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R. B. Kitaj

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Ronald Brooks Kitaj (October 29, 1932 – October 21, 2007) was an American artist with Jewish roots who spent much of his life in England. [1]

100 relations: Abstract art, Aby Warburg, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Allen Jones (artist), Angel, Artist, Arts council, Berlin, Camberwell College of Arts, Cargo ship, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Colin Self, Collage, Cooper Union, David Hockney, Derek Boshier, Ealing Art College, Edgar Degas, Edward Chaney, Euan Uglow, Figurative art, Francis Bacon (artist), Frank Auerbach, Franz Kafka, G.I. Bill, Golden Lion, Guinness World Records, Hayward Gallery, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Howard Hodgkin, I.B. Tauris, Ian Stephenson, Irving Petlin, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jewish Museum, Berlin, Jewish Renaissance, Jews, John Hoyland, John Singer Sargent, John Walker (painter), Lem Dobbs, Leon Kossoff, London, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Lucian Freud, Maggi Hambling, Maritime transport, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Andrews (artist), ..., Michael Palmer (poet), Modernism, Myocardial infarction, National Academy Museum and School, National Gallery, New Directions Publishing, New York City, Norway, Oxford, Painting, Patrick Caulfield, Paul Cézanne, Percy Horton, Peter de Francia, Peter Phillips (artist), Pop art, Post-it Note, Printmaking, Reginald Gray (artist), Retrospective, Richard Carline, Richard Wollheim, Robert Duncan (poet), Royal Academy of Arts, Royal College of Art, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Sandra Fisher, Screen printing, Slade School of Fine Art, Steel mill, Suicide, Tate, Teacher, Thames & Hudson, The Holocaust, Troy High School (New York), United States, United States Army, University of California, Berkeley, Venice Biennale, Vienna, W. H. Auden, Walter Benjamin, Walter Sickert, Wandering Jew, Washington, D.C., William Roberts (painter), Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Press, 3M. Expand index (50 more) »

Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

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Aby Warburg

Abraham Moritz Warburg, known as Aby Warburg (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929), was a German art historian and cultural theorist who founded a private Library for Cultural Studies, the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, which was later moved to the Warburg Institute, London.

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Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school of higher education in Vienna, Austria.

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Allen Jones (artist)

Allen Jones (born 1 September 1937) is a British pop artist best known for his paintings, sculptures, and lithography.

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Angel

An angel is generally a supernatural being found in various religions and mythologies.

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Artist

An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.

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Arts council

An arts council is a government or private non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts; mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing arts events.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Camberwell College of Arts

Camberwell College of Arts (formerly known as Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts) is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is regarded as one of the UK's foremost art and design institutions.

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Cargo ship

A cargo ship or freighter ship is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.

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Chagrin Falls, Ohio

Chagrin Falls is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States and is a suburb of Cleveland in Northeast Ohio's Cleveland-Akron-Canton metropolitan area, the 15th-largest Combined Statistical Area nationwide.

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Colin Self

Colin E Self (born 1941 in Rackheath, Norfolk) is an English Pop Artist, whose work has addressed the theme of Cold War politics.

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Collage

Collage (from the coller., "to glue") is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

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Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union or The Cooper Union and informally referred to, especially during the 19th century, as "the Cooper Institute", is a private college at Cooper Square on the border of the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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David Hockney

David Hockney, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer.

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Derek Boshier

Derek Boshier (born 1937, in Portsmouth) is an English pop artist who works in various media including painting, drawing, collage, photography, film and sculpture.

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Ealing Art College

Ealing Art College (or Ealing Technical College & School of Art) was a further education institution on St Mary's Road, Ealing, London, England.

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Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas (or; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas,; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings.

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Edward Chaney

Edward Chaney PhD FSA FRHistS (born 1951) is a British cultural historian.

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Euan Uglow

Euan Ernest Richard Uglow (10 March 1932 – 31 August 2000) was a British painter.

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Figurative art

Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational.

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Francis Bacon (artist)

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged, raw imagery.

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Frank Auerbach

Frank Helmut Auerbach (born 29 April 1931) is a German-British painter.

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature.

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G.I. Bill

The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).

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Golden Lion

The Golden Lion (Leone d'Oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Hayward Gallery

The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre, part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames, in central London, England.

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States.

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Howard Hodgkin

Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker.

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I.B. Tauris

I.B. Tauris (usually typeset as I.B.Tauris) was an independent publishing house with offices in London and New York City.

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Ian Stephenson

Ian Stephenson (11 January 1934 – 25 August 2000) was an English abstract artist.

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Irving Petlin

Irving Petlin (born December 17, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American artist and painter renowned for his mastery of the pastel medium and collaborations with other artists (including Mark di Suvero and Leon Golub) and for his work in the "series form" in which he uses the raw material of pastel, oil paint and unprimed linen, and finds inspiration in the work of writers and poets including Primo Levi, Bruno Schulz, Paul Celan, Michael Palmer and Edmond Jabès.

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter.

