Sentences with phrase «controversy over art»

Artist Dread Scott argues that the controversy over his art installation only proves his point about «America's abuses of power.»

Conversely, it took a museum as barely visible as the Drawing Center to start a controversy over art at Ground Zero.

Not exact matches

The controversy over the «Fire in My Belly» video just pulled from the National Portrait Gallery appears, on the face of it, to be about using tax money to display art that some Christians find offensive.

The Three Lions have had their own fair share of controversies over the years and although the current coach has done a great job since taking over from Sam Allardyce this one last mudsling with the highest goal scorer in ManchesterUnited's history appear to be something that might trigger off issues the last thing the nation of England deserve from this team that has specialized in the art of failing to add up to their individual talented sums.

The Blu - ray debut features all the supplements of that release: three commentary tracks (one by director Terry Gilliam, one by stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and one by producer Laila Nabulsi and author Hunter S. Thompson), deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam, the 1978 BBC «Omnibus» documentary «Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood» (with Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman), the ten - minute featurette «Hunter Goes to Hollywood,» an audio documentary on the controversy over the screenplay credit, a survey of the marketing campaign, selections from the correspondence between Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson (read on camera by Depp), an excerpt from the 1996 audio CD «Fear and Loathing» starring Maury Chaykin, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Glenne Headly, background notes on Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life activist and attorney who inspired the character of Dr. Gonzo), and galleries of storyboards, stills, and Ralph Steadman art.

Filmed with handicams, starring a pair of art - house favorites, and scored by blog buzz band Grizzly Bear, «Blue Valentine» couldn't look like more of a stereotypical indie romance if it tried — but who wants to ring in the New Year with hopeful thoughts for 2011 and a round of «Auld Lang Syne,» when you can head to the theater and watch Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams getting it on in this bleak romantic drama, already the center of a ratings controversy over the NC - 17 the MPAA slapped on it for an «emotionally intense» sex scene?

Embattled over the SecuROM digital rights management controversy regarding Spore, Electronic Arts is now challenging assertions that the copy protection is resulting in sales losses.

Signed by artists Loris Gréaud and Valerie Bélin, Palais de Tokyo cofounder Jérôme Sans, Galerie Art Concept director Olivier Antoine, Galerie Lelong president Jean Frémon, and Galerie Max Hetzler senior director Samia Saouma, the letter places the controversy surrounding the Koons monument within a history of debates over public art works throughout the French capitArt Concept director Olivier Antoine, Galerie Lelong president Jean Frémon, and Galerie Max Hetzler senior director Samia Saouma, the letter places the controversy surrounding the Koons monument within a history of debates over public art works throughout the French capitart works throughout the French capital.

Thirty years later, the controversy over his earlier show has long blown over, but Tuttle's art has not blown away.

He first received national attention in 1989 when his art became the center of controversy over its use of the American flag while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicaart became the center of controversy over its use of the American flag while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of ChicaArt Institute of Chicago.

If you felt envious of the French for their big art controversy of the autumn over the Los Angeleno provocateur Paul McCarthy's «butt plug» sculpture in the classical heart of Paris, here's your chance to be appalled.

Reading about the latest controversy at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles — the apparently forced resignation of the longtime head curator Paul Schimmel over the pop - culture exhibitions that the new director Jeffrey Deitch is bringing to the museum — I experienced my usual feelings of disbelief.

Plus: Fires in northern California force closure of arts institutions Controversy over heritage funding in France Rem Koolhaas to design New Museum expansion and Dr Tarnya Cooper joins National Trust as curatorial and collections director

US National Academy members pen open letter defending Dana Schutz Over 70 members and members - elect of the US's National Academy of Art have signed an open letter in support of a solo exhibition of work by artist Dana Schutz at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, after activists petitioned the ICA to cancel the show following the controversy over Schutz's painting Open Casket, which was exhibited at this year's Whitney Biennial (read Apollo's review of the Whitney exhibition heOver 70 members and members - elect of the US's National Academy of Art have signed an open letter in support of a solo exhibition of work by artist Dana Schutz at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, after activists petitioned the ICA to cancel the show following the controversy over Schutz's painting Open Casket, which was exhibited at this year's Whitney Biennial (read Apollo's review of the Whitney exhibition heover Schutz's painting Open Casket, which was exhibited at this year's Whitney Biennial (read Apollo's review of the Whitney exhibition here).

