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3 unusual facts about the arts


Finnieston

Today there are modern housing, office, retail, leisure and arts & culture developments.

Players Theatre Columbus

At the time, Players was the only professional theatre company in Columbus, as well as the city's oldest non-profit arts institution in continuous operation.

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed

Cornwell's book was released to much controversy, especially within the British art world, where Sickert's work is admired, and also among “Ripperologists,” who dispute her research methods and conclusions.


Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences

Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences is a state-accredited private university in Alfter (near Bonn), Germany, providing education in the arts and social sciences up to doctorate level.


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1718 in art

August 28 - Claude-Henri Watelet, French fermier-général, amateur painter and writer on the arts (died 1786)

Alan Gibbons

In December 2010 he organised an 1100 signature Open Letter on library closures signed by many well-known figures in the arts, literature, media and publishing such as Philip Pullman, Kate Mosse, Kathy Lette, Francis Wheen, Joan Bakewell, Lee Child, Sarah Waters, Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Holroyd, Michael Rosen, Jackie Kay, Terry Jones, and many more.

Albert H. Maggs Composition Award

The award was founded in 1966 by Albert H. Maggs, a Melbourne-based professional bookmaker, amateur pianist and patron of the arts and medicine.

Anicia Juliana

The frontispiece features her depiction, the first donor portrait in the history of manuscript illumination, flanked by the personifications of Magnanimity and Prudence, with an allegory of the "Gratitude of the Arts" prostrate in front of her.

Arts of Mankind

The Arts of Mankind (in French L’Univers des formes), an ambitious series of art history survey books founded in 1960 for the French publisher Gallimard by André Malraux, who edited many of the volumes.

Batschari

Along with other cigarette manufacturers of the period like Josef Garbáty and Manoli, Batschari was at the time a patron of the arts, employing famous artists such as Hans Rudi Erdt, Ivo Puhonny, Lucian Bernhard and Ludwig Hohlwein to produce advertising material.

Bernardino Poccetti

Born in Florence, he was initially trained as a decorator of facades and ceilings, enrolling in 1570 in the Florentine painters guild for such work, the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, (Academy of the Arts of Drawing).

Betsy Warland

Involved in the development of arts in general, Warland also contributed to the Special Council Committee of the Arts for the Vancouver City Council at that time.

Cary Sherman

He is an officer of the board of the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C., and has also served in advisory roles for the Anti-Defamation League, BNA’s Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal, the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts, The Computer Law Association, the Copyright Society, and The Computer Lawyer.

Cedar Grove OnStage

In September 2008, Cedar Grove OnStage worked in association with East West Players to produce the world premiere of Dan Kwong's Be Like Water, directed by Tashima, presented at the David Henry Hwang Theater at the Union Center for the Arts, in downtown Los Angeles' Little Tokyo.

Cesare Syjuco

A flurry of smaller exhibitions won him the Araw Ng Maynila "Patnubay Ng Sining At Kalinangan" Award in 2007 from the 436-year-old City of Manila, and the 2007 La Sallian Achievement Award for the Arts from his alma mater, De La Salle University.

Chamberlayne College for the Arts

Chamberlayne College for the Arts is the main secondary school in Weston, Southampton, providing education for around 900 boys and girls aged between 11 and 16.

Charles Henry Bond

A patron of the arts, he provided funding for the training of many vocal artists, including Geraldine Farrar.

Columba Catholic College

The Primary Curriculum at Columba Catholic College is designed to emphasise the basic skills of numeracy and literacy, whilst integrating the Key Learning Areas (KLA's) of Religious Education , English, Maths, Science, Studies of Society and Environment, Languages other than English (LOTE), Health and Physical Education, The Arts and Technology.

Edward Walton Wilcox

Originally from West Palm Beach, Florida, Wilcox earned a BFA in Painting with high honors from the University of Florida, where he also received the Presidential Award for Excellence in the Arts.

Eve de Castro-Robinson

A "de Castro-Robinson Portrait" concert was held in her honor at the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts in Wellington in 2004.

Glen Goei

In 1994, he received the National Youth Award for his contribution to the Arts from Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.

Hammond Chaffetz

Mr. Chaffetz was also an active supporter of the arts in Chicago, most notably the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Goodman Theatre, and the International Theatre Festival.

Hans Heinsheimer

Also, in his retirement, he made many special contributions to the arts section (Feuilleton) of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).

Historiometry

Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment is one example of this approach to quantify the impact of individuals on technology, science and the arts.

J. Barry Griswell

He has been inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame, is a recipient of the United Way of Central Iowa Alexis de Tocqueville Society award, a 2004 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, a 2004 recipient of the Central Iowa Philanthropic Award for Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser, and a 2006 recipient of the Business Committee for the Arts Leadership Award as well as a 2008 recipient of the American for the Arts Corporate Citizenship in the Arts Award.

Jakob Heller

Heller is best remembered today as a patron of the arts, as he commissioned the Heller Altarpiece from Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald, and a large sculpture of the crucifixion from Hans Backoffen.

