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...Frank Gehry’s giant spaces and exuberant architecture — the glassy curved building in the Bois de Boulogne suggests billowing sails — proved a perfect match for Joan Mitchell last autumn and Basquiat and...
...(Armstrong & Wu) One good read How much would you pay for Joan Didion’s sunglasses, which her estate is now auctioning off? The $400 to $800 suggested bid strikes us as low....
...Flames lick the H of the Hollywood sign. The message is not subtle: Here Be Monsters. You feel the heat of the infernal regardless. The scene plays out in vivid colour....
...Brad H Birmingham, AL, US Thank you for all the responses and do keep them coming. They may feature in a future edition of FirstFT....
...To understand why, it is worth pondering a new book by the business writer Kevin Duncan....
...We made a collection of work by people important to us a long time ago, in the ’70s – Patrick Proctor, Duncan Grant, Ger van Elk, Andy Warhol and André Cadere....
...According to A History of Jewellery by Joan Evans, the king was fond of the use of initials in jewellery and owned a carcanet, as chokers were known in the Renaissance, with the initials H and K, for himself...
...As for H R Knickerbocker (“Knick”), his bedazzlement by Mussolini (“Benevolent, agreeable, polite, intelligent”) didn’t stop him from finding a “talented, dangerous demagogue” in Hitler before the Nazi takeover...
...“Her work is about gender expansiveness and gender as a commodity,” says Fiona Duncan, a writer preparing an essay on Garner....
...Born in Santiago, Chile, but raised between rural Wiltshire in England and the countryside skirting Barcelona, Spain, he found a mentor in Xavi Miró, a descendant of Joan Miró....
...Actors Joan Iyiola and Ashley Zhangazha add to that sense of easy intimacy as they wander through the playing area prior to the action and play a game of rock-paper-scissors to decide who will take which...
...Former Conservative party leader Duncan Smith wrote on Twitter that it was his “duty” to highlight human rights abuses carried out by the Chinese government....
...On Friday, it put sanctions on four UK-based groups and nine British citizens, including Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative party leader....
...US prosecutors alleged in court filings that he “used his official position to assist the H-2 Cartel, a notorious Mexican drug cartel, in exchange for bribes”....
...Primark and H&M are saying ‘we’re not going to pay the rent’’ Is that fair?,” said Robbie Duncan, an analyst at Numis. “I don’t know how we get through this....
...When demand plunged for new clothes, for instance, many retailers (with notable exceptions, such as H&M and Inditex) acted swiftly to push as much pain as possible downwards....
...Duncan Hamilton ROFGO, dhrofgo.com. Gooding & Company, goodingco.com. H&H Classics, handh.co.uk. Historics, historics.co.uk. Jason Lepley Motorsport, jasonlepleymotorsport.co.uk....
...Duncan Tatton-Brown, finance chief, said on Thursday it had more orders on one day this week than it normally expects in seven. Basket sizes have ballooned. Sales have doubled in the quarter to March....
...Marsh, East Sussex, England Crossword 16,377: John Bevan, London; TF & JM Marshall, Scotland; Rae Seelig, London Polymath 1,057: Bridget Symeonides, Cyprus Crossword 16,371: Mr B Miller, Guernsey; Mr H...
...Letter in response to this article: Unlikely interwar visitors to the Hotel du Cap / From William H Janeway, Cambridge, Cambs, UK...
...“This is a big headache,” said Duncan Edwards, chief executive of BritishAmerican Business, a transatlantic trade association....
...It has been a while since the Beat poets and Joan Didion’s pomp....
...Bich, actually — he dropped the H. Bought the licence from a Mr Biro, or Bíró, to be exact, and the rest is history. Notebooks?...
...Letter in response to this article: Macmillan understood the world had changed / From A D H Leishman, Cape Town, South Africa...
...Today, says Duncan MacInnes of investment management firm Ruffer, this “once obscure financial metric” has morphed from a simple barometer of financial stress into a “widely used input for many investment...
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