Sentences with phrase «art in its cultural context»

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Sure, people may differ on the value of teaching art and music, or on whether math and science should be placed in a cultural context or taught using innovative, experiential approaches.

India takes giant step to manned space mission The successful launch of India's first rocket equipped with an astronaut module brings it closer The Collection in Context presents the Asia Society's collection of nearly three hundred works of art in their historical and cultural cContext presents the Asia Society's collection of nearly three hundred works of art in their historical and cultural contextcontext.

A special Unit of work in Art & design with lesson plans This pack provides teachers with a unique and readily accessible toolkit to engage students in the historical and cultural links between Jamaica and Britain; it can also be used as a relevant blue print for teaching about other cultures in context.

We aim to explore both the current realities and the rich possibilities that exist for including the arts in all kinds of educational settings with a wide range of students — across age levels, in and outside of schools, across diverse cultural contexts, and across all artistic domains.

The author of the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, David Coleman, has said over and over at conferences, in interviews and in online presentations that students» personal responses and interpretations have no place in the classroom nor does discussion of the cultural and historical context in which books are written or in which students live belong in that classroom.

Today an internationally - recognized cultural destination, The Bronx Museum of the Arts is committed to presenting new ideas and voices in a global context and making contemporary art a vital, relevant experience.

One of the key figures in the Pop Art movement, his complex narratives of recognizable imagery are firmly situated in the cultural and political contexts in which they are made.

During her residency she was able to establish a dialogue with other artists on the ideas of cultural art - representation in the context of a contemporary society.

Tate St Ives presents international modern and contemporary art in the unique cultural context of St Ives, including works from the Tate Collection, in particular works by the artists from the St Ives school.

In his new publication Jens Hoffmann reflects on the spaces of contemporary art — the gallery, the institution, the biennial — and ultimately positions the discipline of curating in the context of a larger cultural sphere shaped by the political, social, and economic conditions of its time, while demanding new attitudes and new thinkinIn his new publication Jens Hoffmann reflects on the spaces of contemporary art — the gallery, the institution, the biennial — and ultimately positions the discipline of curating in the context of a larger cultural sphere shaped by the political, social, and economic conditions of its time, while demanding new attitudes and new thinkinin the context of a larger cultural sphere shaped by the political, social, and economic conditions of its time, while demanding new attitudes and new thinking.

In this museum, it is possible to find works by artists from the most diverse cultural contexts and with the most varied forms of expression, all of whom would come to make up the art history of the last century.

Our graduates are leaders in cultural production throughout the world.Located within the School of Art + Design, the Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery presents exhibitions that provide professional context for students and interact with their daily classroom experience.

Students experiment with various art forms in studio art activities, build their visual arts vocabulary, and consider art in a cultural and historical context.

She explores the possibilities of performance art as a way to continue her research on the relationship between people and objects, and to further investigate the commoditization of culture, assimilation, and how cultural meaning is transformed in the multicultural urban environment and is absorbed into new social contexts.

Bradford's personal vision of his Los Angeles community exists within and beyond the canvas: the artist cofounded Art + Practice, a local organization that works with teens and young adults in foster care to stress the cultural importance of art in social conteArt + Practice, a local organization that works with teens and young adults in foster care to stress the cultural importance of art in social conteart in social context.

The fifth instalment in our yearlong, monthly survey in which artists, curators and cultural commentators explore the question of what African art (of the contemporary flavour) does or can do within various local contexts across the continent.

The department provides a platform for innovative artists for the production of their work, and a forum for the larger community to examine the most recent developments in contemporary art and their relationships to broader cultural contexts.

The artists featured in Radical Women have made extraordinary contributions to the field of contemporary art, but little scholarly attention has been devoted to situating their work within the social, cultural, and political contexts in which it was made.

While their art grew from the Soviet social and cultural context in which they came of age, their work still attains a universal significance.

His life and career are redolent of the history of New York City at a crucial moment in its art and cultural history — a context so eloquently drawn in Patti Smith's 2010 bestseller Just Kids...

The immersive exhibition Carved, Cast, Crumpled investigates the essential qualities of three - dimensional art across historical and cultural contexts, questioning what it means to be in the presence of an object.

The catalogue provides art historical scholarship and cultural context to the exhibition and includes essays written by Peter MacKeith, Honorary Consul General to Finland; Timo Valjakka, an independent writer, curator, and critic based in Helsinki and London; and curator O'Brien.

This immersive exhibition investigates the essential qualities of three - dimensional art across historical and cultural contexts, questioning what it means to be in the presence of an object.

With its emphasis on experimentation and interpretation, and its focus on studying art in its historical, cultural, and social contexts, the Grey serves as a museum - laboratory for the exploration of art's environments.

As of the 1970s, Judd's essays focused less on individual artists, but instead looked at art in the larger cultural context - its economy and politics and their interrelated dynamics.

Deeply rooted in post war cultural and political context, 1950s art movements massively influenced contemporary art in general.

This publication, which includes a DVD and essay by art historian Hubertus Butin, is the first to present this film, analyzing it in its original cultural context, and situating it within the artist's oeuvre.

In a lucid and beautifully written essay, Elisabeth Bronfen traces the nocturnal mysteries of insomnia and places this work of art in a larger cultural contexIn a lucid and beautifully written essay, Elisabeth Bronfen traces the nocturnal mysteries of insomnia and places this work of art in a larger cultural contexin a larger cultural context.

