Sentences with phrase «as cultural commentary»

It is a brand and a mentality, a curatorial collection of exclusive products, a congenial pool of designers, a distributed statement about design as cultural commentary, a medium, working with cutting edge designers and enlightened clients.»

Darren's studio practice consists of text - based observations, and arrangements of common objects, as cultural commentary.

Niebuhr's account of sin and his understanding of theology as cultural commentary provided a compelling «sociology» for a theology done in a new idiom.

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I had done my best to uncover as much of the cultural background material as I could for my commentary, and I wanted to see if I had missed anything.

Though it hides under the guise of global commentary, the picture is best approached as a rocket sled experience, diligently pulling together mayhem while tiptoeing around sensitive cultural issues.

The pairing of act and music isn't so much farce as inane fodder for ensuring The House's removal from anything resembling genuine social commentary, but it also indulges the laziest form of cultural fantasy, where the awkward, middle - aged white couple is allowed to engage in cultural appropriation for a spell before returning to their dull middle - class lives, and all without consequence.

This definitive release recycles Altman's excellent DVD commentary and adds enticing new features, such as a rare - for - Criterion retrospective documentary where the likes of actors Rene Auberjonois and Keith Carradine reflect on the film's production and its cultural moment.

In the tradition of Jonathan Lethem's They Live monograph and the 33 1/3 series of longform album reviews, Miracle Mile offers a mix of cultural commentary, film criticism, and memoir as Walter dissects Miracle Mile's therapeutic function in his life following a traumatic event in the summer of 1989.

This is supposed to serve as commentary about how uncomfortable so many people still feel about discussing cultural differences, but this particular gag and a subsequent dinner with Linda's family are just straining for shock value.

You will visit several landmarks and attractions, including historic and cultural sites, as your experienced guide provides an informative commentary.

Curated by Fairfax Dorn, Comic Future features paintings, drawings and sculpture by artists who combine abstraction, formalism and narrative with political satire as well as cultural and biographical commentary to explore both comedic and apocalyptic visions of the future.

Her intertwining of classical genres with cutting edge technologies, such as the combination of live drawing with video environments, offer both lyrical readings and cultural commentary on today's world.

In these exhibits, some of the artists creatively transform everyday objects as part of their social, political, and cultural commentary: the materials are part of the message.

Clement Greenberg graduated in literature from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York in 1930, taught himself Latin and German, began to work as a United States customs clerk (1937) and then to publish political and cultural commentary in Partisan Review and The Nation.

As his career has progressed from his start as an editor for Rolling Stone, his work has also evolved from straightforward music criticism to broader cultural commentarAs his career has progressed from his start as an editor for Rolling Stone, his work has also evolved from straightforward music criticism to broader cultural commentaras an editor for Rolling Stone, his work has also evolved from straightforward music criticism to broader cultural commentary.

«The artist sees this as commentary on cultural and technological pollution,» a booth attendant tells Artspace.

Inverting the vegetarian premise of this edition of Food Art Week, MOMENTUM uses the occasion of our partnership to engage with five artists from the MOMENTUM Collection and our Artist Residency Program (MOMENTUM AiR) who work with meat as an artistic medium, and as an effective commentary upon cultural practices and taboos.

Although his imagery seems to allude to some form of cultural commentary, the relation between abstraction as an irrational process on the one hand and the manifestation of the overlapping poured shapes on the other asserts a calculated agreement to disagree with the language of painting and its representation.

Or maybe it should be put the other way round: Stubbs's imagery seems constantly on the verge of converging into some form of cultural commentary, but the fundamental abstractness and even irrationality of his overlapping poured shapes seems calculated to prevent that — to insist on the painting as an agreement to disagree between wayward materials and stubborn intentionality.

For the first time since 2007, the gallery spaces in the Villa Salve Hospes are being filled with a thematic group exhibition: OPEN HOUSE — A Group Show on Hospitality brings together eleven international artistic positions whose works provide commentaries on hospitality as a social, cultural and political phenomenon.

Representing several new approaches emerging from the wealth of painterly history and ideas accumulated over the last century, these artists combine various elements such as conceptual art, post-painterly abstraction, reductive strategies, mysticism and cultural commentary in a visually and intellectually provocative collection of paintings.

Representing several new approaches emerging from the wealth of painterly history and ideas accumulated over the last century, these artists combine various elements such as conceptual art, post-painterly abstraction, reductive strategies, mysticism and cultural commentary -LSB-...]

Facilitated by a diverse roster of teaching artists, scholars, writers and educators working within the field of comics, Skin and Bones Comic Con seeks to expose audiences to diverse approaches to visual storytelling, and contextualize comics as a powerful tool of social commentary and cultural critique.

Anne Pasternak, Brooklyn Museum's new director; Mia Locks and Christopher Y. Lew, named curators of the 2017 Whitney Biennial; Thomas J. Lax's contribution as the youngest curator of «Greater New York» at P.S. 1 (the others were Douglas Crimp, Peter Eleey and Ms. Locks; through March 7); savvy art writing by Johanna Fateman and Mostafa Heddaya and Felix Bernstein's blistering cultural commentary.

Using the book as a symbol for knowledge, Benes conceals the information inherent to the object's purpose either as cheeky irreverence or as a commentary on American cultural values.

The Swedish artist, Christian Andersson, stages his exhibition in the Von Bartha Gallery as a clever commentary on the cultural - philosophical discourses and rituals of the art market.

A monograph on the great Pop Art master, James Rosenquist, this book shows how the artist's large - scale works and their source materials remain powerful and relevant as cultural and political commentary.

It was created as a literary and cultural commentary magazine.

Scotland About Blog Bella Caledonia was formed in 2007 by Mike Small and Kevin Williamson as an online magazine combining political and cultural commentary.