Hints and tips:
...Just ask Nam June Paik, the South Korean jester-savant who, in the act of inventing video art, also foresaw the internet from the primitive mid-20th century....
...He really was, in this case, more or less literally a licensed jester. Here was a version of the “roast” in which the whole audience was the target....
...Serious figure or court jester? What sort of prime minister would Boris Johnson be? In Birmingham, Johnson supporters are out in force....
...The intellectual jester of conceptualism, Manzoni placed a plinth upside down to suggest that our entire planet was displayed on its surface....
...It revives Gerald Bostock, the main character from Jethro Tull’s 1972 hit Thick as a Brick; then a child prodigy poet, now semi-retired in the West Country where he stumbles over a 19th-century manuscript...
...I was a small child when I first saw him dance, four years later, during the Kirov’s Royal Festival Hall season....
...Another child at the bus stop, it transpired, had already nabbed the actor who played this part, Robert Horton, for her husband....
...In Mozartiana (1981) Balanchine moved the third movement, the prayer, to the start so that the jester’s gigue that follows brings to mind “Vanity of vanities; all is vanity”....
...Lethem brilliantly records the dynamic between Brown and his entourage, the singer being “both their idol and their jester, their tyrannical father and ludicrous child”....
...So too, Christopher Jordan sports 18th-century naval dress as the polished Sebastian then a swimming costume and flippers as the jester Trinculo....
...Catherine, quiet, dignified captive before the tumult, kneels in prayer; her hasty executioner, ghoulish in something like a jester’s outfit, grabs her by the chin with sinister precision, tilting her neck...
...They gathered together in a hotel ballroom and were told by a German “facilitator” in a jester’s hat to start going “ha-ha-ha-hee-hee-hee”....
...The humanity and individuality Velazquez brings to his buffoons and dwarves, the quirky modern perspective for the portrait of jester “Pablo de Valladolid”, is a highlight of this show....
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