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...Antecedents are Jean Arp’s and Henry Moore’s biomorphic abstractions, but their forms are fixed, usually in bronze. By contrast, flux, process, transience and mixed media are keynotes here....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...They begin with his early direct style: “Catherine Moore” (1752), fiancée of architect William Chambers, meets us with a frank, intelligent gaze....
...In its latest, Michael Armitage’s “John Barry, O Kelly, Sonny and Richard Moore”, four Hackney dustmen work through lockdown....
...Carved in stone which imitates every texture — soft fabric against flesh, hard rock lodged in the giant’s forehead, delicate amaranth wreath — he looks at once real and archaic....
...“And I remember Spain,” wrote the Irish poet Louis MacNeice, the “tripper” in the rain in 1938 recalling “sherry, shellfish, omelettes . . . fretted stone the Moor/Had chiselled for effects of sun and shadow...
...All four figures are carved from a single block of marble weighing 2,700kg, though Michelangelo complained that the stone was “full of impurities”, adding to his torment over the work....
...At the heart of the fair, the V&A’s Melanie Vandenbrouck has curated a sculpture display on the east-west axis previously occupied by the bar....
...“There is a marvellous suggestion of life bursting out of the stone,” Vasari wrote. To Clark, George carved in 1415-17 was a “1914 soldier . . . the ideal of humanity”....
...’s, where tiny fragments of stone stand in rows, inspirations for monuments....
...“We purchased a house in Kings Worthy on the [north-east] outskirts as a stepping stone.”...
...American Gardens by Monty Don and Derry Moore is published by Prestel (£35)...
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough” beneath skies heaving with cherubs are the feeblest late-runners in a genre whose apogee — directness, vigour, suggestions of contained power — was Titian’s “Charles V”...
...Easter family quiz Round One Pacific Georgia The Stone Roses by the Stone Roses Aldermaston (home of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment) Glasgow Rebel without a Cause Okinawa Pride and Prejudice...
...Headspace: how to stay sane in a pandemic Elaine Moore Spiritual enlightenment via smartphone is easy to scoff at....
...And in Leeds, Henry Moore’s legacy is conserved at the institute that bears his name....
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letter in repsonse to this article: Beauty visible to God from every angle / From John H V Gilbert, Vancouver, BC, Canada...
...On the stone façade of Palazzo Chiaramonte in Palermo, there are grooves left by the iron cages in which hung the severed heads of aristocrat rebels against Emperor Charles V....
...A top might have a cut-out detail, and there were deep V necklines and some short skirts, but most of the women’s looks were sleeved, midi-length and long....
...Woolery began his career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he spent 17 years and rose to partner....
..., creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta and author of Jerusalem, an epic, working-class, Blakean novel set in Northampton, where he still lives....
...Thankfully, “the V&A this year is having a bumper year. It’s 16 per cent up year on year, which is a lot of visitors to be up”....
...At this stage, little differentiates Hepworth from Moore....
...Marking the centenary of Gaudier-Brzeska’s death, aged 23, in the first world war, this show focuses on the sculptor’s engagement with dance and movement, taking as starting point his major works “Red Stone...
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