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THE summer-holiday period is not a time for new artmarket openings and many galleries close for several weeks, or at least enter a period of semiaestivation. Nonetheless, there are still exhibitions to be visited that will run on until the reawakening in September. Here are one or two continuing commercial shows, together with one distinctly uncommercial one in France that looks well worth a detour.
When Dame Elizabeth Blackadder died in 2021, she bequeathed more than £7 million to the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) to provide prizes, travel awards, bursaries and other opportunities, not only for graduates, but, importantly, for artists in mid career. It is intended that 60-plus individuals will benefit from this Blackadder Houston Bequest each year. Blackadder was the first woman to be elected to both RA and RSA and, from 2001, she was Her Majesty’s Painter and Limner for Scotland. This scheme may well have been inspired by her own Carnegie travelling scholarship on leaving college. She is now perhaps more widely known than her husband, John Houston, RSA (1930–2008), but he was an influential teacher and, as a couple, they were at the centre of Scottish artistic life.
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Don't rain on Venus's parade
TENNIS has never been sexierâat least, that is what multiple critics of the new film Challengers are saying.
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A rural reason to cheer
THERE was something particularly special for country people when one of the prestigious Kingâs Awards for Voluntary Service was presented last week.
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My heart is in the Highlands
A LISTAIR MOFFATâS many books on Scottish history are distinctive for the way he weaves poetry and literature, language and personal experience into broad-sweeping studies of particular regions or themes. In his latestâ and among his most ambitious in scopeâhe juxtaposes a passage from MacMhaighstir Alasdairâs great sea poem Birlinn Chlann Raghnaill with his own account of filming a replica birlinn (Hebridean galley) as it glides into the Sound of Mull, âlarch strakes swept up to a high prowâ, saffron sail billowing, water sparkling as its oars dip and splash. Familiar from medieval tomb carvings, the birlinn is a potent symbol of the power of the Lords of the Isles.
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Put it in print
Three sales furnished with the ever-rarer paper catalogues featured intriguing lots, including a North Carolina map by John Ogilby and a wine glass gibbeting Admiral Byng, the unfortunate scapegoat for the British loss of Minorca
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The rake's progress
Good looks, a flair for the theatrical and an excellent marriage made John Astleyâs fortune, but also swayed âle Titien Angloisâ away from painting into a dissolute life of wine and women, with some collecting on the side
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Charter me this
Thereâs a whole world out there waiting to be explored and one of the most exciting ways to see it is from the water, says Emma Love, who rounds up the best boat charters
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Hey ho, hey ho, it's off to sow we go
JUNE can be a tricky month for the gardener.
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Floreat Etona
The link with the school and horticulture goes back to its royal founder, finds George Plumptre on a visit to the recently restored gardens
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All in good time
Two decades in the planning, The Emory, designed by Sir Richard Rogers, is open. Think of it as a sieve that retains the best of contemporary hotel-keeping and lets the empty banality flow away
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Come on down, the water's fine
Ratty might have preferred a picnic, but canalside fine dining is proving the key to success for new restaurant openings in east London today, finds Gilly Hopper