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...His head lolls on a murky wash of grey, encircled with a fiery-orange floral motif – done with a “particularly nasty stencil”, says the artist....
...— “a contemporary art museum has a different mechanism” — but recent additions to the collection are certainly imaginative: the gun involved in a highly publicised political murder, for example, and a stencil...
...All these bankers will be happy for the work amid a market dry spell that cut IPO deal proceeds to a record low last year....
...He insists it’s still a good idea – he has actually donated the best of his collection to the V&A and the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. But “I do swing dramatically”, he admits cheerfully....
...But by the time it was completed in 1819, the then monarch, Ferdinand VII, decided that the royal art collection (shaped by his predecessors Charles V and Philip II) should be exhibited instead....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...None was more adept than Jacques-Louis David, sobered from his radical Jacobin passion by a spell in prison following the fall of Robespierre....
...Use against a Nato member state would trigger Article V, a “catastrophic” response — in the words of US national security adviser Jake Sullivan — and very probably war....
...To one side, beneath the trees, women laid out their roots and spices, spells and potions....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Li feared the worst, but the ticket collector merely waved him through, signalling his support for the protesters by making a V sign with his hand and smiling....
...Does the drama become any deeper because an Oscar-winning actor gets to play “human” for a spell? Not remotely. But they can still be entertaining....
...It still works its spell and I happily lose track of her loopy narrative....
...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....
...By the late 1460s, after a spell in Dalmatia, he’d settled in the central region of the Marche, which would remain his home until his death in around 1494....
...It’s based on a tool used by none other than Winston Churchill to refinance the first world war debt during his spell as chancellor in 1927: to issue Consols....
...She describes herself as an “ordinary” member of the Labour party who, after a prominent spell in student politics, is no longer particularly active....
...It kept emperors (Charles V, then Philip II) at suspicious arm’s length but wilted when their stewardship stiffened into close-up domination....
...The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, which tracks data on the health of democracies, recently reclassified the country as an “electoral autocracy”....
...In one scene, ES looks out of his bedroom window to see three policemen cutting balletic shapes on their Segways; another scene, set to the strains of Nina Simone’s version of “I Put a Spell on You”, has...
...I’ll spell it: C O V I D hyphen 19.” Covid stands for COronaVIrus Disease and 19 for the year in which it was first detected....
...For those hoping for a uniform V-shaped recovery, look away now: Yes, looks like all of that pent-up demand we’ve heard so much about might take a while to filter through to the tills of the retailers,...
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...Should we expect the V&A’s exhibition to explore this difficult territory?...
...Similarly, nearly a fifth are expecting a V-shaped economic recovery: still a minority, but up from just 10 per cent a month ago....
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