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"Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, or mima, is a contemporary art gallery based in the centre of Middlesbrough, England. The gallery was formally launched on Sunday 27 January 2007; since 2014 it has been run by Teesside University. History and estates The gallery's opening marked the completion of an accumulative journey for the art collection of post- industrial Middlesbrough. The early artistic heritage of a town as young as Middlesbrough rested largely on the success of the Linthorpe Art Pottery (1879–1889), co-launched by Christopher Dresser out of the Sun Brickworks that also built the suburb of Linthorpe. A School of Art opened alongside the Mechanics' Institute in the old town's Durham Street, in 1870, and by the 1950s that, too, had relocated to Linthorpe. The region's cultural profile was further amply boosted by the Cleveland International Drawing Biennale, until that competition's extinction in the 1990s. A site for the town's first art gallery was granted by the father of the Mayor, Sir Arthur Dorman, in 1904. This was on Linthorpe Road opposite, and conceived in the same spate of events as, what was to become the Dorman Museum outside Albert Park. Funding shortfalls amid the onset of war, however, ensured that only a rest garden was eventually sited there. In the meantime, from 1927, the Carnegie library and Grange Road Methodist Church housed the collection of paintings. No permanent provision for the pieces materialised until 1957, with the purchase by the Council of a former doctor's surgery on Linthorpe Road. It was not until 2003 that this building was vacated. Cleveland GalleryThe former Cleveland Crafts Centre, on Gilkes Street, catered for a collection of twentieth-century British studio ceramics, and artist-made jewellery dating from the 1970s onwards. The Cleveland Crafts Centre was closed as an exhibition venue in January 2003, and thereafter operated as the mima offices whilst the new gallery was being constructed. Its sister institution that lasted until 1999, the Cleveland Gallery, resided nearby in the unused school buildings on Victoria Road. They are today home to the University of Teesside's graduate incubation studios in aid of new business start-ups. Following the closure in January 2003 of the two surviving galleries, construction of the present accommodation comprising the gallery spaces, education suite, auditorium, café-bar, shop, roof terrace, collection stores and conservation studio commenced in 2004. The centre was designed by Erick van Egeraat Associated Architect. Whilst construction was underway, mima programmed a series of offsite exhibitions and events including such artists as John Harrison and Paul Wood, Susan Pietzsch, Yuka Oyama, Graham Dolphin, Chicks on Speed, Martin Creed, Oliver Zwink and Mah Rana. mima's founding director was Godfrey Worsdale, who left in 2008 to become director of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.Baltic's latest director – the Guardian He was succeeded by Kate Brindley, previously director of Museums and Galleries at Bristol City CouncilNew director appointed at mima – the Gazette She was briefly succeeded by Mark Robinson, who was acting director during the transition of ownership between the local authority and the university, and managed the recruitment of Alistair Hudson, previously Deputy Director at Grizedale Arts, who took on the role in 2014 and left in 2017 to become Director of the Manchester Art Gallery and the Whitworth. The current director is Laura Sillars, who joined from Sheffield's Site Gallery. mima has participated in the Tate’s programme Artist Rooms, featuring exhibitions by Gerhard Richter, Jannis Kounellis and Louise Bourgeois. On 21 and 22 November 2009, the cast of the BBC motoring programme Top Gear – Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May – held an exhibition of automotive art at mima, which featured in the 5th episode of the 14th series of the show. Collection mima's collection comprises outstanding fine and applied art from 19th century to the present day, with many pieces acquired by mima’s forerunners, Middlesbrough Art Gallery and the Cleveland Craft Centre. mima's collection includes works by Frank Auerbach, Elizabeth Blackadder, David Bomberg, Ken Currie, Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin, Sir Jacob Epstein, Dame Elisabeth Frink, David Hockney, Peter Howson, Gwen John, Panayiotis Kalorkoti, L.S. Lowry, Ben Nicholson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Adrian Piper, Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, Anne Redpath, Paula Rego, David Remfry, Lucie Rie, Stanley Spencer, Nancy Spero and Kara Walker. In 2015, Tees Valley Arts donated a collection of significant artworks to the gallery as the Tees Valley Arts Collection, including works by artists Vivan Sundaram, Len Tabner and Adrian Wiszniewski. References External links * *Take a tour around MIMA with BBC Tees *mima page on the Middlesbrough Council website *"Introducing Mima, Middlesbrough's Moma" – Ian Herbert, the Independent *"Shine On" – Steve Rose on Mima, the Guardian *"Middlesbrough seeks life in art regeneration" – Chris Tighe, Financial Times (url access needs subscription) *"How Boro will lose its "crap town" label" – Stephen Bayley, the Observer *"Keeping it real" – John Whitley, the Daily Telegraph *"Go with the flow" – Adrian Searle, the Guardian *"Painting a pretty picture" – Nick Glass, Channel 4 News *"How Bauhaus Was Shaped into Greatness" – review of mima's Bauhaus exhibition in the International Herald Tribune, December 2007 Middlesbrough Museums in North Yorkshire Art museums and galleries in North Yorkshire Modern art museums Contemporary art galleries in England Buildings and structures in Middlesbrough Art museums established in 2007 2007 establishments in England "
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"Portrait of General Perron Pierre Cuillier-Perron (1753 to 1755–1834), French military adventurer in India born Pierre Cuillier (or Cuellier) at Luceau near Château-du-Loir, the son of a cloth merchant. In India, he changed his name to Perron (a diminutive of Pierre). He was generally referred to by his contemporaries and posterity as General Perron.Biographie universelle et portative des contemporains, Paris, 1826, p. 900. In 1780 he went out to India as a sailor on a French frigate, deserted on the Malabar coast, and made his way to upper India, where he enlisted in the rana of Gohad's corps under a Scotsman named Sangster. In 1790 he took service under De Boigne, and was appointed to the command of his second brigade. In 1795 he assisted the Maratha forces to win the battle of Kardla against the nizam of Hyderabad, and on De Boigne's retirement became commander-in-chief of Maratha general Mahadji Sindhia's army. At the battle of Malpura (1800) he defeated the Rajput forces. After the battle of Ujjain (1801) he refused to send his troops to the aid of Scindia. His treachery on this occasion shook his position, and on the outbreak of war between Scindia and the British in 1803 Perron was superseded and fled to the British camp. In the battles of Delhi, Laswari, Ally Ghur (now Aligarh) and Assaye, Perron's battalions were completely destroyed by Lord Lake and Sir Arthur Wellesley. He returned to France with a large fortune, and died in 1834. Buildings Perron's palatial home at Chinsurah Sir Shah Sulaiman Hall's main Building, which currently serves as the Provost Office (Administrative Block), was built by a him in year 1802.The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan , William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2 The palatial home he built for himself at Chinsurah was to house Hooghly College (Hooghly Mohsin College) from 1837 to 1937. References *Herbert Compton, A particular account of the European military adventurers of Hindustan, from 1784 to 1803 (1892). * 1755 births 1834 deaths French sailors French mercenaries Mercenaries in India People from Sarthe People of the Second Anglo-Maratha War "