Hints and tips:
...We got into a taxi and went straight to the gallery to start installing the Blake show....
...L isn’t alone....
...Hair, Blake Henderson at CLM using L’Oréal. Make-up, Rebecca Wordingham at Bryant using Surratt and Augustinus Bader. Set design, Phoebe Shakespeare. Photographer’s assistant, Dan Douglas....
...When Mary was invited to the Macallan estate by Jaume Ferràs, the brand’s global creative director, to shoot a portrait of Sir Peter Blake (who co-designed the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album...
...This year’s line-up includes James Blake, Cat Power, Simple Minds, Queens of the Stone Age, Air, Take That and The National....
...The artist I would collect if I could is William Blake – I have a few bookplates framed, but it would be amazing to have an original piece, particularly his print Pity....
...The former president called for Kemp to resign, while L Lin Wood, one of Trump’s most high-profile supporters, suggested the Georgia governor should be arrested....
...There is Blake, a hitman who runs a vegetarian restaurant, and Slimboy, a gay Nigerian Afro-rapper. Among the Americans, there is a traumatised child and a corporate lawyer....
...“Onorate l’altissimo poeta!” — “Honour the supreme poet!” In Dante’s Divine Comedy, these words are said of Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory....
...Blake Krueger, Wolverine’s chair and chief executive, said its own bricks and mortar presence in the US, as well as footwear, were potential areas for expansion....
...Blake Byers has stepped down as a general partner at GV, a venture capital arm of Google, to start his own firm....
...The villages around Surrey Hills (pace William Blake) have a long association with paganism and the ritual sacrifice of fleeing cityfolk....
...At Seasons & Reasons general store and gift shop, owners Gerry and Janice Brookes haven’t stopped to breathe since Guinness blessed their street....
...Mostly we no longer work in the “dark satanic mills” immortalised in William Blake’s “Jerusalem”....
...Saxophonist Dayna Stephens seamlessly develops the final motif into the opening line of his solo, and Jonathan Blake brings the piece to a peak with a thunder of drums....
...Quote of the week “The Americans have constantly said they would bring Iran’s oil sales to zero, but l have to say that we have been able to sell oil as much as we need up until today.” — Eshaq Jahangiri...
...Work by L.S. Lowry, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Hockney and Peter Blake also features....
...Turned into a hotel in the 1990s, it had opened as L’Aigle d’Or and later been called the Berjaya, named after the Malaysian conglomerate that owned it....
...I have works by Peter Blake, Anthony Donaldson, Peter Phillips, Clive Barker, Pauline Boty and a couple of Hockneys....
...William Blake’s illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy sits alongside the Codex Seraphinianus, an encyclopedia to an alternative universe, a collectors’ item that sells for thousands....
...Via Nerino 8, 20123 Milan (+3902-7202 1006; paravicini.it) The best book I’ve read in the past year is Sunnylands by Janice Lyle....
...‘I, Daniel Blake’ is out now and released in the US on December 23 Photograph: Holly Horner...
...A generalist who sniffs around society haunts can dig up intriguing clues, as Dorothy L Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot demonstrated....
...France’s competition watchdog handed out a record €951m in fines to companies including L’Oréal after finding its colluded prices were not worth it....
...Works by other regular guests include ceramics by Georges Braque (by the pool) and Fernand Léger (“La jeune fille et l’oiseau”, on the terrace)....
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