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...(I’m halfway through Norman Fowler’s diaries, which were just published on Tuesday and demonstrate all this very neatly.)...
...He mounted both Robert Rauschenberg’s and Jasper Johns’s first museum exhibitions....
...Moro Easy by Sam and Sam Clark is published by Ebury Press on 8 September at £30...
...Watch clips of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer back in the day hammering it out, almost literally, on The Dick Cavett Show, to observe how some intellectuals, at least, would rather be pummelling each other...
...MoMA restages one of these matchups — Jasper Johns vs David Hammons — which hums with subtle and splendid affinities. Bryant set herself a task that mixed politics with pragmatism....
...— Jasper Johns....
...That is a very loud silence,” said Norman Eisen, an ethics adviser to the Obama administration now at the Brookings Institution....
...With his black hair short and gelled, he resembled a plump Clark Kent. Though his expression was poised, his voice was high-pitched and his language at times hyperbolic....
...You liked Alan Clark? This was his template....
...Indeed, a truncated version introduces Jasper Rees’s authorised biography (Trapeze, £21.99), and it’s both fascinating and instructive to hear Wood negotiating with a live audience to hold on to their applause...
...Clark put in call to Downing Street. “Don’t worry — we’ve got this,” he was told....
...“I think Archie [Norman, M&S chairman] has found it a lot harder than he thought to get out of those high street stores,” the person said. So far, it has only closed 56 of them....
...Hailey Clark makes the title role thrillingly her own, and Rupert Charlesworth performs his own stunts — most impressively — as Oronte....
...On Wednesday, Greg Clark, the UK business secretary, met with Carlos Tavares, PSA’s chief executive, in Paris to raise concerns about the job losses and stress the importance of having British factories....
...The very physicality of great cities has been shaped from without: Norman Foster was born in Stockport, Philip Johnson in Ohio, Mies van der Rohe in Aachen....
...Among the politicians receiving honours are Norman Lamb, a Liberal Democrat MP and former minister for community and social care, and Labour MP George Howarth, who are both made knights....
...“Moving to New York was a blessing; all the crazy people in the Chelsea Hotel became friends,” he says, mentioning Norman Mailer and John Ashbery....
...The council, set up by business secretary Greg Clark, was to meet for the first time on Thursday afternoon....
...Nauman’s hanging heads harmonise with Jasper Johns’ gouache of a lynched lightbulb....
...pilita.clark@ft.com Twitter: @pilitaclark...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Living with Complexity by Donald A Norman. Reading it was a journey of discovery; it made me realise that complexity isn’t bad....
...Mr Clark said the customs partnership would allow the UK to maintain frictionless borders while also doing trade deals across the world....
...Letter in response to this article: UK needs managerial talent to lift productivity / From From Michael J Brennan, Group Chief Executive Officer, Norman Broadbent Group, London, UK...
...On Wednesday Greg Clark, the UK business secretary, met with Carlos Tavares, PSA’s chief executive, in Paris to stress the importance of having British factories. Photo: Reuters...
...Fowler, House of Lords It is time our scrutineers were chosen by the public / From Darren Hughes, London, UK Two ways to preserve the Lords’ reviewing power / From Clark McGinn, Middlesex, UK...
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