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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....
...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
...Young V&A reopens on July 1, vam.ac.uk/young...
...Heaps of soil, hardened mud floors, ground that has been polished into screens for projections, earth built up into walls and surfaces, clay made into bricks and blocks, the terracotta tones of tiles, piles...
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...The exhibition Africa Fashion at the V&A in London was a barometer of this shift....
...Gainsborough was born and grew up here, the son of a weaver. As a successful artist he lived in Ipswich, then fashionable Bath and, finally, London....
...Known as Bertie in the family, he was the second son of King George V and expected his elder brother, known as David to the family, to become king....
...In a heap of fat and cholesterol, nothing had any taste. Charlie said French ships do a worse version....
...And finally . . . it’s the last chance to see three of only four existing textiles spun from the naturally golden silk of millions of orb-weaver spiders, at Oliver Hoare Limited in London’s Cromwell Place...
...What really interests both designers is reinterpreting classic menswear staples such as varsity jackets, skinny jeans, pea coats and V-neck sweaters through craft and manipulation....
...Slower than usual Thanksgiving traffic will heap even more pain on airlines. United Airlines last week said bookings had slowed and cancellations risen as Covid-19 cases surged around the country....
...The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, which tracks data on the health of democracies, recently reclassified the country as an “electoral autocracy”....
...Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor to Mr Trump, said while the GDP numbers appeared to validate the president’s promise of a “V-shaped recovery”, they may have come too late in the campaign to help Mr Trump...
...But Spacs have also drawn criticism for the riches they can heap on their sponsors, who receive shares for arranging the deals....
...Heaps of things burning.” Sentence by sentence, Lethem is sheer visual delight....
...years ago, couldn’t get approved for anything since, ‘begged’ me for a non Senate approved job, which I gave him despite many saying ‘Don’t do it, sir,’ takes the job, mistakenly says ‘Libyan Model on T.V....
...Wearing a thin gold necklace with charms spelling V-O-T-E, Mrs Obama accused Mr Trump of a “total lack of empathy” in a speech that was the standout performance on the opening night....
...Social distancing and heaps of redundant stock mean profitability remains a long way off....
...Here and there, the heaps of refuse have been fashioned into works of art....
...A US circuit court said as much as part of the 1979 case of Zweig v Hearst Corp, which found that a newspaper columnist touting a stock could be sued for securities fraud for failing to disclose he owned...
...Additional reporting by Courtney Weaver in Washington...
...1,037: Michael Crapper, Whitchurch Crossword 16,254: Richard Heaton, London; Hector Langfeldt, Birmingham; Saira Kamaly, London Polymath 1,036: Eamonn O’Riordan, Ireland Crossword 16,248: Nicholas JP Weaver...
...They’ll rise forever on a big heap o’ public money, flowing effortlessly into the private sector as the revivifying of the economy becomes a virtuous inflationary circle. What could possibly go wrong?...
...Rate relief drops away in FY22 so the recovery profile, in EPS at least, is not V-shaped....
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