Sentences with phrase «about than art»

Fall is the perfect season to curl up with a great book, and what better thing to read about than art!

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However, Liss, who has worked with Warhols for more than a decade, appraising works for the Art Gallery of Ontario and other museums across the country, thinks collectors should be concerned about the foundation's decision this year to cease its authentication business.

Even if attracting eyes and ears has become more of a game than an art, it's still something the best marketers worry about.

He can teach you more about the art and science of marketing than anyone I know.»

This, in our view, is a particularly dim - witted view of art, a view that denies art is about anything other than its political and social effect.

And to challenge a proposition as true or not is vastly different than our personal opinions about art.

As anyone who has mastered the time - honored art of argumentation and the Socratic Method can tell you, nothing will favorably end a debate quicker than a picture of Willy Wonka saying something snarky about Benghazi.

Nowhere is Nietzsche's observation about the death of transcendent art more verified than in the phenomenon of religious kitsch.

Personally, I know that certain secular songs and movies and pieces of art have taught me more about God and pointed me to Chirst than most Christian songs, movies, literature, and art.

Art is an activity of intelligence rather than will, and so it responds to what is real and makes claims about reality.

Few critics would seem more qualified to write about contemporary art than Eleanor Heartney, and her latest book, with cover endorsements from Arthur Danto and Andrew Greeley, has the look of an important contribution.

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As a result state - of - the - art aluminum bats can propel a ball considerably faster than 110 mph, whereas balls hit by wood bats average about 92 and rarely exceed 96.

One thing Henry knows more about than most is the art of being a striker and he reckons that the PSG and Sweden star Zlatan Ibrahimovic is right up there with the best.

He has more of his father's fleshy, raffish, cigar - chewing air than any of his brothers, and he takes the greatest delight in the stories about the old days in the First Ward, when Art Sr. and his brother Dan, a terrific athlete who is now a priest (and who is said to have spent some time protecting Chinese nuns with his fists), would become drawn into a three - rounder between the visiting carnival boxer and their friend, Squawker Mullen, and the carnies would holler, «Hey, Rube!»

Being a step - parent is a lot more art than science, but there are simple ways to go wrong: Stepmoms who demand hugs and kisses and who seek to be called «Mom;» step - parents who grouse about not being the primary focus of Father's or Mother's Day; parents of all kinds waging propaganda campaigns to curry favor with the children.

I am the mama who does not care about perfection (I used to in my pre-kids days) so I would rather my kid make her own art (although indistinguishable) rather than we do it for her to make it «just right» (yeah one day a mom who does this with her kid told me «sorry» my kid's work did not come out great — to which I replied «Yes, but it is all her work!»)

Teachers in the district's three schools are paid about $ 12,000 more than the state average, and the schools offer an array of top - notch educational opportunities, including low class size, foreign language instruction, fine arts and orchestra programs, low - cost preschool and a full - day kindergarten, before - and after - school care, and several extracurricular sports teams.

I welcome these changes and agree with Angie about the art categories being difficult — I make embroidered and appliqué artworks which I guess should be classed as textile art, but I do think textile art is considered by buyers to be more specialised (and also more abstract) than my pictures, which puts me in the strange position of not wanting to call my pictures textile art, as I think people have preformed opinions of what textile art is.

Last year Calder surveyed more than 3,000 people in the 17 - county greater Chicago area by mail on a variety of topics, particularly about arts participation and leisure - time activities in the previous year.

For parents who are anxious about sending kids to summer camp, remember that the cost of a good camp covers more than the arts and crafts; it includes a team of professionals and counselors committed to fostering social learning in your child

About one - third of professional mixed martial arts matches end in knockout or technical knockout, indicating a higher incidence of brain trauma than boxing or other martial arts, according to a new study in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said such courses will be «starved of funds» and warned that higher education was about to enter an era «in which many arts - based and teaching - focused institutions, which rely on public funding far more than the larger research - intensive universities, will face an uncertain future».

Better Together have made an informal complaint to the BBC about the composition of the audience in the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum debate, who seemed far more supportive of Salmond than Darling.

