Sentences with phrase «first foundling»

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A year ago, The Foundling began offering New York City's first digital divide programming targeted at the foster youth population, with an aim towards launching a new group of talented and diverse millennials into the workforce.

Foundling, the first in the planned Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy, sucked our then twelve - year - old son in on the first page and spat him back out a couple of days later only after he'd read the book cover to cover (including the glossary and the 100 page appendix which particularly fascinated him) and pored over the maps and illustrations In the intervening period we did see him from time to time - for meals and breathless plot updates - but in essence, although his body was with us, his mind was somewhere in the Half - Continent!

A remarkable show opens today at Britain's first home for abandoned children, now the Foundling Museum in London, featuring artists Tracey Emin, Paula Rego and Mat Collishaw.

Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin and Paula Rego visit past ghosts at the Foundling Museum, Britain's first home for abandoned children, writes Tim Adams

Immediately before Apsley House was built the site was occupied by a tavern called the Hercules Pillars (immortalised by Henry Fielding in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling as the location where Squire Western resides when he first journeys up to London).

The Foundling Museum is dedicated to the history of the Foundling Hospital, the UK's first children's charity and first public art gallery.

Curated by Gill Hedley for the Foundling Museum's contemporary art strand, this exhibition brings together these three acclaimed artists for the first time.