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...And yet it – like its close cousin, Ivy League – has instead proved ripe grounds for appropriation, as black creatives such as the late Virgil Abloh or Grace Wales Bonner have taken its codes and spread...
...Based on Shakespeare, with some help from Virgil and Plutarch, it promises to be a big event and marks the breaking of new ground for its composer, a resident of California....
...In Dante’s Divine Comedy, these words are said of Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory....
...I met him through Virgil....
...Uh, Virgil Louis V on my back, baby. Living fast, dying slow that's the catch, baby. Suicide doors fuck around and crash baby. I do the dash baby, uh....
...Showing me some of the Ed Curtis graffiti bags she’s done which have already gone out to market, it’s hard not to notice their likeness to a print just seen at Virgil Abloh’s Off-White show....
...At Louis Vuitton, Virgil Abloh has created a series of white suits with unusual details — a double-breasted blazer has deliberate creases to make folding and packing easier, and pleated pants are Thin White...
...The way they expressed the Céline girl changed radically from season to season — from the Canadian freak folk band Timber Timbre to Method Man and Mary J Blige....
...had grown markedly by the time Stephen Adnitt designed Dame Edna Everage’s breakfast dress, a sartorial hymn to the dubious pleasures of the fry-up worn by the alter-ego of the Australian Dadaist Barry Humphries...
...and Caesar could have written code / From Phil Hughes, Menlo Park, CA, US Boris has the chance to redeem himself in 2018 / From Peter J Soulsby, London, UK Please read Shakespeare (trust one who knows...
...J’accuse: if the novel’s initial publication as genre fiction was its first mis-representation, a second, and much more influential today, is James Whale’s 1931 Universal Pictures Frankenstein, starring...
...Yet Octavian’s broadsides, however salacious, were not akin to the puerile tweets of, say, President Donald J Trump. For the fate of the Roman world — and western civilisation — hung in the balance....
...Partners Dr Jeremy Farrar Director, Wellcome Trust Neil Woodford CBE Head of Investment, Woodford Investment Management Matt Regan General Manager, AbbVie Alan Hirzel Chief Executive, Abcam Timothy J...
...The End of the World Running Club, by Adrian J Walker, Del Rey, RRP£7.99 After an asteroid strike destroys most of Britain, Ed finds himself separated from his wife and children....
...Howard Jacobson, J (Jonathan Cape) The British comic author won the Booker in 2010 with The Finkler Question....
...Virgil, sent by the shadowy Beatrice, is about to show him Hell....
...Andrew Humphries of the Bakery, a start-up accelerator that is working with Bar Pass, attributes this success to Londoners’ combination of skills with an artsy edge....
...The Letters of Paul Cézanne, edited and translated by Alex Danchev, Thames & Hudson, RRP£29.95/J Paul Getty Museum, RRP$39.95, 392 pages Im here with the foulest people on earth, those who make up my family...
...From Mr David J. Critchley....
...The fact that the FBI has been snooping on the private emails of the director of the CIA has revived uncomfortable memories of the grubby political blackmail of the J. Edgar Hoover era....
...“O, for pleasure after pain,” the famous garden designer Humphry Repton wrote in his best-known book, “and joys of sunshine after rain.”...
...Turner illustrated Virgil, Homer and Byron; Constable revered Gray and Wordsworth; Blake, of course, was a serious practitioner of both crafts and illustrated Dante’s Inferno....
...With 20 children to raise, it is a wonder J.S. Bach found time to write music at all....
...When he won the TS Eliot Prize, Heaney was interviewed by John Humphrys, who asked why he wasn’t more angry. Weren’t poets meant to be angry?...
...Botanist Joseph Banks, astronomer William Herschel and chemist Humphry Davy head a glittering constellation that includes science-minded poets such as Coleridge....
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