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FT Globetrotter
My Top 10: Jackie Wullschläger’s guide to London’s National Gallery
...There’s a terrific sense of being in the presence of the wily old pontiff, known as the “Warrior Pope”....
April 8, 2024
ReviewVisual Arts
Alexander the Great’s cultural legacy richly explored in Naples exhibition
...Hooves paw the ground, whinnies of fear rise with men’s shrieks and the clash of weapons in the stony desert, the flat plain broken by a single gnarled tree, where Alexander of Macedon, handsome, helmetless warrior...
May 11, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
US politics & policy
Debt ceiling diehard in rural Virginia vows to ‘call Democrats’ bluff’
...“He can basically be as populist, and as much of a culture warrior, as he wants,” said J Miles Coleman of the non-partisan University of Virginia Center for Politics....
May 6, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Donatello: The Renaissance — a thrilling once-in-a-lifetime show
...“There is a marvellous suggestion of life bursting out of the stone,” Vasari wrote. To Clark, George carved in 1415-17 was a “1914 soldier . . . the ideal of humanity”....
March 24, 2022
ReviewFiction
Mythical beasts roam the world of children’s books
...So do those of Lydia Corry in her Marvellous Magicians (Thames & Hudson £14.99)....
September 2, 2020
ReviewThings to do in London
A gripping canter through the story of Troy at the British Museum
...Iincludes artefacts such as an Athenian amphora made in 530BC depicting Achilles falling in love with a female warrior even as he murders her....
November 20, 2019
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Work TribesWork Tribes 2020: A New Era
‘Yes, I’ll be able to work throughout July and August!’
...Marvellous. So, I’ll be looking after you for the next two weeks while you do your internship — mind you, with your connections, maybe you should be looking after me?!...
July 19, 2019
Life & Arts
Margaret Mee: defending the Amazon with a brush and a gun
...Today’s conservation battles for the protection of the Amazon are well known, yet in the late 20th century the rainforest found another female warrior in the unlikely form of a middle-aged Briton wielding...
March 16, 2018
Life & Arts
Russian portraiture: Icons of early modernism
...This marvellous exhibition at once embodies a cultural moment and conveys the striving for change that drove late 19th and early 20th-century Russian art....
March 18, 2016
Life & Arts
‘Rubens and his Legacy’, Royal Academy, London
...And where, instead, is a focus on the marvellous paintings which could persuade us why Rubens matters?...
January 23, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Road – film review
...Joey and Robert are two unalike brothers – doughty, dashing road warrior and shyer sibling spurring himself to rivalry – until their lives collide in coincidences, some marvellous, some terrible....
June 5, 2014
Life & Arts
Look on my works, ye mighty ...
...I would like to report that the atmosphere was marvellous. Indeed, it was nothing like your woeful commentary on modern trains. There was one minor flaw....
November 16, 2012
Life & Arts
Let there be light
...He is Christian Ireland’s St George, but without the great-sword, and the pious counterpart, for generations of Irish schoolchildren, of the legendary warrior-hero Cuchulainn....
November 23, 2012
Nigel AndrewsLife & Arts
Film releases: June 11
...This is sobering, determined, marvellous filmmaking....
June 9, 2010
Life & Arts
Moctezuma: Aztec ruler, British Museum, London
...Moctezuma was a ruthless warrior-king who continued his predecessors’ imperial expansion by the systematic conquest and suppression of neighbouring peoples....
September 29, 2009
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Life & Arts
A marathon under the Kenyan sun
...“It is a great marathon, through a marvellous landscape. More than that, it brings people together from across the country. Running is very important to Kenya.”...
August 2, 2008
Harry EyresLife & Arts
Who are the true barbarians?
...Atayal warriors expected to meet again in the spirit world those they had hunted: whatever else these forms of hunting meant, they did not betoken genocide and the extinction of species....
March 8, 2008
Life & Arts
What’s in it for them?
...Thus did mere businessmen enter the ranks of great leaders, warriors, philosophers and poets, achieving immortality in an effigy. There was, however, a downside to philanthropy....
September 22, 2006
ReviewBooks
Beauty myth
...What marvellous power in the gentle sex!” Helen of Troy is at its best when it tells and annotates Helen’s story....
September 30, 2005
Arts
In your face
...The express purpose of the gallery was to assemble a pantheon of home-grown demigods: warriors and statesmen foremost, followed by leading lights of the arts, literature and science....
March 3, 2006
Life & Arts
A truly tribal gathering
...Yet exploring the festival site after lunch, it was clear, too, that these Tuareg are not marooned in some vaguely quaint mythic-warrior past....
November 25, 2005

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