By Alastair SookeFeatures correspondent
Getty Images(Credit: Getty Images)A new book reveals a collection bought by the wife of the Shah of Iran in the 1970s. Alastair Sooke talks to Farah Pahlavi, who was known as the Jackie Kennedy of the Middle East, about works by the likes of Bacon, Warhol and Picasso stored in the vaults of a Tehran museum.
“The first time I met Andy Warhol was in Washington, at the White House,” says Farah Pahlavi, the exiled widow of the last Shah of Iran, who was overthrown during the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Read More...
By Agostino PetroniFeatures correspondent
Katrinshine/AlamyBurrata has become a global cheese, but it originated in Italy's Apulia region (Credit: Katrinshine/Alamy)Created in the 1920s under the shade of a castle in Italy’s Apulia region, burrata was born out of a need to minimise food waste and is a delicious example of human ingenuity.
The first time you see a burrata sitting on a plate, tilted, you might be perplexed. Burrata is as white as mozzarella but comes with a strange narrowing at the top, like a giant dumpling. Read More...
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — A man put to death using nitrogen gas appeared to shake and convulse on the gurney as Alabama carried out the first-of-its-kind execution that once again placed the United States at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment.
Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. Thursday at an Alabama prison after breathing the gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation. It marked the first time a new execution method was used in the U. Read More...
