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...The Lamb family sold the house to local banker Francis Bellingham in 1893....
...He recalls an enduring image from his kindergarten days in Haiti, of a painting of St Francis of Assisi talking benignly to the animals....
...I believe, to borrow from Paul Nurse, head of the Francis Crick Institute, who invoked memories of Dunkirk in the fight against Covid-19, in the power of little boats....
...These equivalents of altarpiece patrons urge a political, colonialist reading, and Bacon said this triptych was inspired by Conrad’s Heart of Darkness....
...Few movies would support this level of analysis without tipping into a film studies lecture, but then not many present such chewy possibilities — summoning the ghosts of Joseph Conrad and Francis Bacon,...
...The disgraced press baron Conrad Black will forever be associated with his turn as Cardinal Richelieu at a Kensington ball in 2000 (his wife went as Marie Antoinette)....
...When Francis Ford Coppola shot his 1979 Vietnam war epic Apocalypse Now on location in the Philippines, he was famously beset by problems....
...His major commissions include “Paradigm”, for the Francis Crick Institute in London, which will be unveiled this weekend. What was your childhood or earliest ambition? Architecture....
...‘Conrad Shawcross: Manifold’, New Art Centre, Salisbury May 23-July 26; ‘The Dappled Light of the Sun’, Royal Academy, London June 8-August 16; ‘Conrad Shawcross’, Victoria Miro, London June 10-July 31;...
...Clive Cookson Art Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, edited by Martin Harrison, Heni Publishing, RRP£1,000/The Estate of Francis Bacon, RRP$1,500 Art book of the year, perhaps the decade, this showcases...
...Pirie considered the post-Shakespeare world of Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and John Dryden the richest in all literature....
...Giovanni Bellini’s “St Francis in the Desert”. The first time I saw it I was so moved I could hardly speak. What book do you wish you’d written? Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim....
...Sascha Weidner (Conrads Gallery) has produced a number of terrifying series, including one of a wood in Japan that people frequent when they’re planning to kill themselves....
...His work led to friendships with writers such as Joseph Conrad and DH Lawrence, and also to contact with Russian émigrés....
...The many worlds of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling are here....
...They may lack wisdom, but as Francis Bacon said, “Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than settled business.”...
...Yet Le Carré works more in the pessimistic tradition of Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene. As good and vital as he is, he’s no Orwell or Wells....
...Doll grew up in London’s Knightsbridge in “a magnificent 18th-century house”, writes his magnificent biographer Conrad Keating....
...Conrad have produced a brand new Asterix adventure that’s all but indistinguishable from the originals....
...You could as justly argue, and probably should, that Kane is Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz....
...Three of these, Russell Crotty, Teresita Fernandez and Ellen Harvey, are no such thing; but they and the others – conceptual painter Daniel Buren, geometric sculptor Conrad Shawcross and film-maker Douglas...
...Francis Wheen’s latest book is ‘Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia’ (Fourth Estate)...
...Sunshine State is entertaining enough, but the shadow of Francis Ford Coppola’s film hangs over it....
...Le Prince Maurice in Mauritius has in the past run writers’ weeks – appropriate given the remarkable body of literature the island has inspired, from Baudelaire to Conrad to Twain....
...Dr Francis Collins, genome researcher and Christian believer, barely gets started....
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