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...It all works fine, as it should for £242mn, with £99.05mn coming from HM Government and £7mn National Lottery funding from Arts Council England, making it the biggest cultural investment in the UK since Tate...
...The UK competition regulator has warned that a sugar deal between the makers of Tate & Lyle and Whitworths could push up the price of the staple for British shoppers, and has given the companies until next...
...The Tate Britain show features many of Sargent’s portraits of men dressed, including “W Graham Robertson” (1894)....
...Next door at the W, Once Upon a Kitchen lays out a multi-course tasting menu designed by a celebrity chef for $2,500 a seat who personally walks around pouring wine from limited edition magnums....
...Eskizzo wool Utah waistcoat, €109 Louis Vuitton gold and diamond Cuban Chain earrings, POA A.W.A.K.E....
...exhibition juxtaposing pioneers of the first Parisian avant-garde in the 1860s-80s demonstrated the Orsay in full force: Manet’s “The Balcony” and Degas’s “The Bellelli Family”, Manet’s “Olympia” and Degas’s “L’...
...His skinless man, “L’Ecorché” (1902), a debut made in coloured plaster as an anatomical teaching aid, astonished compatriots with its expressive power....
...These included the top lot of the art auction, another Monet — “Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, temps couvert” (1891) — for $26.5mn ($30.8mn with fees, est $30mn-$40mn)....
...He shares some ideals with the Moroccan Modernists of the Casablanca school — the subject of an exhibition at Tate St Ives (to January 14). “They knew the power of art to change society,” he says....
...The proliferation of these stones reflects a culture that delights in trompe l’oeil playfulness, whether in rock collecting or cuisine....
..., art collector, writer and stage designer, in 1894 (now owned by Tate Britain)....
...The pre-cubist structure of staggered houses on a hill, “Sea at L’Estaque behind Trees”, belonged to Picasso, and a vibrant, tightly organised “Gulf of Marseilles” to Gustave Caillebotte....
...He was introduced to British audiences at Gimpel Fils gallery in 1947, then at Tate’s exhibition in 1963....
...For the exhibition finale, I would have preferred a reimagining of the more theatrical “L’Atteso” (2018), for which he filled Turin’s OGR arts centre with abandoned cars and vans....
...A couple of months ago I spotted Sarca at Tate Modern, wearing an electric blue pair of her own creation with black trousers and a simple black top. She looked stylish and at ease....
...But if they are picked up by early adopters and get some sales traction, we might be looking at an item that builds in popularity across two to three A/W seasons.”...
...Soaking up these changing scenographies that wash over the Lightroom like waves, visitors at last week’s preview were already lying dreamily on the (carpeted) floor — reminiscent of Tate audiences at Olafur...
...“You can’t be nude [in public], but you can wear costumes with trompe l’oeil body parts,” she says. “Absurd! Here, I’ll show you.”...
...Gauguin’s “Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven” (1888) is a Brittany scene, painted with the colours of Martinique, which Sant bought for $2.9mn at auction in 2000 and now has a $6mn-$8mn estimate....
...Picture-perfect Provence The career-spanning Cézanne exhibition at London’s Tate Modern is attracting crowds, as is the landscape of his birth....
...Ethan WuNobody does the equivalent for their W-2. Robert ArmstrongNo, indeed. Ethan WuWhere it’s Joe Biden saying, I did this. No, it’s the worker that did that. Robert ArmstrongYeah....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...You enter at the magic wardrobe of Jean Marcel’s “Armoire Surréaliste”, with its panels giving on to trompe l’oeil blue skies, and follow Dorothea Tanning’s nightmare corridor of locked doors and outlandish...
...Tate displays the group in brilliant context....
...Express (forerunner of the Train Bleu), the Sud Express, the Rome and Simplon Expresses — all part of that great narcotic conspiracy, with its cashmere blankets, pressed linen and soft illumination, the W-L...
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