Sentences with phrase «obelisk for»

Eduardo Abaroa's Obelisco roto portatil para mercado ambulantes / Portable broken obelisk for street markets (1991 - 1993), in which he reimagined Barnett Newman's signature modernist sculpture, hacks a more iconic art historical artifact.

The de Menils bought the Broken Obelisk for $ 90,000 and announced that they'd donate it, along with 14 Mark Rothko paintings, to the Institute of Religion in the Texas Medical Center.

She died in 1990 in an accident while helping to install an obelisk for Sathya Sai Baba's Eternal Heritage Museum in Puttaparthi, India.

Eduardo Abaroa, Obelisco roto portátil para mercados ambulantes (A Portable Broken Obelisk for Street Markets), 1993.

Not exact matches

Piazza del Popolo It's said to be one of the best people - watching spots in the city (which, for Rome, says a lot)-- that is, if you can take your eyes off the 17th - century churches and Egyptian obelisk, among other sights.

Take, for instance, the fact that the videos showing the beheadings and executions of Ethiopian and Egyptian Christians were entitled «A Message Signed in Blood to the Nation of the Cross», and that the cover of ISIS» official magazine, Dabiq, in October 2014 featured a picture of St Peter's Square with an ISIS flag superimposed atop the obelisk that adorns the centre of that iconic Christian building.

For many centuries there lay side by side in one of the famous archaeological sites two enormous obelisks, cut with great skill out of the living rock of Egypt, dressed down to the proper shape, then deeply inscribed with hieroglyphic characters.

For many, it's still hard to forget the images of the large obelisk in the center of Buenos Aires that was covered with a giant «condom» on World AIDS Day in 2005.

And when it all clicks, you'll look back and wonder why you thought they were so weird for a quarter - century, just like I'm ashamed about my lack of obelisk appreciation.

The discovery of a 4,000 - year - old pyramidion found near the excavation of the largest Old Kingdom obelisk fragment may be the first evidence of the existence of satellite pyramids for Queen Ankhnespepy II, the most important Egyptian queen of the sixth dynasty.

Girls in pinafores and straw hats are preparing for an outing to Hanging Rock, where giant obelisks of red stone jut out of the earth and create a labyrinth of craggy interstices — a geological marvel and a sacred site for Aboriginal Australians.

Orbit author N.K. Jemisin received a Hugo Award for The Obelisk Gate, the second year in a row she has taken that prize, and Grand Central Publishing has a National Book Award finalist in Fiction, Min Jin Lee's gorgeous immigration saga Pachinko.

For the first time, all winners at this year's Cardinal Crystal Grooming Achievement Awards, which will be presented at the SuperZoo show in Las Vegas on July 21, will receive a cash prize of $ 1,000 to go along with their Crystal obelisk statue, which has long been regarded as the grooming industry's version of an Oscar.

Except for the hieroglyph stairway there are no tall buildings here, but many stèles (memorial obelisk - like stones with inscriptions) in perfect condition and altars.

Museums, palaces, carved granite obelisks, rock - hewn churches and ancient remains; all this combined with spectacular landscapes and much more, is waiting for you in this historic, beautiful and diverse country.

Obelisk is a VR interactive narrative experience made for Google Cardboard and the Samsung Gear.

Obelisk is a short hack and slash game made for Ludum Dare 37.

Plus: Documenta 14 director responds to far - right politician's comments on Kassel obelisk Charlottesville to shroud Confederate statues and shortlisted plans for Clandon Park restoration revealed

Make that a mockery of a monument, for in Doris C. Freedman plaza, at the park's southeast corner, Damián Ortega sets out an undersized obelisk on a pitifully tiny platform.

Where once Barnett Newman set out his Broken Obelisk, now one must settle for art on training wheels.

One can call Smith the archetypical, perhaps only true Abstract Expressionist sculptor, although Broken Obelisk by Barnett Newman, grandly displayed not so long ago in the MoMA atrium, gives him a run for his money.

And maybe that obelisk can stand in for Lucas» missing phallus.

The organization is gearing up for some major renovation projects as it approaches its 45th anniversary, including improvements to its ceiling and a restoration of Barnett Newman's «Broken Obelisk» sculpture.

Barnett Newman's stately Broken Obelisk has kept company with the Rothko Chapel for more than three decades.

Best known for incisive portraits, the images she exhibited at Poissant Gallery focused on Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk in the Rothko Chapel's reflection pool.

