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...Among biographies to watch for are John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso Volume IV (Jonathan Cape, March), which takes us to the “minotaur years” of the 1930s, the Spanish civil war and surrealist poetry....
...She attributes this interest to childhood summers spent copying the designs from her mother’s Laura Ashley catalogues, where she learnt that pattern has a discipline of form and space....
...Like them, his major titles — such as Animal IV: Last Rites, which street vendors in Harlem eagerly asked after when I accompanied him on a recent visit — cause a stir on the street....
...cft.org.uk, 01243 781312, to November 8 Henry IV, Donmar Warehouse, London Phyllida Lloyd’s second all-female Shakespeare production (condensing both parts of Henry IV into one) is a revelation....
...It wasn’t much fun: jointly with the autobiography of the footballer Ashley Cole, Ye’or’s Eurabia is the worst book I’ve ever read....
...Sound all the lofty instruments of war,” (Hotspur, son of the Earl of Northumberland; Henry IV Part I.) Flushed out When feeding the parking meter, spare a thought for Newcastle’s Theatre Royal....
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