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India Art Fair

2012-01-26T13:48:00.005Z

The 4th Edition of India Art Fair will be held on 25-29 January, 2012 at NSIC Exhibition Grounds in New Delhi. "With the India Art Fair opening to the public today - the re-branded art fair (formely India Art Summit) will provide some fresh insight into the state of the Indian primary and secondary (non-auction) market and the current appetite and interest among collectors in Indian art. The fair will hopefully add a positive and different perspective to the struggling Modern & Contemporary Indian auction market, which has seen volume declining since June 2010, despite the launch of the auction house Pundole's, in 2011." in ArtTactic

Key Facts (2011):
_ 1,28,000 visitors over 4 days from 17 cities in India, and 67 cities around the world
_ About 80% of galleries sold more than 4-5 works, with some galleries selling
out completely

Exhibitors List: 1x1 Art Gallery Dubai, UAE; Gallery Sumukha Bengaluru, India; Abadi Art Space New Delhi, India; GALLERYSKE Bengaluru, India; Aicon Gallery New York, USA; Green Cardamom London, UK; Andrewshire Gallery Singapore; Grosvenor Gallery London, UK; Apparao Galleries Chennai, India; Hauser & Wirth London, UK; Archer Art Gallery Ahmedabad, India; Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporanea Buenos Aires, Argentina; Arndt Berlin, Germany; Imaginart Gallery Barcelona, Spain; Art 18/21 Norwich, UK; Indigo Blue Art, Singapore; Art Alive Gallery New Delhi, India; Kalakriti Art Gallery Hyderabad, India; Art Below Zero London, UK; Kalfayan Galleries Athens, Greece; Art Gallery 21 Riga, Latvia; Karen Woodbury Gallery Melbourne, Australia; Art Konsult New Delhi, India; Lakeeren Mumbai, India; Art Lounge Gallery Lisbon, Portugal; Latitude 28 New Delhi, India; Art Musings Mumbai, India; Lisson Gallery London, UK; Art Positive New Delhi, India; Marvel Art Gallery Ahmedabad, India; Arushi Arts New Delhi, India; Mauger Modern Art London, UK; Baudoin Lebon Paris, France; Mohsen Gallery Tehran, Iran; Chatterjee & Lal Mumbai, India; Nature Morte New Delhi, India; Chemould Prescott Road Mumbai, India; Neilson Gallery Grazalema, Spain; CIMA Gallery Kolkata, India; Other Criteria London, UK; Cymroza Art Gallery Mumbai, India; Palette Art Gallery New Delhi, India; Delhi Art Gallery New Delhi, India; Paul Kasmin Gallery New York, USA; DIE Galerie Frankfurt, Germany; Photoink New Delhi, India; Dhoomimal Gallery New Delhi, India; Project 88 Mumbai, India; Everard Read Johannesburg, South Africa; Red Bud - G Gallery Texas, USA; Exhibit 320 New Delhi, India; Religare Arts Initiative New Delhi, India; Experimenter Kolkata, India; Robert Bowman Modern London, UK; Fabian Claude Walter Galerie Zurich, Switzerland; Roland Belgrave Vintage Photography Ltd., Brighton, UK; Frida Fine Arts Gallery Moscow, Russia; Salwa Zeidan Gallery Abu Dhabi, UAE; Gajah Gallery Singapore; Sakshi Gallery Mumbai, India; Galeria Carles Tache Barcelona, Spain; Sarah Scout Melbourne, Australia; Galerie Beatrice Binoche Saint Denis, France; Seven Art Limited New Delhi, India; Galerie Herve Perdriolle Paris, France; Shrine Empire Gallery New Delhi, India; Galerie Krinzinger Vienna, Austria; Shrishti Art Gallery Hyderabad, India; Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke Mumbai, India; Sundaram Tagore Gallery New York, USA; Galleria Continua San Gimignano, Italy; Tasneem Gallery Barcelona, Spain; Gallerie Alternatives Gurgaon, India; Tasveer Bengaluru, India; Gallerie Ganesha New Delhi, India; The Guild Mumbai, India; Gallerie Nvya New Delhi, India; THE LOFT at Lower Parel Mumbai, India; Gallery Artchill Jaipur, India; Thomas Erben Gallery New York, USA; Gallery Beyond Mumbai, India; Threshold Art Gallery New Delhi, India; Gallery Espace New Delhi, India; Tokyo Gallery + BTAP Tokyo, Japan; Gallery Maskara Mumbai, India; Vadehra Art Gallery New Delhi, India; Gallery OED Cochin Cochin, India; Volte Gallery Mumbai, India; Gallery Ragini New Delhi, India; White Cube London, UK; Wonderwall New Delhi, India

David Hockney, A Bigger Picture

2012-01-26T08:00:00.010Z

Royal Academy of Arts (London)
David Hockney, A Bigger Picture

Num livro publicado em 2006, Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the lost of techniques of the Old Masters, David Hockney argumenta que desde o princípio do século quinze muitos artistas ocidentais usam a óptica – espelhos e lentes ou uma combinação dos dois – para criar projecções vividas.

