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5 of the best attractions in and around Salisbury you can visit from next week MUSEUMS and other attractions in and around Salisbury will be reopening their doors from Monday (May 17). The next phase of the easing of lockdown restrictions will see cinemas, theatres and museums reopen alongside hotels, hostels and B&Bs. From Monday (May 17) people will be able to meet inside a pub or a restaurant, go to the cinema, and children will be able to use indoor play areas. This is part of the third phase in the Prime Minister’s “roadmap” out of lockdown. Here are some of the arts venues reopening in and around Salisbury:
Left to right: Original covers of Goldfinger, Thunderball, and On Her Majesty s Secret Service by Richard Chopping A SPECIAL exhibition is set to celebrate the life and work of the illustrator of the original James Bond book covers. This summer, Salisbury Museum, on the eve of the release of the 25th Bond movie No Time to Die, will feature the life and work of writer, illustrator and teacher Richard Chopping. Chopping, who died in 2008 was best-known for illustrating the original book covers for James Bond. He was a master of the trompe-l oeil technique, producing highly realistic three-dimensional images. It was this distinctive style that led him to be commissioned by Ian Fleming to illustrate nine of the James Bond book covers from 1957 to 1966.
John Minihan on Francis Bacon: Champagne and paint splatters in Soho John Minihan
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The Francis Bacon I knew had a reserve in him. He also had that Irish love for gambling and drinking and a perpetual desire to be somewhere else
Francis Bacon was a man whom I both knew and did not know. There was a reserve in him that discouraged familiarity, and he was happier in the company of photographers, terrified of writers and biographers, and he had more reason than most.
Born in Dublin in 1909, certainly Irish by birth, if not by blood, he had the Irish love for gambling, drinking and perpetual desire to be somewhere else. I first met Bacon outside Marlborough Magistrates Court in London in 1971. The Daily Telegraph published a story, Irish Artist on Drugs Charge. He was acquitted. In his defence, he told the magistrate that he could not have smoked the can
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