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Insurers to cancel policies and raise prices for ships in Gulf and Strait of Hormuz
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (62+ words) Insurers to cancel policies and raise prices for ships in Gulf and Strait of Hormuz'Financial Times To read this article for free Then $75 per month. Complete digital access to quality FT journalism on any device. Cancel or change your plan…...
Tiler Peck: a once-in-a-generation dancer with a second act
13+ hour, 20+ min ago (904+ words) Tiler Peck's feet hurt. They have every right. The New York City Ballet principal dancer has spent the past few hours on pointe rehearsing a new piece by resident choreographer Justin Peck (no relation), set to premiere the night after…...
Is perfect pitch an autism superpower?
13+ hour, 20+ min ago (662+ words) I was aged about nine when my parents proposed me for a Saturday morning school for young musicians. The head of the school was one of my aunts and she explained to me that I would need to sit an…...
The magnificent, unruly inner life of Rose Wylie at the Royal Academy
18+ hour, 19+ min ago (752+ words) The magnificent, unruly inner life of Rose Wylie at the Royal Academy'Financial Times Confronted with the edge of a canvas, most artists would curtail their composition to fit. Not Rose Wylie. At the Royal Academy, where a major exhibition of…...
Are my shoes giving off the right signals?
18+ hour, 19+ min ago (631+ words) Unlike almost every other item of clothing, shoes are wonderfully resistant to personal decline. You can gain three stone, lose all muscle tone, take fat jabs, stop taking fat jabs, and develop baffling middle-aged spread that arrives overnight like a…...
Inside the rigorous world of Japan’s Kodo drummers
18+ hour, 19+ min ago (1107+ words) Inside the rigorous world of Japan's Kodo drummers'Financial Times Joining the Kodo taiko troupe is arduous. You have grown up around drums and taken up sticks as a toddler. You apply to enrol as an apprentice. If you are one…...
Musafir, Kyiv: It takes guts and good generators to run a buzzy restaurant in wartime Ukraine — review
18+ hour, 19+ min ago (162+ words) It's freezing in Kyiv, 0C to be exact, but for the first time in ages I'm actually warm. That's all I can think about at first as I sink on to a bench topped with soft, brightly upholstered cushions at Musafir:…...
The winter-defying joy of perfectly layered potatoes
18+ hour, 20+ min ago (901+ words) Here's a basic recipe for a reliable gratin dauphinois, as simple and as non-dictatorial as I can make it. What we shall refer to as the Davidian Commandments are added in brackets for anyone looking for an authority greater than…...
Letter: German Romanticism — inventing the artist as hero
23+ hour, 8+ min ago (219+ words) In his review of Michael Pollan's latest book A World Appears (Life & Arts, February 14) John Banville writes: "Most startling, perhaps, and most welcome, is [Pollan's] suggestion that not only philosophers but artists " poets, painters, even novelists " may have insights into…...
Eight ways to weave some magic into your home
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (171+ words) When the German artist Anni Albers was at the Bauhaus art school in the 1920s, there were classes she was discouraged from attending. Furniture design, 3D work and architecture, argued the men in charge, were better suited to the male mind. And…...