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...Other buildings here hint at other modernisms....
...The city had violently stripped and digested her and kept her here in its bowels....
...characteristic of the Grade II-listed Barbican estate....
...I’m a Boston Celtics fan. If both teams win their current series, play-off series, which looks like it’s gonna happen now, the two teams will face each other....
...It’s so sad, that bit of the Embankment [in front of Tate Britain]: it’s ghastly. Other cities use the water: we’ve done nothing in London.”...
...And The Copper House II (2014) – built on an embankment made from a well excavation in a Chondi mango grove – whose slatted walls make it feel part of the dense forest....
...But these days, Villa is valued at more than £500mn after Sawiris and Edens agreed the sale of a minority stake in their V Sports vehicle to US investment firm Atairos in December last year....
...II” (2022), a digital fabric lightbox that impugns consumerism and ecological disaster, death rides a composite elephant made of brand logos....
...Guston’s father was a blacksmith; other allusions are to the death of a beloved brother, his legs crushed by a car; Holocaust photographs of piled-up limbs; and the tumultuous bodies in Michelangelo’s “The...
...Pilots use the nomenclature ‘V’ to refer to their most important speeds, which vary significantly between aircraft types and also with payload, environmental conditions and other factors....
...LA was a particular source of fascination: she once proclaimed that a single intersection of the city provided enough raw material for at least 16 hours of looking....
...In her final year of study, she was also awarded the Young Masters Maylis grand ceramic prize and has since shown at the V&A, Christie’s and Collect at the Saatchi Gallery....
...On the other side of town in Barlaston, Kate Turner, chief curator at the V&A Wedgwood Collection, has retrieved a leather-bound ceramic pattern book from the company’s archives....
...“Showing the other side of that is valuable.” It’s a different kind of aspiration....
...And, meanwhile, I have a city to minister to.”...
...Michael McCarthy, author and former politics lecturer, has chronicled the life of the historical Richard Whittington, whose career spanned the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V, and in Citizen of...
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...of contemporary art provides an alternative view of the Eternal City....
...In the UK, the City of London and the City of Westminster are two local authorities that require an embodied carbon assessment for all major developments....
...Through the dramas and vicissitudes of seven decades, with their wars and other woes, Queen Elizabeth II served as the nation’s figurehead, supremely able to hold her people together....
...This is about a very small subset of women who can go to a plaintiffs’ law firm and say, ‘Look, my target is a billionaire.’” V....
...Salta is a medium-sized city with a population of 700,000 people....
...Elizabeth was now Queen, not just of the United Kingdom but also of the Commonwealth, of Canada, Australia, Jamaica, and other former colonies....
...Spencer – an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales....
...The permanence meant the city didn’t fall foul of the Church’s edicts against usury, ie, loans with unfair terms, so the innovation was quickly adopted by other Italian statelets....
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