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..., has kidnapped our man and tied him up in the back of a van....
...Van Dyck’s beaming, corpulent magistrate “Justus van Meerstraeten” leans back confidently, hand resting on his book-piled desk....
...“I was doing this more myself for about 20 years,” and previously for the Mies van der Rohe collection at MoMA in New York....
...Colleen Hoover into a publishing powerhouse (and forced publishers to pay more attention to the thriving business of romance in general); and it is readers who make books such as debut novelist Shelby Van...
...London’s relatively unknown Mail Rail is the sort of interesting fact I’m fascinated by....
...Two exceptionally rare portraits by Rembrandt, unknown to art scholars and never placed on public display, have been unearthed after 200 years in a UK family’s private art collection....
...Among other revelatory late works is “Portrait of an Unknown Man” (1660s): pink patches cohere into a thoughtful, resigned face, a cloak hangs in a torrent of silver-grey slashes — anticipating not only...
...Mellissa Huber, the associate curator who organised the exhibition alongside Karen Van Godtsenhoven, says she was initially interested in a show on the interwar period....
...All the unknowns are known. But in the rough, people can vary in opinion on what the colour, or the clarity, or the yield will be. So you get these differences — and that’s fascinating.”...
...The thieves, they were eventually caught, but the paintings were long gone, they were sold to an unknown buyer. And for years no one knew where the Van Goghs could be....
...It has arrested many more, the final tally is unknown, since October 7 when Israel declared war on Hamas after a cross-border raid in which 1,200 people were killed....
...Derain’s gloriously strident “The Dance”, spinning with a snake across a jungle, demonstrates influences from Gabon masks, Javanese temple sculptures, Romanesque drapery — a fantastic melee and a quite unknown...
...He lingered unjustifiably on the fringes of the elite, and he died in 2017, at 72, a respectable almost-unknown....
...Talking about the long delay, chief executive Dolf van den Brink said: “There was a real risk for legal prosecution of our local people, there was a real risk of nationalisation.”...
...It was October 2000, the opening night of a new opera by a hitherto unknown composer, and even in this cultured city it seemed extraordinary that an opera should be causing such a stir....
...The catalogue introducing the unknown “Van der Meer of Delft” to museum audiences in 1866 carried on its cover a picture which, it turned out later, was not by Vermeer at all: it was the work of a Dutch...
...Van Gogh was influenced by the curling sinuosities of these seascapes; Matisse travelled to paint Belle Île in homage to Monet....
...But Maria van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical lead for Covid, warned that “the emergency phase is over but Covid is not . . . While we’re not in crisis mode, we can’t let our guard down.”...
...These seas were the last swath of the planet to be settled by humankind, and though much is unknown (for nothing was written down), the sea voyages made from the sacred pass were probably among the greatest...
...We passed chip and burger vans and hot drink stalls until we came to a large area filled with people craning their necks....
...Residents sometimes offered Bard art in lieu of rent, as the unknown Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe did when they checked in in 1969....
...He was thrown into a van, and says a bag was placed over his head and he was beaten until he vomited. “If you don’t own up to what you did, we’ll kill you,” they allegedly said....
...the goods, but also greatly bolstered the distribution of counterfeit goods,” said Thierry Van Innis, a lawyer for Louboutin....
...“Quine’s family can’t read his work . . . so 90 per cent of that person’s life is sort of unknown to them,” she says....
...“The Surrealists and [Sigmund] Freud opened the door to the mind, to the stuff of dreams and to psychological unknowns that are now possible to express,” Camu says....
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