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...V&A Craft Symposium (May 16) Panel discussions and keynote speeches on the topic of craft, as well as demonstrations of goldwork, featherwork, silversmithing and weaving....
...During the V&A’s recent Gabrielle Chanel exhibition, London-based caterer Rocket organised a series of corporate events inspired by the show....
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...She also brings a mixed booth to this year’s fair, including new pieces by Tschabalala Self and the gallery’s recent signings, Lina Iris Viktor and Tomashi Jackson, whose work is included in the current...
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...We are in 1970s Harlem, the action proceeding through the decade in three sections — signposted by Jackson 5 concerts and the burgeoning blaxploitation film scene, pitched battles between the NYPD and the...
...He insists it’s still a good idea – he has actually donated the best of his collection to the V&A and the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. But “I do swing dramatically”, he admits cheerfully....
...A later artist, Ayana V Jackson, poses her “Anarcha” (2017) like an Orientalist odalisque, but the tender image of her turned back suggests not so much exotic allure as vulnerability....
...As his touring exhibition Wonderful Things – which first showed at the V&A in 2019 – opens at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles next month, a new selection of Walker’s works will also be available to...
...In his 2014 book Blue Mind, marine biologist Wallace J Nichols describes the effect water has on the human brain as “a mildly meditative state, characterised by calm, peacefulness, unity, and a sense of...
...However, the “monarchical bragging rights” go to Norway’s Harald V, under whom GDP per capita has increased by 3.8 per cent a year on average since he ascended to the throne in 1991....
...Finally, do read David Wallace-Wells’ bracing NYT essay on whether America is ready for back-to-back pandemics....
...years, the California-based Auberge Resorts Collection has been at work on this site (and restoring the chapel) to create Bishop’s Lodge, a resort that will open this year and would not be out of place in Jackson...
...That sounds like a reasonable expectation to have after Fed Chair Jay Powell doubled down on his hawkish tone at Jackson Hole last week....
...Newcomers also include Waddington Custot and design specialists Jacksons from Sweden....
...V Vaccination Pretty much the only thing that stood between Novak Djokovic and this year’s Australian Open title. Oops....
...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...London’s exhibition season began with psychedelic tea parties and disappearing rabbits in the V&A’s immersive wonderland Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and ended with translucent, spidery, electricified...
...The Yorkshireman, 34, won the board three silver medal with 5.5/7, repeating his result from the 2019 world teams. 2446 Hou Yifan v James Jackson, Isle of Man 2016. White to move and win....
...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...As shown by Peter Jackson’s new Get Back documentary, their telepathic closeness persisted until the very end of The Beatles....
...The Beatles’ fashion influence is again in the spotlight with The Beatles: Get Back, the three-part television documentary directed and produced by Peter Jackson, which makes its worldwide debut on Disney...
...And in the FT, I enjoyed this Lunch with Chris Wallace, though I remain far more optimistic about the Biden administration....
...Her early career saw her starring in the music video for Tina Turner’s “GoldenEye”, in which she lounges on a chair in a leopard-print bikini and knee-high boots, as well as starring in Janet Jackson’s music...
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