tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5763684918820528942024-02-21T00:17:40.476-08:00The Trumpet-News and Views edited by Trump -for Lars Tharp LtdLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-53706672102098930412013-07-15T10:48:00.000-07:002013-07-15T10:48:16.505-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple;"><em><strong>CHINA IN SIX EASY PIECES</strong>,</em> <br />BBC4 (first broadcast July 2013)</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">- </span><span style="color: black;">my sequel to <em>Treasures of Chinese Porcelain</em> (BBC4 2011). During which I visit a calligraphy school in Hangzhou where The Master shows me how to write my Chinese name properly (<em>left </em>his elegant version). Some twelve years ago, on learning why I always got a smile when hearing my English name (sounds like <em>las sap, </em>Cantonese <em>for trash bin</em>) I asked my friend Fumei Williams to devise a proper Chinese name for me: '<em>Su' - </em>the closest sound we could get to '<em>Tharp',</em> and '<em>Bo-le' - </em>a mythical Chinese hero 'able to spot a good horse at a thousand <em>li' - </em>a talent spotter. The 2013 Antiques Roadshow is in full swing!</span><br />
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<br />LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-79912484682815429482012-05-09T02:01:00.001-07:002012-05-09T02:01:50.839-07:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-20758955597059584582012-04-12T15:18:00.000-07:002012-04-12T15:18:39.372-07:00Aaaaargh!<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioHxLaCBDRqGH3002_KGeInVNyP13acdfkhXPMkoF5duK-TP6H-1fDbygnP8Qvo7p6TKYGaPRw3EYZNvgOIdq3BA3KZe0cOCbmJgBfJCwAggUfw335YViW7x4aGTZvx5B9qabZLI8jBq8/s1600/scream.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioHxLaCBDRqGH3002_KGeInVNyP13acdfkhXPMkoF5duK-TP6H-1fDbygnP8Qvo7p6TKYGaPRw3EYZNvgOIdq3BA3KZe0cOCbmJgBfJCwAggUfw335YViW7x4aGTZvx5B9qabZLI8jBq8/s400/scream.png" width="298" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Angst? <span style="font-size: large;"><em>Moi</em></span>?</b></span></span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Some artists’ images never leave us: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mona Lisa</i>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Little Mermaid</i>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Scream</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-all three are closely linked with their ‘home’ cities<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Paris, Copenhagen and Oslo- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and all three, in different ways, have instant international recognition. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in each an enigma: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What</i> is Lisa smiling at?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why</i> is the Mermaid gazing out to sea? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">who</i> is the skull-headed figure screaming... and screaming at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what</i>? </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In Edvard Munch’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Scream (left*) </i>the artist pulls the sweep of the distant bay right into the foreground, incorporating <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the screamer <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>into a human question-mark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two shadowy figures have just passed by, oblivious; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they move uncaring <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>into the vanishing point of the esplanade on which the man stands, gripping his skull as if it might crack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is ‘speared’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by three<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>converging diagonals,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the rails of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the pier which fence and separate two contrasted fields, one of regimented straight lines, the other a sea of swirls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A tension of horror and vertigo - the natural versus the tame world?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Why <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do</i> we Scandinavians have a reputation for Melancholy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even in Shakespeare we see Hamlet referred to as “The gloomy Dane”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>( -well he was over-reflective, wasn’t he?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why couldn’t he just stab old Claudius there and then and save a lot of A Level students from agonizing over whether <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or not he’s mad?) