Hints and tips:
...Uninspired by the selection, he asks the waiter if the kitchen can make us two coupes Dänemark — the Swiss version of a dame blanche....
...Syson has toggled between the US and UK over the years, popping up at the British Museum, the V&A, the National Gallery and the Met in New York....
...“The story we are telling looks at what they have done for generations, with us tweaking the colours or patterns.”...
...After the unnecessary drama and machismo of last year’s Leonardo anniversary (with France and Italy at loggerheads over his “nationality”), this year’s Raphael commemorations, appropriately, seem so much...
...The three Bruegels give us new status.” Some institutions exploit a VIP resident especially effectively....
...Eventually, he was stabbed to death in a conspiracy backed by Charles V, and his body was hung from the window of his Piacenza palace....
...Was it in his bottega, as Francesco Cogliati suggests, that the young Leonardo sculpted the V&A’s terracotta Virgin?...
...below, reopened after a lavish 18-month renovation, and in January, the Royal Opera House Muscat will launch a major new display space with an exhibition on 400 years of opera, in partnership with London’s V&...
...(FT) Mayweather v the Justice System The US securities watchdog has targeted its first celebrities who touted initial coin offerings....
...What a beautiful connection between peace, the holidays, us and the cosmos.” Connections are a Libeskind speciality....
...Designers have always asked what nature can teach us, a question answered by everything from Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machine (inspired by birds) to sonar (bats)....
...The project started as a collaboration between Bell of the US and Agusta of Italy, but was taken over completely in 2011 by AgustaWestland, which is now known as Leonardo Helicopters....
...In truth, the Oscars will outlive us all. Equally, the point at which it ceased to matter probably passed some time ago, without us even noticing. But, this year at least, the train keeps rolling....
...- Leonardo DiCaprio can’t let go… of diamonds. - Further, further reading....
...It is a relief then that she has not yet pestered us to join the other Cumberbitches sleeping rough outside the Barbican for one of the on-the-day tickets....
...In the US, sponsorship figures can be vast....
...and San Leonardo, which tower so definitively over Yellow Tail Cabernet Sauvignon despite being made from the same ubiquitous grape variety....
...Celebrated today as the Dutch Mona Lisa, the girl with the translucent eyes and sublime blue and yellow headscarf is as elusive as Leonardo’s....
...Those of us who have got an ounce of imagination do not need to be reminded by fakes or reproductions for artistic stimulations....
...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...
...(Vasari tells us that that Michelangelo was enormously influenced by Signorelli’s nude figures, though modern scholars contest the theory.)...
...“With the V-22 it’s on top of them before they know it.”...
...Reflecting the jam of discordant, competing images all around us, this anonymous tome, shaped and weighted like a tombstone, has an end-of-history feel....
...Old Master shows, Holbein at Tate Britain and Leonardo at the V&A, are packing in tourists and residents alike....
...‘Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design’ is at the V&A, London SW7 until January 7. Tel 20 7942 2000....
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