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...With an array of elegant 18th-century furniture (some on loan from the V&A), books, fittings and works by Gainsborough and his contemporaries, the rooms exude a quiet domesticity....
...The exhibition at the V&A, London, runs until January 9; vam.ac.uk Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Meanwhile backstage, props, costumes and wigs need to be separated, and keeping cast members safe is a military operation worthy of Henry V. Shakespeare was not a man for a two-hander....
...The Southwark Mysteries, about the prostitutes known as “Winchester Geese” who were buried at London’s Cross Bones burial site; and the legendary comic book creator Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V...
...While all this is enlightening, the V&A’s real triumph is to show how Constable absorbed yet transcended tradition to become an expressive, naturalistic painter, distilling effects of sunlight or fleeting...
...Martin Roth, V&A director, said the exhibition “shows that Constable’s art, so well-loved and familiar to many of us, still delivers surprises”....
...“I talked to a couple of chief constables who showed me the statistics for their region — ‘These are the murders, these are the rapes. Do I have the resources to check if this is cod not haddock?...
...Laurence Olivier’s Richard III (1955), spurning or turning topsy-turvy the picture-book pageantry of his Henry V, is a designer maelstrom of evil....
...Read her review of Constable at the V&A Photograph: Howard Sooley...
...Previously, Gayford has written illuminating portraits of Constable, Van Gogh, Lucian Freud and David Hockney. Yet these mighty artists cannot compare to Michelangelo....
...In 1476, as Duke of Gloucester and chief constable of the kingdom, he had his daddy, Richard Duke of York – killed at the battle of Wakefield 16 years earlier – taken in a grand cortège from Pontefract to...
...Tim Constable is a partner at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin, a law firm...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...In the basement of the shop are paintings, drawings and sculptures including the multi-coloured wrestlers of Tomoyuki Shinki and the oven-baked cameras of ceramicist Alan Constable....
...It will hang alongside works by Constable, Gainsborough and Seago. Simon Shore of Trinity House says the fair is “consistently good. The people of Chelsea see it as their fair....
...Lowell Libson has a charming drawing of a peacock by Constable (“in the low £20,000s,” says Libson)....
...River By John Irving Bloomsbury, £20 An old master is back with a novel that takes readers from New Hampshire in the 1950s to contemporary Canada, as a maimed cook and his son escape the wrath of a local constable...
...‘The Domesday Book of Giant Salmon, A Record of the Largest Atlantic Salmon Ever Caught’, by Fred Buller, is published by Constable, price £50...
...The V&A offers 60 superb drawings from British collections, many rarely, or never, seen in public....
...But, according to the myth, far worse was averted thanks to mounted police constable George Scorey and his white horse....
...‘Auerbach and Freud at the V&A: New Paintings’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, to May 29. Tel 20 7942 2000...
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