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More recently, another Dane, Søren<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kierkegaard , <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>anatomizes –or even invents -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Existential <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Angst</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>launching a whole <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tsumani</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of Modern Foreboding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Towards the end of the 19<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup> century the Viennese step in, exploring<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the caverns of the Subconscious with Psychoanalysis while the less-than-cheery plays of Strindberg and Ibsen (both friends or subjects of Munch) continue to pour out of the North. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the end of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hedda Gabler</i> , Ibsen’s heroine, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>torn between stultifying <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>convention and sexual freedom, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shoots herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whereupon the “respectable” judge mutters in disbelief “But people don’t do such things”.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Cheer up! Forget those suicidal statistics: it wasn’t just the Scandinavians who were steeped in a winter gloom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Russians (remember Dostoyevski?) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the French checked into <em>Hotel</em> <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><em>Depression</em> too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nearly <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">everyone</i> was screaming as they all ran headlong into deadly embrace of the Great War and the end of the Old World Order.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Today Munch’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scream</i> is still in the top ten for students’ wall posters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(In my day, the hippy-happy ‘70s, it was beaten by Beardsley and Mucha and by the bottom-scratching female tennis player.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Psychiatrists do say that to get out of the dumps immerse yourself in the sympathetic darkness of a Mahler symphony;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the gloom will console you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So maybe having <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Scream</i> on your wall makes you realise how much worse life can really be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, for the same therapy, go and see a horror film. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Scream” perhaps -though not mentioned in the credits, that elongated skull comes straight from Munch’s original image.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">_______________</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">And while we’re having nightmares:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine you’re a Scandinavian<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gallery director.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One morning you’re woken up to be told that your most famous painting –the one which draws people from all over the world – has been stolen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FOR A SECOND TIME!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, you’d scream, wouldn’t you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially if the painting was indeed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Scream.</i> Reach for the Prozac…</span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">To reinforce the power of these icons:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all three<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have been pinched, vandalized or cannibalized:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Mona Lisa was stolen in 1911 (Pablo Picasso was arrested as a suspect, though cleared); and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the year Mona Lisa was recovered <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the (very) Little Mermaid was installed on the Copenhagen waterfront.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my lifetime she has been decapitated several times and covered top to tail in red paint.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…And returning to the Scream?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 1893 ‘original’ (from Oslo’s National Gallery) was eventually recovered as was the version later stolen from the Munch Museum (also Oslo). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All are now behind bullet-proof glass.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And now A Fourth Version comes up for sale, painted in pastels and gouache.