![]() ![]() Leaving work one day, she runs into an old nemesis, Kelly Cross, a “prostitute, druggie, thief, all-round pikey.” Kelly is dragging an abused toddler onto a city bus, and in a split-second Tracy finds herself asking, “How much for the kid?” An envelope changes hands, the bus pulls away, and Tracy is suddenly the guardian of Courtney, a solemn toddler she’d just purchased on impulse. ![]() Recently retired policewoman Tracy Waterhouse, a 50ish woman with no particular attachments and no plans for the rest of her life, has taken a job as security director of a Leeds, England, shopping mall, more out of boredom than anything else. ![]() “To the Pythagoreans, three was the first real number, because they saw it as having a beginning, a middle and an end,” says a character early in Kate Atkinson’s latest novel, the excellent “ Started Early, Took My Dog.” Atkinson goes on to introduce three characters and interweave meditations on other sets of three - particularly beginnings, middles and ends. “STARTED EARLY, TOOK MY DOG,” by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur/Little Brown. ![]()
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As Testino said this week of his first show in the Middle Kingdom, “I wanted to show my work in China, somewhere I have never exhibited before.”Īdded Testino, “I felt the best way of doing this was by selecting the images that mean most to me personally at the moment, hence the name ‘Private View.’ In conceiving this exhibition and having the chance to look back over the years I found it was like understanding a puzzle for me, seeing how the fashion work influenced the celebrity portrait work, which in turn influenced the royal work and so on. ![]() Supported by longtime Testino collaborator Burberry and Mercedes-Benz, the “Private View” exhibition includes nearly 100 of Testino’s most well-known photos, and kicked off this week with an opening attended by Testino, Burberry chief creative officer Christopher Bailey and the ubiquitous editor-in-chief of Vogue China, Angelica Cheung. Running through June 27 at Beijing’s Today Art Museum, this week the first-ever China exhibition by top fashion photographer Mario Testino launched in the Chinese capital. ![]() |