Sentences with phrase «west nineteenth»

With four days still to go, Wednesday brought the most anticipated opening of the season, «Gazing Ball,» Jeff Koons's debut with David Zwirner on West Nineteenth Street.

A new show of Neel's portraits, which opens today at both of David Zwirner's West Nineteenth Street spaces, will change that thinking.

In Morningside Heights (533 West Nineteenth Street), we meet Benjamin, a boy in a blue baseball shirt who has as much dignity as a Velázquez courtier.

Marcel Dzama, who can cop to being either a filmmaker or a choreographer at this point, was nearly swallowed up by the crowds in Zwirner's two central spaces on West Nineteenth Street.

Not exact matches

For example, in the nineteenth century we of the West began to be aware of other cultures, of other peoples and civilizations around the world, in a way that had not before been part of our consciousness.

One attraction of Buddhism in cultivated circles in the West, already in the nineteenth century, was its freedom from any form of theism.

The political alignments of Hungary from the mid «nineteenth century to the present are more familiar to the West than the period when Hungary was struggling with Turks or even Austrians.

A school of modern art that left its mark on an extraordinary number of wonderful Budapest buildings and dates from the end of the nineteenth century is called, in the West, «Art Nouveau» and, in Hungary (eccentrically), «Secession Art.»

«In traditional thought and literature, there has been virtually no interest in foreign countries, societies, cultures or religions... India has not reached out for the west; it has not actively prepared the encounter and «dialogue» with Christian - European, or any other foreign countries» (Halbfass, 1988: 195).2 This self - contented and self - contained trend however underwent change in the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» Hinduism.

In the nineteenth century people in the East, under the strong impact of the West and modernity, reacted against the West in several ways.

The French Huguenots who built the London silk market from scratch in the eighteenth century, the likes of Mary Seacole who nursed our troops in the Crimean War, the Afro - Caribbeans who came in the First World War to work in the munitions factories of the North West, or as part of the Windrush Generation to fill gaps in the post-war Labour market, the Poles or the Indians who fought with us in the forties, the Italians who came to work in our mines in the nineteenth century, the Indians who work today in our burgeoning IT and gaming industries, the eastern Europeans who have picked our crops or kept our hotels running, have all played a part in building modern Britain.

Tiverton was the more industrial, heading the lace - making industry in the South - West under the industrialist John Heathcoat and his family who provided several MPs for the seat in the nineteenth and twentieth century (David Heathcoat - Amory, the former minister and MP for Wells, is his great - great - grandson).

Slow West Directed by John Maclean (UK, New Zealand)-- New York Premiere, Narrative At the end of the nineteenth century, 16 - year - old Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit - McPhee) journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves.

«The Wild West» refers to the American Old West throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century.

With Dead Man, his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the nineteenth - century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country's legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death.

It did not come fully into its own in the West until the nineteenth century.

Junction of Oregon Trail with Overland Trail 60 Rod S - E Enchanted by the idea that I could step from a modern paved road onto the tracks of the nineteenth - century pioneers — not to mention walk all the way to Oregon — I paused just long enough to grab a water bottle and a brimmed hat from my car and set out along the ruts, heading west.

Ken Burns eloquently tracks America's stalwart explorers across the vast, unexplored territory west to the Pacific in the ultimate early - nineteenth - century road picture.

See for example, Kenneth Naverson's West coast Victorians: A Nineteenth - Century Legacy.

Back in the early nineteenth century, America had more frontiers than the West; there was also the sea, and the Nantucket whaleman was the sea - going mountain man of his day, chasing the sperm whale into the distant corners of the Pacific Ocean.

During the nineteenth century, Britain and Russia had played the «Great Game» for control of central Asia, centered in Afghanistan and the territory that would become West Pakistan.

Late in the afternoon of October 25, 1859, the largest storm of the nineteenth century ripped out of the Irish Sea and up the west coast of Wales, England, and Scotland.

The Airedale Terrier originated in West Yorkshire, England, during the nineteenth century.

This amazing landscape park was was layed out in the nineteenth century between 60th and 110th streets, exactly at the center of the island, almost like a barrier between the east and west sides.

In addition to the founding stories of the RA and PAFA, this exhibition recognizes the other artist - founders of PAFA, West's role as the teacher of eighteenth - and early - nineteenth - century American artists, and the development of monumental history paintings such as Christ Rejected and Death on the Pale Horse.

Upon entering the space, the visitor unavoidably came into contact with Birgit Maaß's Inbetween, a door - curtain made out of hairs plucked from the wigs of former «Winnetou» performers (Winnetou being an idealised figure from the Wild West novels of popular nineteenth - century German writer Karl May).

