Sentences with phrase «cultural artifact for»

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In his diatribe, Cokely invoked a radical canard that has been showcased for national audiences in celebrated cultural artifacts like Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing.

Having to identify for purposes of possible repatriation, the «cultural affiliation» of all those artifacts would indeed be an extensive — and expensive — undertaking.

The mere existence of a cultural artifact from a previous era does not imply that it is itself significant for the present culture in which it occurs.

Perfect for the whole family, this museum offers a range of different artifacts and cultural items that represent life in the area through time.

As an archaeologist at Florida State University, Jessi Halligan blends her love of teaching with her passion for underwater excavation of cultural artifacts.

The Taliban hurt Afghanistan's cultural heritage in the past, for example by smashing the great Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 and destroying artifacts in the National Museum in Kabul.

«The Illinois State Museum is deeply respected in the scientific community for the expertise of its curators and for its irreplaceable collection of archaeological, cultural, and paleontological artifacts,» says paleoecologist Jack Williams of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has used the Neotoma database to explore vegetation change over the past 20,000 years on a continental and global scale.

Among the many notable albums of 1984 are the soundtracks for This Is Spinal Tap, Stop Making Sense, Purple Rain and Footloose — very different music, very different movies, but all influential and enduring cultural artifacts.

In 1993, Graham Fuller went a step further, calling Tarantino «not so much a postmodern auteur as a post-postmodern one, for he is feverishly interested in pop - cultural artifacts and ideas... that themselves spring from earlier incarnations or have already been mediated or predigested.»

Are there artifacts that illustrate the ELL's appreciation for his or her rich cultural heritage?

Focusing on artifacts and activities based on the Museum's current special exhibition, The Pelican State Goes to War: Louisiana in World War II, discover the key themes that cross Louisiana's geographic and cultural diversity, review important individuals and events, and learn how the war changed the state for decades to come.

We've compiled a list of recommended reads for the mother figure in your life — whether her interests lie in cultural artifacts or the 24 - hour news cycle, Hollywood backlot backstories or intriguing historical tales.

If you are interested in cultural tours, our driver can take you touring to the local villages to see the craftsmen at work, or spend the day shopping for local crafts and artifacts, as well as the beautiful Lombok Pearls.

Certainly, attending attractions such as Doha's Museum of Islamic Art, with its impressive collection of tapestries and other artifacts from throughout the Middle East and beyond, and the Msheireb Museums, chronicling the people and industries that laid the foundation for modern Qatar, illustrated that, yes, those looking for some cultural insight during their visit won't come up short.

Many Mayan artifacts end up on the black market and are sold to private collectors and unethical museums, robbing Belize of its cultural heritage for personal gain.

Ubud has been the cultural focus of Bali for decades and is the place to visit if you are searching for original carvings, sculptures, artifacts, and paintings from across the Indonesian archipelago as well as Bali itself.Villa Alamanda lies to the east of Ubud an approximate ten minutes away and as welcome guests approach the villas they pass through a traditional carving village known to most as Tengkulak.

Holding one of the Yucatán's most important collections of Maya artifacts, this modern museum is a welcome sight in a city known more for its party scene than cultural attractions.

Chloe Frazer's snide remark to her new, unexpected partner, Nadine Ross, is a verbal jab that highlights a conflict more interesting than the treasure they're chasing — the process of a woman learning to explore the world of ancient artifacts and exploiting cultural treasures for profit.

For centuries, artists have collected artworks, along with diverse cultural artifacts and natural materials, as vital sources of inspiration and to create highly individualized models of their world.

During this same month, Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz threatened to withdraw their art works on loan to several German museums in protest of a proposed new German law that would result in stronger oversight over imported cultural artifacts and tighten export restrictions for cultural assets that are more than fifty years old or valued at more than $ 162,000.

The exhibition tells the story of progressive ideas and aesthetics in the modern world through visual artifacts generated by the seismic events of 1917 and drawn from premier cultural institutions in California: the Getty Research Institute, the Wende Museum of the Cold War, and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

Organized around the concept that inanimate objects and inert cultural artifacts are conduits for narrative histories, the program considers how artists use moving images to extend the life of things and materials that would otherwise appear to be stable and resolute.

7 Bringing Jutta Koether, Wade Guyton, R.H. Quaytman, and Stephen Prina into the discussion, Joselit introduced «transitivity» as a term for work that «moves out from painting - as - cultural artifact to the social networks surrounding it.»

For Wanderlust, Issa presents the sculpture Heritage Studies # 10, a five - foot - long copper cylinder, part of her ongoing work «Heritage Studies» begun in 2015, which includes formal reinterpretations of cultural artifacts drawn from various historical and museological sources.

Consumer goods, advertising, and pop cultural artifacts such as book lights, ergonomic keyboards, prescription drug commercials, ASMR YouTube videos, and Enya songs become curious tools for attempting to solve her problems.

The audience is presented with not only a new way of experiencing contemporary cultural production but with a new framework for seeing artifacts from our social and historical narratives and resignifying our relationship to them.

The project will preserve for future generations an insight into what «cultural artifacts» were being produced in 2012.

For example, by 1975 artist DAVID HAMMONS was already creating sculptures from black cultural detritus (hair, food, artifacts, etc.) that ironically commented on black identity.

«There is a lived experience in this work, and for people to come to Africa and to engage with it closer to where the dialogue originated... that says that African artifacts of our time are valuable enough from a cultural point of view to build a cathedral for them» — a cathedral, he added, on «the same scale and the same ambition and the same platform» as those devoted to, say, «Jeff Koons and Michelangelo.»

The project pursues Beier and Lund's interest in cultural heritage, authorship, ownership and mediation: Calling... fills gaps in history with objects that can be understood as makeshift props or conservation models for an utopian archive of everything, or as artifacts in a growing museum of destruction, loss and entropy.

Exploring the fraught relationship of an increasingly modernized China to its cultural heritage, Ai began creating works that irrevocably transformed centuries - old Chinese artifacts — for instance, a Han dynasty urn onto which he painted the Coca - Cola logo (1994) and pieces of Ming - and Qing - era furniture broken down and reassembled into various nonfunctional configurations.

Mr. Wilson's provocative and emotionally charged re-imaging of the historical society's collection of Maryland artworks and artifacts drew nationwide attention from critics and curators and put Baltimore on the map as a destination for cutting - edge cultural tourism.

The work is inspired by the various religions in Indonesia and also by the artifacts imported from the Indonesian coastal city, Cirebon, where it is known for its cultural mix of Chinese, Arabic, Sudanese and Javanese.

By focusing on the forms of production and materiality, Chang is able to call attention to the unique potential of the photographic image to function simultaneously as commodity, artifact for cultural significance and object for philosophical investigation.

Clay's artifacts are chosen for possessing long cultural tails.

Allowing pop - cultural artifacts to function as «information,» as opposed to «form,» Baldessari's works represented a radical departure from, and often a direct critique of, the modernist sensibility that dominated painting for decades.

Known for his collaborations with museums and cultural institutions throughout the world, Wilson's Local Color incorporates traditional African and Caribbean artifacts from the Studio Museum's permanent collection and an assortment of objects the artist purchased along Harlem's 125th Street.

Archaeologists examine excavation sites for artifacts that gives clues about past cultures and researches to determine the authenticity and cultural meaning of these items.

``... a significant release both as a cultural artifact but also for its pure enjoyment factor... full of love and life and hope, sung with great emotion at a level rare in many contemporary albums... As a listener you feel part of the circle and included in the experience.