Sentences with phrase «contemporary film artists»

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The Upside Down Mushroom Room appears through February 20 in Ecstasy, an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in which 30 artists explore altered modes of perception via painting, sculpture, film, video, and photography.

The film is a deep character study of Riggan Thomson played by a moving and stellar Michael Keaton a once - time big movie star struggling to regain importance in his contemporary setting while trying to establish himself as an artist worthy of praise and to get rid of his «Birdman» image.

Music by Questlove and Om «Mas Keith, and commentary from prominent African - American artists and activists who were influenced by the struggle — including Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli, and Melvin Van Peebles — give the historical footage a fresh, contemporary resonance and makes the film an exhilarating, unprecedented account of an American revolution.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

I tried to think like a Yahoo! commenter while watching Coogler's film because I felt like the message of the film was already speaking to my choir and I wanted to consider how filmmakers and artists can reach beyond the echo chamber to try and change some minds about the issue of race in contemporary America.

If a film about a fashion designer from two of contemporary cinema's most obsessively detail - oriented artists, for which one of said artists actually learned to make couture gowns, can't get nominated for an award recognizing excellence in costuming, then what hope is there for the rest of us?

The likes of The Artist and Argo may still coast to victory sometimes, but contemporary winners like 12 Years A Slave, Birdman, Spotlight, Moonlight, The Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, No Country For Old Men, and The Departed add up to an eclectic batch of films that only feel like inevitable Best Picture winners in retrospect.

I thought it an interesting film, what with the modern updates by contemporary artists bringing a similar energy to the original in the tracks played.The music also explained pieces of the jig - saw: the multi-personae that he adopts - the psychic trickster, the outlaw cowboy, the mystic savant, the Cassandra of doom.

The Square, which won the top prize at Cannes, is just over two - and - a-half hours long; much of it is filmed in long, unbroken takes, and it's set in the rarefied world of Stockholm's contemporary art world with gags that demand a working knowledge of conceptual land artists.

His contemporary efforts bear little resemblance to his earlier films... and that's not a criticism of either category, merely an observation of how much he's changed as an artist.

It celebrates the Turner Prize by encouraging young people to explore contemporary artists, offering stimulus for young people's creation of art using film, animation and video installations.

Set up in 1984 with the aim of fostering the study and knowledge of modern and contemporary art, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies showcases one of the biggest collections of his art works but also hosts many temporary exhibitions by contemporary artists, various art symposiums, lectures and film sessions, and also produces publications which all complement the main activities and exhibitions devoted solely to Antoni Tàpies.

The historic East London Group returns to the Nunnery Gallery, selected and curated by writer broadcaster Michael Rosen — whose parents were contemporaries of the Group's artists — and radio producer film - maker Emma - Louise Williams.

Füsun Eczacıbasi's six - story home in Istanbul's old city is a beacon of contemporary art filled with video installations and other works by Turkish and international artists, including an animation by the South African William Kentridge, a transformed door by Polish artist Alicja Kwade, and films by Turkish artists Ali Kazma, Inci Eviner, and Extrastruggle.

Screening: AMBOY at the Kitchen AMBOY, a film originally produced by Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell for an exhibition at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, is described by the artists behind it as a horror - documentary hybrid.

A meditation about love and life, this film offers a rare glimpse in the creative process of two extraordinary artists who pursued their call against all odds and became England's most unique voices in contemporary painting today.

The Museum's exhibition programme and collection focuses on contemporary Polish and International artists and its resources include the Filmoteka Muzeum — a collection of artists» films comprising of a few hundred titles, available online.

The film was also awarded the inaugural Sydney Film Festival Prize, for «its controlled clarity of vision, its extraordinary detail and bravery, the dedication of its cast and the power and resonance of its humanity», a reflection of the director's roots as a contemporary artist.

Tacita Dean will be the focus of this year's Cinéma du Réel: In Between section, devoted to contemporary artists working in film, at the Centre Pompidou.

This section is devoted to contemporary artists working in film.

Ballroom Marfa is an independent contemporary cultural arts space which supports emerging and established artists working in the visual arts, film, music and performance and in particular, on projects that would be impossible to stage in traditional gallery or museum settings.

STAN DOUGLAS: Interregnum @ Wiels Contemporary Art Centre Brussels, Belgium Recognized for film work exploring lost utopias of the 20th century, Canadian artist Stan Douglas is premiering the six - screen video installation, «The Secret Agent,» which continues his interest in post-war history and film noir.

The programme includes films and talks that provide an insight into contemporary performance art, as well as three artist - led workshops.

Today, with more than eight hundred fifty titles, the Ruben Collection brings together classic and contemporary cinema as well as documentaries, avant - garde films, and video works by artists.

