In 1959 he contributed to the British arts review X magazine ( other contributors included Bacon, Freud, Auerbach and Kokoschka ) with an article, The Dream, the Sphinx, and the Death of T, and drawings.

British Mixed martial arts fighter Dan Hardy has called American fighter Marcus Davis a " Plastic Paddy " due to Marcus ' enthusiasm for his Irish ancestry.

In the arts, there are six members of faculty-an unusually high proportion-who have the distinction of being Fellows of the British Academy.

Northumbria during its " golden age " was the most important centre of religious learning and arts in the British Isles.

Such as: the Hermitage, the Louvre, the British Museum, the Berlin Museum, the Moscow State Museum of fine arts and many others.

On 5 January 1992, Dirk Gently, Richard MacDuff, Dirk's secretary, and the Electric Monk all appeared in the Douglas Adams episode of the British arts documentary series The South Bank Show.

The ten remaining confused passengers are Brian Engle, a troubled, off-duty airline pilot traveling to Boston to attend his ex-wife's funeral ; Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with minor psychic powers ; fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson, who takes to watching over Dinah ; Nick Hopewell, a junior attache & " mechanic " for the British Embassy ; Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer on a trip to see his grandchild ; Rudy Warwick, a businessman ; Albert Kaussner, a talented teen violinist heading to a prestigious school of the arts ; Bethany Simms, a teenager being sent by her family to rehab ; Bob Jenkins, a mystery author who acts as the voice of logic ; and Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.

It was organised by the government to give Britons a feeling of recovery in the aftermath of war and to promote the British contribution to science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts.

* Apollo ( magazine ), a British arts magazine

That Livy's euhemerist and realist deflation of this myth, so central to the origins of Rome, was not general is demonstrated by the recurring theme of Mars discovering Rhea Silvia – the Latinists ' " invention " ( to come upon ) of Rhea Silvia " – in Roman arts: in bas-relief on the Casali Altar ( Vatican Museums ), in engraved couched glass on the Portland Vase ( British Museum ), or on a sarcophagus in the Palazzo Mattei.

In August 1979 Norman made his first of his four appearances at the Greenbelt Festival, a British Christian festival of " arts, faith and justice " held annually since 1974, that was held that year in the grounds of Odell Castle in Bedfordshire, Norman took Randy Stonehill with him, and introducing him to his own established audiences.

It is now used to jointly house the prints and architectural drawings of the V & A ( prints, drawings, paintings and photographs ) and Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA Drawings and Archives Collections ); and the Sackler Centre for arts education which openned in 2008.

It came into being when the British government bought 38 paintings from the heirs of John Julius Angerstein, an insurance broker and patron of the arts, in 1824.

In 1998 he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour, a UK national honour bestowed for outstanding achievement in the arts, literature, music, science, politics, industry or religion ( fellow recipients included in 2011 Douglas Hurd, former British Foreign Secretary, Norman Tebbit, former Secretary of State of Employment under Margaret Thatcher, and former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major ).

* Robin Simon, Hogarth, France and British Art: The rise of the arts in eighteenth-century Britain ( London, 2007 )

Sir Edward Howard Marsh KCVO CB CMG ( 18 November 1872 – 13 January 1953 ) was a British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant.

( 28 August 1833 – 17 June 1898 ) was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company.

He found it in the British Museum, where he put his heart and soul into research while buried in hundreds of books, arts and crafts and antiquities from the East and the West.

In 2001 and 2002, the Greenbelt festival, a British Christian music and arts fest, held a special " Ned Flanders Night ".

Gillian Wearing OBE RA ( born 1963 ) is an English conceptual artist, one of the YBAs, and winner of the annual British fine arts award, The Turner Prize, in 1997.

In December 2002, Tyson was awarded the British visual arts award, the Turner Prize.

The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia ( UBC ) campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is renowned for its displays of world arts and cultures, in particular works by First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations.

Hester Lynch Thrale ( born Hester Lynch Salusbury and after her second marriage, Hester Lynch Piozzi ) ( 27 January 1741 – 2 May 1821 ) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts.

WBAI is on the right track: in the sound medium there has been excessive emphasis on music and news and there could and should be a place for theatre, as the Canadian and British Broadcasting Corporations continue to demonstrate.

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A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.

Although he himself was a blues purist, Korner criticised better-known British blues musicians during the blues boom of the late 1960s for their blind adherence to Chicago blues, as if the music came in no other form.

Housman's poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of Walt Whitman in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman's works provided song texts, Whitman's the texts for larger choral works.

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BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

Henry Purcell's last major work, composed in 1695, was music for play entitled Bonduca, or the British Heroine ( Z.

Bubbles, who also sketched and painted privately, is best known for his distinctive contribution to the design practices associated with the British independent music scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

* Canterbury scene, the British progressive music genre

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* Commodore Ballroom, a nightclub and music venue in Vancouver, British Columbia

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* 1948 – Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist

* Electric Light Orchestra, a British rock music group

* Freestylers, a British electronic music group

* 1920 – George Rose, British music hall entertainer ( d. 1988 )

The Japanese music group ALI Project created the song " Gesshoku Grand Guignol " as the opening for the Bee-Train anime Avenger, while British rock band Duels also named an instrumental track after the theater.

* Gramophone ( magazine ), a British publication devoted to classical music