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...Wandering the Victoria and Albert Museum’s cavernous halls last year, the Palestinian architect and artist Dima Srouji felt overwhelmed....
...and the imposing blocks of Unity and Africa Halls....
...Article V invoking a collective defence response from other Nato members would be triggered. Moscow would risk a devastating nuclear retaliatory strike by the US....
...There’s also usually a white wine from Renishaw Hall, a winery in the north of England – the wine is so good it’s actually very difficult to get hold of....
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...Andrei Soldatov, a Russian security expert and senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, said Russian hackers were “getting ever more skilful”....
...“Millions of doses for the states and city halls will no longer enter the country.”...
...As many as 62 per cent of Russians do not plan to get vaccinated, according to a poll by the independent Levada Center in May, while 55 per cent are not afraid of catching the disease....
...Russia’s healthcare watchdog has said that it has not detected any cases of blood clots arising from the use of the country’s Sputnik V vaccine....
.../ From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...It went the opposite of viral, scoring about the same number of online hits as Luke Edward Hall’s advice column on choosing chic knobs for your cupboards. Which, fair enough....
...Adult Space Academy is based at the US Space & Rocket Center, the official visitor centre for Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center....
...But Rhimes also supports smaller theatre and dance organisations, not least the Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles....
...A four-bedroom lateral apartment in the red-brick Albert Hall Mansions is on sale through Knight Frank for £5.95m....
...For her, it brings back uncomfortable memories of doomed campaigns of the past to shake up what is discussed in university lecture halls....
...At the end of the 1990s, the practice was invited to submit ideas for the Lincoln Center’s ambitious expansion plans....
...rundfunkchor-berlin.de ‘Human Requiem’ goes on to New York’s White Light Festival at the Lincoln Center on October 16...
...the V&A’s courtyard....
...Today you can see Chi Chi’s stuffed remains on permanent display in the central hall café of London’s Natural History Museum. Jamil Anderlini is the FT’s Asia editor....
...Eventually Kepes moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies there in 1967....
...In Catholicism, for example, Vatican V.2 is still to be adopted by Mel Gibson (allegedly). While in Bitcoin right this very minute the great BitcoinXT civil war is under way....
...Every Monday night Woody Allen plays clarinet here in the Eddie Davis New Orleans Jazz Band....
...camilla.hall@ft.com Twitter: @CamillaHallNYC...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...While Dominic Dromgoole’s fine, period staging of Henry V continues at Shakespeare’s Globe, into town rides the Propeller posse – Edward Hall’s all-male company – with an excellent, though very different...
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