Sentences with phrase «cultural figures by»

Jannis Kounellis: Smoke Shadows is the first in a series of pocket - book interviews with key cultural figures by internationally renowned curator, cultural agitator and pioneer Jérôme Sans.

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He never stayed in one place very long, but by this point JT at - large was such an important cultural figure that his mere presence gave something importance.

We hold to forms of worship designed centuries ago by people very different to us and ignore the massive cultural changes of the last few decades (and I'm not talking about replacing organs and songs with good theology and no tune with guitars and songs with good tunes and bad theology, either) for fear that in attracting anyone new we might alienate imaginary figures we are sure are in the congregation.

Nonetheless, by usually speaking as though his ideal types characterize real historical figures, he leaves the impression that each Christian or group can be adequately typed by one or the other of the cultural attitudes.

Both male and female members told a meeting they were pestered or groped by party figures, while others claimed there remained a «cultural problem» with sexism.

The drive to put mental health treatment on the same footing as physical health is being backed by a cast of famous sportsmen and other cultural figures.

The second half of the 20th century, and the rise of television, introduced yet a new change in communication technology that was accompanied by the rise of a new cultural icon: the sports figure, who for the first time in history rose to the status of global celebrity.

Fretwork inspired by Incan cultural figures adorns the edges of this bold scarf from Peru's Waldo Berrios.

Fretwork inspired by Incan cultural figures adorns the edges of this versatile scarf from Peru's Waldo Berrios.

Her aim is to push these highly skilled craftsmen by publicising and utilising their cultural skills in a way that hasn't been done before, resulting in loose and pretty styles that suit every figure.

Disney has really carved out a genre for itself: the underdog sports story as cultural melting pot, complete with the Middle American white coach / scout / father figure whose preconceptions are overturned by scrappy kids who overcome every hurdle with heart and hard work.

Most of the pleasures of «Don Jon» come from Gordon - Levitt setting up expectations and then softly deflating them: the blustery father figure played by Tony Danza starts out as a «type» before he begins to reveal layers of cultural and sexual identity that complicate a simpler interpretation.

With over 30 unique performances of W. B. Yeats» epic poetry by leading Irish and British cultural figures, Geldof argues why Yeats and his circle built the cultural scaffolding of a modern, pluralist Ireland but was pushed aside by the narrow - minded Catholic elite of the new Free State — the «Banana Republic» that Geldof in turn rebelled against half a century later.

Audiences familiar with Key and Peele's pop - cultural savvy will be unsurprised by the various on - screen allusions to crime thrillers like «Heat» and «New Jack City,» plus throwaway comic references to «Fargo,» «The Shining,» «Crimson Tide» and «Point Break» (all of which figure into one of the movie's better visual gags).

Smack dab in the middle of a season dominated by superheroes and minions comes «The Stanford Prison Experiment,» a re-enactment of the shocking»70s psychology project so disturbing and infamous it remains a hot topic in textbooks and a cultural touchstone for conversations about the abuse of power by authority figures.

Like Back to the Future, Star Wars inevitably resonates with adolescents regardless of their cultural background because the theme of impending adulthood is fundamental to the human condition: a young person sets out on a physical and / or spiritual journey to find himself and prove himself while being guided or befriended by a mentor figure.

Alewitz's mural was unanimously praised and accepted by the Puffin Foundations» officers and the committee of leading historians and cultural figures that oversaw the construction and installation of the Puffin Gallery.

Students talked about how important it was to feel loved and cared for by adults in the school, how they needed teachers and staff who could relate to their cultural backgrounds and not just act as authoritative figures for four years.

Eve's work leading Grub Street was recently recognized by the National Arts Strategies when they selected her to join their Chief Executive Program, a two - year initiative designed to unleash the collective power of 100 of the top executive leaders in the cultural sector to re-imagine the potential of cultural institutions and to figure out how they can contribute to civil society in the 21st century.

Following the press release provided by Amazon Publishing, tipped by TeleRead, Jay Parini said, «It seems appropriate to launch a series of short, thought - provoking biographies with a figure who has dominated our collective imagination and cultural iconography for over twenty centuries.»

Figures from the Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities also confirm that the demand for cultural tourism is on the up: during the Epiphany 2010 holidays, the top thirty cultural state - run sites saw a 10.82 % increase in visitors compared to 2008 and even gross income was up by 12.82 %, reaching a total of $ Cultural Assets and Activities also confirm that the demand for cultural tourism is on the up: during the Epiphany 2010 holidays, the top thirty cultural state - run sites saw a 10.82 % increase in visitors compared to 2008 and even gross income was up by 12.82 %, reaching a total of $ cultural tourism is on the up: during the Epiphany 2010 holidays, the top thirty cultural state - run sites saw a 10.82 % increase in visitors compared to 2008 and even gross income was up by 12.82 %, reaching a total of $ cultural state - run sites saw a 10.82 % increase in visitors compared to 2008 and even gross income was up by 12.82 %, reaching a total of $ 172,472.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New York, NY

2006 USA Today, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany Constant Disturbance, Centro Cultural Español, Curated by Gean Moreno, Miami, FL Bring it on, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL Transformer, Traveling exhibition of contemporary artworks from the West Collection, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA Nominally Figured, Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Fogg Art Museum Harvard University, Boston, MA Making Do, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

Recent and upcoming project include: Somewhere Becoming the Sea, group exhibition curated by Film & Video Umbrella; Beam Reach Blasting and Parallel commission for Tall Ships Cultural Programme (UK and Sweden); Everyday Collateral, solo exhibition, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead; In Waiting, commission by Creative England; The List, Figure two, BALTIC 39, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Paul Kasmin Gallery (E4) surveys works from the 1990s to today by Tina Barney in a solo stand of intimate portraits of New York cultural figures, including Joan Didion, Robert Ryman and Michael Stipe.

