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...The soundtrack rages in sympathy — punk musician Gina Birch’s “3 Minute Scream”, piercing yells from Robina Rose’s “Birth Rites”. It made me want to scream....
...In Los Angeles, a squat, faintly Art Deco style desk in ebonised birch at which Jackie Collins wrote many of her wildly popular raunchy novels, sold in 2017 for £5,500 — more than twice its lowest estimate...
...The bestselling Skog – Swedish/Norwegian for forest – conjures the essence of the woodland: pine needles and fir cones, birch sap and woodland lily-of-the-valley. £35 for 200g...
...pictures such as “Two Stripes”, symbolic of division, and upside-down compositions, including “Downwards by a Tree” – calling to mind St Peter’s inverted crucifixion – and pared-down pastoral images as in “Birch...
...Althamer’s simple transformations – a tin man with a dustbin body and drainpipe legs; a rusty skeleton with washing machine drum for head, carrying a silver birch staff – gives this assemblage of battered...
...and a view, suggesting psychic tension between imagination and outer life: a tropical jungle beyond the balcony of Ernest Hemingway’s pink-hued library near Havana; diffuse light filtering through the birch...
...It reminded me less of anything in the western European canon than of the pine and birch forests painted by the 19th-century Russian “bookkeeper of leaves” Ivan Shishkin, while Church’s eerie luminosity...
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