We work with international and UK artists to produce extraordinary experiences, creating an exciting mix of thought - provoking drama, dance, film and contemporary visual art with a strong focus on international work, new commissions and talent development.

A new exhibition, curated by Mo'Wax and UNKLE founder, artist and musician James Lavelle, featuring a host of contemporary artists, film makers and musicians showcasing works inspired by Stanley Kubrick.

The 30 - minute film, which is well worth a full watch, traces the life of artist Flora Mayo, Giacometti's contemporary and lover.

Employment opportunities offered to our recent BFA grads include working as an artist's assistant, starting their own design / build firm, art handling and preparing, development assistant at the Rothko Chapel, web design, display design and installation, curating exhibitions, assisting with commercial photo and film shoots, interning at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and teaching, just to name a few.

The Icelandic artist's work gives performance art, and contemporary art in general, a good rep.. His actions, musical scores, films and paintings are reminiscent of the repetitious, contemplative tone of Bill Viola's video work as well as Anselm Kiefer's multimedia, existential reflections on the creative «self» and on cultural inheritance.

The world's largest open submission contemporary art show will be continuing the tradition of showcasing work by both emerging and established artists in all media including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, architecture and film.

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead This mesmerising collection of film and video work by the Israeli artist is full of dangling clues and subliminal messages, playing fast and loose with our credulity

The atmospheric townhouse was designed by Soane himself, and houses an impressive collection of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities — ancient works, yes, but ones that have proven an inspiration to contemporary artists like Fiona Tan, who made a haunting recent film about the museum, and others.

FotoFocus has provided support to the Cincinnati Film Society project presented at the Cincinnati Art Museum; the Fractured Atlas lens - based project in Havana, Cuba; the screening of the film Punctured by artist, William E. Jones, at the Arles Photography Festival in southern France; the FotoFocus Symposium «Mapplethorpe + 25» held this past fall at the Contemporary Arts Center; and the symposium's follow up discussion at the New Museum in New York.

A film by Hito Steyerl, Abstract (2012), has been acquired by the Contemporary Art Society for GoMA, becoming the first work by the artist to enter a public collection in the UK.

From iconic modern painters like Brice Marden, to contemporary designers like Jürg Lehni, to artists working across disciplines including photography, architecture, media arts, performance, film, and public practice, we invite you to hear from artists who are shaping the future of contemporary art.

The exhibition also highlights links between Josephson and other contemporary artists working in photography, film, and sculpture — including Roe Ethridge, Jessica Labatte, Marlo Pascual, Jimmy Robert, and Xaviera Simmons.

Selected for the job were Stuart Comer, formerly a film curator at Tate Modern and now chief curator of media and performance art at the Museum of Modern Art; Anthony Elms, associate curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, in Philadelphia; and Michelle Grabner, an artist and professor of painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as a teacher at Yale.

Steve McQueen — Born in London in 1969, Steve McQueen is regarded as one of Britain's most successful contemporary artists and film directors.

Culled from the artist's archive of hundreds of color slides originally shot using Ektachrome film (which Kodak discontinued in 2013), Harris initially presented selections from his archive publicly as digital projections at Yale University, as well as in conjunction with the exhibition Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at New York University's Grey Art Gallery and the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2013 - 14.

The Moving Image Fund is designed to help museums and galleries across the UK collect and share with audiences the work of contemporary artists working with digital media, video and film.