As quatro grandes pinturas que ocupam as paredes da sala octogonal no topo das monumentais escadarias da Royal Academy of Arts, em Londres, introduzem e marcam os diferentes temas de A Bigger Picture [Um Quadro Maior], por David Hockney (1937), enquanto estabelecem a paisagem de Yorkshire, no Norte de Inglaterra, como o principal sujeito da exposição.
Seja através de amarelos, limas e castanhos, na Primavera (Spring, 2008), ou castanhos, rosas e verdes escuros, no Outono (Autumn, 2008), a série Three Trees near Thixendale [Três Árvores Próximo de Thixendale] – o conjunto é completo com mais dois óleos sobre oito telas: Summer [Verão] e Winter [Inverno] pintadas em 2007 – ilustra a vivacidade de Hockney em termos da qualidade da luz e da densidade da folhagem, ao pintar as alterações sazonais na paisagem.

David Hockney é frequentemente associado à cena artística de Los Angeles (EUA), onde viveu durante as décadas de oitenta e noventa. A Bigger Splash (1967) marcou a contribuição de Hockney no movimento Pop durante a década de sessenta, enquanto Pearblossom Highway (11th - 18th April 1986 #1) influenciou de forma singular o acto fotográfico ao fragmentar a realidade, e, posteriormente, ao compor imagens com montagem de fotografias coladas. Contudo, a exposição, na Royal Academy of Arts, para além das paisagens e panoramas realizadas na California, durante as décadas de sessenta e oitenta (Sala 2) reúne também uma primeira abordagem a paisagem de Yorkshire. Trabalhos realizados de memoria após uma visita a esta região de Inglaterra, durante os anos noventa (Sala 3). Depois é um crescendo de intensidades técnica, que culmina com as majestosas vistas de Yosemite Valley, na California. A atenção do artista para com Yorkshire traz à memória alguns notáveis paralelos: o registo da região Este da Inglaterra por John Constable (1776-1837), a lezíria ribatejana por Silva Porto (1850-1893) ou o trabalho de Monet (1840-1926) resultante da sua estadia em Giverny (França).

O espaço (Sala 4) está completamente forrado por óleos e aguarelas de tamanho médio. Mais parece que estamos completamente rodeados por uma sala inundada de plasmas a mostrar o que as câmaras de vigilância HD captam do espaço rural: ruas em vilas com carros estacionados; estradas que ligam estas vilas ladeadas por cercas e arbustos; caminhos por entre os campos com a sua riqueza de flores e árvores; céus enublados a indicar a aproximação de chuva, etc. Um tempo na paisagem de Yorkshire captado por David Hockney com cores vivas, brilhantes, no óleos, ou a subtileza da diluição das cores umas nas outras, nas aguarelas.
O que começou como uma simples casualidade, de repente torna-se num marcante comentário sobre a natureza da arte e da percepção, mas, em especial, investigações sobre o espaço pictural e sobre o movimento natural da luz e das condições duma paisagem – o céu e a vegetação. Wooldgate Woods (sete óleos, sobre seis telas cada), realizados durante 2006, traz-nos uma outra forma de encarar o espaço por parte de Hockney. Durante dias diferentes o artista capta do mesmo ponto com o mesmo enquadramento a paisagem á sua frente: trilho transformam-se em mantos de vermelho, castanhos e ocre; o nevoeiro da manha é substituído pelas sombras arrastadas, no final do dia.

A grande maioria das obras, produzidas entre 2004 e 2011, foram concebidas a partir da observação, da memória e da imaginação do artista, com o recurso a ajudas visuais e tecnológicas. Linhas de cercas, estradas rurais, marcas de herdades e moitas em floresta marcam todo o corpo de trabalho de The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty-eleven). A mutabilidade da natureza é captada num trabalho composto por 52 partes. Esta vasta série consiste em 51 desenhos em iPad – Hockney usa o software Brushes – impressos sobre papel e uma pintura a óleo com 15 metros, formada por 32 telas, e preenche por completo a intimidante Gallery III da Royal Academy of Arts. Estas imagens representam o clímax de Hockney no domínio de um instrumento para trabalho visual.

