Tag: clocks

  • Catherine Pégard French Culture Minister; Frieze LA Sales

    To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines MACRON PICKS PÉGARD. Catherine Pégard, former president of the Chateau de Versailles and a close ally of French president Emmanuel Macron, will become the new French culture minister, reports Le Monde. Unconfirmed guestimates that she would replace the outgoing Rachida Dati weremaking the read more

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  • How time became money: clocks, capitalism and wealth

    Ralph Kettell was the kind of eccentric only Oxford can produce. Born in Hertfordshire in 1563, he was 15 when he first came to the city and its ancient university, winning a scholarship to Trinity College. Like so many, he never really left. As the years passed and Kettell’s neat goatee grew grey, he became read more

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    How time became money: clocks, capitalism and wealth