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...My experience is that it dies back in patches, possibly because of our heavy Thames clay, which is susceptible to waterlogging. On the other hand, it grows fast and it is cheap....
...Since the Epic of Gilgamesh was first written down on clay tablets in Mesopotamia 4,000 years ago, it has been a mobile and ever-evolving technology....
...In her excellent catalogue essay for Strange Clay, the writer and critic Amy Sherlock quotes a remark Woodman made in 2016, ahead of her landmark ICA show, Theatre of the Domestic, to that show’s curator...
...For many decades after the discovery of her portrait and the clay tablets believed to carry her poems, Enheduana (also spelt Enheduanna) was a name familiar chiefly to scholars of ancient Mesopotamia....
...In the fourth round he faced Rafael Nadal, 14-time winner of the tournament, on the red clay of Paris — arguably the toughest challenge in all of tennis....
...A Guest at the Feast: Essays by Colm Tóibín is published by Viking on 3 November...
...“Only by combining the disciplines of archaeology, art history, ethnography, and linguistics, can [meanings] be discerned,” a catalogue essay declares....
...Over e-fu noodles dotted with black truffles and a clay pot stuffed with salted fish, tofu and chicken, we compared the progress of our PhDs....
...(At least Schubert acknowledges the gender imbalance in his catalogue essay, which makes a welcome change from the tradition of ignoring such problems.) Life in postwar Europe was bittersweet....
...Whereas previously the making of ceramics — from mixing of the clay to throwing the pots to dipping in slip to firing in a kiln — had taken place at different sites, Wedgwood consolidated them into a single...
...Bellmaking is an ancient craft, involving clay and olivine and molten bronze heated to 2,200F. Here they work with marine bronze, they tell us, the kind used in cleats and oarlocks....
...For a chirpy, free-market perspective on the whole affair, look no further than the star of a 1958 essay “I, Pencil . . . as Told to Leonard E. Read”....
...In ICU, consultant Dr Ruth Clay, an acute paediatrician, is stepping in as a healthcare support worker on a Saturday evening....
...Your Books Essay (Life & Arts, FT Weekend, October 31) and the article ‘Belgium’s reckoning with the past’ (Magazine, FT Weekend, November 14) make one pause and wonder: no one can argue against the flourishing...
...“At first sight, just the physical presence alone delivers a powerful shock,” added the catalogue essay on the half-metre-wide, human-faced crustacean – all bulging eyes and toothy grin – that went on to...
...Penelope Curtis asks in an excellent catalogue essay. “Are we looking at something that can be described in its own terms?...
...“We have to rebuild our world,” wrote Anni Albers in her Black Mountain essay, still processing the horrors of Nazi Germany....
...Read’s pencil is a proselytising free-market fan and explains that it has an impressive pedigree: its graphite is from Ceylon, mixed with Mississippi clay, sulphuric acid and animal fats....
...“To plant a bulb”, writes Zadie Smith in her new collection of essays, Intimations, “is to participate in some small way in the cyclic miracle of creation”....
...“The walls of the sitting room will almost always be of clay textured with fine sand. A lustre here would destroy the soft fragile beauty of the feeble light....
...A passage from Jean Genet, quoted in a catalogue essay, points out the erotic aspect of making things: “I understand what binds the sculptor to his clay, the painter to his paints, each workman to the matter...
...Santos tells the story of a man whose life unravelled after he won the lottery, and meets Clay Cockrell, a clinical social worker and psychotherapist, who counsels billionaires suffering from stress related...
...In Jewish folklore, the golem was an amorphous lump of clay that was brought to life by humans....
...He started out as a sculptor, and curator Iria Candela has assembled a slew of startling forms modelled from clay....
...Chabon’s previous work includes the novels Wonder Boys and the Pulitzer-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay....
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