The V&A show demonstrates how the great 20th-century impulse, in the arts, was for international connection, and what was Diaghilev if not a global manager of wonder, a man who, out of his Russian beginnings, sought forms of wordless magic that could leap over borders and time zones and native conventions?
Before it leaves one of China's megaports on a cargo ship, it's assembled in factories, raw materials processed in refineries, and the rare-earth minerals that are their fundamental beginnings, sought in the mines of Inner Mongolia.
From its very beginnings Christianity sought separation from Judaism.
The second half of the 20th century saw a young man and a young country, both seeking new beginnings and minimal drama.
The story of those beginnings – what he was seeking, what he found, and its California-dreaming aftermath – is told in a new exhibition exploring that first decade and a half of Hockney's emerging maturity, which opens at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool this week.
AMERICAN DREAMERS The Lure of Las Vegas Articles in this series are examining Las Vegas through the lives of a handful of the hundreds of thousands of people who have moved there in the last three decades, seeking new beginnings in a land of unmatched opportunity and extreme dysfunction.
From these rough beginnings Mr Marcus sought to make the firm an American symbol of luxury living.His father, uncle and aunt, of German-Jewish stock, had started the shop.
We're seeing the beginnings of a whole movement seeking to change the traditional music industry and the way we consume music: in Europe alone we now have platforms like SoundCloud, Songkick, 7digital, Last.fm, Gigulate, Cloudspeakers and Spotify.
Yet this book about beginnings poignantly develops into one about an elderly, elusive author seeking closure.
Role reversal and new beginnings are recurrent themes in her novels, all of them centred on women seeking their relationship to the world and the individuals around them.
