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...Robert Hughes called it “the most intense and abrupt image of lesbian sex in the history of art”....
...“Sculpture is not rape,” the British sculptor Barbara Hepworth reminded art critic Robert Hughes when he marvelled that she was so petite. “People . . . still think of sculpture as a male occupation....
...Jackie, a rail sector cleaner, joined strike action in Westminster last week to demand higher hourly wages and better sick pay from the outsourcing company Churchill....
...Not for 20 years, wrote critic Robert Hughes in Time, had “a show by a single painter so hogged the attention of visitors, or looked so effortlessly superior to everything else on view by living artists”...
...She’s great at what she does,” said Chris Hughes, a self-employed software engineer, who hoped an independent Scotland could rejoin Europe, and who along with his wife was voting SNP....
...In American Visions, the critic Robert Hughes argued that while earlier American artists had painted the frontier, Hopper saw that in the 20th century “the old frontier had moved inward and now lay within...
...Buyers were not necessarily all from the continent, but records were set for thirtysomething western contemporary artists including Shara Hughes and Amoako Boafo....
...Jackie Applebee, a general practitioner and chair of the union group Doctors in Unite, said the situation was “shocking”....
...We are in the home of a middle-class African American family, where Beverly (Nicola Hughes) is fussing over a birthday meal for her mother....
...Furthermore, many art lovers are longing for more of what Robert Hughes described as “slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water”....
...You can see why Robert Hughes described a 1973 gallery exhibition as “rap[ping] hotly on the eyeball at 50 paces”. Not, though, hotly or close enough....
...He represented Britain at the Venice biennale in 1984 to stunning effect; critic Robert Hughes wrote that “not since Robert Rauschenberg’s appearance at the Biennale 20 years ago has a show by a single painter...
...No great tragic painter, Robert Hughes noted in his biography, was “more absorbed, in his untragic moments, by the minutiae of fashion than Goya”....
...Additional reporting by Jennifer Hughes and Jackie Cai...
...“People lay on the floor, staring up at themselves reflected in that ceiling, lit by the pale yellow light of their new sun god,” critic Robert Hughes applauded....
...John Hughes: A Life in Film, by Kirk Honeycutt, Race Point, RRP$40 Giant coffee-table tribute to the oddly under-discussed John Hughes (1950-2009), who remains ceaselessly influential as a writer, producer...
...Jackie Wullschlager Architecture Imaginary Cities, by Darran Anderson, Influx Press, RRP£12.99 A compendium of fantasy cities that takes its cue from Marco Polo via Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, this...
...Barnett, who paints, sculpts and stages bizarre performances – reading Ted Hughes, drumming, riding a horse – is the 2013 inaugural artist-in-residence at Girton, Cambridge....
...” … Hold Your Own, by Kate Tempest, Picador Poetry, RRP£9.99 Tempest follows her Ted Hughes Prize-winning Brand New Ancients with a bold retelling of the myth of Tiresias....
...Jackie Wullschlager is the FT’s art critic...
...Hughes’s “Remains of Elmet”, a collaboration with photographer Fay Godwin celebrating Hughes’s home in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire (“Without your pictures there would have been no poems at all,” Hughes...
...No commentator on art since – from Robert Hughes to Sister Wendy – has escaped his influence....
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...I disclose these details in response to the pious theory – held among others by Robert Hughes – that critics should not collect....
...Andy Hughes, analyst at Exane BNP, said the 2013 targets were well ahead of analysts’ consensus forecasts and added that they sent a strong message on investment spending plans....
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