Sentences with phrase «artists are in the minority»

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Many artists in the industry - like the consumers - are women and ethnic minorities.

Women and minority actors and stage managers are getting fewer jobs and often wind up in lower - paying shows than white male theater artists, according to a new study by Actors» Equity.

We may be in the minority on this, considering the warm reception that has greeted the film at festival screenings, but The Disaster Artist struck us as less a movie than an over-extended Funny Or Die skit packed with celebrity cameos — which is to say, it makes little sense if you haven't already seen The Room.

Students from underrepresented minority groups (UMGs) connect with creative techniques and computational tools that are usually in the exclusive domain of professional designers, artists, and engineers.

He spoke up for Picasso's Guernica when it was exhibited in New York that September and was foremost among the minority of artists who welcomed to New York fellow artists evading the war in Europe.

Adrian Piper's work Mythic Being (1973) and the work of Sara Greenberger Rafferty, an artist whose critique of social roles in stand - up comedy Grabner also curated into the Biennial, appear to have directly influenced Scanlan's choices.The problem with his project is that it functions by exploiting rather than critiquing the severely limited representation of minority artists at the Whitney, and in the art world more broadly.

A shallow presentation of 80s all - stars, from a Jeff Koons equilibrium tank to a Christopher Wool circuit of squiggles, gives onto an offensive «minorities room» — in which David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Mark Bradford, and other African American artists, plus the Cuban - born Félix González - Torres, are shunted together in a half - hearted and market - approved look at identity and opposition.

Sims was instrumental in including African American and other minority artists in major exhibitions and she helped build the museum's collection by adding works by artists such as Robert Colescott, Faith Ringgold, Adrian Piper, Betye Saar, and Lorna Simpson.

He was also involved in the establishment of art venues such as The Studio Museum and the Cinque Gallery that supported young minority artists.

A couple of weeks ago opened A Major Minority, an amazing group show featuring the work of contemporary urban artists from around the world curated by graffiti artist and curator Poesia, who is also the editor of Graffuturism.com and the cultural instigator at the center of the growing interest in abstract, progressive and hybrid Graffiti art forms.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

In 2008, Fu was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to create a photographic pop - up book of the 25 ethnic minorities residing in Yunnan Province, China, from where the artist's family descendIn 2008, Fu was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to create a photographic pop - up book of the 25 ethnic minorities residing in Yunnan Province, China, from where the artist's family descendin Yunnan Province, China, from where the artist's family descends.

«He's one of the minority of Op Art artists who is as interested in what you don't see as what you do see,» Frank said.

Will contemporary Chinese art be subsumed by the same practice seen in the Euro - American art market of limitation and marginalization of different groups, such as women and minority artists?

«This is a love fest for Tacita,» said Goodman in her toast to the artist at Tocqueville, where collectors made up a small minority of dinner guests who included friends like Roni Horn, Piero Golia, and Julie Mehretu, curators from museums in at least three countries (including Mexico City's Tamayo, where Dean will have a show next year), and Jeff Clarke, the CEO of Kodak, whom Dean characterized as «the man who saved film.»

is a telling snapshot of the representation of both female and minority artists in contemporary Europe.

The collectors have now promised 100 of their 800 works — more than 90 percent of the collection is by women and emphasizes minority artists — to the NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale, Fla..