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...People are responding positively: he recently met Robbie Williams on a weekend in Gstaad, and the singer instantly ordered some pieces, which he wore for his 50th birthday....
...William Kentridge Contemporary exhibition of the year was the Royal Academy’s William Kentridge....
...A slice of modernism, completed in 1983, it houses one of Scotland’s finest art collections: some 9,000 artefacts amassed over a lifetime by Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell....
...In the foreground, Mutu’s red soil, wood-entwined figure “Sentinel V” presides like a grotesque goddess — part Earth mother, part vengeful spirit....
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...apogee — directness, vigour, suggestions of contained power — was Titian’s “Charles V” and Velázquez’s “Philip IV”....
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
...Our house was built in 1889 by the heir to a steam-locomotive fortune, William Burnham of Philadelphia: all lathed cypress panelling, no expense spared....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...excess visiting France for the first time in 2017 range from Andy Warhol’s hand-painted, not-quite-identikit, 32-canvas “Campbell’s Soup Cans” (1962) to Félix González-Torres’s Aids memorial “Untitled (USA...
...Another first is the USA Pavilion — look out for glassware by John Hogan and the rugged furniture of Fernando Mastrangelo....
...After the second world war came the struggle for desegregation, as personified by the black baseball player, Jackie Robinson....
...(USA Today) Soundbites “This is just more evidence that Donald Trump himself is a fraud. He is trying to scam America the way he scammed all those people at Trump U....
...Professor Trevor Williams, visiting professor, University of Derby Growth to slow to 1.5% or less....
...“The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man” was a trophy, acquired by 18-year-old Prince William V, last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic and a passionate collector since childhood....
...And he loves this indifference to hardcore classicism, reckons it a signal characteristic of British art, a V-sign stuck in the face of academic draftsmanship....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Jackie Wullschlager …………………………………………………………….....
...William Morris sold delicately crafted wallpaper, including the “Pomegranate” motif on show here; a variation was used for the V&A’s Green Dining Room....
...Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don’t See Them Coming, by Gary Gorton, Oxford University Press USA, RRP£19.99 In this important book, the Yale School of Management professor explains that crises...
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s visual art critic. Read her review of the V&A’s new show ‘The Cult of Beauty’ ………………………………………….....
...But as departing US fans chanted “USA! USA!” one of their compatriots said the result did not make the US world-beaters....
...slumps of indecision, but my fellow selectors – actor Peter Bowles , interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, artists Gus Cummins and Lincoln Seligman, and Julius Bryant, keeper of word and image at the V&...
...Wendell V. Graham, Washington DC, USA TF: In total about 24 UK stocks can be bought in the US....
...“We were approached by Jackie and Bobby Kennedy [a year after JFK’s assassination in 1963] and he was a hero.”...
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