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...Perhaps the greatest gift of the year-end lists is that, faced with just five weeks in which to read a score of wonderful authors, I am, for once, immune to the siren lure of social media....
...“A guest is a gift from God” might be a dusty old Georgian proverb but it remains a national mantra....
...In the past two decades, Jason Reynolds has published more than 20 volumes of poetry, novels (including a novel for Marvel) and short stories, in which he grapples with the experiences of Black and brown...
...South African-born artist Conor Mccreedy, famed for gestural paintings in his signature blue, has transformed Piega’s stately MLS 2 Gen2 speakers into an astonishing artwork featuring chaotic painting, poetry...
...It brims with good intentions, guilt divided evenly between Christmas gifts begging to be addressed and the books from 2023 you thought you had time to read but didn’t....
...An Atlas of Es Devlin by Es Devlin, edited by Andrea Lipps (Thames & Hudson) An exquisitely designed gift book that keeps giving....
...The shapes are large and sculptural, with a pared-back minimalism that exudes poetry and power, and comes alive when worn....
...“These objects are stupid, but when you pair them with another object – for example, you put a doll’s eye next to a plastic carrot – then all of a sudden a poetry emerges,” says Mas....
...She boasts of her gifts as a singer as well as a painter in “Self-portrait at the Crossroads between the Arts of Music and Painting”....
...Navas says it is the rarefied art of automata that captures imaginations: “It’s difficult to bring some poetry into the mathematical world of watchmaking.”...
...By the 1950s, she was at Sarah Lawrence college in upstate New York studying poetry and developing a taste for 12-tone music....
...Partially because people rarely buy poetry for themselves and it doesn’t really demand a lot of work from the recipient....
...You can’t help but marvel at Enheduana’s gift with words, her ability to invoke the force and majesty of this long-gone deity, but what makes her such a striking authorial figure is the fact that her humanity...
...$3,600, 1stdibs.com Isabel Marant resin and brass striped cuff, £160, farfetch.com Hendrick’s limited-edition Flora Adora gin, £30 for 750ml Gucci fine wool twill Ha Ha Ha jacket, £2,550 Pottery & Poetry...
...But the minute you said that you set me on a path to a kind of a . . . a new kind of public poetry. So I thank you very much for that great gift of the editor’s spirit....
...I can see a real poetry to it. It’s a small creature, inside this delicate glass protection. I think Christmas is a time where you do feel very protected,” she says....
...“With age comes the gift of wisdom,” says Abramović. “And that wisdom is so precious because you start seeing life in a true light. There is lots of joy in this.”...
...curators and cultural magpies, they are the co-founders of the Blue Mountain School, the name a nod to the experimental American art school Black Mountain College – a hub for mid-20th-century art, music and poetry...
...Vever gold and diamond single Ginkgo earring, €1,390 Greg Natale ceramic Grace vase, £525, amara.com Louis Vuitton tweed dress, £3,400 Zeus+Dione brass candlestick holders, €175 for set Pottery & Poetry...
...This was lovely to return to after so many years studying poetry and creative writing in college....
...It was carried into the house in 1892 as a surprise gift from friends on the couple’s 25th wedding anniversary. Grieg awoke to hear the piano being played by his neighbour....
...Courtly love poetry this is not, and it will leave you both challenged and refreshed....
...Liz Lambert, hotelier and designerThe Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich This was lovely to return to after so many years studying poetry and creative writing in college....
...The photographs display his eye for the poetry and texture of the mundane movements of the city: a couple kissing on a rain-dampened bench, glossy taxis waiting in the street, the flash of a red dress....
...“The poetry of Line Vautrin’s work makes it an incarnation of true, refined luxury as well as a testament of the time....
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