Sentences with phrase «controversial artists working»

Kara Walker has become one of the most widely - known and controversial artists working today.

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Since the late 1970's, Sophie Calle — «France's foremost conceptual artist» (The New York Times)-- has been making provocative and often controversial work that confronts issues in her personal life.

The world's oldest film festival, Venice recently presented its 74th year's program with an impressive list of films, including revered and controversial artist Ai Weiwei's newest work, «Human Flow.»

Whether or not you catch every reference or understand every choice in the video, however, it has a greater symbolic meaning than even the messages it's packed into that short running time: black artists are gaining - creating for themselves - increasing freedom to explore and articulate controversial (read: threatening to white America) themes in their work.

This dramatically designed book looks at the life and work of one of Hollywood's most audacious, controversial artists.

From one of Iran's most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in English — a dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what it's like to live, to love, and to be an artist in today's Iran.

Prescient (and controversial) collector Bill Arnett's Souls Grown Deep Foundation has donated 57 works, including pieces by quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama, and Alabaman assemblage artist Thornton Dial, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is planning an exhibition of the material for 2016.

Curated by Maura Reilly, Richard Bell: I Am Not Sorry is the first exhibition in the U.S. to survey the work of this controversial Aboriginal artist.

Never one to pull back from controversial discussion, the artist's work addresses the complexity of gender, injustice, inequality, the atrocities of war, and the environmental costs of nuclear dependence.

This underground group developed a near - fanatical following which took part in a controversial cultural production strategy called «Posing,» where member artists appropriated the identities of their more well - known contemporaries in order to create attention for new work.

From Matisse in the Studio via Picasso's ceramics to the controversial work of Joe Orton, this month's choices offer insight into some extraordinary chapters in artists» lives — and all exhibitions have either just opened or are opening in August.

Cuban artist José Toirac's conceptual single - screen work Opus (2005), features an edited speech by controversial leader Fidel Castro — himself increasingly disappearing after retiring in 2008 — where everything but numbers are cut out from the audio track.

(New York, NY)-- VENUS is pleased to present Bernard Buffet: Paintings from 1956 to 1999, an exhibition of important and historic works by the renowned late figurative painter, who remains one of the most controversial French artists of the 20th century.

Tracey Emin is a notable and prolific British artist recognized for her place in the Young British Artists movement of the 1990s, and in particular for her provocative and controversial works such as Everyone I have ever slept with 1963 - 1995 and My Bed, which was on display at London's Tate Modern gallery as part of her nomination for the Turner Prize in 1999.

It made many of her early installations controversial with her peers, but by the same token it has been a decidedly influential aspect of Hiller's work for younger artists.

Each artist incorporates their cultural background into their current work in unique ways, some producing work that clearly shows the resonance of their origins; others creating pieces that express ideas, even controversial ideas, about their roots, and still others are working in new and utterly original forms.

Emerging in 2014 with protest works created, in part, in response to the devastating, lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina, Moore renamed herself in homage to colorful and controversial twentieth - century painter Noel Rockmore, a New Yorker turned New Orleanian who, like Moore, had been the child of artists.

To celebrate his show at the Brant Foundation, the artist shares insight into his more memorable and controversial works.

A selection of sculptures, reliefs and paintings by artists working in the area will be exhibited to complement the Gallery's major spring exhibition, Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality, which illustrates Pasmore's controversial move from figurative to abstract art.

In November 2012, the artist's controversial Revisionist Art Series opened in New York with large silkscreen works that satirised lofty public figures and celebrities within the format of famous magazine covers, re-contextualizing the familiar graphics and iconography with vivacity and a maverick sense of the absurd.

-- 15.04.2007 5th floor The Kumu Contemporary Art Gallery is exhibiting the works of renowned and controversial US video artist, performance art, and sculptor Paul McCarthy (b. 1945).

Inspired by one of Britain's most innovative and controversial artists of the late 20th century, Derek Jarman, the Film London Jarman Award is an annual prize celebrating the spirit of experimentation and imagination among UK artists working with moving images.

A versatile artist working in an assortment of media, from murals, to sculptural installations, to his controversial political cartoon series El Machete Illustrated, they all have a common goal of educating and challenging.

We surveyed the course of the acclaimed artist's career, from his controversial debut in the «Sensations» show to his most recent work.

Among the most influential feminist artists working today, Mary Kelly (b. 1941) first came to prominence as a Conceptual artist in 1976 with the controversial Post Partum Document series, notorious for incorporating her baby's dirty nappies.

The work of the Renaissance painter Tintoretto was shown at the Venice Biennale in 2010 and the controversial artist Jeff Koons has just had his work on show at a museum in Frankfurt normally devoted to Old Masters» sculpture.

