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...Magdalene Odundo said no when she was first approached about staging an exhibition at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, the Palladian mansion built in the 1720s for Britain’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole...
...The exhibition guide includes salient facts on Frederick Roberts’ role in creating Boer concentration camps, or Clive’s in the Great Bengal Famine....
...A few wine glasses, a bottle of red wine and a clay vessel of Maotai liquor stand among the plates and bowls. At first glance, it all looks rather appetising....
...Sophy Roberts Baths of Diocletian, Rome I was in Rome in October because I wanted to see the largest retrospective yet of a British photographer I greatly admire, Don McCullin, at Palazzo Esposizioni Roma...
...He looks a bit out of his depth on clay, but on indoor courts he looks absolutely sensational.”...
...Born and raised in Clay, a suburb of Syracuse, New York, he attended the State University of New York at Oneonta, followed by a degree at Harvard Law School....
...spring from the stone; the flex of a finely muscled arm; an ivory hare, small enough to fit in the palm of my hand; the neck of a 7,000-year-old jar, which looked like Picasso might have copied it, the clay...
...of Hemingway, often eschewing conventional punctuation, with the baroque inflections of Faulkner, comprising allusions that stretched from Beowulf and Shakespeare, through Melville and Hawthorne, up to Robert...
...Sophy Roberts travelled as a guest of Geographic Expeditions (geoex.com)....
...Something for the weekend Soraya Roberts examines the chest thumping machismo of sports-adventure films which went out with the 1990s. Are they set for a return?...
...Yet this is where you will find the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, in the imposing cube-shaped building known as the Schaulager, whose clay-coloured, roughened concrete facade looms like an ancient ruin against...
...American minimalist counterparts include Agnes Martin’s trembling grids, Donald Judd’s gold-hued stacks, Robert Ryman’s white paintings....
...Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Mendick presents the complex relationship many people have with alcohol, bouncing between denial of pleasure and destructive...
...One freestanding bookshelf holds 4,500 volumes that belonged to the late Slavic studies scholar Robert Bird....
...s aesthetic decisions, from the furnishings and ceramics selected that were made by local craftspeople, to the use of plant-oil resin for sealing the floors (as opposed to traditional polyurethane) and clay...
...The client, who wanted to minimise the use of materials that would exacerbate his children’s asthma, asked for traditional, clay-based plaster rather than a more modern, chemically based alternative....
...Then four clay bowls containing what looked to be Indian vegetable korma, Arabic hummus, Zanzibari kidney beans and African porridge....
...They seem stuck in the groove of the powerful, concentrated wines championed by US critics such as Robert Parker in the 1990s....
...When I went to her house in Naples, Florida, this March, she Zoomed in as a guest on the ThriveTime Show, a podcast hosted by conservative author Clay Clark....
...Some 15 years ago, a racket was a useful touristic prop when arriving in Harare during one of Robert Mugabe’s crackdowns on the opposition, when journalists were not welcome....
...Meanwhile, Riopelle’s compressed, fiery-hued thatches — “Composition” (1950), “Hommage à Robert le Diabolique” (1953) — speak of emotions crushed so fiercely they can only erupt into chaos....
...For Fattal, the alive quality of clay is everything. “With clay, a piece is always animated,” she says. “Sometimes I have to work in bronze, but it doesn’t talk to my heart in the same way.”...
...In his Berlin home, bricks are left unplastered on one wall, with the ceiling and much of the remaining walls painted Robert Ryman white....
...Harewood, designed by architects John Carr and Robert Adam and set in 1,000 acres of grounds landscaped by Capability Brown, was built for Edwin Lascelles (1713-1795), who owned plantations in the Caribbean...
...Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Francis Bacon, Jasper Johns . . . these are just some of the 400 works on public view in Holmby Hills and rarely lent....
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