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...and classicism, Art Deco and modernism, has been rediscovered. 100 20th-Century Shops edited by Susannah Charlton and Elain Harwood (Twentieth Century Society/Batsford) In its combination of fashion, pop...
...It looks like the consumable, off-the-shelf dream of Pop architecture, a transportable box like a Thunderbirds spaceship, propped up wherever it lands....
...“Pop was an aesthetic,” he says. “So yes, we were part of that.”...
...In pop-starved 1950s Moscow, a few enterprising characters bought lathes to cut records on but, lacking materials to press, they found that cutting them on to discarded X-ray plates worked well enough....
...Singapore’s prime minister has defended a deal to secure pop star Taylor Swift’s only performances in south-east Asia this year, dismissing rising indignation from the city-state’s neighbours....
...‘Brian Clarke: A Great Light’ runs until September 24, newportstreetgallery.com Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture and design critic Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on...
...After all, the gallery’s mix of monarchs and models, pop stars and proto-feminists now looks, perhaps rather surprisingly, remarkably modern....
...Yet despite the politics, the new museum accommodates a genuinely thrilling mix of art, architecture, pop culture, moving image and design....
...The rocketship-shaped minaret is adorned with red and pink chevrons; the pierced dome is a golden Vegas pop caricature....
...It then passed through the hip advertising offices of the late 20th century, with their self-consciously quirky pop-culture references and loft style, to what we have today: an eclectic blend of techhub,...
...Then you might suggest that the whole history of Pop Art, the stealing from the shop window, the celebration of consumption and the fetishisation of the lowbrow, is itself lifted from Surrealism....
...A pop-up shop has appeared in front of Velasquez’s “Old Woman Cooking Eggs” (c1618). You half expect it to serve bacon rolls....
...The pedestrianisation of bits of Broadway has given birth to a gush of pop-ups and dining sheds....
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...There is perhaps something a little too precious in its creamy cardboard palette, set among the pop vibrancy that makes this neighbourhood so vivid, the garish signs, the supergraphics, the banana-yellow...
...Edwin Starr’s stentorian protest anthem “War” was inspired by the experiences of Strong’s cousin, a paratrooper who was wounded in Vietnam....
...Originally a rose garden designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1910, this past summer it was the best it’s ever been, he says....
...The producer is Josh Gabert-Doyon, and the senior producer is Edwin Lane. Manuela Saragosa is executive producer. Sound design is by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco....
...Today, there’s a ruined medieval priory, a 16th-century castle (renovated by Sir Edwin Lutyens at the start of the 20th) and an unmistakable sense of being sequestered from the modern world....
...The density of pop history on Denmark Street is profound, from a wall featuring graffiti by The Sex Pistols (who recorded and lived here for a while at the start of their short career) to Regent Sound Studio...
...Suddenly we see moments of colour and painted road signs re-emerge as collaged pop art....
...Pop art, fashion, furniture, old masters collide and bounce off each other. It looks studiedly irreverent. The storage rooms are cavernous and windowless....
...realisation of the sci-fi ideas which had emerged from England in the 1960s, a blend of mechanistic modernism — all the ducts and pipes exposed on the outside to leave free, flexible space within — and pop...
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