What Martha Stewart tells us about modern American icons
I am, of course, talking of Martha Stewart. Martha, a new documentary about the wunder-hostess and homemaker, has debuted on Netflix at a moment in which we are debating what makes some people wildly ...
A small biotech fund gets a boost from Wall Street titans
The list of investors backing little-known life sciences fund Catalio Capital reads like a roll call of private equity and hedge fund titans. Among them: Thoma Bravo’s Orlando Bravo, Brevan Howard’s ...
Shareholder advisers fear clamp down in new Trump administration
Conservative groups and lawmakers eye restrictions on proxy firms as new era in Washington emboldens their critics ...
The potential in emerging commercial real estate sectors
To satisfy the growing demand from this capital, JLL point to several interesting growth areas in commercial real estate: emerging technologies, data centres and renewables, alongside the ever-more ...
The Met’s secret employee art show is no longer secret
The man is Daniel Kershaw, senior exhibition designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This show is unlike any other under his purview. It’s the employee show, Art Work: Artists Working at the Met, ...
Transcript: Swamp Notes — How can Democrats rebuild?
Sonja Hutson This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing where we talk about all of the things happening in US politics. I’m Sonja Hutson. And this week we’re asking: what’s the ...
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North Korea ‘supplying Russia’ with long-range rocket and artillery systems
Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Pyongyang has supplied Moscow’s army with long-range rocket and artillery systems, some of which have been moved ...
Triumph to tragedy — a cautionary tale of politics
There is no question that the pandemic was an unparalleled peacetime crisis and one that derailed Johnson’s government. But as Shipman notes, the seeds of his destruction were also ever present and in ...
Squid Game is back — and darker than ever
Hwang Dong-hyuk, creator of the most-watched show in Netflix history, on taking his ultra-violent critique of capitalism to the next level ...
A deep dive into the Yucatán
Beyond the Mexican peninsula’s famous coast lies a spectacular, less-visited land of Mayan ruins, secret pools and somnolent villages ...
‘It’s postcolonial but doesn’t know it’ — a ‘Ballet Shoes’ for our age
As Katy Rudd brings the children’s classic to London’s National Theatre, can it enjoy the success of adaptations like ‘Matilda’ and ‘War Horse’?
Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann at Fondation Louis Vuitton — the American nude via Matisse
Halfway through Fondation Louis Vuitton’s enjoyable and unexpected exhibition Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann & . . . a bright red phone rings. It is mounted bang centre in Wesselmann’s 1963 painting ...