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...V&A Craft Symposium (May 16) Panel discussions and keynote speeches on the topic of craft, as well as demonstrations of goldwork, featherwork, silversmithing and weaving....
...“Here, the focus has mainly been on FMCG [fast moving consumer goods] products,” says Victoria Waugh, co-founder of V&V Sustainability Consultancy....
...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...
...What I don’t understand is how we can back off from telling people: you guys are wrong. This is what he means.”...
...The commission has launched a continent-wide project to strip out supply bottlenecks and boost production, laying the foundations for an industrial mobilisation aimed at battling the new variants of the...
...says a soldier, fearing a different enemy, in Henry V. “I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.”...
...As Guy Chazan points out, the duo is intended to unite the powerful right and centrist wings of the CDU....
...Indeed, institutions including the Met, the Palais Galliera in Paris and London’s V&A have approached Mugler about staging a retrospective....
...“This is what I’m going to ask all the guys: did you know he was going to relapse?”...
...Guy Chazan is the FT’s Berlin correspondent London v Berlin Visitor numbers 2016 London 19.9m Berlin 4.9m Attendance figures in 2016 Tate Modern, London, 5.84m Foundation for Prussian Culture, Berlin...
...Photographs: Luc Castel; Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot; Guy Marineau; Roberto Marossi...
...I adore the V&A because it is a walk through the world, a place of endless discovery; and the Royal Academy and the Tate, which have the most wonderful exhibitions....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...Stefan Heidbreder, managing director at the Stiftung Familienunternehmen, a foundation for family-owned businesses, said: “Germany is still in a good position, compared to other countries....
...“It’s not like some guy was fired and he went home and got his gun and started shooting. They trained for years for this.”...
...So he’s planning on placing the shares with an independent foundation that was set up to manage the government’s holdings and ultimately try to affect an exit....
...De Kooning called Picasso “the guy to beat”; here we see Picasso respond to the younger artist’s savage sexiness and slang references....
...Following the persecution of Jews in Spain, Charles V expelled the city’s Jewish population in 1541....
...Hairywood, the temporary tower they designed last year for the Architecture Foundation in east London’s Old Street exerted a joyful, gravitational pull, the curious paradox of a viewing tower seemingly sucking...
...After all, her Vamos Mexico Foundation never could auction the Mont Blanc fountain pens it purchased for $350,000 in 2002....
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