Sentences with phrase «jury chair this year»

Actress Kathleen Turner served as jury chair this year.

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Virgin has been involved in the Dutch Postcode Lottery for years, and last year I chaired its sustainable competition jury, which provides a lot of funding to green businesses.

The jury is chaired this year by Italian film director Gianfranco Rosi.

This month we are joined by our third chair Stuart Richards to discuss Warwick Thornton's film Sweet Country which won the Special Jury Prize at Venice and our complicated feelings about this year's Oscar race.

Cannes Film Festival 2018 Jury Chair Cate Blanchett and Palme d'Or - winning director Agnes Varda stood among 82 women in film who gathered on the red carpet at the Lumière Theater to protest the 71 year old festival's exceptionally poor record on inclusion of women in all areas of festival programming, and demand greater equality for women in the film industry.

The 12 - member jury charged with deciding this year's nominees was chaired by Oscar - winning producer David Parfitt -LSB-...]

Each year a jury, chaired by Whitechapel Gallery Director, Iwona Blazwick, and including a gallerist, critic, artist and collector, agree a shortlist of five artists before the winner is decided based on the artists» proposals.

On behalf of the judging panel, Iwona Blazwick, OBE, Director of the Whitechapel Gallery and chair of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women jury, said: «For many years women artists had worked under the radar.

For the second and final round of the jury, the Visual Chair with the help of the Visual Coordinator charges a three - person outside jury, which changes each year, to review digital work submitted by the finalists as well as digital work submitted by current or former Fellows trying for a second - year term.

The Visual Chair, the Visual Coordinator, and the second - year Visual Fellows serve in the first jury round.

In a statement, Tate Britain director and chair of the prize jury this year, described the nominees as «an outstanding group of artists, all of whom are tackling the most pressing political and humanitarian issues of today».

The jury this year (chaired by Professor Sir David King, the newly appointed Foreign Secretary's Special Representative for Climate Change) included Fumio Nanjo, Director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Elisabeth Sussman, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, USA; and the revered Wang Shu, 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner, a strong champion of sustainable architecture and building.

Alex Farquharson, director of Tate Britain and chair of the Turner prize jury, praised the ambition of the Turner Contemporary over the past six years.

The members of this year's Turner prize jury are Fiona Bradley, director of Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery; writer and critic Michael Bracewell; Thelma Golden, director and chief curator at the Studio Museum, Harlem; Miranda Sawyer, freelance broadcaster and writer; and Christoph Grunenberg, director of Tate Liverpool, who chairs the panel.

The jury for this year's award consists of Frieze co-editor Dan Fox, art critic Martin Herbert, Mason Leaver - Yap of the Walker Art Center and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Showroom Director Emily Pethick, with Tate Britain Director Alex Farquharson serving as jury chair.

Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain and Chair of the Jury said: «This year's nominations illustrate the mobility of the contemporary art world, in which works are seen at global biennales and festivals over the course of the year.

Josée Drouin - Brisebois, the National Gallery's chief curator of contemporary art and the chair of the Sobey jury, said she is hoping the decision to appoint a foreigner to the jury each year will help spread the word internationally about the competition.

Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, who chaired this year's jury, said there was a desire to celebrate artists who had previously been neglected by the mainstream.

Painter and jury chair Michele Hoben discussed the process at great length in August 2012, offering vital tips on preparation and presentation — and this year, she shared this summary of exactly what happens behind closed doors:

Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, who is chairing this year's jury, said there was a desire to celebrate artists who had previously been neglected by the mainstream.

This year's jury, consisting of Gijs Frieling, Hans den Hartog Jager, Nanda Janssen, Iris Kensmil, Jan van der Ploeg, Benno Tempel (chair) and Esther Tielemans wrote the following praises about Sam Samiee's work: «In our society as well as in our art symbols play an important role.

This year's Turner Prize jury was made up of Andrew Hunt, from Focal Point Gallery, Southend - on - Sea; Heike Munder, director of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; Mark Sladen, from the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; and Penelope Curtis, Tate Britain director and chair of the jury.

This year's jury is chaired by Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis and includes the curator Annie Fletcher and the writer and lecturer Declan Long.

Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis, who chairs the jury, admitted this year's Turner nominees were «less well known» than in previous years.

Multi-million-dollar jury awards are downplayed as «learning experiences» by the 32 - year - old plaintiff's attorney, who emphasizes that many of these wins came as Satin sat second chair to the legendary Andrew C. Meyer Jr..

Last year's firm highlights included handling Groupon's November IPO, the year's second - largest public offering, and IP litigation chair James Hurst continuing an eight - trial winning streak by securing three courtroom wins for client Abbott Laboratories, including a March 31 jury verdict that staved off a potential multibillion antitrust class action claim.