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...One of the most exhilarating gallery experiences you could have had this year was the immersive nine-screen video installation of A Marvellous Entanglement, part of the epic Isaac Julien retrospective at Tate...
...If there is one global celebrity who reflects small-c conservative values better than Taylor Swift, I struggle to think who that may be....
...Mark C O’Flaherty examines what it is about the era that continues to grip the imagination – from the high-waisted trousers and sailors’ uniforms to the sexual and intellectual freedoms the group enjoyed...
...A photograph from Marrakech-born Hicham Benohoud’s ‘The Classroom’ series (€6,000) – part of the Tate Modern’s permanent display – will benefit education charity Foundation Zakoura, while funds from Cameroon-raised...
...Khalique-Brown received sheets of character background before her first audition — “You never get that,” she notes — and, after landing the role, she taught herself the programming languages C++ and JavaScript...
...Picture-perfect Provence The career-spanning Cézanne exhibition at London’s Tate Modern is attracting crowds, as is the landscape of his birth....
...The nearest hotel is a Radisson Blu (radissonhotels.com), but the UK’s Tate and the Aspen Art Museum have booked groups of their patrons into Boen Gård, a historic farm-turned-hotel half an hour’s drive...
...This is where I like to come after a visit to Tate St Ives, and where I send friends looking for places to stay in Cornwall....
...This prescient 14th-century genius had foreseen Boris Johnson, Andrew Tate and almost any other contemporary sinner. But even he would have had to dig down to extend....
...Art institutions like his were in crisis: museum visitor numbers had plummeted some 80 per cent, the likes of the Tate Gallery was cutting 12 per cent of its workforce, and the philanthropic funds that SI...
...“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” is the third law of the science fiction author Arthur C Clarke, and inventors were feted as magicians in the late 19th century....
...humanised by his fourth-wall-breaking asides, and while his professional experiences are based on real first- or second-hand events in Kay’s career, the event that haunts him is distinct from the disastrous C-section...
...AIB director Rachel Goslins says, “When it opened there was a female sculpture at its centre holding aloft a lightbulb, which Edison had only invented nine months before....
...December 4-March 13, v-a-c.org Follow @ftweekend on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...The artist charged with putting V-A-C on the map is Iceland’s Ragnar Kjartansson....
...Buffett’s right-hand man, Charlie Munger, described the Chinese businessman as a mix between Thomas Edison and former General Electric chair Jack Welch....
...He likes to fritter his billions on art and, in 2009, started the V-A-C Foundation — named after his daughter, Victoria — which has given large sums to some of the UK’s top art institutions, including Tate...
...I’m naturally a ‘small c’ conservative and believe it is best to take things gradually and bring people along.”...
...Omers oversees C$109bn on behalf of more than half a million pension savers across Ontario....
...This year, a slew of important exhibitions, most recently the stunning, 100-work Tate Britain retrospective, sealed her reputation. Her influence runs deep....
...There are no sound recordings before Edison’s phonograph in 1877, and the earliest decipherable music notation is about 500BC....
...Imran Nawaz, chief financial officer at Tate & Lyle and a former executive at global food group Mondelez, will join the board in April....
...At the same time, he divided staff into “A, B and C players”, ranked on a “vitality curve”, with the Cs in the bottom 10 per cent ruthlessly ditched....
...I also bought back into Tate & Lyle at 677p....
...Overall, this leads to an average margin compression of c.300bps for the sector, leading to c.40% cut to the sector’s bottom line on average....
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