Sentences with phrase «cultural commentaries on»

For the US has witnessed an impressive range of cultural commentaries on the epidemic, exploring the conflicts and evasions that determine so much social policy, from safer sex campaigns to television soap operas.

Nancy offers breastfeeding updates and cultural commentary on her blog.

We champion projects by America Ferrara and Eva Longoria, we cheer on Iñárritu and Chivo's Hollywood successes, we bemoan tone - deaf cultural commentary on SNL, and feel inspired when critically acclaimed films from Colombia, Venezuela, and Chile take European festivals by storm.

Her intertwining of classical genres with cutting edge technologies, such as the combination of live drawing with video environments, offer both lyrical readings and cultural commentary on today's world.

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With hard - hitting commentary, the latest on the cultural and social scene in Arts & Life, more than just the scores with entertaining Post Sports coverage, and the best business reporting in Canada within the pages of Financial Post, it is Canada's Business Voice.

First Things continues to bring its readers each month the most insightful and lively information and commentary on religion, books, politics, science, cultural trends, and the great moral questions of our time.

Jesus knew what the passages meant, knew their historical, cultural, and situational context, and knew how to apply these verses to the current crisis He was facing (See the Commentary on Luke 4:1 - 13 for more).

Little do they know that the writer of this post has degrees in Bible and theology, knows Greek and Hebrew, and has written an entire commentary on 1 Corinthians, looking at the historical, cultural, and grammatical contexts.

One difference is that today's commentaries hold very little knowledge of Torah culture and even the Jewish dialogue going on in the New Testament and although they have a lot of knowledge, it is diluted by a full cultural engagement which leaves a lot out with a very gentile understanding of Scripture.

ALBANY — Preet Bharara, the outspoken former U.S. attorney in Manhattan, is launching a weekly podcast that will provide commentary on judicial, political and cultural systems, according to a release from the podcast's producers.

This book is a bold, forthright and courageous commentary on looming cultural trends — a true tour de force.

Hill's work on Observe & Report, The Foot Fist Way, and his cultural breakthrough, HBO «s Eastbound & Down, contains more glass - darkly social commentary and life - lived expression than the work of any hotshot young novelist in recent memory.

It's a classic high - concept sketch that's stuffed with good jokes and a layer of commentary on our cultural obsession with Trump over everything.

Extras: New audio commentary featuring jazz and film critic Gary Giddins, music and cultural critic Gene Seymour, and musician and bandleader Vince Giordano; new introduction by Giddins; new interview with musician and pianist Michael Feinstein; four new video essays by authors and archivists James Layton and David Pierce on the development and making of «King of Jazz»; deleted scenes and alternate opening - title sequence; «All Americans,» a 1929 short film featuring a version of the «Melting Pot» number that was restaged for the finale of «King of Jazz»; «I Know Everybody and Everybody's Racket,» a 1933 short film featuring Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; two Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons from 1930, featuring music and animation from «King of Jazz.»

This definitive release recycles Altman's excellent DVD commentary and adds enticing new features, such as a rare - for - Criterion retrospective documentary where the likes of actors Rene Auberjonois and Keith Carradine reflect on the film's production and its cultural moment.

«Billions continues to be a show on the rise, growing not only in audience, but in critical buzz and cultural relevance,» the premium cabler's David Nevins said of the Damian Lewis, Paul Giamatti, Maggie Siff and Malin Akerman led show «It offers a unique mix of pure entertainment with sly commentary on our current have / have - not economy.

But the gags are predominantly broad and the cynically - minded commentary, which touches on everything from cultural capitalism and art world smuggery to the current political climate and the fickleness of success, doesn't run very deep.

He also publishes The Texas Pilgrim (www.texaspilgrim.com), a monthly letter of commentary on cultural and public policy issues.

Shadowshapers are a disappearing community in which Sierra has a powerful role, and Older's depiction of it weaves in commentary on gentrification, cultural appropriation, the shifting social mores of immigrants, and more.

So, on top of delicious food tastings, you'll also enjoy a hearty helping of neighborhood commentary including historical, architectural and cultural information about the neighborhood you are visiting.

The New Republican style School Hall (1912) forms part of the museum which is a cultural, historical and architectural commentary on the heritage of Oudtshoorn.

In addition, the book employs sidebars to provide brief and incisive accounts of and commentaries on important contemporary political, economic and cultural events, and on exhibitions, biennales, workshops, artist groups and more.

The project is both a commentary on the refugee crisis and the privilege given to cultural and art world events.

In a profile for The New Yorker, John Brooks noted that Gutman was «probably the only writer of a broker's stock - market letter whose readers count on him not only for financial advice but also for cultural commentary, psychological insights, and even spiritual guidance.»

