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...On the US trip, Botha and top lieutenants Alfred Lin and Pat Grady reassured LPs that slimming down alongside other changes at the firm, such as new vehicles to invest in companies from their inception to...
...It’s like Alfred Hitchcock. When Wes starts, everything is already set in his head. Nothing is shot if there’s a detail missing.” I ask Anderson what drives his appreciation for artisanship....
...The committee’s first presidents were Gaston-Louis and Georges Vuitton,” Chiambaretta says, of the influence of luxury brands on the avenue....
...Gilbert & George, artists The television room is the only room that we use to relax....
...His paintings answer TS Eliot’s call to modernism in “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”: “It is impossible to say just what I mean!...
...Philip Guston Tate Modern, London (to February 25) For its violent Ku Klux Klan imagery, Philip Guston was postponed following George Floyd’s murder and the surge of the Black Lives Matter movement....
...Postponed from 2020 for fear that Guston’s Ku Klux Klan imagery was too incendiary following the murder of George Floyd, it opened in the US last year with handouts advising on “emotional preparedness” (...
...Eleven spirited portraits in “Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard” (1627) form a dance of gestures, glances, hands outstretched to welcome us into the painting....
...“We found natural sports fabrics from the ’30s, much like what George Mallory wore to climb the Himalayas. They weren’t fools, it was amazing technology....
...What kind of hat was regarded as a “signature” part of Jackie Kennedy’s look? In TS Eliot’s “The Love Song of J....
...Jackie Wullschläger is the FT’s chief visual arts critic....
...Alfred Stieglitz’s train hurtles towards us in “The Hand of Man” (1902). Jacques Henri Lartigue celebrates his brother’s flight in a homemade glider “Zissou Taking Off in the Yard at Rouzat” (1910)....
...Wind swirls around her, she loosens her hair and gossamer shawl, her cheeks colour as she turns to feed Zeus’s eagles — a reference to her relationship with the future king, George IV....
...Mining 300 boxes of archival material, containing letters by the major players of the era, including first lady Jackie Kennedy, and early drafts of iconic speeches saved by her late husband, Richard Goodwin...
...His paintings answer TS Eliot’s call to modernism in “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”, writes Jackie: “It is impossible to say just what I mean!...
...None embodied it more aptly than Chopin and his partner Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil — better known by her pen name George Sand, author of beloved “rustic” novels La Mare au diable (1846) and...
...Reeves writes that there is reason to believe Mary Paley Marshall’s input into the writing of her more famous husband Alfred Marshall probably went unrecognised....
...Further references to paintings in the National Gallery abound — from Uccello’s “Saint George and the Dragon” to Titian’s “Diana and Actaeon”....
...He hired his friend Alfred Parsons to lay the paths, borders and vegetable garden, where apricot, plum, pear and apple trees took root....
...Alfred Lin, a partner at venture capital firm Sequoia, which has a small stake in OpenAI, hinted even more heavily at an interest in backing any future start-ups from Altman and Brockman, saying of the pair...
...Alfred Lin, a partner at venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, which has invested in OpenAI, said he was “inspired” by Altman and Brockman’s “unwavering optimism and commitment to their mission & impact”...
...Doug got me into George Cleverley, and I must have about 40 pairs of his shoes....
...Control brought in further film offers from Hollywood: he’s since directed the cinematic thriller The American (2010) starring George Clooney; and A Most Wanted Man (2014)....
...After the verdict was announced, Sequoia partner Alfred Lin, who oversaw the firm’s FTX investment, wrote: “Immediately after FTX collapsed, we extensively reviewed our due diligence process and evaluated...
...Other guest speakers include Gilbert & George, Olafur Eliasson, and NFT entrepreneur Vignesh Sundaresan (aka MetaKovan, who infamously spent $69mn on a non-fungible artwork in 2021)....
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