The Dana Porter Arts Library, with sculptures by Ron Baird in the foreground Over a period of five years ( 2003 – 2008 ), the University experienced its second largest building boom since the 1960s.

In 2008, Caro opened his " Chapel of Light " installation in the Saint Jean-Baptiste Church of Bourbourg ( France ), and exhibited four figurative head sculptures at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

* Fritz Scholder: Indian / Not Indian November 01, 2008 – May 17, 2009 Paintings, drawings, and sculptures, focusing on the Luiseno artist's 1980s and 1990s work, when he pursued non-Indian subject matter ; controversial pieces from his 1960s and 1970s work were exhibited in the Washington DC facility.

She now produces metalwork sculptures ; some were exhibited during Hertfordshire Visual Arts Forum's " open studios 2008 ".

One of Richard Bock's sculptures, Spring, now located in the Bock Museum at Greenville College, was copied in 2008.

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Following French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit in 2008, relations have improved.

* 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( d. 2008 )

* 1913 – Jean Fournet, French conductor ( d. 2008 )

* 1971 – Guillaume Depardieu, French actor ( d. 2008 )

In July 2008, the French Constitution was amended adding article 75-1, stating les langues régionales appartiennent au patrimoine de la France ( the regional languages belong to the heritage of France ).

* The Class ( 2008 film ) ( Entre les murs ), a prize-winning French film

Beginning with Sans Soleil, he developed a deep interest in digital technology, which led to his film Level 5 ( 1996 ) and Immemory ( 1998, 2008 ), an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, produced for the Centre Pompidou ( French language version ) and from Exact Change ( English version ).

Awareness and prevention campaign poster in Cayenne, French Guiana, 2008

Claude Piron ( 26 February 1931 – 22 January 2008 ) was a psychologist and a translator for the United Nations ( from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French ) from 1956 to 1961.

2008 ( available in French ).

The design of the European flag was displayed on the Eiffel Tower in Paris to celebrate the French presidency of the EU in the second half of 2008.

In 2008, Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of legendary French singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, the first French-language performance to be so honored.

At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Entre les murs ( The Class ) won the Palme d ' Or, the first French victory at the festival in 21 years.

The 2008 rural comedy Bienvenue chez les Ch ' tis drew an audience of more than 20 million, the first French film to do so.

The word " forest " comes from Middle English forest, from Old French forest ( also forès ) " forest, vast expanse covered by trees "; first introduced in English as the word for wild land set aside for hunting without the necessity in definition for the existence of trees ( James 1981 ; Muir 2000, 2008 ).

A Concise History of the French Revolution ( 2008 )

As of 2008, around 10, 000 French nationals lived and worked in Gabon, while the 6th Marine Infantry Battalion of the French military is also stationed there.

Henri also created many graphic works on his typewriter: the typewriter poems ( also known as dactylopoèmes ) feature in international art collections such as those of Francesco Conz in Verona, the Morra Foundation in Naples and Ruth and Marvin Sackner in Miami, and have been the subject of Australian, British and French retrospectives ( Aquaviva 2008 ).

A Concise History of the French Revolution ( 2008 )

2008 in French

* 1913 – Aimé Césaire, French poet, author, and politician ( d. 2008 )

* 1914 – Pearl Witherington French secret agent ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Philippe Khorsand, French actor ( b. 1948 )

* 2008 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( b. 1936 )

* 1934 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian artist and photographer ( d. 2008 )

* 1980 – Justin Levens, American mixed martial artist ( d. 2008 )

Recording artist Brandy Norwood included a song on her 2008 album Human titled " A Capella ( Something's Missing )".

* 1971 – Michael Turner, American comic book artist ( d. 2008 )

* 1946 – Stan Winston, American special effects artist, makeup artist, and director ( d. 2008 )

Just a few weeks later, Le bassin aux nymphéas ( from the water lilies series ) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 auction in London, lot 19, for £ 36, 500, 000 ($ 71, 892, 376. 34 ) ( hammer price ) or £ 40, 921, 250 ($ 80, 451, 178 ) with fees, nearly doubling the record for the artist and representing one of the top 20 highest prices paid for a painting at the time.

Coldcut also collaborated with video mashup artist TV Sheriff and NomIg., to produce two audiovisual pieces " World of Evil " ( 2004 ) and " Revolution ' 08 " ( 2008 ), both composed of footage from the United States presidential elections of the respective years.

* 2008 – Erik Ortvad, Danish artist ( b. 1917 )

* 1935 – Sven Inge, Swedish artist ( d. 2008 )

* 1971 – Evan Tanner, American mixed-martial artist ( d. 2008 )

Bardeen was honored on a March 6, 2008, United States postage stamp as part of the " American Scientists " series designed by artist Victor Stabin.

* 2008 – Bengt Lindström, Swedish artist ( b. 1925 )

April 6, 2008, p. 4 ; excerpt, "... a skyscraper that Nouvel ( adapting a term from the artist Brâncuşi ) called the “ tour sans fins ,” or endless tower.

* 2008 – Robert Rauschenberg, American artist ( b. 1925 )

On 28 July 2008, the beta of the new BBC Music site was launched, which publishes a page for each MusicBrainz artist.

* 1933 – Bruce Conner, American artist and filmmaker ( d. 2008 )

On 2 March 2008, a statue by the Berlin artist Alexander Polzin dedicated to Italian philosopher, priest, cosmologist, and occultist Giordano Bruno ( 1548 – 1600 ), was erected inside one of the entrances to the Potsdamer Platz Regionalbahnhof.

** Erik Ortvad, Danish artist ( d. 2008 )

* Australian band You Am I's 2008 album Dilettantes and its first single, Erasmus, feature a drawing of a lyrebird by artist Ken Taylor.

Sagopa Kajmer was nominated for best Turkish hip-hop artist of 2008 in MTV EMA.

* Peter Coke ( 1913 – 2008 ), a British actor, playwright and artist

In March 2008, Business Wire reported " Janet Jackson is one of the top ten selling artists in the history of contemporary music ; ranked by Billboard magazine as the ninth most successful act in rock and roll history, and the second most successful female artist in pop music history.

From January 2008 when the church celebrated its 40th anniversary, a modern day version of Leonardo Da Vinci's " Last Supper " by local artist Nicholas St John Rosse has hung above the main altar in the church.

In 2008 Olsen started dating artist Nate Lowman.