Sentences with phrase «city figures such»

Previous guests include celebrities Sir Bob Geldof, Jerry Hall, Barry Humphries and Bianca Jagger; leading city figures such as Lord Myners, Franck Petitgas and Sir Stuart Rose; art world figures including Grayson Perry, Julia Peyton - Jones, Sir Nicholas Serota, Gavin Turk, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Mark Wallinger; and contemporary collectors Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian and Anita Zabludowicz.

Previous attendees include celebrities Sir Bob Geldof, Jerry Hall, Barry Humphries and Bianca Jagger; leading city figures such as Lord Myners, Franck Petitgas and Sir Stuart Rose; art world figures including Grayson Perry, Mark Wallinger, Gavin Turk, Julia Peyton - Jones, Sir Nicholas Serota and Hans Ulrich Obrist; and contemporary collectors Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian and Anita Zabludowicz.

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The Byzantine emperors who first issued the edict to smash and destroy the icons (Leo the Isaurian and his son Constantine V, both of whom reigned in the eighth century) do remind one of Oliver Cromwell, for both sets of rulers were military leaders with a loyal army from the provinces; such figures often have a puritanical streak and tend, moreover, to command soldiers who themselves are suspicious of the decadent mores of the cities.

Like Wesley, such men as Phineas Bresee, the dominant figure of the Church of the Nazarene, and A. B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, left socially elite churches to minister among the poor of the inner city slums.

For all his ability to move easily between worlds, Boulud is such a New York figure that it's always a little surprising that he doesn't dematerialize when he leaves the city limits.

Any offer from City and Barca would be more complicated, as the duo wouldn't be able to offer such a figure, and would have to make up for the loss by including other players in the deal.

$ 25 million buy - out clause on his current deal and reports in Leggo are claiming that this figure is not enough to deter teams such as Liverpool and Manchester City, who are keeping tabs on the player.

The Serbian has a $ 25 million buy - out clause on his current deal and reports in Leggo are claiming that this figure is not enough to deter teams such as Liverpool and Manchester City, who are keeping tabs on the player.

The Conservatives question the figures, pointing out that areas with selection such as Kent can not be directly compared with inner cities where there is no selection.

The new quantum simulator could also be the basis for solving optimization problems such as the traveling salesman problem, in which a theoretical salesman must figure out the shortest path to take in order to visit a given list of cities.

As such, this cost figure is expected to continue to rise, which is why California is now seriously considering desalination and why the city of Tampa, Fla., decided to build the biggest desalination plant in the U.S.

Although I'm not Catholic, what an honor it was to have such an esteemed figure in our city, and what spiritual significance for many of the people in my community.

Subsequently, Zed and Oh's lighthearted look at the Old Testament has them crossing paths with such religious figures as Abraham, Isaac and Lilith on their testosterone - sodden sojourn to the city of Sodom.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

Travelling from schools right across the UK, the teams of students aged 10 to 18 will come together in London to pitch in front of a panel of judges comprised of industry leaders and high profile figures, such as digital entrepreneur Baroness Martha Lane Fox, Tech City CEO Gerard Grech and TV presenter Davina McCall.

The overall mileage figures vary depending upon driving conditions, such as city traffic and smooth driving on the highway.

The publisher's bio says that «Tim Davys is the pseudonym for a well - known Swedish public figure,» but at least one critic has speculated that Davys is actually Walter Moers, a German best known for highbrow fantasy fare such as The City of Dreaming Books (2007).

As such, San Diego officials are rushing to figure out how to handle the city's animal service needs.

The artists included in Go Figure, have collectively exhibited internationally at venues such as Deste Foundation Center for Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, El Museo de Barrio in New York, Weatherspoon Museum, NC, Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY, Bellweather, NY, Roebling Hall, Tate Modern, London, PS1, NY, The Brooklyn Musuem, MOMA, Mexico City, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Musée D'art Contemporain in Montréal among others.

