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...Reynolds’ lofty, stargazing “Francis Barber” (c1770), who was Samuel Johnson’s secretary, and Gainsborough’s nonchalantly easy “Ignatius Sancho” (1768), writer, composer, abolitionist, are classicised, noble...
...To the accompaniment of Samuel Barber’s funereal Adagio for Strings, resounding across the galleries, Collishaw sets Wardian glass cases with precious plants to drift on the open sea, towards an island that...
...Philanthropy looks more neutral the further back you go in time, but by any standards Samuel Courtauld was a generous visionary, gathering gifts for the nation in the 1920s....
...Admiral Sir John “Jackie” Fisher had only just retired as First Sea Lord, the navy’s military commander, but Churchill, now the civilian head of the Royal Navy, wanted to put him back to work to campaign...
...One of the most vivid illustrations of life in the 17th century comes from diarist Samuel Pepys’ description of his meals....
...The display begins with Bewick, William Blake and Samuel Palmer, who saw in Blake’s engravings “visions of little dells, and nooks, and corners of Paradise” unveiling “the soul of beauty through the forms...
...Then there’s John Berger, Samuel Beckett and John Lennon. It’s a funny mixed bag, a bit like who would you invite to dinner....
...It could happen to any us of leaving our work,” said Jackie Gallou, a primary school teacher who joined thousands of demonstrators in the Place de la République....
...Samuel Courtauld was among Hansen’s competitors in the 1920s’ international scramble for Impressionist pictures....
...Samuel Brittan, the FT columnist who died this week aged 86, was a towering figure inside and outside the newspaper....
...It’s early days but let’s see where the exploration takes me…” harrymorgan.info William Hibbert & Samuel Baker: the furniture makers “We didn’t set out to conquer the world of furniture....
...In voracious detail, picaresque form and enlarged empathy, Hogarth belongs with novelists Henry Fielding, Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson as chroniclers of a new enterprise: the individual’s progress...
...American plays such as Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer-winning Fairview, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon and Appropriate have also made an impact in the UK, and Jeremy O....
...transforms the documentary genre into expressionist theatricality: enshrouded in black, the gnarled, crumpled faces of his down-and-out collaborators are harshly spotlit, absurdly heroic — think Fritz Lang, Samuel...
...With A Vision for Painting Arnault gambled: inevitably one asks how paintings collected by a billionaire today measure against the Manets and Monets amassed by Samuel Courtauld (1876-1947), moneyed collector...
...The exhibition begins in Venice, with Samuel Prout’s luminous 1830s watercolour “Piazzetta di San Marco”. “Sometimes I tire of Turner but never of Prout,” Ruskin wrote....
...Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’s book The Lost Words has morphed into many forms since it was published in 2017....
...Post-Impressionist works — Gauguin’s opulent Tahitian nude “Nevermore”, Degas’ feathery/exuberant “Two Dancers on a Stage”, Cézanne’s radiant, rustling “Tall Trees at the Jas de Bouffan” — acquired by Samuel...
...Fellow player Samuel Eto’o described him as “God”....
...Instead, the plays, on stage andas reinterpreted here, mirror the complexity of life, partaking as the great empiricist Samuel Johnson wrote of them, “of good and evil, joy and sorrow . . . expressing the...
...Other works in Büchler’s most comprehensive UK exhibition, opened this week, include “Fly”, an exit sign accompanied by the sound of a buzzing fly, and “Inside Watt”, veils of text by Samuel Beckett applied...
...tate.org.uk, 020 7887 8888, to May 10 William Tillyer: The Palmer Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London Subtitled “Clouds that Drop Fatness on the Earth”, Tillyer’s paintings alluding to Samuel Palmer...
...ikon-gallery.org, 0121 248 0708, Friday to May 4 Prunella Clough, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London Although she later veered towards abstraction, Clough’s early mission was to find beauty in the wastelands...
...Abundant fruit, wooded hills, ripe golden corn and large woolly sheep are all unnaturally bright, intensely coloured in praise of God’s munificence, in Samuel Palmer’s rhapsodic “The Magic Apple Tree”....
...There are several difficulties with this premise, the first being that, his undoubted gifts notwithstanding, Gore Vidal was no Samuel Johnson....
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