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John Gielgud: When England hounded a hero
| Playing silly buggers.

More ephemeral architecture and also another example of old exposition architecture. The Palais du Trocadéro was designed by Gabriel Davioud for the 1878 World’s Fair and until its demolition in the 1930s faced the Eiffel Tower across the Seine after that edifice had been constructed as the entrance arch for another fair, the Exposition Universelle […]

Photographer Sandro Bross works a variation on the Flandrin pose.
Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
• The recurrent pose archive

Earthquake hits much of England
| Biggest for 25 years.

‘Fair and False’, Songs and Sonnets by William Shakespeare (1915).
More illustrated gems from the PDF collection at Archive.org. Charles Robinson, as mentioned earlier, was the older brother of illustrator William Heath (there was also a third illustrator brother in the family, Thomas). Charles was so prolific it’s difficult to choose one work over the […]

Miles Davis & Teo Macero, 1969.
Teo Macero, composer and visionary producer of one of the greatest albums ever recorded, Bitches Brew by Miles Davis, died last week.
• NYT obituary
• Teo talks about working with Miles Davis
• Jon Hassell explains why Bitches Brew is the best

Fenella Fielding, May 2005.
A few things of interest in the Coulthart world this month.
• The Independent on Sunday this weekend ran a feature by Robert Chalmers on film and stage actress Fenella Fielding which included some discussion with my Savoy colleague Dave Britton about the recordings Savoy has been making with Fenella for the […]

The lady vanishes: What ever happened to Fenella Fielding?
| She found herself working with Savoy…

Untitled from The Black Series by Derek Jarman.
The Serpentine Gallery hosts an exhibition of Derek Jarman’s work selected by filmmaker Isaac Julian from 23 February to 13 April, 2008.
The Derek Jarman exhibition will present a selection of work by the leading British filmmaker of his generation. Curated by the celebrated artist and filmmaker Isaac […]

Groove is in the art
| Hercules and Love Affair get groovy.