They both use dramatic religious and mythological iconography to delve inside the psychological worlds of people who suffer from tragic events (the socio - political dimension of human experience in Jerome's Jewish inspired paintings) and physical abnormalities (the transgression of cultural constructions of perversity in Joel - Peter's Catholic inspired photographs). (huffingtonpost.com)
Activists who have been working to draw attention to labor practices in connection with the Guggenheim's planned expansion in Abu Dhabi — and who last week briefly occupied the loading dock of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice during the 2015 Biennale — said this week that their tactics seemed to be generating more overt resistance from the government of the United Arab Emirates, which oversees cultural construction projects. (nytimes.com)
«On the one hand, they are expected to be nurturant, caring and agreeable, consistent with the normative cultural constructions of feminity,» the researchers write. (inc.com)