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...For the opening night of his V&A exhibition, Yousefzada had commissioned a dance performance from the choreographer Dickson Mbi — “like a Sufi poem, or the dances we do around shrines,” says Yousefzada —...
...It is one of the motivations for US grocery giant Kroger’s planned acquisition of rival Albertsons....
...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...
...The V-A-C team explains that GES-2 will not, technically, be a museum: there will be no permanent collection, for one thing....
...That “would effectively require another two Kroger deals and this seems highly optimistic given Kroger represents the biggest possible customer in the biggest market”....
...The V&A is certainly trying hard....
...pages of James Shapiro’s keyhole biography of Shakespeare, 1599, and realised that he wasn’t just any actor, but the star of the show: that very year he had, it seemed, been the first man to play Henry V...
...Sports leaps into US with ‘transformational’ Finish Line deal (FT) Breaking up energy businesses ‘too risky’ says Enel (FT) Elliott takes stake in Travelport Worldwide, may push for sale (BBG) Target/Kroger...
...A partial liquidity event will result from the expiry of Eurofund V next year, which may result in a validation of the business’ valuation.”...
...Tetrick shudders at the V-word. “Like ketchup is a vegan product,” he says defensively. Just’s vision is not to have its products adopted only by vegan San Franciscans....
...The team Jana has assembled includes Glenn Murphy, former chief executive of Gap; Meredith Adler, a former equity analyst; Thomas Dickson, former chief of supermarket Harris Teeter, which Kroger bought in...
...Kroger, one of the world’s biggest supermarket chains, had 9.2 per cent wiped from its share price to $22.29....
...Kroger, the second-biggest US supermarket chain, lost 13 per cent of its value after the deal was announced. Supermarkets across the US, Britain and continental Europe suffered smaller declines....
...The writer is dean of The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London...
...As for Lionel Asbo being a V sign to the UK, “What seems to have been lost is that it’s actually a very affectionate portrait of England. It’s not a hate-filled jeremiad....
...Michael Singer, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, UK...
...Says Harper: “Since White v White, the divorce world has been set on fire because the House of Lords completely changed all the rules.”...
...Talking to V.S. Naipaul about literature is sobering....
...A £400 Christmas hamper has been created to celebrate V&C's 70th anniversary this year....
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