This theory, conceived by a British Glass manufacturer, proposes that the first two figures are Gauis Octavius, father of the future emperor, and Attia Julia Balboa, his mother ( hence the cherub with the arrow ) who had a dream of being impregnated by Apollo in the form of a sea serpent ( ketos ), note the snake's prominent teeth.

In 1964 the British sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term " gentrification " to denote the influx of middle-class people to cities and neighbourhoods, displacing the lower-class worker residents ; the example was London, and its working-class districts such as Islington:

* British — Graham, Matthew, and Ashley Pharaoh: Ashes to Ashes ( 2008 TV series ; main character, Alex Drake, is haunted by Pierrot like that in David Bowie video Ashes to Ashes ); Mahoney, Brian: Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders ( 1970 film written and performed by David Bowie and Lindsay Kemp, adapted from their stage-play of the same title and produced by Scottish Television also # Songs, albums, and rock musicals | Songs, albums, and rock musicals below ).

* Alice Through the Looking Glass ( 1998 film ), a British film

* Personal Recollections of the Use of the Rod ( 1868 ) by " Margaret Anson ", pseudonym of British author James Glass Bertram ( John Camden Hotten: York, date given as 1857 ).

The author also advises the British to expand into Africa from Fernando Po, where, Christine Alexander notes, the Brontë children locate the Great Glass Town.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

Vera Leigh ( born Vera Glass on 17 March 1903 in Leeds, England-died 6 July 1944 in Natzweiler-Struthof ) was a British spy during World War II who assisted the French Resistance.

The Glass Sellers Prize used to be an annual award but since 2008 has been linked to the British Glass Biennale and is awarded biennially.

The Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers works in association with the British Glass Biennale to offer The Glass Sellers Art & Craft Award and the Glass Sellers Art & Craft Student Award.

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl.

The British Glass Biennale was set up to be a part of the inaugural International Festival of Glass in 2004.

Prior to this show, there had been no major review of the British glass scene since the 1993 Crafts Council touring exhibition ‘ The Glass Show ’ ( a retrospective of 30 years of studio art glass-see Andrew Brewerton essay in 2004 catalogue ).

The British Glass Biennale was to show ‘ the pulse of recent achievement in contemporary British glass, and to display this wide range of creativity '.

It is also the site where the British Glass Biennale exhibition and the International Glass Festival are hosted.

Further shows have included taking part in the exhibition Eight Figurative Painters, held at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, USA, in 1981, alongside Michael Andrews, Francis Bacon, William Coldstream, Lucian Freud, Patrick George, Leon Kossoff and Euan Uglow ; and a retrospective exhibition at the Kunstverein, Hamburg, in 1986, comprising paintings and drawings made between 1977 and 1985 originally shown at the 42nd Venice Biennale also in 1986.

* 1976 British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

* 1976 Represented Britain in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

In 1998, Ofili won the Turner Prize, and in 2003 was selected to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale of that year, where his work for the British Pavilion was done in collaboration with the architect David Adjaye.

He turned down the British Council's invitation to be Britain's representative at the 1999 Venice Biennale because " it didn't feel right ".

Since 1938 the British Council has been responsible for the British Pavilion in Venice, showing British artists at the Venice Biennale.

* Sophie Bowness and Clive Phillpot ( ed ), Britain at the Venice Biennale 1895 – 1996, The British Council, 1995

* http :// www. britishcouncil. org / venicebiennale / History of the British Council's involvement with the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Aims of the British Glass Biennale

Each British Glass Biennale is a landmark juried exhibition of contemporary glass by artists working and living in the UK and working in glass.

Each British Glass Biennale features a completely new jury.

The Biennale does not aim to establish an historical survey but to take the pulse of the current British glass scene ; to observe, reflect and catalogue trends and influences emerging each year.

Sutherland exhibited in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1952 along with Edward Wadsworth and the New Aspects of British Sculpture Group.

Hamilton was awarded the William and Noma Copley Foundation Award, 1960 ; the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize, 1960 ; the Talens Prize International, 1970 ; the Leone d ’ Oro for his exhibition in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 1993 ; the Arnold Bode Prize at Documenta X, Kassel, 1997 ; and the Max Beckmann Prize for painting, 2006.

