Sentences with phrase «art and culture as»

Join us for an evening of art and culture as NAR commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, one of Washington's most coveted tourist locations.

Larry Ossei - Mensah is a Ghanaian - American independent curator and cultural critic who uses contemporary art and culture as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us.

Hence, the Gwangju Biennale 2004 is the place where both artists and audience can experience art and culture as instruments of vibrant social networking.

He is presently Director of the Center for Visual Art and Culture as well as an associate professor at the University of Connecticut.

As a curator, Ossei - Mensah uses contemporary art and culture as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us.

Hawai`i acknowledged art and culture as central to quality of life by establishing the Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts in 1965.

The white and the rich using art and culture as a vehicle of displacement and further exploitation of low - income people of color.

Enwezor's unique viewpoint clarifies the importance of African art and culture as we move into the next century, and reveals the questions that continue to haunt post-colonial Africa.

Between now and Labor Day, Daily Serving will feature the efforts of our fellow chroniclers of art and culture as part of our Summer Reading series.

They saw an encounter with Western art and culture as long overdue, and they saw that encounter as a break with tradition.

«The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is committed to building a platform for art and culture as an integral part of our guest experience,» said John Unwin, CEO of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, «We are thrilled to have PAUSE as the first of many art installations to be featured on our marquee.»

Far too much feels caught in a time warp, back when it meant something to reconceive art and culture as a disaster area.

Visitors flock in great numbers to enjoy the centuries - old art and culture as well as fantastic Spain beaches, memorable dining and shopping, and vibrant nightlife and entertainment.

Labour does have a history of putting forward arts and culture as key elements of a broad and balanced curriculum for children.

Jade Chang has covered arts and culture as a journalist and editor.

Ubud is a great tourism area in Bali which offers nature, art and cultures as its attraction.

The 32 - foot long sculpture was a commission of Philadelphia's Office of Arts and Culture as part of the Percent for Art program.

IdeasCity is a collaborative, civic, and creative platform that explores the future of cities with arts and culture as driving forces.

Formed in 1925, DCA promotes arts and culture as a way to ignite a powerful dialogue, engage LA's residents and visitors, and ensure LA's varied cultures are recognized, acknowledged, and experienced.

The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) preserves and presents African Diaspora cultures, promoting arts and culture as tools for personal transformation, community - building,...

ArtPlace America (ArtPlace) is a ten - year collaboration among a number of foundations, federal agencies, and financial institutions that works to position arts and culture as a core sector of comprehensive community planning and development in order to help strengthen the social, physical, and economic fabric of communities.

The installation was commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation and co-produced with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture as part of Alsharif's 2011 artist residency at the Sharjah Art Foundation.This book of postcards contains stills from Alsharif's video installation.

As a DJ and visual artist, Brandon also sees the arts and culture as key components necessary to energize and activate people to be engaged in defining and determining our own destiny.

The «Parlor City» is now a focal point for arts and culture as well as business for the surrounding NY / PA area.

Not exact matches

Jing Daily looks at the intersection of luxury and culture in China: the ins and outs of business development there with an eye toward the upscale consumer market, as well as the business of culture — from auctions, museums, and contemporary art to performance, public events, and more.

The Art Gallery of Western Australia plans to broaden its audience reach in 2017 with the renewal of galleries, development of new initiatives and partnerships, as well as the introduction of a contemporary series called Culture Juice.

Most recently, after South by Southwest (SXSW) cancelled two panels meant to discuss gaming culture — panels on opposing sides of the «GamerGate» situation — and some media companies threatened to pull out of the Austin, Texas art festival as a result.

The animation studio that Jobs sold to Disney for $ 7.5 billion in 2006 runs Pixar University, a professional development program that offers courses in fine arts and filmmaking as well as leadership and management to steep employees in the company's culture, history and values as well as its craft.

