Anais la chapelle gauguin biography

A CENTURY OF BRITISH ART VOLUME ONE 1900 – 1945

Copyright © Chris Beetles Ltd 2021 8 & 10 Ryder Street St James’s London SW1Y 6QB 020 7839 7551 gallery@chrisbeetles.com www.chrisbeetles.com ISBN 978-1-914906-00-8 Cataloguing in publication data is available from the British Library A Chris Beetles Ltd Publication General Editor: Chris Beetles Researched and written by David Wootton, with contributions from Alexander Beetles, Kenneth McConkey & Fiona Nickerson Edited by Pascale Oakley and David Wootton Design by Pascale Oakley Photography by Julian Huxley-Parlour Reproduction by www.cast2create.com Colour separation and printing by Geoff Neal Litho Limited

Front cover: George Clausen, The Budding Tree [4] Front endpaper: Algernon Talmage, Wounded Horses Returning from the Front, France [41] This page: H M Bateman, Student Day at the National Gallery [detail of 30] Title page: S R Badmin, Cli Path, Richmond, Yorks [158] Page 5:

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When I shared the top five things I wanted to do in Paris in 2021, it sparked something in you guys.

Before I knew it, my computer was flooded with fascinating listener lists! Hundreds of Paris activities – many of which inspired me too. After all, Earful Tower listeners have their fingers on the pulse of Paris 😉

So I gathered my favourite 100 responses of activities to try this year. Things I know are great, things I’ve heard are worth doing, and things I’d never even considered before.

You can forget “climbing the Eiffel Tower” and “Finding the Mona Lisa”. This is a more interesting, obscure, and, dare I say it, more fun list than the others – and it’s co-created by you guys!!

At the bottom of this page is a printable checklist so you can tally your own score properly and tag me online @theearfultower with your results. Good luck!

Oh yes, and in today’s podcast episode I made a surprise call to three listeners to he

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La Pommerie, an art research venue on the Plateau de Millevaches: interview with Natura Ruiz and Elie Kongs

La Pommerie is an art research venue located on the Plateau dem Millevaches and has a special role as an outlet of contemporary culture in a very fjärrstyrd social and geographic context. Very different from an institutional and conventional contemporary art centre, for this focus report, we wanted to find out more about their view of rurality and cultural discussion and cooperation within this kind of context, as well as the conditions for survival of this type of business within the current social and economic context. We met Natura Ruiz and Élie Kongs, in charge of La Pommerie, who agreed to answer our questions.

Benoît Lamy de La Chapelle —» Could you start bygd telling us about the origins of La Pommerie project and the kind of individ who created it?

La Pommerie —» La Pommerie represents at least three generations of successive contributors; so, three projects that, owing