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of all four versions it uniquely bears a text by the artist, inscribed on the frame: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>describing his walk with two friends he ends… </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">… </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I remained behind </span></i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Shivering with Anxiety – I felt the great Scream in Nature</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> E.M.</span></i></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></i></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">The picture has been in private hands since the 1920s when acquired by Thomas, father of Petter Olsen (of the shipping family) a supporter of the artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With its siblings’ record of multiple thefts, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this Icon of Angst goes on high security <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>view at Sotheby’s in London (13<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>-18<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> April) before being auctioned at <strong>Sotheby’s New York on 2<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup> May 2012</strong>.</span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">And if you’re a moody Scandinavian, hoping to bid:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cheer up, Sotheby’s are expecting bids in excess of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>$80,000,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh well, there’s always the poster. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Aaaaaaargh…”</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Calibri;">[edited version of LT's article first published in <em>Scandinavian Magazine</em>, May 2012]</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">__________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">[PS. For a Scream with Pink Floyd, try: </span></span><a href="http://vimeo.com/33976373"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://vimeo.com/33976373</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">]</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><span style="color: black;"> * </span><span style="color: #444444;">[image courtesy of Sothebys New York ]</span><br />
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I've been giving talks for over 20 years (many to NADFAS tho only now on The Book). Only this year did I go through the famous 15-minute test, after passing which one is allotted the famous Two Minutes at the Annual Gathering. But as I already know so many in this great club...To Script or Not To Script? - with too much to say I invited all 900 representatives to visit my web-site (yes, <a href="http://www.tharp.co.uk/">www.tharp.co.uk</a>) (newly re-launched on that very same day) -and through which you may have come to this Blog (or if not, from which you may visit and sign up...).<br />
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<div align="center"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">BUT WHERE IS TRUMP?!</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxa3g-JGJyE_FzGDHISJ3YIMnFg42g7fOz1mdsgdLycegt_RCUaCqx-Sgblyb4M7odFQqDzQ0rAS0VgyaMuAg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9MdxDrnOlev5d3Ek1Ez36Y5_8Q7LM3Jt-xJsQoj1S-Bn_MAa23nHxclhVio-sN0Bk9VX6IgfpKh1q0o_uT1Yxijj0kIQT6ofz505okmyyeRsVhzfdRE6sYkGMtg8pyRol8aBsPGaGMEc/s1600/hogarth++trump0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9MdxDrnOlev5d3Ek1Ez36Y5_8Q7LM3Jt-xJsQoj1S-Bn_MAa23nHxclhVio-sN0Bk9VX6IgfpKh1q0o_uT1Yxijj0kIQT6ofz505okmyyeRsVhzfdRE6sYkGMtg8pyRol8aBsPGaGMEc/s320/hogarth++trump0001.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Instead of listing all my various talk titles I decided to refresh my campaign to find <strong>The Missing Trump</strong>: the <strong><em>original</em></strong> terracotta model of Hogarth's dog, sculpted by Louis Francois Roubiliac, around 1745. We know of the Chelsea porcelain copies (coloured and white -one in the V&A), there are also examples in black by Wedgwood, and (above) there's a smaller marble version (Hogarth Trust, in the care of the Foundling Museum) BUT WHERE is the original terracotta model, last recorded in 1832 (at an auction sale in Wiltshire). It may be broken, or glued, or festering at the back of a cupboard, or in the attic. I cannot believe it's been thrown away. If this rings any bells...Please make contact! And even if you think it's not the original, but another version...please get in touch. <br />
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When the finder emerges I'll wager they belong to NADFAS. <br />
<em><strong>Thanks to all for a great day -and to all fellow NADFAS lecturers!</strong></em><br />
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(And afterwards, because it was my birthday I went with my wife and daughters to see the RSC musical <em><strong>Matilda</strong> (Roald Dahl) -Get to it if you can! It's Absolutely Fantastic)</em><br />
