Sentences with phrase «by championing art»

The UK Friends of NMWA are a UK registered charity that supports the mission of NMWA by championing art by women in the UK, past and present.

UK Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts («UK Friends of NMWA») supports the mission of NMWA by championing art by women in the UK, past and present.

Not exact matches

The minister who took an axe to the CBC this week, cutting its funding by 10 per cent, unapologetically clung to the idea of being a champion of the arts on Thursday, touting a budget that slashed his own department's operations while shielding the Canada Council for the Arts, national museums and others from funding carts on Thursday, touting a budget that slashed his own department's operations while shielding the Canada Council for the Arts, national museums and others from funding cArts, national museums and others from funding cuts.

On the other side, artists like Emily Dickinson champion the idea that art can transcend time and place as a means by which reality can be experienced.

My own sense is that the early - to - mid 60s embrace of R+B dance got overdone — as best exemplified by the way England's mods turned to amphetamines to keep them engaged in the non-stop-dancin'their scene championed — and thus eventually provoked a reactive turn to heaviness (hard - rock, art rock), relaxed rural - ness (country - rock), and even outright mellowness (James Taylor and co.).

For every movie featuring an Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Alice or Katniss Everdeen, Asian film industries managed to produce several dozen more entertaining, hard - hitting action flicks featuring strong female characters portrayed by butt - kicking heroines, many of them real - life martial arts champions or physically gifted dancers or performers.

And by the end of their lives, he's feeding her, he's cleaning after her, he's championing her art, he's caring for her, and... Read

And by the end of their lives, he's feeding her, he's cleaning after her, he's championing her art, he's caring for her, and he's in many ways her maid.»

Written by champion battle rapper Alex «Kid Twist» Larsen, the film takes aim at everyone as it interrogates the boundaries of modern identity politics — and brings the no - holds - barred art of battling to the big screen with searing rhymes and incendiary insults.

Set after the war, with Ip Man relocated to Hong Kong, it replaces the foreign devils that were the occupying Japanese Army with the colonial British foreign devils ruling Hong Kong in 1950 and sets the honorable sensei against a corrupt cabal of martial arts teachers lead by Sammo Hung (who is also the film's fight choreographer) and a champion boxer called The Twister (Darren Shahlavi), a British brute with a powerful punch and a killer instinct.

From the Studio: Based on the bestselling novel by master storyteller Nicholas Sparks, THE LONGEST RIDE centers on the star - crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world.

That same day members of the Creative Coalition will lobby Capitol Hill in behalf of funds for the National Endowment for the Arts, followed by an evening benefit dinner to celebrate «Arts in America» and some of its congressional champions.

Austin Film Festival furthers the art and craft of storytelling by inspiring and championing the work of writers, filmmakers, and all artists who use written and visual language to tell a story.

The Music Center is recognizing champions for arts education and is looking for nominations of teachers or schools that use art to inspiring learning by Oct. 15.

Similarly, with the increase in importance of writing, especially early writing of the sort discussed by Graves and his colleagues, [78] it was tempting to champion the idea of integrated language arts instruction.

This was founded in 1968 by the World Olympic champion figure skater Sonja Kenie who was a passionate art lover.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. --(Jan. 12, 2018)-- Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain Resort & Spa has long championed the local art community, with works by inspired Arizonans dotting the 53 - acre property.

Visit the Arts and Industry park for some hidden treasures and original clothing and art design from Byron Bay Jewellery to Surf shops run by Surf Champions.

Guests can enjoy a coffee from Streamer Coffee Company situated on the ground floor, run by a latte art world champion.

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Apparently: «The new Gospel Champions series takes children back to biblical times by recreating Gospel stories in a state - of - the - art game that intertwines action / adventure gameplay with sequenced elements of Bible stories.»

Sporting hand - drawn HD sprites, first - ever per pixel lighting systems for 2D art, gameplay innovatively evolved and refined by a competitive champion and a memorable story and cast of characters, Skullgirls is a refreshing take on the newly - ascendant fighting genre.

I have noticed that whenever the «D' word is used in relation to abstract art it is usually the late modernist painters, championed by Clement Greenberg, that we have in mind.

More recently another key patron, Charles Saatchi, championed the sensational Britart conceptual art explosion, typified by Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.

Those images seem reminiscent of the German Pop Art and its Capitalist Realism offspring, as championed by Gerhard Richter or Sigmar Polke in the 1960s.

Conceptual art developed partly as an adverse reaction to Modernism, specifically to the formalist strictures hammered in by Clement Greenberg, who championed flat abstract painting.

While his work bears similarities to that of American abstract expressionist painters such as Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski and Barnett Newman, Hoyland was keen to avoid what he called the «cul - de-sac» of Rothko's formalism and the erasure of all self and subject matter in painting as championed by the American critic Clement Greenberg.1 The paintings on show here exhibit Hoyland's equal emphasis on emotion, human scale, the visibility of the art - making process and the conception of a painting as the product of an individual and a time.

Franklin Furnace was founded in 1976 by artist Martha Wilson to champion ephemeral forms neglected by mainstream arts institutions.

