Hints and tips:
...Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund, said the “greatest risk of a direct US-China military confrontation today is at Second Thomas Shoal”....
...Frank Bowling’s “Middle Passage” (1970), hot reds and oranges surging across a map of Africa and ghostly figural outlines, is a glowing abstraction....
...The case is already well known: previous accounts include Piers Paul Read’s 1974 book Alive, adapted by Frank Marshall for the 1993 film of the same name....
...The US has in recent days criticised the Chinese military for using water cannons and deliberately ramming Philippine supply vessels near the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea....
...Scott’s boldest stroke of all might be his frank suggestion of the possible vacuum inside his all-powerful Napoleon....
...Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund, said China’s economic situation raised incentives to work with the US to ease tensions....
...An exquisite example by Jean-Michel Frank in straw marquetry from the collection of the fashion designer Reed Krakoff made $82,000 in June 2022 at Sotheby’s in New York....
...Until February 15; further information and tickets here February Art ‘Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads’, The Courtauld The first ever ensemble of the huge charcoal portraits that Auerbach produced...
...Frank Calabria, Origin chief executive, said: “We believe Origin is in a strong position to lead the energy transition, capture opportunities and create value for shareholders.”...
...In 2023, Knight Frank Australia anticipates a further 7 per cent drop in Melbourne’s residential property prices....
...“The environment for M&A transactions continues to be very challenging,” Frank Aquila, Sullivan & Cromwell senior M&A partner, told DD’s Ivan Levingston, James Fontanella-Khan and Ortenca Aliaj....
...By turns warm and bracingly frank, he was a formidably effective negotiator whose advice was valued by a series of ministers from all political parties....
...The Marshall Islands, which is also a Micronesian archipelago, had previously terminated its membership of the forum over the issue....
...The self-propelled howitzer is a heavy artillery system with a cannon mounted on a tracked vehicle, which can strike targets at a distance of 30km....
...The “producer”: future saviour of immiserated western Europe, General George Marshall. The title? Why We Fight. Think of the implicit insecurity here....
...The original is by Frank Ocean. It tells of a man unburdening himself to a taxi driver as though in a confessional, tormented by an unrequited love affair....
...Where armies were mown down by cannon fire, now stalks of grain fall to a tool of peace. And yet the faceless farmer is a Reaper too....
...Frank Calabria, the company’s chief executive, said the economics of coal-fired power stations were “being put under increasing, unsustainable pressure by cleaner and lower cost generation, including solar...
...“Wei laid out a fairly compressive position that I viewed as firm, but didn’t break any new ground,” said Bonnie Glaser, director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund....
...Last week he suddenly changed tack, approving the shipment of 50 Gepard anti-aircraft cannon tanks to Ukraine....
...Ukraine and Germany have mended ties, a month after Kyiv nixed a planned trip by Germany’s president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, saying that he would not be welcome....
...When the islanders paddled out in canoes to exchange goods, the Dolphin fired its cannons and Mai was among the wounded....
...‘An element of theatre’ The stagecraft of the committee hearings, which take place at the Cannon House Office building just across Independence Avenue from the Capitol, has been central to their impact....
...In 2008, Kerry James Marshall’s “Untitled (Painter)” stars an assertive black woman; her crown of hair, big hoop earrings, nose stud, direct gaze and pose express confidence....
...An entire Frank Lloyd Wright house. Admission is free, I discover, thanks to a $20mn donation from Walmart....
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