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...It all works fine, as it should for £242mn, with £99.05mn coming from HM Government and £7mn National Lottery funding from Arts Council England, making it the biggest cultural investment in the UK since Tate...
...The UK competition regulator has warned that a sugar deal between the makers of Tate & Lyle and Whitworths could push up the price of the staple for British shoppers, and has given the companies until next...
...exhibition juxtaposing pioneers of the first Parisian avant-garde in the 1860s-80s demonstrated the Orsay in full force: Manet’s “The Balcony” and Degas’s “The Bellelli Family”, Manet’s “Olympia” and Degas’s “L’...
...His skinless man, “L’Ecorché” (1902), a debut made in coloured plaster as an anatomical teaching aid, astonished compatriots with its expressive power....
...These included the top lot of the art auction, another Monet — “Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, temps couvert” (1891) — for $26.5mn ($30.8mn with fees, est $30mn-$40mn)....
...The proliferation of these stones reflects a culture that delights in trompe l’oeil playfulness, whether in rock collecting or cuisine....
...Sharon White will step down as chair of John Lewis and Waitrose in 2025....
...The latest seasons of the Martin Freeman-led comedy-drama Breeders, and Nick Hornby’s chamber piece State of the Union have followed Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s superb Catastrophe in intelligently probing...
...Committee member Baroness Sharon Bowles questioned the use of leverage in LDI strategies, which she suggested was effectively “the same thing as borrowing” and thus not permitted under legislation....
...The pre-cubist structure of staggered houses on a hill, “Sea at L’Estaque behind Trees”, belonged to Picasso, and a vibrant, tightly organised “Gulf of Marseilles” to Gustave Caillebotte....
...Otherwise it would just be like an art installation in the Tate.”...
...He was introduced to British audiences at Gimpel Fils gallery in 1947, then at Tate’s exhibition in 1963....
...“Inflation has hit us like a hurricane,” said chair Dame Sharon White, adding that the cost of living crisis had pushed some of its customers towards discount supermarkets....
...For the exhibition finale, I would have preferred a reimagining of the more theatrical “L’Atteso” (2018), for which he filled Turin’s OGR arts centre with abandoned cars and vans....
...Sharon Wong had decided she had earned a little indulgence as she browsed at Louis Vuitton in La Samaritaine department store, one of Paris’s marquee luxury shopping destinations....
...A couple of months ago I spotted Sarca at Tate Modern, wearing an electric blue pair of her own creation with black trousers and a simple black top. She looked stylish and at ease....
...Soaking up these changing scenographies that wash over the Lightroom like waves, visitors at last week’s preview were already lying dreamily on the (carpeted) floor — reminiscent of Tate audiences at Olafur...
...“You can’t be nude [in public], but you can wear costumes with trompe l’oeil body parts,” she says. “Absurd! Here, I’ll show you.”...
...Gauguin’s “Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven” (1888) is a Brittany scene, painted with the colours of Martinique, which Sant bought for $2.9mn at auction in 2000 and now has a $6mn-$8mn estimate....
...Picture-perfect Provence The career-spanning Cézanne exhibition at London’s Tate Modern is attracting crowds, as is the landscape of his birth....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...You enter at the magic wardrobe of Jean Marcel’s “Armoire Surréaliste”, with its panels giving on to trompe l’oeil blue skies, and follow Dorothea Tanning’s nightmare corridor of locked doors and outlandish...
...Tate displays the group in brilliant context....
...For three evenings late last month, the vast loading bay under Selfridges department store on London’s Oxford Street was cleared of traffic so Sharon Eyal’s L-E-V dance company could set to work constructing...
...Tate Britain’s 2017 Queer British Art show, commemorating 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales, featured “Bathing”, a 1911 work by the Bloomsbury Group’...
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