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...Where it gets strange is that, sometimes, the two things appear to be much the same. The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...For SS24, Spencer’s polos come in terry cotton, or else in a thick, satisfying waffle knit....
...We’d have listening sessions of Boulez and Cage and Terry Riley,” she says when we meet at her LVMH installation on the Rue de Richelieu. “But it’s also a weird city with a history of alchemy....
...In 1850, a strange essay called “A Christmas Pudding” appeared in Charles Dickens’s weekly journal, Household Words....
...Robinson’s strange, beautiful, and thought-provoking book is not always an easy read, but I encourage readers of all faiths and none to persist....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...Another composer inspired by ragas was Terry Riley, and Brooklyn Raga Massive performed their In D, a homage to Riley’s In C, at a past festival....
...The last thing I bought and loved was some strange bow-legged blue metallic jeans from Ganni....
...Bowie’s archive includes letters, set designs, thousands of slides, contact sheets and transparencies from photographers such as Terry O’Neill and Helmut Newton, as well as costumes made by fashion designers...
...The V&A’s installation on Tropical Modernism, initially a European colonial project but one adopted and adapted by African nations, notably in post-independence Ghana by the Nkrumah government (Ghana is...
...As Burkeman explains, there’s nothing strange about this: it’s easier to enjoy your holiday if you have other people to enjoy it with. Which brings me to Christmas....
...“I go for anything strange or fun. The more bonkers the better.” His latest addition is a miniature heart in glass....
...The strange events in the coastal city of Ephesus and in the forest near Athens reveal some wriggling naked truths that can’t wholly be dispelled with tidy endings. To Ephesus first....
...Dos Santos’s play, set largely in 1979, is at its touching best when it sticks close to that strange, uneven friendship....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...It’s a novel-length tale that serves as both billet-doux and poison pen letter to a medium — comics — in which Alan Moore, as the writer of such seminal works of graphic fiction as Watchmen, V for Vendetta...
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Arrival is merging with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V, paying a huge premium in order to add $300mn to its balance sheet. It is a desperate move that is unlikely to trigger a Spac revival....
...Two years before that, she played Henry V at Regent’s Park, and insists that both times, rather than wanting to “play a man”, she wanted to understand how to play Henry or Hamlet....
...This is strange....
...That popularity has subsided as a new generation turns to TikTok and more contemporary authors; elsewhere in the world, Wodehouse is either half-forgotten or seen as a strange relic of the past....
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