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Waterloo Ironworks: A History of Taskers of Andover :: L. T. C. (Lionel Thomas Caswell) Rolt

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Roman Grave and Coin Found in Andover, UK

Wessex Archaeology, working with Southern Water, discovered a Roman grave and coin.

Southern Water’s £900 million ‘Water for Life Hampshire’ programme will see the first reservoir built in England for 25 years at Havant Thicket.

As part of the programme, new pipelines are being planned across the county to increase connections between every corner of the region and especially between key water supply works at Testwood, Otterbourne and River Way, near Andover.

Before any pipes can be laid the company must satisfy regulators including Natural England, Environment Agency, Historic England and Local Planning Authorities that plans will not damage the environment or destroy historical remains.

Dr Nicola Meakins, who leads Southern Water’s enabling team, said: “We build big projects across the region and are spending £3bn between 2020 and 2025 on improving our assets. But before the key can be turned on a digger, my team of ecologists and surveyors have to carry out numerous assessments. Whether it’s the discovery of rare hazel dormouse habitat, badger setts or as in this case archaeological remains, a plan must be put in place to prevent or mitigate damage.

“Roman graves are not uncommon – when the Romans built roads legionnaires who died were simply buried by the side of the road. Wessex Archology learns something new every time one is found however. In this case the discovery of a 2,000-year-old coin helps us to understand what was happening in the area back then.”

By Chris Broom.

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TIL andover, hampshire has roughly 4% of adelaide's population which explains how it can have a camarilla prince who's actually chill @ventrue-in-control

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Frank Stella

One of the most influential US abstract artists who started out as a minimalist but constantly reinvented his work

In February 2015, a pair of enormous stars, one in polished aluminium and the other unvarnished teak, appeared in the courtyard of the Royal Academy in London. These were by the American artist and honorary Academician Frank Stella, who has died aged 87.

For all their differences, the two stars were part of a single work called, with deadpan literalness, Inflated Star and Wooden Star. Given their size – each measured 7 metres in all dimensions – it seemed unlikely that these could have anything to hide. In 1966, in a dig at the mystical airs of abstract expressionism, Stella famously said: “What you see is what you see.”

It became the battle cry of a then newly emergent style known as minimalism – and also seemed to fit Inflated Star and Wooden Star to a T.

And yet Stella’s work raised many more questions than it answered. His stars were welded together by a tubular metal armature, as they were by their title. They seemed to be in orbit around each other, although which exerted gravitational pull on which was impossible to say.

Visually as materially, they were very different from each other. Inflated Star was plumped-up and cushiony, polished to a Jeff Koonsy high gloss; Wooden Star seemed austere and skeletal. It was impossible to read one without reference to the other, and yet the frame of that reference – before / after, older / newer, stronger / weaker – was left entirely to the viewer to decide.

Beyond this again was the question of puns. Both sets of Stella’s grandparents had arrived in the US as Sicilian immigrants at the turn of the 20th century. His parents, Frank Sr, a gynaecologist, and Constance (nee Santonelli), an artist turned housewife, spoke Italian to each other at home. Stella is Italian for “star”.

Stella’s engagement with the star form began early, and in two dimensions. By 1963, on a residency at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, he was making paintings on star-shaped canvases, such as Port Tampa City. These were joined by prints such as the 1967 Star of Persia series. In one form or another, Stella’s many hundreds of stars are to be found in galleries, plazas and sculpture parks all over the world. He remained testily insistent that the form was not his nominative calling card, and pointed out that the only person he knew who did not own a Stella star was himself.

Fame came to him early. The oldest of three children, Stella was born in Malden, an affluent suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, and was sent by his ambitious parents to Phillips Academy, Andover, a local equivalent of Eton and alma mater to both Presidents Bush. The art lessons he had there were the only ones he would receive. After graduating with a BA in history from Princeton in 1958, he moved to New York, where he rented a loft in West Broadway and earned his keep as a house painter.

In this he had been trained by his father, who, despite working a 60-hour week, insisted on doing painting jobs around the house with the help of his son. Stella’s early Copper Paintings (1961) used the barnacle-repellent gunk with which he had caulked his father’s sloop the summer before. Another series, begun in the same year, was named Benjamin Moore after the well-known brand of house paint in which they were made. Andy Warhol bought an entire set of the works from new, beginning his own Campbell’s Soup series shortly after.

Stella was no pop artist, however. He used household paints and brushes not to satirise popular culture but because they were familiar to him. “The first time I saw a Pollock,” he said in a 2000 interview with the NPR radio network, “I knew straightaway how it was done.”

The black paintings that he began in 1959 remain among his most famous, canvases such as Die Fahne Hoch!, in the Whitney Museum of American Art, powerful in part because of the domesticity of their darkness. Built up of parallel bands of black household enamel separated by narrow strips of raw canvas, they are popularly known as “pinstripe” paintings; a mode that Stella would use into the 1970s. So instantly successful were these early works that their 23-year-old maker was included in the show Sixteen Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1959, alongside Jasper Johns and Ellsworth Kelly. In 1970, at 33, he became the youngest artist ever to be given a MoMA retrospective.

Stella’s early insistence that a painting was “a flat surface with paint on it – nothing more” seemed reductive, but it gave him a set of rules to battle with. An early way around the self-imposed strictures of his own form of minimalism was the production of shaped canvases – stars, and so-called “notched” paintings such as Newstead Abbey (1960), in which nicks cut from all four sides of a vertical canvas generate a rhythm of lines that suggest a rhombus in the middle of them. The feeling is of a flattened ziggurat, as though Stella’s two dimensional work might at any moment spring into three dimensions.

