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...Our view was it could be a contentious topic and we’d rather deal with it after we had closed, which is something we were required to do....
...She uses clay and salts and the process of multiple dippings is a long, arduous one which takes several months....
...From wild strawberries to periwinkles to common blue butterflies, each one sculpted from clay and cast in Jesmonite before being gilded and tinted and carefully pinned into position....
...i) biggest decoupling between earnings revisions and market performance since 1998; ii) credit spreads now appear fair (and equity and credit have been very closely correlated); iii) recent rise in bond...
...As Charles III, he would be wise to be cautious about private declarations, too....
...Rockefeller III. The total value of about 2,000 lots has yet to be calculated (or at least revealed), but some of the fine art highlights were among those unveiled last week....
...The reign of the last pharaoh, Nectanebo II, ended with defeat by the Persian king Darius III in 342BC — but Persian rule only lasted for a decade....
...The reins will be handed to Lloyds’ former retail head Alison Brittain on December 7. It will be some task to match her predecessor’s record....
...The sepulchral Folger Institute in Washington DC leaves him cold but enables him to excavate the fascination with Richard III during the Californian gold rush....
...Proprietors Suzanne and Georges Ramie invited him to their workshops and Picasso soon found himself grappling with chunks of clay, rekindling a fascination with pottery he’d discovered in his twenties....
...“What this won’t be is a pure test of whether putting a market-like offer out a long distance into the future will give firms an incentive to do early-stage R&D,’’ she says....
...You’d have to be. mudlark@ft.com...
...Demos Phaidon ₤39.95, 352 pages Does for photography what Phaidon’s Vitamin P did for painting and Vitamin D for drawing....
...I ask him how anxious he’d been that the promised loan would be revoked at the last minute. “Very worried. It would have had a big impact on the exhibition.”...
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