Hints and tips:
...One sunny afternoon this June, the artist Betye Saar was surveying a table piled with twigs and branches and strips of bark....
...Another maker who has work on show at Pucci in London is Stefan Bishop, who works with roots and bark, and frequently torches his materials to blacken them for heightened drama and to accentuate texture....
...Once I even came across a textile made of wood, which is processed from the bark of a sakura cherry tree....
...They are well known to Californian readers as California lilacs, blue blossom and so forth, but Britain is not Santa Barbara....
...Barbara Castle’s ministerial car was caught in traffic from London....
...This place, known for its ancient bark paintings, is now home to some cutting-edge digital artists intent on promoting the region’s Yolngu culture....
...Their teacher barks: “Knock it off. This is a national treasure.” The lunch counter is the exact one at which four African-American students sat in Greensboro, 1960. Same silver countertop....
...Nothing to Envy By Barbara Demick Spiegel & Grau ($26; £14.99) Barbara Demick’s exceptional book begins with a night-time satellite image of the Korean peninsula....
...“Beat on the brat,” barks Joey Ramone. “Beat on the brat with a baseball bat. Oh yeah, oh yeah, uh-oh yeah.”...
...Last week, I watched him bark gruffly “well done” at some of the hopefuls on the UK version of The Apprentice TV series....
...Higgins’ mother is played by Barbara Jefford, who by now deserves a “Living National Treasure” title....
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