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...An early work by Francis Bacon, made when he was still a decorator in the 1920s, shows an eerie combination of ghostly figures and columns....
...these notes are there in this co-production between Actors Touring Company and Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, lightly touched on by the five-strong writing team (Roy Williams, Bola Agbaje, Vanessa...
...Last year’s event included dancers styled by Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon and guest vocalists such as Vanessa Williams and Patti LuPone....
...For starters, it’s located in a former outbuilding, about 20 steps from Vanessa Bell’s front door....
...A Duncan Grant and a Vanessa Bell. But I’m giving them to the Trust.”...
...When he made this he was in love with Vanessa Bell, he wore pyjamas made from Maud, a fabric she designed. With clay, things translate.”...
...She found Vanessa German at an art fair in Miami and has three of her totem-like sculptures....
...As Francis Bacon, another prodigious creator of disarray, explained: “I feel at home here in this chaos because the chaos suggests images to me.”...
...Much proceeds in this vein: the juxtaposition of “Madame Augustine Roulin (Rocking a Cradle)”, all singing hues, simplified contours, lilting arabesques, with Vanessa Bell’s dots-and-dabs “Roger Fry”....
...Gavin Francis, founder of Worthstone, a social investment consultancy for wealth advisers, says the appetite of investors is not in doubt....
...“June and July were sharp falls in sentiment due to high uncertainty leading up to and then following the referendum vote,” said Noble Francis of the Construction Products Association....
...Pope Francis starts a three-day trip to Turkey on Friday, during which he faces big challenges, such as improving relations with the Muslim world and bolstering ties between the Catholic and Orthodox churches...
...The “legacy” part of the show is too big, messy and packed with mediocrities, but contains a few stunners: Watteau, Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning....
...The English photographer Vanessa Winship is given a major and interesting show at the Mapfre Foundation, her first retrospective....
...Francis Bacon colours – mustard and forest green and lilac and greys – came in simple swing skirts that hung just below the knee, paired with bouclé jackets and asymmetric bias-knits that owed a debt to...
...And ditto Derek Lam, whose assortment of easy separates in crepe, bouclé and Francis Bacon shades was typically understated....
...But the Musée d’Orsay loaned Giovanni Boldini’s “a” and there is work by Francis Bacon, John Singer Sargent and Damien Hirst, as well as clothing from designers including Balenciaga and Yves Saint Laurent...
...Then his credentials as a French intellectual are tainted by rumours he has never ridden a motorcycle or attended a soirée with Vanessa Paradis....
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...Vanessa Sannino clearly spent a lot of time on the costumes which are complicated, garish and generally rather hideous....
...We saw it in Francis Coppola, we have seen it in Woody Allen. Now we see it in Malick. They can do what they want and what they want becomes as formless as tennis without a net....
...The Opéra Comique has neither the means nor the backstage space to pull off grand opera effects but Vanessa Sannino’s simple sets make much of little....
...Selections by Vanessa Friedman … Junot Díaz, Author of ‘This is How You Lose Her’ (Faber) The most extraordinary (and harrowing) book I read this year was Oscar Martínez’s The Beast: Riding the Rails...
...Hughes showed a clip of Francis Fukuyama discussing his book The End of History and the Last Man on The Late Show in the early 1990s....
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