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  Guardian Unlimited | Arts special reports | The Saatchi artists: Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson has described his installation 20:50 as both his 'party' and his 'megastar' piece.
Wilson's installations are always created on megalomaniac scale, though his publicly stated aim is relatively modest - to 'alter one's perceptions of space' by 'tweaking', 'undoing' or 'changing' an (often vast) area of gallery or museum.
Away from the gallery, Wilson's bold distortion of the visual and built environment knows no bounds: a piece entitled Set North For Japan consists of a full-scale steel skeleton of his home in Streatham transplanted to a remote field in Japan...
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/saatchi/story/0,13010,941297,00.html   (257 words)

  
 ~wilson
Richard Wilson, together with Karl Strauch and Andreas Koehler led an upgrade of the cyclotron in 1955 and led a program in uses of polarized protons to study the nucleon nucleon interaction.
Richard Wilson was an early proponent of electron-electron and electron positron colliding beams with a tentative proposal in 1956, and a definitive proposal in 1962.
Richard Wilson is serves on the Board of Directors of the Andrey Sakharov Foundation of New York which endeavors to continue the work of Andrey Dmitreyvich Sakharov in human Rights and human progress.
phys4.harvard.edu /~wilson   (4368 words)

  
 Richard Wilson (painter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Wilson (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was a Welsh landscape painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768.
The son of a clergyman, Wilson was born in Penegoes, Montgomeryshire.
In 1729 he went to London where he began as a portrait painter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Wilson_(painter)   (203 words)

  
 Aethelred the Unready
Wilson's whimsical libretto—full of verbal volleys and tart one-liners—forms the basis for a thorny harmonic idiom, yet he frequently softens it with lyrical, arching vocal lines and ingenious stylistic allusions.
Wilson discovered the bizarre fact that the luckless Aethelred was even cursed at his baptism by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Wilson devised an accompaniment whose medieval-flavored harmony is presented as a halo of sustained vibraphone chords.
faculty.vassar.edu /riwilson/aethelred/reviews.html   (1282 words)

  
 Richard Wilson, R.A.
Richard Wilson should be considered the virtual founder of the British landscape school.
While in Italy, Wilson devoted himself to the painting of idealized landscapes with imaginary classical ruins, bathed in poetry, in the manner of Claude Lorrain.
Thus upon returning home, Wilson continued to paint Italianate landscapes, but used the scenery of England and Wales and fine views of country homes, for which he received many commissions, as the subjects of his paintings.
www.humrichfineart.com /wilson.html   (499 words)

  
 Richard Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Wilson OBE (born July 9, 1936) is a Scottish actor and theatre director, best known for playing Victor Meldrew in the popular BBC situation comedy One Foot in the Grave.
He was born as Ian Colquhoun Wilson (or Iain Richard Wilson, according to the Internet Movie Database
In 1994, Richard Wilson was awarded the OBE for services to drama as a director and actor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Wilson   (283 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Deciphered chicken genome sheds light on human DNA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wilson, senior author of the Nature paper and leader of the international group that sequenced the chicken genome, said such analyses can help identify chemical switches that turn genes on and off, for example.
Wilson said the chicken genome may also help scientists learn about bird flu, the viral disease found in chickens that might someday set off a deadly worldwide outbreak of human flu.
Wilson and colleagues sequenced and analyzed the genome of the red jungle fowl, the progenitor of domesticated chickens.
www.usatoday.com /tech/science/genetics/2004-12-08-chicken-genome_x.htm   (579 words)

  
 Richard J. Wilson - Partner - The International Law Firm of Fulbright & Jaworski
Wilson has handled a variety of energy industry cases, including cases involving energy trading agreements, gas plant operating agreements, oilfield fraud, offshore drilling platforms, and long term coal supply agreements.
Wilson is a member of the Houston and American Bar Associations, the State Bar of Texas, the Defense Research Institute and the Texas Association of Defense Counsel.
Wilson received a B.A., cum laude, in 1979 from Tufts University, and a J.D., magna cum laude, in 1984 from the University of Houston, where he was a member of The Order of the Coif, The Order of Barristers and The Order of the Barons.
www.fulbright.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=attorneys.detail&emp_id=3731   (451 words)

  
 BBC - Drama Faces - Richard Wilson
Richard has had a long career as an actor and director, with many great roles to his name, including starring in Born and Bred.
Amongst the many dramas Richard has appeared in are Selling Hitler, In The Red, The Lord of Misrule, the film A Passage to India (in which later Born and Bred co-star Clive Swift also appeared), and TV comedy-drama Jeffrey Archer, The Truth, in which he played Prince Philip.
Richard is also a very experienced stage actor, with roles including Mr Darling/Captain Hook in Peter Pan at the Royal Festival Hall*, Uncle Vanya in Uncle Vanya and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot, both at the Traverse Theatre*, Edinburgh.
www.bbc.co.uk /drama/faces/richard_wilson.shtml   (607 words)

