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LGBT History Month UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and personalities on British TV. TV New Dirty Dali: A Private View at 11.25pm on More4 Saturday. Brian Sewell assesses the artist’s tastes, which included a fondness for androgyny. Not for the faint-hearted I gather. Die-hard fans of Dolly Parton might choose to watch Fern Britton Meets… on BBC1 at 10am Sunday , where the C and W icon talks about the impact of religion...
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DVDVerdict (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Reviewed by David Ryan Quote: "If you can get past the dryness and Sewell's upper-class airs, you'll find Grand Tour of Italy has a lot to offer."
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McCabism (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
It seems to be a week for unusual and inexplicable combinations. Erstwhile Toyota F1 driver Jarno Trulli revealed at the weekend that he was seriously considering an eventual move to NASCAR, the American stock-car racing series. On the face of it, this would be as appropriate as Brian Sewell playing centre-forward for Caledonian Thistle. Jarno, of course, was so indignant at being hung...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
... Museum of Art. The RSPCA has called Fox's work "cruel and exploitative". However, since Brian Sewell trod on Fox's principal painter, Harry Hairy-Legs, she now uses slugs. I am suing Sewell for loss of earnings. My winter address is Jasmine House, White Sand Beach, Tobago. There is no phone, email or Twitter. Sue Townsend's latest book is Adrian Mole: The Prostrate...
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Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... as 'Derby Day' and the 'Railway Station'. UPDATE: This, allegedly and somewhat surprisingly, from Brian Sewell... My dear Fact Compiler My very old and dear chum Leo has committed the most egregious solecism in miss-spelling that minor Victorian painter Frith, noted for his scenes of public venues. May I add in passing how much I was disturbed by the decorated HST power car portrayed...
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Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
... of the funeral of the Poet Rupert Brook . It’s of its time (and seems to be narrated by Brian Sewell’s cousin!) but the sound effects and music work well together. If you listen right to the end there is a final twist which adds to the complex nature of remembering the dead of all wars.
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Living for pleasure alone... (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
... of the funeral of the Poet Rupert Brook . It’s of its time (and seems to be narrated by Brian Sewell’s cousin) but the sound effects and music work well together. If you listen right to the end there is a final twist which adds to the complex nature of remembering the dead of all wars. simple pleasures
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
... interpret the films. The art is the most important thing. The films are secondary."The art critic Brian Sewell, however, is dismissive of the idea that Burton's work possessed artistic merit. "I think curators are ill advised and usually wrong," he said. "I don't think there can ever be another Warhol. There could never be anybody who excels at that skilled merchandising of multiples....
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This is London (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The paint's the thing for Frank Auerbach By Brian Sewell, Evening Standard 05.11.09 Colour code: Summer Building Site 1952, which Auerbach painted at the age of 21 — “I felt it was the beginning of my life as a painter,” he says Men at work: Building Site Portobello Road Winter, 1954 — labourers take centre stage Look here too , at 78, continues to be presented as, if not quite a “grand...
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Anna Raccoon (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
... winners of the Journalism Prize include Polly Toynbee, Timothy Garton Ash, Paul Foot, Brian Sewell, Matthew Parris and David Aaronovitch. Patrick Cockburn of the London Review of Books and the Independent clinched this year’s Journalism Prize.Last year they awarded a blogging prize for the first time, which most deservedly went to ‘Nightjack’ – as a result of which the Sunday Times...
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Liverpool Confidential (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
IT'S said to be the oldest passenger station in the world, and now it has opened as an arts centre prompting everyone to “Get off at Edge Hill!”.The Times of London, in its plummiest Brian Sewell voice, thus explained the title of this inaugural event for its readers: “The phrase is familiar to Liverpudlians meaning interrupted sex. Edge Hill was the last stop before Liverpool Lime Street,...
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Dungeekin. . . (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
... a place on the US Ryder Cup team. Speaking through an interpreter, Turner Prize committee member Brian Sewell said, "the Committee has this year adopted the same nominations approach as the Nobel Committee in Stockholm. That is, we have picked Obama even though he hasn't actually DONE anything yet, on the assumption that he might do something artistic in the future which might...
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Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
... At least that’s the intention. And everyone loves it. Well, not quite everyone—only Brian Sewell seems to give it the critical eye it deserves. The Times calls it a “Magnificent and hugely ambitious exhibition.” It’s quoted right there on the Tate website. What it turns into, however, is something completely different, something along the lines of Turner...
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Jeffrey Archer's Official Blog (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
A year ago, Brian Sewell advised me not to go to the Frieze Art Fair, with the memorable words, "It will only encourage them, Jeffrey." I disobeyed his good advice on Sunday, as a friend of mine visiting from the US was very keen to attend. I still don't get it, despite the fact that Richard and Ruthie Rogers told me to keep trying because in time I would. They clearly know...
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choirstalls (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Chums know what I think about the telly, or soma, as a real writer and thinker presaged it. But just occasionally something on that huge box in the corner catches your attention, will-ye, nill-ye, and tonight it was John and Pauline Prescott and Brian Sewell. Brian Sewell is outrageous, but only because telly has made him so, and he loves the limelight, and I bet he's never...
