Hints and tips:
...Caret is the marginal sign, like an inverted V, that means “it is missing” or “there is a lack”....
...Clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform pictographs record the bread-and-ale routines of everyday life in Mesopotamia around 3100BC....
...Every corner of the city holds something – whether it’s the naka (curbside) workers who now gild for him, or a certain clay spotted on a street corner and used for a project....
...clay and addiction recovery” — as an example....
...This ancient lost-wax casting technique, developed in the Ashanti region of southern Ghana, involves carving a model in beeswax that is then encased in a clay and charcoal mould....
...Heaps of soil, hardened mud floors, ground that has been polished into screens for projections, earth built up into walls and surfaces, clay made into bricks and blocks, the terracotta tones of tiles, piles...
...Devonald Smith, who prefers to work by hand, first makes a model out of clay, which is slicked over with plaster of Paris and finally cast....
...Often a detail added to the enchantment, such as learning about the clay figurines found in El Greco’s inventory and how he used them to compose his paintings and choreograph the light....
...She uses clay and salts and the process of multiple dippings is a long, arduous one which takes several months....
...Every time the machine swallows a disc, a raw-clay platter emerges on the opposite side....
...The challenges presented by clay as a material and artists’ persistent attempts to master it is a topic of continual fascination to de Waal, one he explored in his 2015 book on porcelain, The White Road:...
...Instead, keep it broken when carrying it, and only shoot when the bird — clay or otherwise — is above the heather. As soon as the bead on the barrel touches your target, shoot....
...Identittiby Mithu Sanyal, translated by Alta L Price, V&Q Books £12.99 Questions about race, culture and belonging abound in this entertaining debut by German journalist and academic Mithu Sanyal....
...It’s a novel-length tale that serves as both billet-doux and poison pen letter to a medium — comics — in which Alan Moore, as the writer of such seminal works of graphic fiction as Watchmen, V for Vendetta...
...Christmas roses, or Helleborus niger, are also prominent in garden centres, especially if in clay pots and offered at fancy prices. Again, I would resist temptation....
...simmering conflict between Muslim and Christian powers on land and sea resolved into a stand-off between Suleyman — heir to his father Selim I’s string of conquests — and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V,...
...The archive lent to the V&A was “his personal classroom”, says the V&A’s Luffman, full of forms he repeated or changed gradually over time — a mug handle here, the shape of a dish there....
...And then there is Theaster Gates’s Clay Sermon....
...He sees the pavilion as part of The Question of Clay, a multi-institution project with past exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube, and a research project at the V&A....
...It kept emperors (Charles V, then Philip II) at suspicious arm’s length but wilted when their stewardship stiffened into close-up domination....
...Peter Barber’s clay and concrete model for a proposed housing development in the Thames Estuary makes it look like a kind of colourful kasbah....
...For example, Doherty’s small Conical Vessel V is priced at £350. These independent artisans are, on the whole, seeing the benefit of social media platforms such as Instagram....
...This follows Louis Vuitton’s unveiling of Le Café V in its flagship store, where the menu of desserts and classic savoury options has been devised by Yosuke Suga of Tokyo’s celebrated restaurant Sugalabo...
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...GOD IS LOVE, it declares in huge bubble letters rolled from clay. REPENT, it instructs. REPENT NOW. A crucifix sprouts from its summit like a beanstalk....
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