The aim is for shipowners to buy the armed escort service, packaged with seven days of war-risk cover from Ascot Underwriting’s Lloyd’s Syndicate 1414. In doing so, the shipowner will not need to pay the normal higher premium required to transit high-risk pirate areas. It has been reported that each insurance-funded vessel will carry eight [...]
LONDON — Not invited to Kate and William’s wedding? Fear not. For a price, royalist romantics can follow in the happy couple’s footsteps on a London walking tour.…The royal tour is a new offering for Celebrity Planet, which runs “celebrity and pop-culture tours” in London, New York and several European cities. [...]
Not any more. Exhibitions in institutions and commercial galleries with explicit content seem to be on the increase. At this moment in London Simon Lee Gallery is showing works by Larry Clark, an American photographer whose Paris show Kiss the Past Hello last year saw under-18-year-olds banned, because of its explicit sex-and-drug-taking content. The irony [...]
Gray (Ben Barnes), a naive young man with striking looks (dark hair rather than the “crisp gold” hair of the book), inherits a fortune. Artist Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin) paints a striking portrait of him. Hallward reluctantly introduces Gray to Lord Henry Wotton (Firth, with mustache and beard), a malevolent cynic who initiates Gray into [...]
LONDON: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) will be on hand at MIPTV with three new BBC dramas in its slate, Laconia, The Crimson Petal and the White and Exile.The 2×90-minute Laconia tells of one of the most controversial maritime incidents during WWII. The project aired to much success in January on BBC Two, outperforming the prime time average [...]
Slogan knits were clever and irreverent as ever. One sweater was emblazoned with the superlative “TEEN IDLE.” Platform brothel creepers were covered in a scrawl of white-out graffiti messages, including “More people read this than your blog.”
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London Fashion Week AW11: AshishWho: AshishWhat: Scottish punks, tartan, safety pins and sequinsThoughts: Reading Ashish’s show notes is almost as fun as watching his autumn/winter 2011 show.A trip through the Scottish highlands via British punk and pot holes, the London-based India-born designer brought London Fashion Week’s womenswear collections to a sensationally-sparkling close with his playful [...]
Editor’ s Note: A new production of Les Miserables, now in its 25th year in London, opened in December at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, prior to a 20-city U.S. tour. The show plays Detroit’s Fisher Theatre March 22-April 3. Theater critic Philip Dorian reviewed the New Jersey opening.…There are robust contributions from [...]
LONDON – A previously unknown painting by artist and “Jack the Ripper” suspect Walter Sickert was expected Tuesday to fetch up to £60,000 ($97,000) when it is auctioned in March.“The Blind Sea Captain” was last seen, untitled, in 1930, at an exhibition in Bradford, northern England. Sickert, who was born in Germany and lived in [...]
… Street artist Rich Simmons puts the final touches to his workof art; a mural for the upcoming Royal wedding of Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton; in central London.Photograph by: Ben Stansall, Getty Images…Looking outside the city — as many other tours plan to — VisitBritain suggests the University of St. Andrews [...]