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...John Doerr, chair of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, said last February he would put $10mn into the company....
...Back in 2017, John Wilson brought a semi-staged production of Oklahoma! to the BBC Proms....
..., none stays as close to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s original as this....
...Never mind the clothes at the John Singer Sargent exhibition at Tate Britain, the show is an object lesson in how to stand....
...Now 94 and still based in Santa Monica, architect Frank Gehry has continued creating his spectacular buildings worldwide. But as far back as 1983 he began working in set design....
...Altogether, it makes him the largest-ever donor to the Conservative party, followed by a £10mn bequest last year made by Tory peer Lord John Sainsbury in his will....
...Think of the great English poets, the illiterate agricultural worker John Clare, the hunchback ostracised Catholic Alexander Pope, the office worker who wrote down the expense of every cup of coffee — that...
...Make-up, John McKay at Frank. Photographer’s assistant, Szymon Goslawski. Stylist’s assistants, Aylin Bayhan and Patrick Rammelkamp. Production, Rhianna Rule at Palm Productions....
...And finally With a new show of his Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads at the Courtauld Gallery in London, the painter tells our chief art critic Jackie Wullschläger why, at 92, he is more than ever acutely...
...In 3 Shades of Blue, his entertaining (if somewhat uneven) new book, Kaplan, previously the author of a biography of Frank Sinatra, sets the scene vividly....
...Frank diplomacy combined with a willingness to escalate will be required....
...(John Maynard Keynes). Both apply to Cowen in the age of AI....
...“I have clients who’ll be bidding, who also bid on our Nile Rodgers and David Gilmour collections, and they do play them,” he says....
...It has been a gradual demise for the gallery, which was founded by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer in 1946 and in its postwar heyday boasted the likes of Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Paula Rego on its...
...The diplomatic row overshadowed a G20 foreign ministers’ meeting chaired by Brazil in Rio de Janeiro this week — with US secretary of state Antony Blinken saying he had a “frank exchange” with Lula on the...
...Lucy Rodgers Welcome to Datawatch — regular readers of the print edition of the Financial Times might recognise it from its weekday home on the front page....
...The evening finished with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things”, a jazz standard famously covered by John Coltrane, and now the standout track on Purest Form, Francies’s most recent release....
...“That’s why it came as no surprise to any of us who knew him when he’d start singing his favourite song: Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’....
...TPP donated £5mn in the last three months of the year, while the company’s founder and chief executive Frank Hester made an individual donation of £5mn last May. TPP and Hester declined to comment....
...Tom Bill, head of UK residential research at estate agency Knight Frank, said: “The economic data has fluctuated since Christmas but the direction of travel for the housing market is up as mortgage rates...
...Ray Boulger, senior technical manager at broker John Charcol, said: “The movement we’ve seen in gilt yields and swap rates over the last week or so is going to give lenders scope to cut rates....
...The hottest rivalries in sport right now include Novak Djokovic versus Carlos Alcaraz in tennis and Aaron Rodgers against Josh Allen in the National Football League....
...“I think he uses the theatre, almost in the way John Cage uses [silent musical piece] ‘4’ 33”’, for us to collectively experience and meditate on being in time . . ....
...Frank Bowling’s “Middle Passage” (1970), hot reds and oranges surging across a map of Africa and ghostly figural outlines, is a glowing abstraction....
...That’s why they have to react so quickly,” said Simon Gammon, a mortgage broker at Knight Frank. At the end of 2023 there was a rally in bond markets that prompted lenders to lower mortgage rates....
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