Sentences with phrase «contemporary art of its kind»

signals the first major survey of Filipino contemporary art of its kind in Europe and will be accompanied by a major hard copy publication published by European publishing house DISTANZ Verlag.
Colourist puts gallery in frame for record visitors The Scotsman; October 20, 2011; Tim Cornwell; 643 words... contemporary art of the kind lionised by modern art galleries or Turner Prize norminations.

Not exact matches

Another example will help us distinguish this kind of approach to tradition from the ideas current in the world of contemporary art and design.
For a different kind of animal magic, head to the White Rabbit Gallery in hip Chippendale, home to one of the world's best private collections of contemporary Chinese art, alongside a stylish shop and teahouse.
«I'd rather see my art on a model on a runway than on drywall,» he explains, still buzzing from ringing the closing bell at NASDAQ last Friday with his art group, The New Blue Riders, one of the first contemporary art groups to close an index of this kind.
There's a strong artistic tradition in many African countries but all connected to ceremony or religion or some kind of cultural utility, but contemporary art is engaging in very different motivations and tools.
Another attempt to answer the question involves shifting the ground slightly and asserting, as some contemporary feminists do, that there is a different kind of «greatness» for women's art than for men's, thereby postulating the existence of a distinctive and recognizable feminine style, different both in its formal and its expressive qualities and based on the special character of women's situation and experience.
Other selected solo exhibitions include: Some Kinds of Duration, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2012; Nauru - notes from a cretaceous world, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2010; and Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2009.
Other solo exhibitions include: Some Kinds of Duration, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2012; Nauru, notes from a cretaceous world, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2010; and Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2009.
2007 Living Room Paintings, Painted Faces, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA Some Kind of Portrait, curated by Simon Watson, Marc Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA Distinctive Messengers, curated by Simon Watson, House of Campari, Miami, FL
Apsara DiQuinzio, our Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Phyllis C. Wattis, MATRIX Curator, has a number of wonderful small - scale MATRIX shows in the works, and we are doing several borrowed solo exhibitions that are emblematic of the kind of art that we love, such as a survey of Ana Mendieta's films [Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, on view November 9, 2016, through February 12, 201Art, and Phyllis C. Wattis, MATRIX Curator, has a number of wonderful small - scale MATRIX shows in the works, and we are doing several borrowed solo exhibitions that are emblematic of the kind of art that we love, such as a survey of Ana Mendieta's films [Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, on view November 9, 2016, through February 12, 201art that we love, such as a survey of Ana Mendieta's films [Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, on view November 9, 2016, through February 12, 2017].
And here is where I take issue with the Wattis and its ultra-cool attitude, the kind of posturing that perfectly embodies just what turns many people off from enjoying contemporary art, or even indulging a nascent curiosity.
The Hayward was one of the first galleries for modern and contemporary art that articulated this kind of programme, which has now in the last 10 years become the new rule for designing museums.
It appears to be suffering some kind of identity crisis stemming from the decreasing relevance its entrants have on capturing the actual zeitgeist of contemporary art.
The Lazraqs» museum, the first nonprofit museum of its kind in North Africa, formally opened on Feb. 24, one day after the inaugural 1 - 54 Contemporary African Art Fair started at the La Mamounia Palace Hotel.
The steel has not been treated with any kind of artistic gesture, the original text identifying its industry is in tact, and the helium jacks are in their original state a further gesture towards the economics involved in what we think of as art in the contemporary sphere.
These are the kinds of details I came across this past January when visiting the construction site for the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art.
Grants are awarded annually to outstanding or unusually promising artists and arts organizations which create, present, or support work of an imaginative, contemporary nature and need this kind of assistance.
Modeled after European art centers and located in an industrial building in the Design District, Dallas Contemporary is one of the only institutions of its kind in the United States, offering temporary exhibitions, important lectures and seminal learning programs.
Tuttle's contemporaries tend to seek a kind of greater truth in the art object.
The event, that for 10 weeks takes over the city, is not a Biennial in the commonly used sense of the word on the art circuit — derived from the oldest of its kind, the Venice Biennale — that nowadays describes an international contemporary artistic showcase with a curatorial project that permeates artworks chosen by a curatorial team.
A different kind of colorful minimalism is at this gallery specializing in modern and contemporary art from South Asia and its diasporas.
Atlanta artist Mario Petrirena used found and treasured family objects to create a kind of self - portrait of his life as an evacuee from Cuba when he was only eight years old in his show The Distance Between at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (February 25 — April 29, 2017).
It is likely that the House's current show, I Still Believe in Miracles, which celebrates 30 years of contemporary art shows at Inverleith House, from 1986 to 2016, is the last of its kind, featuring work from leading artists including Douglas Gordon, Jim Lambie, Richard Wright, Ed Ruscha, Louise Bourgeois and others.
The chess sets were a kind of easy access to the contemporary art that these artists were making.»
Freestyle was a turning point in a lot of people's minds about contemporary black art, and one that catalyzed a kind of new vocabulary for both identity and interpretation.
This access, which has broadly democratized the field, has created not only a larger and more engaged audience for this kind of art, but has also created more opportunities for this work to be contextualized within the larger narratives of contemporary art, as can be seen in the various approaches of curators such as Lynne Cooke, Massimiliano Gioni and Daniel Baumann, for example, all of whom have, in different ways, framed the work of self - taught artists within their curatorial projects.
In the face of these changing paradigms or in the use of these so - called terms of engagement, what kind of comprehension can be had of contemporary arts education today?
