Sentences with phrase «ceilings for black artists»

Parks was an activist, a humanitarian and a core figure in America's civil rights movement; he routinely shattering glass ceilings for black artists, while using his platform to expose the stark realities of day - to - day inequality on the most momentous of scales.

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It was in 1975 that the young artist Julian Schnabel, visiting a friend's studio in Galveston, met Glasco for the first time: «from Joe's studio you couldn't see outside because the floor - to - ceiling red velvet curtains were only partially open -LSB-...] Joe was in his kitchen, sitting in the dark in a Metropolitan Opera Egyptian - style black velvet chair.

The Swiss - born artist has been researching bomb sites for his work, and it shows in the black membrane suspended above the assemblage — littered with holes similar to the photographs we've seen of walls and ceilings in the middle of war zones.