Sentences with phrase «british music hall»

The absurd mission movie (to build a cricket pitch in the North African desert in advance of the invasion) is an awkward mix of British music hall lampoon, «Goon Show» whimsy and absurdity, gallows humor and gruesome scenes of death (actual battle footage is edited into the comic chaos), sometimes inspired, sometimes mugging shamelessly in overworked performances and bizarre antics.

Peace signs and psychedelic suggestion of the cover aside, this sixties satire is neither a Beatles-esque romp nor a counterculture blast, but a mix of British music hall lampoon, «Goon Show» whimsy and absurdity, gallows humor and grim anti-war imagery (some of it actual battle footage edited into the comically chaotic recreation of warfare).

The idea of the comedy duo was born in the British music halls and American vaudeville stages at the turn of the 20th Century.

Not exact matches

One small spoiler, if I may: the film's opening scene makes wicked use of a beloved (if now obscure) British recording by the music - hall team of Flanagan and Allen.

Most famous for performances behind the CGI - created Gollum in Lord of the Rings and King Kong in Peter Jackson's remake, Andy Serkis looks like a mad troll and embraces the look in his incarnation of Ian Dury, the music - hall showman of the British punk scene who hit it big with the song immortalized in the film's title and embraced fame with the same excess with which he embraced booze and drugs.

Inspector Kildare of Scotland Yard is handed the impossible task of solving these heinous crimes and his investigations lead him on a race across the capital from The Old Bailey, to Newgate Prison, to the music halls of London and the British Museum.

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United Kingdom Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London Artworks Collection, Leicestershire County Council, Leicester Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton Bristol's Museums, Galleries and Archives, Bristol British Council, London British Museum, London Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Fermanagh County Museum, Enniskillen Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield The Higgins Bedford, Bedford Imperial War Museum, London Jerwood Gallery, Hastings Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds McLean Museum and Art Gallery, Greenock McManus Galleries and Museums, Dundee Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough National Museums Northern Ireland, Belfast National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Newport Otter Gallery, University of Chichester, Chichester Pallant House Gallery, Chichester Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney Portsmouth City Museum, Portsmouth Royal Academy of Arts, London Royal Academy of Music, London Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter Royal College of Art, London Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds Art Collection, Leeds Tate, London Tate Archive, London Towner, Eastbourne Victoria Art Gallery, Bath Victoria & Albert Museum, London Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester

From music hall acts to costume design, British theatre provided a forum in which sexuality and gender expression could be openly explored.

We've always had a relationship with electronic music here — the first London concert of electronic music by British composers was actually at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1968.

Spencer Frederick Gore (26 May 1878 — 27 March 1914) was a British painter of landscapes, music - hall scenes and interiors, usually with single figures.

1963 Sculpture in the Open Air (London County Council exhibition), Battersea Park, London, UK 7th Japan International Art Exhibition (Tokyo Biennial): National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, JP; Sogo Department Store, Osaka, JP; City Museum of Art, Takamatsu, JP; Yawata Museum of Art, Kita - Kyushu, JP; City Museum of Art, Kagoshima, JP; Daimaru Department Store, Fukuoka, JP; Central Civil House of City, Sasebo, JP; Tsuruya Department Store, Kumamoto, JP; Nakamura Oriental Department Store, Nagoya, JP; Fujisaki Department Store, Sendai, JP Creatura, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, DE Zeugnisse der Angst in der Modernen Kunst, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, DE Skulptur: Bo Boustedts Samling, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, SE; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE Moore, Zajac, and Chadwick, M. Knoedler Gallery, New York, US 1962 Collectors» Choice XI, Gimpel Fils, London, UK Arte Britanica no seculo XX (organised by the British Council), Gulbenkian, Kent, UK; Foundation, Lisbon, PT; Coimbra, PT; Oporto, PT VII Esposizione Internazionale di Bianco e Nero, Lugano, CH Festival of Two Worlds, Music and Sculpture, Spoleto, IT Sculpture at the Keukenhof, Lisse, NL 3 Premio Carrara, Biennale Internazionale di Scultura, Carrara, IT 19 Young Sculptors (organised by Gloucester City Council), Hillfield Gardens, Gloucester, UK British Art Today, San Francisco Museum of Art, California, US; Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, Texas, US; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, US 1961 James Thrall Soby Collection (exhibition organised by the Museum of Modern Art, New York), M.Knoedler Gallery, New York, US 19th and 20th Century Drawings, Watercolours and Sculpture, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK The Maremont Collection at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, US 2éme Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, Musée Rodin, Paris, FR Some Aspects of 20th Century Art, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK 6e Biennale voor Beeldhouwkunst, Middelheim Park, Antwerp, BE De Rodin a Nuestros Días, Fundación Eugenio Mendoza, Madrid, ES IV Concorso Internazionale del Bronzetto, Sala della Ragione, Padua, IT Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US Recent British Sculpture (British Council touring exhibition National Gallery of Canada, in New Zealand by the Auckland City Art Gallery, in Australia by the State Galleries of Australia); Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, CA; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, CA; Norman McKenzie Art Gallery, Regina College, Regina, CA; Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, CA; Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario, CA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA; City Art Gallery, Auckland, NZ; Dominion Museum, Wellington, NZ; Otago Museum, Dunedin, NZ; Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, NZ; National Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, AU; National Gallery of Southern Australia, Adelaide AU; National Gallery of Tasmania, Hobart, AU; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU; National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU; National Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane, AU; Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle (New South Wales), AU; Canberra, AU; Bridgestone Gallery, Tokyo, JP; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, JP; City Hall, Hong Kong, CH