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...Jonathan Moules ‘Leadership from Bad to Worse: What Happens When Bad Festers’, by Barbara Kellerman The prospect of Donald Trump winning re-election must appal Barbara Kellerman, but if he succeeds, it...
...In 1969, Collingwood became the first living weaver to show at the V&A when a series of his rugs and wall hangings went on display alongside the work of potter Hans Coper....
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...Andrew Lloyd Webber once saw it in the window of a Chelsea junk shop but his granny wouldn’t lend him the £50 he’d have needed....
...Ultimately, it’s a period eclipsed by the likes of Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and the London School painters — who really found their stride after 1945....
...Indian Textiles: Nature and Making (V&A) Google Arts & Culture were ahead of the game when it came to digitising art works and entire exhibitions, and this deep dive into the V&A’s lustrous textiles collections...
...Samuel Tombs, at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the chances of the V-shaped recovery shown in the BoE’s main scenario in May materialising were “vanishingly small”....
...be an increase in rates, said Samuel Tombs, economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics....
...But initial hopes of a V-shaped recovery have faded rapidly....
...Samuel Tombs: 2022 will be the year of peak fiscal pain....
...In 1975, aged 13, Samuel Fosso set up his own photography studio in the Central African Republic, having fled the Biafran war in Nigeria....
...The one standout was the V&A, where the handsome paved new courtyard, built with a £2m donation from the family, opened in 2017....
...Eat the Buddha, by Barbara Demick, Granta, RRP£14.99/Spiegel & Grau, RRP$28 (Sept) A portrait of Tibet by the author of the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea....
...So, you look at whether Vogue has had a good week versus Elle, or GQ a good week versus Esquire. Now, with museums, it’s all about footfall.” Thankfully, “the V&A this year is having a bumper year....
...It also happened to Andrew Jackson in 1824, Samuel Tilden in 1876 and Grover Cleveland in 1888 before him. Why make the election so complicated? The electoral college emerged as a compromise....
...Work by Barbara Hepworth (nicely timed to coincide with her retrospective at Tate Britain) will be on offer at Offer Waterman, Bowman, Richard Green and Osbourne Samuel; Thomas Gibson has a major Kitaj painting...
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...Andrew Hill Economics Inequality: What Can be Done?...
...Protagonist Barbara Parker progresses from beauty pageants and make-up counters to a role in a successful sitcom. Artful and perceptive....
...“A US equivalent of Patrick Heron would cost three to four times as much,” muses Gordon Samuel of Osborne Samuel....
...The rented apartment’s wallpaper starts to resemble a disease: dingy microbial blotches from some lost belle époque. Samuel Barber pines on the soundtrack....
...Winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize and described as “magnificent” by the FT....
...Sebald; Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather; A House for Mr Biswas by V.S....
...I have not been stalking the slightly doughy man sitting opposite me in a blue V-neck sweater and open-collared white shirt....
...Stone walls do not a museum make: great art does. Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s visual art critic. Read her review of the V&A’s new show ‘The Cult of Beauty’ ………………………………………….....
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