Boris Johnson survives a confidence vote – but at what price? Plus: Putin’s threats over Western weapon deliveries to Ukraine, a flick through today’s papers and a special update from the 2022 edition of Salone del Mobile.
Tag Archives: June 2022
Front Page View: The New York Times – June 7, 2022
Potent Weapons Reach Ukraine Faster Than the Know-How to Use Them
Soldiers desperate for advanced arms to match their Russian enemies have resorted to Google Translate to decipher the instructions for their sophisticated new tools.
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – June 13, 2022
- Annals of NatureThe Strange and Secret Ways That Animals Perceive the WorldNonhuman creatures have senses that we’re just beginning to fathom. What would they tell us if we could only understand them?By Elizabeth Kolbert
- Onward and Upward with the ArtsA Hamlet for Our TimeIn a bold new production, the director Robert Icke finds resonances in Shakespeare’s canonical play which make it feel made for this moment.By Rebecca Mead
Views: New York Times Sunday – June 5, 2022
The Mass Shootings Where Stricter Gun Laws Might Have Made a Difference
Four measures could have affected shootings that killed 446 people since the Columbine massacre in 1999.
Saturday News: Top Stories From London
Emma Nelson and the weekend’s biggest discussion topics. Andrew Walker reviews the day’s papers and we get an update from Paris after Monocle’s annual Quality of Life Conference.
Front Page View: WSJ Weekend – June 4, 2022
Economy Extends Hiring Streak, With Hint of a Cooling
U.S. job growth cooled slightly in May, adding to signs the economy is starting to lose some steam after its rapid recovery last year. Employers added 390,000 jobs, a robust increase but down from April’s gains and below the monthly average pace last year.
Preview: London Review Of Books – June 9, 2022
London Review of Books, June 9, 2022 –
The new issue is now online, featuring Jonathan Meades’s #platinumjubilee tribute,
@mmschwartz on the Bataclan trial,
@MJCarter10 on Desert Island Discs, Colin Burrow on Stanley Cavell, Jo Applin on Judy Chicago and a cover by Naomi Frears: http://lrb.co.uk
Previews: Times Literary Supplement – June 3, 2022
In this week’s TLS
Things don’t usually fall apart completely in Britain and the centre holds. In the mid-seventeenth century, however, civil war raged across the islands. Military rule in England was followed by the conquest of Ireland and Scotland, paving the way for the Union. Michael Braddick, reviewing Ian Gentles’s The New Model Army, thinks there are lessons here for our “dysfunctional” democracy. This week the TLS features several meditations on times of civil war.
By Martin Ivens
Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’
This week, Picasso and the Old Masters: as shows pairing the Spaniard with Ingres and El Greco open in London and Basel respectively.
Ben Luke talks to Christopher Riopelle (curator of Picasso Ingres: Face to Face at the National Gallery) and Carmen Giménez (curator of Picasso-El Greco at the Kunstmuseum in Basel) about the profound influence of historic artists on Picasso’s rupturing of tradition. In this episode’s Work of the Week, The Art Newspaper’s contemporary art correspondent, Louisa Buck, talks to Chris Levine, the creator of Lightness of Being, one of the best known recent portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, as the British monarch celebrates 70 years on the throne. And as the Polish government replaces yet another museum director, what can be done about political interference in museum governance? Ben talks to Goranka Horjan, director of Intercom, the International Committee for Museum Management, and Bart De Baere, chair of the Museum Watch programme at the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (Cimam).
Picasso Ingres: Face to Face, National Gallery, London, until 9 October. Picasso-El Greco, Kunstmuseum, Basel, 11 June-25 September.
Cover Preview: Science Magazine – June 3, 2022
Science Magazine – June 3, 2022: A 10th-century Maya structure at Chichen Itza, Mexico, is often called the Observatory for its expansive view of the sky and a design seemingly guided by key positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets. The historic Maya anchored their calendars and rituals to celestial events, and their astronomical knowledge is now coming into sharper focus thanks to new analyses of archaeological relics and insights from today’s Maya.
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