Fighting talk — but surely it must grate that his reputation as the champion of 1960s art has been wrested from him by Andy Warhol.

Paintings, reliefs and collages such as the cubist - influenced Beach with Starfish (1993 - 34) chart his stylistic development from representational art through abstraction, while a display of selected works by contemporaries including Alexander Calder and Jean Hélion helps illuminate Piper's role as a champion of international abstract art in Britain.

The museum champions women through the arts by collecting, exhibiting, researching and creating programs that advocate for equity and shine a light on excellence.

Run by its owner Paul Keeler and enthusiastically supported by the critic Guy Brett and the artist David Medalla, they championed Kinetic art, as well as European and Latin American Concretism.

A few observers noted how the exhibitions she organized — among them, Eccentric Abstraction at the Fischbach Gallery in 1966 and 557,087 at the Seattle Art Museum three years later — bolstered Lippard's own «creative originality» at the expense of the «explanatory historicism» exemplified by the artists she championed.

A century or so ago, championed by Alfred Stieglitz and Camera Work, the Pictorialist photographers emulated the visual characteristics of painting, often through extensive darkroom manipulation, in a bid to establish photography as an art form.

Martin Parr, photographer Nominated by Grayson Perry RA: «He is a tireless champion for the art of photography and his efforts have contributed greatly in getting us all to take photography more seriously.

Although all of the artists have donated works to help to support the magazine and the development of the art school, this exhibition has been carefully considered to reflect that which is current, significant and critical in contemporary painting, including abstract works by Thomas Nozkowski, Mali Morris and Phil Allen, and painters who have championed a figurative approach such as Chantal Joffe, Neal Tait and Dinos Chapman.

The Whitechapel Gallery presents a major exhibition by London - based artist Emma Hart (b. 1974) for the sixth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, a biannual award established in 2005 to champion women artists in the UK.

Many gatekeepers of the museum and art market establishments were loath to countenance the unconventional Arnett or his championing of previously unknown artists, and the producers fed the storyline of exploitation of African Americans by an eccentric white collector.

Since being founded in 1967 by Nicholas Logsdail, it has championed the careers of artists who have transformed the way art was made and presented.

Foremost is the museum's founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861 — 1949), who with support from his trusted advisor, the German - born artist Hilla Rebay (1890 — 1967), set aside a more traditional collecting focus to become a great champion of nonobjective art — a strand of abstraction with spiritual aims and epitomized by the work of Vasily Kandinsky.

When art that has been championed as subversive nonetheless ends up in exhibitions sponsored by pharma magnates or in the collections of arms dealers — well, it's easy to become cynical.

In Art in America this month Raphael Rubinstein, after reading issues of AiA from thirty years ago, considers the fate of Neo-Expressionism, a movement popular in the 1980s championed by painters such as Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Clemente, Markus Lüpertz, and Julian Schnabel that was ultimately overshadowed by the more cerebral work created by artists like Jenny Holzer, Sherry Levine, and Richard Prince — what we now call «The Pictures Generation.»

The venerable Colorado museum's show last summer, «Women of Abstract Expressionism,» featured 51 paintings by 12 women artists who have not gotten recognition as a group before — from Elaine de Koonig, the wife of Willem, whose work she championed; to Helen Frankenthaler, married to Robert Motherwell; to Lee Krasner, overshadowed by her art - star husband, Jackson Pollock; as well as many of their peers, from familiar to obscure: Joan Mitchell, Mary Abbott, Perle Fine, Jay DeFeo, Ethel Schwabacher, Judith Godwin, Grace Hartigan, Deborah Remington and Sonia Gechtoff.

Even though Prince's art, especially his use of photography, is conceptually and intellectually anchored in the critical discourse of its time — loaded with references to simulacra and the death of the author, as championed by figures such as Debord, Baudrillard and Gilles Deleuze — his practice can not be reduced to a philosophical or sociological commitment.

Meanwhile, other examples of woodblock prints can be seen at Lady Lever Art Gallery in the autumn, where works owned by local collector Frank Milner reveal the celebrities, sports champions, fashion icons and villains of 19th century Japanese culture.

A graduate of the Columbia University School of the Arts MFA Program, Greenberger Rafferty has been championed by the likes of Roberta Smith, the New York Times art critic, amongst others.

But championed by the feminists of the New York art world in the 1970s, and then embraced by such curatorial powerhouses as Robert Storr, she became well known as she entered her seventies.

Founded by 4heads, a group of New York artists, GIAF champions an art fair model that puts the artists first.

A hundred years after the creation of the Dada movement «s characteristic collage aesthetic, the Volta NY fair is championing the political nature of collage in a curated exhibition, The Aesthetics of Matter, organized by renowned artist Mickalene Thomas and her partner Racquel Chevremont, an art advisor and collector.

Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Procession considers the complexity of Lewis's art in its entirety, examining his use of figuration within his abstract expressionist style, his ability to integrate social issues and abstraction, and the surprising and expressive palette he championed throughout his career.