Sentences with phrase «as cultural icon»

The power of the Discobolus as a cultural icon continues today with Chinese sculptor Sui Jianguo's (b. 1956) clothed version, on display in Room 3.

The fourteen works on view will reflect art's longstanding relationship with the car as a cultural icon and fetish object replete with physical and symbolic possibilities.

(Los Angeles, CA)-- VENUS is pleased to present Piston Head II, an exhibition which explores the relationship and parallels between art and the automobile, featuring new works in which the car is considered as both a cultural icon and sculptural form.

These have included «The Black Bastard as a Cultural Icon (1985), «The Slaughter of Another Golden Calf» (1984/85), and «Marcus Garvey: The Blackest Star» (1988).

This show is an ode of sorts to RuPaul, a performer who inspires many as a cultural icon, artist and guru.

Recognized since the 1970s as signifier of Black identity and activism, the hair accessory's importance as cultural icon is evidenced by its monumental scale.

I can understand why America would take him as a cultural icon; we don't like rules and restrictions and often valorize rugged individualists.

These buildings serve a dual role as cultural icon.

This history of the famous Italian volcano examines its role as a cultural icon through the ages.

During the decades since Mackey founded Whole Foods, it has emerged as a cultural icon and a force in its industry.

In her speech at its launching, Joan Kirner, the Premier of Victoria, equated the new facility with the National Tennis Centre and the Great Southern Stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as cultural icons of the future.

* eSports are very popular in Asia including in China, and gamers look at high - profile professional gamers as cultural icons.

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As fans mourned the loss of the 91 - year - old cultural icon while others were critical of his exploits, speculation began almost immediately over who would inherit the magnate's remaining fortune, with several publications estimating Hefner's net worth at upwards of $ 45 million.

Wolfe's references to Britney Spears as a campus cultural icon are anachronistic.

The position of the Government and of such campaigners and many other cultural icons in our society is that the rights of active homosexuals to be unimpeded in having their relationship treated as normal trump the rights of Christians not to so cooperate.

A decade ago Kenichi Ohmae described this process9, driven by global exposure to the same information, the same cultural icons, and the same advertisements, as the «Californiazation» of taste.

It also makes the Chiko Roll, a staple in fish and chip shops and something of a cultural icon that hit its peak as a fast - food snack in the 1970s.

At this point, it's impossible to think of Lena Dunham as anything short of a cultural icon.

Rated # 1 by Zagat and praised by the New York Times as «Art, not Soup,» it set the standard for innovation and excellence long before the famous «Seinfeld» episode made it a cultural icon.

The announcement took place during a press conference in Flushing Meadows Corona Park at the Unisphere, the huge globe erected for the 1964 World's Fair that has since become a cultural icon known worldwide as a symbol of Queens.

The press conference will take place in Flushing Meadows Corona Park at the Unisphere, the huge globe erected for the 1964 World's Fair that has since become a cultural icon known worldwide as a symbol of Queens.

Irradiation has been used worldwide to save documents such as ancient Orthodox Christian icons in Romania, cultural artifacts in Brazil and religious sculptures in France.

Some iconic people from the decade in the cultural context includes icons such as Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, Grace Jones, Liza Minnelli, Davie Bowie and more.

Critics Consensus: Every bit as good - natured as longtime fans might hope, I Am Big Bird: The Carroll Spinney Story offers heartwarming behind - the - scenes perspective on a cultural icon.

He's since gone on to become a cultural icon, much in the same mould as the legendary James Dean.

Hardy stars as Ronnie and Reggie Kray, the notorious East End thugs who cut a swathe through the capital's criminal element in the 1960s, and became cultural icons in the process.

Early in her career, Myers established herself as a great cultural and community resource for Native - content projects being produced by networks and studios including: Monsters of God (Plan B / TNT); Magnificent Seven (MGM / Columbia Pictures); Wind River (Weinstein Co.); The Lone Ranger (Walt Disney / Jerry Bruckheimer Films); And, Apocalypto (Icon Ent / Touchstone).

Oprah Winfrey as Gloria: Quickly canceling any inclination that this would be some of grandiose big screen comeback for the cultural icon, Winfrey plays a part that does little for the story, despite the amount of time spent on it.