That was more or less what happened in the mid-80s. For the ensuing decade, Stella made works such as La Scienza della Fiacca (4x) (1984) that responded in a broad way to the novel Moby Dick. Where the black and pinstripe paintings had worked with and against their own insistent flatness, Stella’s paintings of the 80s and 90s suddenly broke free of the wall, pushing outwards in curls and swoops of moulded fibreglass and aluminium, often dappled with paint. (“They’re surfaces to paint on,” he said of the new works at the time. “So it’s still all about painting.”) It was a short step from there to sculptures such as the stars that appeared in the courtyard of Burlington House in 2015.

If this seemed like a shift from minimalism to maximalism, change was itself part of Stella’s story. Also in the mid-80s, the cigar-chomping artist had become fascinated by the idea of turning smoke rings into sculptures.

Over the next 20 years, these slowly morphed, as smoke rings will, into works with names such as Atalanta and Hippomenes (2017), some wall-based and some made for the floor. As with his stars, Stella’s intention seemed to be to see how far he could push representation before it disappeared in a puff of abstraction.

Change also meant his work moving back and forth between media, dimensions and decades. When the World Trade Center was destroyed in September 2001, the large diptych paintings by Stella that had hung in the lobby of one of the buildings went with it. In 2021, they were replaced in the plaza of the rebuilt WTC by the sculpture Jasper’s Split Star, named after his friend Johns. This was both an entirely new work and one whose roots went back 60 years, to the painting Jasper’s Dilemma (1962-63).

By the 21st century, Stella was unquestionably one of the grand old men of American art. In 2009, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. In 2023, Delta, one of his earliest black paintings, went on sale at Art Basel Miami with a price tag of $45m.

Stella married the art historian and critic Barbara Rose in 1961. They had two children, Rachel and Michael, and divorced in 1969. He had a daughter, Laura, from a relationship with Shirley De Lemos Wyse. With the paediatrician Harriet McGurk, whom he married in 1973, Stella had two sons, Peter and Patrick. She and all five children, and five grandchildren, survive him.

🔔 Frank Philip Stella, artist, born 12 May 1936; died 4 May 2024

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It's one way to get your morning coffee I suppose. 🧵

RAF Andover in Hampshire, 1945.

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Still trudging my way through the unfamiliar mountains of writing my own OC, and now on story 5! (yup officially past the halfway point now!)

For those of you who enjoyed Yvie St.John, i leave you with opening page of story 5....

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When Yvie St.John announced that her new job would require her to move to London, her father had been less than enthused. As a single parent,  the idea of her leaving the quiet town of Andover for a city as big and impersonal as London was a strained one, and he’d been unapologetically overt about his concern. After 30 years as an Officer of the Hampshire Constabulary, he was all too aware of the increased risk such a city posed. In the months before she made the move, Yvie could practically feel him suppressing the urge to fill her head with warnings, and once or twice she could see him chewing back the desire to convince her to stay. He’d been afraid enough to want her to be safe, preferably under his watchful eye, and proud enough that he’d swallowed it down in favor of letting her go.

Yvie didn’t begrudge his concern, he’d earned it after all. When her mother died before her 6th birthday, he had taken up the mantle of both parents, and though most single parent households struggled in places, he could have done a hell of a lot worse by her. She had never lacked for encouragement, and whether her fascination turned to bugs, comic books or the human anatomy, he’d always been ready to provide everything she needed to develop her interests. He had been strict, but always in a way that had made sense to her, even as a kid, and she’d never felt particularly oppressed by his rules.

His daughter had grown up strong, confident and with a set of morals and ideals that would have made her mother proud of them both. When the London branch of the UKSDD’s medical team offered her a position with their Unfamiliar pathology department, he perhaps knew that he had come to the end of the line. It was time for her to make her own way now, and all the things he had taught her over the years would have to be enough.

And yet, when he helped her move into one of the apartments in central London, he’d taken the opportunity to ease his concerns a little further by leaving a taser in her nightstand and a hammer tucked neatly between the headboard and her mattress. He’d left her with a fathers hope that she never had to use either, and a policeman’s gut instinct that he would rest easier knowing that she had them.

It was the hammer that she reached for first when the door to her bedroom burst open, spilling several black clad figures into the room.

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Jus-J ft. Kathryn, The Dark Poet - Money At Midnight [Video]

Andover’s greatest Jus-J is back reviewing where he came from and feeling blessed he got this far on Money At Midnight. With a cross national video filmed in Andover (Hampshire), Marbella (Spain), Idaho (USA) and Majorca (Spain) when night time comes around Jus-J’s thoughts can drift to where the money is going to come from. The track features Kathryn on back up vocals on the hook and The Dark…

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Haverhill’s DiCenzo Becomes Town of Merrimac’s New Animal Control Officer

Brad S. DiCenzo of Haverhill is Merrimac’s new animal control officer. Merrimac Police Chief Eric Shears this week introduced DiCenzo, a New Hampshire native who now lives in Haverhill. He has approximately 10 years of experience working as an animal control officer in Haverhill and North Andover, and has also worked in part-time positions as a dispatcher, reserve police officer and animal…