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...“Enough to provide a little leisure,” as Kenneth Clark said in Civilisation. But material progress also depends on culture....
...Kenneth Clark’s unrivalled study The Nude (1956) has determined understanding and displays of medieval and Renaissance art for generations — but such diktats sound archaic in a globalised #MeToo age, when...
...Read more: US stock market enters CAPE Fear territoryNew year’s global stock market ‘melt-up’ silences bears Image source: Getty...
...He quotes the late cultural commentator Kenneth Hudson, who suggested that the museums that survive the 21st century will have either charm or chairs....
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...Clark was perhaps arguably even more nouveau because his father, Kenneth, or “Lord Clark of Civilisation”, had to buy his own castle, Saltwood Castle....
...Emily Barker’s ‘Sweet Kind of Blue’ is released on Everyone Sang/Kartel on May 19 Robert Alexander/Archive Photos/Getty Images; Colin Escott/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images...
...Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir, by Ken Clarke, Macmillan, RRP£25, 528 pages Robert Shrimsley is editor of FT.com and an FT columnist Photograph: Getty...
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...From about £870 per week; waterwaysholidays.com Photographs: Charlie Bibby; Getty Images; Martin Fletcher; Alamy...
...John Kenneth Galbraith famously called India a “functioning anarchy”. Sometimes these days the country can feel more anarchy than function. For the traveller, India’s rapid growth poses a conundrum....
...And like Chandler, like James Ellroy, like Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon and Nathanael West’s Day of the Locust, West of Eden sees something primally rotten in the bedrock of the city....
...There is also the aforementioned arts centre; this month it is showing a live screening of Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench in The Winter’s Tale....
...“The country’s political institutions are at their lowest level of approval,” says Kenneth Bunker, a Chilean political scientist at the London School of Economics....
...When I was 20, Dame Ninette [de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet] was still alive, Frederick Ashton was still there, Kenneth MacMillan was still there....
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...Borrowed from leading museums — the Louvre, the Vatican, the Getty, the Uffizi — and arranged in a ground-level display without plinths, 70 iconic sculptures stand face to face with us on low, transparent...
...‘Back in Time for Dinner’ is broadcast on BBC2, on Tuesdays at 8pm, from March 17 Photographs: Getty Images; Alamy; Photoshot; The Advertising Archives...
...Brendan Lemon is an FT critic Photographs: Estate of Evelyn Hofer; Wenn; Getty; David Seymour...
...‘Late Turner – Painting Set Free’, Tate Britain, London, to January 25 2015, tate.org.uk; J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, February 24-May 24 2015, getty.edu/museum; de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco...
...EFG London Jazz Festival, Nov 14-23, efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk Photographs: Anna Huix; Getty Images; Matthew Smith...
...Young Greg, played by Kenneth Williams, and followed everywhere by a small dog, goes around planting windmills – “look behind you, there’s another”. He is followed around by the Rev....
...For once the vendors – an Austrian family – were more mysterious than the buyer, who was Kenneth Thomson, the Canadian press baron who became Lord Thomson of Fleet....
...Photos: image.net; Paramount; Reuters; AFP; AP; Getty; Bridgeman Art Library Answers – how did you fare with our Christmas cultural challenge?...
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