Hints and tips:
...“And finally, Howard said: ‘I’m out. Numbers are getting crazy. That’s it.’ And then Jack Scaldini raised his paddle for the first time and said: ‘I’m good for another whatever.’...
...I’m not saying that The Gilded Age is a show about trifling matters, but the first episodes of its second season largely revolve around a dispute about which opera venue New York’s high society should attend...
...But I’m not convinced by this neat story of liberal Ireland sweeping away the religious deference of the past....
...In a recent interview, the great Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who made a choice to write in Kikuyu, his mother tongue, explained: “I’m not against English, but I’m against the hierarchy of languages...
...Join us on October 17 at the Biltmore Mayfair in London as we gather the biggest names in M&A, private equity and corporate finance, including EQT chief Christian Sinding and the UK’s regulatory boss Sarah...
...When you think about the fact that I’m still the only black Venus. It’s not only Bayreuth’s fault; I haven’t seen any other black singers as Venus, nor heard of one.”...
...It’s 9.30am and I’m brushing my teeth in a car park, watching a pair of sparrows fight over a Stockans oatcake....
...The M+ museum looks amazing, the energy is great and the international world is coming, including from China,” she says....
...I'm a Gypsy with a library. I'm a Gypsy with a PhD. I'm a Gypsy who went to university. Now, that doesn't get associated. I don't fit the nice raggle-taggle Gypsy mode....
...“I’m tired of letting those dull and stupid women dictate our lives,” laments matriarch Bertha Russell (the ever-watchable Carrie Coon), before hosting an ill-attended feast in their honour....
...The Grand Duchess Kirill of Russia, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, praised her children’s nanny Marian Burgess for her service throughout the 1917 Russian Revolution....
...Before lockdown, I saw her show at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Soho in London. It was fantastic....
...“I’m very interested in decay and how we honour plants through their whole life cycle – and indeed how we honour ourselves through our whole life cycle,” says landscape architect Marian Boswall, whose practice...
...Award-winning landscape designer Marian Boswall joined the ranks by letting her hair return to its natural colour during lockdown....
...Alakija Co-chair of the African Union Africa Vaccine Delivery Alliance for Covid-19 Emily Bancroft President, VillageReach Georges Benjamin Executive director, American Public Health Association Donald M...
...The BSDs (Big Swinging Dealers) …or Dealmakers, as you prefer: Larry Gagosian, Marian Goodman, Arne Glimcher, Bill Acquavella, Barbara Gladstone and their ilk – past and present kingmakers, of artists and...
...I’m Peter Spiegel, the FT’s US managing editor, filling in for Edward Luce, who is on a much-deserved vacation....
...“She was often asked, ‘Why can’t you be like Ella Fitzgerald, or Marian Anderson, or Dorothy Dandridge, why can’t you represent us more properly?’ . . ....
...Growing up Catholic, I’m always drawn to the quiet drama of Advent, these four weeks of waiting that mark the beginning of the western liturgical year and lead up to the birth of Jesus....
...story from libraries and cultural centres to a draughty, disused space that was once the London Fire Brigade’s engine workshop and, for the next two years, to Lewisham Shopping Centre in what was an H&M...
...“Rineke Dijkstra” is at the Marian Goodman Gallery, London, from March 12 to April 25; mariangoodman.com Images courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery New York, Paris and London Culture Call podcast...
...“I’m starting to worry that it’s too much,” said Mr Dubeci. “There is one moment when you are mobilised, and there’s a second when you just lose all hope in the system.”...
...For Marian Shaka, 20, pregnant, drowned off the Libyan coast with 25 other women....
...“I’m very serious about studying and knowing about what it is I’m singing,” she said once, summing up what performing meant to her. “And I’m afraid I do have an awful lot to say.”...
...Some of them say, ‘OK, I’m doing it. I’m buying one of your books.’” Is that not irritating? “I’m not a bit offended. One of the lovely things about getting older, I can tell them that they’re wrong.”...
International Edition