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...Every Chinese province has a strange stone association....
...It’s hard to believe she conjured such an atmospheric landscape out of clay alone....
...For her recent work “Fugue”, she evoked the “strange beauty” of withered lotus leaves spotted on her travels in Asia....
...The clay was hot and strange on my skin. Lying down, caked and wrapped in the hotel basement, the thoughts buzzed in my head (“am I dead?”) and then slowed....
...It is strange and bittersweet; the notion of getting into a car seems vaguely alien....
...And I think as for the playfulness, I think playfulness was a really strange and interesting concept in design....
...The title of the Hayward Gallery’s impressive exhibition, Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art, seems disingenuous. What is strange about clay? We grow our food in it....
...Ushguli by day is a strange, beautiful sight. This is the physical embodiment of Georgia’s troubled history....
...Clay is first pressed into moulds....
...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....
...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...
...The story stands in clear-eyed contrast to Michael Chabon’s 2000 novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a ravishing, romanticised take on the same subject matter. Moore knows comics history....
...The protagonist is nothing more or less than the title’s description: a seashell roughly an inch high with one googly eye, an animated mouth and trainers made of modelling clay....
...You arrive though the relentlessly swirling sands in time to see the sun setting over the strange moonscape of Siwa; the eerie blue waters of the lake reflecting the lapis lazuli sky and the strange white...
...These creepy counterfeit infants are never entirely explained — is it a child’s imagination of how babies are made, or a strange fairground sideshow?...
...French designer and entomologist Gilles Clément has ushered a strange and fertile beauty from a former submarine base with Le Jardin du Tiers Paysage in Saint-Nazaire, while Piet Oudolf’s continued work...
...She shares an online intimacy of her relationship with Oliver which has fed through to various pieces, most recently for Hayward Gallery’s expansive ceramics exhibition Strange Clay, in which her immersive...
...Many strange things can happen when you’re not present.”...
...Most disconcerting, in the foreground, is a strange, dark spindly form, tentacles stretching in and out of the shallows....
...“I suppose I might be considered a bit of a strange banker,” he says. And what, I ask, as we pick up our coats, would you have been if you weren’t one? He laughs. “A vet!”...
...From archaic statues of Dionysian revels to David Smith’s postwar steel abstractions inspired by choreographer Martha Graham, sculpture has always found in dance a strange alter ego....
...It might seem strange, but I really love Irish painter William Orpen’s 1905 oil painting “Job (from the Old Testament)”....
...“[Collective nostalgia] taps into our tribal nature . . . which can be good if it mobilises prosocial behaviour,” says Clay Routledge, author of Nostalgia: A Psychological Resource....
...This strange structure could only be a work by Chicago artist Theaster Gates....
...And then there is Theaster Gates’s Clay Sermon....
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