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Alas I desire too much.(Story)(Short story)
A grimy Victorian building with a slate roof loomed above me like a derelict tomb as I climbed the entrance stairs of the Hackney public baths, passing by whirring gym equipment, men puffing and slumped over exercise bikes. Walking to the change area I opened one of the cubicles, putting on my costume before following the hallway to the pool. A lifeguard sat on a chair, while lanes had been roped off for swimmers, an instructor bellowing directions to school kids who dipped and dived, splashing beneath the ropes. Lying back in the water, I began backstroking down the lane, relaxing into the warmth of the water and the rhythm of my body, swimming back and forth along ...
- The Arnolfini double portrait: a simple solution.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Apollo Koster, Margaret L. September 1, 2003 700+ words
...range of responses to Jan van Eyck's Double portrait in the National Gallery is an indication of the painter's stupendous achievement...large, still follow Panofsky and refer to the picture as the Arnolfini wedding. (2) Panofsky's contention that Van Eyck literally...
- Arnolfini reopens with new identity and spaces.
- Magazine article from: Design Week September 1, 2005 700+ words
...expansion at Bristol contemporary arts centre Arnolfini, which finally reopens next weekend...following a pitch in autumn last year. The Arnolfini signage draws on the key 'square' element...archive area. The changes will allow the Arnolfini to widen the range of projects it can...
- Van Eyck: Arnolfini Wedding
- Picture from: Archive Photos January 1, 1900 700+ words
Archive Photos 01-01-1900 Van Eyck: Arnolfini Wedding One of the great Flemish painters of the early northern...Renaissance, Jan Van Eyck is probably best known for his Arnolfini Wedding portrait, a brilliant study of color and light...
- WHAT'S ON: The Cover of a Book...: Arnolfini, Bristol.
- Magazine article from: Creative Review January 5, 2009 700+ words
Currently on show at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol is The Cover Of A Book Is The Beginning Of...a thousand (2007), available to download and print from the Arnolfini website, along with an accompanying soundtrack, to be played...
- Uneasy rooms. (installation art; Dorothy Cross at Camden Arts Centre, Mona...
- Magazine article from: Art in America MacRitchie, Lynn October 1, 1993 700+ words
...disturbing ways. Her piece Light Sentence, first designed for Chapter Arts in Cardiff, was shown from May to June at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol and simultaneously, in another version, as part of the "Four Rooms" exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery...
- Jan Van Eyck. giovanni Arnolfini and his wife.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Jazz Moscow Art Trio Arnolfini, Bristol
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Phil Johnson November 17, 1995 700+ words
Expecting, quite unfairly, three men with enormous beards performing the aural equivalent of a long and sombre Tarkovsky film, only to find some of the most lively and entrancing music of the year, was the biggest surprise at this wonderful concert. True, there were beards - two and not very big -
- Van Eyck's united. (National Gallery of London exhibition of Flemish master Jan...
- Magazine article from: History Today Leech, Michael January 1, 1998 700+ words
...which opens at the National Gallery in London on the...together not only the National Gallery's pictures of the...including the famous 'Arnolfini Marriage') but...from Washington's National Gallery, 'the Annunciation...
