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King Charles III
Ancient tradition in a plastic bottle: the oil chosen to anoint King Charles
...It was later adopted by Christian monarchs in western Europe, with the first known anointment of an English king taking place in 973AD when Edgar was consecrated at Bath....
May 5, 2023
ReviewCrime books
Crime fiction round-up — a modern riff on famous sleuths
...The first mystery to be confronted on picking up Holmes, Margaret and Poe (Century £20) by James Patterson and Brian Sitts is: why not “Holmes, Marple and Dupin”?...
January 22, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
UK retail industry
Surviving UK department stores seek to avoid fate of fallen rivals
...The department store chain, which has nine UK sites, is spending £40mn on the makeover of the Northumberland Street shop, a mainstay in the North East since John James Fenwick, an ambitious shop assistant...
January 5, 2024
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: rhythmic gymnastics, Marvin Lee Aday and Shaun of the Dead follow-up
...What was Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s follow-up film to Shaun of the Dead? Which London station is the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line?...
June 9, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
Chaplin vs America — red scares, scandal and a star in exile
...According to his assistant, Dan James, the final speech of The Great Dictator “started [Chaplin] off [with a] Messiah complex”....
December 12, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Kenneth Branagh’s King Lear has intelligence but lacks emotional depth
...There are some lovely performances: Corey Mylchreest’s Edmund crackles with bitter rage; in contrast Doug Colling’s Edgar is movingly distressed at the sight of his blinded father....
November 1, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewFiction
How to Build a Boat — a boy, two teachers and a lesson in humanity
...James Joyce himself could not have written an epiphany to beat it. How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney Harvill Secker £16.99, 304 pages...
August 25, 2023
ReviewMusic
Christian McBride’s trio at Wigmore Hall — three strong personalities play as one
...His decade of Wigmore Hall performances includes duets with classical/bluegrass bassist Edgar Meyer and the late jazz pianist Chick Corea....
July 18, 2023
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz solutions
...Round on the Links The link was comparisons in traditional similes Charles James Fox Whistle Down the Wind Cucumber Adam Hills Feather Benjamin Button Larry (Sanger and Page) Daisy (Ridley and Edgar-Jones...
September 16, 2022
The Art Market
Frieze LA secures city’s status as an art market destination
...He sold several works by Edgar Ramirez ($12,000-$20,000), including one to The City of Santa Monica Art Bank Collection, in a partnership launched with Frieze this year....
February 23, 2023
FT Asset Management
Asset Management: Crispin Odey in crisis
...It runs almost half of the firm’s funds, including those by partners James Hanbury and Oliver Kelton....
June 12, 2023
Artificial intelligence
Some Barclays analysts explain “why Hollywood writers misunderstand the role of AI in content creation”
...Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh and Aaron Hertzmann are all quoted within the first few pages of the first essay, which ruminates at length on the nature of art: In some ways, the unpredictability of the...
June 5, 2023
Art on the West Coast: Frieze Week LA 2023
Gallerist Hannah Traore: ‘I break rules I don’t even know I’m breaking’
...Most recently, the gallery exhibited an installation of prints by Cheyenne-Arapaho artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds and tapestries incorporating human hair by Welsh-Ghanaian artist Anya Paintsil....
February 10, 2023
BHP Group PLC
BHP winding down thermal coal mine after failing to find a buyer
...Edgar Basto, head of BHP’s Australian minerals unit, said: “Seeking approval to continue mining until 2030 avoids closure in 2026 and enables BHP to balance the value and risk of those considerations and...
June 16, 2022
The Weekend Essay
Simon Schama: can Charles III’s coronation speak to modern Britain?
...oath (originally the “tria precepta”, the three promises); anointing, investiture with ring, sword, sceptre, rod and crown; enthronement — does actually descend from the coronation of the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar...
May 6, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Letter
Letter: Eating insects didn’t bug me at all
...James E PattersonWashington, DC, US...
December 10, 2021
ReviewFilm
The Real Charlie Chaplin paints a dazzling picture of a virtuoso
...But amid his flaws and contradictions, directors Peter Middleton and James Spinney credit him too as a true virtuoso, an eternal one-of-a-kind....
February 17, 2022
Due Diligence
The banker who transformed Deutsche into a risk machine Premium content
...Australian miner BHP has promoted Edgar Basto, its president of minerals in Australia, to chief operating officer....
August 17, 2022
FT Magazine
The tiny Paris pastel shop that changed art history
...The sticks are handmade pastels, fine enough for Édouard Vuillard, Edgar Degas, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Odilon Redon, Richard Serra, Winston Churchill — all customers of the oldest pastel maker in...
December 16, 2022
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: axilla, Paul Morel and Dominic Toretto
...What did James Joyce describe as “snotgreen” and Homer as “wine-dark”? Vin Diesel plays Dominic Toretto in which movie franchise?...
July 16, 2021
House & Home
The architecture of horror shifts from gothic to Modernist
...Arch and knowing, this house is an idea that remains virtually unchanged since Edgar Alan Poe and has survived through MR James, German Expressionism, Hammer Horror, Italian 1970s schlockfests and Hollywood...
April 1, 2022
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Alistair Leslie Graham, ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and William Faulkner
...Monty the Penguin, Excitable Edgar and Moz the Monster have all appeared in Christmas adverts for which retailer?...
June 18, 2021
Enuma Okoro
Halloween and the licence to be anyone
...It was a portrait commissioned by the wealthy British poet and art patron Edward James....
November 6, 2021
ReviewCrime books
James Ellroy’s cop confessional a return to form
...Can the once unassailable American writer James Ellroy win back the legion of fans who have deserted him? After such astonishing crime epics as L.A....
June 7, 2021
Architecture
From Gothic mansion to haunted house: what makes a building spooky?
...James Whale’s The Old Dark House in 1932 was one of the first movies to be classed by censors as a “horror” film. It taught us it’s never a good idea to go upstairs....
October 29, 2021

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