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...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...It was an extraordinary luxury to spend time alone with Bosch, Titian, Velázquez or Goya....
...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....
.../ From Stephen “Swifty” Warden, Toronto, ON, Canada...
...and Velázquez’s “Philip IV”....
...Technology is also helping the people on the front line of the battle to protect wildlife: the 300,000-400,000 rangers and wardens who work in the world’s parks and reserves, according to the International...
...I visit Zafferano to order the Milanese veal escalope and saffron risotto and love to visit the Victoria and Albert Museum: I discovered the V&A during the McQueen retrospective and the fashion collection...
...Hans Mielich’s earnest “Albrecht V of Bavaria” has brought his wide-eyed pet lion....
...It sits in a domaine national, a state-owned walled estate that everyone I meet — the hoteliers, the game wardens, the guides, even the police chief — tells me is the size of Paris, the boundary the length...
...Aping Velázquez’s sumptuous surfaces and grandeur of composition in the velvety purple 1950s popes in “Figure Sitting” and “Study for a Portrait”, or deconstructing Picasso’s deconstructions, and throwing...
...His apartment is “a micro-V&A” of eclectic religious artefacts and exotic antiquities....
...V. Students and steers I know precisely two things about Christ’s Hospital when the Mini rolls into the parking lot....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford Significantly, but don’t ask me how....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford I just don’t know....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford The OBR’s central estimate of GDP growth slowing to 1.4% in 2017 looks as good as any. Lots of uncertainty around it....
...John Vickers, warden, All Souls College, Oxford More pessimistic than 12 months ago (I note the question is premised on Brexit.)...
...Today’s highlights include Correggio’s “The Agony in the Garden” (c1525) and four paintings by Velázquez....
...“Infanta mean girls” was how Erdem Moralioglu described his woman this season, as he reeled off a list of eclectic inspirations from Velázquez paintings of infantas, old clothes stored in Blyth House where...
...Viewed as even more degenerate was the debutante Mary Blomfield, who when presented at court refused to curtsy to George V, instead kneeling to implore him to stop torturing women....
...No wonder he is the painter’s painter; the touchstone for Rubens, Velázquez and Delacroix. (The latter said that all great painters were Titian’s “flesh and blood”.)...
...For 500 years, men shaped art’s possibilities by painting women: Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa”, Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”, Velazquez’ Infanta and her maids in “Las Meninas”, Manet’s “Olympia”, Picasso’s “Demoiselles...
...We take with us a profound sense of guilt at the warden’s expression of wounded hospitality....
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