Sentences with phrase «cultural figures with»

«The architect David Adjaye, the musician and composer Zakir Hussain, the choreographer Crystal Piteand the author Colm Toibin are the new mentors in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, which pairs distinguished cultural figures with emerging artists in their fields.

The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative pairs distinguished cultural figures with emerging artists in their fields.

In similar fashion, the great scientist and philosopher Dr John Dee (David Threlfall) stands in for all the thinkers and cultural figures with whom Elizabeth engaged.

He was known as a bohemian cultural figure with a taste for dirty jokes, and the whole «God» thing didn't seem natural.

Not exact matches

I tend to be an optimist, and early on, before we figured out our hiring and cultural philosophy, we dealt with a lot of flaky people and who dropped the ball.

Hillsong New York pastor Carl Lentz is quickly becoming one of the most influential pastors in America, and along with drawing thousands to the church's weekly services, regular visitors include everyone from ministers to pop - stars, athletes and high - profile cultural figures.

And this figure does not include the uncountable number of Christians who are still identified with China's mysterious «underground church»: believers who worshiped secretly during the Cultural Revolution and who still have not all surfaced.

There's all the rest of us trying to figure out what to do with this stupendously important book — either because it anchors our faith, or because it contains enduring wisdom and the foundations of our cultural identity.

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.

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.

In the three weeks since dozens of women came forward with allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, the cultural landscape has been altered, with claims brought against figures across other industries.

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.

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).

It's a scene that calls to mind «Raging Bull,» juxtaposing the brutality of that to which Harding has been reduced (a reluctant second - rate boxer, a pop cultural punchline) with the iconic and charismatic figure she once cut on the ice: passionate, fiery, tough and shot through with a formidable athleticism that, for several years, went critically underappreciated and grossly misunderstood.

Contentiously, some figures have even levelled charges of cultural appropriation against Anderson, with Will Toledo from Car Seat Headrest going so far as to label Isle of Dogs «racist» and «a movie that would appeal to literally zero people beyond [Anderson] himself».

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.

Figuring out the cultural nuances, merging with the flow, keeping up with the people.

Having looked under the hood of the modern media machine's first days and inside the minds of some of its major figures, Glen David Gold sat down to converse with writer and cultural critic Adam McGovern about Sunnyside's own secrets — and showed that knowing some of the mysteries doesn't take away the magic.

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.»

Along with this, cultural figures enjoyed the tasteful art - deco furnishings and beds including entertainer Josephine Baker, writer Leo Tolstoy and social revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Chinese wax figures have also been introduced at the recently opened Madame Tussauds Sydney, including Jackie Chan; Skyrail, Cairns, Queensland - cultural awareness training is provided for staff, with annual refreshers.

Featuring a boyish animatronic figure reminiscent of literary and pop cultural characters such as Huckleberry Finn, Howdy Doody, and Alfred E. Neuman, the mascot of Mad magazine, the work is suspended with heavy chains from a large mechanized gantry, which is programmed to choreograph its movements.

With the aid of film and photographic records, correspondence, invitation cards, as well as posters and other ephemera, light will be shed on Joan Mitchell's colorful personality and her multifaceted relationships to visual artists, writers, and other cultural figures.

In recent years, locals have praised «Morrison House Presents,» a free discussion series that spotlights artists, authors, historians, and other cultural figures who have keen insights to share with Alexandrians.

With film recordings and photographs as well as correspondence, invitations, posters, and other ephemera, Joan Mitchell's vibrant personality and her various relationships to artists, authors, and other figures from the cultural world of her time are illuminated.

From 1996 through 2006, he published Index Magazine, which featured interviews with prominent cultural figures.

He painted his first flag in 1955, only a year after Senator McCarthy's censure, with memories still fresh of cultural figures grilled on Congress — and he would not consent to a public display for three full years.

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.

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)

Typically, Quinn's intriguing portraits of these figures are loaded with broader cultural references.

Jamie creates figures that question authority, power and control with an emphasis on cultural conditioning.

Portraying a pair of gigantic figures with their heads lowered and with one arm around each other in a gentle embrace, the sculpture alludes to familiar childhood toys and cartoon characters while at the same time transforming their identities with a radical shift in scale, presenting them as monumental cultural presences...

The book brings together his photographs, recollections and years of journal entries, with written contributions from contemporary artists, curators, and cultural figures.

Future projects include John Waters: Indecent Exposure, a retrospective of that important cultural figure's visual arts career, as well as projects with DIS, Maren Hassinger, Mary Reid Kelley, and Meleko Mokgosi.

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.

The magazine featured largely unedited interviews with artists, musicians and cultural figures.

examines this watershed cultural moment — brimming with change and conflict — and the figures who defined it.

She layers iconographies from myriad cultures and time periods, imbuing the depicted figures with strength while abolishing a cultural hierarchy.

The exhibition opens with a 1945 portrait of the musician Armando Perez and includes other figures from Harlem's cultural circle, including Sarah Shiller who, with her husband, supported left wing artists such as Neel during the period.

The painting also signaled his embrace of figuration and commitment to painting black figures with black paint and considering blackness in cultural, social, and aesthetic terms.

With their architectural and monumental presence, his mixed - media installations and drawings orchestrate interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogues, bridging various historic and cultural anecdotes and figures in singular bodies.

This joint exhibition once again brings remarkable figures of American contemporary art to China, hoping to establish a deeper connection with the local cultural ecology through artistic exchange.

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:

Portraits compiles the many works completed over Wood's career, done in a variety of media, and with a range of subjects and sitters, including paintings of artist friends, self - portraits, intimate familial moments in domestic interiors and the artist's own cultural and sports heroes, from basketball players and boxers to Philip Guston and Pablo Picasso — though Wood's esteem for these figures is beside the point, as he notes: «I don't depict only those athletes who have meaning for me.

In addition, Frieze Talks will host lively and intimate conversations with leading artists and cultural figures.

PROJECTS provides audiences with fresh encounters with the creative disciplines through the inventive use of materials and methods; 12 solo exhibitions — from figures such as Yoshitoshi Kanemaki, Teppei Kaneuji and Katsuo Tachi — offer a rich cultural tapestry innovative practice.

This past July for «Lunch,» her solo show at Cultural Avenue's space Salon Kennedy in Frankfurt, Kara paired putty - like sculptures dangling from a taut zipline with oversized canvases that depict groups of figures rendered in a handful of colors (peaches, blues, and greens) and frenetic linework.

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.