Sentences with phrase «by cultural critics»

Female nudity has been criticized by cultural critics on the right and left.

Otis College of Art and Design's Fine Arts Department presents a lecture by cultural critic Hilton Als: Diane Arbus in Manhattan, February 1, 2016, 7:30 p.m. at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Bing Theater.

about Otis College of Art and Design Presents a Lecture by Cultural Critic Hilton Als at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Afrofuturism was coined in 1995 by cultural critic Mark Dery in his essay «Black to the Future,» according to the museum.

When interviewed in 1994 by the cultural critic Suzi Gablik, he was quite specific about his point of view.

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Cram is largely ignored today, save by self - professed young fogeys and the occasional cultural critic.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

But its roots are traceable to the end of the 19th century when influential cultural critics - Matthew Arnold chief among them - drew critical attention to deep concordances between religion and art with their predictions that, in Arnold's famous phrase, «most of what now passes with us for religion will be replaced by poetry.»

Maybe the final stage of our rebuilding — or, really, with our young and talented philosophical cultural critics — being built better than ever — is a long, windbag, off - the wall, semi-philosophical post by ME.

By juxtaposing the concerns of Dawson and Eliot to the cultural criticism of the Frankfurt School and other social critics like Neil Postman, one can begin to see an emerging critique of the forms of modernity during the first half of the twentieth century.

By not pursuing that historical theme to the field setting of missions, Newbigin unwittingly plays into the hands of his critics who see in missions proof of Western cultural insensitivity.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

Controversial internet entrepreneur turned cultural critic Andrew Keen, who says the revolution of interactivity and user - generated content on the internet is leading to «less culture, less reliable news and a chaos of useless information» is one contributor certain to ignite debate at the two - day conference, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through its e-Society programme.

Indeed, the site reminds me most of a great, unfinished study of 19th - century urbanism called Passagenwerk, an elaborate collection of photos, quotes, advertisements, clippings, and short aphorisms compiled by the German cultural critic Walter Benjamin during the 1930s.

Also noteworthy, in the category of cinema ruled by cultural concerns and actual political events, was Carlos (d. Olivier Assayas), which kept a packed auditorium of critics in their seats for over five hours with a glossy, but intelligent action film version of the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monks.

Extras: New audio commentary featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano; new introduction by Giddins; new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.»

The heyday for American film criticism was the»70s because I think the people that got into it at that point were really inspired by the likes of Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael, both of whom became famous and established the importance of film critics as a cultural force.

Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost, edited by Michael Brashinsky and Andrew Horton, is a book in two parts: the first, Films in a Shifting Landscape, is a series of essays analyzing the historical and cultural legacy that shaped three generations of Soviet film criticism; the second, Glasnost's Top Ten, is a compilation of... read more»

These critics each tackle a handful of episodes by themselves, offering exhaustive discussions of The Outer Limits and the political and cultural atmospheres that yielded it.

EXTRAS: The Blu - ray release includes a conversation between director Paolo Sorrentino and Italian cultural critic Antonio Monda, interviews with actor Toni Servillo and co-writer Umberto Contarello, deleted scenes and a booklet featuring an essay by critic Phillip Lopate.

Hell, how can they have enhanced the cultural heritage when nobody but critics and a handful of festivalgoers have had the chance to, well, been, enriched by them?

DVD Extras: Cultural critic commentary, «Theo & Julian» featurette, «Futuristic Design» featurette, «Visual Effects: Creating The Baby» featurette, «The Possibility Of Hope» talking heads commentary directed by Alfonso Cuaron, deleted scenes.

Now that the books are treated as a cultural and commercial phenomenon, each new one receives respectful reviews by major critics.

He devotes an entire, mostly laudatory chapter to «the terrorist pedagogy» advocated by the French cultural critic Jean Baudrillard.

The forecasts of widespread innovation brought on by competition and of cultural balkanization by privatization will have to accommodate an empirical reality that is considerably more nuanced than vouchers» most ardent advocates and critics are currently willing to admit.

Critics allege that standardized tests contain cultural biases, and that educational quality can't necessarily be evaluated by objective testing.

The panel will be chaired by the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah and consists of: crime writer Val McDermid; cultural critic Leo Robson; feminist writer and critic Jacqueline Rose; and artist and graphic novelist Leanne Shapton.

In 1980, the cultural critic Paul Fussell published «Abroad,» a superb study of British travel and travel writing between the wars that concludes with the pronouncement that the postwar age of tourism killed real travel and, by extension, the writing that was its offspring.