A relação de Hockney com as câmaras tem existido durante toda a sua carreira, ligação a que apelidou de “idade do pós-fotografia”, onde a manipulação digital permite aumentar exponencialmente as possibilidades da forma, mas em contrapartida deteriora a sua capacidade para a veracidade. A procura de modos para representar a paisagem sempre em mutação com uma maior claridade levou Hockney a procurar novos instrumentos. Séries e séries de trabalhos numa multiplicidade de meios, como desenhos em iPhone e iPad, e filmes com nove câmaras HD. O resultado são filmes sumptuosamente detalhados, colagens cubistas em movimento, uma multiplicidade de espaço.

David Hockney começou a utilizar a câmara de vídeo digital em 2008. Em 2010, começou a utilizar nove câmaras montadas num 4 x 4, e cada uma direccionada para pontos ligeiramente diferentes. O espaço pictural expandido oferecido pela grelha de nove imagens (na sala onde são apresentados os filmes foi construído um painel com dezoito ecrãs emparelhados), representa um frame de tempo diferente, um acto em separado de intenso olhar sobre a paisagem. Esta nova abordagem técnica apresenta ecos em trabalhos anteriores, em particular em Grand Canyon With Ledge, Arizona Oct. 1982. Collage #2, made May 1986 (fotocolagem), Grand Canyon Looking North, Sept. 1982 (fotocolagem) ou Pearblossom Highway.

Os resultados do uso de novas tecnologias digitais ao serviço da arte e do artista são extraordinários. Dedos, pincéis, câmaras escuras, máquinas fotográficas e de filmar, iPhone ou iPad são bons instrumentos de trabalho, desde que usados de uma forma inovadora, criativa e singular pelo artista. Com um iPad ele pode cumprir com o prazo de tempo permitido pela natureza.

David Hockney, A Bigger Picture encontra-se patente na Royal Academy of Arts entre 21 de Janeiro e 9 de Abril de 2012. A exposição segue posteriormente para o Guggenheim Bilbao (Espanha) e depois para o Museum Ludwig, Colónia (Alemanha).

Imagens: David Hockney, The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven)- 2 January (iPad drawing printed on paper; 144.1 x 108 cm; one of a 52-part work); Nov. 7th, Nov. 26th 2010, Woldgate Woods, 11.30 am and 9.30 am (Film still). Courtesy of the artist. © David Hockney;

Published at Molduras: as artes plásticas na antena 2: David Hockney - " A Bigger Picture".

UnderDior

2012-01-25T13:04:00.000Z

La exposición "Retro-pros-pectiva del siglo XXI" de Beatriz Barral, inaugura UnderDior, un nuevo espacio para la experimentación artística en Madrid

La "Retro-pros-pectiva del siglo XXI" de la artista Beatriz Barral, da el pistoletazo de salida a UnderDior, un nuevo espacio que se abre a la experimentación artística en la capital de España — de la pintura a la arquitectura, de la instalación a la música, el video o el teatro de vanguardia... —, y que quiere ofrecer en su programación muestras del arte contemporáneo que se está realizando en estos momentos no sólo en Madrid, sino también en el resto de España y donde asimismo tendrán cabida propuestas internacionales.

La inauguración será el próximo viernes 27 de enero, entre las 19.00 y las 22.00 h. Se ruega confirmar asistencia via e-mail: underdior@hotmail.com o en el Tf. 655 192 498.

El nuevo espacio, situado en plena Puerta de Alcalá (Plaza de la Independencia, 8, sótano), abre su programación a todo tipo de expresiones artísticas, como pintura, instalaciones, performances, conciertos de música, representaciones de teatro de vanguardia, proyecciones de fotografía, etc. La programación estará a cargo de un equipo multidisciplinar, integrado por Beatriz Barral como directora artística, junto a Sandra Santana, Isabel Rodriguez y Lorena Matzuki.

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2012-01-22T13:51:00.000Z

Regent Park, London, January 22nd 2012 (13h51)

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2012-01-21T15:57:00.002Z

Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935

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2012-01-20T18:26:00.002Z

"Looking gor the English girl with blue eyes, black hair, dressed in black that has smiled at me, this evening, on the train from Greenwich Station to London Bridge Station." - the most beautiful sentence I've read today.

