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...Albert Bourla said people were growing “tired” of the measures introduced to slow the spread of the virus, while “politicians want to claim victory”....
...William Morris and the avid Indian miniature collector Howard Hodgkin hymned the Persian epic the Hamzanama....
...Hawaii with his 30 wives and 500-pound girlfriend/adviser Ka‘ahumanu, through King Ghezo of Dahomey, whose 3,000 “wives” fought in his army, to England’s Victoria and her prudish yet passionate husband Albert...
...The choreography is by Mark Morris; countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and soprano Ying Fang are the tragic titular couple....
...If you can’t make the Royal Albert Hall, this year there are events in location as varied as Great Yarmouth, Derry, Aberystwyth and Dewsbury....
...Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain by Hannah Rose Woods, WH Allen £20, 400 pages Tristram Hunt is director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books...
...tabby.kinder@ft.com Additional reporting by Stephen Morris in London and Cheng Leng in Hong Kong...
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...The Victoria and Albert Museum holds more than 19,000 items hailing from the then crumbling Ottoman Empire, today’s Middle East and north Africa....
...The “Albert” slipper refers to the same shape of shoe that the Prince Consort wore....
...Albert Bourla, chief executive of Pfizer, said the new company would be a “champion for global health . . ....
...Sales of Manhattan’s luxury homes rocketed in June as buyers looked to beat the introduction of a new “Mansion tax” on July 1, writes Nicole Douglas Morris ....
...On plans for Red House, now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Webb writes: “clothe it with green”....
...Albert Frey’s house in Palm Springs (1963) goes one better by cantilevering its structure from a huge boulder which penetrates the living space....
...The Bauhauslers passionately followed values of Modernism that went back to the 1800s: from William Morris and John Ruskin, the importance of craft; from reformers the promise of a utopian society; from...
...The deal was structured as a so-called Reverse Morris Trust, which allowed P&G to spin out and sell the assets to Coty without paying capital gains tax....
...then, the company had established its reputation in London for producing exquisite household decor, having completed commissions at St James’s Palace and the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert...
...Even when his work was rediscovered for an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1952, curator Elizabeth Aslin recalled Victorian tiles being destroyed with sledgehammers in one part of the building...
...In May this year, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London unveiled a £1m refurbishment to its main shop....
...The set continued with a dissonant slow burn composed by the late Butch Morris (the trumpeter, a close colleague of Murray’s, died in 2013)....
...The Queen Mary became a floating repository of British design, with works by Morris & Co, Poole Pottery, GT Rackstraw and Waring & Gillow....
...Nowhere was sacred, as contemporary photographs of Londoners tending vegetable patches in the shadow of Hyde Park’s Albert Memorial attest....
...An ill-assorted solo quartet — Tamara Wilson, Alisa Kolosova, Dimitri Pittas, Morris Robinson — proved short on Italianate colour....
...The announcement means that two of the biggest jobs in UK culture are now up for grabs, following Martin Roth’s decision to step down as director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, announced on Monday....
...The pose and composition inspired his sultry depiction of Jane Morris in “The Day Dream”, commissioned in 1879 for £735 by collector Constantine Ionides, who also acquired the Botticelli — for £315 — from...
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