Sentences with phrase «challenging art»

Exhibition takes a fresh look at photography's importance to socially challenging art of the past thirty years.

It would take on the very challenges the art it borrows from once took.

This is one of the more exciting shows on view so far this gallery season and challenges art goers to think beyond the spaces of the gallery walls.

Worked alongside the entire development team in an energetic attempt to create fun and challenging art classes for children.

After all, it was Duchamp who challenged the art world to regard a lowly ceramic urinal (not on display here) as...

Jim Leach (b. 1988, Cleveland, OH) is a Cleveland - based sculptor whose work challenges art historical norms while blurring the concept of artistic value and cultural worth.

Colescott challenged art history and reinterpreted American history, infusing his narrative canvases with bold color and symbolism.

While the early works challenged art's traditional boundaries, by the mid-1970s, focus had shifted away from issues of art and individual experience toward questions of politics and identity, using the languages of documentary, propaganda, and advertising in the service of action.

Bridging multiple movements of artistic practice that blossomed in the 1960s, Walter De Maria challenged art in profound ways.

Lynda Benglis» innovative and vivid sculptures have been challenging the art establishment for half a century, will inaugurate this year's Conversations series.

For the past two decades the Sharjah Biennial has enriched the cultural landscape of the Gulf by commissioning, producing and presenting innovative and challenging art experiences while offering an internationally recognised platform for artists from the region.

Despite having routinely challenged art institutions to display more artists of color, both members and critics want the Guerrilla Girls to be more diverse.

I appreciate that the fair is finding new ways to challenge the art fair model with performance activities, site specific installations, and Cecilia Alemani's Frieze New York Projects, which is always a highlight.»

Exhibition Highlights / History of the Dwan Gallery During her more than eleven years as a gallerist, Virginia Dwan mounted 134 shows, introducing viewers in Los Angeles and New York to the most challenging art practices of the time.

In reality, given the conservative nature of many Islamic countries — with their restrictive policies concerning freedom of expression, political activism, nudity, sex, religious debate, and homosexuality, among other social and cultural issues — they offer difficult, even impossible environments for artists who make challenging art, especially art that questions or critiques religious beliefs.

«Not monkeying around: Guerrilla Girls challenge art sexism.»

The thinking man's provocateur, Colescott challenged art history and reinterpreted American history, painting transgressive, racially and sexually charged scenes with wit, insight, and imagination.

September 21 kicks off the new season of provocative and challenging art exhibits at downtown's Contemporary Arts Center, so our Jane Durrell welcomes in Curator Steven Matijcio to preview what visitors will see during the next year.

The idea of challenging the art market was already present in the Conceptual Art, the Performance Art, the Minimal Art and many others (but at the end they always found way of selling something).

If this was intended as a provocative entreaty to the art world, curator Predrag Pajdic succeeded in more nuanced ways in the exhibition itself, which presented conceptually challenging art by some forty artists, almost all Middle Eastern.

The Guardian of UK quotes the group's co-founder Charles Thomson as saying: «It is appalling that innocent victims expecting to see challenging art should end up bored to death.

When I posted this week's Style Imitating Art challenge art, my mom commented that she immediately thought of the red, black and tan plaid top that I wore to Thanksgiving one year and that I gave her for Christmas after she commented how much she liked it (no, I didn't give her mine.

Haneke remains one of the few European practitioners of the morally serious, challenging art movie, of which The Piano Teacher is very much an example.

An American dancer gives up her career and lover in Israel to return to the U.S. and create challenging art in this documentary.

Owens challenges the art world to reconsider what is categorized as serious art by combining high and low references.

Galleries in Chelsea, Downtown and Uptown Manhattan will feature contemporary artists» solo shows and group retrospectives that reference and also challenge art historical norms.

They provide a great insight into the international, and more importantly vibrant local art scene and exhibit groundbreaking art, especially the smaller places that bravely challenge the status quo and where one can find the most challenging art around.

Through BAM and other events throughout the year, 18th Street Arts Center incites its public through challenging art that sparks dialogue.

As a member of an art movement called Post-Sense Sensibility, Wei deliberately produced thematically and visually challenging art for Western tastes and expectations as a stance against the rising impact of Western politics on his country as well as on its art scene.

Her sculptures often take on doll - like forms which approach the immediacy of ordinary figurative playthings, and thereby challenge the art - world's customary and mediated relationship between the viewer and the artwork.

In 1997, the 47th Venice Biennale established Cattelan's significance as an Italian artist and heir to Arte Povera, which challenged art - making conventions by employing the most ordinary, «poor» materials.

And Bunnell's 1970 MoMA exhibition, Photography Into Sculpture, introduced 23 artists, including Robert Heinecken who early on challenged art's categorical genres.

In the spring of 1945 the Art of This Century gallery mounted a show called «A Problem for Critics,» challenging the art press to identify this new «movement.»

Jablonski has discovered that «putting challenging art in familiar places» enables people to unpack its meaning far from the restrictions of the gallery space.

Among... nominee is challenging art filmmakers the Otolith Group - London's Anjalika Sagar, 42... DEXTER DALWOOD Paintings of death sites OTOLITH GROUP Their films are a challenge SUSAN PHILLIPSZ...

It culminates in the 1960s, with avant - garde works forged out of the traditions of weaving and craft (disciplines that had historically welcomed women), as well as new types of unorthodox objects whose very nature challenged art historical conventions and boundaries.

American born Contemporary Artist Robert Motherwell is one of the more famous members of the New York School of Abstract Expressionists that challenged art traditions in the 1950s.

The Santa Monica - based Nortons, who have a reputation as adventurous collectors who purchase tough, politically and sociologically challenging art, have played an active role in promoting the committed art they believe in, so the thoughtfulness and social responsibility of their gift, which amounts to nearly 40 percent of their collection, does not come as a surprise.

«Twenty - five years ago, the gallery opened in a relatively small space at 43 Greene Street in SoHo in New York, with the intention to show challenging art without compromise.

One of the most influential artists of his generation, Kelley rebelled against his conceptualist forebears with a dizzying stream of complex works that challenged art world values.

Lynda Benglis, whose innovative and vivid sculptures have been challenging the art establishment for half a century, inaugurates this year's Art Basel Miami Conversations Series.

Maybe not, but Charles Atlas, Deborah Brown, and Bushwick Open Studios 2012 challenge the art fairs.

Cooks also exposes the issues involved in exhibiting cultural differences that continue to challenge art history, historiography, and American museum exhibition practices.

Massacred babies, death row meals, naked statues doing appalling things to each other... these grisly works challenge art's relationship with violence

The artists» shared exhibition history, with Peláez showing her work alongside the new abstract generation in the 1950s, challenges the art historical narrative of a rupture between the early