National Endowment for the Arts

April 13, 2024

Princeton endowment chief sees ‘worst ever’ private equity liquidity

...College endowments with more than $5bn in assets reported an average return of 2.8 per cent in the year to June 2023, according to the National Association of College and University Business Officers....

April 16, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Private equity

Private equity gears up for potential National Football League investments

...Private equity firms are quietly preparing funds to invest exclusively in the US National Football League, according to people familiar with the matter, as a potential precondition for being allowed to hold...

April 18, 2024

Private equity

Private equity stakes unloaded at a discount as investors seek exits

...Led by pension funds and endowments, big investors sold 99 per cent of their private equity holdings at or below their net asset value on the secondary market last year, according to Jefferies, the most...

April 4, 2024

LexPrivate equity

Private equity is a test that university endowments risk flunking Premium

...Call it a case of senioritis for Andrew Golden. The Princeton University endowment chief is retiring from his post after three decades....

April 16, 2024

House & Home

Politics on a plate: how ceramics became a tool for satire and protest

...Our familiarity with ceramics makes the dish particularly accessible as an art form, explains Baerselman le Gros, who has also curated the fundraising show Plates with Purpose: Make for Peace as part of...

March 15, 2024

FT Live

Strategies for Trading Interest Rate Volatility

Understanding the rate environment and capitalising on fluctuations

ReviewVisual Arts

The Last Caravaggio, National Gallery, London — review: a final dark masterpiece brought to light

...For most of its existence, “The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula”, the painting visiting from Italy to star as The Last Caravaggio in the very welcome free exhibition at London’s National Gallery, was tucked away...

April 13, 2024

FT Globetrotter

My Top 10: Jackie Wullschläger’s guide to London’s National Gallery

...weird Spanish art has always been....

April 8, 2024

ReviewDance

English National Ballet’s Carmen is sharp but sexless — review

...Petit’s modern masterpiece was acquired by English National Ballet during the directorship of Wayne Eagling in 2011 but the company’s current head, Aaron Watkin, has gone shopping for another: the 2015 full-evening...

April 2, 2024

Venice Biennale 2024

Benin stakes a claim in the art world with first Venice Biennale pavilion

...air with its national pavilions....

April 13, 2024

The Art Market

Marlborough Gallery to close as tougher times bite

...The gallery could not find the winning formula for today’s art market....

April 4, 2024

ReviewMusic

Five stars for Wynton Marsalis’s dazzling Trumpet Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra

...But the announcement also included a new endowment for the young composers’ scheme and a proposed redevelopment of the orchestra’s home at LSO St Luke’s on the fringes of the City....

April 15, 2024

Letter

Letter: The productivity growth challenge is not unique to Africa

...Zainab Usman Founding Director, Africa Programme, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC, US...

January 19, 2024

Six theatre shows to see in London

London Tide, National Theatre review — Dickens turned into restless river drama with music by PJ Harvey

...Step out of the National Theatre and there you have it: the Thames....

April 17, 2024

The Art Market

Controversial AI photo comes to the market

...UBS has donated a collection of 166 photographs to the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, the bank’s largest single donation to a museum....

April 25, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

ReviewVisual Arts

The Time Is Always Now, National Portrait Gallery review — Black figurative art takes its place in the canon

...They dominate the National Portrait Gallery’s compelling transatlantic exhibition The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure....

February 24, 2024

FT Schools

IB TOK class: Let’s pause for breath and consider our shared humanity

...(Values); possible object — a work of art that encourages a feeling of shared humanity Click to read the article below and answer the questions: Let’s pause for breath and consider our shared humanity...

November 13, 2023

HTSI

Michelle Yeoh on the quiet power of martial arts

...Martial arts is a form of mindfulness for Yeoh, who was born in Malaysia. “The benefits extend beyond physical fitness,” she says....

February 8, 2024

Venice Biennale 2024

Rising nationalism and falling funding are reshaping the Venice Biennale

...Others, meanwhile, are seeking answers to older questions: what is art for? What is the Venice Biennale for?...

April 13, 2024

InterviewLunch with the FT

Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbits: ‘Art can help’

...His answer isn’t directly linked to the museum. “My one big dream,” he says, “is to have art on the national curriculum, for children. And for young adults. Even history is no longer on the curriculum....

April 5, 2024

ReviewMusic

Five stars for Welsh National Opera’s hauntingly beautiful Death in Venice — review

...Unusually for opera, here is a many-layered discourse on aspects of desire, the nature of art, human knowledge and weakness....

March 11, 2024

HTSI

Cowboy culture is everywhere – and it’s way more inclusive

...Over the 20th century the forces of Hollywood, commercialisation, nostalgia and racism coalesced to create the archetype of the cowboy, a white, masculine folk figure onto whom an American national identity...

April 22, 2024

LexUS politics & policy

President Joe Biden’s US Steel intervention clashes with call for rules-based order Premium

...On Thursday, President Joe Biden threw cold water on Nippon Steel’s pending $15bn acquisition for US Steel, once a national icon. He said US-steel should remain American....

March 14, 2024

The Weekend Essay

The fight for Germany’s ‘memory culture’

...of national identity, for all?...

March 9, 2024

The Art Market

Christie’s launches buy now, pay later scheme for art up to $1mn

...Beyond the formal programme and national pavilions are plenty of gallery shows, taking advantage of the number of art-hungry visitors in town....

April 11, 2024

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