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...After a visit to the US, a meeting with art critic Clement Greenberg and an encounter with the works of David Smith, Caro returned to London, bought an oxyacetylene welder and started working with steel....
...For “Untitled (chime for Caro)” (2022), the most enjoyable piece in the show, she sorted Caro fragments according to their weight and has hung them on a gantry opposite a row of aluminium pipes....
...Richardson invites comparison with Robert Caro, author of a long-marinating biography of Lyndon Johnson (first volume published 1982; volume five still awaited), with the caveat that, of the two of them,...
...It is backed by an all-party parliamentary group chaired by MPs Jeff Smith and Crispin Blunt and will be sent to Westminster this week....
...For Smith, the real sculpture was a construction in, and of, space and in this sense he was a forerunner of the likes of Anthony Caro and Antony Gormley....
...edwin.heathcote@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Parkies are ‘the world’s only harmless police’ / From Geoff Smith, Huddersfield, W Yorks, UK...
...“Wooden Boulder” has always underlined for him where he parts company with Caro. “For the Caro school, sculpture had to work within itself: it didn’t matter where it was,” he says....
...He resolved to slow the process down, which is why he still writes his first drafts — usually three or four of them — in longhand before doing the same pages over again on his Smith-Corona Electra 210 typewriter...
...I love the Paul Smith episode. My style icons are Gilbert & George. I love their unwavering commitment to elegantly tailored tweed suits....
...Both are also descended from branches of the Hatfields, who were on one side in the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud in the 19th century....
...Eastdil Secured has hired Will Silverman and Matt McCoy as managing directors....
...She pushed History into scripted programming and with Hatfields & McCoys, its first scripted mini-series, it broke ratings records....
...These included the AA, Wetherspoon, WH Smith and Wizz Air....
...The Tate, too, bought several pieces through or from the Kasmin Gallery, several of which are in the forthcoming show: Richard Smith’s “Riverfall” and Caro’s “Yellow Swing”, for instance....
...The American sculptor David Smith — among the first to risk the use of tough, lowbrow industrial steel rather than stone, marble or wood — is considered Caro’s biggest influence....
...If you look at the original series, Spock and McCoy didn’t get along at all. McCoy would sometimes say the most outrageous racist things to him....
...Difficult second memoir syndrome, perhaps: but Smith conquers it in style, delivering reminiscences about writing, reading and married life with Fred “Sonic” Smith....
...What about Helaine Blumenfeld, Emily Young, Kiki Smith, Phyllida Barlow or, crucially, the twisted sirens of Rebecca Warren?...
...first time in 1959, at the suggestion of the critic Clement Greenberg, who put him in touch with many of the leading artists of the New York School, and most especially with the abstract sculptor, David Smith...
...Steel, which he first saw used by the US sculptor David Smith, appealed because “I didn’t know anything about it”. (Indeed, he remembers asking a friend how to join two pieces together.)...
...That changed in the mid-20th century but innovators such as David Smith and Anthony Caro still worked in iron and steel....
...As a student at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, he was initially inspired by the work of Anthony Caro and David Smith to make abstract sculpture, but soon stopped, feeling he wasn’t “being serious...
...In fact, the first big stars of American popular music were women, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Mamie Smith. And then it was co-opted by men who strutted around with a guitar.”...
...McCoy, the perpetual champion jockey, trained by Jonjo O’Neill, who rode the winner in 1986, and owned by J.P....
...The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4, by Robert Caro, Bodley Head, RRP£35 Caro’s magnum opus, begun in 1976 and still to encompass most of Johnson’s five years in the White House...
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