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...“They were aware of the uncertainty, but they said they were going to take a bet. They went all-in on immaculate disinflation . . . That Mars and Venus thing flipped. Or maybe they are both on Venus.”...
...In Thomas Stothard’s “The Voyage of the Sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies” (1793), an enslaved African woman rises from the sea like Botticelli’s Venus, framed by pale cherubs; Triton, clutching...
...Fresh from earning a place in the FT’s best albums of 2023, Kali Uchis is back with Orquídeas, her second release in less than a year. The first, Red Moon in Venus, was mainly sung in English....
...Such a feeling of intimate connection to a voice is rare in this enormous building. Venus only appears at the beginning and end of the opera, but Gubanova’s voluptuous sound was thrilling....
...SEE Seth Becker at Venus Over Manhattan, New York In his 1963 poem “A Boy’s Head”, Czech poet Miroslav Holub sifts through the imaginary contents of a child’s mind, from spaceships and bumblebees to “a...
...A vibraphone evokes Stereolab’s reveries of lounge music. Drums are well-used, intruding into songs like a character bearing dramatic tidings. (Henri used to drum in a Belgian band called Venus.)...
...In the original Cupid and Psyche myth, Venus, jealous of the nymph’s beauty, instructs Cupid to seduce her in total darkness....
...Tennis legend Venus Williams has joined forces with the artist Adam Pendleton to pull together a charity auction of 11 works to preserve the childhood home of musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone...
...That led to her EP Venus, released on March 15, which explores divine femininity and her experience of being a Latin woman....
...Velázquez’s nude “The Rokeby Venus” (1647-51) visits Liverpool for a display “challenging traditional readings by setting it alongside artworks by women and non-binary artists”....
...In the Tops & Bottoms series of antique Greek-Roman plaster casts [based on the Venus and Faun sculpture from the RMN – Grand Palais] I cut out the shapes of stereotypical underwear to reverse their usual...
...A gallery of “before and after” photos (all women) suggest that my face could morph from Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” to something akin to Botticelli’s Venus....
...Meanwhile, Anya Taylor-Joy wore a strapless Dior Haute Couture gown decorated with silver appliqués that referenced the house’s Junon and Venus dresses from the AW1949 collection....
...When it comes to antitrust policy, Americans are from Mars and Europeans from Venus....
...Love songs are two a penny, but it’s rare for them to sound quite as smitten as those on Kali Uchis’s Red Moon in Venus. Instrumental textures melt and shimmer....
...The refined, elaborate “Crescetis Amores”, nude Venus suckling three putti, vividly reworks Roman sculptures of cupids and of the goddess of love....
...Among the largest projects discovered in the past couple of years are Iran’s Shahini gasfield and TotalEnergies’ Venus oilfield in Namibia....
...Across the lake from the house, framed by cedars, laurels and their dark vegetation, Brazilian artist Erika Verzutti’s glittering, glowing gold-coloured Venus attempts to rectify the male-dominated, male-made...
...Another beloved tour de force is the highly original “Venus Withholding a Heart from Cupid” by the enigmatic Carlo di Cesare del Palagio, who worked with Giambologna for the Medici, as well as for the Saxon...
...Although significantly smaller than Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar field, the largest in the world, holding more than 60bn barrels, the development of Venus alone would make Namibia a major oil producer....
...Few books so ably illustrate the nomadic possibilities of literature as Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s The Postman of Abruzzo, a novella about an Albanian community living in the mountains of southern Italy, written...
...Ceramic ‘TABLE’ lamp by Henry Holland Studio, £2,400 Made in London with stacked earthenware spheres on a solid oak base. henryhollandstudio.com Venus by Pinto, €8,500 Part of the brand’s Constellations...
...Kali Uchis: Red Moon in Venus “Love is the message” was how Kali Uchis introduced her third album. It’s a well-worn message, but the Los Angeles-based singer brings it to life with a flourish....
...But they are not at all the same as a tipping point in global warming itself, which really would make a Venus-like Earth imaginable. That is worth remembering....
...“The Birth of Venus”, a design for a silversmith to create an oval basin, is composed so that the goddess emerges as if out of the sea when the bowl is drained; around her nymphs ride dolphins, putti play...
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