Sentences with phrase «including patronage»

Even so, their avant - garde approach revitalized British art and won them a huge following, including the patronage of Charles Saatchi, Britain's leading collector or contemporary art, along with numerous exhibitions at the famous Saatchi Gallery, and the Sensation exhibition (1997) at the London Royal Academy.

When royalty revenues weren't enough to cover the cost of public services the government defaulted to cutting services rather than cutting waste, including patronage appointments to 320 agencies, boards and commissions or sweetheart deals with their friends (the Holy Cross Hospital springs to mind).

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The potential is so great that we would like to see the growth potential include farmers, and others with patronage within the cooperative to experience this growth first hand.

Thanks to Sinatra's patronage, the restaurant's celebrity guest list would expand to begin including regulars such as Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and John Wayne.

Italian international Giovanni Galli, who played for a string of Serie A clubs including Fiorentina, Milan and Napoli during his career, ran for Mayor in Florence as the centre - right candidate under the patronage of Silvio Berlusconi in March 2009 but was defeated by his centre - left opponent after taking only 40 % of the local vote.

A Different Kind of Weather is chronological, more or less and manages to combine the personal with the political — the former includes family, attractive girl friends and the patronage of powerful and influential people.

This contrary to her over patronage of the then ruling NDC including her attendance of Cabinet Meetings.»

Older examples include the blocking of Welsh church reform from 1868 to 1920, coercion Acts in nineteenth - century Ireland, and the Patronage Act (Scotland) 1711/12, violating the then recent Act of Union.

Bracknell, UK, 23 October 2012 — Diversified technology company 3M has announced a second year sponsorship arrangement with Premier Sports in appreciation of auto - industry customers and trade partner patronage for trusted 3M products, including vehicle wrapping films, car care products, injury supports, personal device skins and high - strength bonding tape.

The measure specifies that such a facility would include «superior consumer amenities and conveniences to encourage and attract the patronage of tourists and other visitors from across the region, state and nation.»

The disadvantages of the House of Lords include a heavy reliance on a system of patronage as a means of selecting our legislators.

If the deal holds, Brooklyn Democrats are set to reap the spoils, including at least one choice committee chairmanship and patronage jobs with the City Council that have eluded them in years past.

New York Public Interest Research Group Legislative Director Blair Horner in a statement also reiterated the call for easier voter registration, including same - day enrollment as well as an end to patronage posts at boards of elections around the state.

That system has spawned complaints of patronage that has led to the BOE's failures over the years, including the inability to upgrade to electronic voting machines required by the 2002 Help America Vote Act by the deadline years later.

Sensing that Ms. Murray was not going to be able to secure this patronage - rich position so easily, other big Republican names have agreed to help out, including former Senator Alfonse D'Amato and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York.

Then there's the single - issue zealot, bent on a particular curriculum, neighborhood, patronage arrangement, weird cause, or adult interest, often tugged and manipulated by outside constituencies, including teacher unions.

Newark's school system encompasses nearly every structural impediment possible, including a tradition of patronage, mismanagement of resources, large numbers of failing schools, and lack of public trust.

It's part of a larger trend that ALLi is calling Self - Publishing 3.0 *, in which intermediaries sit within a wider author business framework, that includes direct sales, crowdsourced patronage, subscriptions, membership and other digital business models, tools and techniques that directly connect author and reader.

National Consumer Cooperative Bank issues $ 9 million patronage refund to 1,834 cooperative shareholders nationwide, including $ 3.6 million in cash.

We verify your information including 1) ownership of your property or verifying with your rental manager that pets are allowed on premises, 2) Contacting your veterinarian to confirm your patronage, and 3) we may contact your personal references.

Included among Deal Booth's patronage and philanthropic efforts are serving on the boards of several arts organizations, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Menil Collection, the Centre Pompidou Foundation, Ballroom Marfa, and The Contemporary Austin.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will showcase a century of art patronage — including some of the most important and recognized pieces in its collections — in a special exhibition at the Winter Antiques Show, the leading art and antiques fair in the United States.

She is the Director of the Maryam and Edward Eisler Foundation, established in 2011 and is dedicated to a variety of voluntary work including co-founding the Whitechapel Gallery Future Fund, a Trustee at Wellesley College, co-chair on the Tate Middle East and North Africa Acquisitions Committee, and the Executive Committee for the Art and Patronage Middle East Summit at the British Museum in 2012.

