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...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...“Edmund is perhaps the potter — and writer — most intimately associated with the iconic material of porcelain,” says Alun Graves, the V&A’s senior curator of ceramics and glass, 1900 to present day....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Joaquín Sorolla’s serene swimmer emerges from a luminous sea like a modern “Birth of Venus” in “After the Bath”, and polychrome sculptures of a fervent Mary and Jesus carved by 17th-century nun Andrea de...
...The Story of Babar (£365, edition of 750) features a reproduction of Jean de Brunhoff’s original maquette alongside rarely seen archive material; facsimiles of Beatrix Potter’s original hand-written and...
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...Do you want to talk to the potter, the contemporary artist, the architect, the archivist, the activist? He looks at me and calls me “brother de Waal” and I realise that I am talking to the preacher....
...The de Menils [who funded the Rothko Chapel] were activated by a mission for social change....
...I thought ‘Jesus Christ, Ken, forget Michael Gambon’s potatoes, you’ll do well to keep up here.’” Such is their bond....
...Groups are attending from Italy and Germany, and the Flemish company De Roovers will present Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills on a former military site closed to the public for more than a century....
...Jesus, Hong Kong Crossword 16,129: FJ Chalton, Liverpool; Nik Morrell, London; Ian Dempsey, New Jersey Polymath 1,015: Richard Otley, Wakefield Crossword 16,123: Michael Baylor, France; Scott Forbes,...
...Ceramicist Edmund de Waal, 53, is known for his porcelain installations....
...On the stone façade of Palazzo Chiaramonte in Palermo, there are grooves left by the iron cages in which hung the severed heads of aristocrat rebels against Emperor Charles V....
...Yet Potter is really an outlier, harking back to another time....
...The Neues Museum is Berlin’s version of the V&A....
...In 1975, addicted to cocaine, he had adopted his Thin White Duke persona, an etiolated aristocratic figure, cruel and sensation-seeking, a de Sade for the disco age....
...Jesús Rodríguez, a systems administrator, has a 90-minute commute....
...The mathematics of tiles Maths may not be synonymous with the Arts and Crafts movement, but an upcoming touring exhibition of potter William De Morgan’s ceramics, Sublime Symmetry, is set to explore the...
...And Atlético have joined with Indian investors to create Atlético de Kolkata, reigning champions of India....
...Mike Hobart ronniescotts.com, 0207 439 0747 Taraf de Haïdouks, February 16, Union Chapel, London A decade ago Taraf de Haïdouks were Romania’s most exuberant export: Johnny Depp would fly in the band...
...The robes are not Harry Potter-style black sacks. They are Tudor-era belted blue coats with knee breaches or skirts....
...Among her go-to terms for describing something “brilliant” is “le petit Jésus en culotte de velours”. “It’s literally ‘the baby Jesus in a pair of velvet shorts’,” she says....
...Mr Garcia has taken up the union-backed progressive mantle carried by Senator Elizabeth Warren and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio....
...19 The designer of the suit was the subject of an exhibition at the V&A in London in 2015, which proved the most popular in the museum’s history....
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