Extending the popular website of the same name, this book presents a wide array of collections — some featured on the website, most newly assembled for publication — interspersed with commentary and essays exploring the problems and politics of collecting materials that may lack conventional monetary or cultural value.

They are dialogues with society and commentaries on art history that often reference political issues, mixing high and low cultural values.

«The artist sees this as commentary on cultural and technological pollution,» a booth attendant tells Artspace.

Although his imagery seems to allude to some form of cultural commentary, the relation between abstraction as an irrational process on the one hand and the manifestation of the overlapping poured shapes on the other asserts a calculated agreement to disagree with the language of painting and its representation.

Or maybe it should be put the other way round: Stubbs's imagery seems constantly on the verge of converging into some form of cultural commentary, but the fundamental abstractness and even irrationality of his overlapping poured shapes seems calculated to prevent that — to insist on the painting as an agreement to disagree between wayward materials and stubborn intentionality.

The works are a commentary on the fleeting nature of time, the fragility of life, the representation of women, and our cultural obsession with disposable objects.

For the first time since 2007, the gallery spaces in the Villa Salve Hospes are being filled with a thematic group exhibition: OPEN HOUSE — A Group Show on Hospitality brings together eleven international artistic positions whose works provide commentaries on hospitality as a social, cultural and political phenomenon.

The work is an ironic commentary on the changing political and cultural landscape of Hong Kong, of power relations, and privacy.

Martha Wilson Sourcebook is the first in an ICI publication series that offers a fresh perspective on social, political, and cultural issues impacting and inspiring artists» practices, comprised of materials that the artist selects from their own archive and annotates with personal commentaries.

Martha Wilson Sourcebook is the first in a new ICI publication series that offers a fresh perspective on social, political, and cultural issues impacting and inspiring artists» practices, comprised of materials that the artist selects from their own archive and annotates with personal commentaries.

Lauded for her skewering commentaries on the intersection of the cultural canon and cultural waste, Bag's work frequently examines the art world hierarchies that govern not only taste, but likewise determine career trajectories.

Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art has distinguished itself with intrepid commentary on the shared cultural and political predicament through its curated exhibitions, which form the core of its program.

These photographs are more than representations and reconstructions of Wall's experiences, they are an agent for social commentary on violence and cultural miscommunication.

[1] Critics have also questioned whether Mr.'s work reflects a commentary on otaku culture, or glimpses into a private fantasy world, [2] though Mr. has said his art is about expressing his personal fantasies, and not about cultural commentary.

In Silas» renditions of Bat Masterson, Rawhide, Yogi Bear, The Mickey Mouse Club, and other once popular melodies, she enacts rituals of self - intimacy and creates a commentary on aging, memory and the inevitable advancement of time, while reminding us of the peculiar cultural productions that hold us together generationally and mark the movement from one generation to the next.

Her creations reference a wide array of cultural and art historical themes, from Color Field Painting and other formal movements via the exuberantly colored clothing, to latent commentaries on recycling, materialism, and urban poverty.

The rug images are researched through auction catalogues and, while the press release does not say this, I would like to think that there is a commentary on the commodity of cultural objects, and the buying and selling of them without the research or interest in the object's cultural significance by privileged classes.

Her vivid commentary on TV and film will galvanize even the most jaded with its social clarity and its savvy sense of cultural justice.

Using the book as a symbol for knowledge, Benes conceals the information inherent to the object's purpose either as cheeky irreverence or as a commentary on American cultural values.

Matthew Darbyshire on the exhibition and commission: «In the development of this project, rather than getting too pop and «Twenty Twelve», I was thinking about the very real possibility of regression, and the potential for a more oblique commentary on the social, political and cultural implications of what's being built around us today.

Through his work he explores the human condition, offering a critical perspective on social, cultural, and political issues and visually eloquent commentary on memory, loss, and the difficulty of memorializing the past.

A recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2015, LaToya Ruby Frazier's artistic practice spans a range of media that incorporates photography, video and performance and centers on the nexus of social justice, cultural change and commentary on the American experience.

The Swedish artist, Christian Andersson, stages his exhibition in the Von Bartha Gallery as a clever commentary on the cultural - philosophical discourses and rituals of the art market.

He includes a running commentary on capitalism and political philosophy, illustrating cultural shifts and fiscal fluctuations in minute, often manic, detail.

On view June 22 — July 28, 2017, the exhibition weaves together three bodies of work, forging a powerful commentary on contemporary cultural identity and the current state of immigrants and refugeeOn view June 22 — July 28, 2017, the exhibition weaves together three bodies of work, forging a powerful commentary on contemporary cultural identity and the current state of immigrants and refugeeon contemporary cultural identity and the current state of immigrants and refugees.

A monograph on the great Pop Art master, James Rosenquist, this book shows how the artist's large - scale works and their source materials remain powerful and relevant as cultural and political commentary.