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...But Blue Lights is neither insistently political nor wearingly downbeat....
...He was the official portraitist of modernisation and infrastructure, his photos used to promote Paris as the City of Light....
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...BNP has a 13.8 per cent stake in Nanjing City Commercial Bank in China, whittled down from its initial holding of 19 per cent bought in 2005....
...This game of admittedly light interactions is fleshed out by tamped-down writing, loping rhythms, a wonderfully worn-in sense of design and puckish dialogue, elements that let you appreciate the inner lives...
...From Vittore Carpaccio in Venice in 1497 to Ludovico Carracci in Bologna in 1600, artists relished the story’s scope for spectacle, crowds, the architectural splendour of the city backcloth....
...The yellow Banksian roses were fully out on the old Oxford city wall at a date when I would expect to see them wreathing streets in southern Spain....
...In Mexico City, Fabien Cappello has been combining geometric stained-glass-style construction with a vibrant palette, while Camilla Moberg works with Finnish glassblowers on her glowing strings and stacks...
...And it was the only building in the city to have a lift....
...October 9 to 13; further information here ‘Paris, Cœur De Lumières’ (Paris, Heart of Lights) at l’Église Saint Sulpice A light installation celebrating the grand yet intricate architecture of the church...
...In their different ways, all these writers have an answer to Bishop’s question: they travel to stay curious, to connect with the past, to see cities and countries afresh through the eyes of migrants rather...
...I can recommend the carne asada, their copious jugs of margarita and a pint afterwards in the cosy Low Lights Tavern around the corner....
...The city’s record labels showed her the door. An indie interloper took a punt on her, Jack White’s Third Man Records, a rock outpost in Nashville....
...But the small clean room on the upper landing — light, bright and with whitewashed brick walls — is neutral and innocuous. Here is Donia, a small modern Filipino restaurant....
...Directions Nestled in NoHo, Astor Wines is an open secret in New York City....
...In a historic city building, space is at a premium, and the basement gym and spa are nothing if not compact....
...Yet there’s a complexity to Spain’s food scene, especially the capital city’s, that often goes unrecognised....
...This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to Copenhagen I was born in the countryside of Jutland, far away from the bright lights and culinary adventures of Copenhagen....
...Such concerns have particular resonance in the city, where an inquiry into the 2017 bombing of Manchester Arena flagged failures in blue light communications....
...Today, Lilah speaks with the FT’s longtime architecture and design critic Edwin Heathcote to talk about an often-forgotten element of design in cities....
...De Kooning, luminous, fluid, opulent, is utterly at home here, both in the watery city and among the fleshy Titians and Tintorettos he loved....
...Street lights, kiosks for selling newspapers. Public fountains and so on....
...May 1 to 5; further information and tickets here ‘Jenny Holzer: Light Line’, Guggenheim A revival of the artist’s 1989 installation in the same building....
...Monet depicted water in every form, and loved painting snow and how light plays on its surface....
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