As with Mapplethorpe in 1988, Chris Ofili in 2000, and Amy Greenfield this past year, controversy soon blows over, even as support for the arts hangs by a thread.

The recent controversy over Kelley Walker's exhibition Direct Drive at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and the departure of that exhibition's curator, Jeffrey Uslip, was another reminder that museums are not built and programmed for all audiences alike.

This year's award to the sculptor Tony Cragg, who was presented with a cheque for # 10,000 by Alan Yentob, controller of BBC2, at a dinner in the Tate last night, will renew the controversy over the award, one of the most lucrative in British art.

#museums #race #representation #institutional critique The recent controversy over Kelley Walker's exhibition Direct Drive at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and the departure of that exhibition's curator, Jeffrey Uslip, was another reminder that museums are not built and programmed for all audiences alike.

He first received national attention in 1989 when his art became the center of controversy over its transgressive use of the American flag while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicaart became the center of controversy over its transgressive use of the American flag while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of ChicaArt Institute of Chicago.

He first received national attention in 1989 when his art became the center of controversy over its use of the American flag.

From the beginning of her career, Minter has been embroiled in controversies over the relationship of her art to feminism, fashion, and celebrity.

Try to get worked up now over controversies concerning the spring art fairs, especially now that few are throwing around that kind of money.

I also know that Jack Persekian, the artistic director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, was fired due to controversy over a «blasphemous» work in the 2011 Sharjah Biennial by Algerian artist Mustapha

In April, 1990, an art exhibit opened in Cincinnati that created immediate controversy, placed the Contemporary Arts Center on a national stage, and sparked a legal battle over the first amendment.

Controversy is brewing over the recent appointment of Bartomeu Marí as director of Seoul's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA).

American Main Streets harbor undercurrents of distrust or outright hatred for out - there, art - world experimentation, a trend that filters upward and periodically erupts in controversies over Congressional funding for the arts.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has found itself mired in controversy over an in - gallery program responding to Claude Monet's...

The former director of the Walker Art Center, Olga Viso, resigned shortly after a controversy over Sam Durant's depiction of historical gallows garnered was resolved with members of the Dakota Nation.

As Hyperallergic previously reported, Petition 4 Art had protested Marí's prospective appointment in the weeks leading up to MCST's announcement, citing apprehensions over his controversy - ridden past.

A controversy over cost erupted, and the sculpture, The Archer, became the most talked about work of art in the history of the city.

For many years a controversy has been brewing in the art world over a 1964 series of ten self portraits of the artist, Andy...

AMSTERDAM — Beatrix Ruf, the director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the city's leading institution for contemporary art and design, resigned on Tuesday amid controversy over her outside income and her handling of private collectors.

An ongoing controversy over the display of works by Kelley Walker at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis (CAMSTL) drives home this responsibility.

If the City of Denver and officials of its Clyfford Still Museum believe that the controversy over their decision to monetize four works from the estate of the artist's widow will quickly die down, Kyle MacMillan, the Denver Post «s art critic, is out to prove them wrong.

Protests over Sam Durant's sculpture «Scaffold,» installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden of the Walker Art Center, have drawn immediate parallels to the controversy this year over Dana Schutz's painting «Open Casket» in the Whitney Biennial.

Candidate, George Philip LeBourdais, penned a timely editorial for Artsy discussing how Serra shaped the discourse about public art with the controversy over his Tilted Arc art piece in the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in lower Manhattan.

AS THE annual awarding of the Turner Prize invariably prompts controversy over the quality of art, awarding it to a painter who works with elephant dung was a brave step.

Although Ofili, now in his mid-40s, is one of the most prominent figures in the British art scene (despite his having deserted London for Trinidad), New Yorkers still probably know him best, unfortunately, for the 1999 controversy over the Brooklyn Museum show «Sensation: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection.»

On Wednesday, the art world's current inescapable and divisive topic of conversation crossed over into daytime television as Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, and the other co-hosts of The View weighed in on the controversy surrounding Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, «Open Casket» (2016).

Star Wars Battlefront II by Electronic Arts faced a lot of controversy over its loot boxes.