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...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...When I think about V’s story, when I try to comprehend the fate of my friends and what happened to us this year, I cannot help but think of the biblical story of Job, who had lost everything, but did not...
...Ukraine began the switch to Nato-standard artillery last summer with the first deliveries of US howitzers....
...This week, the base, which is the headquarters of the US Army’s V Corps, was renamed Camp Kościuszko after the Polish revolutionary who crossed the Atlantic to fight the British (gee, thanks Thaddeus)....
...“Photographing Alek in Brooklyn was a joyful and powerful experience,” says the documentary-style photographer Andre D Wagner, who shot this cover story....
...A rank of TV screens shows us a montage of recent productions: quite raunchy, even for today....
...He makes us hear the link between Meyerbeer, who set the standards for grand opera in Paris to which Verdi was aspiring with this opera, and Wagner, who was not the first to take the concept further....
...Mr Holten, a Dane, dreamt up the idea of the show about five years ago with Martin Roth, the German former director of the V&A, as a way of “showing how art can travel across borders and unite us in sharing...
...More from the Big Read on the US election...
...She is also a director of The National Archives, and a former trustee of the V&A and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She is, like her father, a wonderful broadcaster....
...They beckon us towards an unknown, thrilling, perilous future. They say, “Come on, dare! Touch, explore, climb.”...
...Following the recent case of Prest v Petrodel, it is clear that a wife cannot “pierce the corporate veil” to access the assets of the husband’s company....
...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...
...Nothing in a university education teaches us how to write history well, let alone do anything more imaginative....
...Jeremy Treglown is author of ‘V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life’ (Pimlico)...
...like Alberich in Wagner’s Ring Cycle....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...v-neck sweater....
...Right now, for example, one question before the Supreme Court in MedImmune v....
...Should our fear of trolls lead us to abandon the 1908 rule in Continental Paper Bag Co. v. Eastern Paper Bag Co.?...
...A Hundred Highways: American V Johnny Cash Lost Highway Cash’s final album, made in the months between June Carter Cash’s death and his own, is a fitting epitaph....
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