Sentences with phrase «anger in contemporary»

The central premise of the exhibition is to explore the many ways in which artists have addressed the passions: joy, fear, sorrow and anger in contemporary as well as classical art.

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A third difficulty with Reformation worship is that when the Reformers did rebel against prevailing practice, justifiable anger at contemporary abuses often led to the elimination of things of genuine value that had become distorted in the course of time.

Larry Kramer in Love and Anger (Director: Jean Carlomusto)-- Author, activist, and playwright Larry Kramer is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary gay America, a political firebrand who gave voice to the outrage and grief that inspired gay men and lesbians to fight for their lives.

The provocative story of anger, fear, and race relations in contemporary Los Angeles also provides Ryan Phillippe with one of his best roles in years, maybe the best... Read More»

Camille Henrot told us about the thinking behind her unique alchemy of the Internet and myth, Margaret Lee explained how the aesthetics of Chinatown helped her crack the code on contemporary experience, Jordan Wolfson spoke about using «anger as a frequency» in his hypnotically engrossing videos, Amy Sillman was both hilarious and incisive on the subject of what it means to be a painter today, and Paul Chan offered up a text interview that was totally unexpected, amazing, and an artwork in its own right.

In response, The Untitled Space art gallery has assembled work by 80 contemporary female artists expressing anger and defiance through their art.

Beginning with Aleister Crowley's trance portraiture and Austin Osman Spare's automatic drawing of the early 20th century, the exhibition traces over 100 years of occult art, including Leonora Carrington and Kurt Seligmann's surrealist explorations, Kenneth Anger and Ira Cohen's ritualistic experiments in film and photography, and the mystical probings of contemporary visionaries such as Francesco Clemente, Kiki Smith, Paul Laffoley, BREYER P - ORRIDGE, and Carol Bove.

What / Why: «Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) was first established in 2006 by Jan Corey Helford and her husband, television producer and creator, Bruce Helford (Anger Management, The Drew Carey Show, George Lopez, The Oblongs) and has since evolved into one of the premier galleries of New Contemporary art.

In Rashid Johnson's The Crowd, the lines between abstraction and figuration are blurred with the intention of creating a contemporary portrait that simultaneously expresses anger and unity.

Charles Christopher Hill's work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Musée des Beaux Arts, Angers, France; and the Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea.

The Irascibles (irascible meaning to be easily angered) was a group of American abstract artists that protested against the conservative bias in the selections for a national contemporary art competition held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I saw it at New York Live Arts (New York Theater Ballet in «Cross Currents,» February), at the Joyce Theater («Event» by the Compagnie CNDC Angers in March and «RainForest» with the Stephen Petronio Company in April), at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater (Juilliard Dance in «Biped» in March), at the new Whitney Museum («Crises» as part of the opening Conlon Nancarrow season in June), and at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, which showed his long - lost 1957 solo «Changeling» both in a newly found 1958 film with Cunningham dancing it and in live performance by Silas Riener.

These works and others have been presented in numerous film festivals including: Locarno, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Leeds, Belfort, Barcelona, Clermont - Ferrand, Angers and Douarnenez, and in contemporary art and performance spaces including; Kaaï Theater, Bruxelles; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Serralves Foundation, Porto; Le Quartier, Quimper; Frac Alsace, Selestat; YBCA, San Francisco; and CAPC, Bordeaux.

Almost a century after Marcel Duchamp's nude headed down her staircase, contemporary art is still able to provoke surprise, anxiety, and anger — and not just in the hearts of Hilton Kramer and Rudolph Giuliani.

From 2010 to 2013, Deitch served as Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, where he organized major solo exhibitions of work by Urs Fischer, Weegee, and Kenneth Anger and curated seminal group shows including «The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol» and «Art in the Streets», which had the highest attendance in the museum's history.