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...Nicky Spence sounds on the young side for the dying Gerontius, but is touchingly tender....
...Marrying the humour of Monty Python, the directorial flair of Peter Brook, the radical politics of Marx and the Albion-oriented ferocity of a latter-day William Blake, Deller works across installation, film...
...Generally, however, their representation fed into the theory of picturesque, first propounded by William Gilpin, that exalted nature only when it was sufficiently pretty or dramatic to serve as a model for...
...Letter in response to this article: Plea to university fund to act on fossil fuels / From Professor William Spence, Queen Mary University of London, London E1, UK...
...After a spell at the Slade in London, he moved to Paris and joined Atelier 17, a printmaking workshop founded by Stanley William Hayter, a British Surrealist artist....
...As inspired a writer as he was an artist, influenced by the dark, risky, surreal odysseys of authors such as JG Ballard and William Burroughs, he once wrote: “Nothing is more corruptible than truth.”...
...Professor William SpenceQueen Mary University of LondonLondon E1, UK...
...Procter skewers William Hamilton, whose sale of antiquities to the British Museum in 1772 was a founding column of its collection....
...The story of their creation is a crucial thread in the narrative woven by curator William Dalrymple at London’s Wallace Collection as he explores a neglected chapter in art history....
...In a short clip of his daughter, Nina Williams, demonstrating the “Constructivist Ballet” he made as a toy for her in 1945 (and on display beneath the film), she explains how her father placed tiny scavenged...
...This artist, one of the show’s revelations, was born in Bristol as Marjorie Watson-Williams but assumed her more genderless moniker in 1928 after she moved to France....
...Andrew Spence Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK...
...established itself as “a quasi-institutional space”, as well known for community projects such as education, publishing and public programming as for its championship of artists such as David Koloane and William...
...William Kentridge contains multitudes. The South African artist draws, films, writes, directs, performs, makes and collaborates. Often all in the same work....
...This they did with piratical enthusiasm,” William Dalrymple writes....
...There are some fine performances among the men — Nicky Spence, Alex Otterburn, William Morgan and especially Alan Opie, another ENO veteran at 74 — and the chorus is on good form....
...On a sweltering Saturday afternoon in early July, I’m sitting in the leafy garden courtyard of the Mosaic Rooms in London’s Earl’s Court interviewing William Wells....
...The contemporary collaboration between poet Alice Oswald and painter William Tillyer proves that this age-old rapport is as nutritious as ever....
...When I asked Peter Dauthieu of Williams & Humbert, producers of some very fine sherries, why he gave the BFT a miss this year, he said: “My feeling is that it’s more a port-minded event now, when before...
...Riffing on a work by 18th-century British satirist William Hogarth, Himid’s large-scale tableau of painted wooden cut-outs, collage, text and images — including a periwigged Georgian gentleman, a calm, black...
...It marks 25 years since British curator Val Williams’ groundbreaking 1994 exhibition Who’s looking at the family?....
...Commissioned in 1906 by London-based German industrialist Emile Mond and his wife Angela as a portrait of their young son Alfred William, the ghostly, flowing lines of Rosso’s sculpture — which aimed, so...
...Tillmans’ work illustrates William Carlos Williams’ observation that there are “no ideas but in things”....
...With a clutch of top galleries — HackelBury, Fahey/Klein, Hamiltons — bringing blue-chip works by the likes of William Klein, Horst and Helmut Newton, it’s somewhere the appetite of moneyed collectors is...
...The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington, by Joanna Moorhead, Virago, RRP£20, 304 pages Rachel Spence is an FT art critic.Her poetry pamphlet ‘Furies’ (2016) is published by Templar Poetry...
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