Word: artists
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...lineage back to Attila the Hun and was granted what was originally a 45,000-acre (18,000 ha.) estate by King Charles II as thanks for helping to keep Oliver Cromwell at bay. Sir John Leslie built the castle itself in 1870, and invited all his pre-Raphaelite artist friends - including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin and Frederic Leighton - to stay...
...educated, he enjoyed an aimless youth of profligate spending, sumptuous taste and spiffy automobiles. The title page of Geoffrey Bawa, a seminal Singaporean monograph published to coincide with the London exhibition, is a money shot of Bawa's twinkling Rolls-Royce. Contemporary Donald Friend - a peripatetic, chain-smoking Australian artist and compulsive diarist - grumbled about Bawa's "grand ducal airs...
...closing trio, “Rain (Bridge)” is the best song on the album, with Beanie trying to encourage a friend suffering hardships in prison. “Dear Self” goes on to paint a very different picture of the apparently religious artist: it sees Beanie confronting himself about his misdeeds over what sounds like a poorly-sampled segment of James Blunt’s “No Bravery.” The last song, “Prayer” continues on this short but depressing tangent, with the penitent Beans...
...Ratatouille”)—As New York Times film critic A.O. Scott ’87 put it, “‘Ratatouille’ is a nearly flawless piece of popular art, as well as one of the most persuasive portraits of an artist ever committed to film.” Either Scott is taking too much Prozac, or the word, “ratatouille,” is just that much fun to say. I’m banking on the latter! 5. “Blurg” (“30 Rock?...
...Love of God.” It’s a human skull made of platinum and smothered in diamonds—8,601 diamonds, to be precise. If that weren’t obnoxious enough, it sold for $100 million, which was paid to the artist in cash (straight up). Luda, you might have what “feels like a midget hanging from my necklace,” but the members of the mystery investment firm that purchased this (revolting) display of conspicuous consumption can now sport an entire human skull worth of bling-a-ling if they...