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...Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World at the V&A Dundee is a terrific exploration of the exchanges between the ways cities have been photographed and of how those images have shaped the subsequent...
...Honestly, guys, did you guys know who Eugene V Debs was before we started taping?...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...The Carlsen v Kasparov debate will continue. For Kasparov, it is argued that he was world champion for 15 years, and stayed No1 for a further five....
...The designer’s love of wood is explored through simple lines: his Ode chair references the tradition of workshop chairs with its generously rounded back and an inverted V-style base, while the archetypal...
...Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson (Virago/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)A “radiant, thrilling interpretation” as a work of great literature by one of America’s leading novelists and thinkers....
...Kindly and gentle Eugene Debs spearheaded union efforts and ran five times for president in the early 1900s as the nominee of the socialist party....
...Then, the FT’s wine columnist Jancis Robinson teaches us about the world of wine....
...There’s The Chairs at the Almeida (from February 5): a new version of Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist drama by Omar Elerian that draws on the climate crisis....
...Andrew Robinson is the author of ‘Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye’ (Bloomsbury) ‘Ray’ is on Netflix from June 25...
...This week, the fellowship announced its return with a new partner institution, V&A East, the museum complex soon to open in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park....
...Maurice was also beginning to be feted on his own account, his historic prints and negatives eventually acquired by the V&A....
...“Customers are definitely more interested in leather alternatives, and the idea that an investment piece has to be leather feels old-fashioned now,” says Eleanor Robinson, director of accessories at Selfridges...
...Bass Kevin Burdette, not always sounding comfortable, dips into Camelot for “If Ever I Would Leave You” and Morris Robinson grandly invokes “The Impossible Dream” from Man of La Mancha....
...Surely a V-shaped economic recovery will follow? Not necessarily. A glance at the top gainers on Aim since the March price low shows a few big winners....
...“Despite a challenging economic climate, there was a huge demand for property in the second half of 2020,” said Miles Robinson, head of mortgages at Trussle.v Howard Archer, chief economic adviser to the...
...“Filthy Lucre” travelled to the Smithsonian in 2015 to be shown alongside the original where James Robinson, a V&A curator, spotted it....
...In a letter to Eugene Scalia, the labour secretary who has oversight of TSP, Mr O’Brien and Mr Kudlow said the risks of having Chinese stocks in the portfolio included the “possibility that future sanctions...
...Kingston Polymath 1,011: Dr S Bailey, Swindon Crossword 16,099: Suzanne P Wilson, Windermere; D Barter, Cumbria; Jean-Marc Sellier, California Polymath 1,010: Robert Jelly, Warwickshire Crossword 16,093: V...
A blind tasting shows there is no longer a gulf between the old and new worlds
...In American terms a showdown between those two would be like Eugene v Debs, the turn of the century US socialist battling it out with JP Morgan, the king oligarch of his era (an analogy from David Rothkopf...
...From Bert Ely, Ely & Company, Alexandria, VA, US An image to conjure up in extraordinary times / From James Winpenny, Chipping Norton, Oxon, UK Not so new: MMT has distinguished precursors / From John V...
...Instagram v influencers Instagram’s recent shift to facilitate more direct ecommerce on the platform is likely to provide a new source of revenue for influencers....
...Burgundy v the rest — some favourites These are the wines I scored 17 out of 20 in the Berkmann tasting, complete with suggested drinking windows....
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