LONDEN (ANP) - Buckingham Palace is bereid de politie te helpen in de zaak rond de beschuldigingen aan het adres van Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. Dat heeft het paleis maandagavond bekendgemaakt in een verklaring namens de Britse koning Charles.
De Britse politie maakte eerder op de dag bekend onderzoek te doen naar beweringen dat de voormalige prins als handelsgezant van het Verenigd Koninkrijk vertrouwelijke rapporten met Jeffrey Epstein zou hebben gedeeld.
"Hoewel de claims in kwestie door de heer Mountbatten-Windsor moeten worden beantwoord, staan we klaar om de politie van Thames Valley te ondersteunen als zij contact met ons opneemt", laat het paleis weten.
De jongere broer van koning Charles was tussen 2001 en 2011 speciaal handelsgezant van het Verenigd Koninkrijk. Uit e-mails uit 2010 en 2011 zou blijken dat Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor vertrouwelijke informatie over zijn werk met Epstein heeft gedeeld. Zo stuurde hij onder meer details over zijn reizen naar Singapore, Vietnam, China en Hongkong.
MILAAN (ANP) - Femke Kok kon maandag in het Milano Speed Skating Stadium kort na afloop van de 1000 meter nog niet helemaal blij zijn met haar zilveren medaille. De 25-jarige Nederlandse schaatsster dacht dat haar olympische record van 1.12,59 genoeg was voor goud. Haar landgenote Jutta Leerdam was in de slotrit met 1.12,31 toch nog sneller.
"Dit was een van mijn beste 1000 meters ooit en ik wist dat Jutta mijn tijd in Europa nog nooit had gereden", legde Kok haar 'teleurstelling' uit. "Ook mijn coaches dachten dat ik zeker een goede kans had op goud. Helaas is het niet zo."
Kok troostte zich met de gedachte dat ze niets had laten liggen in haar race. "Daarom kan ik eigenlijk niet ontevreden zijn, maar aan de andere kant wil je ook winnen. Dus dan baal je toch."
Thomas Hawk posted a photo:
photograph I acquired from a large archive of negatives from a San Francisco Bay based commercial photographer taken mostly in the 1960s to 1970s.
When Victoria Dugger encountered Jasper Johns’ “Flag” during a visit to the Museum of Modern Art in 2024, she found herself contemplating similar ideas. The encaustic painting is one of Johns’ most recognizable works and revels in ambiguity: although it bears stars and stripes, it’s not an exact representation of Old Glory, nor is it solely a gestural, abstract work. Instead, “Flag” prompts questions about motif, material, and meaning that defy any singular narrative.
For Dugger, Johns’ multivalent approach felt particularly apt 70 years later. On the eve of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, she began a body of work that reflects a similar set of inquiries through the lens of Blackness, disability, and desire.
Freak Flags, on view this month at Sargent’s Daughters, reinterprets the United States flag through gingham, glitter, beads, fringe, and more. The title of the exhibition implicates the legacy of freak shows, which often exploited people with disabilities and diseases and presented them as odd curiosities. Spectacle takes a different form in Dugger’s mixed-media works, though, as she replaces stars with glittery tasseled pasties and lines the edges with vibrantly dyed locks of hair.
There are also miniature picket fences and curls of barbed wire woven throughout some of the compositions. While the former symbolizes the ideal of safety and suburbanization within the American Dream, the latter nods to a history of domination and discrimination from Manifest Destiny to Japanese internment to contemporary immigration practices along the southern border.
These sinister elements sit alongside fields of gouache flowers, dainty butterflies, and frilly piping. This complicated mishmash captures the fraught history and ideals that continue to shape American identity and policies. While some of Dugger’s flags are presented upright with the rectangular patch in the top left corner, others are flipped upside down, a long-utilized symbol of a nation in distress.
See Freak Flags through February 28. Keep up with Dugger’s work on Instagram.
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Release into Helman Tor reserve marks historical first for keystone species hunted to extinction in UK 400 years ago
Shivering and rain-drenched at the side of a pond in Cornwall, a huddle of people watched in hushed silence as a beaver took its first tentative steps into its new habitat. As it dived into the water with a determined “plop” and began swimming laps, the suspense broke and everyone looked around, grinning.
The soggy but momentous occasion marks the first time in English history that beavers have been legally released into a river system, almost one year after the government finally agreed to grant licences for releases.
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