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...Bernini, Melvin Edwards, Judith Scott, Yves Tanguy, Jenny Saville and others....
...At FT Globetrotter, we are particularly excited about the Pompidou Centre’s big Brâncuși show in March, the opening of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson’s Paris bolt-hole, Villa Windsor, in the summer and,...
...Edward Price is a former British economic official and current teacher of political economy at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs....
...I like the look of black and white tiles mixed with a lot of green, a la interior designer Lorenzo Castillo’s romantic garden room at home in Madrid....
...Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini’s Edward II for Berlin’s Deutsche Oper tells the story of the 14th-century English monarch who was certainly more fond of his male friend than his wife, and came to a horrible...
...In Gentile Bellini’s painting “Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo” (1500), a black man in a loincloth is poised to dive into the canal to recover the True Cross....
...Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte are more than a little seduced themselves by their protagonist....
...“We don’t really know what is happening in advanced economies,” said Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, a former European Central Bank board member....
...After he stumbled on the name of the first popularly elected black senator, Edward Brooke, a Republican from Massachusetts, the senator quizzed the audience about whether they were aware that the founding...
...“It’s much easier to bond with clients,” says Edward Cole, a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Tokyo. “My Japanese colleagues said the same thing. Nothing’s obviously changed....
...Lex's John Authers and Edward Hadas discuss whether the core inflation concept has had its day and whether central bankers should go even further and look at asset prices....
...“I think Spain is de facto ‘bailed out’, first by the ECB buying [sovereign] bonds in the summer, and then by the LTRO,” says Edward Hugh, a Barcelona-based economist....
...They over-extended their loans to Edward IV, who lost a fortune in the Wars of the Roses....
...………………………………………………… FICTION IN TRANSLATION Me and You, by Niccolò Ammaniti, translated by Kylee Doust, Canongate, RRP£10, 160 pages A tender coming-of-age novella that tells the story of 14-year-old Lorenzo...
...Time to Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline, by Edward Luce, Little, Brown, RRP£20 Vivid reportage and iconoclastic analysis by the FT’s chief US commentator....
...- Edward Hugh...
...“It’s a new beginning, Carlos really knows the art world and has brought in a lot of improvements,” says Jordi Rigol of Soledad Lorenzo....
...Lorenzo Bernaldo de Quirós of Freemarket, the Madrid-based consultant, said on Friday the financial difficulties of the regions had revealed the “botched” nature of Spain’s decentralised constitution of...
...“Yesterday we were flying, we had euphoria,” said Edward Hugh, an independent economist based in Barcelona, recalling the stock market’s record 14.4 per cent rise on Monday....
...What to do: Stroll along the promenade flanking San Lorenzo beach then explore the lanes of Cimadevilla....
...In 1644 the diarist John Evelyn described an opera he saw in Rome in which Gian Lorenzo Bernini had “painted the scenes, cut the Statues, invented the engines, composed the Musique, writ the Comedy, and...
...Lee Blakely’s staging has much to commend it. Jean-Marc Puissant’s silk-screen set, exquisitely lit by Jenny Cane, is suitably aphoristic – a work of art in itself....
...Hernández, the chief benefactor, is a successful banker turned philanthropist, and he convinced his friend Lorenzo Zambrano, head of Cemex, to get involved....
...At the peak of his powers, in the 1930s, he was advertised as “The Wonderful Monarch of Mystery” and had performed for George V, George VI and Edward VII at Buckingham Palace; and for Presidents McKinley...
...It ends in tears with Edward VIII’s abdication....
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