`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.

More services for the public were introduced ; visitor numbers soared, with the temporary exhibition " Treasures of Tutankhamun " in 1972, attracting 1, 694, 117 visitors, the most successful in British history.

The seven permanent Egyptian galleries at the British Museum, which include its largest exhibition space ( Room 4, for monumental sculpture ), can display only 4 % of its Egyptian holdings.

In 1988 the British artist and friend of Weizenbaum Brian Reffin Smith created and showed at the exhibition ' Salamandre ', in the Musée du Berry, Bourges, France, two art-oriented ELIZA-style programs written in BASIC, one called ' Critic ' and the other ' Artist ', running on two separate Amiga 1000 computers.

Also the widespread acceptance of video art as a form has made it possible for British artists such as Sam Taylor-Wood and Isaac Julien to make film works outside of the demands of cinema exhibition.

* The British Hero-online exhibition from screenonline, a website of the British Film Institute, looking at British heroes of film and television.

In 1836 he sent his first picture to the exhibition of the Society of British Artists, and in 1845 he contributed a cartoon, An Allegory of Justice, to a competition for designs for the mural decoration of the new Palace of Westminster.

In 2011 the Merzbarn was reconstructed in the front courtyard of the Royal Academy in London as part of its exhibition Modern British Sculpture.

The exhibition Shades of British Impressionism Lamorna Birch and his Circle was shown at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery in the Mezzanine in October 2004.

Religious works by Botta, including the Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center were shown in London at the Royal Institute of British Architects in an exhibition entitled, Architetture del Sacro: Prayers in Stone.

When the British governor of Uganda, Sir Harry Johnston, discovered some pygmy inhabitants of the Congo being abducted by a showman for exhibition, he rescued them and promised to return them to their homes.

( One ticket to the private exhibition, illustrated by Samuel Alkin and printed with ' Admission to see Mr Wedgwood's copy of The Portland Vase, Greek Street, Soho, between 12 o ' clock and 5 ', was bound into the Wedgwood catalogue on view in the Victoria and Albert Museum's British Galleries.

However, Conroy Maddox, one of the first British Surrealists whose work in this genre dated from 1935, remained within the movement, and organized an exhibition of current Surrealist work in 1978 in response to an earlier show which infuriated him because it did not properly represent Surrealism.

In April 2007, an exhibition titled Princess Line – The Fashion Legacy of Princess Margaret opened at Kensington Palace, showcasing contemporary fashion from British designers such as Vivienne Westwood inspired by Princess Margaret's legacy of style.

* British — Hockney, David: Troop of Actors and Acrobats ( 1980 ; one of stage designs for Satie's Parade under # Ballet, cabaret, and Pierrot troupes | Ballet, cabaret, and Pierrot troupes above ), paintings on Munich museum walls for group exhibition on Pierrot ( 1995 ); Self, Colin: Pierrot Blowing Dandelion Clock ( 1997 ).

Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol were used in U2's 1997, 1998 PopMart Tour and in an exhibition in 2007 at the British National Portrait Gallery.

During its production the British government announced that it would prohibit its exhibition in the United Kingdom in keeping with its appeasement policy concerning Nazi Germany.

Barbara Jones and Tom Ingram organised " Black Eyes and Lemonade ", an exhibition of British popular and traditional art, in association with the Society for Education in Art and the Arts Council.

After Lawrence's creditors had been paid, there was no money left, although a memorial exhibition at the British Institution raised £ 3, 000 which was given to his nieces.

Closing in Great Britain in January 2011, the exhibition then traveled to Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut where it opened in February 2011, and is on view until early June.

The Ryder Cup began following an exhibition match in 1926 between a team comprising American professionals against a similar one drawn from the British PGA on the East Course at Wentworth Club, in Surrey, England.

After the success of the British Galleries, opened in 2001, it was decided to embark on a major redesign of all the galleries in the museum ; this is known as ' FuturePlan ', and was created in consultation with the exhibition designers and masterplanners Metaphor.

* Children's Television, online exhibition from screenonline, a website of the British Film Institute