Sentences with phrase «american cultural issues»

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With over 40 years of exhibition and performance experience, Luna has given voice to Native American cultural issues, pursued innovative and versatile media within his disciplines, and charted waters for other artists to follow.

In his 40 year career, Luna gave voice to Native American cultural issues, pursued artmaking with innovative and versatile media, and charted waters for other artists to follow.

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For example, the American Museum of Natural History issued some $ 78 million in bonds through the Trust for Cultural Resources in New York City.

The economic and political issues raised by the Latin Americans have relevance everywhere, but in much of the world they are closely intertwined with cultural matters.

Cultural anthropologists have discovered that homosexuality was probably not as much of an issue among Native Americans as it is among Europeans.

Within modern American Christianity the dominant way to understand the cultural impact of Christianity has been largely in terms of social action on a range of issues.

American politics has thus ceased to be an arena of justice and has instead become the battleground on which moral - cultural issues are contested.

In general, the cynical leaders of the backlash» as distinguished from the true believers at the grass roots who really do care about issues like abortion, religion, homosexual marriage, and the rest» are often moderate cultural modernists themselves, but they are perfectly happy to reap the benefits that accrue to them from red - state Americans losing sight of the material issues that ought to dominate their political imaginations.

Americans are bitterly divided on a host of political and cultural issues.

The fear of losing one's job or reputation has made many Americans afraid to speak publicly about this issue, even though their deep convictions about life, marriage, and family have not changed in response to elite cultural pressure.

The issue of how American women feed their babies is medical, cultural and personal.

«The environmental justice issues facing Native American communities range from direct environmental, public health, cultural and sacred sites impacts, to lack of meaningful involvement and fair treatment in the governmental decision - making processes,» according to an emailed response by the EPA's press office.

The important issues raised by the film - centered on the cultural, racial and moral struggle that took place on the American frontier - are glossed over in favor of a juvenile fantasy of male bonding around the campfire.

For starters, a Center for American Progress study titled America's Leaky Pipeline for Teachers of Color reports that minority teachers have higher expectations of minority students, provide culturally relevant teaching, develop trusting relationships with students, confront issues of racism through teaching, and become advocates and cultural brokers.

A highly regarded English professor and literary critic early in his career, he is the author of several acclaimed books on education issues, including Cultural Literacy (Vintage, 1988), The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them (Anchor 1999), The Knowledge Deficit (Houghton Mifflin Harourt 2006), and The Making of Americans (Yale University Press 2010).

The photographs of 12 African American women who have fought injustice are from a series of posters issued by the Bread and Roses Cultural Project of the National Health and Human Service Employees Union (AFL - CIO).

Examples of project themes range from a comparison of French and American schools to a discussion of an environmental issue facing your region or the state; from sharing cultural information (e.g. tourism, history, visual and performing arts) to comparing geography and related industries in Maine and the Pays de la Loire; from sharing information about students» families and / or friends to creating stories or plays together in French and English.

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The research program of the museum seeks to address these questions by encouraging interdisciplinary initiatives that focus on important issues relating to the biodiversity, biogeography, ecology, geology, paleontology and Native American cultural history of the Santa Barbara Region.

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

Black cultural products have historically served as a major source for European and Euro - American exotic interests — interests that issue from a healthy critique of the mechanistic, puritanical, utilitarian, and productivity aspects of modern life.

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Since the 1960s, David Hammons has confronted American cultural stereotypes and racial issues through wittily incisive sculptures, installations, performances, and body prints.

In addition to being featured in New American Paintings (Issue # 111), Luis» work has also been showcased in Chicago's The International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art (EXPO Chicago), The Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art (Roswell, NM), the Chicago Cultural Center, and the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago.

Investigating the hybridization of Mexican - American identity and the culture of consumerism, Mondini - Ruiz» sculptural installation will further focus on issues surrounding border politics, racial and class interactions, and cultural tourism.

North American artists also consider important cultural and political issues like the Iraq War, the Arab Spring, and the fight for LGBT rights.

One can see this in two bodies of work: cultural representation is the primary issue in The African American Flag Project, where «African American» flags were the subject of the paintings; and the Made in USA series of paintings touch on the politics of consumption through self - referential text and image.

Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose work engages a variety of social, political, and cultural issues, while often referencing American history.

Cooks also exposes the issues involved in exhibiting cultural differences that continue to challenge art history, historiography, and American museum exhibition practices.

