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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...Her response was to create eight replicas of those same vessels, which are arranged on the shelves behind us....
...I saw you on the other side of Dinosaur hall talking very intently to a devastatingly attractive woman (am I still allowed to say that?)....
...Tuesday’s final round of the US Championship and US Women’s Championship can be viewed, free and live with grandmaster commentary, starting 7.30pm BST, at uschesschamps.com....
...“Structural reasons as well as the interest rate environment are both contributors,” said Jill Carey Hall, equity and quant strategist at Bank of America....
...(He also brought banging youth music nights to the usually quiet halls of the V&A.)...
...December 14 to 24; further information and tickets here ‘The Nutcracker’, Royal Albert Hall The Sugar Plum Fairy is back in town....
...That finding a box of old cards prompts such a shockwave of nostalgia illustrates how they affect us without us noticing and how brief and contingent their butterfly lives are....
...Between 2019 and 2022, the number of patrons at the V&A grew by 11 per cent whereas at the Royal Academy, where private money is critical due to the lack of any government funding, there was a 45 per cent...
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...The US has an installation on the longevity of plastics; outside, there are garish sculptures created from barrels and buckets, creating a rather beautiful landscape of waste....
...In another section nearby, a Petrus Christus “Virgin and Child” was being prepared for travel to a museum in the US....
...Whatever happens your friendship is v important to me and that’s not going to change. WhatsApp to Sue: I can’t just sack her. She’d sue us to hell and back....
...Tell us what that means....
...Ukraine began the switch to Nato-standard artillery last summer with the first deliveries of US howitzers....
...The last exhibition of their work was housed in another of their creations, the cavernous Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in London....
...Messages from the archive of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist From: Rutherford@Monkwellstrategy.com To: JohnJ@bigenergy.co.uk Hell yes, you need to start sucking up to Labour....
...Bliss. louisiana.dk LW Awagami Factory, Hall of Awa Japanese Paper Museum, Shikoku Artists will fawn over Hall of Awa, the Japanese paper museum on the holy island of Shikoku, which was founded in 1989...
...As I said, there are good reasons not to make donations — you do after all have us, and we are pretty well plugged into her people....
...“It is important to show the Russian leadership who expect us to be scared of their [nuclear] blackmail.. it would be a very powerful message that we don’t care.”...
...Article V invoking a collective defence response from other Nato members would be triggered. Moscow would risk a devastating nuclear retaliatory strike by the US....
...He is survived by his second wife Sandra Cash....
...Our brilliant new ex-Treasury spad, Christopher, is giving us some interesting angles here....
...It was natural to Libbie Scher Mugrabi that she should end up sponsoring the V&A’s Fashion in Motion programme, which stages catwalk shows by designers in the museum’s hallowed halls....
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
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