Sentences with phrase «around contemporary pop»

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This is around the same time coming - of - age movie maestro John Hughes gave Ferris a day off, but unlike his contemporary, Oliver seems oblivious to mainstream pop culture.

In the central sitting room, white sofas and chairs are set on natural - fiber rugs around polished wooden accent tables for multiple conversation areas, while contemporary art and pillows in spring green and sea blue add pops of color.

«POP Gallery features new brow contemporary established and emerging artists from around the world,» says owner Sharla Throckmorton - McDowell.

Over the last twenty - five years Bickerton has exhibited extensively around the world, including recent exhibitions such as the «East Village USA» at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York; «Collecting Biennials», at the Whitney Museum of American Art; «Skin Fruit: Selection: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, «Law of the Jungle» curated by Tiago Carneiro da Cunha at Lehmann Maupin all New York; and «Pop Life: Art in a Material World» at the Tate Gallery, London.

Either as a pop cultural reference point or the conceptual link between the speculative practices of contemporary art and science fiction, this trend has seen dozens, if not hundreds, of international and Australian artists creating sci - fi - inflected pieces, with exhibitions around the world surveying their work.

In drawing inspiration from the rapidly changing world around them, Pop artists sought to be more inclusive in their subjects, and more aware of the day - to - day conditions of contemporary existence.

Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei himself has risen as a cultural political pop icon due to the controversy surrounding his arrest by the Chinese government, in turn, artists around the world created politically charged pop artwork to demonstrate for his release, hence bearing witness to unforeseen polipop culture in the making.

Old Sorting Office, London, until 17 December Presented across a former Royal Mail sorting office on New Oxford Street, Here Today brings together a particularly diverse range of artists — from Pop artists Andy Warhol and Peter Blake to contemporary sculptors Bharti Kher and Tony Cragg RA — around the theme of endangered wildlife.

The Berlin Senate's cultural affairs department estimates that around 5,000 artists, 1,200 writers, 1,500 bands (pop, rock, and world music), 500 jazz musicians, 103 professional orchestras and music ensembles, 1,500 choirs, 300 theater groups, and 1,000 dancers and / or choreographers of contemporary dance live and work in Berlin.

Around two years ago, celebrated Indonesian contemporary artist Entang Wiharso met with Australian feminist contemporary artist Sally Smart while he was preparing for a group exhibition in Melbourne called» $ Closing the Gap» $, as well as preparing for a pop - up show.»

The daytime events feature performances and appearances from jazz saxophonist Peter King, pianist and recording artist Rosey Chan, Fashion designer Alber Elbaz, choreographer Ann Van Der Broek, cognitive neuroscientist Professor Vincent Walsh, contemporary art curator, critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist, Film director and actor Elia Sulieman, sculptor Richard Wentworth, journalist and presenter Jon Snow and English pop artist Peter Blake among others as they present their provocations around the theme of Truth.