Sentences with word «bicentenary»

Her installation «Tree» was selected from nine other short — listed artists for the Darwin's Canopy project at the Natural History Museum, and was commissioned to celebrate Darwin's bicentenary in 2009.

Regarded as one of the artist's most important portraits, this celebrated painting has been acquired by the Watts Gallery just in time for the artist's bicentenary celebrations in 2017.

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It seems certain that the complex systems of the natural world will keep theoretical and experimental physicists in business for years, maybe well past Einstein's annus mirabilis bicentenary 100 years hence.

They reached the gap bicentenary flattering than others.

Having clambered through several huge scholarly biographies of Charles Darwin during his recent bicentenary, I was delighted and astonished to come across this wonderful, short, quicksilver book.

The exhibition forms part of the museum's bicentenary celebrations: the very first donation to the Fitzwilliam's collection was a set of colourful coffins created for an Egyptian priest of Amun - Re.

«I'm not going to stay on for 50 years,» said the billionaire, who promised to hand over his group's activities to his children on the bicentenary of his group in 2022.

So it likely escaped the notice of many that December 3 marked the bicentenary of the death of John Carroll, one of the greatest who ever lived among us.

The former deputy prime minister joined culture minister Margaret Hodge for the official opening of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, as part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade.

A number of events are planned to commemorate the bicentenary, Mr Blair explained, but the most important thing is to recognise the challenges that remain, regarding both the «modern slavery» of people trafficking and the need for education in Africa.

Coinciding with the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade, Mr Reid said the convention marked a step forward in combating the modern day slavery of human trafficking.

This morning, I had the pleasure of attending a reception at the House of Lords hosted by Ulster Unionist peer Lord Laird to celebrate the bicentenary Colombia's independence.

Though it's been 150 years since he published On The Origin of Species (the film also marks the bicentenary of his birth) his ideas are still deemed too inflammatory in America where the film has struggled to find a distributor.

Simon Callow discusses his book, Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World, that marks the bicentenary of Dickens» birth and offers an insight into life drive as much by performance and showmanship as by literary endeavour.

This is a book that will no doubt sadly remain as powerful when future generations mark the bicentenary of the 1914 - 1918 war, and all the senseless brutality that continued beyond its end.

2012 marks the bicentenary year of the birth of Charles Dickens, one of the greatest writers of the Victorian age....

We spent a few days exploring both the Brazilian and Argentine sides and taking a full moon walk to Devil's Throat on Argentina's bicentenary.

Exhibition celebrates the bicentenary of the «great improver» who brought a taste of country life to the city

Viewers will be able to browse through over 200,000 images from the collections of the Musée Nicéphore Niépce, that celebrates the bicentenary of the first trials by the inventor of the medium.

This year is the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, and nobody's celebrating more than the Charles Dickens Museum in London.

On the bicentenary of the author's birth we uncover some surprising truths.

In February Yorkshire Sculpture Park hosts the debut UK show of the American artist KAWS, while in Cambridge the Fitzwilliam Museum brings together an exhibition of Egyptian coffins for its bicentenary year.

Also in 2007, the artist presents newly commissioned work at the V&A for Uncomfortable Truths - the shadow of slave trading on contemporary art and design (20 February - 17 June 2007), an exhibition marking the bicentenary of the outlawing of the British slave trade.

It's the bicentenary of the infamous battle at Waterloo this year and a visit will be rewarded with a host of events and a refreshed interpretation.

Covering everything from sculpture, antiquities from across the ancient world, fine and applied arts, manuscripts and coins, the Fitzwilliam, which celebrates its bicentenary in 2016, has been hailed as «the finest small museum in Europe».

A bicentenary exhibition opens at the V&A in the autumn.

In 2015 the Waterloo Gallery was transformed to celebrate the bicentenary of the famous battle.

To mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade, Lancashire Museums invited artist Lubaina Himid to create new work exploring Lancaster's significant role in this trade, its legacies and the issues that still have an impact on today's society

She spearheaded one timed to the bicentenary of Britain's abolition of slavery, «Trade and Empire: Remembering Slavery,» which combined 18th century watercolors that depicted slaves working in sugar colonies alongside contemporary pieces by black artists.

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879), one of the most important and innovative photographers of the 19th century, the V&A is showcasing more than 100 of her photographs from its own collection including original prints.

42 leading British artists including Nicola Hicks, Patrick Hughes and Tom Phillips have contributed to the making of a limited edition print celebrating the bicentenary of the Artists» General Benevolent Institution (AGBI).

For the bicentenary of Hutton's birth, Louise Bourgeois (Season 2) was invited to exhibit drawings and sculpture alongside these teaching diagrams at the Inverleith House on the garden grounds.

In his bicentenary year, the Scottish architect Alexander «Greek» Thomson should be getting more attention

Notable public works include a mural commissioned by Glasgow Museums to mark the bicentenary of the Calton Weavers Massacre, which is displayed in the dome of the People's Palace, Glasgow; and a portrait of eminent medical scientists Professor R. J. Steele, Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri, and Professor Sir David P. Lane, in Three Oncologists, which was initiated by the National Galleries of Scotland.

2020 will be the bicentenary of the discovery of Antarctica.

We urge all CCAMLR Member countries to work toward the bicentenary by realising their 2009 commitment to a network of MPAs, starting with the designating the EARSMPA at the annual meeting in October, followed by the Weddell Sea and Antarctic Peninsula by 2020.

2020 marks the bicentenary of the discovery of Antarctica.

Fears about artificial intelligence are far older than the technology itself: this year marks the bicentenary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and 50 years since the computer in 2001 A Space Odyssey intoned «I am afraid I can't do that, Dave.»

We will forever remember her dressed in traditional attire and protesting the arrival of colonial - era style ships in Melbourne for the 1988 bicentenary celebrations, an act that marked a decisive moment in the recognition of rights for Aboriginal Victorians.