Sentences with phrase «leading figurehead»

Victor Pasmore (1908 - 98) was a leading figurehead among the emerging constructed abstract artists in post-war Britain.

This present exhibition has been curated in parallel with a major exhibition at Pallant House Gallery of the works of Victor Pasmore, a leading figurehead of the nascent constructivist movement in post-war Britain.

Featuring those suggested by a range of leading figureheads in the art world, including Iwona Blazwick (Director, Whitechapel Gallery, London); Udo Kittelmann, (Director, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin); Christine Macel (Chief Curator, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Artistic Director of 2017 Venice Biennale); Gregor Muir (Director of Collection: International Art, Tate, London); Nancy Spector (Artistic Director, Guggenheim Museum, New York); Sheena Wagstaff (Chairman of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), a wide range of talent has been highlighted.

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The power doled out by Mr. Kowalski, and the rewards he lavished on his constituency, led some Opposition politicians to claim that he was actually running the government, with the Premier only as a figurehead.

In the days leading up to the papal visit, Patten was widely mocked, by both Left and Right, as a hapless figurehead, who was obviously overseeing an impending disaster.

Cristiano Ronaldo has undoubtedly taken over the mantle left from Luis Figo as the Portugal figurehead since bursting onto the scene in Euro 2004 and has gone on to be arguably the best player in the world becoming the country's leading goalscorer with over 100 caps to his name.

His figurehead is Mononoke herself, a wolf child as original eco-warrior leading the charge against her blood kin, the humans, in an elemental world of animal tribes and spirits and Gods imagined as magnificent giants and enchanting imps.

Tom Hardy (Locke, Child 44) steps into the lead role that originally made a star of Mel Gibson, his Max Rockatansky becoming a figurehead for revolution in a world where humanity has completely broken down.

Attendees heard from developers and figureheads within the digital currency ecosystem like Bitcoin XT lead developer Tom Harding, Nchain's Dr. Craig Wright, Bitcoin ABC lead developer Amaury Séchet, the Yours.org network's Ryan X Charles, Openbazaar developer Chris Pacia, SBI Bits executive Jerry Chan, and Bitcoin Unlimited's Andrew Stone and Dr. Peter Rizun among many more special guests.