20 h. ago Maine Road's final days and demolition captured in moving photos

It's been over 20 years since Manchester City played their last game at Maine Road and moved to the Etihad

Culture

6 d. ago Harry and Meghan suffer another red carpet gaffe: Duchess awkwardly moves her husband's hand during photo call after pair were crowned 'Humanitarians of the Year'

The Duchess seems to look uncomfortable as she quickly breaks away from her husband as they pose for photographers ahead of being crowned 'humanitarians of the year'.

Culture

2 w. ago Bobbi Brown: ‘If I could bring something extinct back to life? Blockbuster Video’

The makeup artist and entrepreneur on watching her mum put her face on, her crush on Jennifer Aniston and her love of caviarBorn in Chicago, Bobbi Brown, 68, studied theatrical makeup and photography at Emerson College, Boston. In 1980, she moved to New York to work as a makeup artist. She launched Bobbi Brown Essentials in 1991, sold it to Estée Lauder four years later, and built it into a global brand. Having left the business in 2016, she launched a new one, Jones Road Beauty, in 2020. This year, she was named one of Time magazine’s most influential people. She has published nine makeup tutorial books and a memoir, Still Bobbi. She is married with three sons and lives in New Jersey.What is your earliest memory? Watching my mother put on makeup. I was in awe of her beauty and glamour. She was only 21 when I was born and quite stunning. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Lee Miller review – a dazzling, daring career from war photographer to surrealist pioneer via Hitler’s bathtub

Tate Britain, LondonAn overdue showcase of Miller’s remarkable work follows its many frenzied twists – from her unrecognised work with Man Ray to unseen gems of the Egyptian desert and unflinching glimpses of DachauUnapologetically ambitious and voraciously inventive, this vast new Lee Miller exhibition is the most comprehensive display of the late American photographer’s work ever held in the UK. It’s an overdue account of a remarkable artist whose dazzling, daring career had more than a few twists: from Vogue cover girl to Vogue photographer; from surrealists’ muse to pioneer of the movement; from commercial portraitist to war photographer.Some of Miller’s fabled work is here, including her famous self-portrait in Hitler’s bathtub, her boots – dirtied with mud from Dachau concentration camp – strewn symbolically on the floor. The exhibition builds a sense of the dizzying, sometimes frenzied energy of Miller, who could photograph fashionable hats as well as Nazis who died by suicid...

Events

3 w. ago I was in a Premier League ‘Bomb Squad’ like Sterling but it wasn’t horrible – I even used the chance to do some coaching

ISAAC HAYDEN feels sympathy for Chelsea ‘bomb squad’ members Raheem Sterling and Axel Disasi. The ex-Newcastle midfielder, now at QPR, spent the first five months of last season in limbo after failing to secure a summer move. Sterling shared a photo of himself training alone late in the evening, while boss Enzo Maresca admitted he has...

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4 w. ago ‘Other countries would have preserved it’: Yemenis mourn the demolition of historic mud

In the city of Tarim, colourful mansions built by the city’s merchants are being knocked down as the war-torn nation cannot afford to maintain themWords and photographs by Saeed al-Batati in TarimWhen the bulldozers moved into Abdul Rahman Bin Sheikh al-Kaf’s mud-brick palace in Tarim and began tearing down its spectacular architecture, the clouds of dust around the landmark attracted a large gathering in the Yemeni city.Haddad Musaied, a local journalist, got a call from a friend telling him about the destruction and encouraging him to come and see it. “As a journalist, you have a responsibility to stop what is happening,” the friend said. Continue reading...

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