Sentences with phrase «cultural commentary in»

Representing several new approaches emerging from the wealth of painterly history and ideas accumulated over the last century, these artists combine various elements such as conceptual art, post-painterly abstraction, reductive strategies, mysticism and cultural commentary in a visually and intellectually provocative collection of paintings.

Clement Greenberg graduated in literature from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York in 1930, taught himself Latin and German, began to work as a United States customs clerk (1937) and then to publish political and cultural commentary in Partisan Review and The Nation.

There is also a moment of fantastic cultural commentary in the season two premiere.

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Political and cultural commentary is probably best left to people with a better understanding than I, but I think it is obvious that the world is in a state of upheaval.

The book brings together a stunning array of past and present social commentary and data, making it an invaluable resource for putting «cultural revolution (s)» in context.

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.

Niebuhr's account of sin and his understanding of theology as cultural commentary provided a compelling «sociology» for a theology done in a new idiom.

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.

The first key argument of this commentary, therefore, after the legal, cultural and socio - political, context described above, is that corrupt campaign finance is a big problem in Nigerian politics, and that money poses the biggest threat to our democracy.

Also, I think District 9 is classic science - fiction in the sense that it takes a futuristic scenario (or in this case an alternative present scenario) to make contemporary political and cultural commentary.

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.

The pairing of act and music isn't so much farce as inane fodder for ensuring The House's removal from anything resembling genuine social commentary, but it also indulges the laziest form of cultural fantasy, where the awkward, middle - aged white couple is allowed to engage in cultural appropriation for a spell before returning to their dull middle - class lives, and all without consequence.

In the tradition of Jonathan Lethem's They Live monograph and the 33 1/3 series of longform album reviews, Miracle Mile offers a mix of cultural commentary, film criticism, and memoir as Walter dissects Miracle Mile's therapeutic function in his life following a traumatic event in the summer of 198In the tradition of Jonathan Lethem's They Live monograph and the 33 1/3 series of longform album reviews, Miracle Mile offers a mix of cultural commentary, film criticism, and memoir as Walter dissects Miracle Mile's therapeutic function in his life following a traumatic event in the summer of 198in his life following a traumatic event in the summer of 198in the summer of 1989.

In particular, the slight cultural commentaries of «Screwed» can't save it from feeling like little more than a knockoff Madonna song circa the mid-1980s (both musically and subject-wise).

Its political commentary can be occasionally simplistic, but also offers important messages around cultural tolerance, and the strong performances of the film's leads paper over any cracks in the film, bringing Mullin's gentle romantic comedy to life.

«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.

(In French, German and English) Lagerfeld Confidential (Unrated) Uncritical portrait of cultural icon Karl Lagerfeld features commentaries by Nicole Kidman and Princess Caroline of Monaco about the pony - tailed fashion designer.

[16] It is a complete reprint of the strip, including side notes about cultural and political references made in the strip, «Headlines» breaks to identify the top stories of the day, and commentary from Breathed.

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.

While incorporating similar themes, her Pop Art has less in common with the ideals and politics of Judy Chicago or Miriam Schapiro, and is not necessarily related to the more blatant cultural commentaries of Warhol or Lichtenstein.

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.

In these exhibits, some of the artists creatively transform everyday objects as part of their social, political, and cultural commentary: the materials are part of the message.

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.»

Bradford employs the «tools of civilization» — billboards, merchant posters, newsprint, comics, magazines, and endpapers — to conflate cultural and political forces, and create layers of social commentary in paintings that evoke deep feeling.

Cara Romero's work conflates fine art and a documentary style that is often tongue in cheek with complex cultural interactions and social commentary.

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.

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.

Notable galleries for 2014 include: Kevin Kavanagh (Dublin), presenting a storytelling series by Sonia Shiel, current ISCP NY artist - in - residence and recipient of Ireland's 2014 Arts Council Project Award; Laura Bulian Gallery (Milan), highlighting career Conceptualist Vyacheslav Akhunov, whose cultural investigations were featured in dOCUMENTA (13) and the 2013 Venice Biennale's Central Asian Pavilion; contemporary Bahamanian art hub Popopstudios (Nassau), spotlighting «everyday» assemblages and mixed - media works by founder John Cox; Frederieke Taylor Gallery (New York), revealing environmental concerns of downtown stalwart Christy Rupp, whose seminal public art projects factored into the 2012 exhibition Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969 - 1989 at the New Museum; Galerie Heike Strelow (Frankfurt am Main), combining sociopolitical commentary and black humor via Florian Heinke, who curated System of Diplomatic Chaos at Kunstverein Wiesbaden last year; and CONNERSMITH.

In spite of the cultural commentary, the work is not particularly moralistic.

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.

Working in painting, sculpture, photography, film and installation, Shonibare's work examines race, class and the construction of cultural identity through a sharp political commentary of the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their respective economic and political histories.

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.

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.

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.

Seemingly innocuous at first observation, each work is intricately laced with undercurrents of the sinister and the foreboding, saturated with cultural reflection, psychoanalysis, and social commentary in a fusion of high and low aesthetics.

He is capable of harmoniously intermingling diverse ideas and cultural phenomena in a very open, inclusive, and seductive way, that leaves room for irony and political commentary while remaining open to interpretation by the viewer.»

Barbara Kruger hit her stride with the same format, in captioned images that, with great economy of means, created bruising cultural commentaries.

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.

Our mission at Pearls & Vodka is to provide cultural commentary to the events happening in the world around us.

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