US v. Charles Hardee

The limits of wealth — calling time on the super-rich

...Even the term itself is has a long lineage: he finds the superabundantes coming in for criticism by Nicolas Oresme, a 14th-century counsellor to Charles V of France, who thought they “exceed and overcome...

February 8, 2024

ReviewPhotography

Photo City exhibition review — photography and the metropolis in conversation at V&A Dundee

...Charles Marville’s photos of Paris show the historic city and the new landmarks of Haussmann’s metropolis, including the everyday landscape of street furniture and lampposts....

April 11, 2024

FT Live

US Decarbonization and Industrial Transition Summit

Securing the resources to build and finance America's clean energy future

Tefaf Maastricht 2024

Battle to keep sculpture in Britain highlights European museums’ struggles

...Britain’s export licence deferral system was set up in 1952 precisely to halt the exodus to the US of great art....

March 2, 2024

Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast18 min listen

Samara Joy, 24-year-old jazz sensation

...v=_OkkyRkGSRY – Samara is on TikTok @samarajoysings and Instagram @samarajoysings....

February 26, 2024

ReviewNon-Fiction

Fragile alliance — is Nato still up for the fight?

...And a reciprocal invocation of Article V — if, say, Europe was attacked by Russia — is at best untested and, at worst, a bluff....

April 3, 2024

Christmas Food & Drink

How Christmas pudding became an unlikely icon of free trade

...In 1850, a strange essay called “A Christmas Pudding” appeared in Charles Dickens’s weekly journal, Household Words....

November 16, 2023

FT Live

US Pharma and Biotech Summit

Strategies for innovation, pricing and access

Supreme Court US

How the US Supreme Court could thwart a prospective wealth tax

...Petitioners Charles and Kathleen Moore, who were forced to pay almost $15,000 under the mandatory repatriation tax, sued the US government for a refund, arguing that the policy amounted to an unconstitutional...

December 3, 2023

HTSI

The bonkers beauty of the bauble

...According to Phillip V Snyder’s 1977 bauble bible, The Christmas Tree Book, the first glass ornaments from Germany arrived in the US in the 1860s....

December 6, 2023

Fashion

Why designers love Oscar Wilde

...In particular, examine the promotional images taken on his first lecture tour of the US in 1882, where he is dressed in his hallmark outfit of knickerbockers, knotted cravats and swaggering draped capes,...

December 4, 2023

House & Home

Coronation ceramics: are they iconic — or ironic?

...But is Charles III commemorative china in demand? Who buys royal ceramics? And what does the state of demand for new and vintage china tell us about attitudes to monarchy?...

April 28, 2023

Global Economy

Biden pushes for bigger World Bank to combat China’s rising influence

...Its council president Charles Michel is preparing to use the UN general assembly later this month to push for widespread support on an adjustment to the way multilateral development banks are run....

September 8, 2023

King Charles III

King Charles pays tribute to those who help others in times of hardship

...“all of us” who had lost loved ones....

December 25, 2022

FT Magazine

Alone in the Prado: behind the scenes in one of the world’s greatest museums

...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....

February 1, 2024

Watches & Jewellery

Luxury brands to capitalise on coronation jubilation

...Deakin says his company had customers from Europe and the US “queueing up” for coronation cufflinks before their launch....

March 25, 2023

HTSI

How a US industrialist created the UK’s most vibrant new photography hub

...“It’s going to make us an institution that’s as well regarded as the V&A or the National Portrait Gallery for photography,” says Phillip Roberts, the man who has been hired as the Bern and Ronny Schwartz...

January 18, 2023

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

ObituaryMary Quant

Mary Quant, fashion designer, 1930-2023

...The business expanded through a 1962 design contract with US department store chain JC Penney and, in 1963, the lower-priced diffusion line Ginger Group....

April 15, 2023

The Aesthete

What to read this summer? Ask an Aesthete

...And not only do they help give trees and plants water and nutrients, they’re also incredible for storing carbon, so could help us save the planet one day....

July 19, 2023

Gardens

All the King’s gardens

...He loves it,” says Strong, the former head of the V&A and author of some waspish diaries in which few of the rich, famous and powerful are spared....

September 16, 2022

News in-depthBrexit

Inside the secret talks that broke Brexit deadlock on N Ireland

...The EU chief, controversially, had tea with King Charles after sealing the deal....

February 28, 2023

Queen Elizabeth II

World leaders and foreign royals gather in London for Queen’s funeral

...Those set to be in attendance include US president Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, France’s president Emmanuel Macron and India’s president Droupadi Murmu....

September 18, 2022

ReviewVisual Arts

Spain and the Hispanic World at the Royal Academy — glories of gilded ages shine again

...Giovanni Vespucci’s “World Map”, the master nautical chart from 1526 given to all Spanish navigators, with details of ships, conquests and resources, is displayed in Charles V’s ornamental version....

January 21, 2023

FT Magazine

No other investor has a life story quite as unbelievable as Li Lu

...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....

September 7, 2023

News in-depthQueen Elizabeth II13 min

Queen Elizabeth II: a long life of duty and service

...Known as Bertie in the family, he was the second son of King George V and expected his elder brother, known as David to the family, to become king....

September 8, 2022

ObituaryQueen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II: April 21 1926-September 8 2022

...Charles and Diana separated....

September 8, 2022

InterviewLunch with the FT

Michael Heseltine: ‘The adults are back in charge’

...Trees outlive us frail mortals.”...

March 17, 2023

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