Sentences with phrase «epochal artist»

She is an epochal artist, and only now are we really catching up with her feminist vision, understanding the depth, esthesia and rapture in much of her work.

Epochal artist Ed Ruscha has built an impressive body of work by staking a claim on the deceptively simple intersection of text and image, creating images that can be read instantaneously yet evade easy understanding.

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And of all the tragedies that an artist could choose to investigate, few have the sheer epochal heft of those that took place in Nazi Germany.

This exhibition includes two new groups of paintings: a selection of self - portraits and a series depicting the Million Man March on Washington, D.C. Displayed as counterpoints in two separate galleries, the self - portraits offer discrete views of the artist as a private individual with a public persona, while the Million Man March artworks — large, unstretched canvases screenprinted with mass - media images — portray arrays of anonymous individuals brought together at an epochal moment for the African American community.

In this revealing set of conversations — conducted in train stations, hotels, galleries and her own private studio — between Abramovic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, with the occasional addition of other interlocutors including Gustav Metzger (the «Old Master of action art»), the artist talks about her work, the strict discipline of her Yugoslav childhood and the process of preparing for her epochal retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Richard Billingham's blisteringly honest photos of his alcoholic dad and his mountainous, tattooed mom — Ray and Liz, as they have come to be intimately known — were the toast of Charles Saatchi's epochal late -»90s exhibition «Sensation» and drew crowds again this fall at Frieze, which hosted a presentation peering back to the no - longer - Young British Artist's first solo show.

Just Kids, a memoir of the artist's remarkable relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe during the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies, won her the 2010 National Book Award in the nonfiction category.

The artists photographed the interiors of the Peles Castle in Romania, which, with its historicist blend of interiors comprising stylistic and epochal copies, is the starting point for the artistic oeuvre of Peles Empire.

The exhibition is kicked off in high style with a choice 1907 Picasso study for his epochal «Demoiselles D'Avignon»; Matisse's 1916 study for the «Portrait of Sarah Stein,» the finished painting of which is also in the collection; Amedeo Modigliani's 1913 «Blue Caryatid,» a figure study characteristic of the artist's archaicizing tendencies; a 1978 drawing of adolescent eroticism by Balthus; and a 1925 nude by Matisse of a mature woman luxuriantly spread out on a chaise for his personal delectation.

In early 1974, soon after he shared an all - star New Year's Day bill at St. Mark's with William Burroughs, John Cage, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Byrd Hoffman [Robert Wilson], Taylor Mead, Ed Sanders, Patti Smith, Anne Waldman, and Lewis Warsh, and several months before Art - Rite editors Edit deAk and Walter Robinson began their epochal evening (not yet «performance») series «PersonA» at Artists Space, Onnasch Galerie at 139 Spring Street (the first German art space to open in SoHo) booked — I know no better word — the two least commercial not - yet - performance artists in town, Jack Smith and Farina, for evening appeaArtists Space, Onnasch Galerie at 139 Spring Street (the first German art space to open in SoHo) booked — I know no better word — the two least commercial not - yet - performance artists in town, Jack Smith and Farina, for evening appeaartists in town, Jack Smith and Farina, for evening appearances.

If 2016 endures in American history as a year of epochal disaster, then it will be fair to ask, in the grim years to come: how on earth could artists have joked around so much while the darkness gathered?