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...Bindi Vora Despite growing up a stone’s throw away from Hampstead Heath, I barely knew it existed until my adult life....
...Then imagination takes over from fidelity to observation in a pair of contrasting monuments: the heap of broken stones, stark and luminous on a bare heath, in the watercolour “Stonehenge”, a timeless image...
...Tate & Lyle has recruited Vivid Sehgal as its new finance chief effective in May. He replaces Imran Nawaz who is departing to become chief financial officer of Tesco....
...In 1681, Nahum Tate cut him from the play altogether. He is the Fool, King Lear’s close companion in Shakespeare’s bleak tragedy and, begging your pardon Leo Tolstoy, crucial to the story....
...As Samuel Johnson wrote, Hampstead Heath will lift the heart of even the weariest. What’s the best pub in London?...
...Last month the doors closed on Tate Britain’s Paul Nash, the biggest exhibition of the artist’s work in a generation....
...‘Hyundai Commission 2015: Abraham Cruzvillegas: Empty Lot’ runs to April 3, tate.org.uk...
...‘Frank Auerbach’, Tate Britain, London, to March 13, tate.org.uk Slideshow photographs: Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art...
...There is no balcony in the stage directions for Romeo and Juliet, no heath mentioned in King Lear, and barely a specification for the appearance of character or scenography throughout Shakespeare’s plays...
...and dedication have, like Heath, largely fallen off the radar....
...The last big Wilson show, at the Tate in 1982, was subtitled “the Landscape of Reaction”....
...He has performed Ellington’s sacred music in St Paul’s Cathedral and his band performed at Tate Modern in 2002....
...Jonathan Woolf’s Brick Leaf House, on the edge of Hampstead Heath, is larger and more conventionally luxurious, yet its brick wrapping is pure puritan....
...The myth that it was wrong and cruel was largely shattered by Damien Hirst [though he was criticised for killing butterflies in his 2012 Tate show] and Polly Morgan [who are both keen collectors].”...
...From Friday to September 16, www.tate.org.uk...
...It fringes the rugged open space of Hampstead Heath, giving the location a semi-rural feel, yet The Bishops Avenue itself is a fiercely urban affair....
...(He was included in both David Alan Mellor’s retrospectives on British 1960s art – one at the Barbican in 1993 and one at Tate Britain in 2004.)...
...“We are selling a property in The Bishops Avenue that was the former home of the Lyle family of Tate & Lyle,” Abrahmsohn says. The area has long been associated with celebrities....
...▲ Heath Hall, Bishops Avenue, London, UK, £100m Where: On a road in North London nicknamed “Millionaires’ Row”. What: A Grade II-listed property, built in 1910....
...I continue north through Belsize Park to Hampstead Heath....
...“Kilfrost is almost like a brand name for fluids,” says Kenneth Petrie, general manager of ramp and baggage services at Heathrow....
...By comparison with these grand caricatures, the contemporary work at the Tate show seems feeble....
...Similarly, Edward Heath’s rescue of a failing Rolls-Royce in 1970-71 saved the company, and stands in a tradition of government assistance – direct and indirect – that has helped underpin the UK aerospace...
...On the stroke of one o’ clock, a small thin figure appears at the entrance to the Rex Whistler restaurant in the basement of Tate Britain....
...“I understand now that my children will not hang as pegs in a tent but on the walls of Tate.”...
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