Still, a growing patronage for the arts, tourists included, demanded more extravagant architecture, altars, and illusions

That led us to think about certain themes that run through the selection of works in the show including image and identity, patronage, mortality and celebrity.

As her patronage expanded, so did the space, growing to include four town houses and carriage houses.

Conversations on the table include wealth and patronage; Waterston currently has an exhibition recreating James McNeill Whistler's luxurious «peacock room.»

So her complaint about artists not being taken seriously rings a little hollow set against her ample record of state patronage, including 32 works in the Tate collection, nomination for the Turner prize, Turbine Hall commission, and now simultaneously across three major art institutions.

In recognition for her work to strengthen and promote education and the arts in Latin America, Mrs. Cisneros has received numerous awards which include, among others: the Great Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the wise, Spain; the Leone d'Oro di San Marco, Venice; the Cross of the Legion of Honor, Republic of France; the Americas Society's Gold Medal; the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Award for Outstanding Patronage of the Arts, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine; the Iris Foundation Award, Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York and an Honoris Causa Degree in Fine Arts, from Wheaton College, Massachusetts.

It's core initiatives include the globally recognized Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award and the Montblanc Art Collection.

Through eleven drawings from the permanent collection of The Arts Club, including works by André Derain, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Isamu Noguchi, and Pablo Picasso, this exhibition documented the collection, exhibition history, and patronage of The Arts Club of Chicago.

Panelists will discuss the development of contemporary art infrastructures today including the birth of new museums, the relevance of the model, the future of patronage, and challenges.

Primary themes may include imagery of national unity, nativism, regionalism, and immigration; artistic interchange between America and Europe including modernism; African American artists and movements, especially the Harlem Renaissance; government patronage and the Great Depression; art by and about women; and the «end» of American Art.

His catalogue essay on Courtauld's patronage included an incisive comparison of the textile magnate's legacy with that of Albert C Barnes, the more authoritarian creator of the Barnes Foundation in Pennsylvania.

The works he collects are driven by his passion and intuition, rather than monetary appreciation, and includes active patronage support to 20 living artists.

Two artist newcomers, Sir Edward John Poynter and Walter Crane, joined the International Committee of Patronage, which included some familiar faces (Lawrence Alma - Tadema, Hubert von Herkomer and William Quiller Orchardson).

Works by 55 British artists were shown and the International Committee of Patronage once again included Lawrence Alma - Tadema, Sir Edward Burne - Jones and Sir John Everett Millais (who died 1896, just before the 1897 Biennale), as well as two new additions: the painters Hubert von Herkomer and William Quiller Orchardson.

An International Committee of Patronage was created and included well - known painters John Everett Millais, Lawrence Alma - Tadema, Sir Edward Burne - Jones and Sir Frederic Leighton.

These were part of the New Deal art patronage projects which employed many important artists of the day including Jackson Pollock, the Colour Field painter Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), the surrealist Arshile Gorky (1904 - 48), the American Scene / Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975) and the idiosyncratic modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943).

Selected from the Center's rich holdings, and augmented with key loans from Tate Britain, the British Library, and the Yale University Art Gallery, the exhibition will include a diverse range of objects from both high art and popular culture — many of which are being exhibited for the fi rst time — including albums, scrapbooks, prints, paintings, miniatures, and sculpture, demonstrating how collecting practices and artistic patronage in India at this period constituted a complex intersection of culture and power.

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OA advocate Sandy Thatcher gave a thorough overview of the history of OA publishing, the different types of OA, and various OA publishers such as The National Academies Press and Athabasca Press, and various funding models for OA including revenue from print, author fees, foundations, endowments, subscription, patronage and advertising.

Some of the criticisms of the existing process include a lack of openness, patronage appointments regardless of which party is in power and that it is a framework that does not recognize the increasing diversity of the legal community in Canada and the overall population.

The entire Canadian body politic, including the many agencies of the so - called justice system is rife with patronage.

Facebook, in particular, has been targeting the creator community, including with this week's launch of a Patreon clone for subscription patronage, and other ways to allow creators to make money.

For consumers, shopping includes researching, and they're comparing services, expertise and experience before deciding who best deserves their patronage.