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...sounds of ABBA, Vanessa Mae, and Phantom of the Opera filled the Bright Hockey Center as champion figure skaters dazzled and twirled at the 39th “An Evening with Champions” performances on Friday and Saturday...
...RIAD EL FENN, MARRAKESH The mood in the Riad El Fenn (www.riadelfenn.com), owned by art collector Vanessa Branson, is hip and hugely eclectic. In the hallway an unmistakable Bridget Riley - all colorful zigzag brickwork - is juxtaposed with rows of leather slippers and mirrors, which immediately lend the painting a Moroccan edge. A stunning light sculpture inspired by a hookah pipe and crafted out of meter-long handblown glass vessels by New Zealander Francis Upritchard vies for attention with small studies in carbon and casein donated by sculptor Antony Gormley after he stayed at the hotel. And there...
...glowing pink-glass cube for a lobby, home to a rotating collection of hypermodern, provocative art. Much of the work is on loan from owner Dakis Joannou, founder of the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art in Athens. Currently, the lobby's centerpiece is the compelling image of artist Vanessa Beecroft's own highly stylized wedding in an Italian chapel, with all the guests dressed in white. It's wittily complemented by Tim Noble and Sue Webster's huge flashing YES sculpture. And besides Spencer Tunick's photos of nude figures in an architectural landscape, even quirkier works are exhibited...
...albums have been ripped apart by music critics - including a few by model-singer turned French First Lady Carla Bruni. But Bruni's newest release, Comme Si Rien N'Etait (translation: As If Nothing Happened), out July 11, has elevated her well beyond ordinary targets of music snobbery like Vanessa Paradis or Kylie Minogue...
...soon as they're learning the alphabet. The school's theater study begins with fairy tales: what they've meant to families and artists alike. And the children get their lessons from the pros: almost 80 theater actors, directors, writers, musicians and other theater people have made guest appearances. Vanessa Redgrave read from Snow White, portraying the witch and explaining to the class how she came to know the story as a child in her native England, when her mother gave her a book during wartime. Producer Scott Rudin told of of how he came to bring his friend Joan...