Example sentences of "the arts in " in BNC.

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1 We have already mentioned in passing the state policies regarding the arts in Germany , the USSR and China ; there have been writers who followed the party lines by giving attention to those artists favoured by patronage , while neglecting others .
2 The National Endowment for the Arts in the United States has been under heavy fire for its choices , as is usual for Ministries , whether in nineteenth-century France or the present-day USSR .
3 Delivering the Drew lecture on ‘ Government and the Arts ’ at the Central London Polytechnic , Mr Fisher pointed out that when Mr Luce announced three-year funding for the arts in November 1987 , he had said the figure could not be reviewed ‘ unless the situation changes substantially in ways that can not be foreseen today ’ .
4 That night must have set the arts in Britain back years .
5 He was a unique person with a fascinating understanding of the arts in all their forms .
6 There is an underlying hostility to the arts in Britain on the part of the mass of people and that , I think , is a result of the way in which the arts have become associated in many people 's minds with snobbery , with money and , in the case of Scotland , with anglicisation .
7 it therefore determines to provide increasing opportunities for the study of the social sciences and the arts in courses of such type and standard as will demand of students the effort essential to understanding ;
8 Is not this concentrated respect for the object as a specimen the very antithesis of the arts in education ?
9 Weak on aesthetics it undoubtedly is , and yet curiously it is the only book on drama in education lucky enough to find its way into the impressive bibliography of the 1982 Calouste Gulbenkian publication on the Arts in Schools .
10 Ken Robinson , too , has successfully taken on the role of one-man interpreter , friend , challenger , articulator and spokesman not only for drama but for the arts in education generally ( 1980 and 1982 ) .
11 I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess .
12 It is not enough , he argued , to defend the study of the arts in school or university on the ground that it is a vaguely civilizing luxury , agreeable for some people to have ( like , he suggests , a leather blotter from Harrods ) .
13 Controversial figures in public life , such as Winston Churchill , Richard Nixon , Indira Gandhi , Martin Luther King , T. S. Eliot and many others , will probably attract biographers for years to come because it is felt that there are still new things to be said about them , new perspectives from which their work can be seen , and new interpretations of politics or the arts in which their contributions should be judged .
14 Radio 3 invites you to join the Network 's Controller , JOHN DRUMMOND and NATALIE WHEEN , music journalist and broadcaster in the Arts Council Gallery to discuss all aspects of the arts in the UK today .
15 Such a statement seems assuring enough , but another by Richard Luce , Minister for the Arts in the House of Commons , could be construed as less so :
16 Rembrandt pastels are certified by the Art and crafts Materials Institute , which is the main watchdog for safety in the arts in the US .
17 The media through which the sharers of a culture refine their insight into what goes on in each other 's heads are the arts in general , through which the most aware evoke in their audience the look and feel of things from their own viewpoints ( in the case of the drama and novel , of multiple interacting viewpoints ) , in fixed forms available to be explored at our leisure .
18 As a medium it is supreme among the arts in its ability to portray the real world , hut it is in itself quite artificial , and it speaks to us by way of a pictorial language which first took shape during the early days of the silent cinema .
19 The early twentieth century was very much a period of collecting together the data and presenting it en masse , seen at its best in G. Baldwin Brown 's exceptional study of the material of Anglo-Saxon archaeology as a whole The Arts in Early England ( 1903–1937 ) .
20 Rembrandt pastels are certified by the Art and crafts Materials Institute , which is the main watchdog for safety in the arts in the US .
21 As this issue went to press the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis announced its acquisition of 437 multiples by Beuys , rivalling the collections of the artist 's works in the Guggenheim Musem and Dia Center for the Arts in New York .
22 This has been reported in an article in Art Business News by Joshua J. Kaufman , a specialist in art law and executive director of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in Washington D.C.
23 The emergence of the French capital as the greatest centre of learning and the arts in northern Europe was to have an important impact upon Anglo-French relations .
24 The Arts Council of the Netherlands has presented its advice to the Minister of Culture , Mrs Hedy d'Ancona , with a policy document outlining its plan for the arts in the period 1993–96 .
25 He became Minister for the Arts in July 1990 and although he was in this post only a few months , he made a distinct mark .
26 He symbolises the new situation in the arts in Germany .
27 The Whitney Museum of American Art has established an honorary award to be given annually ‘ to an individual or representatives of an organisation who have made a significant contribution to the arts in America through a sustained commitment to the diversity , quality and originality of American artistic achievement ’ .
28 In the autumn , the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus , Ohio will present ‘ Re Visions ’ , a show of new works by ‘ six outstanding mid-career artists of colour who have established a mature body of work and whose art is expressively and politically charged ’ .
29 ‘ Overwhelmingly an exhibition about Genoese painting , not the arts in Genoa ’
30 These are particularly useful contributions for understanding systems of expenditure on the arts in which the Church and the still appallingly understudied Genoese patriciate , rather than any central authority , took the pre-eminent roles .
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