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...Reedy woodwind evokes the drowsy languor of the jungle climate, but CocoRosie’s eclectic music could give the other animals an identity, too, and lyrics feel flimsy: “I’m a tree-hugger, I’m a free lover....
...On the copper, Ward has spray-painted a composition of spirals, using prayer beads and the bricks as stencils....
...I’m going there on Friday to talk about restitution of second world war loot. So you see it creates a bond that is more interesting.”...
...Letters from M/M (Paris) by Paul McNeil is published by Thames & Hudson at $50...
...I have got us a stencil of the UK, complete with Ireland. Oh, perhaps you do care a little....
...I’ll draw the design using stencils and shell it out.’...
...“I thought, ‘Wow, this is great, I’m doing something right! They took the time to pay attention.’”...
...I’m fascinated by Warhol and artists like him who brought a bigger audience into fine art. He may not have been so political, but that’s what I’m going for.”...
...I’m mostly vegan but I call myself a “vagan” because I’m vague about it – I occasionally eat eggs and fish....
...I cut it up to use for graphics or as a stencil for textile design. An indulgence I would never forgo is a really good latte every morning. I don’t drink or smoke but I’m addicted to coffee....
...One Etsy seller is flogging stencils to make a trail of elf footprints with icing sugar. Thus, it is possible to spend hundreds of pounds on your child before Christmas has even arrived....
...I’m really interested in the culture around each designer’s interpretation of a piece.”...
...Lastly, Coldplay’s Guy Berryman invites us to tour his country home (“I’m a Total Nerd”)....
...Take Cuero Viejo, which features a traditional stencil design in off-white on a burgundy background. These were reclaimed from an entrance to a mansion in Córdoba....
...If people say, ‘You make me smile every day on my way to work’ well, that’s all I’m after.”...
...“Having outlived all my critics, I’m a keener vegan now even than I was when I started! And I do feel we’re on to something really big!”...
...The spray-painted stencil of a child migrant, just above the waterline, was not part of the official show but a fringe work by Banksy, the British artist famous for his politically-engaged guerrilla street...
...“Queers hate techies” is an oft-used stencil on the sidewalk near my street in The Castro neighbourhood, which ironically has a high proportion of gay tech workers....
...“Everything I’m saying now is so heavy, isn’t it?” he says....
...The resulting “Koransha blue” glazed tea sets interpret the ancient stencil technique in a more abstract way with decorative spherical, moon-like shapes....
...I’m creating all the time. But it has definitely lost the buzz. The adrenaline I used to get out of illegal painting was amazing.” It’s easier for teenagers to see graffiti now, he says....
...On an industrial estate in El Viso del Alcor, a town half an hour’s drive east of Seville, I’m watching as Antonio González, founder of the Cerámica Artística factory, uses a stencil and a fabric pouch filled...
...“I’m the preferably silent partner,” he quips. The San Francisco-based couple stays focused on their mission of collecting artists of the global African diaspora....
...“I’m the eldest,” he says. “I’m a man from Uganda and a conservative Christian home . . . Bisexuality was not discussed.” She worried if he would be OK....
...“I’m full of curiosity, as when one visits a new country. For I’ve never before advanced this far in the expression of colours. Up to now I’ve been merely tarrying at the temple gates.”...
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