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<strong><span style="color: purple;">[NADFAS <em>National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies</em>]</span></strong>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-73671785734613694942012-01-05T03:33:00.000-08:002012-01-05T03:58:35.946-08:00Save The Wedgwood Museum...<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: x-large;">What the Dickens?! </span>- Lars Tharp's Open Letter, emailed to friends and colleagues on the <em><span style="color: magenta;">BBC Antiques Roadshow</span></em> and beyond...</span></span></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH6MBM_f5i4i3oHK70g-wOIVlgQP4W4ouZtHXS3dYyyXUqsf_doBSLuAfZq6PFZzF-lEcSxFrfzJz9cyYEy6_VCflpebMCJrvOcDNfXMil8nGTnONqyDVgR6gqR3ImIEMDxqdqJ3ZWO_o/s1600/IMG_2846.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH6MBM_f5i4i3oHK70g-wOIVlgQP4W4ouZtHXS3dYyyXUqsf_doBSLuAfZq6PFZzF-lEcSxFrfzJz9cyYEy6_VCflpebMCJrvOcDNfXMil8nGTnONqyDVgR6gqR3ImIEMDxqdqJ3ZWO_o/s400/IMG_2846.JPG" width="293" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Happy New Year? Many of you will have read with disbelief the legal ruling, given just before Christmas, that the contents and unique archives housed by the award-winning <span style="color: purple;">Wedgwood Museum</span> are deemed “disposable assets”, that they can –and indeed are - to be sold in order to contribute to the Wedgwood Waterford Group's pension fund -on their closure reported as being £134million in deficit. Any bullish auction-room valuation of the Wedgwood Museum’s unique collections, (deposited in a Museum specifically created to remove objects and archives from the manufacturing Group’s material assets) would amount to but a small fraction of that deficit, much less once all lawyers’ and other professional fees are deducted from this already long drawn-out legal case.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As we enter Dickens’ bicentenary year we shall see how this Jarndyce and Jarndyce situation plays out. I do not say the December 2011 legal <em>judgement</em> is “wrong” -but it can never have been in the minds of those writing Pension Law to bring a museum -ring-fenced years ago precisely to protect it against such an eventuality- under the scythe of a wholly separate company. - This the lawyers themselves admit. Consequently, it must be for Parliament to save a highly significant cultural asset from dissolution, and for them to remedy a clear case of Unintended Consequences arising from inadequately drafted law.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We <em>must</em> ensure that the Wedgwood museum, into which, over the years, so many benefactors have given time and money (including the winning of £100,000 from the Art Fund as “Museum of the Year” in 2009) is saved.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is a <u>spectacular </u>museum preserving and displaying the lives, archives and artefacts from a period when our country exploded with ideas and industry. Not only the documents of Josiah Wedgwood and his family, his partners, designers and first-rankartist/designers (Wm Blake, Flaxman, Stubbs, Reynolds et al.) but scientific papers from the Darwins and other members of the remarkable Lunar Society from which so many great figures and ideas emerged through the 18th and 19th centuries. A Great Shame would descend on our own hard times if we were were unable to prevent so important a part of our national/international narrative being dissolved. - It would be a double-indictment, when we see our taxes repeatedly raided for the ever-increasing (some would say obscene) sums devoured by the forthcoming, ephemeral London Olympics. Our civilized neighbours and our children would rightly judge us as philistines if we/our legislators were to allow this to happen.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you have not done so already, (and I know some have), will you <b>please</b>, join the campaign to Save the Wedgwood Museum by doing one or all of the following:- </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1) adding you name as supporter through </span></span><a href="http://www.savewedgwood.org/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.savewedgwood.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> and </span><a href="mailto:savewedgwood@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">savewedgwood@gmail.com</span></a> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2) telling all whom you feel will join the campaign -copying this email if you like<br />
3) writing to your local MP / the PM; Ministers Ed Vaizey and Jeremy Hunt at the Department for Culture Media and Sport and to any national newspapers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1AGinfR8bp6YhFIzFB4OjaklA1Fd1oi93so28_AXKZZQmxjymVxWCZ3bt7Jguubr8EhUjdjN9SEiuWiXu8WK2h3YZW3yQtERtXt7bPOtBADrQj9rWmjkG2j9wfUUflMwoO645KizG4NA/s1600/IMG_2818.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1AGinfR8bp6YhFIzFB4OjaklA1Fd1oi93so28_AXKZZQmxjymVxWCZ3bt7Jguubr8EhUjdjN9SEiuWiXu8WK2h3YZW3yQtERtXt7bPOtBADrQj9rWmjkG2j9wfUUflMwoO645KizG4NA/s320/IMG_2818.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">and </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