Handed out by the Japanese imperial family (after selection by the Japan Art Association), the award goes to five international cultural figures each year.

Makers were nominated by a pool of more than 300 New York City - based cultural leaders and civic figures from a range of trades and disciplines, including museum curators, choreographers, academics, chefs, musicians, and journalists, with final participants selected by a jury led by Adamson and exhibition curator Jake Yuzna.

The show features paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, Alfred Leslie, Trevor Winkfield, Nell Blaine, Joe Brainard, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Jane Freilicher and Fairfield Porter; poetry collections published by the gallery's imprint, Tibor de Nagy Editions, and featuring work by Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest and others, with illustrations by Tibor de Nagy artists; photographs and films by Rudy Burckhardt; letters, announcement cards and other ephemera; and archival photographs of leading cultural figures of the day by John Gruen and Fred McDarrah.

Plus: Controversial sculpture rejected by Louvre finds home at Centre Pompidou German cultural figures protest appointment of right wing parliament representative Arabic script discovered on Viking funeral costumes and recommended reading

Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY Brooklyn Divas, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, organized by Vicky Clark and Sandhini Poddar, various venues including The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle, IN Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, The Mc Dounough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH, Tufts University Gallery, Medford MA and the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Univeristy of Richmond, Richmond, VA, (with catalog)

Identity Shifts A companion exhibition to Posing Beauty, this collection - based display features works by African American artists who use representations of the human figure or some aspect of the body (including hair) to explore how we construct and perceive personal and cultural identity.

MATRIX 268 features 239 drawings by the Los Angeles — based artist Veronica De Jesus (b. 1970), who from 2004 until 2016 made portraits of artists, writers, and diverse cultural figures to mark their passing.

Note also: The world theatrical premiere of FILM # 18 - MAHAGONNY, the unfinished final film by legendary American cultural figure Harry Smith, will take place at Anthology Film Archives from Friday, September 13 to Sunday, September 22.

This collection - based exhibition features works by African American artists who use representations of the human figure or some aspect of the body (including hair) to explore how we construct and perceive personal and cultural identity.

A document entitled «J20 Art Strike Letter» has been published for circulation, signed by figures including Richard Serra, Barbara Kruger, and Cindy Sherman and is is addressed to museums, galleries, studios, art schools, and other cultural institutions.

Leading cultural figures — from Gillian Wearing to Michael Rosen — create exclusive works inspired by the Games daily

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

This unruly object was complemented by a photocopied publication, which featured interviews (conducted by Cruzvillegas) with knitters, community gardeners, slam poets and other figures who issued from a cultural space that was alien to clichés of Parisian identity.

We also have a very exciting show coming up in New York in May, presenting seminal works by the pioneering conceptual artist John Latham, alongside work by the Benedictine monk and influential cultural figure, Dom Sylvester Houédard.

Radical politics were at the centre of the Black Power movement, and was accompanied by effervescent cultural manifestations in literature, film, and the visual arts, and these figures» works will show.

Part of Frieze's non-profit program and featuring today's most influential artists, thinkers and cultural figures, Frieze Talks is curated by Tom Eccles (Executive Director, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York).

Monument to Cold War Victory will be juried by a distinguished panel of cultural and intellectual figures, including Vito Acconci, Susan Buck - Morss, Boris Groys, Vitaly Komar, Viktor Misiano, and Nato Thompson.

Last week, Sotheby's added to the cacophony of collector's stories with the works once owned by Jean Stein, daughter of Hollywood legend Jules Stein, and major New York cultural figure until her suicide earlier this year:

Organized by Sharon L. Kennedy, curator of cultural and civic engagement, and Brandon K. Ruud, curator of transnational American art, the exhibition presents major figures and events — along with some overlooked moments and people — from the past.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

All Divided Selves 9.30 pm The social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s were spearheaded by the charismatic, guru - like figure of Glasgow born psychiatrist R.D. Laing.

Ligon's practice examines history and identity largely by borrowing poignant language from African American literary and cultural figures and through repetition and isolation presents the phrases for optimum effect and consideration.

I was chosen to be part of a select tour guided by visiting artists, scholars and other cultural figures.

Accented, Curated by Murtaza Vali Through May 16, 2015 Maraya Art Centre Sharjah, UAE The exhibition's theme originates in the premise that the «accent» acts as an «enduring sign or figure of cultural difference in the age of globalisation».

Frieze Talks: Curated by Tom Eccles (Executive Director, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York) for the sixth year, Frieze's program of Talks will also return this year, providing visitors an opportunity to delve into a discourse on critical issues in the contemporary art world with some of today's most significant artists, cultural figures, and thought - leaders.