Archive for July, 2010

There is a huge physical presence in his paintings: the hand of the

There is a huge physical presence in his paintings: the hand of the man undisguised in the sweep of a big brush loaded with paint. Physicality aside, the ingredients of Scully’s and Riley’s work are similar: an emphasis on order, structure and method, a basic language of stripes and colour, but the effect of their [...]

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The strange silence of the British press in its non-coverage of the newly intriguing private life

The strange silence of the British press in its non-coverage of the newly intriguing private life of Rupert Murdoch has caused commentators to speculate about a secret newspaper proprietors’ agreement not to wash each other’s dirty linen in public. A shock separation after over three decades of apparently stable marriage, shacking up with a smart [...]

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But why I asked production designer Mike Oxley was HMP Larkhall based

But why, I asked production designer Mike Oxley, was HMP Larkhall based on a male prison? The only female jail with landings and low-ceilinged cells was Risley women’s unit, which has closed. “We visited Winchester jail, but the women’s unit there is modern, not like a prison at all,” explains Oxley. “We needed to create [...]

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It’s an exhibition about artists and models in Britain from the mid-

It’s an exhibition about artists and models, in Britain, from the mid- 19th to the mid-20th century. Perhaps a little history will be interesting.”The Artist’s Model: Etty to Spencer” isn’t exclusively about nakedness. “Nudity in Contemporary Art” would be a funny-sounding exhibition rubric, but there would be thousands of potential candidates. However slim the pretext, [...]

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It’s all way over-the-top but it powerfully underlines the way that sex gets perverted for this couple into goading blackmail a stimulus to

It’s all way over-the-top, but it powerfully underlines the way that sex gets perverted, for this couple, into goading blackmail, a stimulus to and attempted relief from murder.It’s not long, though, before the show makes a cacophonous change of gear. Tossing her raven mane and turning the “unsexing” speech into an orgy of groping autoerotisicm, [...]

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No wonder mums ferry the kids to school in their four- wheel drive all but armour-plated vehicles accounting for two-thirds of the

No wonder mums ferry the kids to school in their four- wheel drive, all but armour-plated vehicles, accounting for two-thirds of the rush hour congestion in our towns and cities.
Reports like yesterday’s warning on “stranger danger” from the NSPCC can only fuel such parental fears. No wonder concerned dads follow their offspring around the corner. [...]

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Palestinians are under A for Arab-Israeli and C for Collective Punishment

Palestinians are under A for Arab-Israeli and C for Collective Punishment. That “Milosevic made it his mission to set Yugoslavia’s ethnic and national groups against one another” is one of a great many “facts” that are baldly asserted without any supporting evidence.Does this kind of approach really educate anyone about the Balkans? Another problem for [...]

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