I recently renewed my friendship with Tom Hunt, son of the late James Hunt, and protector of his legacy. Tom, and his brother Freddie, have set up the James Hunt Foundation to raise money to invest in causes which they believe their father would espouse if he were still alive.
Robert Jarman remembers when Rock legends played to a select audience
In September 1993 an extraordinary concert took place in the grounds of Cowdray Castle, by kind permission of Lord Cowdray, and for this unique event, the astonishing line-up of Rock Aristocracy took the name of ‘The Ruins Band’ for one night only, and what a night it was!
It was certainly one of the best concerts which I have ever attended, and the line-up included the three remaining members of Queen (Freddie Mercury having recently departed this world); Genesis, with Phil Collins, and Paul Young of Mike & the Mechanics, performing some of the vocals, Pink Floyd, minus Roger Waters, and the great Eric Clapton.
Manuel Marin was born in 1942 in Cieza, Murcia, Spain.
Aged 10 years old he developed a passion for bull fighting, and at 16 fought his first bull fight. He fought with many of the great bullfighters of that period including: Chicuelo Segundo, Pedras Montero, as well as Miguel Mateo (‘Miguelin), Jamie Ostos and Manuel Benitez, better known as ‘El Cordobes’.
Grosvenor House Art Fair, founded in 1934, used to be the grand art and antiques fair of London, but, after a half century of glory, it steadily declined and, like a dowdy old dowager, finally gave up the ghost, in 2009.
A year after its demise, Masterpiece stepped nimbly into its place, but establishing itself in much more airy and spacious premises in Chelsea rather than the cramped and penumbral environs of the Grosvenor House Hotel.
David Williams-Ellis is one of the world’s leading figurative sculptors, whose unique life size, portrait, bird and animal sculptures are cast in bronze, silver and glass.
David’s work has earned him international recognition and acclaim. He has worked on a number of prestigious commissions, both private and public, and his work is exhibited and collected worldwide.
When Grange Park Opera’s black-tie audience arrives for the opening night of the 2013 season, everyone will admire an old staircase. Ripped out long ago from the Grange, once a distressed neo-classical mansion in a rural bit of Hampshire, it has been reinstated with help from the opera festival’s family of supporters.
This June, at the peak of the capital’s summer season, Masterpiece London brings together collectors, exhibitors and curators from around the world for an unparalleled show of fine art, antiques and design.
Celia Thompson, The Vintage Magazine’s Opera Correspondent reviews Don Carlos at The Royal opera House.
The exhibition on Pompeii and Herculanum currently at the British Museum gives us an amazing view of how human beings lived 2000 years ago. The murals, sculptures, pyramids and temples in Egypt give us an astonishing view of how people lived 4,500 years ago. Most of us find it hard to imagine life further back than that: indeed we rarely get an opportunity to even think about it, unless we have taken the trouble to look at the dustier sections of museums, usually just called “Prehistoric Man’.
Historically, there has always been popular and critical dissent over art. Not everyone at the time thought Michelangelo or Caravaggio were geniuses, for example. However, the arguments were generally over content: few would have disputed their technical merit. Workmanship was always one important criterion for art (remember ‘ars’ in Latin means ‘skill’). Well, that’s gone for a Burton. So what’s left?