This global hub, also known as «Gateway of the Americas», has everything that EB - 5 investor might want besides a growing number of EB - 5 approved projects; largest concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations, rated Number 2 in Business Friendliness and Number 3 in Foreign Direct Investment Strategy by FDI Intelligence (a division of Financial Times), and is undoubtedly one of fastest growing urban centers of the world in commerce, finance, culture, media, arts, entertainment and international trade.»

But as that gap has narrowed and disappeared with the commodification of culture and our loss of a sense of the holy, art must become the void itself in order to re-establish the very idea of the sacred.

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

The same picture was in art books in our school library as were many other artworks of nudes but I was written up for giving a child «porn»!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At the same time in our culture, in movies, on TV and internet, these kids could see much more graphic stuff.

Although country legend Johnny Cash's most famous album was recorded for a captive crowd at Folsom Prison in 1968, simultaneously signaling his pop culture comeback after years lost in addiction and the rise of the live album as a serious piece of art, Live from San Quentin is a stronger album.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

On a deeper level, one's degree of culture is to be judged by the extent of his education, the breadth of his interests, and his knowledge and appreciation of such «cultural» pursuits as good art, literature, and music.

I talk about the positive traits of hipster culture, such as the celebration of culture and «good things» (loving food, nature, art, etc), and the way that hipsters seem to genuinely appreciate God's creation and are curious and awestruck by it.

One could turn to many artists for a precedent for a newly evangelised culture comprising imaginative activities that are open to the transcendent, a culture that integrates human creativity in art, literature and science with the call to holiness, to a life that acknowledges truth, goodness and beauty as having their source in the divine.

As Hatch has noted elsewhere, because many evangelicals «have abandoned the university, the arts, and other realms of «high culture» «they are often «least capable of winning the right to be heard by twentieth - century intellectuals.»

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

He served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 to 2009 and currently holds the Judge Widney Chair of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California.

The Benedictus College of the liberal arts in London is now offering a one - year foundation programme in European culture and thought as a prelude to its full degree programme.

As I stated earlier, liberal Christianity is a middle road between Christ and culture in that it seeks to understand culture, not remove itself from modern science or the arts.

Until sixty years ago, the Church had earned a lasting place in history for inspiring Christian culture through the literary, visual, and musical arts, understood as beautiful.

Whereas, earlier, it had been believed that the Aryans found only peoples of relatively undeveloped culture, now it is known that at least some of these early Indians had developed the arts to a high degree, that they even had a kind of hieroglyphic writing, not yet deciphered, and probably an equally well developed religion which, suppressed for a time, gradually reasserted itself and greatly modified Vedic religion, gradually transforming it into the Hinduism as practiced in India today.

I was bothered by theological critics of literature who, following Tillich's too - easy baptizing of the secular order (epitomized in his phrase «as the substance of culture is religion, so the form of religion is culture»), tended to overlook the differences between Christianity and the insights of art.

While I believe there is already great material for men out there, as I surveyed the Bible and the culture of manhood (cross-ethnically), musical art, media, movies, magazines, the state of the church, urban dwellings, global cities, and the political climate of our country on gender, I continued to find the issue of manhood needing to be engaged.

I believe a movement is going on in the church, as well as in culture, art, music, and history that seems to fit well with the Mind of Christ as revealed through the life, ministry, and teachings of Jesus.

Missionaries, usually supported by a military guard, went beyond the borders of white occupation, persuaded the natives to settle down, and taught them the arts of peace and Spanish culture as well as the Christian faith.

And as I intimated in my first paragraph, gay people for hundreds and thousands of years have served us well by blessing our cultures with beauty, art, literature, philosophy, science, and religiAnd as I intimated in my first paragraph, gay people for hundreds and thousands of years have served us well by blessing our cultures with beauty, art, literature, philosophy, science, and religiand thousands of years have served us well by blessing our cultures with beauty, art, literature, philosophy, science, and religiand religion.

It is not merely a secular culture, as though it had simply eliminated religion from its government, business, art and education.