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...Britain’s export licence deferral system was set up in 1952 precisely to halt the exodus to the US of great art....
...Between 2019 and 2022, the number of patrons at the V&A grew by 11 per cent whereas at the Royal Academy, where private money is critical due to the lack of any government funding, there was a 45 per cent...
...Jessica Bell Brown, curator for contemporary art at the Baltimore Museum of ArtTrust by Hernan Diaz Trust just won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction....
...We need a dress to help us feel beautiful, sexy or even ladylike. And certain dresses emerge that really do this.” The best of these, she says, act “like a sort of shield”....
...The photograph went on to be bought by institutions around the world, including the V&A in London....
...Perhaps alarmingly, and very much out of line with that rapid recovery in US stock markets, faith in the longed-for V has been ebbing....
...Before last week, consensus forecasts showed that activity in the advanced economies would be affected meaningfully in the first half of 2020, but that most of the lost output would be regained in a V-shaped...
...To find the bunkers, the Cuban artist travelled through his native country, the US and Europe, including Albania....
...Gide Loyrette Nouel, the law firm, has hired Olivier Diaz from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Diaz spent eight years at Gide before joining Linklaters in 1998, Legal week reported....
...AMLO currently leads polls for the vote, with 48 per cent approval rating v 26 for Ricardo Anaya, the candidate currently in second place....
...When Veronica Velazquez Ruiz overheard a domestic disturbance in her Santa Fe neighbourhood, she did what any other US resident would do: she picked up the phone and called the police....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Sebald; Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather; A House for Mr Biswas by V.S....
...Mexico responded quickly by slapping import duties ranging from 10-45 per cent on 90 US exports. Mr Ruiz Mateos said the annual value of products affected was roughly $2.4bn (€1.8bn, £1.7bn)....
...The fledgling fund management sector has been hard hit by the collapse of equity markets and related disasters, including the fraudulent “Ponzi” scheme run by US broker Bernard Madoff....
...Mr Ruiz reacted with dismay. “How in the hell can anyone conclude that our company is worth 40 per cent less today than it was a few weeks ago?” he asked....
...If a six-foot Afro-American teenage bruiser from Long Beach California can identify with a Dutch girl hiding in an attic, there is hope for us all....
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