Hints and tips:
...It helped SL Green negotiate concessions from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) that allowed it to build One Vanderbilt, one of the city’s newest and most expensive towers....
...David Lammy, shadow foreign secretary, sought over the weekend to add detail to Labour’s foreign policy vision, which he summarised as “progressive realism”....
...Such flights of fantasy are a positive force at Young V&A: London’s renamed Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, which is reopening after a three-year closure and £13mn redesign....
...Soft greys and browns represent the wool trade; the brighter pinks and blues were based on an 18th-century Spitalfields silk dress at the V&A....
...During my residency, the Prado’s one Caravaggio was being restored: a depiction of David with the head of Goliath from 1600, in which David looms largest, his knee resting on a felled Goliath as he grabs...
...The chillingly counterpointed scenes, in blood reds and livid greens, are in “City for Sale”, a large-scale oil painting by the Indian artist Gulammohammed Sheikh....
...The strap is made from green fire hose used by Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, with the brand’s signature ‘In case of fire break glass’ case back also green....
...The colour of Greenough’s V-neck stripe has gone from green to blue. “Going to plan?” I ask. “Errr no,” comes the reply. Mike Thomas, the race director, has a distant look in his eyes....
...Zeitz remains co-chair of the museum’s board with David Green, chief executive of the V&A Waterfront, developer of the surrounding harbour district; there is also a “global council” of art-world luminaries...
...The interiors and insouciant outfits in David Lynch’s 1990 TV series Twin Peaks inspired the show’s “slapped-on” lipstick, lumberjack-check jackets and crushed satin dresses, she said....
...Article V of the withdrawal agreement provides for a duty of good faith....
...If I think they’re pieces that are worthy of an archive, I’ll donate them to the Powerhouse Museum, which is our version of the V&A....
...Finally, do read David Wallace-Wells’ bracing NYT essay on whether America is ready for back-to-back pandemics....
...The previous night she saw John Adams’s modern opera Nixon in China, but I have been dying to ask her whether it is true that she is a David Bowie fan. It is....
...“There was a green asset bubble . . . COP26 was a vanity project, whereas today you have to get real.”...
...The Korean Wave” exhibition at the V&A Lola Shoneyin Writer and festival organiser by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lola Shoneyin’s subversion is deliciously sly, her humour mordant, her eyes pitiless and...
...In addition to the classics, there is a slinky lime-green mesh knit with a deep-V neckline – “so it’s not all just slightly prudish daywear”, says Campbell – which was inspired by a lace piece from Sunspel...
...Allen Green about the background to the controversial US Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade....
...The expansive social network of David Geovanis, a former banker he had known since Drexel, helped....
...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....
...As always, drop your story ideas to me at sid.v@ft.com and have a great week....
...In New York, the Lincoln Centre’s David Geffen Hall will reopen next month after a multimillion-dollar refurb, with several new food and drink outlets....
...At the far end of the ceramics gallery in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, a collection of serene green pots basks in a sunlit room....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Vintage gloves were appliquéd to elbows and the back of jackets — they flashed a V-sign, either for victory or peace. Simons achieved both....
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