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...An essay by Zadie Smith, “What do we want history to do to us?”...
...They still need us to buy new products. And they’re not going to persuade us with dull, worthy pieces....
...The rural setting is what attracts us — but we tend not to stay for long. Most of us drop in after the 7pm news on BBC Radio 4 and depart 12 minutes later, having heard the latest village gossip....
...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 important point for us in any case is that pecunia could include loans....
...exhibition will show some of the most well-known costumes in cinema history from the green silk charmeuse gown worn by Keira Knightley as Cecilia Tallis in Atonement (2007) to the red beaded dress worn by Joan Crawford...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...At Vogue China, (now second in Vogue’s ad revenue league, after the US version), a key theme is a nod to fetish and hidden desire....
...In Comcast v. FCC – the “network neutrality” case – the agency was found to be making up the law as it went....
...She also works with designer labels such as Maki Textile Studio in Japan and Jack Larsen in the US....
...Designers embraced the new ideas with gusto and by the mid-1930s metal furniture was available throughout Europe and in the US, with widespread commercial use in hotels, restaurants and shops....
...Kenteris won the 200m in Sydney, and in spite of barely competing outside Greece since, it will take a mighty effort from Shawn Crawford of the US to snatch the olive branch from him. ....
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