Sentences with phrase «as a memorial site»

Tourists pose for photos in front of the city's welcome sign near Mandalay Bay, which doubled as a memorial site after the shooting last October.
If you're planning on visiting, there is the Baan Nam Khem tsunami memorial park as well as another memorial site where you can see a large Police patrol boat which was carried 1 km in - land.

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A cross at a memorial site is completely appropriate, as is any other religious symbol that can be placed there.
@Exlonghorn — As a fellow atheist, I could care less what sort of marker is there if it's a mass memorial site marking where I died.
As for the athiest victims, they didn't have a symbol of religion or lack of religion so there is no need to display anything for them, other than the memorial site with the names carved in.
The new cathedral could have been built over this same site instead of adjacent to it, but the architect resolved to retain these walls as a memorial.
Nearby towns on the mainland are Remedios, that features one of North America's oldest Catholic Churches, as well as Santa Clara, where you can visit the Che Guevara memorial as well as one of the sites of the battle of Santa Clara, the last battle before victory in the Cuban Revolution.
Some of the first land acquisitions made by the new Park District included the dedication of Memorial Park by the Village (originally donated to the Village in 1883 by Dr. John Best as the site for a soldier's memorial) and leasing the railroad parks along the Chicago and Northwestern rightMemorial Park by the Village (originally donated to the Village in 1883 by Dr. John Best as the site for a soldier's memorial) and leasing the railroad parks along the Chicago and Northwestern rightmemorial) and leasing the railroad parks along the Chicago and Northwestern right of way.
New this year — the Arlington Heights Memorial Library Bookmobile will be on - site carrying a wide variety of the latest materials for all ages such as picture books and puzzles.
Naper Settlement's Century Memorial Chapel is the site of as many as eight weddings a weekend during the summer.
The memorial site was designed by Clough Williams - Ellis, as was the Lloyd George Museum, which stands nearby.
Then there's Paladino straight to camera, promising to use eminent domain to block the mosque and use the site as a «war memorial, instead of a monument to those who attacked our country.»
On the 10th anniversary of the dedication of the Westchester Great Hunger Memorial, County Executive Robert P. Astorino and James Houlihan, who led efforts to create the monument, will lay a wreath at the Irvington site to commemorate the occasion, as well as to focus attention on the issues of hunger past and present.
Most new station models eliminate the former Buffalo Memorial Auditorium location at Canalside as a possible site because of its inability to accommodate intercity buses, said Sam Hoyt, regional president of the Empire State Development Corp. and the governor's representative on the local panel.
In North Fork County Legislator Ed Romaine's final meeting, the Legislature voted Tuesday to acquire a four - acre site on Sound Avenue and Park Road for use as a memorial park for first responders and victims of September 11.
On Tuesday, the 16 - acre site remained very much a construction zone, as a crane lifted the first steel trident into the sky and then lowered it into place on the memorial plaza.
With regard to a planned Islamic community center two blocks from the site of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City, in late July, 2010, Paladino issued a radio ad which stated, «As Governor, I will use the power of eminent domain to stop this mosque and make the site a war memorial instead of a monument to those who attacked our country.»
Memorial sites, after all, can be made accessible to a broad array of individuals and can last for as long as participants need support.
Mourners may even set up new online venues such as memorial Web sites or Facebook pages.
Others were aghast when Pokémon began showing up at sensitive sites such as the Auschwitz - Birkenau Memorial and Museum, and the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.
As the internet's population has grown and got older, memorial pages and tribute sites have become commonplace.
Michael Frankel, MD, Emory professor of neurology, will serve as site principal investigator of the clinical trial at Grady Memorial Hospital.
The Irvin Marvin Winer Memorial Mobile Observatory, Inc. (Winer Observatory) was incorporated in 1983 as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit public charity to perform basic research in astronomy, provide educational outreach programs, and provide site and maintenance services for small telescopes through cooperative agreements with other astronomical institutions.
Each statement had to present a clear and focused purpose of the group's memorial as well as convey the emotion that people should feel upon visiting the site.
