Hints and tips:
...Peter Blake: Sculpture and Other Matters is at Waddington Custot, London W1, until 13 April; waddingtoncustot.com...
...Abraham’s 2022 Love Letter (on shuffle) is drip-fed by James Blake’s drivetime rhythms....
...Thomas Huxley debating Darwin’s ideas with “Soapy Sam”, Bishop of Oxford, in 1860....
...A superb room of William Blake’s and Chris Ofili’s iridescent, mysterious watercolours absorbingly converges formal and intellectual concerns — blending figure and background, popular culture segueing into...
...It was Thomas Huxley, not his grandson Aldous, who labelled Auguste Comte’s Religion of Humanity “Catholicism minus Christianity”....
...Venture capitalist Spencer Stewart didn’t want to spend lockdown in Miami....
..., Spencer… I am still finding treasures in the attic....
...That last phrase comes from another California resident, Aldous Huxley (though borrowed from William Blake)....
...requested poem is “If” by Rudyard Kipling, followed by “This Be the Verse” by Philip Larkin (the one with the profanity in the opening line), “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, “The Tyger” by William Blake...
...The further inclusion of “The Centurion’s Servant”, Stanley Spencer’s version of one of Christ’s miracles, is a stretch too far....
...“At the moment [the] economic growth we have in Europe is consumer-led,” says Neil Blake, head of European research and forecasting for CBRE, the property advisers....
...He was born into the Bloomsbury set — Lytton Strachey was his cousin — with TS Eliot, Aldous Huxley and others as family friends....
...Terry Frost, Peter Blake (“I wanted to make an art that was the visual equivalent of pop music”), Allen Jones, Julian Trevelyan....
...The back is engraved with a world map, the celebrated “V” for victory symbol and a dedication: “1939 — Prime Minister Winston Spencer Churchill — 1945”....
...Thirty years after his Brave New World, the novelist Aldous Huxley framed his last novel in 1962 as a kind of companion piece....
...In Quentin Blake: Artists on the Beach, the popular illustrator displays drawings made in response to favourite works in the Jerwood collection by Stanley Spencer, Christopher Wood, LS Lowry and others....
...But this is not, in essence, surreal: it draws on ideas in William Blake, Palmer and even D.H. Lawrence, and amounts to a neo-romantic crossover of the spirit between wild nature and humanity....
...These paintings announce Spencer, like Nash, as a visionary in an English tradition – Samuel Palmer, William Blake – able to negotiate with the European avant-garde enough to get modernist distance, without...
...In the late summer sun, it resembles William Blake’s “bar of gold”....
...Tate acknowledges as much with permanent solo presentations of Henry Moore and William Blake; Turner in the Clore gallery remains the model....
...Professor Peter Spencer, York University: We have stood together through thick and thin despite our differences and I think it would be a great pity if our Scottish neighbours voted for independence....
...Professor Peter Spencer, York University: I think the puzzle will tend to fade as economy picks up and the output data are revised into line with recent employment reports and business surveys....
...Among early purchases was William Blake Richmond’s “The Song of Miriam”, a huge “processional” piece bought from Angela Nevill....
...Professor Peter Spencer, York University: I am not too concerned about the housing market, which is just recovering from the mortgage famine....
...Investors, he believes, are betting that generational change in the Blake family, owners of the ski resort, will herald a more aggressive attitude towards development at TSV....
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