4) visiting the Museum (in administration but still open) to see just how fantastic it is;<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At the time of writing (5<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> Jan) one glimmer of light comes from a potential benefactor/buyer, <span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">John Caudwell, </span>declaring just before Christmas, that he will stand in. Though potentially very good news, this generous declaration still needs to be buttressed against all the possibilities of a Bleak House scenario. Until the Wedgwood Museum is safe, please keep lobbying!</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">God Bless us, Every One! Lars Tharp for Trump & Co. <span style="background-color: purple;">Jan 2012<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-9617798765470907202011-11-26T05:06:00.000-08:002011-11-26T06:12:58.405-08:00Lars Tharp's "Woman's Hour" début<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Familiar? - if you watched <em>Forbrydelsen</em><br />
aka <em>The Killing</em></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>And Talking about Jumpers....</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lars takes to the air (BBC Radio 4) on Wednesday 30th November 2011 (some time between 10am-10.45)...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Prepare to be spun some yarns - who knows where this could go? <span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">...chaired by <em>tricoteuse</em> Jenni Murray. What will she unravel?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"></span>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-73686207595751745712011-11-09T10:29:00.000-08:002011-11-09T10:29:19.311-08:00At home with Hogarth<span style="background-color: white; color: magenta; font-size: large;">Hogarth's House re-opens...</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0UafS-bbHxwIKuM7DzkJevjxTk5h48ixNCeQjcQcMqd3hF0d57rYPPP3rjD4uTYL1_MhTwQ4nfxf4KtXZyjhKDggcQ0PmFFRIC8UTfA1RurEwqADWnCx-xnJr-G2Bud2vLxN6658vX2g/s1600/Lars+and+Dara1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0UafS-bbHxwIKuM7DzkJevjxTk5h48ixNCeQjcQcMqd3hF0d57rYPPP3rjD4uTYL1_MhTwQ4nfxf4KtXZyjhKDggcQ0PmFFRIC8UTfA1RurEwqADWnCx-xnJr-G2Bud2vLxN6658vX2g/s200/Lars+and+Dara1.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1_ltLKqL9aJUyP0ETFboiKUXGiTmryR2Mzl2O5KvlrEinONdw3EBxtrcAFJ7uToo_-ViRvCQs-TBcl5fOujG7Dh-PBEDOAymeOp1FlfZNCHwwYiSVkgLs2OGSu5rsOpLWmDoyb-KijLA/s1600/Rooke+Hogarth+House.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1_ltLKqL9aJUyP0ETFboiKUXGiTmryR2Mzl2O5KvlrEinONdw3EBxtrcAFJ7uToo_-ViRvCQs-TBcl5fOujG7Dh-PBEDOAymeOp1FlfZNCHwwYiSVkgLs2OGSu5rsOpLWmDoyb-KijLA/s320/Rooke+Hogarth+House.jpg" width="320" /></a>After a three-year restoration, William Hogarth's charming country retreat in Chiswick is once more open to the public (Tuesday-Sunday, noon-5pm). The project was steered by Val Bott of <span style="color: #741b47;"><strong>The</strong> </span><strong><span style="color: #741b47;">William Hogarth Trust</span> ( </strong><a href="http://williamhogarthtrust.org.uk/?page_id=16">http://williamhogarthtrust.org.uk/?page_id=16</a> ). Chiswick resident, satirist and confessed Hogarth "nut", Dara O'Brian (<em>above, right</em>) officially opened the house on Monday 7th November, three days before Hogarth's 314th birthday. Guests were treated to miniature mulberry pies made from the fruits of the very tree which has borne fruit in the garden since before the Hogarths moved in in 1749. <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj48YBGFs8emo1lPTGeLJumrMiPNjW3uc2K1e-sQjSHp1Djml4vSBZ9EIHkPtL5BycmQXbqxu2-4l2O_fP8w6kAOhSDhuLHgCXNL4pguqgCk8Gs47VdWHNEZ8U7p6XscTBhhAzFHsRZd9U/s1600/Lars6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj48YBGFs8emo1lPTGeLJumrMiPNjW3uc2K1e-sQjSHp1Djml4vSBZ9EIHkPtL5BycmQXbqxu2-4l2O_fP8w6kAOhSDhuLHgCXNL4pguqgCk8Gs47VdWHNEZ8U7p6XscTBhhAzFHsRZd9U/s200/Lars6.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
We also grabbed prime time with Nick Higham (<em>right</em>) featuring the house on the BBC flagship programme <em>Today</em><br />
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For opening hours and details visit<br />
<a href="http://www.hounslow.info/arts/hogarthshouse/visit.html">http://www.hounslow.info/arts/hogarthshouse/visit.html</a><br />
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for my 5-minute BBC tour of Hogarth's prints:<br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15584519">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15584519</a>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-45293446092813196852011-11-09T09:16:00.002-08:002012-05-09T02:03:22.546-07:00Happy Hogarthian BirthdayJust in time for William Hogarth's 314th birthday (10th November) Hogarth's House reopens after an eventful three-year restoration prolonged by a serious fire. Jane and William Hogarth moved into their country cottage in sleepy Chiswick in 1749, William having established himself as the leading English painter of the day. Today the house sits at an angle behind a long wall sheltering its oldest, still-living inhabitant, Hogarth's Mulberry Tree. <br />
