Sentences with phrase «american public consciousness»

Monument Valley holds a place in the American public consciousness thanks to its regular and consistent portrayal in the media.

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Although Chabad's menorah campaign is making some headway in the courts, the majority of American Jews continue to oppose Lubavitch's efforts to raise Jewish consciousness by placing menorot in public places as both profane and dangerous to Jewish interests in this country.

Of all modern industries, it is advertising that keeps its finger on the pulse of public consciousness; market surveys, demographic analyses, book sale trends, focus groups, consumer polls and university research help Madison Avenue gauge the dreams and preferences of that sole arbiter of corporate profits — the American consumer.

The report also gave more evidence that online dating has further entered the public consciousness, with 41 % of Americans saying they know someone who uses online dating, and 29 % saying they know someone who has met a spouse or long - term partner via online dating.

Among the periods she intends to highlight are the years 1924 to 1943, when the notion of a distinct American folk art came into public consciousness through the efforts of the Whitney Studio Club and MoMA director Alfred Barr; the long decade from the late 1960s through the early 1980s that saw both the publication of Roger Cardinal's 1972 book Outsider Art and Jane Livingston and James Beardsley's groundbreaking 1982 show «Black Folk Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular art.

The Wadsworth Atheneum's «Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 - 2008» exhibits a multitude of objects — paintings, statues, films, music, drawings, photographs, comic strips — all of which are inspired by Coney Island, an American landmark which has captivated the mind of the public consciousness for over a century.

Organized by teens in our summer museums and public art program, this exhibition invites you into a dream, a stream of consciousness that encapsulates snippets of African American history and art.

Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2007, traveling); Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2008); Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2005); 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2004); Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998); Afro - American Art in the Twentieth Century: Three Episodes, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (1980); Afro - American Abstractions, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (1980); Freeway Fets, public art project, freeway underpass, Los Angeles (1979); The Concept as Art, Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York (1977); California Black Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1977); and Sapphire Show, Gallery 32, Los Angeles (1970).

«Confidence in the authority of the science of climatology is currently eroding in the public consciousness,» says Roger Pielke Jr., an American social economist and expert on natural disasters.

Although a strong majority of Americans do support addressing the issue, policymakers can delay action without facing political consequences because the denial movement has successfully planted the seed of doubt in the public consciousness.

Starting today — April 22 — until July 13, the worldwide display hits New York City, transforming 12,000 of the city's square - feet (including the South Street Seaport, World Financial Center, and Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian) into a virtual Brazilian Amazon jungle — and if Eugenio's master plan works out — it'll transform both the children's and the general public's distant and indifferent attitude towards the forest, into consciousness and concern.