The current show for example grows from an interest in the obelisk - dome duality found in architecture, think of towers and church domes in the same city square, found in every city from Rome to London to Washington DC.

This work began when Clockshop invited me, in 2014, to perform on Michael Parker's artwork The Unfinished, for which the outline of an obelisk — based on an unfinished ancient Egyptian obelisk — was excised into a pad of asphalt next to the concrete Los Angeles River.

Composed of verbal fragments, sundered texts and maps, free - floating constructivist lines that recall El Lissitzky and seven obelisks that reiterate the physical forms of his wooden sculptures, the work eschews the landscape idea for something else: a speculative scenography of the past.

Such works included: Sculpture For a Large Wall (1956 - 7, MoMA, NY) by Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923); Midday (1960, MoMA, NY) by Sir Anthony Caro (1924 - 2013); Die (1962, MoMA, NY) by Tony Smith (1912 - 1980); Broken Obelisk (1963 - 9, MoMA, NY) by Barnett Newman (1905 - 70); Storm Angel (1973 - 4, Square Chabas, Chalon - sur - Saone) by Mark Di Suvero (b. 1933); and a number of works by Eduardo Chillida (1925 - 2002), culminating in his coastline sculpture Wind Comb (1977, Bay of San Sebastian, Spain).

Adkins's videos Obelisks in Rome and Corpus Specere served as the backdrops for the performances and will be displayed nearby.

Michael Tsegaye's Group and solo exhibitions include: Recent Histories, Contemporary African Photography and Video Art in 2017 at the Walther Collection Museum in Germany, Ankober, Addis Fine Art, Addis Abba (2015 - 2016), Medecins Sans Frontiers, National Museum Addis Ababa (2011), For a Sustainable World, African Photography Biennal 9th Edition, (2011), Selam Arts Festival, Toronto, Canada (2010), Hotel Dystopia Room # 25/55: Al Bastakiya Art Fair, Dubai, UAE (2010) and Aksum Rediscovered: The Reinstallation of the Obelisk, The UNESCO House, Paris, France (2009).

Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk sculpture at the Rothko Chapel, whichhas mixed art, activism and religion for 40 years.

For art lovers, many of whom drift down the street from the Menil Collection, the chapel is the place to see Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk - the big sculpture in the outdoor reflecting pond - and the 14 paintings by Mark Rothko that, depending on how you look at them: a) are hardly anything but big black rectangles; b) foretold the painter's suicide; c) were Rothko's crowning achievement; or d) any or all of the above.

For her exhibition Whites at Kunsthalle Basel — her first solo presentation in Switzerland — the Romanian - born artist has developed a series of new sculptures that expand on a work she first made in 2013, titled Broken Obelisk.

So imagine my surprise when looking for a different image of Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk, I instead found this 1967 pic of it being installed by crane on Seagram Plaza, two years after the flying Olmec head made the cover of Artforum.

OT, but CA readers may be interested in my new blog post proposing a $ 6.50 / ton carbon tax, in exchange for elimination of EPA restrictions on C, «the Carbon Tax: Welfare Triangle or Welfare Obelisk?»

But in ten years the owners will be selling the nine thousand dollar Obelisk chairs shown on the Rooftop Garden to buy insulated drapes for those windows.

Such a model calls for what Dan labels as «scalability», and here is where businesses like Obelisk come in.

At Obelisk Support, we are proud to have been shortlisted as finalists for the LegalWeek Legal Innovation Awards 2018 in the Supplier Innovation — Resource Management category.

Laure Latham is social media marketing associate for Obelisk Support and a former lawyer specialised in corporate tax at Clifford Chance.

At Obelisk Support, we work to ensure our legal consultants stay at the top of their game, with workshops and access to training providers and courses for constant development and up to the minute knowledge.

BT continues to use alternative suppliers, such as Elevate, Axiom, Halebury, NewGalexy Services and Obelisk Support, and has launched a number of technology initiatives, such as legal projectmanagement software, document management and an internallydeveloped software tool for the wider business to seek automated regulatory advice on complex global transactions.

The storytelling revolves around three main themes — Women in Law, Family & Work and Obelisk in Action — and is also a way for the firm to communicate with a community of hundreds of lawyers that form its pool of freelance consultants, many of whom work remotely or from abroad.

Amazon's Alexa - powered obelisk is built for a lot of things, but accessing webpages isn't one of them.