Sentences with phrase «art as a touchstone»

Such commercialism of culture was in marked contrast to his belief in the age - old tradition of art as a touchstone for spiritual enrichment.

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We offer the following seven principles as touchstones for infusing technology into English language arts teacher preparation programs.

2016 «Cadence,» Three - Person Exhibit of Paintings and Monotypes, Gallery B, Bethesda MD «New This Week» 11/21/2016 Collection on Saatchi Art's homepage McLean Project for the Arts, Artfest, McLean VA «Art as Politics,» Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC «Not a Box» Installation Exhibit, Received Honorable Mention, Art League Gallery, Alexandria VA «Making Sense» Nora Atkinson, Juror, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Sandwich NH National Juried Exhibition, Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick MD Auction Gala, Washington Project for the Arts Resident Artists Exhibition, Palette 22, Arlington, VA Print Portfolio, George Mason University Printmaking Dept.

Her ground - breaking 3 - exhibition cycle, If You Lived Here..., on homelessness, housing, and the built environment, which she organized at the Dia Art Foundation in New York in 1989, is regarded as a touchstone exhibition on these themes.

Touchstones of the decade's hopes or not, though, they make fewer appearances than blood stains and Malcolm X. And such photographers as Gordon Parks and Danny Lyon make fewer than Pop Art and, yes, abstraction.

Using the exhibition title «MOMMA» as touchstone, a scathing comparison is drawn between what's for sale at MoMA and what's not (gift shop versus exhibited art).

JIMMIE DURHAM: AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD Art can be activist, and vice versa: Jimmie Durham's involvement in the American Indian Movement, downtown New York in the 1980s and identity politics in the 1990s serve as touchstones for an exhibition of more than 200 objects.

In writing dedicated to his paintings a reader will find frequent reference to Northern Renaissance and Venetian art, Persian miniatures, as well as more modern touchstones like Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning.

Arriving unaccompanied at the institution's silvered Wooster Street digs — formerly Jeffrey Deitch's HQ, as if any reminder were needed — I was immediately buttonholed by intense art historian Lorena Morales Aparicio, who filled me in on the subject of her doctoral thesis - in - progress, contemporary Swiss touchstone Pipilotti Rist.

Johns» striking use of popular iconography, «things the mind already knows,» as he put it (flags, numbers, maps), made the familiar unfamiliar — and made a colossal impact in the art world, becoming a touchstone for Pop, minimalist and conceptual art.

«The pairing of historic and current works allow for a fresh look at O'Keeffe and demonstrates the continuing power of O'Keeffe's work as a touchstone for contemporary art.»

While his reign eventually came to an end, with opinion turning against his dogmatic edicts, his ideas — which he published in the pages of the Partisan Review, the Nation, and Commentary — remain a critical touchstone for anyone trying to grasp the Abstract Expressionists, the Washington Color School painters, and others who were engaged in formalist, «non-objective» art, as abstraction was called back then.

Immovable, a ballet choreographed by Julia K. Gleich and created in collaboration with artist Rachel Beach, is coming to the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey on Sunday, March 19, as part of the closing reception of Beach's exhibition, Touchstone.

Past projects include solo exhibitions at galleries such as Touchstones Rochdale as part of the Asia Triennial Manchester (2014); Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (2010); and Lambeth Garden Museum, London (2013).

As a result, American audiences have been able to expand their understanding of 20th - century Italian art beyond Arte Povera — which has long been the art world's major postwar Italian cultural touchstone — and beyond Italy's fascist history, which, not surprisingly, creates a certain discomfort among American viewers.

The film earned Julien a cult following and its focus on a Black, Queer experience within the American cultural landscape retains its urgency and relevance regarded as a touchstone for Cultural Studies and has been taught widely in North American and Australian universities, colleges and art schools for nearly 30 years.

Curator Francesca Herndon - Consagra mentions this explicitly in the conceptual statement about the exhibition, referring to Tadao Ando's architecture and Rock Settee by Scott Burton as principle points of curatorial investigation, and conflating them with the visual language and art historical touchstone of dreams.

A theatrical performance, developed using this exhibition as a touchstone, will take place on Saturday 12 November 2016 at Wexford Arts Centre.

Claire Barclay's installation Perching Two was acquired with the support of The Art Fund and has links to other artists whose work is represented in Touchstones Rochdale's collection who adopt craft and sculptural elements in their practice, such as Alison Britton, Taslim Martin, Cornelia Parker and Nicholas Pope.

As such, the acquisition supports Touchstone Rochdale's ongoing programme of using contemporary art to newly contextualise and reinvigorate elements of their social history collection, reflecting Tompkins personal interest in creating the possibility of new meaning through her practice.

Originally produced for Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg) and Artexte (Montreal), the reprisal of Yesterday was Once Tomorrow (or, A Brick is a Tool) sees the added inclusion of Talking Stick First Nations Arts Magazine, which will act as a touchstone during the upcoming writing residencies this spring, including Indigenous Art Journal and Future Narratives.

In 1906, the Whitechapel Art Gallery's exhibition of Jewish art made religion the touchstone of Jewish identity, as in Rothenstein's painting Jews Mourning in a Synagogue, but claimed that Jewish artists identified themselves completely with England, with no distinctive thought or differentiation of artistic sentimeArt Gallery's exhibition of Jewish art made religion the touchstone of Jewish identity, as in Rothenstein's painting Jews Mourning in a Synagogue, but claimed that Jewish artists identified themselves completely with England, with no distinctive thought or differentiation of artistic sentimeart made religion the touchstone of Jewish identity, as in Rothenstein's painting Jews Mourning in a Synagogue, but claimed that Jewish artists identified themselves completely with England, with no distinctive thought or differentiation of artistic sentiment.

This year, Tohme invited the Brussels - based Egyptian curator El Fetouh to participate, and the latter responded with a small but complex exhibition that used three historical exhibitions — the first Alexandria Biennial (1955); «China / Avant - Garde» (Beijing, 1989); and the First Biennale of Arab Art (Baghdad, 1974)-- as a conceptual springboard for probing the ways in which such historical touchstones have remained fertile territory for artists engaging with — and altering — narratives of modernity.

His pictures provide a valuable touchstone for understanding new trends in photographic art, and his ideas have become more relevant as photography embraces Photoshop and other computer technologies for altering and manipulating photographs.

At Howard, Catlett iv absorbed elements of both traditional African art and European modernism that served as touchstones throughout her later career.

One of the earliest works to explore this subject, Swamped has stood as an important touchstone for the artist in scores of major exhibitions, including the 1998 touring retrospective at Kunsthalle Kiel, Kunsthalle Nu ¨ rnberg and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Kunstaus Glarus, Switzerland, 1999; Le Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Tate Britain, London and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt 2008 — 2009; and most recently Fondation Beyeler, Basel 2015.

When Rosemary Luckett was learning needlework and drawing pictures on envelopes as a child in her Idaho farmhouse, she couldn't have imagined where her interest in art would take her — but «Earth Blankets,» her new solo exhibition at Touchstone Gallery in downtown D.C., represents the wonderful visions that materialize when an artist pursues her interests, hones her skills, and embraces true versatility.

The true position was that it had found those terms to be unfair in a consumer contract using as its touchstone the typical consumer so as to apply the Art 4 criteria as best it could.

Java development in a position where, as need and opportunity dictate, we strive to harness the full range of resources available in Java, including other languages running on the JVM; and where best practices, craftsmanship and cognizance of the contemporary state of the art are touchstones of daily effort.