warted here in deference to an updated and
contemporary view of all things nautical.
The obvious and straightforward have been mostly, but not altogether, thwarted here in deference to an updated and
contemporary view of all things nautical.
Not exact matches
It is this
view of things that accounts for the
contemporary politicizing
of Christian endeavor, with the churches exhausting themselves in trying to tell the world what to do, including issuing directives for social and political action.
«47 If we follow his suggestions, the relations
of contemporary things should be conceived
of in terms
of mutual involvement or noninvolvement, the past should be
viewed as the perpetual memory
of all that has happened to become determinate and actual, and the future should be considered as the anticipation
of possibilities that are not yet actual and determinate.48
So when it comes to forming a
view of scripture, the best place to start is not with
contemporary culture, modernist foundations or the postmodern rejection
of authority (although we have to think these
things through eventually).
He made a few remarks about how Dallas's
view of things reflected a general antipathy among some evangelicals toward
contemporary culture, but I was still puzzled, given Balmer's criticism, as to why anyone would find this kind
of religion attractive, and I wished our guide had helped us to see that a little better.
Catholics have not used the language
of primordiurn much because they see biblical history within the tradition and the tradition within history, but the conservatives are often primitive in their
views about origins
of episcopacy and papacy, and
contemporary moderates often try to settle
things by going back to biblical accounts
of early ministry and communal life.
It's hardly even worth complaining, then, that Anchorman uses its faux satire
of the 1970s as an excuse to play out male fantasies
of knocking uppity women — like aspiring anchorwoman Christina Applegate (
View from the Top, The Sweetest
Thing)-- back down into their proper place; as with the new Stepford Wives, Anchorman pretends to send up passé attitudes while actually expressing very
contemporary fears.
Other recent solo exhibitions include «Jiro Takamatsu» at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2015); «Jiro Takamatsu: Mysteries», National Museum
of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (2014); «Jiro Takamatsu», Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2013); «Jiro Takamatsu Words and
Things, Refinement and Tautology», NADiff Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2011); «Point Line, Form
of Absence», Hiroshima City Museum
of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan (2009); «Photograph
of Photograph», Yumiko Chiba Associates /
Viewing Room Ginza, Tokyo, Japan (2008); «Universe
of His Thoughts, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2004); «1970s Three - dimensional Works and Others», Chiba City Museum
of Art, Japan (2000).
The Universal Addressability
of Dumb
Things, installation
view, Nottingham
Contemporary, 2013.
American artist Kevin Beasley takes found materials — including his own clothing, instruments, household objects and detritus he finds on the street — and moulds them into sculptural forms, using a mixture
of resin and polyurethane.The sculptural installation BEATEN - FACE / TOMS / ARMS, TIES, & LEG / FLOOR / BODY / BASS, 2014 was acquired by the AGO in 2014 and included in the exhibition Many
Things Brought from One Climate to Another on
view on the 5th floor in the
Contemporary Tower until June 12.
Gabriel Diego Delgado walks through Manny Vega's University
of Texas at San Antonio drawing show with the New York artist; Nancy Zastudil has a studio visit with painter Raychael Stine, whose work is on
view at Art Palace in Houston; and Benjamin Terry talks all
things paint with Arthur Peña ahead
of his upcoming Dallas
Contemporary show.
Review: Dundee's dreamers The Scotsman; May 17, 2012; Susan Mansfield; 700 + words degree show Duncan
of Jordanstone College
of Art & DesignFOR all those whose
view of contemporary art in Scotland is Glasgow - centric, Dundee would like us to know a
thing or two.
For A
View of Things, Gerald McMaster has invited artists Robert Houle and Don Hall to present
contemporary views on native culture.
Currently on
view in England are several shows featuring wunderkammer displays
of objects and artworks from disparate times and places that provide insight into «the world we live in»: Brian Dillon's Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures
of Knowing at Turner
Contemporary; Ralph Rugoff's Alternative Guide to the Universe at the Hayward Gallery; and Mark Leckey's The Universal Addressability
of Dumb
Things at Nottingham
Contemporary (see my first travelogue entry).
Over the last few weeks I have encountered a rather odd collection
of sculptural
things: the postwar ceramic sculpture
of Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti bursting with dynamically glazed and roughly handled surfaces, currently on
view at the Nasher Sculpture Center; The Age
of Innocence, a victorian bust in three different materials by the English sculptor Alfred Drury at the Henry Moore Institute; a visit to Henry Moore's house, studios, and now foundation at Perry Green, and most recently what I can only describe as a wonderfully insane lecture by the
contemporary sculptor Thomas Houseago, which involved an increasingly drunk, cursing artist saying some surprisingly sincere, profound
things about sculpture.
I routinely do this kind
of thing, but it is good to keep these chastening
views in mind while doing
contemporary statistics, or when thinking that unique events have «probabilities.»