Jan Albin Goetz

Jan Albin Goetz (Jan Goetz-Okocimski) (born July 18, 1864 in Okocim, Poland, died April 24, 1931 in Okocim) was a Polish brewer of German ancestry, head of Okocim Brewery, a philanthropist and patron of the arts, a "Freiherr" (baron) of the Hapsburg Empire, a conservative politician, activist and a member of the Austrian parliament and Polish sejm.

Jennens

Charles Jennens (1700 – 20 November 1773) was an English landowner and patron of the arts, who assembled the text for five of Handel's oratorios: Saul, Israel in Egypt, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Messiah, and Belshazzar.

Joachim Wasserschlebe

Joachim Wasserschlebe (1 May 1709, Salzwedel, Margraviate of Brandenburg - 13 March 1787, Wassersleben estates) was a German-Danish diplomat, politician, councillor, patron of the arts and art collector.

Johann David Passavant

His interest in the arts was evidence by an early correspondence with the artist Franz Pforr (1788–1812).

Martinsville Seven

One telegram from Moscow was signed by "workers in science, literature, the arts" by composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev.

Menci Clement Crnčić

After graduating, Crnčić taught painting in the Arts and Crafts School in Zagreb, but in 1894 Izidor Kršnjavi, the Director of the Institute for Education and Theology recognized Crnčić's talent for drawing.

Metro Arts Alliance of Greater Des Moines

This assessment led to the study and formation in 1975 of the Arts and Recreation Council of Greater Des Moines with 35 board members.

Miriam Mahdaviani

She also choreographed ballets for Pacific Northwest Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Jacob's Pillow, Vassar College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase, and others.

Montagu House, Portman Square

Occupying a site at the northwest corner of the square, in the angle between Gloucester Place and Upper Berkeley Street, it was built for Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, a wealthy widow and patroness of the arts, to the design of the neoclassicist architect James Stuart.

Oneminutes

The Belgian Branch, hosted by the Hogeschool Gent, organizes, in collaboration with the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), the official Belgian open competition.

Philip Sugden

In 1990, Philip and his wife were awarded grants from the Ohio Joint Projects in the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, to create a Public Television presentation and companion book based on their 1988 Cultural Arts Expedition to the Himalaya and Tibet.

Polesworth Abbey

Later Sir Henry Goodere, was a patron of the arts and leader of the Polesworth Group of poets which included his protegee Michael Drayton.

Postmodern philosophy

Postmodern philosophy also drew from the world of the arts and architecture, particularly Marcel Duchamp, John Cage and artists who practiced collage, and the architecture of Las Vegas and the Pompidou Centre.

Sandro Ivo Bartoli

The same year, he founded in London Opera Etcetera, a series of concerts devoted to the non-vocal music of opera composers, and the Lyric Club Renato Bruson of Turin awarded him the Gina Rosso Prize for his work in the arts.

Sebastiano Ximenes

Sebastiano Ximenes (c. late 16th century) was an Italian banker of Portuguese origin in Florence, and noted patron of the Arts.

Singapore Dance Theatre

It made its debut in June 1988 at the Singapore Festival of The Arts and received its first arts patronage by the then-Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Ong Teng Cheong.

Squeaky Wheel Buffalo Media Arts Center

Squeaky Wheel is supported in part by the Baird Foundation, the Children's Foundation of Erie County, the Peter C. Cornell Trust, the Experimental Television Center, the Fund for the Arts, Hodgson Russ LLP, M&T Bank, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the John R. Oishei Foundation, Starbucks Foundation and our members.

Stephen Swid

Stephen Swid is an active supporter of the arts and education and currently serves as a Director of The Municipal Art Society of New York.

Ted Gioia

Ted Gioia is the brother of Dana Gioia, poet and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Teodoro Agoncillo

Born in Lemery, Batangas, Agoncillo obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of the Philippines in 1934 and a master's degree in the arts from the same university the following year.

The Alberts

They also along with Bruce Lacey presented a version of The Three Musketeers at The Arts Theatre and then at The Royal Court, Sloane Square, The Three Musketeers Ride Again which also starred Rachel Roberts as Madame de Winter, Rosa Bosom and Valentine Dial as Cardinal Richelieu, Alex Jawdokimova as Aramis and Sinbad Gray as Pustule and many others.

The Muppets on Puppets

It aired on New York’s WNET on January 5, 1970 as part of the station's Adventure in the Arts anthology series.

Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts

In 2006 the music video for the single Pac's Life for the self-titled album was shot at the The Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts.

William C. Roberts

In 1954, Roberts graduated early from Southern Methodist University with a bachelor's degree in the arts, having been accepted to Emory University's School of Medicine.

William II Canynges

He was a generous patron of the arts in Bristol, particularly concerning the church of St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol, "The crown of Bristol architecture".

Yaya Coulibaly

Later he studied art at the Bamako National Institute of the Arts, and puppet theatre at the Institute International de la Marionette in France.