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...up the city of Stoke-on-Trent....
...Every corner of the city holds something – whether it’s the naka (curbside) workers who now gild for him, or a certain clay spotted on a street corner and used for a project....
...in debt for generations, the civil wars and corruption, the mass migrations and the informal settlements in so many of its cities....
...She uses clay and salts and the process of multiple dippings is a long, arduous one which takes several months....
...Every time the machine swallows a disc, a raw-clay platter emerges on the opposite side....
...The piece marks for de Waal the moment Marco Polo arrived in the city of Jingdezhen and saw porcelain for the first time....
...He sees the pavilion as part of The Question of Clay, a multi-institution project with past exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery and White Cube, and a research project at the V&A....
...Peter Barber’s clay and concrete model for a proposed housing development in the Thames Estuary makes it look like a kind of colourful kasbah....
...This follows Louis Vuitton’s unveiling of Le Café V in its flagship store, where the menu of desserts and classic savoury options has been devised by Yosuke Suga of Tokyo’s celebrated restaurant Sugalabo...
...This year, London Design Festival has played host to more than 300 designers from a smorgasbord of disciplines, promoting the city as “the design capital of the world”....
...The piece is a tribute to the late US statesman John Lewis who is captured on camera being beaten by State troopers in Selma, Alabama in 1965....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...While based in Fort Devens, Massachusetts, he met Alma Johnson of Birmingham, Alabama, then an audiologist in Boston....
...in order to increase sales, in litigation brought by three California counties and the city of Oakland....
...We get in my car and he directs me along a long gravel track behind the camp to where the clear waters of the Coachella Canal flow fast through a V-shaped concrete channel, water destined for the swimming...
...They obliged me with beautifully packed plants of anything growable, from C for campanula to V for vitaliana: they arrived within a day of special dispatch....
...Details Neville Hawcock was a guest of the tourist boards of Alabama and Huntsville; he flew with Virgin from London to Huntsville via Atlanta....
...It’s in the same building as Heath Ceramics, so there is always a little shopping to be done while you wait. Movies are a passion and there is no shortage of interesting cinema in this city....
...For her ongoing work “Metropolis”, which took over the Asian and European Ceramics Gallery of the V&A in 2017, she made over 1,000 miniature clay sculptures, laid out on the floor in a random arrangement...
...talks in the Russian city of Sochi....
...Alabama senators approved a near-total ban on abortion, a move aimed at overturning the Roe v Wade ruling that gave women the right to terminate pregnancies....
...All the V&A will say at the moment is that it “welcomes [the] ongoing discussion”....
...London, with its clay foundations, bothersome Victorian sewerage and antiquated Underground system, is one of the worst cities to build on. “It’s been a nightmare,” he says of the renovations....
...“They came to Rome and fell in love with the classical world,” he tells me, gesturing at the cast of Canova’s famed sculpture of the “Three Graces”, a version of which, now in the V&A, was commissioned by...
...But, like all such giant projects, it has strong political winds at its back: the benefit of Nasa contracts spreads across many cities and states, with Alabama, home state to attorney-general Jeff Sessions...
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