The house was opened by local Chiswick satirist, Dara O'Briain adn may now be visited Tues-Sunday, noon-5pm<br />
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<a href="http://www.hounslow.info/arts/hogarthshouse/visit.html">http://www.hounslow.info/arts/hogarthshouse/visit.html</a><br />
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Listen to Nick Higham's BBC Today feature on<br />
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</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-19771066543731635342011-11-09T09:16:00.000-08:002011-11-09T09:16:06.687-08:00A Scandinavian Killing<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXyF-FwpaBLJuWDBhXx9tS0Fzdrr49pk_WOn9-H-UgsgJW9i2-c_dyhRHucCN4BbNpAzzy0eIRr61o8bIDrMeCPBt0Hpw0lgT5qzhNlsWOlx4o27aBq_mFE6MkWUTPMJeCot0qC9efZZM/s1600/Graabol+w+LT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXyF-FwpaBLJuWDBhXx9tS0Fzdrr49pk_WOn9-H-UgsgJW9i2-c_dyhRHucCN4BbNpAzzy0eIRr61o8bIDrMeCPBt0Hpw0lgT5qzhNlsWOlx4o27aBq_mFE6MkWUTPMJeCot0qC9efZZM/s200/Graabol+w+LT.jpg" width="191" /></a><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">The 2011 Scandinavian Show, </span><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Earl's Court, London</span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;">Sunday 9th October</span><br />
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Hot-foot from their successes at the BAFTA and Golden Dagger awards, Lars Tharp interviewed <span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sofie Gråbøl (Sarah Lund) and Søren Malling (Meyer) from <em>Forbrydelsen (The Killing). </em>Sofie revealed that the actors were all kept in the dark as to who the killer was until the very final scenes. Series two comes to BBC</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4 in the next few weeks...</span>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-14241287429895498152011-09-30T04:03:00.000-07:002011-10-08T04:38:12.290-07:00My little film, Made in China...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpTsBDE7nxjYOw6opNbmIMR4bNH24MZsJjE4AQMehv01KM7GK37YHai6eV4TqBZUz_6BZ0IXA1bkGFH4AXbxB1-uaI_yv9GeYuY325vYpzuIOQrLzuYg2QbpK0PElbF0LKILc05G3sJU/s1600/blast+logo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpTsBDE7nxjYOw6opNbmIMR4bNH24MZsJjE4AQMehv01KM7GK37YHai6eV4TqBZUz_6BZ0IXA1bkGFH4AXbxB1-uaI_yv9GeYuY325vYpzuIOQrLzuYg2QbpK0PElbF0LKILc05G3sJU/s1600/blast+logo.gif" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT7teWJ9S46fZlKwe2Spy33XFl1BAQhFW15akm9VTdsF9iCRdsr-Zab8f8ubmYv5sSB9YdXhloEyDA8k5ekZRQt3X7-O2Wj3QI-N5BgHGY11mAQz3r-ofGYSv0jx9XIn4Lxc84nDH6z-k/s1600/LT+China+film+Burghley+bowl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT7teWJ9S46fZlKwe2Spy33XFl1BAQhFW15akm9VTdsF9iCRdsr-Zab8f8ubmYv5sSB9YdXhloEyDA8k5ekZRQt3X7-O2Wj3QI-N5BgHGY11mAQz3r-ofGYSv0jx9XIn4Lxc84nDH6z-k/s400/LT+China+film+Burghley+bowl.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: purple;">for the</span> <span style="background-color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="background-color: black;">B B C FOUR </span></span> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="color: purple;">Handmade in Britain</span></em></span> <span style="font-size: small;">season</span>*</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lars Tharp presents</span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Filmed in China and England earlier in 2011, I follow the trail of Chinese porcelain manufacture:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from the sourcing of china clay and china stone in the mountains of Jiangxi; to its transformation into tablewares and art objects in the city of Jingdezhen; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>its 500 mile-long route along rivers, over lakes and across a mountain, all by human porterage down to Canton (Guangzhou) from where <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the next leg of the China trade to Europe - another 9000 miles by sea – began.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Accompanied on board ship by all the other goods of the China Trade (notably tea, silks, lacquer ware, fans, furniture and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wallpapers) these exotic luxuries, charged with sumptuous images of the Far East gave western consumers -the growing merchant class as well as the established aristocracy- their first glimpses into the Celestial Empire, and changed forever our domestic interiors -as well as establishing that oh-so-English habit of Tea. Come on the journey.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLQ38NRpHv_Iw2mEzboqYRfBEC-tdNBlFOnJ0XrD7rtfY9Qp5l74k-LVxIWbuaRsIjy54P1xa5Aa5Suw1o6gmMPH0ikZx5nnMsaSLl2vq3e9VynI6nIiAgu9fOg6NEq_nic7VWZxgOkNk/s1600/Treasures+card.