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Print The Rossmoor Spring Garden Tour and Outdoor Marketplace returns Sunday, May 16. Hours for the event are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Masks and social distancing will be required. The self-guided tour will showcase landscaping, pools, outdoor kitchens and other design elements in five private yards in Rossmoor, an unincorporated enclave between Seal Beach and Los Alamitos. The event is sponsored by the Rossmoor Woman’s Club. A marketplace will offer plants and outdoor decor, other wares and refres...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: I continue my exploration of different ways to think about leadership by considering perhaps the most iconic album cover in the history of rock and roll, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. In Rolling Stone article, entitled “ Beatles’ Iconic ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Art: 10 Things You Didn’t Know”, Colin Fleming wrote about the concept and execution. Fleming described it as “wonderful swirl of visuals, ranging from that most...

As Museums and Galleries plan their reopenings Artlyst has put together a selection of exhibitions throughout the country this Summer

Updated Chris Carrell championed community engagement (Picture copyright Alan Wylie, 1989) A visionary arts administrator who spent 13 years at the helm of Glasgow’s Third Eye Centre, Chris Carrell was a crucial figure in shaping Glasgow’s successful bid to be 1990 City of Culture. His energy and ability to enable others helped shape the grassroots arts scene for which the city is now internationally recognised. Born Ronald Christopher Carrell in Barnard Castle in 1941, he never knew the...

London studio Alexander Owen Architecture drew on its clients love of modernism and pop art to create a colourful kitchen and terrace at Amott Road in East Dulwich. Geometric shapes, timber curves and bold pigments characterise the project, which also involved adding a modest side extension to the end-of-terrace property in southeast London. Above: Alexander Owen Architecture has renovated a house in London. Top image: the colourful renovation involved adding a small side extension Owners Simon...

Died: April 13, 2021. THE death of Chris Carrell, not long after his 80th birthday and after Parkinson’s and age-related illnesses, has deeply saddened countless artists across the UK and beyond, while stirring magical memories among those who experienced his insightful practice of bringing art into the lives of people wherever he worked. His time as director of Glasgow’s Third Eye Centre (1978-1991) was undoubtedly a significant factor in Glasgow achieving its 1990 European City of C...

Fresh: Art Fair returns to Gloucestershire this summer Fresh: Art Fair is returning to Cheltenham Racecourse for its fourth year this August 2021 and promises to be better than ever. Fresh: Art Fair will take place at Cheltenham Racecourse in August 2021. The UK’s leading provincial art fair is coming back to Cheltenham for its fourth year. Fresh: Art Fair will return to Cheltenham Racecourse on Friday 6 August to Sunday 8 August 2021, featuring a huge collection of art from established prof...

ALL AT SEA – Advertisement – Not only do I love the America’s Cup, and have since the 1950s, I’m also enthralled by the foiling AC75s. I love the synergy of the flight/float paradigm. Yes, sailboats need keels and, yes, sailboats need sails—but, no, sailing race boats don’t need displacement hulls, and the AC75s prove it. For me, this is the Kiwi-kissed future. Of course, I realize that certain cavemen dragging around their wooden, full-keel, gaff-rigged, monomaran dug-outs will dis...

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Last modified on Mon 26 Apr 2021 06.04 EDT These days, we think of the period between 1965 and 1967 as one of white-hot musical progress, a dizzying three-year period during which innovation followed innovation, a succession of totemic albums and singles were released and pop music changed irrevocably. But, as Jon Savage’s superb book 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded made clear, not everyone at the time was impressed with how things were going. Savage’s research revealed a successio...