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...“I get the tradition of Alfred Escher,” said one person involved in UBS’s deliberations....
...Alfred Stieglitz’s train hurtles towards us in “The Hand of Man” (1902). Jacques Henri Lartigue celebrates his brother’s flight in a homemade glider “Zissou Taking Off in the Yard at Rouzat” (1910)....
...As reported here last week, Praggnanandhaa has already knocked out the US world No 3 Hikaru Nakamura, and the Indian star followed up last weekend by eliminating the world No 2 and reigning US champion Fabiano...
...One or the other of us has to go.” 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....
...This was just as the non-US balance sheet was 48 times levered with a 3m funding leg.. Mack was a bad manager running a firm with a culture that celebrated promoting people like Colm Kelleher....
...Alfred, Lord Tennyson takes up the theme in part of his 19th-century poem “The Princess: Come down, o Maid”: . . ....
...Leonie Elliott’s excellent Hortense shows us the vulnerability and independent spirit beneath the brittle exterior; Mirren Mack’s neat and nimble Queenie matches her, combining a warm heart with an appealing...
...I think new work offers us the best opportunity to process what we’ve been through and explore what we might be.”...
...Why didn’t Mack the Knife fire Staley? It was, McFarlane still maintains, a “perfectly innocent mistake”....
.../ From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...To paraphrase Alfred E Newman, Why worry (about Boris)? Do readers agree? Or is his ascent the beginning of the end for the UK stock market? Please tell us what you think in the comments section below....
...I was judging an illustration thing at the V&A and I thought, ‘I’ll get there early because they’ve got one box of jewellery that’s been found.’”...
...Only posterity can give us an answer....
...Trained in photography at the South Kensington Museum, forerunner of the V&A, in the 1860s, the Royal Engineers were sent to document the border between Canada and the US....
...Curator Wanda Corn persuades us that O’Keeffe’s fashion sense inspired her art....
...When Paul Strand was starting out as a photographer in New York, he would approach Alfred Stieglitz every couple of years for an appraisal....
...The latter would have served as a joke at the Alfred E Smith “roast” dinner, where presidential candidates are supposed to make self-deprecating remarks....
...Although effective in the rain, the “mack” smelled overly pungent and melted in the sun....
...By contrast, the V&A explores her acceptance of technical flaws to add energy and character....
...She is the author of ‘Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs to electrify you with delight and startle the world’, published by MACK and V&A Publishing, £25; vam.ac.uk Photographs: National Portrait Gallery...
...It was an effort by its founder, Alfred Barr, to elevate design to the level of art, which the museum still aspires to but which has never quite gelled in the public consciousness....
...He introduces himself as Matt, and is a bundle of energy in a dark jacket, white shirt and a dark V-neck sweater, white flecks of stubble on his face....
...They beckon us towards an unknown, thrilling, perilous future. They say, “Come on, dare! Touch, explore, climb.”...
...Moroccan king in US King Mohammed VI of Morocco meets US President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington, to strengthen their strategic partnership and to seek support for Morocco’s reform agenda...
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