  
 Richard Wilson (1713 - 1782) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Richard Wilson - An Extensive Landscape with Cottages near a Lake c.
Richard Wilson - Tivoli: The Temple of the Sybil and the Campagna c.
Richard Wilson - Cader Iris, with the Mawddach River c.
wwar.com /masters/w/wilson-richard.html   (1289 words)

  
 Richard Wilson Online
Wilson's students included Thomas Jones, Joseph Farington and Robert Pollard.
Richard Wilson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Richard Wilson at the National Gallery, London, UK Holt Bridge on the River Dee
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/wilson_richard.html   (308 words)

  
 Richard Wilson, R.A. 1713-1782 Welsh landscape painter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wilson was born on the south side of this mountain in the Snowdonia National Park.
Wilson is also said to have painted a second sign for the Ship Inn at Llong (map) on the Mold-Chester road, not far from Leeswood Hall, but it was chopped for firewood when the house ceased to be an inn [Stanley, 1987].
Richard Wilson started out as a portrait painter, the only way to make a living as an artist in England in the mid-18th century, but the competition from the likes of Reynolds and Gainsborough must have been formidable.
www.newi.ac.uk /morrisge/wilson.htm   (5443 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Richard Wilson (painter)
Richard Wilson (August 1, 1714 - May, 1782) was a Welsh landscape painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768.
August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining.
Richard Wilson (1713 - 1782) was a Welsh landscape painter.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Richard-Wilson-(painter)   (306 words)

  
 BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Wilson mellow after Meldrew
Wilson emits a throaty chuckle when reminded of the programme's title.
The dapper Wilson says his only similarity with the rumpled Victor is a quick temper.
Wilson also remains a staunch supporter of the Labour Party despite what he calls "that mess over the London mayoral election".
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/entertainment/newsid_967000/967188.stm   (856 words)

  
 Richard Wilson - Famous Son of Greenock
Richard Wilson, real name - Ian Colquhoun Wilson - was born on 9 July, 1936 in Greenock.
When he went into acting, he had to change his name as another actor was already called Ian Wilson.
Trained at RADA, Richard is perhaps best known for his extensive television work, which includes the BAFTA Award winning comedy/drama - One Foot in The Grave.
www.greenock-town.co.uk /richard_wilson.html   (127 words)

  
 ArkivMusic | Richard Wilson: Chamber Music / Schulte, Shao, Et Al
Richard Wilson belongs to the tail end of a generation of American composers trained in serialist-dominated academia.
Wilson’s music is always notable for precision and neat structure, qualities that are not always obvious, but form an almost invisible basis from which any other device can grow.
Wilson’s cause is furthered immensely by the superb New York freelancers featured on this program.
www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?album_id=103814   (364 words)

  
 Richard J. Wilson Sports Foundation
The foundation was set up in the memory of Richard Wilson (see below) to provide funds each year to support youth sports organisations and individuals in the locality of Wrea Green.
Richard tragically died in a road traffic accident on 7th December 2000, at the tender age of 19.
He came from a long line of "Richard Wilsons", well known in and around the Fylde Coast.
www.rjwilson.org.uk   (192 words)

  
 21ST CENTURY BRITISH SCULPTURE | Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson was born in London in 1953 and studied at the London College of Printing (1970-71), Hornsey College of Art (1971-74) and Reading University (1974-76).
Wilson is a kind of architectural magician who can transform anything from a window to a room, building or boat into something extraordinary, unexpected and even surreal.
Richard Wilson has received many awards, most notably the DAAD residency in Berlin in 1992.
www.sculpture.org.uk /biography/RichardWilson   (269 words)

  
 peermusic classical : Composer Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson will appear as soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Vassar College Orchestra, Edwardo Navega, conductor.
Richard Wilson was born in Cleveland on May 15, 1941.
In the last few years Wilson’s music has begun to make a wider mark, with the help of commissions from the San Francisco Symphony and other organizations.
www.peermusicclassical.com /composer/composerdetail.cfm?detail=wilson   (430 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Richard Wilson (European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Richard Wilson, European Art, 1600 To The Present, Biographies
He studied in London and achieved success as a portrait painter, but after a visit to Italy (c.1750–1756) he devoted himself to landscape in the classical tradition of Claude Lorrain.
The exhibition of Wilson's Niobe in 1760 won him acclaim, and he was made a member and later librarian of the Royal Academy.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wilson-R.html   (271 words)

