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...Take a break from the news V-necks have been verboten for as long as most of us can remember, writes Teo van den Broeke....
...The first photographer in the 60-year history of the Pirelli calendar to shoot it three times – in 1996, 2002 and 2017 – Lindbergh has been shown in museums around the world including the V&A, Centre Pompidou...
...It’s six months since the artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company lost his husband and partner of 35 years, the great actor Antony Sher, to cancer....
...edward.luce@ft.com Letter in response to this column: The west is right to call China’s bluff on Taiwan / From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...There was also a V-shaped neck pillow and a sort of snake-like one that reminded me of something I used during the latter stages of pregnancy....
...This week, the fellowship announced its return with a new partner institution, V&A East, the museum complex soon to open in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park....
...Works from simultaneous movements across Germany and northern Europe also feature, as do later, figurative works, including a small painting by Tracey Emin and a sculpture by Antony Gormley....
...It is shameful, that history, but it happened,” says Sir Antony Gormley, the acclaimed British sculptor and a former board member of the British Museum....
...A recent collaboration with British leather label Mulberry saw him reimagine the brand’s Antony bag with 1970s-style contrasting coloured leather and whipstitching....
...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...Russia is seeking to manufacture its Sputnik V vaccine in Italy to meet a surge in overseas contracts....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...The advanced hull design, with a deep-V, 22-degree angle of deadrise along the keel to cut through the seas, is a marvel....
...Denver; Ian Bird, Vienna; Tim Locke, Sussex Polymath 1,018: Robert Edwards, Devon Crossword 16,141: Bill Stewart, Leicester; Gareth Christopher, Switzerland; Duncan Mackenzie, Norfolk Polymath 1,017: Antony...
.... ★★★☆☆ Shoe Lady Royal Court (Jerwood Downstairs), London Everyday objects also conspire to thwart Viv in Shoe Lady, E.V. Crowe’s surreal new comedy....
...In Buenos Aires, Argentine Tomás Saraceno launches a wildly imaginative flying work, “Aerocene Pacha”; in New York, British sculptor Antony Gormley unveils a vast 30-metre “drawing in space” called “New...
...“I don’t think it’s a V-recovery,” he says. “An elongated U is perfectly possible. I’m a conservative. I plan for the worst and hope for better....
...Staley’s predecessor, Antony Jenkins, tried to shrink the investment bank during his tenure, but Barclays’ directors got cold feet and Jenkins lost out in a boardroom showdown, which led to his firing in...
...“I went to see Savage Beauty [the 2015 Alexander McQueen retrospective at the V&A] many times. It felt like the opposite of the fashion industry, which was really speeding up....
...Albertopolis, as it is known, was built as a sort of cultural theme park in the Victorian era, encompassing the V&A, the Natural History Museum, Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal...
...More recently, Mr Staley’s predecessor, Antony Jenkins, tried to shrink the investment bank, having concluded it could not make decent returns in the post-crisis regulatory environment, where trading is...
...On his walks through east London, Sir Antony Gormley would peek into the yard of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry to witness the “magical and mysterious” process of bell-casting, taking place “just as it has...
...According to the FT’s former arts correspondent Antony Thorncroft, a successful museum director needs “a market trader’s financial acumen, a gigolo’s charm, and a rhinoceros’s hide”....
...The moment at the end of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part Two when Falstaff approaches his old boozing buddy Prince Hal to congratulate him on his coronation as King Henry V, only to be rebuffed with a curt...
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