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...The ambitious art fair franchise Frieze will add two big-brand US events to its portfolio — New York’s The Armory Show, which it has already acquired, and Expo Chicago, whose sale is due to close next month...
...The shows spread across the US, and today a “season” of more than 60 shows runs from October to May, punctuated with important expos in Los Angeles, New York and Detroit....
...Like many of us, Spiegler admits he was proved wrong. He remembers visiting the first Art Basel Miami Beach in 2002 when working as an arts journalist based in Zurich....
...Over at the Palm Springs Convention Center, a mid-century art and design fair is in full swing....
...Manhattan’s Javits Center, which bills itself as the busiest convention centre in the US, was converted to a field hospital for Covid-19 patients last spring and has more recently been the city’s biggest...
...“Today, we are a country divided, and we have a president [Trump] doing everything in his power to make it that way and keep us that way,” Powell said during last year’s Democratic national convention....
...It is free and live to watch, with grandmaster and computer commentaries, on chess24.com and other major chess websites. 2420 Peter Svidler v Dmitry Andreikin, St Petersburg 2018....
...When she said “these events have touched us all, many of us personally, and are a painful legacy”, everyone knew she was remembering Prince Philip’s uncle Dickie Mountbatten, murdered by a Provisional IRA...
...The former first lady, who polls said was the most popular Democrat to address the convention, invoked America’s children, saying “kids in this country are seeing what happens when we stop requiring empathy...
...But many viewers at home quickly zeroed in on what was around her neck: a delicate chain with four letter charms: V-O-T-E....
...For all the legacies of Christopher Wren and William Mulholland, neither underwent a rationalisation as total as Haussmann’s of Paris, or Pope Sixtus V’s of Rome....
...Here’s Investec (sell) to summarise: [L]ockdowns are impacting consumption in North America (c. 30% of sales), Europe (c. 20% of sales), India (c. 10% of sales), Africa (12% of sales) and many countries...
...The convention centre that was set to host the UN climate talks in Glasgow in November has been converted into a hospital for coronavirus patients....
...That description still fits much of the US. But tight America has gained the upper hand. A generation ago, who could have imagined that Ireland would have socially leapfrogged America?...
...Meanwhile, there are plenty of other fairs in the US — including Expo Chicago, the Dallas Art Fair and, a more recent entrant, Fog Design+Art in San Francisco — each with their own, loyal, local crowd that...
...“The groundwork for this case was set in two previous cases — Daimler AG v Bauman and BNSF Railway Co. v Tyrrell — in which the Supreme Court put limitations on the jurisdictions of state courts,” says Mr...
...In 1971 — two years before the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision legalising abortion — the evangelical Southern Baptist Convention, the largest US Protestant denomination, endorsed abortion in cases of rape...
...Chicago, America’s second city, needs little introduction....
...March 30, 2016 — Punishing women Mr Trump suggests that women should be punished for having abortions if he is able to overturn Roe v Wade, the landmark ruling from the US Supreme Court that prevents governments...
...Ted Cruz, the man who roiled the Republican convention by telling people to “vote your conscience” rather than vote for Trump, has changed his mind....
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...These culture wars had got so out of hand that they often diverted the US from sensible policy....
...Fourth, can she come up with that V word – vision? Can she articulate a positive vision about what voting for her means, so her campaign is about more than not wanting a Trumpian America?...
...Follow us on Twitter @Dimi and @Courtney_FT. Demetri Sevastopulo, Washington Bureau Chief....
...The campaign is also likely to keep shares of America’s manufacturers in sharp focus....
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