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...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...The expansive social network of David Geovanis, a former banker he had known since Drexel, helped....
...London’s exhibition season began with psychedelic tea parties and disappearing rabbits in the V&A’s immersive wonderland Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and ended with translucent, spidery, electricified...
...David Rhodes, an American media executive, was hired in 2019 to work on plans for a rolling news channel. Some top Murdoch managers were unconvinced....
...Job moves Carlos Brito, who transformed a Brazilian regional brewer into the world’s largest beer maker Anheuser-Busch InBev, is to step down as chief executive after 15 years....
...Douglas Hurd, the foreign secretary, later wrote: “Nothing had entered her own life to erase vivid memories of the German past....
...In Dundee, the most pro-independence city in Scotland, a new £80m V&A Museum opened in 2018, part of a dockside redevelopment....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...A more forensic job on that pivotal disaster can be found in Apollo 11: The Inside Story by David Whitehouse....
...Comment from A I v.2 on It is time to jettison the Myanmar fairytale: “As long as the educated elite and the military in Myanmar bury their collective heads in the sand and deny basic rights to minorities...
...He is to become head of the V&A Museum. There has been some debate whether his predecessor at the museum, Martin Roth, quit last September because of frustration over Brexit....
...The Neues Museum is Berlin’s version of the V&A....
...The property, which measures about 5,000 sq ft, is owned by David Geffen, the record and film company founder....
...On the night of victory, he quoted from Henry V to his rapturous disciples. Hannan may be a cerebral speaker but he could not have run a winning campaign. Enter Matthew Elliott....
...By Friday, Labour’s campaign chief Douglas Alexander may be Britain’s foreign secretary. Or he may be jobless, beaten by a 20-year-old Scottish National undergraduate....
...Labour MP: Douglas lost the David campaign and the 2010 election: “Why did Ed risk giving him so much power again?” Ally: “There has to be someone making unpopular decisions....
...Douglas Alexander, shadow foreign secretary, became Labour election chair in late 2013 after Tom Watson resigned from the job....
...On spotting John McCaw in the lobby of the George V hotel in Paris, Donald Pels cracked a smile....
...(Financial Times) In response to regulation, Goldman ditching less profitable clients and changing rules for hedge funds (WSJ) Argentina v holdouts: plus ça change (Financial Times) Espírito Santo: the...
...And think of David Lean....
...There is also a dedicated “A/V bar” for those with questions about purchasing video art and the technicalities of displaying it....
...David Thomson is author of ‘The Big Screen’ (Allen Lane, £25) ‘Hollywood Costume’ is at the V&A, London, October 20-January 27 2013, www.vam.ac.uk...
...Or perhaps on the night the Marquis of Queensberry walked in to find the Irish poet dining with his son Lord Alfred Douglas, the shock that precipitated Wilde’s downfall?...
...Forbidden desire – Rossetti’s for Morris’s wife, Wilde’s for Lord Alfred Douglas – was the driving force behind the aesthetic movement....
...“People keep returning to this retro print because of its nostalgic value,” says Renato Grant, a Fair Isle expert and brand manager of the luxury cashmere brand Clan Douglas Cashmere Studio....
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