Hints and tips:
..., 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....
...Exxon, van Baal and Lamb declined to comment further on the litigation on Tuesday....
...“We urge Shell to set a credible scope 3 absolute emissions target,” said Diandra Soobiah, head of responsible investment at UK pension fund Nest....
...Fees of 1 per cent are not unknown, and agencies may then have to give a cut of their fee to another agent to introduce a buyer....
...“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...
...They are relatively unknown, except among divers as one of the finest places to scuba and snorkel anywhere....
...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.”...
...We squeeze into a rented car and a van to see, film and photograph the lush forests and the seven lakes that sit in volcanic calderas....
...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...
...Twenty years later the trend is gathering pace: the V&A is building an open storage facility in east London and the Boijmans van Beuningen opened its version in Rotterdam last year....
...Van Gogh was influenced by the curling sinuosities of these seascapes; Matisse travelled to paint Belle Île in homage to Monet....
...CEOs’ moral compasses, and thus their readiness to feather their nests at shareholders’ expense, vary widely....
...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.”...
International Edition