Sentences with phrase «contemporary pop stars»

Willowy, melancholy young men and women — contemporary pop stars, royalty, artists and friends — are the magnetic subjects of her devotion.

Not exact matches

Despite writing the book and screenplay of «Fast Times At Ridgemont High» (1982), the film that established the parameters of»80s teen movies; despite establishing or redefining a host of contemporary film stars; despite major box office success, despite an Oscar, despite his role as a pop music shaman — there's little written about Crowe's work as a writer and director.

In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose — starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross — along with its contemporary Flashdance, can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of a let's - put - on - a-show musical, based on original songs brought to life in elaborate choreographed numbers, and the later Hollywood model of youth films, perfected in the»80s by John Hughes and terminally calcified over the decades to follow, in which a contemporary pop music soundtrack serves as both a structural backbone to the film itself and an ancillary product that can outgross and outlive the film that spawned it.

The repetitive use of music and montages in Wagner are tempered by a fine cast, exquisite use of palatial locations, and many fascinating nuances that make Richard Wagner, as a nineteenth century pop star, quite contemporary.

Offers quality 3 - star hotel accommodation located beside the new «pop up» Cashell Mall, boasting 155 contemporary rooms, a restaurant and bar.

The three major headliners for NOS Primavera Sound 2018 explain, decisively, the contemporary music of today: alongside Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, who finally present the cathartic and now classic Skeleton Tree on stage, will be A$ AP Rocky, the new worldwide king of hip hop, and this century's rising pop music star, Lorde, critically acclaimed with her second album, Melodrama.

Contemporary pop art paintings of iconic film stars and rock stars.

2015 The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA SAIC 150th Anniversary Show, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL Piece by Piece, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Wild Noise: Artwork from The Bronx Museum of the Arts and El Museo Nacional de La Habana, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY Bring in the Reality, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY Pilgrimage Dun Huang — First International City Sculpture Exhibition, Architectural Society of China, Dun Huang, China POP Stars!

Pop stars have fascinated contemporary artists for years — think Andy Warhol, Richard Prince and Elizabeth Peyton.

While the legendary Andy Warhol was setting the Pop standards on the other side of Atlantic, David Hockney played the exact same role in the British Pop art scene, dictating the very course that served as a guiding star for most English contemporary artists.

Having represented Ms. Schneemann for nearly 20 years, P.P.O.W. felt it needed assistance in giving her more global exposure, said Wendy Olsoff, P.P.O.W.'s co-owner, adding that the artist's influence extends to pop stars like Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus and contemporary artists like Marina Abramovic.

Taken primarily from family photographs and Nigerian pop culture reproduced in magazines and online, she uses images of Nigerian stars, government officials, historical ceremonies, and contemporary cultural figures in a patchwork, dotted with images from her own family history.

Here, images from contemporary pop culture and of Hollywood stars are taken out their usual structures of representation and put into a new, perverse context intended to disturb customary modes of perception.

Thauberger's group exhibitions include: I Wan na be a Pop Star, Loop - raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin, Germany; Emotion Pictures, Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgium; Baja to Vancouver, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; soundtracks, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB.

Akin to the phenomenon of «turbo - folk,» a contemporary style of music combining Serbian folk music with modern pop, Hollywood stars — Johnny Depp, Rocky Balboa, Jackie Chan — have become the subjects of municipal public art.

Last month, Sotheby's held a successful auction of contemporary Western and Asian art selected by the Korean pop star known as T.O.P. in Hong Kong.

Advertising mogul Charles Saatchi, whose patronage of the 1990s Young British Artists movement propelled Hirst and his contemporaries to pop star status, recently offloaded many of his conceptual works and declared painting as «the most relevant and vital way that artists choose to communicate.»

The auction features an important private collection that encompasses over 50 years of artwork, from Pop master Robert Indiana to contemporary star Ugo Rondinone.

While Mr. Lehman also focused on contemporary art, Ms. Pasternak has presented some experimental programming more akin to the type she championed at Creative Time, such as having artists interpret the rock star Iggy Pop's nude body in a life drawing class.

Thomas is well renowned for her huge, immersive and giant paintings that portrait pop stars, artists, and politicians to explore the contemporary female form.

Mark Mothersbaugh, founder of the pop band Devo and the star of a current retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, will next curate an exhibit at another local institution, the Clyfford Still Museum.