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...Is that an 18th-century portrait by Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder on display at contemporary art gallery Gagosian?...
...The US boasted Wernher von Braun, the German ex-Nazi inventor of the V-2 rocket, a trophy from the second world war. Both were scarred by conflict and driven by a passion for space....
...The exhibition is the brainchild of Johann Rupert, the South African billionaire behind the Swiss luxury goods group Richemont....
...Berlin dealer Johann König is bucking the trend of other European galleries by committing to London....
...In contrast to the supernew, the use of unconventional historic buildings is discussed by gallerists Axel Vervoordt and Johann König with architect Arno Brandlhuber, while the artists Pablo Bronstein and...
...John Eliot Gardiner — farmer, conductor and one of the leading interpreters of early music — is pointing towards a picture of Johann Sebastian Bach that hangs in the sunlit study of his Dorset farmhouse....
...So Shakespeare wrote a speech for another play in that year of 1599: Henry V, in which the day of Crispin and Crispinian is reclaimed for God, for King Harry, England and St George....
...Since its renovation nearly a decade ago, the 300-seat Dom Pedro V Theatre in Macau’s Unesco-recognised historic centre has regained much of its lapsed glory....
...(FT) US v China: the new cold war? David Pilling looks at the simmering tensions between the two superpowers....
...Trilantic V North America is the company’s first fund after rising from the ashes of Lehman’s merchant banking unit four years ago....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...“The challenge is delivering service that’s in keeping with the Graff organisation,” says Johann Laubser, the estate general manager. On balance, things are on track....
...An elegant German gold snuff box made by Johann Christian Neuber coming up at Christie’s in November (said to be very like ones owned by Saint Laurent and Arthur Gilbert), is estimated at £120,000 to £180,000...
...It was made around 1741 for Augustus III, elector of Saxony, by the Meissen porcelain factory’s greatest modeller, Johann Joachim Kändler, and his assistant JF Eberlein....
...Henry V (including his roles in Henry IV parts I and II) 32. Stagehands’ strike 33. Writers’ strike 34. Made an artwork, “Take Care of Yourself”, involving 102 women commenting on the letter....
...Christie’s has the collection of Lee V. Eastman, the New York-based entertainment lawyer, who was the father of Linda McCartney and counted Willem de Kooning among his clients....
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