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...Who goes there: a mix of studiedly eccentric locals, the clergy (undercover), aged luvvies, potters, the much younger lovers of any of the above....
...In 1990 Julian and his wife Claire also lost their first child Francis, who died in childbirth. Then, six years ago, his brother died in a car crash....
...Directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley prove adept dungeon masters, slick with the CGI wizardry but also quick to cut fight scenes mercifully short and play set pieces for laughs (witness the...
...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....
...The “Tiffany brand” of American film, it has been called: home of Stanley Kubrick and Humphrey Bogart, the money behind Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, the Harry Potter films, The Matrix, Bonnie and Clyde,...
...It climaxes in a fun, if fairly random, shower of celebrity reminiscence: Nigella Lawson scoffing only mash; Francis Bacon in the “Dantean horror” of the Colony Room drinking-den....
...Smiling beatifically in a simple black blazer, they recalled a modern-day Francis of Assisi — albeit the version who is patron saint of beady eyes and stale bread....
...And so he painted this portrait of himself that borders on [Francis] Bacon grotesque....
...One family-owned brand, Ceramiche Fasano, comes from a line of potters based in Grottaglie in Puglia....
...The Beaumont, 8 Balderton Street, Brown Hart Gardens, London W1K 6TF St John, Spitalfields What The French House in Soho was for Francis Bacon, Augustus John and Lucian Freud in the mid-20th century,...
...Most recently, the author JK Rowling expressed a version of this view, in a series of tweets and an essay that drew condemnation from several Harry Potter actors....
...He had resolved to sell his share of Esprit and his art collection (which included works by Francis Bacon, Balthus, Hopper, Léger and Picasso) so as to devote his considerable wealth to environmentalism....
...A writer and public cultural figure, as well as a studio potter, his work is defined by groupings of sublime monochrome vessels arranged in architectural space....
...Meyer spawned another publishing phenomenon: that of EL James’s Fifty Shades trilogy, which in 2012 occupied all three top best seller slots, and outstripped both Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter...
...Prof David Potter Francis W Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History and Professor of Greek and Latin, Dept of Classical Studies, University of Michigan, US Letter in response to this letter...
...range from £2,000 to £95,000; there is a book of poetry by Isaac Watts inscribed, touchingly, by John Constable to his goddaughter, with watercolour drawings, as well as 20th-century volumes of works by Francis...
...A slow but steady stream followed: Francis Spufford’s The Child that Books Built (2002); rare book dealer Rick Gekoski’s Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir (2009); and Elif Batuman’s The Possessed: Adventures...
...Antarctica passports are being issued (Lucy + Jorge Orta), silkworms have been cultivated to make art (Liang Shaoji at ShanghART) and an overlooked 19th-century American potter gets a solo showing (George...
...David Potter Francis W Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History, University of Michigan, US...
...Dalkeith Palace Sold by the Douglas family to Francis Scott, second Earl of Buccleuch in 1642, and now let to the University of Wisconsin....
...David Potter Francis W Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History, University of Michigan, US Letter in response to this letter: Immigrants’ downside consequences for Rome / From George Horsington...
...At last year’s Masterpiece, the prestigious annual art fair in London, he bought a vase by Grayson Perry, the Turner prize-winning potter....
...“It’s a populist move and you can see politically why people might want these kinds of measures,” says Noble Francis, economist at the Construction Products Association....
...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....
...Clips from the interviews include Bragg and Francis Bacon almost incoherently sloshed in a Soho trattoria; and Dennis Potter touchingly swigging morphine to kill the pain....
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