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Bain Capital
Bain Capital promotes top dealmaker to co-managing partner
...Last year, it closed its flagship Asia V buyout fund after raising $7.1bn, eclipsing its targets....
March 27, 2024
Menswear
V-necks are back
...At the mid-level, a cashmere style in a muted shade from Sheep Inc, John Smedley or — my favourite — Begg x Co will quickly become a staple of your wardrobe....
April 8, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewPhotography
Photo City exhibition review — photography and the metropolis in conversation at V&A Dundee
...Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World at the V&A Dundee is a terrific exploration of the exchanges between the ways cities have been photographed and of how those images have shaped the subsequent...
April 11, 2024
Tefaf Maastricht 2024
Battle to keep sculpture in Britain highlights European museums’ struggles
...They were measured against three factors established by John Anderson, first Viscount Waverley (now known as the Waverley Criteria): is the object closely connected with British history and national life...
March 2, 2024
ReviewNon-Fiction
Fragile alliance — is Nato still up for the fight?
...And a reciprocal invocation of Article V — if, say, Europe was attacked by Russia — is at best untested and, at worst, a bluff....
April 3, 2024
Chess
Government’s £500k chess stimulus tests England’s elite talents
...Puzzle 2524 Vladimir Fedoseev v Magnus Carlsen, world rapid, Riyadh 2017. White played 1 Ke2? a3 after which the knight could not stop the pawn....
March 27, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Political espionage
Russia revamps GRU spy network to ‘disrupt adversaries’
...“In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, special operations are no longer driven by Communist ideology, but they still use the same tools and methods,” said one of the report’s authors, Oleksandr V Danylyuk....
February 20, 2024
ReviewArchitecture
Young V&A’s architectural overhaul is striking and joyful
...Young V&A reopens on July 1, vam.ac.uk/young...
June 26, 2023
ReviewFT Books Essay
Can Labour win again? History might hold the answer
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
January 3, 2024
Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast17 min listen
How to keep your plants happy as it gets cold
...v=Ae1lCrnsm3k Robin’s outdoor winter suggestions for the UK are: the winter flowering cherry tree (Prunus subhirtella autumnalis)....
November 20, 2023
InterviewMusic
Guitarist Paco Peña on flamenco, avoiding the limelight and Jimi Hendrix
...Manitas de Plata (literally: “little silver hands”) was a flamenco rock star, a regular face on the old TV variety format and feted by everyone from John Steinbeck to Picasso....
April 6, 2024
Interiors
Mingei, an extraordinary art that celebrates the ordinary
...Canadian potter John Reeve created a community of Mingei-style potters in Canada, while New Zealand potter Len Castle, who had worked with Hamada in Japan, pioneered his country’s studio pottery movement...
March 23, 2024
Chess
Magnus Carlsen wins another two world championships
...The Carlsen v Kasparov debate will continue. For Kasparov, it is argued that he was world champion for 15 years, and stayed No1 for a further five....
January 2, 2024
Fashion
Oscars 2024: gravity-defying gowns, archival looks — and ‘heavage’
...In a Cinderella-blue colour, with a deep V neckline, the look called back to the Prada gown Nyong’o wore when she took home the Best Actress award a decade ago....
March 11, 2024
HTSI
New games with Old Masters
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
December 12, 2023
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
FT GlobetrotterFT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities
London in 2024: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s happening
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
January 30, 2024
Venice Architecture Biennale 2023
Venice exhibition restores African architects to the story of Tropical Modernism
...The video features interviews with Ghanaian Modernist architect John Owusu Addo and Samia Nkrumah, politician and daughter of Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah; archival footage of the colonial Gold...
May 18, 2023
Chess
England seniors win world gold and double silver
...Puzzle 2540 Ian Nepomniachtchi v Magnus Carlsen. AI Cup 2023. Black to move. The world No1 chose Nf5-e3 here. Can you do better? Click here for solution...
October 2, 2023
Global Economy
Biden pushes for bigger World Bank to combat China’s rising influence
...“What India has done is to bring in the concerns and priorities of the global south and to try and move them beyond standard approaches to address the real issues,” said V Anantha Nageswaran, Modi’s chief...
September 8, 2023
Chess
Chess: Oxford v Cambridge reaches 150 years not out
...One important wider role for the match has been to produce future England internationals, including John Nunn and Jonathan Speelman who both reached the world top 10....
February 27, 2023
ReviewMusic
New York’s Ragas Live Festival brings together past and present, east and west — review
...This could only provide a hint of the vast richness of Hindustani and Carnatic music, but the driving percussion duo of V SelvaGanesh and Swaminathan Selvaganesh was gripping, and the Carnatic singing of...
October 17, 2023
Style
Why it’s good to be a diva
...The Louis XIV-inspired wig and train Elton John wore for his 50th birthday party in 1997 get their moment....
June 16, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance, V&A review — exhilarating glimpse of Florentine master
...Mary is collapsing, the Magdalene rushes forward with raised arms and dishevelled hair, St John withdraws in silent grief....
February 15, 2023
ReviewFiction
Caret — disability meets desire in volume 3 of Adam Mars-Jones’s series
...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
August 16, 2023
Travel
Black Crows — the making of a cult ski brand
...“When a kid draws a bird, they do a V. And you don’t want to ski alone, you want to be in a group....
November 11, 2023

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