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Bain Capital
Bain Capital promotes top dealmaker to co-managing partner
...Last year, it closed its flagship Asia V buyout fund after raising $7.1bn, eclipsing its targets....
March 27, 2024
Chess
World champion crushed in freestyle chess
...The final on Thursday and Friday (noon GMT start) will be Carlsen v Caruana, World No 1 v No 2 and a repeat of the 2018 classical world championship match....
February 15, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Chess
Government’s £500k chess stimulus tests England’s elite talents
...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
March 27, 2024
HTSI
The seductive appeal of silvery pewter
...registered with the Pewterers’ Company and any maker found to be selling substandard wares risked losing their mark and being unable to trade,” notes Angus Patterson, senior curator of metalwork at the V&...
April 15, 2024
House & Home
Radical reupholstery uncovers the history of a chair
...Lucy Wood, a former senior curator of furniture at the V&A, has recently overseen a project to restore two chairs designed by the 18th-century architect William Kent....
April 19, 2024
Visual Arts
Young V&A opens with children in the driving seat
...It rightly gives kids access to “serious” original artworks, by the likes of Bridget Riley and David Hockney (the latter accompanied by aquatic soundscapes)....
June 26, 2023
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
Jo Ellison
Serge Gainsbourg, David Beckham and the secrets of eternal style
...It’s also the most immaculate curation I’ve seen since visiting the Chanel show at the V&A....
October 13, 2023
US & Canadian companies
Private equity is in for rampant consolidation
...And finally To the V&A in London, where a new blockbuster exhibition, Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto, highlights both the designer’s revolutionary approach and her many links with Britain....
September 18, 2023
The Week Ahead
Opening arguments begin in Trump trial
...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
April 21, 2024
FirstFT
FirstFT: US banks set for profits boost
...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....
April 9, 2024
David Bowie
David Bowie’s vast archive donated to V&A Museum
...The trove of pop and rock history will be held and displayed in a newly created David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts at V&A East Storehouse in Stratford, east London, with items regularly...
February 23, 2023
BBC
BBC sells London music studios used by The Beatles and David Bowie
...The BBC has sold music studios in London’s Maida Vale that had been used by The Beatles and David Bowie to a consortium including Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer....
August 14, 2023
Chess
Carlsen outwits teenagers at World Cup as Russians fail
...In this weekend’s semi-final (Saturday and Sunday at midday on major chess websites, with live commentary by England’s David Howell) Carlsen faces the World Cup’s giant-killler and hometown favourite Nijat...
August 17, 2023
The Big Read
Malaysia: the surprise winner from US-China chip wars
...It is building a facility in Penang, but some US lawmakers already want to restrict American companies from collaborating on RISC-V projects....
March 11, 2024
News in-depthLabour Party UK
Starmer sets February 8 deadline to finalise draft Labour manifesto
...David Lammy, shadow foreign secretary, sought over the weekend to add detail to Labour’s foreign policy vision, which he summarised as “progressive realism”....
January 22, 2024
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
Chess
Rishi Sunak to announce £500,000 government funding boost for English chess
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
August 8, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance, V&A review — exhilarating glimpse of Florentine master
...Only the virtuoso opening is the same: the larger than life marble “David”, all compressed energy, stands with the curl-framed head of Goliath at his feet....
February 15, 2023
Interiors
Why mosaics are having a moment
...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....
March 1, 2024
Chess
Michael Adams wins eighth British title at 51 as young guns fall short
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
July 31, 2023
FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
London in 2024: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s happening
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
January 30, 2024
FT Magazine
Alone in the Prado: behind the scenes in one of the world’s greatest museums
...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...
February 1, 2024
Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is brave, baffling, stimulating and essential
...The V&A’s installation on Tropical Modernism, initially a European colonial project but one adopted and adapted by African nations, notably in post-independence Ghana by the Nkrumah government (Ghana is...
May 19, 2023
ReviewFT Books Essay
Can Labour win again? History might hold the answer
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
January 3, 2024
Jane Owen
How a Mexican garden became a Surrealist concrete jungle
...When I visited in 2018, a couple of hours into the challenging drive, husband David at the wheel, we were pulled over by armed local police, the Jafar and Abis Mal of this particular panto....
December 8, 2023
Gardens
New window on the secret life of orchids
...As Laurence Hobbs, owner of an orchid nursery in Sussex, notes: “Probably the biggest mistake people make with their orchids is that they fuss too much....
July 18, 2023

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