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...During the V&A’s recent Gabrielle Chanel exhibition, London-based caterer Rocket organised a series of corporate events inspired by the show....
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...A portrait of the bewhiskered duke — later George V — stares down at us....
...Like many vineyards in the Crouch Valley, Danbury Ridge was planted by the roving vineyard manager Duncan McNeill....
...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
...“Horticulture as an art form, it’s hugely undervalued,” says Harry Hoblyn, head gardener at Charleston, the East Sussex home and studio of Bloomsbury group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant....
...Wadsworth v Fernandez was an imaginative king hunt, and the best attacking game of the championship....
...Puzzle 2532 Artur Davtyan v Vladislav Kovalev, Dubai 2023. Black to move and win. Click here for solution...
...He insists it’s still a good idea – he has actually donated the best of his collection to the V&A and the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. But “I do swing dramatically”, he admits cheerfully....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...A later artist, Ayana V Jackson, poses her “Anarcha” (2017) like an Orientalist odalisque, but the tender image of her turned back suggests not so much exotic allure as vulnerability....
...Other pieces are held by the V&A and the Courtauld Gallery in London. I knew all this because I had seen — and written about — a nearly identical bowl for the FT last year....
...As his touring exhibition Wonderful Things – which first showed at the V&A in 2019 – opens at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles next month, a new selection of Walker’s works will also be available to...
...In the V&A’s latest annual review he also referred to talks with Ghana around the V&A collection of Asante court regalia, including gold ornaments, rings and badges, which entered the collection following...
...However, the “monarchical bragging rights” go to Norway’s Harald V, under whom GDP per capita has increased by 3.8 per cent a year on average since he ascended to the throne in 1991....
...The house has won prizes at the V&A Illustration Awards, as well as being recognised in the book trade for its bindings, production and indexing....
...Former Tory party leader Iain Duncan Smith, one of the five sanctioned MPs, said it was “astonishing” that China had been invited given its “huge record of human rights abuses”....
...As ever, reach out to Imani (imani.moise@ft.com) and me (sid.v@ft.com) with your thoughts, suggestions and comments. We’ll be back again next Monday. Happy reading!...
...Duncan Forbes, the V&A’s director of photography, was appointed two years ago....
...That sounds like a reasonable expectation to have after Fed Chair Jay Powell doubled down on his hawkish tone at Jackson Hole last week....
...Newcomers also include Waddington Custot and design specialists Jacksons from Sweden....
...Even among Tory voters the positive differential has nearly halved, shrinking from around plus-44 to (67 ‘well’ v 23 ‘badly’) in January 2020 to plus-23 (58 ‘well’ v 35 ‘badly’) today....
...The Yorkshireman, 34, won the board three silver medal with 5.5/7, repeating his result from the 2019 world teams. 2446 Hou Yifan v James Jackson, Isle of Man 2016. White to move and win....
...As shown by Peter Jackson’s new Get Back documentary, their telepathic closeness persisted until the very end of The Beatles....
...The Beatles’ fashion influence is again in the spotlight with The Beatles: Get Back, the three-part television documentary directed and produced by Peter Jackson, which makes its worldwide debut on Disney...
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