Sentences with phrase «despite much contemporary»

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I'm not necessarily much good at it: RALPHISM, for example, has only caught on among our bloggers and threaders, despite it clearly BEING — both VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY on the transcendence - meter — a fundamental alternative in contemporary thought.

Despite the vast gulfs of experience that lie between ourselves and Jeremiah's contemporaries, it should not be too difficult to see why: a religion of pleasure is not likely to be conducive to the often far - from - pleasurable efforts required by social concern; there is not much voluptuousness in taking care of widows and orphans.

Despite its focus on vintage fashion, Rumley avoids the obvious aesthetic strategy of clichéd Instagram filter - like retro - ism, and while the clothes may come from a bygone era, Fashionista is very much a product of the contemporary moment.

Despite O'Doherty's debunking of this context, the white cube mode of exhibiting continues to underpin much exhibition - making in the West, from commercial galleries that are designed to look like modern art museums (think of David Zwirner's minimalist 30,000 square foot space on 20th Street in New York) to websites such as Contemporary Art Daily that tend to privilege the flattened picture surfaces of post-minimalist paintings, which look good filtered through the even light of a laptop screen.

Opening to the public officially on Friday, May 4 (following two days of previews) the New York edition of the London - based contemporary art fair regularly draws upwards of 40,000 visitors each year... despite how much of a schlep it is to get to.

Saner questions why there is so much chaos in contemporary society despite our technological progress and seeks the answers in pre-Colombian Mexican traditions.