That may seem like a simple statement, but given the state of contemporary art — with its endless carnival of art fairs peddling vacuous abstraction, celebrity - hyped artists, and conceptualism - light — the fact that Borremans paints the kinds of pictures he does is actually a radical proposition.
Milwaukee is not on the contemporary art world map, so in»06 we thought it would be kind of absurd / interesting to try to do an art fair here.
The other core issue is where the hole in contemporary art occurs that facilitates this kind of decision - making.
Being in a classroom environment allowed me to be around all kinds of diverse young artists with many different interests, and also to discover artists I had not studied before who were using writing — linguistic abstract gestural expressionism, such as calligraphy — in their contemporary works of art.
2007 Existencias, Musac, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon Some kind of Portrait, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Size Matters: XS, Recent Small - Scale Paintings, HVCCA, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY Joy Feasley & Clare Rojas: Pow - Wows or The Long Lost Friend, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Silly Adults, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London Panic Room, Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens In The Fullness of Time: The Luggage Store 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
First established in 1992 as Nippon International Contemporary Art Fair, Art Fair Tokyo is now the biggest fair of its kind in Japan and has branched out to showcase a variety of artistic styles and disciplines from a range of eras.
Dr Omar Kholeif, Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, enthused: «Frieze 2016 presented me as a curator with a wonderful opportunity to not only get a snapshot of what was happening in art globally but also to see different kinds of experimentation happening at the edges of film and performance, which were so evocatively provoked through the Frieze Live and Film programmArt Chicago, enthused: «Frieze 2016 presented me as a curator with a wonderful opportunity to not only get a snapshot of what was happening in art globally but also to see different kinds of experimentation happening at the edges of film and performance, which were so evocatively provoked through the Frieze Live and Film programmart globally but also to see different kinds of experimentation happening at the edges of film and performance, which were so evocatively provoked through the Frieze Live and Film programmes.
It is the first exhibition of its kind to focus on the intersection of indigenous cultures and zeitgeist digital practices in contemporary art.
Described like this, the project may sound dusty and unpromising, the kind of contemporary art loved by people who hate contemporary art.
Is that kind of institutional recognition more satisfying than the fast money of contemporary art?
The first major retrospective of his work in Britain, it is a kind of homecoming for Basquiat's art: In 1984, the first institutional show of his work opened at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, and then traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
-LSB-...] «These kinds of drawings are extremely rare,» said Amy Cappellazzo, co-head of Christie's Postwar and contemporary art department.
Arts + Culture Texas contributor Seth Orion Schwaiger sat down with Gavin Delahunty, the relatively new DMA Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, who was kind enough to offer his insights.
«Drawing is Another Kind of Language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection», Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA [Traveled to: Kupferstichkabinett Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Kunst - Museum Ahlen, Ahlen, Germany; Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany; Fonds regional d'art contemporain de Picardie and Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, NY, USA; Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, USA; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, USA]
Her work has been the subject of numerous national and international exhibitions, including Unnatural Histories, MoMA P.S. 1, New York; All the World's Futures curated by Okwui Enwezor at the 56th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Italy; Players, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Huma Bhabha, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, Stranger, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio; A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York; Land Marks, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Intense Proximity, La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; 2010 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York; and the 7th Gwangju Biennale, Korea.
To contemporary eyes, their pictorial strength is so self - evident, so enduringly fresh, you have to chuckle at those pundits who a half - century ago deemed Post Painterly Abstraction (both the style and the exhibition) a failed «rescue action for quality» against the «turgidities» of certain kinds of abstraction on the one hand and the vapidity of «newfangled art» on the other.
Desert to Delta: Saudi Contemporary Art in Memphis, TN represents the first exhibition of its kind from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to appear in Memphis.
Rarely do these commissions make any kind of larger statement about American art, but last fall, when Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley — a figurative painter who deploys the techniques, poses and patterns of the grand tradition of Baroque European paintings to portray contemporary black and brown men he finds on the street — to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian, it at least reflected the Obamas» well - developed connections to the world of culture.
Aragón's work has also been included in group exhibitions including The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, Mexico: Inside Out at the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth in Texas, Ourselves at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, Resisting the Present at the Musée d'art Moderne de Paris, In Transit at the Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Disponible: A Kind of Mexican Show at the San Francisco Art Institute and El horizonte del topo at the Palais des Beaux - Arts in Brussels.
The Carnegie's Film Section was one of the earliest programs of its kind in an American museum and the collection started in 1970 continues to grow today through the efforts of the contemporary art department.
The complexity at work here is an intentional part of the exhibition's curation: «I would argue that the strategies the show's artists use for grappling with such issues goes beyond the kinds of mirroring or enhancing of the aesthetics of such systems that have become standard of much of contemporary art today,» Malick elaborates.
As a result, the Zabludowicz Collection, founded in 1994, occupies a special position in the contemporary art landscape, affording critical sustenance for fledgling artists as they build their careers — and often providing a launching pad for the kind of future art stars sought after by other collectors.
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