Let’s get real. Few of us look or feel at our most fabulous in February. It’s been cold and dark for, what, 18 months? Feels like it. Getting dressed feels less stylish self-expression than huddling for warmth.
But there are reasons to be cheerful – or, more to the point, things that can bring you cheer. There is Valentine’s Day. (I will never understand why people like to sneer about Valentine’s Day. A daft festival of joy in the bleakest moment of the calendar. Take the win!) I’ve also found a shirt that will be your new favourite layering piece. And a very fun jumper for £54. Read on for the lowdown.
Grammys host Trevor Noah has been threatened with legal action by Donald Trump for a joke during Sunday’s awards ceremony about the president’s connection to the disgraced late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump fired off an angry post on his Truth Social platform shortly after the comedian said the song of the year award was “a Grammy that every artist wants – almost as much as Trump wants Greenland, which makes sense because Epstein’s island is gone, he needs a new one to hang out with Bill Clinton”.
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Decades before the advent of photography, when European scientists and explorers were undertaking global expeditions and collecting flora and fauna from around the world, art and science converged in fields of medicine, anthropology, and natural history. During the Enlightenment, artists like Elizabeth Blackwell, John Gould, and Elizabeth Gould—among many, many others—documented botanicals, avians, insects, marine species, and more, many of which were published in hefty volumes and archived in museum collections.
Sarah Stone (1759-1844) was a British illustrator and the daughter of a fan painter, whose rich depictions of birds and artifacts highlight a singular talent during an era when women weren’t even permitted to be members of London’s prestigious Royal Academy. Nevertheless, she was invited to exhibit four drawings as an “Honorary Exhibitor” when she was 21.
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
In the 1770s, British businessman and collector Sir Ashton Lever commissioned Stone to paint items in his museum chock-full of natural and ethnographic objects he called the Holophusikon, also known as the Lever Museum. Stone painted objects at Lever’s Holophusikon well into the 1780s, creating a visual chronicle of objects and fauna acquired from all over the world.
Aristocratic private museums were a phenomenon of the Enlightenment, when Britain enjoyed wealth, prestige, and influence, much of which was derived from other parts of the empire and the transatlantic slave trade. Many of today’s institutions, such as the British Museum, began with individuals’ private collections.
Nearly two dozen of the artist’s paintings are currently on view in Sarah Stone’s Unseen World: A Rare Collection of 18th Century Ornithological Watercolours as part of the Master Drawings New York art fair. Surveying a wide range of incredible birds, from the Bornean peacock pheasant to the distinctive orange-and-black rufous treepie.
The exhibition shares its title with a book co-authored by Errol Fuller and art dealer Craig Finch of Finch & Co., which presents the paintings this month. “Like many women painters of her time, Stone produced exquisite watercolour landscapes,” says a statement. “However, she was exceptional in her commercial success, with her paintings sought after by connoisseurs and collectors. In an era when women’s contributions were often overlooked, Stone defied the norm and stood out as a prominent figure.”
George Russell says he's ready to fight for a world championship in 2026, while also harboring hopes of going toe to toe with four-time champion Max Verstappen.
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Een volledig vrouwelijke kandidatenlijst voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen. Dat is de landelijke primeur van Ellen Verkoelen, lijsttrekker van de partij JOU (Jongere Ouderen Partij). Met haar initiatief wil ze niet alleen aandacht vragen voor de zichtbaarheid van vrouwen in de politiek, maar ook het vrouwelijke perspectief actief een plek geven in beleid en besluitvorming.
NEW YORK (ANP) - De goud- en zilverproducenten gingen maandag omhoog op de beurzen in New York, ondanks de aanhoudende uitverkoop van edelmetalen. De prijzen van goud en zilver doken verder omlaag na de historische koersval op vrijdag. Goud koerst af op de grootste driedaagse prijsdaling sinds 1980, na de eerdere recordbrekende rally in het edelmetaal. Zilver werd de afgelopen drie handelsdagen 40 procent goedkoper.
Goudproducenten als Barrick Mining, Newmont en Kinross Gold stegen tot 3,4 procent, na koersverliezen van tot 12 procent op vrijdag. Hecla Mining, het grootste zilvermijnbouwbedrijf in de Verenigde Staten, klom 0,4 procent.
De algehele stemming op Wall Street was gemengd. De Dow-Jonesindex noteerde kort na opening van de markt 0,2 procent hoger op 49.001 punten. De brede S&P 500-index steeg 0,1 procent tot 6940 punten en techbeurs Nasdaq daalde een fractie tot 23.458 punten.
