Sentences with phrase «as stage curtains»

Think of Pollock's «action painting» as a performance, Rothko's canvases as stage curtains or magician's mirrors best viewed half a room away.

Los Angeles - based architectural firm Johnston Marklee has created the exhibition design for the show by introducing a zigzag - shaped wall, which functions as a stage curtain.

Not exact matches

All of those countless hours of sermons and worship services will help when Legend takes the stage as Jesus in the televised musical, but even when the curtain drops on Easter Sunday, that message will stay with him, because that's still what fuels John Legend — the singer, the activist, the father — in the real role that he was always born to play.

Since that 1998 edition, the UEFA Super Cup has been staged as a single match at the Stade Louis II in Monaco as a curtain - raiser to the European club season.

When the curtain falls, Major declared as he left Downing Street for the final time, «it's time to get off the stage».

Think of this simple year - round plan as the rope for the stage curtains.

As the curtains part onto the main stage, the bag comes complete with acrobat silhouettes suspended on real chains against a backdrop of cream and gold stars (and yes, I just so happened to have a necklace that was a perfect match...).

The theme of the event was Temptation, and they had a red curtain clad stage complete with burlesque performers as well as tasty treats traveling around the room on the arms of waiters and dance performers floating around the room between bidders.

Bernard tells Françoise, an actress, that she talks as if she is auditioning, and when Hélène suddenly pulls back the red - patterned drape in her apartment to reveal one of the film's many crucial meal scenes, the startling effect is of a stage curtain revealing a set.

The Party is like a kind of one - act play by Simon Gray or Anthony Schaffer, which might be produced on stage as the second half of a double - bill — with an early piece by Stoppard before the interval, perhaps — so that the evening can end on a heartstoppingly loud gunshot before the curtain call.

We hear the murmurings of an audience, then we see curtains open, and actor Dan Leno (Douglas Booth) appears on the stage, dressed as a woman and promising to begin at the end.

Spanish director Carlos Saura went as far as hanging on to the stage curtains to stop his own film Peppermint Frappé from screening.

The backstage camera option makes it worth it, though, as the chance to see stars behind the curtain while their co-stars are out on stage is rare.

Argento, because he's in control at this point and knows it, literally drops a pair of red curtains (vaginal lips as stage affectation) on the scene before inexplicably cutting away to water circling a drain, an image that will never again be innocuous post-Psycho.

The xD comes standard with popular convenience and safety features such as: power steering, windows, door locks and mirrors; remote keyless entry; air conditioning; four - wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS) with Electronic Brake Distribution (EBD) and Brake Assist (BA); stability and traction control; a tire pressure monitor system; driver and front - passenger dual - stage airbags; front - seat - mounted side airbags; front and rear side - curtain airbags; cruise control; a first - aid kit; and a tilt steering wheel with audio controls.

Other features fitted as standard include dual stage front airbags; side and curtain airbags; a Bose premium audio system; AudioPilot active noise cancellation, which neutralises road, wind and other intrusive noises by sending out an opposite phase signal through the audio system; Active Front Lighting System (AFS) featuring directional lighting; keyless entry; satellite navigation with a voice recognition function and RDS - TMS to help the driver plot a route around traffic congestion; and a rear view camera to assist parking.

The Versa comes with dual - stage front airbags with an occupant classification system as well as front seat - mounted side - impact air bags and full length side curtain airbags.

Safety features such as Electronic Stability Control, dual stage front driver and passenger airbags, side impact airbags for driver and front passenger and side curtain airbags are all standard fitment across the range.

Every Murano includes as standard the Nissan Advanced Air Bag System (AABS) with dual stage supplemental front air bags with seat belt sensors and an occupant classification sensor, front - seat mounted side - impact supplemental air bags, roof - mounted curtain side - impact supplemental air bags with a rollover sensor and a driver supplemental knee air bag.

The 2018 GMC Yukon comes equipped with the first ever in the industry front - center airbag for added safety, as well as seat mounted airbags, head curtain airbags and dual staged frontal airbags.

In keeping with the Honda «Safety for Everyone» initiative, all Odyssey models are equipped with Vehicle Stability Assist ™ (VSA ®), also known as electronic stability control; standard anti-lock brakes with brake assist; advanced dual - stage, dual - threshold driver's and front passenger's SRS airbags; front side airbags with passenger - side Occupant Protection Detection System (OPDS); three - row side - curtain airbags with a rollover sensor; and a pedestrian safety design in the front of the vehicle.

The 2010 Camaro comes complete with all the amenities we have come to expect from a modern car like dual stage frontal and side curtain airbags as well as Stabilitrak traction control, four wheel disc brakes with ABS, tire pressure monitoring system and of course, General Motor's fabulous OnStar system complete with convenience features like turn by turn navigation and a very peace of mind granting automatic crash response.

Every XF also comes with two - stage driver and front passenger airbags, side and curtain airbags and seat occupant sensing systems to help ensure the airbags work precisely and only as needed in every circumstance.

Along with the increased structural rigidity of the platform that aids with occupant protection, standard safety items included on every new 2017 Nissan GT - R consist of the Nissan Advanced Air Bag System (AABS) that features dual - stage supplemental front air bags with seat belt sensors and occupant classification sensors that can vary the rate of air bag inflation based upon seatbelt usage and crash severity; a pair of side - impact supplemental air bags that are integrated into the front seats so that they move with the driver / front passenger as the seating position is adjusted; roof - mounted curtain side - impact supplemental air bags; energy - absorbing steering column; and LATCH System (Lower Anchors and Tethers for CHildren) to properly secure LATCH - compatible child restraints without having to use the seatbelts.

