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Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a gallery, part of the Leeds Museums & Galleries group, whose collection of 20th-century British Art was designated by the British government in 1997 as a collection "of national importance". [2] Its collection also includes 19th-century and earlier art works.
Leeds Patronising the Arts and Encouraging the Sciences: Leeds Town Hall: 1858: John Thomas: Sculpture relief: Stone: Grade I [1] [7] More images: Lions Leeds Town Hall: 1867: William Day Keyworth, Jnr. 4 statues: Portland stone: Grade I [8] [9] More images: Leeds Rifles War Memorial: Outside Leeds Minster, Kirkgate: 1921: Edwin Lutyens: Cross ...
These art venues were added to in 1969, with the gift of Lotherton Hall to the people of Leeds. In 1996 the two services combined to form Leeds Museums & Galleries. [ 11 ] On 1 April the lease to Thwaite Mills, which is owned by the Canal and Rivers Trust, was terminated by the service.
The Leeds Arts Club was founded in 1903 by the Leeds primary school teacher Alfred Orage and Holbrook Jackson, a lace merchant and freelance journalist, and was one of the most advanced centres for modernist thinking, radical thought and experimental art in Britain in the pre-First World War period. [1]
Leeds is known for its culture in the fields of art, architecture, music, sport, film and television. As the largest city in Yorkshire, Leeds is a centre of Yorkshire's contemporary culture and is the base for Yorkshire's television (BBC, ITV, and Channel 4) [1] and regional newspapers.
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Ribbons (2024) is an outdoor sculpture in Leeds, England, by Pippa Hale, which was unveiled on 12 October 2024. [1] Shaped like entwined ribbons, this corten steel sculpture celebrates and commemorates the achievements of women in Leeds, by featuring the names of 383 women nominated by the public.
Leeds Arts University, formerly Leeds College of Art, which was founded in 1846 as the Leeds School of Art, and became a university in 2017; The University of Law, formerly the College of Law, which became a university in 2012 and moved to its current Leeds centre campus from York in 2014; Leeds Conservatoire; Northern School of Contemporary Dance;