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...Where it gets strange is that, sometimes, the two things appear to be much the same. The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...The Davis recording combined a strong collaborative aesthetic with technical flair, but here the musicians seemed to hold back....
...The composition, all disorientating angles, mix of blur and sharpness, is effervescent, strange — the swimming pool a site of Black joie de vivre as potently as Hockney made it symbolise gay freedom....
...In 1850, a strange essay called “A Christmas Pudding” appeared in Charles Dickens’s weekly journal, Household Words....
...“[Davis] got in touch [with me] and asked: ‘Why are you trying to manipulate AstraZeneca’s share price?’,” Horton recalls. Davis quickly accepted Horton’s assurance that he had no such intention....
...In reference to Martin Wolf’s column “The strange death of corporate Britain” (Opinion, October 16), we the undersigned (writing solely in our individual capacities from a wide array of industrial, asset...
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Like Xu, Ayana V Jackson is her own subject; she uses her body to question the history of photography....
...The last thing I bought and loved was some strange bow-legged blue metallic jeans from Ganni....
...The V&A’s installation on Tropical Modernism, initially a European colonial project but one adopted and adapted by African nations, notably in post-independence Ghana by the Nkrumah government (Ghana is...
...Strange things can happen in an airport. For the musician and designer Guy Berryman and the fine jeweller Hannah Martin, the queue for the arrivals hall at Heathrow proved serendipitous....
...“I go for anything strange or fun. The more bonkers the better.” His latest addition is a miniature heart in glass....
...But strange things happen in politics. I’m old enough to have seen a lot of them.”...
...Andrew Hoffman and Jerry Davis are professors at University of Michigan Ross School of Business...
...The V&A show aims to reclaim the word by focusing on the power of star performances, where image is often key....
...All Team Bonds can say now is that it made sense at the time — strange things happened in the zero interest rates era. Now, though, bonds are back with a vengeance....
...This is strange because paying no interest on CBDCs has large and lasting implications for citizens, even though they may not realise it....
...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....
...festival was staged in Athens to mark the 20th anniversary of the first successful year of the programme, which originally featured five pairs of mentors and protégés, including British conductor Sir Colin Davis...
...In the mid-1990s, when Sine was a banker at Morgan Stanley, he advised Son on his $2bn acquisition of the computer and technology magazine publisher Ziff Davis....
...It’s a novel-length tale that serves as both billet-doux and poison pen letter to a medium — comics — in which Alan Moore, as the writer of such seminal works of graphic fiction as Watchmen, V for Vendetta...
...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...song lyrics that Nobel laureate Ishiguro wrote for the singer Stacey Kent with illustrations by Bianca Bagnarelli in a coming together of the world of literature, music and art. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis...
...Really strange stuff. That was part of what was in the back of my mind....
...Arrival is merging with Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp V, paying a huge premium in order to add $300mn to its balance sheet. It is a desperate move that is unlikely to trigger a Spac revival....
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