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...Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World at the V&A Dundee is a terrific exploration of the exchanges between the ways cities have been photographed and of how those images have shaped the subsequent...
...The hyperlocal focus of the residency’s scope sets the Library apart from others available in the city....
...If I could buy one building in DC it would be the Library of Congress; I would close it to the public and install a pool table and whisky bar in place of the research desks....
...Last year’s edition included a Design Pavilion — an alfresco exhibition for the public....
...stages peppered across the city....
...York City public schools as well as digital audiences around the world”, explains Rowan Moody, head of individual giving at The Frick Collection....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...Two years of obsessive research generated a library of 18,000 documents, many of which Kubrick had pored over, and a picture cache of 15,000 items....
...I once picked up an account of the ancient city of Bukhara written by a 19th-century British explorer....
...Marienplatz in the city centre is 20 minutes’ drive; the Olympic Park is about 10 minutes. What A 3,455 sq ft house with five bedrooms, a library area, bar and wine cellar....
...You know, nationally, in the US, public transport or public transit ridership is still only at about 77 per cent of what it was pre-pandemic as of November....
...Its pair of sphinxes might be distant cousins of Patience and Fortitude, the lions that guard the New York Public Library, 40 blocks down along Fifth Avenue....
...In 2014, a collection of more than 165,000 Wedgwood works was bought and donated to the V&A after a public appeal by the Art Fund....
...Once in the Chinese capital, they spilled on to the city’s streets to take part in pro-democracy protests sparked by the death of a popular reformist leader....
...The author of the quip, Savoy archivist Susan Scott discovered, was Vyvyan Holland, son of Oscar Wilde....
..., had up-to-date dormitories, libraries that stayed open three hours longer and periodicals that Harris had never heard of, let alone read....
...Newport, who has the affably square looks and slicked side parting of a Mormon missionary, doesn’t do much public speaking....
...Email me at sid.v@ft.com. Reach Imani at imani.moise@ft.com. PS I’ll be interviewing Jonas Templestein, the co-founder of Monzo Bank, at the FT Future of Finance summit on June 16-17....
...Delhi and Kolkata were reader-friendly cities, with decent bookshops and historical archives, but public libraries were — and are — still scarce....
...With the exception of Houston Methodist and CNN, which fired three people who breached its policy by coming to work unvaccinated, corporate America has been more public about the carrots than the sticks....
...“It is something they would never have been able to do before,” said Lise Buyer, who founded Class V Group almost 15 years ago to advise companies looking to go public, after spending two decades as an investor...
...on Netflix in European streaming (FT) Meggitt/TransDigm: private equity, public concern (Lex) BlackRock buys clean energy builder National Renewable Solutions (Bloomberg) Millions of T-Mobile customers...
...Following the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol last summer, Cardiff City Hall said it would remove a statue of Thomas Picton, the governor of Trinidad who authorised the torture of a 13-year-old...
...The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Illinois is offering free tickets until the end of June to individuals with proof of vaccination, while people who get a jab at the NRG Park in Houston...
...This is the new building for the palace’s remarkable library. Possibly the first public library in England (it became public in 1610), this is one of London’s few remaining little-known pleasures....
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