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Francis McKee
Francis McKee (born 1960) is an Irish writer and curator working in Glasgow. From 2005 - 2008 he was director of Glasgow International, and since 2006 he has been the director of thCentre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow He is a lecturer and research fellow at Glasgow School of Art, formerly working on the development of open source ideologies and now research for a survey of Irish traditional music recordings. He co-curated ''Zenomap'', the Scottish participation at the Venice Biennale, with Kay Pallister in 2003. Francis McKee has written extensively on the work of artists linked to Glasgow such as Christine BorlandRoss Sinclair Douglas Gordon, Simon Starling and other international artists including Minerva Cuevas, Matthew Barney, Pipilotti Rist, Willie Doherty, Joao Penalva, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and co-published books on thIcelandic Love Corporationand Salla Tykkä in collaboration with NIFCA (Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art). Francis McKee wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CCA Glasgow
The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) is an arts centre in Glasgow, Scotland. The year-round programme includes exhibitions, film, music, literature, festivals, spoken word, Gaelic and performances. The Centre commissions new work from artists it works with to present them. The building CCA is situated on Sauchiehall Street and houses a number of cultural tenants, including Saramago Cafe Bar, independent shops Aye-Aye Books and Welcome Home, and also has a flat for visiting artists. CCA is housed in the Grecian Chambers, a category A listed building, designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson in 1867 to 1868 and substantially renovated for its present use by Page & Park in 1998. The building was previously home to the Third Eye Centre (1975–1991), founded as a multi-media arts centre by Tom McGrath in 1974. The activities CCA operates an open source programming policy, where organizations and individuals are offered space in the building to programme their own events. In 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis McKee
Francis McKee (born 1960) is an Irish writer and curator working in Glasgow. From 2005 - 2008 he was director of Glasgow International, and since 2006 he has been the director of thCentre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow He is a lecturer and research fellow at Glasgow School of Art, formerly working on the development of open source ideologies and now research for a survey of Irish traditional music recordings. He co-curated ''Zenomap'', the Scottish participation at the Venice Biennale, with Kay Pallister in 2003. Francis McKee has written extensively on the work of artists linked to Glasgow such as Christine BorlandRoss Sinclair Douglas Gordon, Simon Starling and other international artists including Minerva Cuevas, Matthew Barney, Pipilotti Rist, Willie Doherty, Joao Penalva, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and co-published books on thIcelandic Love Corporationand Salla Tykkä in collaboration with NIFCA (Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art). Francis McKee wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Aerial Waller
Mark may refer to: Currency * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1927 * Finnish markka ( sv, finsk mark, links=no), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Polish mark ( pl, marka polska, links=no), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issued on 15 November 1923 to stop the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923 in Weimar Germany * Lodz Ghetto mark, a special currency for Lodz Ghetto. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Art Critics
Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ** Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state * Irish language, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken in Ireland * Irish people, people of Irish ethnicity, people born in Ireland and people who hold Irish citizenship Places * Irish Creek (Kansas), a stream in Kansas * Irish Creek (South Dakota), a stream in South Dakota * Irish Lake, Watonwan County, Minnesota * Irish Sea, the body of water which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain People * Irish (surname), a list of people * William Irish, pseudonym of American writer Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) * Irish Bob Murphy, Irish-American boxer Edwin Lee Conarty (1922–1961) * Irish McCal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Glasgow
, image = UofG Coat of Arms.png , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms Flag , latin_name = Universitas Glasguensis , motto = la, Via, Veritas, Vita , mottoeng = The Way, The Truth, The Life , established = , type = Public research universityAncient university , endowment = £225.2 million , budget = £809.4 million , rector = Rita Rae, Lady Rae , chancellor = Dame Katherine Grainger , principal = Sir Anton Muscatelli , academic_staff = 4,680 (2020) , administrative_staff = 4,003 , students = () , undergrad = () , postgrad = () , city = Glasgow , country = Scotland, UK , colours = , website = , logo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Mandeville
Bernard Mandeville, or Bernard de Mandeville (; 15 November 1670 – 21 January 1733), was an Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist and satirist. Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he lived most of his life in England and used English for most of his published works. He became famous for ''The Fable of the Bees''. Life Mandeville was born on 15 November 1670, at Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where his father was a prominent physician of Huguenot origin. On leaving the Erasmus school at Rotterdam he showed his ability by an ''Oratio scholastica de medicina'' (1685), and at Leiden University in 1689 he produced the thesis ''De brutorum operationibus'', in which he advocated the Cartesian theory of automatism among animals. In 1691 he took his medical degree, pronouncing an inaugural disputation, ''De chylosi vitiata''. He moved to England to learn the language, and succeeded so remarkably that many refused to believe he was a foreigner. His father had been banished from R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariele Neudecker
