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...The resulting book is in a sense a 21st-century remake of Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man. Roy agrees that history had “ended”, but not with the triumph of democratic capitalism....
...All these notes are there in this co-production between Actors Touring Company and Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, lightly touched on by the five-strong writing team (Roy Williams, Bola Agbaje...
...Chief among them was the ultra-conservative archbishop of LA Cardinal James Francis McIntyre, who resented the IHM sisters’ liberal approach....
...On Salman’s Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie has posted another episode of his running serial, The Seventh Wave — 49 chapters about the relationship between Francis, a film director, and his love, Anna, a...
...History might not be “dead”, as the historian Francis Fukuyama had suggested, but it was going in one direction....
...Lately, he’s become “quite Francis Bacon obsessed”. No surprise that Jones is drawn to another darkly romantic cultural icon, not to mention one of the most expensive artists on the market today....
...Barclays has hired Roy Kabla, a senior banker in Houlihan Lokey’s tech, media and telecoms business, as head of its media and entertainment unit in New York....
...Perhaps Francis Bacon in his essay Of Studies offers the best advice regarding Nilanjana Roy’s query (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, July 31)....
...Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare’s Benedick and Beatrice have popped up all over the place (Edwardian England; 1980s Gibraltar), but they’ve surely never been quite so gorgeously attired as they are in Roy...
...Readers flocked to Hawking’s lectures and bookstore readings; he was photographed with Pope Francis, with Nelson Mandela, with Queen Elizabeth II....
...Roy doubts the usefulness of this....
...Meanwhile, he courted the friendship of established painters such as Roy de Maistre and Graham Sutherland. The war changed his fortunes....
...I have a miniature Australian shepherd called Siegfried, named after the Wagner opera, though most people think of Siegfried & Roy....
...But the long marriage ended and Sonnabend returned to Paris, where she first showed Johns’ flag paintings, followed by Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein....
...Gérard Houllier was born in Thérouanne in the Pas-de-Calais in northern France in 1947, the son of Francis, a butcher, and Gisèle....
...And there have been blood bonds between author and guardian: Felix Francis published 13 books under the Dick Francis banner after his father’s death in 2000....
...In 1700, as Roy Porter noted in his book English Society in the 18th Century, it remained a “second-rate rustic nation of hamlets and villages” with questionable manners....
...A piece by Francis Bacon called “Triptych fetched $84.6m, beating the $80m estimate. Christie’s also staged digital auctions this month, netting $420.9m and breaking several records....
...Among the guaranteed works was the sale’s top lot, Roy Lichtenstein’s “Nude with Joyous Painting” (1994), which sold from an American collection for an above estimate $40.5m ($46.2m with fees)....
...In his formally structured garden, The Laskett in Herefordshire, Sir Roy Strong remarked: “Never cease to be brave even if you are about to enter your 70th year....
...(1965, est $20m-$30m) and Francis Bacon’s lofty “Triptych Inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus” (1981, low estimate of $60m)....
...reaction to modernism; anticlericalism and the separation of church and state (most notably with the laïcité law of 1905 in France); the globalisation of religious movements (of which the Argentine Pope Francis...
...I sympathise with Nilanjana Roy’s struggle to abandon a book without finishing it (“When to drop a book you just can’t finish”, Life & Arts, June 29)....
...So it was thrilling to hear earlier this month that another favourite author, Francis Spufford (The Child that Books Built, Golden Hill), has spent three and a half years writing a Narnia tribute....
...Sculptural and mixed-media pieces by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri and Piero Manzoni will go up for auction alongside works by David Hockney, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois....
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