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...I adopted it after I divorced my first wife. Peter Blake: Sculpture and Other Matters is at Waddington Custot, London W1, until 13 April; waddingtoncustot.com...
...Cycling home from work this week, I passed The Artillery Arms public house next to Bunhill Fields, the graveyard where the writers John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe and William Blake are buried....
...(“I don’t care about the fame game!”) Writer Matt Greenhalgh and director Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy, Fifty Shades of Grey) make a fearful combination....
...It does get a bit William Blake at times, I admit. “Marks of woe” on “every face” tends overwhelmingly to be the case at about 8.45am midweek. Zoning out is a life skill....
...Blake sought Cassidy out and has been a returning customer since. “One good trim can honestly change your year around....
...Peter Blake, our Aesthete this week, is arguably the creator of the greatest album cover of all time, although he has had “mixed feelings” about the association over the intervening years....
...When I first corresponded with him about my book on the tunnel, Spies Beneath Berlin, he wrote to me on stationery from the hotel....
...In Saint Maud, the protagonist is given a book of William Blake paintings; in Love Lies Bleeding, raw eggs and chocolate milk are used to suggest burgeoning desire....
...“He is doing an exceptional job of listening to every voice in the conference,” says Blake Moore, a Republican congressman from Utah....
...Murphy, who has also advocated for more free time for workers, points out that this is an idea with support on the left and right (politicos as divergent as Blake Masters and Bernie Sanders have argued that...
...Mine’s a one-on-one trip, just Blake and I, and I’m dead keen on finding sharks....
...Madonna, Dame Helen Mirren, Cher, Blake Lively, Sabrina Elba, Sonam Kapoor and Lady Gaga have all worn Paula Rowan gloves....
...“I refute the allegation that I am a liar,” he wrote....
...I’m in for Steff this week....
...“Many years later, I told them [Hipgnosis] those flares really dated the cover,” says Blake, “and they agreed....
...Another definitive 2016 moment was the release of I, Daniel Blake, the Loach movie that punched through to mainstream British success....
...We got into a taxi and went straight to the gallery to start installing the Blake show....
...“I’m drawn to substantial silhouettes, and I always appreciated the style, partly because I have really long fingers, so a cigar ring takes up the right amount of space,” she says....
...The best gifts I’ve given were to Jarvis on his most recent birthday. He got a balloon sculpture from Graham the Balloon Man and two Peter Blake prints from the 3D USA series....
...“I woke very early one morning – I do draw in bed a lot – and by 10am I was able to phone Lexi to say that I had done some pencil drawings....
...She winces, worried she’s in danger of coming over sentimental, like a modern William Blake, the 18th-century poet and painter who saw children as paragons of innocence. But it’s true....
...Her son Oscar (Blake Ritson), meanwhile, continues his quest to land a reputable wife to help disguise his homosexuality....
...Blake Lemoine I eventually asked it, are you sentient? And its response was so sophisticated and nuanced that it convinced me....
...It was the artist Peter Blake. He and his wife Chrissy, regulars at my father’s café, had known me since I was a child. He gestured to the doorman to let me through and sat me at his table....
...Madison — I loved this piece by Heidi Blake in the New Yorker — bombshell reporting throughout, from the cinematic opening at sea, to the sordid intelligence she gleaned from British cabbies....
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