Carla Passino
Freelance Journalist and Content Producer at Freelance
Acting Deputy Features Editor at Country Life
Freelance journalist writing about history plus the intersection of politics, food, farming and the environment. Now Acting Deputy Features Editor, Country Life
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4 days ago |
countrylife.co.uk | Carla Passino
Kermit the frog claps his hands with glee, eyes dancing, a big smile plastered on his face. He, Fozzie Bear, Rowlf the Dog and a bunch of other muppets are clustered around an old-fashioned television, watching Charles III being crowned. They are not, however, appearing on a screen themselves. They are figures in a painting by Leslie Thompson, one of eight artists commissioned by the Government Art Collection to capture the spirit of the King and Queen’s Coronation on May 6, 2023.
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3 weeks ago |
countrylife.co.uk | Carla Passino
‘There is a Turner for everybody,’ says Amy Concannon, Manton senior curator of historic British art at Tate. ‘You can like his watercolours better than his oils. You can like his depictions of the sea. You can like his depictions of classical history. You can like The Fighting Temeraire. He's such a varied and versatile artist and that was one of his deliberate tricks.
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4 weeks ago |
countrylife.co.uk | Carla Passino |Amie Elizabeth White |Rosie Paterson
Dead Salmon, Mouse’s Back, Elephant’s Breath. When artist and interior designer the late John Sutcliffe helped Tom Helme and James Finlay develop Farrow & Ball’s colour range, they outdid one another coming up with hilarious monikers (today, the much tamer Sutcliffe Green is named in his honour).
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1 month ago |
countrylife.co.uk | Carla Passino
On April 10, 1925, Charles Scribner’s Sons published the latest novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. It sold poorly that year, but, in the following century, it went on to become a cornerstone of world literature: The Great Gatsby. Almost on its centenary to a day, on April 11, the musical version has its West End premiere, about a year after its Broadway debut.
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1 month ago |
countrylife.co.uk | Carla Passino
Poet, social reformer, writer, publisher, and above all artist and designer. There is little William Morris couldn’t or didn’t do, so much so that, in 1896, as he lay dying at the age of 62, a doctor put down his illness to: ‘simply being William Morris and having done more work than most 10 men’.
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