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...May 3 to 12; further information and tickets here June Art ‘David Armstrong’, Kunsthalle Zürich The late Boston School photographer David Armstrong made tender and intimate portraits of creatives in...
...Job moves Meta has added Broadcom chief Hock Tan and billionaire philanthropist and former Enron trader John Arnold to its board of directors....
...Art of glassGlass outshines ceramic as the playful tile du jour. Balineum’s translucent designs borrow from the aquatic, poppy hues of David Hockney’s Californian swimming pool in A Bigger Splash....
...Under US billionaire John Malone’s Liberty Media, which bought the series for $8bn in 2017, the sport introduced a mandatory limit on how much teams could spend, including on developing their cars....
...Caspar David Friedrich in Germany To mark the 250th anniversary of the artist’s birth, Germany has designated 2024 the Year of Caspar David Friedrich (caspardavid250.de)....
...In the UK, Patrick Reyntiens (best known perhaps for his work at Coventry Cathedral) made a huge contribution to the oeuvre and John Piper worked fluidly between painting and glass....
...The swimming pool was immortalised in pictures by his friend David Hockney....
...In today’s newsletter: David Solomon: DJ D-Sale Inside Trafigura Private equity-backed insurers under scrutiny David Solomon goes hat in hand to shareholders On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs chief executive...
...Keep an eye on US giant Corteva, spun out of Du Pont....
...David Handler made sure he signed the documents this time....
...The previous night she saw John Adams’s modern opera Nixon in China, but I have been dying to ask her whether it is true that she is a David Bowie fan. It is....
...The Bay du Nord project includes several oil discoveries in the Flemish Pass Basin 500km north-east of St John’s, sitting in deep water of around 1,200 feet....
...La fin du début (opening 8 April) – Young Picasso in Paris will be hosted by the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York, opening 12 May....
...We often talk about the John Prescott role under Tony Blair and this figure with more cred with the left, more cred with the unions and the Labour party who was sort of shield for a more right-ish Labour...
...The historian David Van Reybrouck says that this telegram, “in a single swoop, opened a new front in the cold war”....
...“I love Rebecca and du Maurier,” says Delaney....
...Government ministries will now work with the Bank of Laos and Electricité du Laos, the national power utility, to regulate the industry, according to a report in The Laotian Times....
...Great Game of chips: The fight to dominate the semiconductor industry is rapidly turning into a modern equivalent of the 19th-century Great Game, when rival powers clashed over Central Asia, writes John...
...(And France recently abolished the ENA and replaced it with the Institut National du Service Public.)...
...Chart du jour: UK plc for sale UK companies are being undervalued after Brexit, according to Richard Bernstein of Crystal Amber....
...The world’s largest hedge fund has appointed two co-chief executives to replace David McCormick, who is leaving for an expected run for the US Senate....
...The FT’s John Plender believes the world is in a debt trap, with central banks unable to adjust fiscal policy without putting financial stability at risk....
...Meanwhile, Time magazine had an interesting cover story on how John Kerry is bringing America back into the climate fight....
...The US has expressed interest in developing its own standards for investors, most recently when climate envoy John Kerry visited Brussels in March....
...Previous owners include John du Pont, heir to the DuPont chemical fortune....
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