Sentences with phrase «modern folk tales»

Progressive politics requires narratives to help communicate big issues such as climate change or the refugee crisis, says the editor of Knock Twice: 25 Modern Folk Tales for Troubling Times

It's «life» in quotation marks rather than anything actually lived, which is perfectly fine and often quite lovely, a cycle of life and death and rebirth as a kind of modern folk tale.

Not exact matches

Arabian Nights is inspired by the structure of the eponymous Middle Eastern folk tales but re-imagined as a modern story about the Portuguese's struggle with a crumbling economy, and it may come to be considered the definitive film about the global financial crisis.

Joan Jonas's «Reanimation,» a video - sculpture installation that mixes Arctic landscapes, folk tales, music and hanging glass, is a recent acquisition by the Museum of Modern Art.

-- 24 December 2009 32 East 69th Street New York NY 10021www.hauserwirth.com WHITE SNOW, a group of never before seen pieces from a new body of work by Paul McCarthy, drawing upon the famous 19th century German folk tale «Snow White» («Schneewittchen») and commenting upon the modern interpretation of the story in Disney's beloved -LSB-...]