Sentences with phrase «york grande dame»

Not exact matches

Tokyo's grande dame, the Imperial Hotel has a lot in common with New York City's Waldorf = Astoria.

Four United States hotels joined the exclusive list this year: The exquisite Four Seasons Resort Lanai, a luxurious tropical paradise; The St. Regis New York, a timeless classic that originally opened in 1904; and Richmond's The Jefferson Hotel, a grande dame where the South has risen again.

Recognized as a «legendary dealer, the grande dame of the avant - garde» (The New York Times, May 11, 2003), Virginia Dwan (b. October 18, 1931) is an American collector, art patron, philanthropist, and former owner and executive director of Dwan Gallery Los Angeles (1959 — 1967) and Dwan Gallery New York (1965 — 1971).

(Nevelson with her elaborate wood sculpture remained through the many decades of obscurity for Bontecou and De Feo the turbaned grande dame - magus among the New York boys» club, her dark eyelids and brows as dramatic as her large - scale work.)

Seen at last month's tribute to Mabel Normand were internationally renowned independent curator Nicholas Weist (The Dulcet Clime of the Bed Chamber), well endowed German artist Christian Siekmeier, who has returned to Berlin after 11 years spent in New York, lovesexy experimental film darling Wilhelm Hein with his brilliant art photog girlfriend Annette Frick, gorgeous British live artist Keira O`Reilly, movie ingenue Brady Corbet, author Benjamin von Stuckrad - Barre, vivacious actresses Alexandra Maria Lara and Susanna Sachße and the grande dame des deutschen Schauspiels Senta Berger.

Miro is one of the grandes dames of the BritArt scene, having opened her Cork Street gallery in 1985 and given the public its first sightings of the elephant dung - adorned paintings of Chris Ofili and the mutant mannequins of the Chapman Brothers; she's also showcased artists from further afield, including the priapic oils of New York - based Cecily Brown and the huge photoscapes of Germany's Andreas Gursky.