"Is that a ah . . . a foot?!" Your meat-free scribe was still under the gustatory evil spell of mistaking chorizo for a grilled baby tomato, when a fur stole fell from a guest's shoulder at the opening of the Anne Kyyrö Quinn exhibition last night. Swooping, your...
Grayson Perry, Royal Academician, Turner Prize winner and fêted contemporary British artist? Meet Marguerite Zorach. Several years ago your scribe hit pay dirt in a charity shop. Ann Wiseman's 1969 book Rag Tapestries and Wool Mosaics introduced your scribe to...
Guy Fawkes night is past; the crypt is closed on Halloween; Alla helgons dag is no more, and the Day of the Dead is buried. The annual commemoration of failed political skullduggery; the celebration of ghouls, witches and "sexy" Halloween; and remembrances of the dead...
Editor Ben Evans picked up the Metro on the way to work this morning and discovered crotchetdermy. We love crocheting queen Shauna Richardson's collection of stuffed animals. So do the V&A who exhibited her work as part of their 'The Power of Making' exhibition....
While the design mafia flocked to the myriad events allied to the opening of the London Design Festival, your scribe spent a blissful morning yesterday at the British Museum press preview of the exhibition "Renaissance to Goya: Prints and Drawings from Spain," after...
Tall stands of the twin-needle Lodgepole Pine grow in dense forests throughout the western United States and Canada. Varieties are found on coastal shores, plains and mountains. The slender trunk of the high altitude pine tends to be sparsely limbed for much of its...
The ancient town of Båstad shelters on the shore of Laholmsbukten, a six hour drive from Stockholm. Protected by its water face and the Hallandian ridge which guards land access, this Swedish town harbours a remarkable and long-lived collective of textile artists -...
Although recognised primarily as an architect, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known by the pseudonym he adopted in 1920 - Le Corbusier - tipped his hand to many pursuits as an urban planner, artist, designer and theorist. The Swiss Embassy in London is not open to...
Artist Caroline Achaintre and Arcade Fine Arts have granted your scribe permission to reproduce several of Achaintree's expressive and remarkable textile artworks. Achaintre's work on The Saatchi Gallery website includes Fevver, her 2008 hand tufted wool hanging. The...