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...He highlights a piece that references 15th-century Florentine sculptor Luca della Robbia....
...May 23 to June 2; further information and tickets here Sport Italian Open, Foro Italico The prestigious tennis tournament unfolds on the historic clay courts of the Foro Italico sports complex just outside...
...The US pavilion, which is modelled on Thomas Jefferson’s porticoed slave plantation, Monticello, took on a whole new meaning in 2022 when Simone Leigh remodelled the building to resemble a clay hut with...
...‘Icônes’ runs at the Punta della Dogana to November 26; ‘Chronorama’ runs at the Palazzo Grassi to January 7 2024, pinaultcollection.com...
...Tod’s celebrated craft in collaboration with photographer Tim Walker at Le Cavallerizze Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia; Dolce & Gabbana presented a vision in lemon at its Limonaia installation...
...One of the most unusual visual contrasts this year is located at the Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione, where a glowing crystal forest stands in the 15th-century church....
...US artist Carrie Mae Weems has a message for the people of Wales. “Peidiwch â phoeni....
...Textile designer Ellen Mae Williams reinterprets the Oxfordshire landscape in vibrant abstract spatters and brush marks, using food waste from onions and avocados, as well as plant dyes such as chlorophyll...
...Does he ever struggle with the dark matter that is so often his chosen clay? “Sometimes,” he murmurs before recalling his 1981 sculpture series “South American Triangle”....
...“Right now, Della Robbia Pottery – founded in 1894 in Birkenhead, near Liverpool – is high on collectors’ minds.”...
...Her creations often reference works by early Renaissance artists such as Piero della Francesca and Giotto, but also circus tropes and playing hide-and-seek....
...Her face was daubed with the clay make-up many Myanmar women wear, her eyes open and lips parted in an expression of surprise....
...She addressed her avant-garde reputation head on when she released the fragrance “Shocking” in 1937 — one of several — in a bottle shaped like Mae West’s hourglass figure, and her 1954 autobiography was...
...Meanwhile the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice is home to Magister Canova, a digital show that attempts to evoke the sculptor’s vision through a multimedia installation of virtual imagery, music...
...Under the influence of Sassicaia’s creator Marchese Mario Incisa della Rocchetta, Carlo was keen to see whether similar Bordelais subtlety could also be coaxed out of the infertile clay limestone benchlands...
Against the odds, this all-female US five-piece performed with irresistible zest
...Terra e della Luna su un Asse” (Movements of the Earth and the Moon on an Axis) (2003), composed from metal rods, neon, clamps, clay, glass, stone....
...Now, the couture house of Schiaparelli has been relaunched by Tod’s chief executive Diego Della Valle, with designer Marco Zanini at its helm....
...Equally spellbinding in their morbid showmanship are the busts that the late gravedigger and blues-master James “Son” Thomas sculpted out of unfired clay from the Yazoo River in Mississippi....
...The Rarámuri, or “those that run fast”, never spoke to us, apparently believing that white people are unfinished (or “unfired clay”)....
...Muhammad Ali: The Greatest (1974) took footage from Klein’s 1964 film about Cassius Clay and film of the Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire....
...Clay could do with anger-management classes but his fiery personality makes this a one-session rocket of a thriller....
...“Originally, I came to Pietrasanta for the bronze,” Blumenfeld recalls as we chat in her luminous, garden-facing studio, crowded with clay and plaster models....
...Mr Moehn was executive vice president of Sallie Mae, which was responsible for developing student loan programmes in the US....
...An example is the former leadership of Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae and AIG, who had no MBAs among them....
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