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...Canadian potter John Reeve created a community of Mingei-style potters in Canada, while New Zealand potter Len Castle, who had worked with Hamada in Japan, pioneered his country’s studio pottery movement...
...May 16 to October 13; further information and tickets here ‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’, V&A South Kensington The couple’s extraordinary private collection...
...Corin Mellor, creative director of David Mellor DesignRichard Batterham: Studio Potter by Tanya Harrod and Sarah Griffin This was published alongside an exhibition of his work at the V&A....
...His other hand holds the rod with the Hand of Justice made for the 14th-century king Charles V, destroyed during the revolution and remade in 1804 for its new sovereign....
...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...John Hackney slaps a clay disc on a mould, secures it with a beefy palm then spins his table towards the jaws of a pressing machine....
...Potter’s solos are gripping, but the album’s success rests on Cowherd’s tight-knit trio and his arranger’s grasp of narrative form — the pianist’s session credits range from guitarist John Scofield to Iggy...
...There are just three monks now but in its pomp this was a thriving spiritual, intellectual and commercial centre....
...My personal style signifiers are quite simple – I always wear a blue John Smedley V-neck jumper and Levi’s 501 jeans, and I’ve been doing that for the past 30 years....
...He chose his papal name partly in honour of St Benedict, the 5th-century founder of the Benedictine order of monks that helped spread the Christian message across Europe....
...John Berger, who eulogised the lifestyle of subsistence farmers in the French Pyrenees in 1979’s Pig Earth, would have appreciated the rhythms of village life as it still was in the early 2000s: the set-in-stone...
...John Coltrane’s “Equinox” was the theme, played by Wilkins with a dry, focused tone and a hint of breath....
...Monks, Sir Martin Sorrell’s digital advertising company. Only a few retailers have expanded successfully beyond national boundaries....
...Eric Owens, a weak Philip, is outsung by John Relyea as the Inquisitor, but I would just as soon hear Matthew Rose (a Monk) in either role....
...Music is central to Theaster, and his band The Black Monks is an important part of his life and practice, “expounding the word of art alongside the word of god”....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, which tracks data on the health of democracies, recently reclassified the country as an “electoral autocracy”....
...Dr Seuss Toy Story 4 Hood Timmy Harry Potter Picture Quiz The word was Jerusalem Idris Elba Judy Murray Edward Elgar Kylie Jenner Sam Smith Kirstie Alley John Updike Adele Roberts Rebecca Long Bailey...
...Allan Monks: The Bank of England would feel comfortable cutting to -0.5 per cent if it needed to....
...Armenian monks live in the same monastery on the beautiful Isla San Lazzaro to this day, serving up fine food and immersing themselves in a library of ancient manuscripts....
...If you were only to read it, you might think that the famous skit on British attitudes to class as embodied by John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett was just another example of punching down....
...From about 1300, the monks of Furness Abbey had been scouring the hills for iron and felling woods for charcoal....
...Rory Hyde, curator of contemporary architecture at the V&A Museum, describes it as one of the architectural masterpieces of the 20th century....
...But for keyboardist John Beasley, reconfiguring Monk’s legacy with the rich sonorities and punch of orchestral brass is just the start....
...Three numbers in, Garnett introduced Jimmy Heath’s “A Sound for Sore Ears” as once being a favourite theme tune for Ronnie Scott....
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