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...Ducking into a café, I realise that the chunk of blue whale is still in my pocket....
...To March 17; further information and tickets here ‘Juan Francisco Elso: Por América’, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami A fresh retrospective on the late Cuban artist....
...January Art ‘Lineages: Korean Art at The Met’, ‘Africa and Byzantium’ and ‘Women Dressing Women’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Lineages celebrates the 25th anniversary of the museum’s Arts of Korea...
...“It’s a real treat to be able to go two blocks from my studio and see [work by] Tracey Emin,” says Sara Gates, who has run Kingsland Editions, a fine art screen-print studio, since 2006....
...“Great for Al, bad for America,” says a woman near me, swigging back the dregs of her beer. Al, who is sitting across the table, has put money on the Chiefs and is looking smug....
...“As did the mainstream art people!” These days, as Nagle acknowledges, ceramics are everywhere in art galleries and museums. But it took a very long time....
...“A lot of art is about information, about issues, about fighting for a just cause, and that’s fine; there’s a lot of contemporary art which is verging on the academic,” Peattie says....
...of America’s most populous state....
...Four nights for a family of four cost £480, plus £35 for the lambing; penhein.co.uk May A new Nordic art museum in Norway Twentieth-century Nordic art may be less well known than design, but it stands...
...has become famous for its print of a bear hugging a map of America’s most populous state, with the slogan, “I Love You California”....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...You might begin at The Western Café in Bozeman, America’s best restaurant that closes at 2pm....
...They knew about Ganieva’s relationship with Leon Black, the Wall Street billionaire who had recently become chairman of the Museum of Modern Art....
...I also love a leisurely dinner at nearby Arethusa al Tavolo, if I can get a table....
...United States....
...There is also acknowledgment that much of the kind of state-of-art tech the Gulf wants to tap into is being developed by American companies....
...In the city’s historic quarter, we stumbled on a fabulous restaurant-museum, Al Hasun, which opened last year....
...The robbery made headlines around the world, and was listed by the FBI as one of the most notable art thefts of the 21st century....
...The restaurant, formerly the much-loved Café Boulud, will be replaced by an outpost of the also very fine but flashier Miami institution Casa Tua....
...Money talks, and I don't think he's going to have a shot at trying to be president of the United States. And he is-- this is all he has, and he's sort of going all in with it....
...But there’s another royal tycoon that tends to slip under the radar: MBZ’s brother Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the United Arab Emirate’s national security adviser who also controls some of the country...
...Contemporary culture is thin on the ground, but there are notable exceptions: the festival of classical theatre held every summer in the Roman theatre at Mérida and the spectacular new art museum in Cáceres...
...El Hayawan’s atelier is located in the district of Zamalek, which is also home to the Museum of Modern Egyptian Art....
...of which can be found in the Tokyo National Museum — incongruous, somehow, especially as the Museum of Modern Art was originally located in this very building and operated here from 1929-32....
...His name is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan . . . He is one of the most powerful men on Earth, and yet the ruler of the United Arab Emirates maintains a relatively low profile on the world stage....
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