We can only imagine which deceased figure might be next.
Bank of England governor Mark Carney has narrowed the field to a (deceased) figure from the visual arts – to include architecture, film-making, craft and design.
The €3,400 £2,9000) plaque – made of bone china and quoting the chorus of Berlin-inspired hit "Heroes" – had been signed off by the senate in spite of it usually requiring a five-year waiting period to make sure the deceased figure is really as historically significant as it seems at the time of death.
Moreover, 67 eligible patients could not be contacted, and six patients deceased (Figure 1).
A team of researchers based at Hopkins has generated detailed portraits of the long-deceased figures, giving visitors the rare chance to come face to face with humans who walked on Earth about 2,300 years ago.
What is the protocol for Prime Ministerial tributes to deceased cultural figures?
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has learned that selecting deceased movie figures for their Oscar night memorial reel can be as fraught as picking winners, Michael Cieply writes in The New York Times.
Although officially atheist, the Communist Party asserts that only it has the authority to pick top spiritual leaders, who, according to Tibetan theology, are reincarnated from deceased religious figures.
Warhol, always cognizant of the cinematic and telegraphic nature of life, became interested in death and created portraits of people grieving, deceased public figures, the electric chair, car wrecks, race riots.
Recently, a market began developing for rock records of early vintage, especially those of deceased cult figures such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison.