Nineteenth - Century French Painting Elizabeth Tunick February 6, 7, 9, and 10, 11:00 a.m. West Building Rotunda 40 minutes

Jason Middlebrook (b. Jackson, MI; lives in Hudson, NY) has altered an old shipping container to create a replica of a nineteenth - century general store, reminiscent of another era, when early towns in the west relied on the general store to carry supplies of all kinds.

Subtly visible along the composition's bottom edge is a silhouette of the nineteenth - century mountain man and his posse, trailing across the same, unchanged landscapes of Dixon's contemporary West.

Adams's complex photographs expose the hollowness of the nineteenth - century American doctrine of Manifest Destiny, expressing somber indignation at the idea (still alive in the twenty - first century) that the West represents an unlimited natural resource for human consumption.

The collection has particular strengths in Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese painting, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature painting, Baroque painting, old master prints and drawings, early American painting, nineteenth - and early - twentieth - century photography, Conceptual art, international contemporary art, West Coast avant - garde film, international animation, Soviet cinema, early video art, and the largest collection of Japanese films outside of Japan.

Romanticized by the Hudson River School of the nineteenth century and chronicled throughout the expansion of the west, landscapes continue to capture the fascination of art collectors the world over.

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the West held fairs and expositions that brought Asia to London, Chicago, or Paris.

While his use of simple, obdurate forms and new, industrial materials was decidedly modern, his settlement in the west Texas desert also summons the Arcadian impulses of nineteenth - century landscapists.

With contributions from geologists, historians, archeaologists and glaciologists, as well as a new essay by Geoff Dyer about the photographs from the nineteenth - century expeditions that provided some of the first glimpses of the region and its inhabitants, this catalogue considers the place of the Arctic in the history and culture of the West at a moment when the region is taking on a new significance as a threatened, vanishing space.

Referencing the ways that landscapes have been politicized through historical events — from the violent expansion of the American West, colonialism, war, and abolition, through to more recent race riots and social protests — Mehretu began by combining photographs from these events with nineteenth - century landscape paintings.

Can the medium that has depicted Africa for the West since the moment of the camera's invention, during the colonialism of the nineteenth century, escape this troubled past?

2014 — 15 Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain Galleria Mazzoli, Modena 2013 Galerie Bordas, Venice 2011 — 2012 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 2011 Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy Recreation of Salt Mountain, Vittorio Emanueke and the cathedral in Piazza del Duomo, Milan Castello Sofrzesco, Milan Basilica di Sant» Ambrogio, Milan Museum of the Nineteenth Century, Milan New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury 2010Valentina Bonomo, Rome Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo Christian Stein, Milan 2009 — 2010 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield 2009University Gallery, Northumbria Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne Galerie Klüser 2, Munich Museo Nazionale Villa Pisani at Stra, Venice 2008 Centro Cultural Recoleta l Junín 1930, Buenos Aires, Argentina Museo dell» Ara Pacis, Rome, Italy (with Brian Eno) 2006 Waddington Galleries, London Alan Cristea Gallery, London Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki Galleria Christian Stein & Galleria Cardi, Milan 2005 Shizuoka Art Gallery, Shizuoka MAR Museo d`Arte della città di Ravenna, Ravenna Sala Terrena, Universität Salzburg; touring to Museum der Moderne Salzburg Rupertinum Scuola dei Battioro, Venice Galleria Christian Stein, Milan Museo d`Arte Moderna Ca`Pesaro, Venice

Phillips was also keenly interested in the continuous tradition of documenting land use in the West, from the nineteenth century to the present.

It includes an enormous selection of self - portraits and portraits of fellow artists by more than 60 major American artists from the nineteenth century to the present: Gertrude Abercrombie, Robert Arneson, William Beckman, Joan Brown, Thomas Eakins, Joe Fig, Viola Frey, Gregory Gillespie, Red Grooms, George Grosz, Barkley L. Hendricks, Sarah McEneaney, Archibald Motley, Jr., Vik Muniz, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Violet Oakley, John Frederick Peto, George Tooker and Benjamin West.

Originally inspired by the traditional batik fabrics of Indonesia, cloth of this type was in fact manufactured in the nineteenth century in the Netherlands and the North West of England, then marketed to West African buyers.

The Dutch started to produce these fabrics industrially for the Indonesian markets towards the end of the nineteenth century but the industrially produced versions were not popular there, so they tried West Africa.

As in previous years, the Osgoode Society continues to demonstrate its interest in a wide range of subjects that form a part of legal history — a late nineteenth century murder case in Prince Edward County, an everyday lawyer's practice in the first half of the nineteenth century, the stories of judges from the colonies who were suspended or removed from office for political reasons, and the operation of the criminal justice system in the west from 1886 to 1940.