Spare a thought for the plate-spinning IT departments If you've read anything lately about how we’re on the verge of a business technology revolution, don’t believe it. The business technology revolution isn’t hypothetical, or an eventuality. It’s already happening. Right now. Solutions and approaches that can enable your organisation to maximise its potential and gain competitive advantage are everywhere and are rapidly becoming [...]
Dedicated Federer of fashion February 27, 2013 THERE IS a problem. It is 8am in Dubai and a freak storm has descended over the improbable desert city. Where there should – statistically, at least – be clear, azure skies, there is a mulch of saggy grey cloud. This is a problem because I was supposed to be boarding a helicopter to Roger [...]
Taking the Michael February 27, 2013 AS ALAN Shearer and John Barnes have proved, a good player does not a good pundit make, but former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan was instantly at ease on screen. Always immaculately turned out, I wonder how he chooses what he wears. “I just wear all my own stuff,” he says, referring to his tailoring [...]
Louis CK is number 1 February 27, 2013 IF YOU had to pinpoint the moment Louis CK became the most important American comedian of his generation, you could do worse than choose 10 December 2011. This was the date he released the self-funded Live at the Beacon Theater – his fourth hour long special in five years – on his website, free of [...]
Fair enough: Art 13 is coming to London and it’s bringing the rest of the world February 27, 2013 THE ART world is expanding and the capital’s newest fair is making sure London isn’t left behind. With galleries from Brazil (pictured) to Johannesburg to Tel Aviv all exhibiting, Art 13 a global art fair for a global city. Prices range from £100 to £500,000, so there is something for personal and commercial collectors alike. [...]
Boxing with Bellows February 27, 2013 LIFE WAS hard in the early twentieth century. War and industrialisation brought about a revolution in art. Cubism, futurism and constructivism ushered in a blockish future of hard edges and fragmented forms. American realist painter, George Bellows (1882–1925) had a different reaction to the onset of modernity. While European masters turned to abstraction, Bellows fixed [...]
A bloody good Valentine gift February 27, 2013 WHEN MY Bloody Valentine announced UK tour dates late last year, few fans regarded it as anything more than the victory lap of the band’s triumphant live reunion in 2008. Fewer would have imagined that they might play not only tracks from the fervently beloved Isn’t Anything and Loveless but unveil new material for the [...]