P.S. Correspondence

2012-01-18T19:01:00.008Z

That is for what people are… to be with … to share moments, to talk and discuss about the distance required to do a critical analysis of an exhibition (it is like when some political or economic decision is taken, just on the long-term we will know if that decision was right, the idea is be wrong the least time possible - just see what has happen to Portuguese economic policies in the last fifteen, thirty years, or even to the EURO crisis); to comment on their and others artworks and exhibitions, what is to be and what is to became (sometimes I wander back in time and go in to a Prémio EDP Novos Artists, which was won by Gabriel Abrantes with a major video-installation, but it is not on Gabriel's sexual stories on life, war and relationships that I'm interested with, but instead it was more on the mentally handicapped who selected some young clown, which was making cheap paper copies and films - where was the work?! - of what was/is being done by two of the top international artist - not that I'm against artists working with/on other artists work, but if at least they bring something new in to the discourse, through their singularity, please fell free, and do it! Definitely, this was one of those times! They could at least had changed the denomination, from Young Artists to Portuguese-working-around-the-world, and in the latest case, from Gallery to Art Space); it is to go through everyday-life stuff, like going to local shops to buy groceries or about trips done to exotic places like Vietnam and the adventures they had gone through; it is to sit down in a local pub, drink a pint of beer or a glass of wine, spend a nice and enjoyable time. That is for what people are… to be with …

You speak the local language

2012-01-15T19:44:00.014Z

You speak the local language
STROUD: when I woke up the schedule for the day was to go for a walk at May Hill in the morning, and visit Lynn Chadwick Sculpture Park in the afternoon. However, by the time I got to the kitchen G. and D. had already changed their minds. They wanted to go to somewhere else, Bath or Stratford-upon-Avon, where we could enjoy a Saturday afternoon theatre matinee, which was to be followed by a diner at Hilles House.
While having breakfast and discussing what to do, followed by a short walk along the rural road, the cold had definitely made our minds in to a walk in the not so touristic English countryside. Anyway, D and me, we both were feeling a heavy-height hanging on the back of our head – consequences of drinking different wines on the previous night.
Returning back in to the house we all decided to go with L.’s suggestion. A warm and rejuvenescent bath at Bath’s sauna facilities! The best answer for our hangover! D. got me some shorts and them we got to G.’s place to get her bikini.

«Relax in one of the world’s most beautiful cities. Nourished by natural hot springs, Bath offers a unique experience with stunning architecture, great shopping and iconic attractions.»

The trip from Stroud to Bath took as much as 45 minutes. Quite pleasurable! G. drove us through some local road, which made the voyage even more appealing.
When at Bath, D. was famished and wanted to go for lunch. Something light, like a sandwich.
- “This looks like a nice shop. Can you go inside and ask if they can do me a cheese sandwich, please!” said D. to G. has he was opening the door. “You speak the local language.”
- “Sorry, but we did not have bought any bread today”, said the young person behind the counter.
Strangely enough, there was a basket full of nice, tasty and homemade bread at the entrance, with a price tag attached!
Between noisy restaurants and crowd pubs we found a restaurant almost empty and not that noisy near Bath's Theatre Royal.
- “If we were going to have a two hours’ sauna with spa we definitely have to eat something before”, said I. “It is almost two in the afternoon!”
By the time we ordered, our minds had already made another strategic move. The piper has called us to join him, with a pint of Ginger beer and a glass of white wine we were going for the complete meal, and forget the two hours’ of warm water.

Late that night, after dinner, sitting down at the kitchen with a cup of tea, G., D. and me schedule the following day: to wake at what time we wanted; go for breakfast and soon after a refreshing walk; followed by lunch for nine, around 2pm. As it as became a habit on those days, things on the following day did turn out completely different: wake-up at 8.30am; leave to G.’s home; visit Lynn Chadwick Sculpture Park around 12am – came back and find a couple with their car stuck in the lane in front of the house; have Thomas Dane and Caragh Thuring for tea, around 1pm; and lunch for 8 people, afterwards.

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2012-01-15T11:00:00.002Z

Lynn Chadwick Sculpture Park is in the grounds of a medieval and Tudor manor house with notable nineteenth-century additions in the parish of Bisley, near Stroud, in Gloucestershire, England. The grounds include a fine group of medieval outbuildings dating from the late-14th century. It was altered in the 16th century, and altered and enlarged in 1809 by Sir Jeffry Wyatville. Further additions were made in 1876 by R H Wyatt.
In 1959, it was purchased by the Modernist British sculptor, Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003), whose expressionistic, figurative works in welded iron and bronze earned him international acclaim. Chadwick restored the house and died there on April 25, 2003, since when his heirs have put forward proposals to open to the public an area of the park in order to create a permanent display for his sculpture collection.