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLQ38NRpHv_Iw2mEzboqYRfBEC-tdNBlFOnJ0XrD7rtfY9Qp5l74k-LVxIWbuaRsIjy54P1xa5Aa5Suw1o6gmMPH0ikZx5nnMsaSLl2vq3e9VynI6nIiAgu9fOg6NEq_nic7VWZxgOkNk/s320/Treasures+card.bmp" width="240" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>above </em>LT with the late 16thC Chinese porcelain bowl whose story links Sir Francis Drake with Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh (courtesy of the Trustees of Burghley House, Lincs, 2011) / <em>right</em> in Jingdezhen with a modern copy of a Qianlong period (1736-1795) vase which reached £43 million at auction in London in 2010</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Director: Ian Denyer Camera (China): Colin Fox / <strong>BLAST!</strong> films for BBC FOUR</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">__________________</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT8VZ7EfWjwr6lbk_iIoQMh-OVKFP7U5_Y2vHkhN4V3vyZIb7gxSccUOXbVsZCSPuMR4dyoKnXUtLXsYaBVMRUbf8pvsdCVu4g9icA2gUx3Pa7LUNcFaBSD9n1iigmu488C95QqrfAc_o/s1600/handmade+in+Britain+logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT8VZ7EfWjwr6lbk_iIoQMh-OVKFP7U5_Y2vHkhN4V3vyZIb7gxSccUOXbVsZCSPuMR4dyoKnXUtLXsYaBVMRUbf8pvsdCVu4g9icA2gUx3Pa7LUNcFaBSD9n1iigmu488C95QqrfAc_o/s200/handmade+in+Britain+logo.jpg" width="200" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em><span style="color: purple;"></span></em></span></span></span></b><br />
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</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-66203589500502955402011-08-08T06:25:00.000-07:002011-08-13T07:31:08.651-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #cd1c28; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><br />
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(11th Aug 2011)</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw6Gow9-FRPO-ZGabWe7I10p8TMl7OurnfCMLwOqvPR5MaNvXojdH4ESAHz2M-GimJ15obVs_6HDj7Q6-FiME29XD9OPnJEM1Qp1I44xKzw_whvdJgtlSpBpg4qi9ENfOwOmI5OOmkMIU/s1600/cello+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw6Gow9-FRPO-ZGabWe7I10p8TMl7OurnfCMLwOqvPR5MaNvXojdH4ESAHz2M-GimJ15obVs_6HDj7Q6-FiME29XD9OPnJEM1Qp1I44xKzw_whvdJgtlSpBpg4qi9ENfOwOmI5OOmkMIU/s200/cello+004.JPG" width="199" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 14.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong>Listen again (thru the internet) to the discussion on the link below</strong> (until 18th Aug)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPuec9DauXh7h6cC8_y07Dr67SI2vPqkcWucJoORrHAS_Zxui0em9OL110_YNnqSDfhtTqpL9LNVdtcIs9EfkTC6y0Y-c_dGW6-kxa1QHH9J11bO9iS16BhzaNJogsUypoDTaRfPCfLOA/s1600/radio3+logo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #990000;"><img border="0" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPuec9DauXh7h6cC8_y07Dr67SI2vPqkcWucJoORrHAS_Zxui0em9OL110_YNnqSDfhtTqpL9LNVdtcIs9EfkTC6y0Y-c_dGW6-kxa1QHH9J11bO9iS16BhzaNJogsUypoDTaRfPCfLOA/s1600/radio3+logo.gif" /></span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For ceramics expert <strong>Lars Tharp</strong> it was a choice between studying the ‘cello or archaeology. To the benefit of <em>Antiques Road Show</em> viewers, and to the Eternal loss of the music audience, he chose archaeology</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ever since, he's been struck by how often people comment, 'I wish I'd played the ‘cello', with a yearning rarely displayed in connection with other instruments. Is it because its range and tone is closer to the human voice than any other instrument, or is it the heartstring-tugging repertoire that's grown up around it? Or is it something...."primal"?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 14.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Lars seeks the answer in the company of <strong>Julian Lloyd Webber</strong> who, immediately after the interval, will be playing a newly re-discovered piece for the ‘cello, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Invocation</i>, by Gustav Holst, followed by Elgar's universally-acclaimed Enigma Variations. And <strong>Graham Fitkin</strong>, whose newly composed ‘Cello Concerto for Yo-Yo Ma will be premiered in Prom 61 on 31 August, discusses the merits of the ‘cello and the problems it poses for the composer.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0132pkp/Twenty_Minutes_Theres_Something_about_the_Cello/"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0132pkp/Twenty_Minutes_Theres_Something_about_the_Cello/</span></strong></a></div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-76356683506212671172011-07-22T08:14:00.000-07:002011-07-22T08:22:47.504-07:00Lars' current TV and Radio projects....We're in the middle of making the <span style="color: blue;"><em>Antiques Roadshow</em> <span style="color: black;">our</span> </span>34th season -and my own 25th year on the Show.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #444444;">This marks the end of my extended (second year) term on the Art Fund Panel -last year under Kirsty Young, and this year under Michael Portillo. A huge thank you to all fellow-panelists for stimulating discussions and excellent company. Congratulations also to </span><span style="color: magenta;">The Art Fund,</span><span style="color: #444444;"> its members and generous sponsors. Heaven knows how important the Fund continues to be in the promotion and protection of Britain's material and spiritual culture.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Two days later (with an <em>Antiques Roadshow</em> at Hever Castle in between) I was off to China for the BBC...(see separate blog here in <em>The Trumpet...)</em></span></div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-37088525477610100562011-06-12T04:38:00.000-07:002011-06-13T03:38:37.905-07:00Art Fund 2011<span style="background-color: white; color: magenta; font-size: large;">Art Fund Prize 2011 <br />