Mariele Neudecker (born 1965) is a German artist who lives and works in Bristol, UK. Neudecker uses a broad range of media including sculpture, installation, film and photography. Her practice investigates the formation and historical dissemination of cultural constructs around the natural world, focusing particularly on landscape representations within the Northern European Romantic tradition and today’s notions of the Sublime. Central to the work is the human interest and relationship to landscape and its images used metaphorically for human psychology. Neudecker has shown widely internationally, notably in Biennales in Japan, Australia and Singapore, also solo shows in Ikon Gallery, Tate St Ives and Tate Britain. In 2010 she presented a solo exhibition at Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, won the Ludwig Gies Preis for her participation at Triennale Fellbach 2010 (Germany), made a new commission for Extraordinary Measures, Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Drutt
Matthew Joseph Williams Drutt (born December 8, 1962) is an American curator and writer who specializes in modern and contemporary art and design. Based in New York, he has owned and operated his independent consulting practicDrutt Creative Arts Management (DCAM)since 2013l. He is currently working with the Nationalmuseum Stockholm on an exhibition and publication (2022 - 2023) of modern and contemporary American crafts gifted from artists and collectors in the United States to the museum, originally organized by his motherHelen Drutt He has worked more recently with thEckbo Foundationin Oslo on the first major monograph of Thorwald Hellesen published in English and Norwegian in (2019 - 2022) bArnoldsche Art Publishers He is currently also developing several other titles with the publisher. Formerly, he worked with the Beyeler Foundation in Switzerland (2013–2016) and the State Hermitage Museum in Russia (2013–2014), consulting on exhibitions, publications, and collections. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drawing Restraint 9
''Drawing Restraint 9'' is a 2005 film project by visual artist Matthew Barney consisting of a feature-length film, large-scale sculptures, photographs, drawings, and books. The Drawing Restraint series consists of 19 numbered components and related materials. Some episodes are videos, others sculptural installations or drawings. Barney created ''Drawing Restraint 1-6'' while still an undergraduate at Yale University and completed ''Drawing Restraint 16'' in 2007 at London's Serpentine Gallery. With a soundtrack composed by Björk, ''Drawing Restraint 9'' is an unconventional love story set in Japan. The narrative structure is built upon themes such as the Shinto religion, the tea ceremony, the history of whaling, and the supplantation of blubber with refined petroleum for oil. The film primarily takes place aboard the Japanese factory whaling vessel, the Nisshin Maru, in the Sea of Japan, as it makes its annual journey to Antarctica. Two storylines occur simultaneously on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 census of Ireland, 2016 census it had a population of 1,173,179, while the preliminary results of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census recorded that County Dublin as a whole had a population of 1,450,701, and that the population of the Greater Dublin Area was over 2 million, or roughly 40% of the Republic of Ireland's total population. A settlement was established in the area by the Gaels during or before the 7th century, followed by the Vikings. As the Kings of Dublin, Kingdom of Dublin grew, it became Ireland's principal settlement by the 12th century Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest in the British Empire and sixt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leif Magne Tangen
Leif is a male given name of Scandinavian origin. It is derived from the Old Norse name ''Leifr'' ( nominative case), meaning "heir", "descendant". Use in the Nordic countries Spelling and prevalence Across the Nordic countries, the most commonly occurring spelling of the name is ''Leif'', however, there are some well-established regional variants: * – Leiv * – Lejf * – Leifur * – Leivur In Norway, about 17,000 men have Leif as their first (or only) name. In Sweden, 70,000 men have the name Leif, about 60% of them as a first name. As of 2018, about 15,000 Danish men have Leif as their first name. In Finland, as of 2012, 4,628 men have Leif as a first name. In the U.S. , as of 2015, 6,415 men have Leif as a first name. Pronunciation Because the Scandinavian languages differ in their pronunciation of the digraphs and , the name Leif may be either pronounced as an approximate rhyme for "safe", or approximately like the English word "life", In Sweden, Finla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Rushton
Steven John Rushton (born 30 October 1987) is a British solo artist, and formerly co-lead singer bassist for the pop punk band, Son of Dork. Rushton contributed two songs to the number 1 box office and Billboard movie/soundtrack album, '' Hannah Montana: The Movie'' 'Game Over' and 'Everything I Want'. The soundtrack has sold 4,000,000+ copies worldwide. Biography Rushton was born in Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey, and was introduced to music by his stepfather, an Elvis impersonator, when he used to bring Rushton up on stage with him to perform. Mr. Cheerful (2003–2004) From early school years and up to college, Rushton was the writer, guitarist and singer for the band Mr. Cheerful. The band was heavily influenced by artists such as Elvis and Green Day. Their biggest brush with fame was their participation in the UK final for the 2003 Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Rushton was unable to continue with Mr. Cheerful when he was scouted for Son of Dork. Son of Dork (2005–2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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