One of the world's most controversial artists, Adel Abdessemed has conducted a relentless campaign to confront life's essential traumas through work that has ranged from videos of farm animals being slaughtered with a sledgehammer — drawing an outraged reaction at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008 — to haunting emblems of the Holocaust.

Produced in conjunction with the first major museum retrospective on her work, Pretty / Dirty examines every period of the artist's 40 - year career, from her beginnings with the controversial porn artworks, initially rejected by the critical establishment, to her later large - scale photorealistic works.

Author Christian L. Frock notes, «Though it seems unlikely that corporate benefactors will support politically potent, radical, or controversial artworks, perhaps the support leveraged by these popular and populist «public art» opportunities will allow artists to engage in work that challenges us to think -LSB-.....]

It seems the time has finally come for the controversial artist who repeatedly bucked conventional norms, eschewing «safe» art in favor of creating a difficult and impactful body of work.

«While contemporary kõgei remains rooted in centuries of cultural history, the work of the artists in this exhibition reflects a decisive and somewhat controversial shift from that of their peers.

The display features works spanning 40 years of the artist's career, all characterised by an unflinching willingness to confront taboo and controversial issues from recent history.

She became controversial when the Yams Collective, a group of black artists exhibiting a video in the said biennial withdrew their work in protest.

He was often branded as rather controversial by the public as many were not able to cope with the graphic aspects of this artist's work.

On Saturday the Pace Gallery opened a new exhibition of works by the Brooklyn - based artist Fred Wilson — his first solo show in the city since his controversial proposal for a public sculpture in Indianapolis was abandoned — at its 510 West 25th Street location.

Although she is known for a number of collaborations with ex-partner Ulay, the figure has unapologetically been a pioneer in her own right, inviting huge audiences to a multitude of controversial works, including The Artist is Present at MoMA, New York (2010).

On show are approximately 50 sculptures, 200 poems, a group of rarely seen works he titles Dada Forgeries, as well as a selection of photographs, allowing the viewer to perceive the changes in this controversial artist's production.

Citing Adrian Piper's controversial withdrawal from Radical Presence, Vikram questions whether the format of the «ethnicity exhibition'truly serves those whose work is being shown, whether it limits the artist to their biographies, or if «racially marked shows are marked as such for the benefit of white audiences and institutional power players.»

* 2 Representing the British Pavilion at next year's Venice Biennale, guest - invited artist Sarah Lucas is featured in Today's Specials with Chicken Knickers (1997), a controversial work, in which she uses food as substitutes for human genitalia and thus exploring the central theme of sexual ambiguity in traditional male and female identity.

Lee was subsequently nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998, and selected to represent South Korea at the 1999 Venice Biennale (having already been included in Szeemann's curated exhibition)-- the year that another East Asian artist, Cai Guo - Qiang, won the coveted Golden Lion award for his controversial Venice's Rent Collection Courtyard (1999), a crumbling, recreated work of socialist realist propaganda.

She has also produced work in video and photography, including a controversial advertisement in the 1974 issue of Artforum, which showed the artist posing nude in a provocative manner.

His directness was unsettling, even amongst his fellow artists, who preferred to work with more subtle linguistic codes and who strongly criticised Fonseca (as they did Jaar), after his controversial exhibition of the same title at Gallery Sur in 1982.

«South of the Border» is an exhibition addressing the timely and controversial topic of immigration through the works of ten artists.

Sullivan Goss presents an exhibition of works by Andrew Wyeth, one of the most celebrated and controversial artists of the 20th century.

Adel Abdessemed Opens Up — The controversial (some would say notorious) artist speaks to Coline Milliard about his influences — and «mentions of Brecht, Kafka, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and Goya pepper his speech and his work» — and outlines a defense for his brutal art, which has made him the star of a Pompidou survey and «one of France's most successful artists in recent years.»

Dennis Stinchcombe, who has worked at Bristol's Broad Plain Boys» Club for the past 39 years, said Banksy's controversial Mobile Lovers painting could pump more than # 2m into its coffers now that the secretive artist has confirmed it is real.

«It reminds me of the work that Sam Durant did,» alluding to the artist's controversial sculpture in Minneapolis about the execution of Native Americans.

East Gallery: Lorna Simpson Lorna Simpson has established herself as one of the more controversial female artists working in photography in the United States.

In the controversial work, the viewer puts on a headset and sees a character — portrayed by the artist himself — bashing in another white man's head, to the point where you can not tell if the victim is alive.

This procession responded to a controversial exhibition by an artist whose work about the death of Michael Brown was presented at a gallery in Bronzeville.