Standard safety features, other than those noted, include dual - stage front air bags whose deployment speed is based on force of impact, as well as side - impact air - bag curtains for front - and rear - seat occupants.

In addition to applying the next - generation Advanced Compatibility Engineering ™ (ACE ™) body structure to most of its models, American Honda has applied the following safety features on all its models as standard equipment: Vehicle Stability Assist ™ (VSA ®) with traction control; an Anti-lock Braking System (ABS); side curtain airbags (most vehicles equipped with a rollover sensor as well); dual - stage, multiple - threshold front airbags; and front side airbags.

But the impulse to pull back the curtain has been with us for as long as there have been stages or screens behind it.

Platforms Windows, Mac, Linux Developer Prologue Games Genre Point and Click Adventure Platform Played On Mac Curtains rise for the last time as the final installment of Knee Deep, the episodic adventure game from Prologue Games, takes the stage!

His menacing of the princess is ultimately harmless — a stage show, as the Super Mario Bros. 3 curtain suggests.

Andre, too, has always been a performer without stage or curtain, almost as much in fact as Chris Burden.

James» steady rove through unrelenting stage curtains, dollhouse proportions, nostalgic television sets, and the cues of bourgeois place - settings in Present Time identifies her increasingly less as a chic marauder and more as a pantomime of humorous delight springing from her environment like Chutes and Ladders.

Also navigating translucency as a motif, a curtain titled Don't be an actress (yellow) constructed of semi-transparent fabric printed with abstract forms hangs over the entrance doorway to the gallery, telling of both the artist's father's background in stage design as well as her interest in the amount of information carried into a large - scale digital print from an analogue source.

He sees Modernism as piercing the stage curtain at last, while losing the sense of the everyday.

For Williams, the curtain and, more broadly, the exhibition pay tribute to her father - to his life and work, as well as the hospital curtain that marked the final stage of his life when he passed away from mesothelioma.

She has noted Sophie Taeuber - Arp's puppets and futurist theater as influences and often uses the form and grammar of the theater — from curtains to the stage — in her own work, including the raised stage - like platform that Crowner has reintroduced at MASS MoCA.

What is at stake in this work is not so much representing a figure and giving it flesh, but the staging of an image's life — as if the image was taking revenge upon the portrait and pushing its way to the surface of the canvas, with the help of curtains and shadows, pictorial marks and brushwork.

Projector and speakers hung on a Dixi urinal, which acted as a kind of base structure from which the two projections were thrown on plastic curtains and attached onto steel stage elements.

Widely regarded as both an artist and designer, White's design for a tapestry that resembles a giant sheet of crumpled silver foil recently won a Norwegian design competition for the stage curtain in the Oslo opera house.

The work alludes to the functionality of a household object as much as it does to the theatricality of a stage curtain.

Table cloths, curtains and bed duvets act as memory objects that stage İlkin's motifs and images.

Blending elements of fairy tales, history, myths, and reality she creates unique scenarios that include, among many other elements, references to the 1960's television series The Avengers, The Beatles, Little Red Riding Hood, ballet stages like Giselle's Cottage at the Bolshoi, photographs of dead squirrels and birds reminiscent of Dutch still - life paintings, gold frames, velvet curtains, mirrors, cobwebs, swords, and axes accompanied by sound - tracks of 18th century choral and harpsichord music as well as the sound of clinging crystal chandeliers.

As the curator of the exhibition, Michael Auping, describes it, «Rothko sets the stage, draws back the curtains, if you will, on the opening up of this space.

About the Work For Syracuse 2010 TRT: 1:24:00 LED curtain video Holzer created For Syracuse as a site - specific installation that streams across the façade of Syracuse Stage on an LED curtain.

For two years, Centre Pompidou - Metz presents Beacons, an extended exhibition showcasing monumental works from the collections of Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, including Pablo Picasso's stage curtain for the ballet Mercure, Composition with Two Parrots by Fernand Léger, Figures and Birds in the Night by Joan Miró as well as Palombe by Frank Stella and Survivor (s) by Yan Pei - Ming.

As the curtain closes on the Dallas Museum of Art Summer Spotlight tour, it rises on the fall exhibition All the World's a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts.

The show spans iconic, career - defining works — candy spills, light strings, beaded curtains — as well as performance works like Untitled (Go - Go Dancing Platform)(1991), which sees a male dancer in a lamé bikini hold court daily on a small stage.

What's more, most professional stagers have their own staging supplies, such as neutral accessories, curtains or furniture, which will save you a lot of time and money.

Even the greatest orators and speech makers all started in the same place, learning how to put one foot after the other as they made their way down the aisle, behind the curtain, up to the stage and utter the first line.

They often just use sheets for curtains and tablecloths, even covering up trash cans and using them as nightstands, or making boxes into the shape of a table or chair and covering them up... They say it's all about just giving the buyer an IDEA of how their things might look... so maybe you don't need to bring too many items in to stage it again.

Mary Young and Martha Nodarse had some unique requests for the master bath reno in their 1904 American Foursquare — specifically, a claw - foot tub that could take center stage, function as a shower, and not be boxed in by a clingy shower curtain hung from a ring overhead.