thru 3/11; New Pictures thru 3/3; Etc. / MoMA PS1 / 22 - 25 Jackson / Long Island City Donut Muffin curated by J. Duffett & T. Gonzales / Dorsky Curatorial Programs / 11 - 03 45th Ave., Long Island City / thru 3/10 How Much Do I Owe You / No Longer Empty @ The Clock Tower / 29 - 27 41st Ave., Long Island City / thru 3/13 Nancy Dwyer; Visual Conversations / Fisher Landau Center for Art / 38 - 27 30th Long Island City, Queens / thru 4/7 Emerging Artist Fellowship / Socrates Sculpture Park / 32 - 01 Vernon Blvd. / LIC / thru 3/31 Process and Progress: Engaging in Community Change / Bronx River Art Center / 305 E 140 / The Bronx / thru 5/30 Joan Semmel / Bronx Museum / 1040 Grand Concourse, The Bronx / thru 6/9 Contemporary Cartographies / Lehman College / Bedford Park Blvd West, The Bronx / 2/5 thru 5/11 Reception 3/18 Vital Signs: Dean Dempsey; Susan Fenton, Amy Jenkins; Lorie Novak; Dread Scott / Pelham / 155 Fifth Ave. / Pelham / thru 3/30 OTHER: Walter De Maria / The Broken Kilometer / DIA / 393 West Broadway / ongoing Walter De Maria / The New York Earth Room / DIA / 141 Wooster / ongoing A. Ruppersberg; R. Artschwager; El Anatsui; V. Overton; S. Finch; T. Houseago; Lilliput (group) / High Line Park Leo Villareal / Madison Square Park / thru 2/15 Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder / Madison Square Park / thru 4/5 Opening 3/1 Monika Sosnowska / Public Art Fund / Doris C. Freeman Plaza: 5th Avenue @ 60th / thru 2/17 Mark di Suvero / Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 / ongoing Oscar Tuazon / Public Art Fund / Brooklyn Bridge Park / thru 4/26 SELECTED EVENTS: Monday, 2/4, 6:30 PM / David Diao on Barnett Newman / DIA / 535 W 22 — floor 5 / $ Tuesday, 2/5, 6:30 PM / Donald Baechler on his work / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE Tuesday, 2/5, 7 PM / Vitaly Komar on his work / SVA / Amphitheater / 209 E 23 / FREE Tuesday, 2/5, 8 PM / Trenton Doyle Hancock on his work / Columbia / Prentis Hall / 632 W 125 / FREE Wednesday, 2/6, 6:30 PM / Rebecca Rabinow on Matisse / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE Wednesday, 2/6, 7 PM / Mierle Laderman Ukeles on her work / The New School Kellen Auditorium / 66 Fifth Avenue / FREE Thursday, 2/7, 6:30 PM / Christopher K. Ho reads, with curators Sara Reisman & Herb Tam / MOCA / 215 Centre / RSVP / FREE Friday, 2/8, 9 AM / Performa: Black Surrealism film program / NYU Einstein Aud.

They include: Negar Azimi, writer and senior editor at Bidoun, an award - winning publishing, curatorial, and educational initiative with a focus on the Middle East and its diasporas; Gean Moreno, curator of programs at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami and founder of [NAME] Publications; Aily Nash, co-curator of Projections, the New York Film Festival's artists's film and video section, and Film and Media Curator at Basilica Hudson; and Wendy Yao, a publisher and founder of both the exhibition space 356 South Mission Road and Ooga Booga, a shop with two Los Angeles locations that specializes in independent books, music, art, and clothing.

Previously she held curatorial positions at the South London Gallery (SLG), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London and the Hayward Gallery in London where she curated film, performance and exhibitions, and commissioned new works by artists including Juliette Blightman, Michael Smith, Bonnie Camplin, Kapwani Kiwanga, Jill Magid, Lis Rhodes as well as the group exhibitions Last Seen Entering the Biltmore (2014) and independently Duh — Art and Stupidity (co-curated with Paul Clinton) at Focal Point Gallery (2015).

Featuring five of eight computer - animated films that comprise the artist's seminal Poemfield series (1966 - 1971), as well as a small selection of related computer graphic prints on paper, this presentation illuminates a significant pillar of the gallery's ongoing mission to re-engage historical work within contemporary contexts.

NEW YORK, January 29, 2018 — Paintings, sculptures, video, film, and works on paper by 35 contemporary artists will be exhibited in the galleries of the American Academy of Arts and Letters on historic Audubon Terrace (Broadway between 155 and 156 Streets) from Thursday, March 8 through Sunday, April 8, 2018.

Performa: New Visual Art Performance presents an authoritative introduction to the genre, many forms including radio broadcast, dance, live installation, new technologies, film and video, music, historic reconstructions and lecture - as - performance, and provides a vivid tour through the world of contemporary performance, featuring inventive documentation of works by some of the most significant artists of our time, including Jesper Just, Francis Alys, Christian Marclay, Laurie Simmons, Tamy Ben - Tor, Melik Ohanian, Michael Smith, Christian Holstad, and Gelitin.

Moving Pictures brings together some 150 works by 55 contemporary artists who use photography, films and video as a means of creative expression.

Romanov Grave's video program will feature a revolving presentation of historical significant video (and film) work intercut with contemporary material by artists working in video (and film) from a broad international pool.

The world's largest open submission contemporary art show, now in its 244th year, continues the tradition of showcasing work by both emerging and established artists in all media including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, architecture and film.

He Xiangyu has also been included in various group exhibitions including Tales of Our Time Film Program (Screening of the film «The Swim»), Guggenheim Museum New York, New York, USA (2017); Hedge House Wijlre: Family Tree, Contemporary Chinese art from the Sigg collection, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands (2016); Juxtapoz x Superflat, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (2016); Chinese Whispers, Paul Klee Zentrum, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland (2016) The 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015), Fire and Forget, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2015), Shanghai Biennale (2014), Future Generation Art Prize: Exhibition of the Shortlisted Artists at the Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine (2014), Busan Biennale, (2014), Yokohama Triennale, (2014), 28 Chinese and the Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2013).