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...Another new connection is with the writer and director James Lucas, who is working on a biopic about Moss’s friendship with Lucian Freud....
...Beatrice Hodgkin will chair a session on psychedelics at the FTWeekend Festival at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, on 20 May....
...The Hall’s sculpture park, reached by miniature railway, is also open throughout the festival, with works by James Turrell, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Long, Stephen Cox and Anya Gallacio. 10 to 13 August,...
...Beatrice Hodgkin is also focused on the delights to be found in childhood matters – in this case the books she reads to her sons and daughter....
...Nevertheless, even the most transgressive scenarios have an escapist, romantic, Mills & Boon-esque spin about them – more EL James than Pauline Réage’s Story of O....
...The court drew the attention of Nike, which in 2009 sponsored another revamp designed by Ashpool and Wu Yué Nyno, and endorsed by LA Lakers megastar LeBron James, who formally opened it....
...solo show for Hodgkin, Memories, runs until December 11....
...But one of the quickest accelerators to the business came in 2006, when Daniel Craig wore bespoke Riviera polo shirts to play James Bond in Casino Royale....
...She played a variant on Melanie in the role that won the actress her second Oscar in 1949, The Heiress (based on Henry James’ Washington Square)....
...Also on offer were seven works by Lancaster favourite Howard Hodgkin, including his angular “Tea Party in America” (1948), the first painting in the artist’s catalogue raisonné and made when he was only...
...The gallery has assembled a line-up of pictures, including works by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Georg Baselitz, Pablo Picasso, Howard Hodgkin and Jean-Michel Basquiat....
...dramatic backcloth: lusty minimalist brush strokes of magenta and emerald lent extra depth by James F Ingalls’s prismatic lighting....
...The poet James Fenton recalls Hodgkin’s agitation when he spotted a rare 17th-century Alcaraz flat weave carpet folded up amid a pile in a shop window in Biarritz — he could only have seen two or three inches...
...Hodgkin himself said: “I paint representational pictures of emotional situations.”...
...Art dealers “Mr and Mrs James Kirkman”, she reduced to flamboyant blue/red earrings and green necklace, he a grey blur, shimmer out of veils of hot colours....
...Works by Frank Auerbach, Peter Blake and Howard Hodgkin will also go under the hammer....
...Villareal’s family is from Marfa, Texas and he grew up aware of the work of light artists such as James Turrell and Dan Flavin. Pace’s first show is planned for London next year....
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney is the FT’s pop critic Illustration by James Ferguson...
...Such was his zeal for botany that Sir Joseph Banks, the swashbuckling naturalist who accompanied James Cook on his epic 18th-century voyage aboard the Endeavour, once gave his wife a brooch made from dried...
...This rich exhibition, which includes Howard Hodgkin’s Indian miniatures, Andy Warhol’s cookie jars, Edmund de Waal’s netsuke, Damien Hirst’s taxidermy lion, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s early edition of Newton’s Principia...
...Instinctively it feels vulnerable to have only one aircraft to do what we do,” Mr Hodgkin told the Financial Times....
...It is true, however, that writers – for instance, Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst and James Fenton, the latter a guest at Hodgkin’s house in Normandy this Christmas – are certainly among his closest friends...
...Howard Hodgkin takes a fragment of remembrance and broad-brushes it into visual theatre. His frames act as a box in which an ambiguously brilliant light show happens....
...“There’s an appetite for the immersive experience, both physical and phenomenological like James Turrell, or emotional like Bill Viola.” But, I say, no one really likes video....
...A deadringer for the actor James Franco, he looked unfailingly chill. “Nothing too strong,” I said....
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