<span style="font-size: small;">- announcement at Tate Britain</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">-and on Front Row, BBC Radio 4 the same evening.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">The Four Finalists are:-</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Roman Baths, Bath</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">British Museum (History of the World in 100 Objects)</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Robert Burns' Birthplace, Alloway</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">For Charlotte Higgins' piece on being a judge, see <em>Guardian</em> (12/6/2011): -</span><br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jun/12/arts-fund-museum-prize">http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jun/12/arts-fund-museum-prize</a><br />
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The panel arrives at the elegant, refurbished Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, North Wales<br />
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</tbody></table>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-17924722076994790672011-03-23T16:54:00.000-07:002011-03-23T16:54:58.650-07:00<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">ART FUND PRIZE 2011...<span style="font-size: small;">contd</span></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;">Our third group visit: The Robert Burns' Centre, Alloway</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy9ODV9_9NSMfj-6VKvx9wQRgZgLfipX984GnHKW-l9q9yhf31LrKFVfPNr1SpwquyegDb7aObKjkD6ORJt8g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>- into the cottage where RB was born and lived up to the age of sevenLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-66245368908685431272011-03-18T05:54:00.000-07:002011-03-18T05:58:39.190-07:00Hogarth's Comic Relief...<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGvsysmFwuTGjgaVMRhh56PzI3K_BZa7H4Kb55ybD2kyXxRFF6PUgfmlXu-BUn0OWp8yniQ5hzwlQyhlMC1M8MbXNSmUM9xDn45cisyUfJ1vgU1S4DS4_3orUf8-7-0_1wt9nkigkX5w/s1600/hogarth++trump0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; height: 75px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 81px;"><img border="0" height="200" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGvsysmFwuTGjgaVMRhh56PzI3K_BZa7H4Kb55ybD2kyXxRFF6PUgfmlXu-BUn0OWp8yniQ5hzwlQyhlMC1M8MbXNSmUM9xDn45cisyUfJ1vgU1S4DS4_3orUf8-7-0_1wt9nkigkX5w/s200/hogarth++trump0001.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEXCkkv0Zy9LErVakgfre3aC7ncghGGIqX92f0h_WF-tCHYgwJDaKyqKirg6bvjfpBz3Tu4z46hAiVHfLyQ3SOJqclOB_bDxVpUhVlFJj_t2f_Y0253yYhtziG6p5G5q3KFYtdPY1FuG8/s1600/LT+Red+Nose+2011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEXCkkv0Zy9LErVakgfre3aC7ncghGGIqX92f0h_WF-tCHYgwJDaKyqKirg6bvjfpBz3Tu4z46hAiVHfLyQ3SOJqclOB_bDxVpUhVlFJj_t2f_Y0253yYhtziG6p5G5q3KFYtdPY1FuG8/s320/LT+Red+Nose+2011.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Spot the <span style="color: red;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Red Nose? </span></strong></span>(Hogarth meets Westwood)</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-73360847179602477312011-03-16T11:31:00.000-07:002011-03-23T17:07:39.361-07:00Art Fund Prize 2011 continued...<span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our second 2011 Art Fund Prize Group visit: <br />
to York Museum - house of amazing treasures</span><br />
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This year (2011) our first panel visit with our chairman Michael Portillo was to Hertford Museum (Friday 18th Feb) - a compelling little market town museum with dedicated volunteers and a wealth of local collections -including a fabled Bezoar Stone...We coincided with the WI market day and returned with various excellent produce including Lemon Drizzles and potted plants.<br />
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In the week the runners were announced I visited <em>incognito*</em> the amazing, arabic-style Leighton House, the Kensington residence of the great Victorian painter and sculptor Alfred, Lord Leighton.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">* If a judge cannot attend on the day of the official panel visit they will do so <em>incognito</em> at another time -although last year hawk-eyed receptionists last year did manage to intercept and accompany me on my unannounced appearence.</span>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576368491882052894.post-87634384540928095112011-02-11T12:10:00.001-08:002011-02-11T12:10:45.976-08:00Hogarth Calling...Watch this space...LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500478160464839952noreply@blogger.com2