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...The last one that really surprised me was about Frank Lloyd Wright. Everyone knows his work, but it focused on his relationship with nature, which was something I’d not heard much about....
...With works such as Deller’s in mind, Jonathan D Katz, an art historian and adviser to the exhibition, argues that mainstream ideas of masculinity have become increasingly “queered”, with stereotyped ideals...
...[Henry] Moore and [Barbara] Hepworth were not great modernists”, in fact “superficial” copyists of the latest fashions from France....
...This is different — a biography of the most mythologised climb in the history of the race, the road that rises from Bourg d’Oisans to the ski resort of Alpe d’Huez, whose 21 hairpin bends become the “Glastonbury...
...Jimmy Wright, who worked for Mr Duke after he joined Walmart in 1995, says: “Mike is a nice guy first and foremost. Likeable and not arrogant....
...to work by 36-year-old Stuart Pearson Wright. (“mega-influenced by Freud, and the subjects can be a bit tough: guys with their dicks hanging out, but I’ve got some great ones”)....
...Remnick is particularly good on Chicago politics and Obama’s controversial relationship with Pastor Jeremiah Wright....
...She is the ghost of Barbara Cartland mugged by the living shade of Baroness Thatcher....
...I’d have to tidy up too much and I’d rather go out. Do you have a dream home? No. It’s not bad what I have. Dreams are always disappointing and they fade away....
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