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...“Art Basel is the only fair that gathers so many people in the same place,” says the Antwerp gallerist Sofie Van de Velde....
...This is the setting for an installation by ceramicist Jacob van der Beugel — biscuit-coloured panels of porcelain covering the walls, patterns of jutting elements forming abstract portraits of the Duke and...
...She draws from literature (Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, Precious Bane by Mary Webb), music (the campy patriotism of Vera Lynn) and, of course, other artists....
...It features significant pieces of medieval religious art – one highlight is an early 14th-century French ivory triptych depicting the life of the Virgin Mary....
...Sadly, Sharpe, who ended his distinguished career at Queen Mary, University of London, died before this book was published....
...Additional reporting by Gerrit Wiesmann in Berlin and Mary Watkins in London...
...Roni Horn at Tate Modern – confirm audiences flock to quality....
...Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary By Miri Rubin Penguin, £30 Jewish girl makes good or, rather, God in a highly original take on the veneration of Mary over 2,000 years....
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