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2012-01-14T17:57:00.005Z

After some years in the western front dealing with the natives and exporting culture I'm back on the stairways to heaven. With deserved and reinvigorated baths and pleasurable meals, while accompanied by superb conversations and the best workouts country life can give us. This are just small events without any importance, but that would lead to a more significant event. Life is becoming what it should had become before going to the w. f. to fight and educate the vulgar, the common, the indigenous. It is a flight from one place to another, shopping for groceries in local grocers that know your name during the day, it is to walk on the countryside at the sunset, and, by the evening, a magnum, a dog and reading the paper near the fireplace surrounded by historical paintings, inspiring architecture, breathtaking sculpture parks, and uneducated multimillionaire Americans that came to this side of the Atlantic to be and gain some education.

Festival Miradas de Mujeres 2012

2012-01-13T18:43:00.001Z

Festival Miradas de Mujeres 2012 reunirá cerca de sesenta exposiciones y actividades en las principales entidades y centros culturales de la Comunidad de Madrid durante el próximo mes de marzo, con el objetivo de dar visibilidad a artistas y profesionales implicadas en el mercado del arte, la investigación y la gestión de las prácticas artísticas actuales.

El programa Festival Miradas de Mujeres 2012 comprende las propuestas de alrededor de sesenta instituciones públicas y privadas (salas de exposiciones, galerías de arte, museos y centros de arte contemporáneo) con el propósito de poner de relieve la importancia del papel que desempeñan las mujeres en las artes visuales, desde la creación al comisariado, la crítica, la investigación, la gestión y el mercado del arte, en nuestra comunidad.

Museos como el Thyssen-Bornemisza, el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, fundaciones como Mapfre y cuarenta galerías de arte de la comunidad de Madrid, conformarán un tejido expositivo que se acompañará de un programa de conferencias y seminarios.

El Festival Miradas de Mujeres 2012 pretende ocupar un lugar central en la agenda artística y cultural durante el mes de marzo con la colaboración de las entidades participantes, comprometidas en lograr unas artes visuales equitativas y no discriminatorias en lo relativo al género.

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2012-01-13T17:09:00.007Z

«Wuthering Heights on a Withering budget» by Isabella Blow on Hilles House.

M. How I Wish You Were Here With Me!
(M. is for Mother, is for Marta, is for Madalena, and for other Marvellous things, like Mexico and all that came from there)

International Fashion and Photography Festival

2012-01-12T15:30:00.006Z

27th International Festival of Fashion & Photography
Festival, April 27 – 30
Exhibitions until May 27

Every Spring in the South of France, the ‘International Fashion and Photography Festival’ spotlights young promising artists in the fields of fashion and photography. The festival proposes diverse exhibitions, professional panel discussions and two competitions. The competitions showcase 10 fashion designers and 10 photographers selected by a jury of professionals in each field. The work of the chosen candidates is presented to the jury and the public in either fashion shows (designers) or group exhibitions (photographers).
On the last days of the month of April, as every Spring since 1998, the villa Noailles will once again become the epicenter for emerging photography.

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2012-01-12T11:48:00.007Z

"Blow ... houses are solid and substantial and intentionally lacking in meretricious brilliance; their quality lies in the use of the best materials worked in the best possible way. Blow was an innocent. A lovable, fastidious personality and a joy in simple things permeate his own house, Hilles, in Gloucestershire. Thrust up on a bastion because of sloping ground, the house looks at though it grew out of the soil. Begun in 1914, it was built on a site chosen for its spectacular views of rolling countryside and woods, but the house was not orientated to take advantage of the view. In Elizabethan fashion, it turns its shoulder to the panorama, only casting a backward glance, so to speak, through a comparatively small number of not very large windows. On the ground floor, only a bay at the end of the Long Room looks out on this side. Hilles was built in stages; but even allowing for this, it does not seek to make a triumphant, unified impression. The broad window bay which goes up above the thatched eaves of the roof is disproportionately big, fitted to need rather than to conventional notions of architecture. The rooms - with their Mortlake tapestries, their panelling, their seventeenth-century furniture - are not without a sense of grandeur; but equally the stone flags of the hall, the elm floorboards and ceilings throughout the houses, the plainness and solidity of the architecture, and the simplified mouldings of the windows and fireplaces suggest a relish for the natural qualities of materials unadorned. The way the life of the house was organised, socially and domestically, completed the aesthetic whole."