Despite that isolation — and despite the fact that the school has just three teachers on site — the students at Qugcuun Memorial still have access to geometry and biology classes taught by highly qualified teachers, as well as up - to - date electives like digital photography.
You can find the NYSE holiday dates listed on the exchange's own site (already linked in answer above), which should obviously be consulted as the most reliable source; they are also published in an article that I have written here: NYSE Holidays 2016, which provides additional information about traditions and events that can be expected to lead to unscheduled closures, and closed dates for holidays that are day - of - month rather than date specific (e.g. President's Day and Memorial Day).
Online memorial sites might help as well as online support groups.
This site is dedicated as a memorial for one of the worst home front disasters to occur during World War II, where 320 service men were instantly killed.
Excellently located, just a stone's throw from the sacred site of Kalighat Kali Temple and Victoria Memorial Hall, The RegentaOrkos Kolkata features 67 well - appointed rooms, as well as a range of dining and banqueting facilities, and a modern spa and beauty salon.
Along the way, visit iconic sites, such as the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, savour fusion cuisine and stay in luxurious sea - facing hotels.
Next, we visit the Crazy Horse Memorial, an as - yet unfi nished monument which has been under construction since 1948 on a site dedicated to Native Americans.
Here you can enjoy the fabulous views over Midtown and the Freedom Tower, built on the site of the former World Trade Center as a fitting memorial.
Cruising on the Kwai allows visits to the bridge, memorials, museums and sites honouring the prisoners of war, as well as venturing off - the - beaten - track and revealing a river quite unspoilt, with magnificent scenery and a rich variety of flora and birdlife, with visits to local markets, temples, Khmer ruins, waterfalls and hot springs.
The one - hour sleigh ride passes by historic sites, such as the Hemingway Memorial and Trail Creek Cabin.
Touring Vienna brought us past many historic sites — the Opera House, countless Viennese cafes, Roman ruins, Holocaust memorials, as well as this more contemporary «love is love» set of stoplights.
Do you think of it as a sort of memorial site?
The brainchild of the National Tourist Routes project in Norway (a government - sponsored initiative which aims to attract visitors to remote but exceptionally beautiful locations), the Steilneset Memorial started out as a modest monument to honor the victims of the witchcraft trials, to be built on the site where the burnings originally took place.
In some instances, she blots out the Confederate sculpture, as if attempting to erase the history that underpins it; in others, she makes it a more explicit site for white supremacist fantasies by adding giant burning crosses, racist slogans and a memorial to Dylann Roof (the alleged murderer of nine African - Americans in a South Carolina church in June).
In Washington, about 50 percent of museums and historical sites are now led by women, with many helming active, popular museums with regional and national appeal, such as the National Portrait Gallery, the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Phillips Collection.
, Amsterdam, NL; Gray Matters, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US; Asamble (performance), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US; Drawing Biennial 2017, The Drawing Room, London, UK; EAT SLEEP WORK REPEAT, Travelling Gallery, Scotland (various locations), UK; The String Traveller, S.M.A.K, Ghent, BE; CONDO, Herald St, London, UK (all 2017); Blow the Whistle, Beat the Drum, Mark Foxx, Los Angeles, US; Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, KR; Manifesta 11, Zurich, CH (all 2016); PORTLLIGAT, El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Guatemala City, GT; Galerie Johann König, Berlin, DE (all 2015); La Criée Centre d'art Contemporain, Rennes, FR; A ∩ B ∩ C (line), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL; Switchboard, Mostyn, Llandudno, UK; One Thing After Another, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL (all 2014); Amalia Pica en el MNBA, Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Neuquen, AR; Se essas paredes falassem, Phosphorus, São Paulo, Brazil, BR; A ∩ B ∩ C (line), Herald St, London, UK; Memorial for Intersections, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PT; Low Visibility, Galerie Johann Konig, Berlin, DE; A ∩ B ∩ C, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX (all 2013); Amalia Pica, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (2012); I am Tower of Hamlets as I am in Tower of Hamlets, just like a lot of people, Off - site project, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (all 2011).