18) Shawn Corey Carter, aka Jay - Z, wasn't always a cultural icon married to Beyonce» who had parlayed his success as a rap artist into a multi-millionaire empire with a host of diverse holdings ranging from a record label to a music publishing company to a clothing line to a nightclub chain to an NBA team.

It doesn't leap to top of mind as other such Canadian icons as the maple leaf, hockey, maple syrup, Mounties or the inukshuk, but Honda's seemingly omnipresent Civic — over the years in sedan, hatchback and wagon guises — comes closer to achieving cultural status than just about any other automobile out there.

The Mini Cooper S gained accolades and recognition for winning the Monte Carlo Rally for several years in the 1960s, helping cement the car's status as a British cultural icon.

The Dragon Quest franchise has been described as that of a cultural icon (in Japan, particularly in the gaming world).

We may even think of Chicago and its cultural icons such as author Richard Wright and playwright Lorraine Hansberry.

We'll talk about this nature island with Alwin Bully about the UNESCO cultural icons on Dominica and how the focus now is on preserving the land and the culture, as well as the culinary experiences.

It is a quick excursion in Cusco, which gives you the opportunity to get to know some of the Incan culture's main architectural icons, along with the monumental aspect of The Imperial City's Historical Center declared as Humanity's Cultural Patrimony.

In operation since 1705 Cafe Tomaselli is a cultural icon and was frequented by Salzburg's favourite son, Amadeus Mozart, as well as generations of the royal family.

Hotel Realm is ideally located close to Canberra's city centre and a bevy of the Nation's most revered cultural icons such as the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House, and the stately Lake Burley Griffin.

There is a Donald Duck comic in Finland (where he is known as Aku Ankka) that is something of a cultural icon.

Recently reopened theatre The Rep has been bringing exciting drama to Birmingham for more than 100 years and it is now adjoined to the new cultural icon that is the Library of Birmingham, Europe's largest public library, offering live music and entertainment as well as a vast collection of books, films and publications to explore, including a breath - taking archive of Shakespeare works.

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portfolio attests to the historical significance of Obama's status as a political and cultural icon.

(It reads, «Grandiosity is the defense against depression which masks the deep pain over loss of self»; as is often the case with Martin's references to cultural icons, one senses a perfect balance between respect and irony.)

In the institution's central hall, Da Corte will erect a large - scale stage on which to examine, via imitation, four iterations of the Detroit - born star — as pop - cultural icon; as social phenomenon; as a brand so sensationally vast that in 2017 the word «stan» was added to the Oxford English Dictionary, its definition, in accordance with Eminem's song of the same name: «an overzealous or obsessive fan of a particular celebrity».

Known for his self - portraits and use of pop culture icons (such as Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson), Harris teases the viewers» perceptions and expectations, resignifying cultural cursors, and recalibrating the familiar with the extraordinary.

Known for his self - portraits and use of pop culture icons (such as Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson), Harris teases viewers» perceptions and expectations, resignifying cultural cursors, and recalibrating the familiar with the extraordinary.

Artists, thinkers, and cultural icons are paired on stage with Jungian analysts or scholars and invited to respond to and interpret a folio from Jung's Red Book as a starting point for a wide - ranging conversation.

As a child, Saint Phalle searched for heroes and cultural icons to look up to and wanted to instill the same ideas into her biracial great - grandson.

The officially landmarked building is recognized as an American cultural icon and renowned for those who have lived and created there, including Sir Arthur Clarke, Bob Dylan, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Miller, Joni Mitchell, Dee Dee Ramone, Larry Rivers, Dylan Thomas, Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, Milos Forman, Janis Joplin, Donald Sutherland, Patti Smith, Philip Taaffe, Dennis Hopper, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Eugene O'Neill, Jane Fonda, Larry Rivers, Leonard Cohen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tom Waits, Courtney Love, Sam Shepard, Charles Bukowski, Julian Schnabel, Jasper Johns, Viva, Quentin Crisp, Jimi Hendrix and many others (some of whom will appear in this film).

UPCOMING SHOW: Yokohama Triennale REGULAR GIG: Artist KNOWN FOR: In his theatrical photographs, Yasumasa Morimura dresses up as Western cultural icons, humorously commenting upon Japan's own complex historical absorption of American culture.

And that has a kind of African context too in that the African artists or the medicine men and others who were involved with creating things — cultural icons and other things — would determine the value of something and place it in a different context; such as the use of objects from nature.