For many 20th century African American arts and cultural figures, the legacy of slavery and the Civil War defined career, influenced private life, and left lasting emotional issues to resolve as they endeavored to reclaim their culture and imagery.

By re-appropriating American culture through found objects, she questions social, political and cultural issues about sex, gender identity and marginalized groups.

Recent exhibitions and publications include New American Paintings, issue 107; the LA Art Show 2018, Los Angeles, CA; Present Standard, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; Transient Visitant (with Marimba, Clarinets, Body and Chair), Truman State University, Kirksville, MO; performance piece in collaboration with composer Victor Marquez - Barrios; Mutual Dealings, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago; The Moments Between: New Work by Rafael E. Vera, Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, Chicago; Pillow Talk: New Sculptures by Rafael E. Vera, Seerveld Gallery, Palos Heights, IL; Nothing Concrete, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago; and the 23rd Evanston and Vicinity Biennial, Evanston, IL.

Punchbag added further complexities to questions of raced, gendered and cultural identities raised by Glenn Ligon's Skin Tight: Muhammed Ali Text (1995)[Figs.85 - 86], a punchbag and text piece which specifically sought to address «how black men have used boxing to confront issues of black American identity» and «the construction of masculinity in relation to questions of violence, the commodification of black subjects, sexuality and resistance.»

This exhibition aims to convey the diversity of the Latin American experiences and identities within the UK through various cultural and artistic expressions and create a dialogue around different issues.

«My artworks often deal with difficult issues affecting American Indian communities, including socio - economic problems, substance abuse, and cultural conflict.

One of the most important and celebrated contemporary American artists, Carrie Mae Weems has for over thirty years investigated issues of race, gender, and class, and her artwork continues to raise important questions about cultural identity and the politics of representation.

The prints engage cultural topics ranging from the Vietnam War and decades of American policies to more personal issues involving sexual politics and consumerism.

In these collaborations, public art, prints and installations are ways for Arai to use the cultural specificity of her experience as an Asian American as a personal space in which to locate broader issues of race, gender and cultural equity; a space in which she believes a glimpse of common ground can be made possible.

Conceptual and abstract art made in several Latin American countries from the late»50s onwards dealt not only with questions of abstraction and constructivism but also with deeper cultural issues such as colonialism, repressive and dictatorial governments and social inequality.

At a time when the former reality - TV - personality president of the United States is more concerned with the actions of professional athletes than larger social and cultural issues facing the nation, Americans might care to consider how better to invest in an inclusive cultural heritage.

A series of lectures will be held on issues surrounding cultural appropriation of Latin American art and its reception in Europe.

Featuring more than fifty artworks ranging in date from the early 1930s to our own time, Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA demonstrates how artists interested in issues of identity have negotiated a vast array of European, African, and American visual - cultural forms to redefine what it means to make a portrait.

The exhibition includes LaToya Ruby Frazier, Carrie Mae Weems, and Lorna Simpson, and demonstrates how African American women artists have consistently explored issues of gender, race, and class in a world of evolving cultural and artistic landscape.

Tangible presences that powerfully connect with the viewer, Lovell's works invoke issues of cultural heritage and personal identity as they imaginatively reflect the lives of forgotten Americans.

Michael Rakowitz is an Iraqi - American conceptual artist whose work is influenced by his cultural origins, not so much in terms of identity, but as a means through which to engage issues that affect cultural production and the loss of culture.

The cultural insensivity exhibted by Americans towards Japan with regard to the whaling issue is astonishing, especially since so many people who buy into the American whale fetish are the same who embrace politically correct protections of outrageous behaviors on the grounds that they're supposedly cultural.

This all reinforces the importance of considering the power of cultural cognition when pondering American polarization on climate, stem cells and a host of other issues underpinned by science — and the longstanding tendency of candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination to take unscientific positions.

See e.g. Maxeiner, supra n. 1, at 44 (arguing that a globalized legal education is no longer subject to the cultural barriers that were once dominant in society, allowing students to focus on the legal cultures that they will likely encounter in an increasingly globalized economy); see also James E. Pfander, Book Review, (reviewing Thomas Main, Global Issues in Civil Procedure (Thomson / West 2006)-RRB-(describing the case for globalized Civil Procedure courses by emphasizing how such an approach would lead to a greater understanding of American procedure).

For more than 25 years, his primary focus has been on Latin American issues, where his Spanish fluency and cultural perspective have afforded him credibility with local contacts and businesses and enabled him to be a practical, trusted advisor for U.S. headquartered organizations operating in Latin America.