breakfasts that cross into Man v Food territory....
...pages of James Shapiro’s keyhole biography of Shakespeare, 1599, and realised that he wasn’t just any actor, but the star of the show: that very year he had, it seemed, been the first man to play Henry V...
...The scenario naturally calls to mind a host of wartime films and Haig also quietly references Shakespeare: the pivotal tempest; the Henry V-like passage about sending young men to war....
...The writer is dean of The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London...
...As for Lionel Asbo being a V sign to the UK, “What seems to have been lost is that it’s actually a very affectionate portrait of England. It’s not a hate-filled jeremiad....
...historical paint consultant and heraldry expert, says it was all clever PR: “Henry ordered heraldic carvings and motifs to be added wherever possible to remind people not only that his favourite wife was Jane Seymour...
...Michael Singer, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, UK...
...Seymour Pierce played down recent rumours of predatory interest in the set-top box maker from industry peers....
...Notebook can exclusively, if unreliably, reveal that MUFC players are plotting to buy Seymour Pierce....
...A variant of that was proposed in this newspaper last week by Julie Dickson, Canada’s head of financial supervision....
...During the Seymour affair, Katherine had instilled in Elizabeth the importance of guarding her reputation....
...Wendell V. Graham, Washington DC, USA TF: In total about 24 UK stocks can be bought in the US....
...I have done it deliberately – in order to endure, in order not to feel – but it has killed V …must I kill her or kill myself?”...
...The Drawings of Rembrandt By Seymour Slive Thames & Hudson, £35 A connoisseur’s volume but also an eloquent introduction to Rembrandt’s genius as draughtsman....
...A shareholder derivative action in the Delaware Court of Chancery: Seymour v. Samuels, et al....
...Philip Seymour Hoffman gives hope of rescue, as the man on the CIA’s Afghan desk....
...Says Harper: “Since White v White, the divorce world has been set on fire because the House of Lords completely changed all the rules.”...
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