«It was certainly more art than science because we didn't know the level of interest would be and the level of damage would be, so we talked about that if the dollars were sufficient, coming back and doing another appropriation,» Heastie said.

In spring 2015, the boycott grew so large — with parents pulling more than 200,000 students out of testing in English language arts and mathematics, about 20 percent of those eligible statewide — that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called for a sweeping review of the state's academic standards and exams.

We heard about groups like the Western New York Book Arts Center, Young Audiences of Western New York, Theatre of Youth and many others stepping in to fill widening gaps in an educational system less concerned than ever with culture and creativity.

Blombos Cave, South Africa: Dated to about 100,000 years ago, ochre - processing «tool kits» and other artifacts found at the site — including an engraved piece of ochre, the oldest known art of its type — suggest early humans were capable of modern, complex behaviors much earlier than once thought.

This international organization, established in 1999 by Rafael Capurro and now managed by the Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe, provides an international cultural and intercultural platform with more than 280 members) for exchanging information about research and teaching in information ethics and news about IE activities.

Our experts performed heavy research to compile a comprehensive gimbal buying guide, so you can focus on your art, rather than worrying about the quality of your recording.

Still, people here say, there is more progress than first meets the eye: new roads, schools and even a state - of - the - art teaching hospital about a half - hour away from Port - au - Prince.

The data also tell a story about variables that influence the success of women who earn doctorates in S&E: they are more likely to have attended a liberal arts college rather than a university as undergraduates.

More than 30 faculty members contributed to the most recent art show, which drew about 100 total attendees.

They expect the coating to be invisible and longer lasting than standard methods, but art lovers have little to worry about if they're wrong: The process is completely reversible.

Particularly, the OER performance was about 9 times higher than that of state - of - the - art precious metal oxide IrO2 at overpotential of 0.3 V. Furthermore, it also demonstrated notable charge - discharge stability even at high current density in Zn - air batteries.

Singers 1 month in reported being nearly two points closer to their classmates after 2 hours of class, whereas those in art or writing classes were only about half a point closer than they had been at the beginning of class.

By comparison, that's about 15 times smaller than a red blood cell, and Zhang said shrinking an infrared light source to such a small scale could open doors to new kinds of chemical sensing and molecular imaging that aren't possible with today's state - of - the - art nanoscale infrared spectroscopy.

That makes them about the same age or even slightly older than the famous cave art in Europe — which was until now the most ancient in the world.

«This significantly shifts debates about the origins of art - making and supports ideas that this fundamental human behaviour began with our most ancient ancestors in Africa rather than Europe.

At first, they talked more about their love of music and art than about science.

Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a temperature sensor that runs on only 113 picowatts of power — 628 times lower power than the state of the art and about 10 billion times smaller than a watt.

In this meeting, more than 30 internationally renowned plenary and keynote speakers from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Middle East and the US will deliver state - of - the - art lectures, while the scientific program is enriched with a career development and three interactive sessions, where members of the Faculty will engage into lively discussions with the summer school participants about issues related to career advancement and key topics related to the theme of this meeting, respectively.

The new laser, designed with the collaboration of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), TOPTICA Photonics AG and MPB Communications Inc., is a state - of - the - art, 20 - watt, continuous wave laser that will increase the coupling efficiency over the current laser by more than 15 times and improve the relative Strehl ratio by a factor of about two.

More akin to a work of art than a private photo album, scrapbooks are as much about the creative process as the finished book.

Art supplies and projects can be a good choice as long as they're more about the process than the final product.

Spending more than 10 years studying and practicing the ancient art of Hijama wet cupping under various teachers around the world, Dr. Tawwab first learned about cupping therapy during medical school in Ajman, UAE, after suffering a sports injury.

Martial arts are more than just about fighting.

Being a great fan of «finesse» and high - endurance sports myself (boxing, martial arts, soccer, football, etc.), I had to chuckle (or perhaps «wince» is a better term) at a comment that you made about how you used to be very fast in your early days because you had to run from the guys who were so much bigger than you.

I'm also much more interested in other types of design (home / packaging / social) and art now rather than my younger self who was gaga about clothes / personal accessories.

I am all about art and anyway you put is better than not putting it at all!