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...Next month, the auction house will offer 12 works by French artist Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), from the collection of the art historian Joseph Baillio (total estimate $2.4mn-$3.5mn)....
...Farhi met the retailer and founder of French Connection, Stephen Marks with whom she had a daughter, then moved to London and worked on French Connection and her eponymous fashion label....
...She ended up at the French Lycée in London (which she enjoyed), followed by the Slade School of Fine Art, graduating in 1965....
...Brighid Lowe, my tutor at the Slade. The way she thinks really resonates with me....
...The kitchen, headed by Mississippi-born chef Slade Rushing, serves Franco-Creole fare such as oyster po’ boy eclairs, Creole-spiced lamb chops with thyme-infused black-eyed peas and praline bread pudding...
...Born in 1969 to a French father and a Spanish mother – both of whom emigrated to the UK in the ’50s – Cantons grew up in suburban south London. Creativity wasn’t encouraged....
...Under American head chef Slade Rushing, the menu brings together “classic French gastronomy, revisited New Orleans dishes and New York culinary heritage”, with a mix of brasserie staples (steak tartare,...
...For its third week, which opens on Friday, works come courtesy of Max Limbu at Goldsmiths, Victoria Cantons from Slade School of Art and Sean Tseng, Olivia Sterling and Michael Forbes, all from the Royal...
...Drawing inspiration from French philosopher Henri Bergson, who espoused a buoyant mobile creativity, Rhythm’s members saw its name as “the essence of life”....
...After education at Stowe, where he was bullied, and the Slade School of Fine Art, where he realised he “could not be a Picasso” and caught rheumatic fever, thus missing war service, Richardson was a window...
...The Slade-trained artist and curator, daughter of Sharjah’s ruler, took over the biennial 16 years ago, with Documenta in Kassel as a model. “I never look at us as an Arab country....
...The dealer Stephen Ongpin, meanwhile, has an exhibition devoted to French drawings with a lavish catalogue, Watteau to Gauguin: French Drawings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries....
...French bank BNP Paribas is to acquire a high-end UK estate agency in a Brexit-defying commitment to the UK property sector....
...The Romanian-Greek poet Marie Cavadia was a patron, as was the Syrian-Lebanese painter Amy Nimr, who studied at the Slade in London....
...Granted, the weather in much of western Europe this “summer” has been poor, but the pitch had apparently been relaid at the end of the French domestic season and showed little sign of having bedded down....
...loire-castle-rivau.com; certesens.univ-tours.fr Photographs: Naomi Slade...
...Ruth and Thomas met before the first world war while studying art at the Slade in London. Ruth was the daughter of a banker; Thomas had studied at Eton and Oxford....
...The intervention comes on the heels of protests from France over an $8.9bn fine levied against BNP, the French bank, which fuelled European concerns about US “extraterritoriality”, or the principle of US...
...The deal netted Mr Slade and Mr Leaver about £90m....
...Looks like something that might have been produced at the Slade School, in the vein of Augustus John, although not by him.”...
...How a sextet of students at the Slade responded is the subject of a vivid summer exhibition, Nash, Nevinson, Spencer, Gertler, Carrington, Bomberg: A Crisis of Brilliance....
...Eurostar already runs seasonal direct trains from London to the French Alps but a new collaboration with TGV Lyria will see passengers travel from London or Ashford to Lille, where a TGV continues direct...
...He was a few months short of his 21st birthday when, fresh out of the Slade School of Art, he was commissioned to decorate the new Refreshment Rooms at London’s Tate Gallery....
...Shelley Slade, an attorney with Vogel, Slade & Goldstein, and a former DoJ investigator, argues that only criminal action against individual executives will bring reform....
...Barenboim said that he could imagine no other national broadcaster and cultural organisation apart from the BBC televising a series of concerts featuring six major works by the austere French modernist....
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