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Underneath the arches...
...there's an awful lot going on. Somebody should make a book about all the things to be found under London's 25 miles of railway arches. The arches are a natural home for wine vaults and fringe theatres. Dodgy car mechanics also thrive in the dark spaces beneath curving Victorian brick, b... Read more ...
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Waftaroms, indotherms and the graphic language...
Don't know a grawlix from a plewd or an agitron from an indotherm ? Finding words for the marks made by cartoonists is a funny business. A jokey article about the marks cartoonists make for things like movement, emotion and radiation is now the stuff of earnest research into the ... Read more ...
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In the light at St Ives
Ivo (or Yves or Ives) of Kermartin, the patron saint of lawyers and abandoned children, is said to have been commemorated with the inscription "St Ives was Breton/ A lawyer and not a thief/ Marvelous thing to the people." It's somehow reassuring to know that lawyers were mistrusted even ... Read more ...
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The beast within?
A report in Pravda (of all reliable sources) says that centaurs were real . Researchers decided this because of the number of cave paintings depicting the chimeric creatures. The article states, in a somewhat old-fashioned translation, that: "Historical sources reveal that buggery was v... Read more ...
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Four days in Vienna
“If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna” said Napoleon. A tall order for the art-lover with just four days in which to attempt to do justice to the major sites. The Kunsthistorisches, the Albertina, the Belvedere, the Imperial Library, the Ephesus and the Musical Instrument collections, t... Read more ...
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Uganda, Janet Museveni for Iraq
Janet Museveni the wife of Yoweri Museveni will continue to support George Bush's War in Iraq because that's what fundamentalist christians do! Read more ...
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Uganda today, beauty from the Great Lakes
Its not everyday that we spend time with a Congolese beautiful sister from Rutshuru, in diaspora [uganda] as most sisters are either scattered in refugee camps around the great lakes region, experiencing discrimination and missery from fellow africans who are too selfish to look beyond ... Read more ...
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Top of the art pops?
Which are the world's 50 greatest works of art? The Telegraph has published Martin Gayford's list . It's necessarily a fabulously subjective exercise, running all the way from an Egyptian sculpture of 2800 BC via van Eyck, Michelangelo and Velázquez to a sculpture by Donald Judd from 1982.... Read more ...
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Truth in art at Christ Church
What is the 'real meaning' of art and what value should be placed on what is 'authentic' over the work of copyists? At Christ Church Picture Gallery , Oxford, Curator Jacqueline Thalmann provided a fascinating introduction to the collection which is housed in a striking subterranean gallery... Read more ...
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The power of ornament
Web find of the month is a site devoted to complete reproductions of illuminated books. It includes Owen Jones' astonishing Grammar of Ornament (1856), a tour de force of nineteenth century letterpress and chromolithographic printing which has had an incalculable influence on artis... Read more ...