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...You can get up close and personal with Trajan’s Column at the V&A, or at least with the remarkable plaster cast that’s been part of its collection since 1873....
...“In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, special operations are no longer driven by Communist ideology, but they still use the same tools and methods,” said one of the report’s authors, Oleksandr V Danylyuk....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...Matched against her compatriot, Dinara Wagner, in round one, she scored with an elegant checkmating attack in just 24 moves....
...In the same spirit, a European parliament proposal last month to designate the Russian private military company Wagner a terrorist organisation was followed by a widely circulated video of one of the group...
...Many of the Russians killed in the battle for Bakhmut are believed to have been criminals recruited from prisons by the Wagner private military company....
...Miles Johnson had a fascinating investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group and its sanctions-evasion network in Africa and beyond....
...“Photographing Alek in Brooklyn was a joyful and powerful experience,” says the documentary-style photographer Andre D Wagner, who shot this cover story....
...Radicalism, both musical and otherwise, haunted Wagner’s Tannhäuser (“Personal struggle! Morality!”)...
...A bust of Charles V stands watch over several acts, not because the absent king has supernatural powers, but because families are doomed eternally to repeat their own fatal patterns....
...The show, sponsored by Société Générale, runs at the V&A from September 30 2017 to February 25 2018....
...“Older, white voters tend to be a key demographic for Donald Trump,” says Kevin Wagner, an associate professor of politics at Florida Atlantic University....
...The ENO is a showcase for local talent and theatrical innovation, with the current hit run of Richard Jones’s production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg just the latest example in a long string...
...She is also a director of The National Archives, and a former trustee of the V&A and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She is, like her father, a wonderful broadcaster....
...We owe the idea of reverential darkness to Richard Wagner; today’s concert habits remain resolutely 19th-century. Or do they?...
...Laurence Olivier’s Richard III (1955), spurning or turning topsy-turvy the picture-book pageantry of his Henry V, is a designer maelstrom of evil....
...Following the recent case of Prest v Petrodel, it is clear that a wife cannot “pierce the corporate veil” to access the assets of the husband’s company....
...The grand finale was Act V of Les Troyens, giving LSO patrons a taster of the two-week Berlioz festival that Gergiev has programmed for next season....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...We are used to Wagner and Bayreuth, Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon. Now Beckett and Enniskillen....
...AN Wilson is author of ‘The Victorians’ and of ‘Winnie and Wolf’, a historical fiction about Hitler and the Wagners ………………………………………….....
...www.guggenheim-bilbao.es Paris Parsifal In its second Wagner this season the Opéra National de Paris premieres Polish director Krzysztof Warliklowski’s interpretation of Parsifal, Wagner’s “superior magic...
...Jeremy Treglown is author of ‘V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life’ (Pimlico)...
...Henry V here is just the first invocated ghost to walk, first into his tomb and then out of it....
...As one of the IRA man Ernie O’Malley’s friends – the American academic John V....
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