Sentences with phrase «contemporary conversation»

I liked that the images situated the work within a certain contemporary conversation but they weren't particularly important to me as individual places or people.

Throughout Annabelle Gurwitch's book of essays about life for women on the edge of 50, I See You Made an Effort, she references several terms that are gradually or quickly catching on in contemporary conversation.

The third in the Menil's Contemporary Conversations series spotlighting specific time periods or aspects of major living artists» work, this exhibit is the most tightly focused yet, presenting a single work, American Tableau, which Chamberlain created in 1984.

Scholarly essays explore how Nauman and his works enter contemporary conversations on the relationship of art and work, art and globalization, and corporeality in the digital age.

It is evident in my sustained engagement with the creative work of Gertrude Stein; and it is the motivation behind my archival investigations that bring historically marginalized forms of practice into contemporary conversation.»

The exhibition also includes Pindell's most recent works from the last two years, which draw on the beauty and innovation of her approach to abstraction to build upon contemporary conversations around equity and diversity.

The exhibition also showcases Pindell's work with photography, film, and performance — mediums she has used to explore her place in the world — as well as works from the last two years, which draw on the beauty and innovation of her approach to abstraction to build upon contemporary conversations around equity and diversity.

In his erudition, Childs is, of course, fully engaged with the critical tradition of scholarship; his primary contemporary conversation partners are W. A. M. Beuken, Christopher Seitz, Marvin Sweeney and Hugh Williamson.

by Walter Chaw Lyrical, dislocated, and grim in the fashion of a Derek Jarman film (and director John Maybury served as editor on Jarman's The Last of England), The Jacket, like Altered States, Miracle Mile, Jacob's Ladder, and 12 Monkeys before it, is the sort of doom - filled genre romance that's regularly underestimated in popular contemporary conversation.

Yet the film's more general sense of narrative purpose relates not to these prior films» politics, but contemporary conversations concerned with ethnic difference and cultural migration.

Like his fellow members of the «Yellow Pocahontas» tribe, Montana is black; the unique Mardi Gras Indian tradition he celebrates, with its headdresses and traditional Native American chants meant to honour the indigenous people who sheltered runaway slaves, complicate contemporary conversations about cultural appropriation.

Families like that of Maria Durand de Perez almost never figure in the contemporary conversation about immigration.

A contemporary conversation piece, the Ninli Table Lamp from Surya features a stack of distressed glass sea urchin shapes mounted on a polished silver base.

The Fault in Our Stars (in both book and movie form) may have spearheaded the contemporary conversation about disabled teen protagonists, but it's done so as part of a longstanding tradition that continues to refine, and redefine, the portrayal of difference in YA lit.

But all these works come from a place of deep personal perspective and wildly messy emotion, and, as a newcomer to Goodman's works, this strikes me as relevant to a contemporary conversation about women artists and female identity writ large.»

Novros was also the subject of «Contemporary Conversations: David Novros and The Menil Collection,» a one - person show that was part of a series of exhibitions that celebrate living artists whose work is in the Menil's permanent collection.

The exhibition is constructed in such a way as to conjure into Raven Row's gallery spaces, a contemporary conversation on making and thinking between then and now.

Today We Should Be Thinking About Jo Baer, Thomas Baylre, Jimmie Durham, Robert Filliou, Haim Steinbach, and Rosemarie Trockel compiles these reflections and documents the legacies and contemporary conversations that surround these artists today.

His self - portraits bring to mind sensitivities, techniques and palettes you would expect to see in van Gogh, Klimt, Schiele, or Munch's post-impressionist and expressionist paintings rather than in a contemporary conversation.

Rubinstein has an uncannily acute eye for artists whose work is germane to the contemporary conversation.

That's the theme of the Contemporary Conversations series, organized by the Gallery, the U.S. embassy — principally Vicki Heyman, the wife of Ambassador Bruce Heyman — and the State Department's Art in Embassies program.

An immersive walk through Tate Britain's museum lifts itself into the contemporary conversation with a new video in experiential, CG renderings.

There are hot orange planes paired with pale blue streaks and deep black fields, neon pinks and thick purples matched with gray, gold and beige outlines creating a contemporary conversation in the artworks with color, technique and composition that feels like a satisfying argument about art.