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Jewish Museum, Berlin

The first Jewish Museum in Berlin was founded on 24 January 1933, six days before the Nazis officially gained power, and was built next to the Neue Synagoge on Oranienburger Straße.

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Jewish Renaissance

Jewish Renaissance is a quarterly cultural magazine, founded in October 2001, covering Jewish culture, arts and communities in Britain and beyond.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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John Hoyland

John Hoyland RA (12 October 1934 – 31 July 2011) was a London-based British artist.

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John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent (January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury.

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John Walker (painter)

John Walker (born 1939) is an English painter and printmaker.

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Lem Dobbs

Lem Dobbs (born Anton Lemuel Kitaj; 24 December 1959) is a British-American screenwriter, best known for the films Dark City (1998) and The Limey (1999).

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Leon Kossoff

Leon Kossoff (born 10 December 1926) is a British figurative painter known for portraits, life drawings and cityscapes of London, England.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles.

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Lucian Freud

Lucian Michael Freud (8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draftsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists.

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Maggi Hambling

Maggi Hambling (born 23 October 1945) is a British painter and sculptor.

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Maritime transport

Maritime transport is the transport of people (passengers) or goods (cargo) by water.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.

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Michael Andrews (artist)

Michael Andrews (30 October 1928 – 19 July 1995) was a British painter.

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Michael Palmer (poet)

Michael Palmer (born May 11, 1943) is an American poet and translator.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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National Academy Museum and School

The National Academy Museum and School, founded in New York City as the National Academy of Design – known simply as the "National Academy" – is an honorary association of American artists founded in 1825 by Samuel F. B. Morse, Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition." The Academy is a professional honorary organization, a school, and a museum.

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National Gallery

The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London.

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New Directions Publishing

New Directions Publishing Corp. is an independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin and incorporated in 1964. Its offices are located at 80 Eighth Avenue in New York City.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).

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Patrick Caulfield

Patrick Joseph Caulfield, CBE, RA (29 January 1936 – 29 September 2005), was an English painter and printmaker known for his bold canvases, which often incorporated elements of photorealism within a pared-down scene.

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Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne (or;; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

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Percy Horton

Percy Frederick Horton MA, RBA, ARCA (8 March 1897 in Brighton, England – 1970) was an English painter and art teacher, and Ruskin Master of Drawing, University of Oxford from 1949 to 1964.

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Peter de Francia

Peter Laurent de Francia (25 January 1921 – 19 January 2012) was a French-born British artist, who served as Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, from 1972 to 1986.

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Peter Phillips (artist)

Peter Phillips (born 21 May 1939) is an English artist.

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Pop art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in Britain and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s.

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Post-it Note

A Post-it Note (or sticky note) is a small piece of paper with a re-adherable strip of glue on its back, made for temporarily attaching notes to documents and other surfaces.

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Printmaking

Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper.

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Reginald Gray (artist)

Reginald Gray (1930 – 29 March 2013) was an Irish portrait artist.

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Retrospective

A retrospective (from Latin retrospectare, "look back"), generally, is a look back at events that took place, or works that were produced, in the past.

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Richard Carline

Richard Cotton Carline (9 February 1896 – 18 November 1980) was a British artist, arts administrator and writer.

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Richard Wollheim

Richard Arthur Wollheim (5 May 1923 – 4 November 2003) was a British philosopher noted for original work on mind and emotions, especially as related to the visual arts, specifically, painting.

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Robert Duncan (poet)

Robert Edward Duncan (January 7, 1919 in Oakland, California – February 3, 1988) was an American poet and a devotee of Hilda "H.D." Doolittle and the Western esoteric tradition who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco.

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Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London.

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Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, in the United Kingdom.

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Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art

The Ruskin School of Art, known as the Ruskin, is an art school at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England.

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Sandra Fisher

Sandra Maureen Fisher (6 May 1947 – 1994), an American figure painter based in London and who was born in New York City.

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Screen printing

Screen printing is a printing technique whereby a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil.

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Slade School of Fine Art

The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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Steel mill

A steel mill or steelworks is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Tate

Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art.

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Teacher

A teacher (also called a school teacher or, in some contexts, an educator) is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values.

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Thames & Hudson

Thames & Hudson (also Thames and Hudson and sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books on art, architecture, design, and visual culture.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.

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Troy High School (New York)

Troy High School is a public high school located in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York, U.S.A., and is the only high school operated by the Enlarged City School District of Troy, NY.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia; in English also called the "Venice Biennial") refers to an arts organization based in Venice and the name of the original and principal biennial exhibition the organization organizes.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet.

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Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist.

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Walter Sickert

Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 186022 January 1942) was an English painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group in London.

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Wandering Jew

The Wandering Jew is a mythical immortal man whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 13th century.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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William Roberts (painter)

William Patrick Roberts (5 June 1895–20 January 1980) was a British artist.

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Yale Center for British Art

The Yale Center for British Art at Yale University in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.

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3M

The 3M Company, formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation based in Maplewood, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul.

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