Sentence examples for held contemporary from inspiring English sources

Similarly, a commonly held contemporary British view is that the Germans have no sense of humour.

Complementing such traditional institutions are the ever-changing urban commercial and leisure centres, with their privately held contemporary art galleries, cinema multiplexes, bowling alleys and other sports venues, and restaurants serving a variety of Indian and international cuisines.

Unlike Sotheby's and Phillips, which held contemporary auctions in June, Christie's had opted out of London's summer season of contemporary sales, preferring to concentrate its efforts on Frieze Week.

London has for years held contemporary art fairs, but on an international scale they have all been hopelessly parochial, head-in-the-sand non-events, lacking both quality control and any sense of occasion.

Yet the state of the market this week suggested that those holding contemporary art and postwar works by artists now dead fear that even that is no longer an iron-clad guarantee of future success.

The Bloch Building — which holds contemporary art, photography and special exhibitions — consists of five translucent glass blocks that create what Nicolai Ouroussoff, the architecture critic of The New York Times, described as "a work of haunting power".

It is a travesty of justice, goes their line, that any of the one-time Soviet collaborators who took over mother Poland should be allowed to hold contemporary office.The argument is partly one of principle, partly self-interest.

By the time it closed last month, no fewer than eight private Chinese galleries had made approaches to express interest in teaming up with the I.C.I.A. to hold contemporary Indian shows in Shanghai next year, Mr. Sethi said.

"What faces Wilshire," Burden said, "hasn't been very inviting". The opening of the BCAM, designed by Renzo Piano to hold contemporary art, will mark a new beginning for the 42-year-old museum, and Burden, 61, hopes that his monumental installation of 1920s and '30s-era lamps will become both a city landmark and a more fitting entryway to the sprawling campus.

e. Modern animal facilities that can hold contemporary birds with contemporary management methods are needed.

If this holds, contemporary PCC advocacy may need to fundamentally rethink certain awareness-raising campaigns and PCC counsellors their counselling practice.