Viewers may spot the likenesses of public figures such as Stuart Hall, Thelma Golden or Paul Gilroy, but also portraits of anonymous friends and lovers — dressed up, undressed, and in drag — and views of cluttered bedrooms and city parks.

Shaped from cheap, prosaic materials such as Sellotape, along with detritus recovered from the city, Harrison's sculptures present us with symbolic figures from the past, from myth, or from fiction.

His subjects included series on prominent figures in the struggle for black liberation, such as Harriet Tubman; his «The Great Migration» (1940 - 41) chronicled the Depression - era flight of African Americans from the impoverished rural south to northern cities.

From dense New York City to light - filled Southern California, the work features well - known figures such as Joan Jonas, Kiki Smith, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Nancy Holt, and Alex Katz as well as exciting younger members, including Dana Schutz, Lucas Blalock, Tauba Auerbach, Keltie Ferris, Rashid Johnson, and Elad Lassry.

Everyday events such as a picnic in the park, supermarket shopping or drinking at an inner - city bar are transformed into grand, sometimes humorously epic scenes where the artists» cartoon - like figures fuse together with the trails and currents of energy that animate the canvas.

Presenting the work of some 40 photographers including such influential figures as Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Lisette Model, Alfred Stieglitz and Cindy Sherman, the exhibition features both the city and its inhabitants, from its vast, overwhelming architecture to the extraordinary diversity of its people.

Other paintings point to the sociocultural climate she found in her adoptive country, with dregs of car crashes, homeless figures, sneering cowboys, and scenes of mass mayhem such as the devastating Oklahoma City bombing.

[6] For a concurrent show that same year in New York, she had city buses wrapped with quotations from figures such as Malcolm X, Courtney Love, and H.L. Mencken.

A wide range of photographers — from early experimenters such as Eugène Cuvelier, Charles Marville and Anna Atkins to modern giants Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, as well as contemporary practitioners such as James Nachtwey, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Loretta Lux — are represented by portraits and figure studies, city scenes and still lifes, landscapes and seascapes.

Juan J. González (b. 1942, Camagüey - d. 1993, New York): The super-realist artist Juan González participated in group shows such as Painting and Sculpture Today ‑ 1974 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art; Looking Inside: Latin American Presence in New York; Ancient Roots / New Visions, which traveled to several cities in the United States; Hispanic ‑ American Artists of the United States, at the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America in Washington, D.C., The Figure in the Twentieth Century at the New York Academy of Design, Outside Cuba, The Miami Generation traveling exhibition and the Cuba - USA: The First Generation traveling exhibition.

The next year, she immigrated to New York City, where she came into contact with important figures in the photographic community, such as Alexey Brodovitch and Beaumont Newhall.

Alongside those artists who have all lived and worked in the City of Lights, the two sales offer major works by some of the art world's leading figures of the past seventy years, such as Josef Albers, Manolo Millares, Heinz Mack and Karel Appel.

The growing concrete jungle of American cities, complete with its towering skyscraper architecture, attracted the technical and artistic skills of a number of talented American architects, including such diverse figures as Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959), Walter Gropius (1883 - 1969), Mies van der Rohe (1886 - 1969)- champion of the «International Style», and leader of the Second Chicago School of Architecture - the world famous firm of architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and their revolutionary designer Fazlur Khan (1929 - 82), as well as Philip Johnson (1906 - 2005), I.M.Pei (b. 1917) and Frank O. Gehry (b. 1929).

Figures such as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, former President Bill Clinton, writer and activist Bill McKibben, environmental reporter Mark Hertsgaard, and numerous others all have connected the dots between the tragedy in New York City and its excerbation at the hands of climate change.

Daunted by the task of figuring out where I wanted to land in such a vast, sprawling city, and turned off by exorbitant rent prices, I had a crazy idea: what if I bought a vehicle I could sleep in, allowing me to kick around and scope things out first?

That figure may vary, depending on how old your car is, what model your car is or whether you live in a lower crime city such as Scranton or a higher - crime area, such as Reading.

This, of course, is simply an average figure and will vary depending on a whole host of factors, such as type of car, driving history, the city you live in, and more.