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Venice Biennale 2024
Venice Biennale curator Adriano Pedrosa: ‘Always have your concept ready because you don’t have much time’
...“Venice shares the speculative approach that we have within the Historias programme....
April 13, 2024
Europe Express
Western neglect and homegrown troubles afflict the Balkans Premium content
...Sea city Modern Spanish democracy is a delicate, contested balance between the central government in Madrid and the country’s regions, writes Benoît Pellistrandi, a historian at the Real Academia de la Historia...
August 20, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Poetry
The Poem: ‘Maize’ by Olive Senior
....’ — Popul Vuh, Las antiguas historias del QuichéMothers will understand this: The first ones I sent into theworld did alright, turned out to be human. But this lot!Okay, perhaps I spoil them....
February 8, 2022
Visual Arts
Paula Rego’s dazzling and radical visions
...Compassion is abundant in every room of the Casa das Histórias show. Rego’s empathy humanises Mary, breaking with the usual serene and ethereal characterisations. This is a Virgin we can relate to....
May 11, 2021
FT SeriesHoliday gift guide 2020
Johanna Ortiz’s artisanal gift guide
...My Historia Natural Iraca and Shell Hoop earrings are very big, but they are incredibly light, woven from palm trees native to Colombia and so do not hurt your ears....
December 3, 2020
The Aesthete
China’s renowned couturier Guo Pei has a cosmetics fridge, a collection of kaleidoscopes and a studio full of dolls
...home was the Quanjude restaurant, which has branches in Beijing and Bordeaux and serves an amazing Peking duck. quanjude-bordeaux.com The last music I bought was “Noche de Ronda” from [the compilation] Historia...
October 30, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
HTSI
The new stone age
...For a great many people, a single gemstone alone is enough to provide the highest and most perfect aesthetic experience of the wonders of nature,” wrote the ancient scholar Pliny the Elder in Naturalis Historia...
April 29, 2020
Visual Arts
‘Beauty of Palmyra’ emerges from the past
...The third-century Queen Zenobia (AD240-274) defied Rome and was described in the Historia Augusta as a woman of immense beauty with teeth “as white as pearls”, but the only surviving likenesses of the queen...
September 18, 2019
Europe holidays
Crisp air and warm waters: winter in the spa town of Wiesbaden
...Pliny the Elder, in his Naturalis historia, wrote of the medicinal properties of the baths of the Mattiaci — the warm springs of Wiesbaden....
February 15, 2019
FT Best ofThrillers to read this summer
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo — bloody and bold
...all others are measured: I can’t imagine anyone would prefer reading about murderous King Macbeth in Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland or George Buchanan’s Rerum Scoticarum historia...
March 30, 2018
Manuel Noriega, former military leader of Panama, dies
...Noriega cierra un capítulo de nuestra historia; sus hijas y sus familiares merecen un sepelio en paz.— Juan Carlos Varela (@JC_Varela) May 30, 2017 Noriega was the military dictator of Panama from 1983...
May 30, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Montpellier Danse 2017 — flamenco, nighties and nudity
...Over the first weekend, the alfresco stage of the Agora welcomed Antonio Canales’s Historias Flamencas de Sevilla....
June 27, 2017
Life & Arts
Behind the headlines: why newsstands embody the urban city
...Photographs: James Chapelle and Stanley Kubrick for Look magazine / Museum of the City of New York / SK Film Archives; Cristobal Palma; Historia/REX/Shutterstock; Bettmann / Getty Images; Hulton Archive/...
September 29, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
Stevie Wonder, British Summer Time, Hyde Park, London — ‘Peerless’
...Moving from the Hispanic lilt of “Ngiculela — Es Una Historia” to a fierce cover of The Box Tops’ “The Letter”, Wonder reeled off bluesy riffs and solos on the harpejji, an obscure electric stringed instrument...
July 11, 2016
Life & Arts
Ideas worth floating: architects adapt to rising sea levels
...In Historia Anglorum (c1129) Henry of Huntingdon records that, having requested his throne be carried down to the shore, Canute ordered the waves “not to flow over my land, nor presume to wet the feet and...
March 4, 2016
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Life & Arts
Simon Schama on Broadway show ‘Hamilton’
...That’s what Herodotus meant in his famous opening paragraph, by introducing himself (a very Lin-Manuel touch) as the man who, through his historia, his inquiry, will preserve the great deeds of Greeks and...
June 3, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
‘The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science’, by Armand Marie Leroi
...Leroi reports that there are around 9,000 distinct empirical claims in the Historia animalium, and descriptions of some 500 species....
August 29, 2014
World
Joko Widodo seeks to pin old Jakarta on to the tourist map
...A Malaysian chain restaurant and a hip bar and restaurant called Historia have sprung up next door as the revamp gathers pace....
September 25, 2014
ReviewLife & Arts
Depedro: La Increible Historia De Un Hombre Bueno
...Depedro La Increible Historia De Un Hombre Bueno (Warner)...
July 26, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
Paula Rego: The Dame with the Goat’s Foot and Other Stories, Marlborough Fine Art, London
...Inspired by a 19th-century story by Portuguese writer Alexandre Herculano, they were originally shown alongside works by Adriana Molder at Casa das Historias Paula Rego, the museum devoted to Rego’s oeuvre...
February 22, 2013
Life & Arts
The odd master
...At his side is Pliny the Elder’s “Historia Naturali”; its preface, containing the famous phrase “homines enim sumus”, “for we are only human”, was relevant for Zoffany, who was trailed by scandal as a womaniser...
March 9, 2012
Philip Stephens
A plan that will damage Cameron’s health
...The brightest could progress to the Venerable Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. The rest would master at least their kings and queens....
April 4, 2011
Lunch with the FTLife & Arts
Lunch with the FT: Paula Rego
...A new museum dedicated to her work, the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, is shortly to open in Cascais, up the coast from Lisbon, near where she lived as a child....
September 4, 2009
Brussels blogTony Barber
Time to stop calling us, or them, Anglo-Saxons
...Check out the ‘Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum’, the 8th century AD masterpiece by the Venerable Bede....
November 16, 2008
Nigel Andrews
A-Z of movie vanishings
...Historia Oficial, La (1985). Argentinian cinema’s moving response to the era of the desaparecidos. A history professor (Norma Aleandro) learns that history isn’t just something you study....
November 22, 2008

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