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...at the V&A....
...Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis by Scott Patterson, Scribner $30/ Scribe £16.99, 326 pages Katie Martin is the FT’s markets editor Join our online book group...
...Spurs vs Arsenal: out in the wash To Smith & Wollensky’s steakhouse just off the Strand, for the fifth annual Spurs v Arsenal City dinner....
...Angus Patterson, senior V&A curator of metalwork, said: “The Courts are the strongest embodiment of the museum’s founding mission as a place of art education for both practitioners and the public . . ....
...In mid-August a $150m class action suit against Morgan Stanley led by former participant Robert Patterson alleged the company mismanaged its employees’ 401(k) retirement funds....
...One of Mr Patterson’s first actions was to start arranging for the restoration of the necessary skills in house....
...The Pattersons were predicting the 2015 vintage will be even earlier than in the past two years....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...History, Culture and Identity, Amartya Sen (2005, Allen Lane) The Idea of India, Sunil Khilnani (1997, Hamish Hamilton) Mother India, Katherine Mayo (1927, Jonathan Cape) Planet India, Mira Kamdar (2007, Scribner...
...‘To Cork or Not To Cork’, Scribner $26 www.jancisrobinson.com More columns at www.ft.com/robinson...
...“In fact there’s an awful lot of concept-driven imagery in the V&A’s work....
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