Sentences with phrase «as luxury objects»
With topics such as luxury objects in the pre-Columbian Americas, 20th - century Afro - Brazilian art, alternative spaces in Mexico City, and boundary - crossing practices of Latino artists, exhibitions will range from monographic studies of individual artists to broad surveys that cut across numerous countries.
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«The DNA of magazines is the same as the DNA of luxury products: to make beautiful objects and reflect a certain amount of intelligence.»
The new 2017 Armada provides a unique combination of luxury, power and utility, including best - in - class2 standard towing and a suite of advanced Nissan Safety Shield technologies such as Predictive Forward Collision Warning3 and Backup Collision Intervention4.It also offers a fresh exterior design, enhanced performance from a new 5.6 - liter Endurance ® V8 with best - in - class2 390 - horsepower and new 7 - speed automatic transmission, a comfortable full - feature cabin and class - exclusive2 available safety and security features — including Blind Spot Intervention (BSI) 5 and Around View ® Monitor (AVM) with Moving Object Detection (MOD) 6.
The main thrust of the new displays will be to explore a society that in terms of material culture was marked by the creation of well - made and elegant objects for a general public, as the curators put it, allowing for the «democratisation of luxury».
The delightful parallelism in placing an object of such overblown market value as Koons» balloon animals amongst these objects of natural wonder, themselves luxury objects in much the same way, is one of the best uses of the various contexts the Carnegie Museum has to offer.
An outlier among the well - known generation of young artists who emerged in London in the 1990s, Landy shares their wry attitude towards the marketplace, although his works have never celebrated their status as commodity - objects or luxury goods.
As you walk down the aisles of these fairs the feel is of giant supermarkets: supermarkets that happen to be selling luxury objects of unimaginable price.
Each ceases contemporary art that connects with the history of glasswork, from luxury objects such as chandeliers and mirrors to household items like drinking vessels and light bulbs.
«Although paintings can be quite valuable, their status as primarily aesthetic objects means people often consider conservation as something of a luxury — a luxury on top of a luxury, if you like.»
His work features imagery of everyday and consumer objects, such as paper clips, light bulbs, and champagne flutes, found in desolate urban settings as a reference to his upbringing, but also to broader universal ideas including desire, luxury, and the influx of consumerism into South African society.
At first sight, they simply seem to be oversized representatives of luxury label products, but at a closer look some of the objects bear names such as Rolls Phillipe and Real Sprada.
«Even within my family, they were treated as a luxury commodity as well as a decorative object or even a form of investment.»
Their resulting participation in the event consists of two arrangements, orbiting each other: first, the re-staged Merlin Carpenter show, denuded of its obscene luxury with objects borrowed from other Portlanders and bought from Craigslist; and second, a novella, MC: Emerging Artist — published by hq Objective — whose prose addresses Carpenter directly, attempting to elucidate the intent and context of the restaging as well as of Cherry & Lucic more generally.
The sculptures, which often take fruit or vegetable as their subject matter, transform the furniture from objects of luxury into objects of ridicule.
Luxury images of equestrian sports and wealthy leisure pursuits are repurposed, as are furniture ready - mades into new sculpture where an exchange between consumer image, domestic object and organic matter test the ubiquitous conventions of tradition against the unwieldy nature of the ageing process.
As a first - generation immigrant of Puerto Rican decent, the artist creates objects questioning the concept of luxury and craft making to explore questions of identity, integration and aspiration.
«Wiener Werkstätte, 1903 — 1932: The Luxury of Beauty» Through 1/29 at the Neue Galerie The goal of the early - 20th - century design collective known as the Wiener Werkstätte (or Vienna workshops) was to elevate everyday objects into pieces of art.
Ongoing disagreements relate, inter alia, to two points: one relates to the application of Coty beyond luxury products, already discussed, and the second to the treatment of other clauses having a similar object and effect — such as a ban on the use of price comparison websites.
What's most interesting to me about their reaction to the Watch as a hardware object is how much it still comes off as a gadget, despite Apple's best efforts to make it a luxury item.