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ReviewAlbums
Leyla McCalla: Sun Without the Heat — from Greek myth to Brazilian tropicalia
...The title track takes its cue from an 1857 speech by Frederick Douglass in which the abolitionist contrasted the emancipation of the West Indies two decades earlier with the persistence of slavery in the...
April 17, 2024
ReviewVisual Arts
Paintings’ forgotten Black faces step back into history in Unnamed Figures — exhibition review
...“The humbled servant girl . . . may now possess a more perfect likeness of herself than noble ladies and court royalty,” Frederick Douglass wrote in 1861....
February 7, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Education
Campaigners raise millions for US campus antisemitism lawsuits
...Frederick Lawrence, a distinguished lecturer at Georgetown University’s Law Center, said he was sceptical that either the lawsuits or the Title VI complaints would succeed....
March 14, 2024
ReviewVisual Arts
Yinka Shonibare’s show Suspended States: ‘Art should operate on different sensory levels’
...The exhibition guide includes salient facts on Frederick Roberts’ role in creating Boer concentration camps, or Clive’s in the Great Bengal Famine....
April 12, 2024
HTSI
Why burr wood furniture has its groove back
...“It’s definitely more contemporary, in a sort of bleached-out veneer,” says Julia Ransom of the Arc Burl floor mirror (£2,695) and Livon chair (£1,895) in Ransom & Dunn’s Foundations collection....
January 19, 2024
North American prime property
‘People move to Harlem and stay in Harlem’
...“Harlem might not be as overtly artsy or edgy as parts of Brooklyn,” observes longtime resident Karl Franz Williams, owner of the 67 Orange Street cocktail bar on Frederick Douglass Blvd....
October 25, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Frieze Week in London 2023
London’s art scene in buoyant mood as Frieze fairs return
...This year is the most international Frieze London to date — with 160 galleries from 40 countries — but among the newcomers to its emerging galleries section are four Londoners: Ginny on Frederick, Harlesden...
October 6, 2023
Robin Lane Fox
A cart ride through Boston’s tree-filled treasure
...In 1882, he agreed that the new arboretum should be laid out by none other than Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscaping maestro of New York’s Central Park....
September 8, 2023
News in-depthSupreme Court US
Billionaire Republican donor at the centre of Clarence Thomas controversy
...Crow reportedly gifted Thomas valuable collectibles, such as a Bible that had belonged to the abolitionist Frederick Douglass....
May 3, 2023
InterviewVisual Arts
Artist Isaac Julien: ‘You have to change the top brass’
...Douglass....
April 22, 2023
Fiction
‘Bold, subversive’ novels make shortlist for the International Booker
...Slimani is joined by a panel of fellow judges including lecturer and translator Uilleam Blacker, novelist Tan Twan Eng, literary critic Parul Sehgal and the FT’s literary editor Frederick Studemann....
April 18, 2023
FT Magazine
What I learned attending ‘anti-cancel culture’ college
...“Well sure,” he says, citing works by Frederick Douglass and Richard Wright. “These are essential to understanding the great mistakes that we have made in the United States....
October 26, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Recycling Beauty, Prada Foundation — what the Romans did for us and what we did to them
...extant antique hardstone cameo, is included for its remarkable travels: from Egypt, where it has been linked to the court of Cleopatra I, to Rome and then Constantinople, and then again to the collection of Frederick...
December 9, 2022
Live news updates from October 5: Opec+ recommends 2mn barrel cut, Fitch cuts UK outlook
Trio share Nobel Prize for inventing ‘click chemistry’
...He is only the fourth person ever to win two Nobel science prizes, following in the footsteps of Marie Curie, John Bardeen and Frederick Sanger....
October 5, 2022
Nobel prizes
Three scientists share Nobel Prize for advances in ‘click chemistry’
...Sharpless is only the fourth person ever to win two Nobel science prizes, following in the footsteps of Marie Curie, John Bardeen and Frederick Sanger....
October 5, 2022
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Art on the West Coast: Frieze Week LA 2022
Collector Billie Milam Weisman on living with modern masters
...The Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation is open by appointment Monday-Friday, weismanfoundation.org...
February 11, 2022
HTSIThe Kudos Project
The glow getter behind cult brand Ami Colé
...N’Diaye-Mbaye is all glossy skin and Harlem charm when we speak over lunch at one of her local haunts on Frederick Douglass Boulevard....
April 12, 2022
HTSI
The moment that changed everything for me…
...Hardison was a sculptor in the ’60s who created busts of prominent African-Americans – Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr Martin Luther King....
May 2, 2022
HTSI
A secret Sicilian safari
...The photographic safari became a book project when Roberts encountered the Frederick II Foundation, a Sicilian cultural heritage foundation established in 1997 in Palermo, and named for Frederick II – one-time...
March 30, 2022
Social Media
Social media platforms must abandon algorithmic secrecy
...Full disclosure and transparency, as opposed to secrecy, form the foundations of liberal democracies....
June 17, 2021
Fashion
The hidden figures of American fashion history
...According to Regan, Olympe represents “many dressmakers working in a similar way throughout the United States who, collectively, were critical to building the foundations of American fashion”....
April 26, 2022
ReviewHistory books
In the Shadow of the Gods — when emperors claimed a divine right to rule
...In a disturbing parallel with today, the old Russia both admired and feared the more prosperous European nations to the west whose power rested on more secure economic foundations....
May 18, 2022
The Aesthete
Curator Thelma Golden talks taste
...Hardison was a sculptor in the ’60s who created busts of prominent African-Americans – Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr Martin Luther King....
December 3, 2021
FT Magazine
In 1961, MLK taught a college class. Its syllabus might be contentious today
...Frederick Douglass? Reinhold Niebuhr? Dietrich Bonhoeffer? Jane Addams? W E B Du Bois? Mahatma Gandhi?...
February 26, 2022
FT SeriesPhoto London 2021
Artist Shirin Neshat on experimentation and ambition
...And when I was making Lessons of the Hour [a 10-screen film installation about the 19th-century abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass], I returned back to the photographs....
September 3, 2021

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