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...Sawiris, whose wealth Forbes estimates at more than $8bn, has quietly amassed a broad portfolio of investments through NSS that includes Aston Villa as well as stakes in German sportswear group Adidas and Denmark-headquartered...
...Today, five people are celebrating birthdays, so each gets a spirited rendition — from everyone — of Denmark’s cheery birthday song....
...The conceptual artist Simon Starling is best known for his Turner Prize-winning Shedboatshed, 2005, for which he transformed a wooden shed into a boat and sailed it down the Rhine, before returning it back...
...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner, McMurran and Sam Giovinco. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...v=6fdKfaq1YN8 – Sujeet wants more independent news and tough questions....
...Sound design is by Breen Turner Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...And a reciprocal invocation of Article V — if, say, Europe was attacked by Russia — is at best untested and, at worst, a bluff....
...“A late imperial architecture . . . suddenly becomes [Ghanaian], through Nkrumah’s Africanisation policy,” says the V&A’s Christopher Turner, who has curated the exhibition alongside Biamah-Ofosu and Bushra...
...The V&A show includes eight spectacular works by American designer Bob Mackie, now 83, whose pieces have been worn by Cher, Tina Turner and, more recently, Pink....
...But, as curator Christopher Turner tells me, “Ninety per cent of people in the UK have never visited a mosque. So this is a taste.” This is not Saleem’s first collaboration with the V&A....
...A Museum’s Christopher Turner, writing in Apollo magazine in 2021....
...Designed for Swedish glassworks Orrefors in 1957, Äpplet has a place in design history – the V&A museum has one in its collection....
.... ★★★☆☆ To May 27, donmarwarehouse.com Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial Ambassadors Theatre, London It’s daggers drawn in Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial too and, again, animosity...
...In the longer term, the UK should embrace bolder ideas such as the radical consolidation of DC pensions in markets like Australia, Denmark, or Sweden....
...Above the Viking swords and skeletons, across from the enchanting display of vintage dollhouses, Denmark’s National Museum contains a human-scale hamster wheel....
...June 20 to September 8; further information and tickets here ‘Naomi’, V&A South Kensington An ode to the life and work of supermodel Naomi Campbell....
...The V and M Houses, so called because their footprints resemble the letters, have glass facades, allowing you to peer, voyeur-like, into the apartments, replete with their spiky balconies....
...v=oNHpyJPbXNI – A guide to passing the citizenship test, by the FT’s Federica Cocco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
...In a minute or so, the foremost birds had formed a wide, V-shaped echelon, pointing their way northward up the coast....
...A later artist, Ayana V Jackson, poses her “Anarcha” (2017) like an Orientalist odalisque, but the tender image of her turned back suggests not so much exotic allure as vulnerability....
...In the aftermath of the devastating Napoleonic wars, Denmark transitioned from absolute monarchy to constitutional democracy....
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