  
 Richard Wilson . Department of Music - Music Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Born in Cleveland, Wilson studied piano with Leonard Shure and cello with Ernst Silberstein.
Wilson has composed over 70 works, ranging in medium from solo tuba to full orchestra, which have been played in major halls around the world.
Wilson has received numerous awards, including the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy--Institute of Arts and Letters, the Creative Arts Award in Music from the City of Cleveland, the Stoeger Award from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and a Guggenheim Fellowship under which he composed his first opera--
music.vassar.edu /new_faculty.html?bio=Richard_Wilson   (202 words)

  
 eBay - richard wilson, Autographs, Fiction Books items on eBay.com
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 Back from the grave - [Sunday Herald]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wilson was “a very gawky, skinny adenoidal boy” and chronically shy.
Wilson entered therapy in his 20s, to try to get over his self-doubt, and is happy to recommend the process.
Wilson doesn’t need to explain what it is that he is refusing to say.
www.sundayherald.com /49963   (1739 words)

  
 Richard Wilson
RICHARD WILSON is the composer of over seventy works in many genres, including opera.
Already available on CRI are his piano concerto, with Blanca Uribe, and bassoon concerto, with Robert Wagner, in performances by the Pro-Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Leon Botstein conducting, as well as all-Wilson disks of chamber music on both Albany and CRI.
Wilson will perform Mozart's Piano Concerto K 466 (d minor) with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Chamber Orchestra this season and a concert at Vassar with Jeff Lang and Rolf Schulte which will include the Brahms Horn Trio.
www.sai-national.org /phil/composers/rwilson.html   (272 words)

  
 TSgt Richard Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Technical Sergeant Richard W. Wilson was born in California, traveling extensively as an Air Force dependent before graduating from high school in Lebanon, Illinois near Scott Air Force Base.
Inspectors again singled out Sergeant Wilson- he could be relied upon to produce quick, accurate, and decisive results in any job he was assigned and directly contributed to the squadron’s high marks for Global Shield 1987.
Sergeant Wilson became the NCOIC, Pass and Registration, in 1998 and returned to Southwest Asia, deploying to Eskan Village, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in support of Operation Desert Storm/Desert Watch.
members.cox.net /afspawichita/wilson.htm   (989 words)

  
 Under the Whaleback,
Richard Bean jointly won the 2002 George Devine award for Most Promising Playwright for Under the Whaleback, his new play about two generations of a fishing community in Kingston upon Hull.
It is through their conversation that Richard Bean takes his audience inside the concerns of the fishing community in a play full of wit and rich anecdote.
Richard Wilson has directed the storm scenes effectively, the actors having to lurch over in the manner of the Star Trek cast as the ship lists.
www.curtainup.com /underthewhaleback.html   (798 words)

  
 Solitude
Richard Wilson, who began as a portraitist, became Britains’ first major landscape painter.
During a seven- to eight-year stay in Italy in the 1750s, he realized that landscapes could be metaphors of the human condition.
Inspired by the arcadian scenes painted in seventeenth-century Rome by Claude Lorrain, Wilson produced evocative vistas that combine classical grandeur with English rusticity.
www.nga.gov /collection/gallery/gg61/gg61-61129.0.html   (198 words)

  
 Interview: Richard Wilson on One Foot In The Grave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
All this interest in Wilson is generated, of course, because Victor strikes a chord, reflecting a general sense of exasperation with all those aspects of existence that are sent to try us.
In person, Wilson is the polar opposite of his fictional characater, a warm and witty man who campaigns on social issues, plays squash and has a great knowledge of fine wines.
This interview was syndicated by BBC Worldwide to promote the video release of series 6 of One Foot In The Grave (including the final ever episode) on November 5 and The Best Of One Foot In The Grave on DVD on October 22.
www.chortle.co.uk /TV/tvfeatures/meldrew.html   (790 words)

  
 The Palm Beach Post: RICHARD WILSON AND HIS 20,000 VARIETIES OF FRUIT@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
RICHARD WILSON AND HIS 20,000 VARIETIES OF FRUIT
Richard Wilson's nursery, Excalibur, could easily be named the Garden of Eatin'.
Saying that he grows a few fruit trees in his back yard is like saying Steven Spielberg makes little films.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:23107039&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (219 words)

  
 Richard K. Wilson, Ph.D   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Wilson, R.K., Chen, C., Avdalovic, N.A., Burns, J. and Hood, L. Development of an automated procedure for fluorescent DNA sequencing.
Sulston, J., Du, Z., Thomas, K., Wilson, R., Hillier, L., Staden, R., Halloran, N., Green, P., Thierry-Mieg, J., Qiu, L., Dear, S., Coulson, A., Craxton, M., Durbin, R., Berks, M., Metzstein, M., Hawkins, T., Ainscough, R. and Waterston, R.
Lee, L., Connell, K., Woo, S., Cheng, R., McArdle, B.F., Fuller, C.W., Halloran, N.D. and Wilson, R.K. DNA sequencing with dye-labeled terminators and T7 DNA polymerase: Effect of dyes and dNTPs on incorporation of dye-terminators, and probability analysis of termination fragments.
www.genetics.wustl.edu /dept/research/Wilson_R.html   (342 words)

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