1 week ago London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art: Excel in acting and more

London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art: Excel in acting and more  Study International

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2 w. ago Santa Gertrudis Academy gets revenge on London; Pirates baseball shuts out SGA

Santa Gertrudis Academy gets revenge on London; Pirates baseball shuts out SGA  KRIS 6 News Corpus Christi

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2 w. ago Mother claims she was 'treated like a US school shooter' after blazer row sends classrooms into lockdown

Police stormed Harris Academy in Wimbledon, southwest London, after a pupil called her mother after being 'aggressively screamed at' and 'forced' into her undersized jacket by a teacher.

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3 w. ago ‘No more velvet rope’: how New York’s beloved Frick museum opened up – and now even sells coffee

It is a Gilded Age gem full of Old Masters, from Vermeer to Holbein. And now, after a ravishing $300m revamp, it is even more welcoming. Our writer revels in its silk-clad walls and the freshly trickling fountain of its light-filled sculpture court‘If I could have a pound for every person who’s told me that the Frick is their favourite museum, I’d be able to retire already,” says Axel Rüger, the new director of the New York institution, who has just moved there from leading the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Part of the Frick’s appeal is that it is a great museum that hardly feels like a museum at all. Even more than, say, the Wallace Collection in London – one of the inspirations behind the 5th Avenue landmark – the Frick has the feeling of being someone’s home, its contents selected by a singular eye.That’s because it was and they were. Both home and eye belonged to one man, the Pennsylvania-born coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, who was rich beyond imagining. It is not, ...

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3 w. ago ‘No more velvet rope’: how New York’s beloved Frick museum opened up – and will now even sell coffee

It is a Gilded Age gem full of Old Masters, from Vermeer to Holbein. Now, after a ravishing $300m revamp, it is even more welcoming. Our writer revels in its silk-clad walls and the freshly trickling fountain of its light-filled sculpture court‘If I could have a pound for every person who’s told me that the Frick is their favourite museum, I’d be able to retire already,” says Axel Rüger, the new director of the New York institution, who has just moved there from leading the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Part of the Frick’s appeal is that it is a great museum that hardly feels like a museum at all. Even more than, say, the Wallace Collection in London – one of the inspirations behind the 5th Avenue landmark – the Frick has the feeling of being someone’s home, its contents selected by a singular eye.That’s because it was and they were. Both home and eye belonged to one man, the Pennsylvania-born coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, who was rich beyond imagining. It is not, thou...

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3 w. ago Camden Film Quarter Moves Forward: Soundstages, Screen Academy & Studio Tours Planned For London Development

Camden Film Quarter Moves Forward: Soundstages, Screen Academy & Studio Tours Planned For London Development  Deadline

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3 w. ago Gale warnings, gothic fantasies and a masterpiece of a garden – the week in art

Victor Hugo seduces, big names tackles a world in permacrisis and Hélène Binet challenges the Englishness of the country house – all in your weekly dispatchAstonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor HugoThese gothic fantasies and nature studies by the author of Les Misérables transport you to a surreal, seductive inner world. Read the full review. • Royal Academy, London, until 29 June Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Child abuse survivor from Perthshire to run marathon in aid of children's charity

Former Edinburgh Academy pupil (62) to run London Marathon for NSPCC.

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last month Protestors descend on London’s Royal Academy over planned job cuts

Protestors descend on London’s Royal Academy over planned job cuts  Art Newspaper

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