by The Guardian | Dec 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
His much-loved BBC series Tutti Frutti, about an ageing rock’n’roll band attempting a tour of Scotland, starred Robbie Coltrane and Emma Thompson and won six Baftas. Byrne was also a masterful painter, known for his self-portraits, as well as designing theatre sets...
by The Guardian | Dec 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
For a large part of international public opinion the return seems only fair. For some, it is a matter of aesthetics: repatriating historic monuments to exhibit them in the environment they were created for. For others, it is a political question: another step towards...
by The Guardian | Dec 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
“Parking the new-age woo-woo momentarily (the seven-day detoxes, the walking barefoot to cure depression, the vagina-steaming), there is a provocation here or at the very least a disconnect – it was 2008. … Paltrow’s vision of luxury was so preposterous, it’s...
by The Guardian | Dec 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
After Izvestiya reported this story two weeks ago, both Gergiev himself and outgoing director Vladimir Urin backed away from it, though without an outright denial. But Urin announced his departure to colleagues last night, and the government announced that Gergiev has...
by The Guardian | Nov 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
The 15th-century Madonna and Child, “believed to be worth about €100m, was initially housed in a church in the town of Santa Maria la Carità, before being entrusted to a local family who kept it at a private residence for generations. The painting … then fell off the...
