Artists Blandine Bardeau and Misa Gott ‘touch the moon, almost’ with their new work
By James Brewer
Plaudits have greeted the latest work – which is of variously magical and ethereal character – of London-based artists Blandine Bardeau and Misa Gott.
Guests marvelled at the mystic, but compelling compositions shown on the opening days, Thursday February 6th to Sunday February 9th, 2025, of the launch at the spacious (to say the...
Royal Academy takes pride in ‘Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism’
By James Brewer
Brasil! Brasil! – it sounds like the refrain for a samba, but it is the impelling title of an exhibition meant to awaken the wider world to Brazil’s breakthrough a century ago into dynamic new art trends
First, from their travels in Europe, and then from indigenous sources, young artists absorbed new sights and insights, as the Royal Academy explains in its show Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism.
It...
Presentation of two monumental artworks by the globally renowned artist Takis at the newly launched π, The Global Centre for Circular Economy and Culture and the PCAI venue in Delphi.
Visitors have the chance to admire those emblematic Signals – Archimedes screw, which Melina Merkouri, former Minister of Culture, once called the totems of the 20th century.
The two Signals – Archimedes Screw, works of 1972 and 1975, loans from the Takis Foundation, will be exhibited in the courtyard of Pi are...
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Prince Albert attends Prince Philip’s memorial service
HSH Prince Albert attended the memorial service for Britain’s Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey, London, on Tuesday…
Book-keeper sentenced for stealing 279k
A book-keeper who worked for several years at the IM2S medical clinic stole cheques valued at 279,237 and credited the amounts to her own account, Monaco Criminal Court heard this week…
AS Monaco first to embrace NFTs AS Monaco has become the...
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Kyōsai: The Israel Goldman Collection at London’s Royal Academy
By James Brewer
His nickname was the Demon of Painting. Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–1889), Japan’s most daring, exciting, and feted painter of the late 19th century, turned out hanging scrolls, decorative screens and album leaves of exquisite detail on an industrial scale, just as the modern industrial revolution was beginning to shake the structures of his country’s society. After centuries of...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Net closes in on Putin’s super superyacht
Pressure is growing on the Italian authorities to seize Scheherazade, the huge superyacht believed to belong to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. He also owns a smaller yacht, Graceful…
One more Michelin star for Marcel Ravin
Chef Marcel Ravin of the Blue Bay at the Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort has won a second star in the 2022 Michelin Guide…
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Attack on Ukraine casts long shadow over Ocean Week
John Kerry, US President Joe Biden’s special envoy on climate change, was at the Oceanographic Museum on Monday for the first day of Monaco Ocean Week…
One hundred ships blocked in Ukraine’s ports
Ukraine faces a possible grain revenue loss of $6 billion as the blockade of its ports by Russian forces prevents it from selling millions of tonnes of wheat and corn…
Every Kind of People hits the spot Another...
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By James Brewer
The past two years have been a test of courage for everyone – and artists are among those who have come with flying colours through the pressures of living during the pandemic.
An exhibition which opened on the second anniversary of the first UK lockdown celebrates the way eight artists closely connected to the London scene coped with the mental and physical challenges that were sprung upon them. Their concepts, many in coded...
Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan. Royal Academy highlights the model who was so much more than a muse
By James Brewer
All who knew her were enthralled by her Pre-Raphaelite beauty, with enchanting pale blue eyes and tumbling copper-gold hair. Immortalised as a model by the American artist James McNeill Whistler who spent many years in London, Joanna Hiffernan was much more than a muse. The woman whom Whistler enlisted for his renowned The White...
Vital Statistics for the 2021 100 Top Women in Shipping
By Anny Zade
We have not experienced anything like this and never witnessed or heard anything to be as closely followed as the international mega-spread talk, gossip and social media communication, as the aftermath of our third international 100 Top Women in Shipping. It was more than touching to see how women reacted in uploading the results and making presentations individually or in groups in many regions all over Planet Ocean....
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/03/07/vital-statistics-for-the-2021-100-top-women-in-shipping/