His texts, in which he connects contemporary art, literature and music to broader social issues and cultural contexts, are published in various publications, including Art in America, Camera Austria, Afterimage and The Wiart, literature and music to broader social issues and cultural contexts, are published in various publications, including Art in America, Camera Austria, Afterimage and The WiArt in America, Camera Austria, Afterimage and The Wire.

Recommended reading The New York Times today published an impassioned op - ed by Metropolitan Museum of Art director Thomas P. Campbell, in which he argues for the importance of arts and cultural programming in the US in the context of the current administration's proposed plans to defund the National Endowment for the Aarts and cultural programming in the US in the context of the current administration's proposed plans to defund the National Endowment for the ArtsArts.

Taking its cue from the resurgence of figurative sculpture in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and from Sigmund Freud's essay «The Uncanny» (1919), the exhibition brings together mannequin - related art works, mostly from the 1960s onwards, with objects from disparate cultural contexts that engender a similar sense of unease in the viewer: medical dolls, anatomical waxworks, religious statues, pagan figurines, ventriloquists» dummies, sex dolls, taxidermy and so on.

But if you're able to snag a few moments at these stations, you'll see the objects on view in the aesthetic and cultural context of significant artworks, monuments, and movements: Marcel Duchamp's 1913 readymade Roue de bicyclette [Bicycle Wheel]; the Crystal Palace at the 1851 World's Fair; Pop Art's embrace of mass - media messaging.

The first instalment in our yearlong survey in which artists, curators and cultural commentators explore the question of what African art (of the contemporary flavour) does or can do within various local contexts across the continent.

How can we understand critical and cultural interventions like Untitled and Day With (out) Art in context of Occupy actions?

As we strive to be a site for thought - provoking contexts for artistic engagement, we now enter a phase of evaluation, asking how we - as a non-profit contemporary art space in Manhattan - can create the most considerate and compelling cultural impact.

Although the same social, cultural and political context characterized the social and cultural dynamics in the US and the UK, the emergence of the Pop Art in these two countries was marked with different artistic groups and practices.

Stacey Gillian Abe's installation at 1 - 54 Contemporary African Art Fair, which runs May 4 through 6 at Pioneer Works, the cultural center in the borough's Red Hook neighborhood, would be provocative in any context, but given the patriarchal traditions of her native Uganda, its subject matter is all the more challenging: the objectification of women, and the sexual satisfactions of women.

These shows, which include «Uncertain States of America», «China Power Station», «Indian Highway» and «Imagine Brazil», look at artistic languages, but also take into account the social and cultural context, the role of institutions, the critical discourses and the commercial art system in the countries in question.

The three artists included in this year's residency exhibition extend this notion to explore how communities themselves can influence the ways in which art is produced, whether through incorporating images that document change and progress, questioning the contexts of cultural and physical representation so as not to repeat history's mistakes, or archiving materials from a community's past in order to benefit future generations.

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

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Hammer Museum found itself at a crossroads: the contemporary art center, housed in a building by Edward Larabee Barnes, suffered from anonymity both in its local environment and within the cultural context of Los Angeles.

The exhibition is a kind of ideal museum as seen by Ligon — one that in particular reconnects Postwar American art history with its wider political and cultural contexts.

Practice - based theory and a shift to art - making practices situated in the context of cultural studies (including art and politics, philosophy, sociology, and science studies) has framed contemporary art discourse.

Emerging from the dynamic arts program at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in the late 1980s, Gillick expanded into social sculpture, cultural critique, and «Relational Aesthetics,» the critic Nicolas Bourriaud's term for art within a context of relationships.

With its emphasis on experimentation and interpretation, and its focus on exploring art in its historical, cultural, and social contexts, the Grey serves as a museum - laboratory for the exploration of art's environments.

Her research focuses on the participation of art activities in the wider context of cultural consumption.

In parallel with his work in the studio, Bradford maintains a social practice, anchored by his Los Angeles - based not - for - profit, Art + Practice, an educational platform that emphasizes practical skills for foster youth and stresses the cultural importance of art within a larger social contexIn parallel with his work in the studio, Bradford maintains a social practice, anchored by his Los Angeles - based not - for - profit, Art + Practice, an educational platform that emphasizes practical skills for foster youth and stresses the cultural importance of art within a larger social contexin the studio, Bradford maintains a social practice, anchored by his Los Angeles - based not - for - profit, Art + Practice, an educational platform that emphasizes practical skills for foster youth and stresses the cultural importance of art within a larger social conteArt + Practice, an educational platform that emphasizes practical skills for foster youth and stresses the cultural importance of art within a larger social conteart within a larger social context.

As art fair week kicks off in New York, we are honored to join CONTEXT Art Fair as an official cultural partner, May 3 - 8 at Pier art fair week kicks off in New York, we are honored to join CONTEXT Art Fair as an official cultural partner, May 3 - 8 at Pier Art Fair as an official cultural partner, May 3 - 8 at Pier 94.

Working with established cultural tropes, the artist largely disconnects from art world contexts in order to alternate between black and queer vernaculars in his irreverent discussion of the AIDS epidemic and its origins.

Upon completing her Curatorial Masters at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, she was awarded a two years Fellowship for Cultural Innovation and currently works as Robert Bosch fellow in the context of Tirana and the region of South Eastern Europe.