Sentences with phrase «art as a pastime»

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Yes, he created art with his football, but if anything he was too humble and too rooted in the natural innocence of football as a boyish pastime to see it as something as pretentious as high - art or poetry.

In one handwritten letter dated August 13, 1927, Still outlined his escape route: «Farming, as you may guess, is for me a scarcely tolerable pastime... Accordingly, I am going to throw myself into Art — painting to be specific — with a gusto that may prove me a genius or a wreck.»

Because serving as patrons of the arts is one of the most important pastimes of the city's well - heeled set.

Collection, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Orlando, FL Commemorating 30 Years (1976 — 2007): Part Three (1991 — 2007), Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL The Blake Byrne Collection, The Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, Duke University, Durham, NC 2006 Do Not Stack, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA Black Alphabet: ConTEXTS of Contemporary African - American Art, Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Down By Law, Wrong Gallery at the Sondra Gilman Gallery, Whitney Museum, New York, NY Hangar — 7 Edition 4, Salzburg Airport, Salzburg, Austria Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Relics and Remnants, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY 2005 Maximum Flavor, ACA Gallery, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA Neo-Baroque, Tema Celeste, Verona, Italy Neovernacular, Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Kehinde Wiley / Sabeen Raja: New Paintings, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C. 2004 Eye of the Needle, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA Glory, Glamour & Gold, The Proposition, New York, NY She's Come Undone, Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY The New York Mets and Our National Pastime, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Beauty, Kravets + Wehby, New York, NY African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition: Fade, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Peripheries Become the Center, Prague Biennale 1, Galleria Nazionale Veletrzni Palac Dukelskych Hrdinu 47, Prague, Czech Republic Superreal, Marella, Milan, Italy New Wave, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY Re: Figure, College of DuPage, The Guhlberg Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL 2002 Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York, NY Mass Appeal, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada Ironic / Iconic, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY Black Romantic, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY 2001 It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, Rush Arts, New York, NY

It's a matter of supply and demand: With the mega wealthy from Beijing to Bogota snatching up pieces by Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol as both a pastime and investment strategy, many buyers are seeking cheaper alternatives to trophy art.

The Saudi artist Abdulnasser Gharem, who attended school with two of the 9/11 hijackers, hopes to dissuade young people from radicalization by encouraging art education as an alternative (Saudi Arabia is severely lacking in extracurricular activities as many leisurely pastimes are banned).

At the «Pop Art in Changing Britain» exhibit and as reported by The Telegraph on February 21 of 2018, his «Girls with their hero», a 1959 painting of facets of Elvis Presley was said to have «fashioned a highly personal form of Pop Art, infused by nostalgia for Victoriana and a long - lost world of native pastimes».