A sub-brand of Andante Travels, we offer unique cultural tours that are led by expert guides, ranging from artists and music critics, to writers and food lovers.

Andante Travels offers unique cultural tours that are led by expert guides, ranging from artists and music critics, to writers and food lovers.

The best - selling cultural critic finds meaning in art by turning it into a self - help tool, but loses some vital perspective along the way.

Candidates need to be nominated by curators, museum directors, art critics, gallery directors or members of other cultural associations.

This book highlights The Broad collection's depth by assembling a sharp cast of cultural leaders, writers, critics, and curators to share their insights, experiences, and diverse points of view on some of The Broad collection's most celebrated artists.

The East End of Long Island has a cultural history that's both «traditional and radical,» a phrase critic and artist Fairfield Porter used to describe Jane Freilicher's painting that was quoted in a recent remembrance of her by the Parrish's chief curator, Alicia Longwell.

The show was curated by Kathryn Fuller, a former educator herself of high school - level English, and Larry Ossei - Mensah, a Ghanaian - American independent curator and cultural critic.

With contributing essays by scholar Samuel Loncar (PhD candidate, Yale University) and curator and cultural critic Jeppe Ugelvig.

Panel discussion with Julieta Aranda (artist, Berlin / New York), Boris Buden (cultural theorist, author, Berlin), Fulya Erdemci (curator, author, Istanbul), Simon Sheikh (Programme Director Goldsmiths, University of London, Berlin / London), moderated by Ingo Arend (author, critic, Berlin).

Questlove, producer, musician, designer, culinary entrepreneur, and New York Times best - selling author, was joined in conversation by Baratunde Thurston, futurist comedian, writer, and cultural critic, for «Pratt Presents Conversations on Creativity with Questlove: Creativity and...

Curated by Kate Sutton, this year's theme, Borderline, focuses on the comprehensive changes that European cultural institutions face on a political, social, and cultural level as seen from the perspectives of artists, art historians, international collectors, museum directors, dealers, critics, and curators.

Zhang Qiang, an art critic who visited it, described it in retrospect as the first painting exhibition after the end of the Cultural Revolution that was not organized by the government, and noted that it attracted a continuous stream of visitors.11.

A special souvenir catalog accompanies the exhibition and includes a comprehensive essay by the novelist and cultural critic Michael Bracewell.

Curated by the internationally renowned writer, critic and curator, Francesco Bonami, «Relics» is part of a series of cultural initiatives organised by QMA in order to foster discussions and cultural exchange between the UK and Qatar.

The catalogue provides art historical scholarship and cultural context to the exhibition and includes essays written by Peter MacKeith, Honorary Consul General to Finland; Timo Valjakka, an independent writer, curator, and critic based in Helsinki and London; and curator O'Brien.

It coincides with the Armory Show and the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, complete with original texts by the writer and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum and the art historian and Dean of the Yale University School of Art Robert Storr.

In a recent episode of his absorbing podcast, «Revisionist History,» cultural critic Malcolm Gladwell interrogates a statue modeled after a news photograph of a confrontation in 1963 between a police officer with a dog and a young black boy in Birmingham, Alabama.1 Made by African American sculptor Dr. Ronald McDowell, The Foot Soldier (1995) is far more horrific than the photo, Gladwell convincingly argues, because it bears an added imaginative potency: the narrative is told by a traditionally silenced voice, and for Gladwell this «is just what happens when the people on the bottom finally get the power to tell the story their way.»

Curated by Rebecca Dimling Cochran, an Atlanta - based curator and critic who also manages the private art collection of home builder and philanthropist John Wieland, The Future of America suggests that considering younger generations» habits and self - conceptions will offer insight into the cultural changes America anticipates in coming decades.

Taking its title from the seminal 1954 essay by African - American author and cultural critic Richard Wright, the installation juxtaposes two of the artist's video works: Untitled (Predawn, Osu, Accra, 2010), 2017, a meditative single - channel work, and Black Power, 2010, a three - channel work depicting physical training at an outdoor neighbourhood gym in Accra.

Volume I includes essays by writer and cultural theorist Stuart Hall and art critic Adrian Searle, a conversation between the artist and curator Thelma Golden and words by Beth Coleman.

Clearly the shifting social dynamics surrounding allegations of sexual harassment in other cultural realms — by Hollywood tycoon Harvey Weinstein, political reporter Mark Halperin, literary critic Leon Wieseltier, fashion photographer Terry Richardson — have moved into the art world.

The catalogue includes essays by MoMA curator Ann Temkin, cultural critic Michael Bracewell and art historian Robert Pincus - Witten, along with a conversation between Hirst, Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari.