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...You can get up close and personal with Trajan’s Column at the V&A, or at least with the remarkable plaster cast that’s been part of its collection since 1873....
...“In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, special operations are no longer driven by Communist ideology, but they still use the same tools and methods,” said one of the report’s authors, Oleksandr V Danylyuk....
...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....
...Matched against her compatriot, Dinara Wagner, in round one, she scored with an elegant checkmating attack in just 24 moves....
...In the same spirit, a European parliament proposal last month to designate the Russian private military company Wagner a terrorist organisation was followed by a widely circulated video of one of the group...
...Many of the Russians killed in the battle for Bakhmut are believed to have been criminals recruited from prisons by the Wagner private military company....
...Miles Johnson had a fascinating investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group and its sanctions-evasion network in Africa and beyond....
...As always, you can reach us at Imani.Moise@ft.com or Sid.V@ft.com. Thanks for reading....
...“Photographing Alek in Brooklyn was a joyful and powerful experience,” says the documentary-style photographer Andre D Wagner, who shot this cover story....
...Balfour Beatty (Upgrade to Buy; PT 260p)....
...He picks Persimmon, Vistry, Balfour Beatty and Breedon as shareholdings. Among the industrial groups “exposed to strong end markets” he names Melrose, DS Smith and Linde....
...But the title “Hojotoho”, which opera lovers will recognise as Brünnhilde’s battle cry in Wagner’s Die Walküre, points towards another mythology altogether....
...Erica Wagner is a writer and critic Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first. Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos...
...Balfour Beatty’s rallying hard on forecast beating full-year results, unchanged guidance and a buyback delay due to Covid-19. Cash is the big thing....
...Radicalism, both musical and otherwise, haunted Wagner’s Tannhäuser (“Personal struggle! Morality!”)...
...A bust of Charles V stands watch over several acts, not because the absent king has supernatural powers, but because families are doomed eternally to repeat their own fatal patterns....
...The show, sponsored by Société Générale, runs at the V&A from September 30 2017 to February 25 2018....
...gentrifying districts; hardest hit is local celebrity Hominy, a former child actor who can no longer be found by his fans and attempts suicide, enslaving himself to a reluctant Me (a surname, hence the case “Me v...
...“Older, white voters tend to be a key demographic for Donald Trump,” says Kevin Wagner, an associate professor of politics at Florida Atlantic University....
...He jokingly likened his appointment at the group to Henry’s V’s victory at the Battle of Agincourt, saying he had been “bloody brilliant” in past corporate crisis situations....
...The ENO is a showcase for local talent and theatrical innovation, with the current hit run of Richard Jones’s production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg just the latest example in a long string...
...She is also a director of The National Archives, and a former trustee of the V&A and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She is, like her father, a wonderful broadcaster....
...album Customs and Fashions of the Turks (created while on trade mission to Constantinople), a monumental tapestry recounting the Habsburg victory at Tunis (the most expensive work of art Emperor Charles V...
...We owe the idea of reverential darkness to Richard Wagner; today’s concert habits remain resolutely 19th-century. Or do they?...
...Laurence Olivier’s Richard III (1955), spurning or turning topsy-turvy the picture-book pageantry of his Henry V, is a designer maelstrom of evil....
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