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...The first three were big hits for the National Theatre of Scotland a decade ago. The fourth was staged in 2022....
...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....
...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....
...An artist whose work I would collect if I could is Maxfield Parrish, an American painter who worked in the first half of the 20th century....
...A century ago, the London Society, an influential civic group, produced a plan for London’s future made up of contributions from such leading Edwardian architects as Edwin Lutyens and Aston Webb....
...to a copy, possibly 19th-century....
...The V&A’s exhibition gives plenty of food for thought about all this....
...the early-20th-century logo of the Büro-Fürrer stationers (No 13)....
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...But several watchmakers are finding creative expression anew in these mechanical machines, which enjoyed their heyday in the 18th century....
...Pantomimes featuring a thigh-slapping youth with a magical cat play every Christmas in theatres across the UK....
...The game is so predictable and such useful theatre for the government (and the press) that it is easy to lose sight of the absurdity....
...More than the sets, lavish costumes suggest the 16th-century time frame....
...After nearly a quarter-century of life in Spain’s deep country, what’s changed?...
...Just before Princes Bridge is the Hamer Hall music venue, which leads to the State Theatre and the National Gallery of Victoria, the nation’s finest international collection....
...paintings, and beaded flapper dresses shrouded in organza as if freshly pulled from storage at the V&A....
...Beyond and above this stunning piece of Orientalist theatre is the artist’s studio....
...This was one of the hits of 2019, a blazingly intelligent contemporary take (scripted by Martin Crimp) on Edmond Rostand’s 19th-century drama (Harold Pinter Theatre from February 3, then Glasgow and New...
...The furniture is a mix of old and (then) new: 17th and 18th-century pieces meeting bespoke designs by Webb and Morris himself....
...In his testaments, emperor Charles V advised his young son — who became Philip II, head of the great Spanish empire in the 16th century — never to identify with only one faction at court or make decisions...
...Eugenics was especially popular on the progressive left — Beatrice and Sidney Webb, founders of the New Statesman, were supporters too....
...The events that followed Lloyd George’s invitation would resonate for a century. A year later Ireland was plunged into civil war....
...Many will get a glimpse into huge storage hangars in which they might encounter some amusing juxtapositions: 1980s furniture and 18th-century carving, for instance....
...There was something about being surrounded by all the ghosts of history, and he set up his house in a way that made it seem like it had lived in many centuries....
...His photographs blur the boundaries between theatre, reportage and a form of hazy therapy....
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