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...Gaudí was asked to extend the house in the 1920s but by then had dedicated himself solely to the Sagrada Família and passed the commission to one of his acolytes, Joan Baptista Serra de Martínez....
...The Joan Miró-esque patterns reference González’s Galician roots, says Mesguich. It was in the 20th century that mosaics had another renaissance....
...She succeeded all too well: his paintings overshadowed her efforts to collapse hierarchies between fine art and craft. Hers was the more radical vision, but it faded into the background....
...Joan Collins was “the consummate professional, charming and effectively controlling the whole affair,” recalls Lathigra. She checked her hair and changed her outfit for the picture....
...She recalls a hipster Joan Didion, hair parted dead-centre in two long curtains, a scrunchie on her wrist....
...Its warren of rooms feature curse dolls, ancient talismans and – my forever favourite – a mock-up of the “wise woman’s cottage” where “Old Joan” recites spells and charms to passers-by....
...And what can we learn from their craft that might benefit us in our own lives? It’s obvious that a believable portrayal of status is not achieved simply through details of costume or environment....
...In the midst of this Mad Men-esque moment, Joan met her husband through Henry Rothschild, who founded the influential London craft gallery Primavera in 1945....
...The financial system he helped craft has since been likened to a Ponzi scheme, one which impoverished three-quarters of the population but left its wealthiest — himself included — largely unscathed....
...Art and craft galleries have sprung up practically on every corner....
...Meera interviewed a young militant Hindu while he unsheathed his sword for the camera, but she displays such sensitivity and craft that the viewer ends up feeling momentarily sorry for him....
...When I got interested in photography it was in the early ’80s and it was an obscure thing to be a photographer, it was a real craft.”...
...A happy half-hour’s wandering and browsing takes me through booths selling the normal mixture of craft jewellery, scarves and leather bags, pottery, T-shirts and flip-flops, floaty dresses that you know...
...The surrealist painter, sculptor and ceramicist Joan Miró, who was born in the same city, also took his art to the streets, and his colourful abstract Pla de l’Os mosaic can still be seen on the pavement...
...Now, they juggle 12 hours a day of work meetings, calls, first-grade assignments, arts and crafts, virtual play dates and tantrums....
...There she blossoms as a singer-songwriter: first a folksy, Joan Baez-like minstrel, then a maverick Georgian-British answer to Patti Smith....
...That increased reliance on space is evident in the growing hazard presented by defunct craft and other waste....
...Bingham and Ironside both grew up on the borders of Chelsea, though their families moved in different circles — Ironside’s parents had met at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, while Bingham’s father...
...That was the key; and the craft. Wonderful monsters. His protagonists were demon-driven both figuratively and near-literally....
...The collection was modelled by a starry roster of supermodels such as Bella Hadid, Emily Ratajkowski, Joan Smalls and Karen Elson....
...She laughs, then says, “All the performance craft I have I learnt from those gigs. I just wanted to write and play. I had a policy of saying ‘yes’ to everything, even if they were unpaid....
...Some pieces do fall into familiar rubrics of craft, subtext and beauty: Joan Snyder’s 1975 “Heart On”, for instance — a Cartesian grid overlaid with suggestions of flesh, skin, fluids and scars....
...If sketchy in her craft, my mother was also a pioneer....
...During the past decade, artists with whom it has collaborated have included Joan Jonas, who employed it to make her mirrors for the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015, Fred Wilson and Mona Hatoum...
...In the run-up to the 2020 campaign, some liberals, including Joan C Williams, a professor of law at Hastings, have publicly wondered whether the best candidate to defeat Trump might be another older white...
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