An Empire built on Furniture
Self-assembly furniture began in the days of the British Empire as a series of antique exhibitions show, writes SYLVIA VETTA.
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09, 2016
Some Reactions to Brushstrokes in Time
A stunning eye- opening fictional tale set in China from 1963-1993; WILD SWANS MEETS DR ZHIVAGO, In September 1979 some young Chinese artists who had abandoned socialist realism were bravely exploring self-expression. They tried to find a venue to display
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09, 2016
How Love Mixes Us Up and Makes the World a Better Place
My latest blog for Claret Press is more personal than usual and contains a very old photograph of me with my husband Atam. Katie Isbester has titled it How Love Mixes Us Up and Makes the World a Better Place http://www.claretpress.com/#!How-Love-Mixes-Us-Up-and-Makes-The-World-a-Better-Place/c16ee/57cac090da69896edc4d9d35
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07, 2016
TALK to mark the 50th Anniversary of the show piece rally of the Cultural Revolution.
The Albion Beatnik Bookshop (34 Walton St, Oxford OX2 6AA Phone: 07737 876213) Thursday August 18 @7.30m A talk by journalist and author of To mark the 50th Anniversary of the showpiece rally of The Cultural Revolution which led to this!
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05, 2016
Green Power!
On July 15 Nancy Hunt and I were interviewed for 20 minutes on Talk Oxfordshire. It is about the latest book I have been involved with. GREEN POWER The Spirulina Cookbook brings together many elements in my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mfDi8Cia70&list=PLA7BT6X6QX-zLHM8mmx4eLc6ZOS6LZOWi I chair
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05, 2016
My Weekly Blog on Claret Press
http://www.claretpress.com/#!Sylvia-Vetta-talks-of-Ai-Weiwei/c16ee/573894390cf2b662e5bc30d4 I wrote this after Alison Layman’s film of Ai Weiwei titled ‘Never Sorry’ at the Phoenix Picture House (Walton Street) on Wednesday at 6pm for Arts Week Forum . His career as an artist began with the Stars Art
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05, 2016
Writing for The Oxford Times Weekend magazine since 2003.
You can see and read some of the reviews listed below on this url.url My first non-antiques feature in Weekend magazine, The Oxford Times’ equivalent of Time Out appeared in early January 2004. The arts editor, Chris Gray, titled it
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03, 2016
Rebecca Allison (Martin) and her musical partnership with pianist and composer Nia Williams
I am still in shock at the news that Rebecca Alison (nee Martin) died yesterday at a tragically young age. I was privileged to interview her and Nia Williams for Oxfordshire Limited Edition. I sent them to Oxtopia as Mezzopiano.
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02, 2016
How I became an expert on tea (in China!)
The history of tea is not quite the peaceful story one would expect. In the C19th, it was an almost fanatically sought after commodity but British and Indian companies wanted to trade opium in exchange. 'The Ibis Trilogy' by Amitav