Hints and tips:
...Her stripped-back production wisely eschews trad tabards and wooden tables in favour of chic Mad Max get-ups and a minimalist design. Becky Minto’s set is a dark square ringed by candles....
...Puzzle 2569 Joseph Zeltsan v Ethan Sheehan, Chesterfield, USA, 2023. White to move and win. Click here for solution...
...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...Puzzle 2568 Wesley So v Alireza Firouzja, Chessable Masters 2024. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...the wooden bases and covering them with linen scrim....
...“This is not about Japanese-ness — this is the art of everybody,” says Yuko Kikuchi, head of academic programmes at the V&A, who worked with Inglesby on the exhibition and contributed a chapter to its accompanying...
...Designer Clare Vivier, founder of accessories brand Clare V, has been crazy about tennis since high school and has collaborated on a capsule collection with tennis magazine Racquet....
...Inside the 19th-century wooden house, in place of furniture, display cases, numbered and arranged in order, correspond to some of the 83 chapters in the 750-page novel....
...In reality, “a lot of them ended up at the V&A”....
...Now in the V&A museum, but once housed in a Hertfordshire coaching inn, it measures more than 3m wide – nearly twice the size of the typical Elizabethan bed....
...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....
...🤠 HMRC v Premier Foods Ltd (2007) is an epochally important case that considered whether a fruit bar was confectionery....
...His workers would then make appropriate wooden forms or moulds for Las Pozas’s elaborately curved and angled concrete structures....
...A hitherto uncatalogued games board by him here and the crucifix probably presented to Pope Paul V have also been added to the corpus of his works....
...In the UK and the USA it is illegal. Users such as Cox don’t consider it to be “drugs” but “medicine”. “It’s not recreational,” he points out. “It is deep, healing, transformative work....
...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
...In room 55B, across from Dürer’s “Adam and Eve”, hung a small wooden mannequin, based on Dürer’s treatise on the proportions of the human body....
...Manto is explaining the story of Tipu Sultan’s wooden tiger, which lives in the V&A, to Rooney and Ali....
...Puzzle 2479 Danyyil Dvirnyy v Judit Polgar, Yerevan 2014. Black to move and win. How did the all-time No1 woman exploit White’s exposed king?...
...Jellicoe wanted each V to make a different note as the water flowed over it: the lower down the cascade, the lower the note....
...The now defunct label’s black Lycra Amorphous disco dress is in the V&A museum’s collection....
...A tower of shelves made from wooden struts, the black and red strips of fabric tied around its joins suggest it is a shrine. Yousefzada says it’s about “migration, female agency and consumption”....
...The USA’s Hans Niemann, 19, famously defeated Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, sparking an ongoing saga of withdrawals, accusations and lawsuits that remain unresolved....
...Puzzle 2481 Fabiano Caruana v Gukesh D, USA v India, Chennai 2022. Black to move and win. How did the 16-year-old defeat the former world No 2? Click here for solution...
...With an array of elegant 18th-century furniture (some on loan from the V&A), books, fittings and works by Gainsborough and his contemporaries, the rooms exude a quiet domesticity....
International Edition