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...Painted in 1903-04, her portrait of McNeill marks a period when the pair walked through France, sleeping alfresco and selling drawings to make ends meet....
...Neuropsychologist Mark Solms tried but was forced to abandon an attempt to transfer ownership of his family’s farm in Franschhoek to those who worked on it....
...Since 2018, Julien has spent several months a year in California, where both he and his partner Mark Nash are professors at the University of California Santa Cruz....
...“It brings the drinker as close as possible to the wine without getting in the way,” says Noble Rot co-founder Mark Andrews....
...It is a phenomenon that former UK prime minister Gordon Brown, Nobel laureate Michael Spence, Reid Lidow and I analyse in a new book Permacrisis....
...Although it also includes works made from Lego, the Venice show marks the apotheosis of Ai’s bond with Murano glass....
...Dangerous, decadent, uncanny and mundane, it marks Oldenburg and van Bruggen as latter-day Lewis Carrolls who leave their audience uncertain whether they are having a ball at the Mad Hatter’s tea party or...
...A Hoover pipe snakes up a fishnet-stockinged leg in Jo Spence’s “Libido Uprising” (1989) and clouds of pulverised stone shoot out like rockets from a quarry in Nayoa Hatakeyama’s “Blast #5707” (1998)....
...The Spence, its all-day bar and restaurant, practically begs you to live a little from the moment you’re seated: shoot a couple of oysters (Argyle Rock, naturally), accept that top-up of Charles Heidsieck...
...He’s always come with a bunch of question marks. Was he too dark, too cruel, too male?...
...We have moved on since ageing tenors struggled to portray the boyish Parsifal on stage, but the bright, youthful tenor of Toby Spence is not quite the answer....
...Alongside Alfredo Jaar and Cecilia Vicuña, he is also one of the few Chilean artists to have made his mark internationally....
...The only other viewers were an elderly couple in the corner, with whom I had avoided eye contact because I’d smuggled in popcorn from Marks and Spencer....
...But the DUP’s move is pushing some voters to reconsider how to mark their ballots in a system where second and third preference votes can be crucial....
...“But [the chief] just made a mark.” Nauman, who says he was obliged to sign countless legal documents after Rothenberg’s death, had a moment of revelation. “Why can’t I just have a mark?...
...The Townhouse marks its first outpost beyond the glen in the hotel’s 98-year history — which surely makes it the slowest brand roll-out on record....
...(Incredibly it marks the first time that Linder has shown in the city of her birth, though her links with the Manchester music scene have seen her indelibly associated with Liverpool’s rival city.)...
...Created this year, the paintings mark a compelling new direction for the artist born in Dagenham, east London....
...It now resides in St Mark’s Cathedral. Whitley’s considerations led her to contemporary painters such as Mike Cloud, who will show at Possessions with the Thomas Erben gallery....
...writes Herrera, the exclamation mark underscoring her excitement at a world where she saw “the first production of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot . . . what a shock!”...
...At the far end of the space hangs a canvas bearing a furious tangle of the whippy, gestural marks that are Hambling’s signature....
...Indeed, you need only look at the work of Eddie Spence, the retired royal cake decorator, to appreciate baking as a bona fide art form....
...Cruise ships continue to glide through the Bay of St Marks just metres from the shore. But for how much longer? Natural disasters are now stemming tourist flows....
...Their intensity casts a spell over the space, as if Mark Rothko had found inspiration in a Renaissance Madonna....
...Spence was in edgy voice for those. Finley, eloquent as ever, sang a gritty group of songs on animal themes by Mark-Anthony Turnage....
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