Hints and tips:
...We got into a taxi and went straight to the gallery to start installing the Blake show....
...L isn’t alone....
...Hair, Blake Henderson at CLM using L’Oréal. Make-up, Rebecca Wordingham at Bryant using Surratt and Augustinus Bader. Set design, Phoebe Shakespeare. Photographer’s assistant, Dan Douglas....
...When Mary was invited to the Macallan estate by Jaume Ferràs, the brand’s global creative director, to shoot a portrait of Sir Peter Blake (who co-designed the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album...
...This year’s line-up includes James Blake, Cat Power, Simple Minds, Queens of the Stone Age, Air, Take That and The National....
...The artist I would collect if I could is William Blake – I have a few bookplates framed, but it would be amazing to have an original piece, particularly his print Pity....
...There is Blake, a hitman who runs a vegetarian restaurant, and Slimboy, a gay Nigerian Afro-rapper. Among the Americans, there is a traumatised child and a corporate lawyer....
...“Onorate l’altissimo poeta!” — “Honour the supreme poet!” In Dante’s Divine Comedy, these words are said of Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory....
...Blake Krueger, Wolverine’s chair and chief executive, said its own bricks and mortar presence in the US, as well as footwear, were potential areas for expansion....
...Blake Byers has stepped down as a general partner at GV, a venture capital arm of Google, to start his own firm....
...A mansion was built on the site of the ruin in the late 18th century, and added to over time, creating an L-shaped structure along the cliff....
...Peter Blake, the pop artist who put Carroll on the cover of the Sgt Pepper album and later retreated to the countryside as a founder of the Ruralists, a group devoted to traditionalism in art, contributes...
...The villages around Surrey Hills (pace William Blake) have a long association with paganism and the ritual sacrifice of fleeing cityfolk....
...Mostly we no longer work in the “dark satanic mills” immortalised in William Blake’s “Jerusalem”....
...Saxophonist Dayna Stephens seamlessly develops the final motif into the opening line of his solo, and Jonathan Blake brings the piece to a peak with a thunder of drums....
...Quote of the week “The Americans have constantly said they would bring Iran’s oil sales to zero, but l have to say that we have been able to sell oil as much as we need up until today.” — Eshaq Jahangiri...
...Work by L.S. Lowry, Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan, David Hockney and Peter Blake also features....
...Turned into a hotel in the 1990s, it had opened as L’Aigle d’Or and later been called the Berjaya, named after the Malaysian conglomerate that owned it....
...Quentin Blake, Ralph Steadman — all the illustrators that have gone before. And I’ve worked with some very influential writers. As a young man, it was a seminal experience working with Ted Hughes....
...William Blake’s illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy sits alongside the Codex Seraphinianus, an encyclopedia to an alternative universe, a collectors’ item that sells for thousands....
...‘I, Daniel Blake’ is out now and released in the US on December 23 Photograph: Holly Horner...
...A generalist who sniffs around society haunts can dig up intriguing clues, as Dorothy L Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot demonstrated....
...Works by other regular guests include ceramics by Georges Braque (by the pool) and Fernand Léger (“La jeune fille et l’oiseau”, on the terrace)....
...We follow Old India hand, Jeremiah Blake, along with Lieutenant William Avery, on their hunt for Xavier Mountstuart, a poet obsessed with the Thugs....
...Inside, an artist is painting detailed trompe l’oeil designs on the walls....
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