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The floral and the classical Whether or not you’re a fan of Coronation Chicken, it’s hard not to admire the woman credited with inventing it. With ‘Constance Spry and the Fashion for Flowers’ (17 May–26 September), the Garden Museum celebrates a figure with as many unexpected facets as that curious dish has ingredients. I’m looking forward to seeing some of Spry’s exuberant and unusual floral arrangements recreated (kale and artichoke extravaganzas, Instagrammers? Spry got there ...

An Elizabethan adventure Even when museums open, the National Portrait Gallery, which I always like to do a quick sweep through if nearby, will be closed for renovations. If you’re on Pall Mall and missing Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits there’s always ‘Love’s Labour’s Found’ at Philip Mould (21 April–28 May), a chance to see 17 portraits that have been unearthed in recent years and are now mainly in private collections. I can’t wait to see ‘The Unintended Beauty of Disast...

Last modified on Tue 23 Feb 2021 15.06 EST Museum and gallery leaders in England have expressed anger, disappointment and bafflement at why commercial art galleries – which count as non-essential shops – can open five weeks before them. “It is just nuts,” said Rebecca Salter, the president of the Royal Academy of Arts which, like other public galleries, has been told it can reopen no sooner than 17 May. Shops, meanwhile, can open on 12 April. Salter said it meant people would not be abl...

The oldest tree in the East End is a black mulberry in Bethnal Green. Since 2017, it has also been the subject of furious dispute. The developers Crest Nicholson want to move it out of the way of a planned block of luxury flats, just 35 per cent of them ‘affordable’. After three years of campaigning, and an online petition garnering more than 16,000 signatures, local residents have secured it a temporary stay of execution (the campaigners argue that relocating the tree, as Crest Nicholson a...

The Business Ethics Team, a new UT student organization hoping to promote the importance of ethics in the business world, held its first meeting Wednesday afternoon.

Skip to main content Currently Reading Weve had enough - Moderate Republicans ditched Donald Trump for Joe Biden in the partys key Bexar County strongholds. But the defections didnt help down-ballot Democrats FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 President-elect Joe Biden flipped territory held by downballot Republicans in Bexar County where voters in 2016 embraced Trump and rejected Clinton in 2016 — albeit by single-digit margins.Joshua Roberts /Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Republican state Rep....

The Prospect editorial—a new year and renewed purpose Time to take stock in the battle between enlightenment and its opposite Basking in Trump, Brexit and various shades of nationalist nastiness in Europe, Vladimir Putin gave a provocative interview. “The liberal idea,” he told the Financial Times in 2019, had “outlived its purpose.” Hostility to multiculturalism had rendered it obsolete. You might be a red-blooded socialist or a communitarian conservative, but if you’re reading ...