Sentences with phrase «grandes dames of»

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.

Someone's killing the newly minted stars of Grandes Dames of New Orleans and reporter Paige Tourneur's on the story.

The Ducote sisters are the true grandes dames of Athena society — intelligent, hard - working and intolerant of pretention and snobbery.

Formation counts, of course, and those early «sex - blind» perceptions at Yale (preceded by similar ones at Smith College under the tutelage of some grandes dames of the feminist movement of the «20s) have stayed with me to the extent that while my femininity qualifies my theology it does so adjectivally and indirectly.

Famous as the site of the 1972 break - in that led to President Nixon's fall, the complex is a grande dame of Washington real estate that has counted senators, top administration officials and a Supreme Court justice as residents over the years.

Julia Child is the grande dame of French cooking in North America, her books are a fantastic resource for well - trained cooks as well as...

But when Jean Horton (Maggie Smith), a former grande dame of the opera fallen on hard times, also Reggie's ex-wife and the fourth and most celebrated member of their former quartet, moves into the home to everyone's surprise, the plans for this year's concert start to unravel.

In the first of several contrived plot developments, this grande dame of leafy suburbia moves in with her free - spirited, council - flat - dwelling, lifelong spinster sister Bif.

And that grande dame of the American cinema, Meryl Streep, makes the most of her cameo as a preacher's wife whose kindliness is beyond practiced.

Cover of the Year has to be Entertainment Weekly's courageous feature on the incomparable silver fox grande dames of Hollywood: Mirren, Dench, and Streep.

City Academy in St. Paul, Minn., isn't just another charter school that happens to be run by teachers — it's the grande dame of all charter schools.

The CT8 was set to be the grande dame of the Cadillac family.

Atxen Jiménez, the gorgeous sixtysomething grande dame of Spanish gastronomy, is the magnetic star of this busy, clean - lined dining room on the... Read More

The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa boasts the grande dame of all Sonoma spas.

If money's no object, book yourself on the grande dame of European trains — the Orient Express.

When the Elbow Beach Resort originally opened in 1908, it was the grande dame of Bermuda hotels — in fact, it was the island's first coastal resort,... Read More

Victoria House is the grande dame of San Pedro Belize beach resorts.

The grande dame of tourism for Oman, Muscat, which means «safe anchorage» in Arabic, is where tradition and modernity merge.

It's well on its way to becoming another Whalers Village fixture — but the «new kid» still has a ways to go before it joins the ranks of the two grande dames of Kā «anapali Beach: Hula Grill and Leilani's.

Therefore, in the battle presently raging for which resort within the D.R. will reign, we don't by any means underestimate the ongoing allure of the country's grande dame of Puerto Plata: It has a lot going for it, and the race for preeminence is far from over.

She was the indomitable grande dame of the The City's art scene, who...

Paris fairs It's been a year of change for the Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris's once immovable grande dame of a fair.

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).

Artist Maria Lassnig (born in Carinthia, 1919), considered the grande dame of Austrian art, died on 6 May, at the age of 94, The Guardian reports.

Both non-profits were given their booths free of charge, thanks to Rhona Hoffman, a grande dame of the Chicago art scene who founded her eponymous Chicago gallery 41 years ago.

One of the few women to rise to international prominence in modern sculpture, Hepworth is the grande dame of modernism — quite literally, since she was knighted by the Queen for her contributions to British art.

Rosalyn Drexler, who is about to turn 91, is an unlikely grande dame of painting, but that is what she is.

Maria Lassnig, the grande dame of Austrian art, has died age 95.

Their Best Art 2017 report came out on 6 December, and featured top picks by Roberta Smith (the undisputed grande dame of contemporary American art criticism), Holland Cotter (who won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for art criticism), and Jason Farago (who has also written for the Guardian, NPR, the New Yorker, Artforum, and many other outlets).

During the»90s, Agnes Martin fell into the role of a celebrated — if slightly improbable — grande dame of American painting.

Kevin O'Keefe reports that Martindale - Hubbell, the grande dame of lawyer raters, appeared to have given up.

Chambers HNW 2017 described her as «one of the grande dames of the future.

Known for her exquisite natural wallpaper motifs, Marthe Armitage is the grande dame of hand - produced prints and this design is no exception.

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In his book and film series Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith, Bishop Robert Barron tells how this unity of «rich and the poor, both the educated and the uneducated, both the housekeeper and the grande dame... kneeling side by side» impressed Dorothy Day when she was considering her conversion.

The great challenge came from our own grande dame Lillemor Jakobson, a textile designer with over 50 years of experience.

One by one, the most sought - after grandes dames in the rarefied world of couture clients — Schlumberger, Dodie Rosekrans, Béatrice de Rothschild, and more — showed up at Galliano's door.

This season Grandes Dames, Sturdy Gals and Artsy Cousins alike can find the shirtdress of their dreams.

Cotillion was an attempt by a local «grande dame» to nurture refined manners in a group of young teens along with ballroom dancing instruction.

It all hangs on one deal, the one piece of property, Tavern on the Green in Central Park, that no one has been able to persuade its owner, grande dame society matron Mrs. Van Gundy (Angela Lansbury), to sell.

Every 10 years or so, Sight & Sound magazine (the «grande dame» of film publications) asks critics, film - makers and other luminaries to help them select the greatest films of all time.

Whereas the first novel dealt with an heiress kidnapped by hoodlums, the sequel focuses on her mentally troubled daughter (played with perverse lusciousness by Charlotte Rampling), who, while on the lam from a psychiatric hospital, is preyed upon by a clutch of grandes dames (Edwige Feuillère, Alida Valli, and Simone Signoret) scheming to get their hands on her inheritance.

Tuppence Middleton plays his wife Mary, far less of a grande dame than Marguerite.

Apparently aware of the controversial nature of the novel, our then children's - book editor consulted with two of the grande dames in the field.

Shen's elegant watercolor illustrations round out this salute to a group of distinguished grandes dames.

This week's Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio Show broadcasts from The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, one of the great grande dame icons.

Beginning with the grand re-opening of the recently restored Alfonso XIII Hotel in Seville, Spain which re-opened on March 13th, The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts will unveil a series of large - scale restoration projects including the multi-million Euro renovation of Hotel Maria Cristina, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Spain and Prince De Galles, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Paris, as well as the $ 55 million Euro restoration of the «grande dame» of Italy, Hotel Gritti Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel in Venice.

A grande dame among destination spas, this Provençal - style retreat 40 miles north of San Diego has just emerged from a head - to - toe renovation....

Have one meal at one of the grande dames like Voyager or Leeuwin Estate, then another meal at one of the boutique wineries such as Amelia Park — that way you see the full range of winemaking operations in the area.

After years of shuttered decay and a seven - year rebuilding programme, Lausanne's grande dame hotel, the Royal Savoy, has officially re-opened.

A «grande dame» of Cyprus hotels, remembered with nostalgia by the generations of British guests who have stayed here.