Sentences with phrase «leading city figures»

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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Milan is becoming a major cultural destination that could attract creative businesses away from London, according to leading figures in the city for its design week.

From «Legends of the Jews», which is a compilation of a vast amount of aggadah, i.e., exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, from the Mishnah, the two Talmuds and Midrash compiled by Rabbi Louis Ginzberg (1873 — 1953), who was a Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism of the twentieth century who taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) in New York City for half a century until his death in 1953:

Heskey scored 9 goals in all competitions in the 02/03 season and was criticised for his low goal scoring return but he also made the headlines for his actions off the field as he donated a six figure sum to a consortium led by Gary Lineker to buy out Leicester City who were experiencing serious financial troubles.

In his more than three decades leading the Buffalo Teachers Federation, Philip Rumore has become one of the most influential and controversial figures in the city's education landscape.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito defended her plans to attend the Puerto Rican Day Parade amid plans to honor a controversial figure that has led to a series of boycotts.

This comes just a week after Zac Goldsmith suggested the decision to reduce stop and search by an «arbitrary figure» had led to an increase in deaths in the city.

The Def Jam records founder stood in the blowing snow outside City Hall next to leading rap music figures like Common and Immortal Technique, and beside leaders from singer Harry Belafonte's Gathering for Justice group and with Eric Garner Jr., son of the late Eric Garner.

Ravitch, considered «one of the leading figures in the rescue of New York City in the 1970s,» was asked by Governor Paterson to draw up the blueprint.

In this episodic iteration, a crime wave — led by a mysterious figure known as the Scarab — is killing off prominent citizens of a major metropolitan city, and the mayor is haranguing the police commissioner and district attorney about the situation.

Kirchner was a leading figure of the famous artist - group Die Brücke / The Bridge, first in Dresden, later moving tho the big city Berlin.

This powertrain returns near class - leading fuel economy figures, among non-hybrid rivals: 27 miles per gallon city and 38 mpg highway.

Leading industry figures from across Africa have celebrated the emergence of South African city Tshwane as a tourism powerhouse during an event running alongside World Travel Market in London.

The Batman Arkham City Collector's Edition will include a custom Batman statue produced by Kotobukiya, a leading manufacturer of comic, movie, and video game figures.

Strange mechanical tentacles are invading the city, and both the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, and the Decepticons, led by Megatron, are eager to figure out exactly what is going on, each side for their own reasons.

Makers were nominated by a pool of more than 300 New York City - based cultural leaders and civic figures from a range of trades and disciplines, including museum curators, choreographers, academics, chefs, musicians, and journalists, with final participants selected by a jury led by Adamson and exhibition curator Jake Yuzna.

While most of the artists from the movement attended San Francisco Art Institute, Johanson does not come from a formal art education; however, his presence in the city's famous Mission District that began with making street art, for which he often used Sharpies, marks him as one of the lead figures.

Barclay is a leading figure in a generation of graduates from the Glasgow School of Art in the 1990s: a group of young artists studying in the city who rose to the fore of the contemporary art world.

James Rosenquist, a leading figure of the Pop Art movement whose influential work spanned the globe from New York to Miami to Europe, died late Friday at his home in New York City, according to a close family friend in South Florida.

Previous locations have included Battersea Power Station, Shunt Vaults and The Farmiloe Building and guests have included Sir Bob Geldof, Jerry Hall, Bianca Jagger, Mark Stephens; leading city figuresDavid Blitzer, Lord Myners, and Sir Stuart Rose; and art world figures like Turner Prize winnersGrayson Perry, Elizabeth Price and Mark Wallinger along with Dinos Chapman and Gavin Turk.

Since the debut of her seminal Untitled Film Stills in New York City in 1978 and her early days as a leading figure of the Pictures Generation, Sherman has played the role of both photographer and her camera's own exclusive subject.

Chicago is an exciting center for art, and the city has been a formative site to so many artists who studied there and are now some of the leading figures of American contemporary art (think of Theaster Gates, Rashid Johnson, Jeff Koons, Michael Rakowitz, Nancy Spero, Jessica Stockholder,...).

The exhibition presents the work of leading painters who, since World War II and up to the present day, worked in London and depicted the city's human figure, landscape and everyday reality, with their own distinctive and personal vision.

TUESDAY MARCH 10 Opening: Richard Estes: Painting New York City at MAD A leading figure of the Photorealist movement, New York artist Richard Estes is having is having a career retrospective at the Museum of Arts and Design that spans works from the mid-1960s to the present.

Opening: Richard Estes: Painting New York City at MAD A leading figure of the Photorealist movement, New York artist Richard Estes is having is having a career retrospective at the Museum of Arts and Design that spans the mid-1960s to the present.

Rothko's first important one - man show in 1945 at the Art of This Century Gallery in New York City established him as a leading figure in postwar American painting.

He became a leading figure in the 1990s movement known as the Mission School, after the city's celebrated Mission District.

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.

A somewhat mammoth 21 - strong BLAs judging panel was led by Chairman of the City of London Law Society Alasdair Douglas and included high profile figures including BAE Systems group general counsel (GC) Philip Bramwell and Heathrow Airport Holdings GC Carol Hui.

The «Safer in the City» campaign has been recognised by leading figures in the cycling community including Olympic champion rower and road safety campaigner James Cracknell.