Hints and tips:
...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...
...Jos Butler and Mike Atherton. Maybe a couple of business leads but that wasn’t really the vibe. Cricket was just too exciting....
...Artists featured include Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...And then there is Theaster Gates’s Clay Sermon....
...Bellmaking is an ancient craft, involving clay and olivine and molten bronze heated to 2,200F. Here they work with marine bronze, they tell us, the kind used in cleats and oarlocks....
...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....
...Negronis steeped for 72 hours in clay pots are its speciality. Downstairs, the spa features a Turkish-style marble hammam, various treatments and a small, well-equipped gym....
...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....
...He pointed to the growing range of options, including digital clay pigeon shooting at a venue in the City’s Liverpool Street and Toca indoor football, which have helped people “get used to interacting again...
...Cross the threshold, through the barely-there front door, and the realm beyond is an elegant mix of textures — sawn oak, clay walls — and a restrained, earthy palette....
...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....
...Trouble starts at the launch port when people can’t understand why she daubs her hair in red clay as the Himba people of northern Namibia do....
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