Art! History! Glamour! Vogue’s Hamish Bowles Hits London, the English Countryside, and Paris’s Renovated Ritz Inline

  • Mark Rothkos imposing works on view at the Royal Academys “Abstract Expressionism” show.
    Photo: Mark Rothko, No. 15, 1957. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel Christopher Rothko ARS, NY and DACS, London.
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    Mark Rothko’s imposing works on view at the Royal Academy’s “Abstract Expressionism” show.

  • Glenda Jackson and Morfydd Clark in the Old Vics modern interpretation of King Lear.
    Photo: Manuel Harlan / Courtesy of The Old Vic.
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    Glenda Jackson and Morfydd Clark in the Old Vic’s modern interpretation of King Lear.

  • A swanlike Elizabeth Debicki onstage with Mark Strong and Hope Davis in The Red Barn.
    Photo: Manuel Harlan / Courtesy of The National Theatre
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    A swan-like Elizabeth Debicki onstage with Mark Strong and Hope Davis in The Red Barn.

  • Hope Davis Nigel Whitmey and Anna Skellern in a Swinging Sixties scene from The Red Barn.
    Photo: Manuel Harlan / Courtesy of The National Theatre
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    Hope Davis, Nigel Whitmey, and Anna Skellern in a Swinging Sixties scene from The Red Barn.

  • Picassos artistic development seen here in two selfportraits on view at the National Portrait Gallerys show.
    Photo: Self-Portrait with Palette by Pablo Picasso, 1906; © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2016.
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    Picasso’s artistic development, seen here in two self-portraits on view at the National Portrait Gallery’s show.