[2] In 1999, Zumthor was selected as the only foreign architect to participate in Norway's National Tourist Routes Project, with two projects, the Memorial in Memory of the Victims of the Witch Trials in Varanger, a collaboration with Louise Bourgeois (completed in 2010), and a rest area / museum on the site of an abandoned zinc mine.
Cunningham received a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in Berlin and her monumental public sculptural installations and alternative memorials are permanently sited in Cologne, Kassel, Bad Hersfeld and Cornberg, Germany, as well as Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, and City of Sculpture, Hamilton, Ohio.
He described his conception of «Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldier» as a «positive» version of that ancient site and an abstract embodiment of man's passage from life to death.
2017 Desert X Biennial, Coachella Valley, CA 2016 SITElines.2016: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico NO COMMISSION, Bronx, NY Recent Acquisition, exhibited as part of Beyond Limits, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Recent Acquisition, exhibited as part of Native Artists of North America, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ Kindred Beasts: The Everson Biennial, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York Convene, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas March Madness, Fort Gansevoort, New York, New York WORD, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York New Geometries, Fleisher / Ollman, Philadelphia Perfect Day, Roberts and Tilton, California 2015 - 6 Affinity Atlas, The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, New York An Evening Redness in the West, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), Santa Fe, New Mexico Between History and Body, The 8th Floor, Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, New York P3, Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 2015 Piece by Piece, Building a Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri Gray Would Be The Color if I Had a Heart, MARC STRAUS, New York, NY Geometries of Difference: New Approaches to Ornament and Abstraction, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York 2014 - 5 Beautiful Games: American Indian Sport and Art, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona 2014 Xigue - Xigue, MARC STRAUS, New York, New York Contemporary American Indian Art, The Nerman Museum Collection, Overland Park, Kansas 2013 Fiction / Non-Fiction, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada On Deck, MARC STRAUS, New York, New York Sakahan: International Indigenous Art, National Gallery Canada, Ottowa, Ontario Outside the Lines, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, Texas Hotbox Forever, Steven Wolf, San Francisco, California Totem, Aysa Geisberg Gallery, New York, New York Group Show, Samson, Boston, Massachusetts 2012 - 4 Changing Hands 3, Museum of Art and Design, New York, New York; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York; McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2012 Shapeshifting, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts E-Vapor-8, 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, New York, organized by Francesca Gavin Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York 2011 Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Linde Wing for Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts Close Encounters, Plug - In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada Recent Acquisitions, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Anthony Greaney x Dan Graham x Samson, Cottage Home Gallery, Los Angeles, California An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet Exhibitions and Mass MoCA, Brooklyn.
A groundbreaking architectural intervention by artist Sarah Oppenheimer, which will link the museum's modern and contemporary collections through meticulously crafted sculptural forms placed in the floor, ceiling, and walls; Recent contemporary acquisitions, including A Man Screaming is Not a Dancing Bear by the artist collaborative Allora & Calzadilla, Untitled (bicycle shower) by Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Live Ball by Nari Ward, as well as works by Guyton \ Walker, Los Carpinteros, Elad Lassry, and Susan Philipsz; An exhibition of eight large - scale color photographs by South African artist Zwelethu Mthethwa, inaugurating the wing's project space for changing exhibitions; An exhibition of outstanding drawings by artists including Lee Bontecou, Philip Guston, and James Rosenquist from the BMA's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection, presented in the museum's new dedicated gallery for prints, drawings, and photographs; A new site - specific work by acclaimed Baltimore street artist Gaia.
As a whole, the exhibition demonstrated a shift from overt representations of death via the body to contemporary artists representing loss via memorial objects or sites of significance.
Inspired by landmarks in Washington D.C., these new synthetic - hair sculptures are modeled after key sites of world politics and markers of American history such as the White House, Pentagon, Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial.
For Julien, the photographs act as «memorial sites
They don't realize urban sites such as the Statue of Liberty, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Little Rock Central High School and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington are also national parks.
In 1676, Central Falls served as the grounds of one of the major engagements in King Philip's War — a memorial stone known as the «Nine Men's Misery» marks the site of a mass grave where some of the battle's casualties were buried.
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