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...Antwerp contemporary art specialist Tim Van Laere opens his first international space in Rome this week....
...feet, and a trident in his right hand that was the model for the Maserati logo....
...Belgium’s port city of Antwerp is the largest cocaine trafficking hub in Europe, with a record of almost 110 tonnes seized last year, up from about 90 tonnes in 2021 and 66 tonnes in 2020, according to customs...
...One good read In his first official FT column, Stephen Bush asks how the UK can create an immigration policy that isn’t actively terrible....
...“I hope it’s not racism,” van der Straeten said....
...“We are determined to limit [Vladimir] Putin’s capacity to finance his atrocious war,” Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, wrote on Twitter at the weekend....
...Ninja Van....
...The retailer’s founder, Mahmud Kamani, has a famed back-story: the former market trader, who often slept in the back of his van, managed to build Britain’s fastest-growing fashion group and become a billionaire...
...Now in his seventies, with short dark hair and rimless glasses, he is eating pasta on a restaurant terrace in Antwerp, Belgium, where we have arranged to meet....
...Elizabeth L Cline, an author on labour rights and environmental practices in the fashion industry, argues that outsourcing has enabled retailers to distance themselves from risks in the supply chain....
...We congratulate him on his new role as Finance Adviser for COP26 and welcome his successor Andrew Bailey, who takes up his post on Monday....
...“We are the anti-populists,” said Robert Habeck, the party’s co-leader, who published a book in 2008 about what he calls positive patriotism....
...When Bartholomeus van der Helst arrived in Amsterdam in 1636, Rembrandt van Rijn was at the height of his popularity....
...The garden is no longer owned by the De Belder family, having been acquired by the Province of Antwerp in the late-1980s after Robert’s business failed in the wake of the decade’s oil crisis....
...As Robert Reed examines a mountain of trash piled three storeys high, a thin white plastic bag catches his eye. He fishes it out and holds it up. “That is a problem plastic,” he says gravely....
...As temperatures fell below zero, the director in charge of the paintings spent his days begging Soviet officials for firewood rations to prevent any more damage to the paintings from the cold....
...Erik Van Hove, professor at the University of Antwerp, summed up the conference saying that humanity needed to focus instead on creating an enduring culture around the nuclear waste depositories site to...
...One is that “capacity is not well defined”, as Hendel and Spiegel write....
...… Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought and Work, by Susan L Mizruchi, WW Norton, RRP£18.99/$27.95 Biographers have often highlighted Marlon Brando’s eccentricities....
...capacity remains....
...his target....
...Robert Wood, Berenberg Bank Not immediately....
...His subtle analysis is captured in a subtitle that makes clear that Brazil is both an emerging world power and a nation with deep-seated problems rooted in its colonial past, slavery and official paternalism...
...But Mr Rose insists that the future for his company’s business handling containers remains robust....
...He was not invited – “fortunately my paintings didn’t please” – on the fateful trip to tour Nazi Germany which departed from the Gare de l’Est with Dunoyer de Segonzac, Othon Friesz, Vlaminck, Van Dongen...
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