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...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...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.”...
...V. Jean-Michel was right to be wary. There were a lot of unexplainable things happening in Salta....
...De Beauvau spent part of her childhood at the Château d’Haroué, the 18th-century estate that belonged to her father, Prince Marc de Beauvau-Caron, who was a great connoisseur of the arts....
...A year after 27 people died in a single incident, marked this week in a candlelit vigil, the true numbers of the disappeared are unknown....
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...London’s exhibition season began with psychedelic tea parties and disappearing rabbits in the V&A’s immersive wonderland Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and ended with translucent, spidery, electricified...
...Its estimate of $20m-$30m could make it Van Gogh’s priciest watercolour to sell at auction....
...The ambitious absolutists Henry VIII and Charles I had enticed Holbein and Van Dyck from Europe....
...“Our major shareholder is the Sawiris family and they are pre-eminent investors in Egypt,” said Mr de Montessus. “We are not jumping into the unknown. It is a country we know very well....
...It’s the sense of endless options, the endless unknown, and also risk and things being precarious.” When Foals began, he says, “We saved and bought a Royal Mail van....
...“Kahn reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, [Bill] de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job — only half his height,” Mr Trump tweeted, misspelling the name of the diminutive...
...John Van Reenen: Rise in unemployment to about 6 per cent....
...Vu Ha Van, a Yale professor of mathematics who has spent most of his career abroad (and who in the US goes by the name Van H Vu), was picked as Vingroup’s chief adviser on AI....
...In the Netherlands that year, 4 per cent of the population voted for the Dutch Fascist party....
...Zona Franca de Manaus This manufacturing hub was established near Manaus, deep in the Amazon rainforest, in the 1960s....
...Many strategic moves such as selling more than 30 per cent of Xerox to a third party could trigger changes that devastate Xerox’s investment in the JV....
...Liikanen remains a probable alternative and would also be a good leader for the ECB for many of the same reasons as V. de Galhau....
...Kees van Dongen’s “Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles” is clearly dying: vampire-pale, icily robed, blood-red choker at her neck, she stays upright with difficulty....
...Westminster” (1906-07, estimate £6m-£9m) and Kees van Dongen’s “La femme au collier — fond rouge” (1905, estimate £5m-£7m)....
...More invested in divinely anointed authority than human accessibility, the Stuarts hired image-makers such as Van Dyck who would reliably turn out masterpieces of courtly grandeur, editing where necessary...
...Ms Rosenfeld will be replaced by Dirk Van de Put, a relatively unknown veteran of the consumer industry, who has worked at companies such as Coca-Cola and Mars....
...period even though de jure we will have left....
...The job went to Des van Rooyen, a relatively unknown member of parliament with little financial experience, who was in the Saxonwold area before his appointment, according to phone records obtained by the...
...The report also uncovers evidence that Des van Rooyen, then a little-known ANC backbencher, met with the Guptas at their home in Johannesburg seven times before being appointed as Mr Nene’s replacement by...
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