in ... p. 244-5

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2012-01-11T20:00:00.005Z

Whisky Mac: a Whisky Macdonald more commonly known under the shortened name Whisky Mac is a cocktail made up of whisky and ginger wine. The whisky is expected to be a Scotch Whisky, usually a blended type. The ginger wine should be green ginger wine. Recipes vary from those having equal parts of each ingredient to those that use a ratio of 3 to 2 of whisky to wine. A common recipe is to take 1½ fluid ounces Scotch whisky, 1½ fluid ounces green ginger wine.

In a cold winter night it is an excellent drink to have before going to bed. It is sweet, soft and with loads of alcohol. No cold could affected me this evening.

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2012-01-07T20:00:00.002Z

Happy Birthday!!!

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2012-01-06T18:30:00.008Z

Hyde Park, London, November 9th 2011

Natural derelicts and objects used by humans laid around can be an object for the formulation of hypotheses on matters of social conditioning, of revealing another strategy into returning reality to the body.

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2012-01-04T15:00:00.002Z

Leave ordinary behind. Stop wasting time, energy and resources!!!

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2012-01-03T14:14:00.005Z

«Raising the standard»? Yes!
«Affordable Quality Education»?!
... wtf ... with a communist-revolution kind of design as background. The type of lay-out - the worker, the fight, the flag and the raising sun - that had emerged with the communist ideology, c. 1915-1935. The drive that had forged the Socialist movements, but that had lead to the construction of the Soviet Union and to the People Republic of China; to the destruction of the past and that had reflected an engagement towards the shape of a new utopia, which has imploded?
So! no, please. Theory is nice, but live is much better.

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2012-01-02T12:15:00.004Z

Christmas Pudding

Ingredients

* 225g/8oz golden caster sugar
* 225g/8oz vegetarian suet
* 340g/12oz sultanas
* 340g/12oz raisins
* 225g/8oz currants
* 110g/4oz candied peel, chopped
* 110g/4oz plain flour
* 110g/4oz fresh white breadcrumbs
* 55g/2oz flaked almonds
* 1 lemon, zest only
* 5 eggs, beaten
* 1 level tsp ground cinnamon
* 1 level tsp mixed spice
* 5g/1 level tsp freshly grated nutmeg
* pinch of salt
* 150ml/5fl oz brandy or rum

Preparation method

1. Lightly grease 4x600ml/1 pint or 2x1.2 litre/2 pint pudding basins.
2. Mix together all the dry ingredients.
3. Stir in the eggs and brandy and mix well.
4. Spoon the mix into basins. Put a circle of baking parchment and foil over the top of each basin and tie securely with string. Make a string handle from one side of the basin to the other so it is easier to pick the basin out of the pan after cooking.
5. Put the basins in a large steamer of boiling water and cover with a lid. Boil for 5-6 hours, topping the boiling water up from time to time, if necessary. If you do not have a steamer, put the basins in a large pan on inverted saucers on the base. Pour in boiling water to come a third of the way up the sides of the pudding bowls. Cover and steam as before.
6. Cool. Change the baking parchment and foil covers for fresh ones and tie up as before. Store in a cool cupboard until Christmas Day.
7. To serve, steam for 2 hours and serve with brandy butter, rum sauce, cream or homemade custard.

more in: Rich Christmas pudding or Traditional Christmas Pudding

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2012-01-01T00:01:00.000Z

2012 ... will be an excellent year, full of love and other good stuff in which I'm and will be involved with.

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2011-12-27T21:22:00.001Z

«He went to the furthest reaches of the earth in his quest for the purest specimen of beauty. And when he found it, he stuck a pin through its heart. He’s dead now. Cholera. In the tropics. Struck down in his relentless pursuit of beauty. Perhaps it was beauty’s revenge, to stop his heart when he had stopped so many others.
Do you think beauty is a destroyer of men, Pip?»

in "The Great Expectations", by Charles Dickens

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2011-12-26T11:45:00.006Z

Marilyn Manson, Personal Jesus, 2004

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2011-12-25T11:42:00.002Z

Johnny Cash, Personal Jesus, 2002

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2011-12-24T11:37:00.002Z

Depeche Mode, Personal Jesus, 2001