Sentences with phrase «cultural forces at»

Indeed, environment suggests that of a stage or a platform intertwined with its inherent social and cultural forces at work within a city that is never still, never at rest, never at peace.

Helen Molesworth, the chief curator of MOCA, says that although the art world is progressive, «that doesn't set us apart from the larger cultural forces at play, which have for the past several hundred years promoted the idea that genius and men and power and money are all very intertwined with one another.»

Rather, there are cultural forces at work.

We then examine theories explaining educational inequality that have attempted to address the structural and cultural forces at play.

Unfortunately, Hiller doesn't command the intensity of feeling that might have made it emotionally valid, and he doesn't have the awareness of the cultural forces at work in his film that might have made it intellectually respectable.

They ultimately parted ways with the Contemporary Arts Association of Houston - now the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - but not before mounting major exhibitions and enabling Jermayne MacAgy, perhaps the first professionally trained art historian in the city, to serve as its director and a cultural force at large.

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And while the brand is smaller in the U.S — at a 1.9 percent share — it has been a major cultural force with a history of groundbreaking ads dating back to the 1960s when Doyle Dane Bernbach won plaudits for an anti-establishment approach and classic copy lines like «Lemon» and «Think Small.»

Grammy - winning performer and producer Wyclef Jean believes the combined creativity, ingenuity and energy of young people in their last few years of high school and early college is a musical, cultural and political force that a society ignores at its...

Wilcox writes that «both cultural and economic forces are at work» in widening the marriage and divorce divides.

At the same time she questions Calvin's individualized notion of unfaithfulness, insisting that feminists must speak out equally against «unfaithful cultures» — those institutional structures and cultural forces that perpetuate the gendered bondage to sin.

He places rap squarely at the center of a hip - hop culture that reinforces patterns of ignorance and misogyny, and links it to larger cultural forces that debase the popular images of African - American men.

In discussing his own persecution during the Cultural Revolution, Ting told us about the seminary's closing, the destruction of most of its library, and his forced attendance at the Red Guard's political - education classes.

In 1960, it was increasingly evident, not least to people like Congar, that this anti-modernist discipline had become ineffective at coping with the flood of social, cultural, and intellectual forces that confronted the Church.

The challenge before us is to navigate the hyphen and be prepared to explore our varied histories, discover the outside forces, question the economic compulsions, be astounded by the cultural diversity, empathise with the experience of marginality, marvel at the memories that have shaped all these various selves, and offered, and continue to offer us, an identity or identities across the hyphen, as the various embodied selves that make up the assorted group of people who are called Indian - Christians.

Although Hall speaks in the just - quoted passage of «forces that no one understands,» he says elsewhere that the whole of his discussion in The Uncertain Phoenix is «an attempt at cultural self - understanding» (UP 416).

(The Jewish state of Israel and the Muslim states have not solved this problem either, nor have the forces of secular humanism proven any more adept at addressing the moral and cultural crisis of modern societies.)

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

At the risk of sounding Marxian, I would suggest that there are material as well as ideological forces behind the cultural and moral malaise.

But something rotten happened between the Clintonian «passing of the torch» and the swearing - in of model family man Barack Obama: the Bush GOP revealed that apparently the forces of cultural libertarianism could only be held at bay in an avalanche of bad government.

They assumed that the media are only one of many forces that shape our cultural environment, and that violence in the media is both a cause and an effect which reflects much that is wrong in society while at the same time amplifying some of its problems.

The people of Riverside County, along with those in the communities of Temecula, Murrieta and Lake Elsinore, enjoy an exceptional quality of life, a mild climate, good air quality, reasonably priced land and building sites adjacent to the I - 15 and I - 215 corridors, affordable housing at all levels, a highly skilled labor force, quality educational facilities and programs and cultural, entertainment and recreational activities for every lifestyle.

The heyday for American film criticism was the»70s because I think the people that got into it at that point were really inspired by the likes of Andrew Sarris and Pauline Kael, both of whom became famous and established the importance of film critics as a cultural force.

The authors admit that «Local Hollywood» is more difficult to describe than Global Hollywood as a concept; not least because there are different historical, cultural, political and economic forces at work in each location.

The impact of technology on culture — accelerating cultural change at a dizzying pace — clearly demonstrates that we would be far wiser to guide the powerful forces of change, than to try to legislate, or hold them hostage.

At the same time, I do not want to diminish the importance of ethnic and racial cultural competency in particular, given that our teaching force is more than 80 percent white, while over half of children born today are racial minorities.

And as we looked over five of our favorites at the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este on the shores of Lake Como in Italy, we saw past the clever marketing ploy and instead reflected on the powerful cultural force that Art Cars has become.

His book on Ghomeshi is not just the outrageous true crime story he exposed — it's a thought - provoking story that forces us to look again at social, cultural and gender roles.»

Mark J. Penn's Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes looks at the economy from the perspective of a cultural and political analyst.

And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror, for decades to come he will be held fast under the thumb of despotism: made to represent Soviet values at a cultural conference in New York City, forced into joining the Party and compelled, constantly, to weigh appeasing those in power against the integrity of his music.

Swinkels said Donovan's book is «not just the outrageous true crime story he exposed - it's a thought - provoking story that forces us to look again at social, cultural and gender roles».

Her process - based work is concerned with examining the forces at stake in contested cultural and political histories.

They were both making big paintings in New York at a time when American painting was a major cultural force.

By the time Abstract Expressionism — or, as Wheeler dubbed it, «Hack - tion painting» — established itself as a cultural force, Wheeler became increasingly bitter at his lack of exposure.

In her second solo show in New York, «Dead People Don't Scream», VALIE EXPORT examines the cultural spectrum, combining forces from societal realms with those of power at a universal level.

Trying to critique a blockbuster museum show like «Picasso and Chicago» at the Art Institute of Chicago is kind of like trying to offer thoughtful criticism of Coca - Cola; at this point, there's not much that can be said that would enhance or diminish the iconic status of either of these monolithic cultural forces.

An exhibition at the city's de Young Museum last year, celebrating the centennial of this historic event, opened with an artwork that revived San Francisco's claim as a cultural beacon: a mural by local painter Arthur Frank Mathews titled The Victory of Culture over Force (Victorious Spirit)(1914).

A Force Proportional To Their Masses is a permanent installation honoring African Americans in aviation past, present and future at The Fulton County Aviation Community Cultural Center in Atlanta, GA..

Of my writings published online on this blog and The Huffington Post since last April 2010, the ones that have in any small way gone viral, very relatively speaking, were those in which I wrote fast enough about current hot news items or ones relating or engaging with artworld celebrities: as one example, «My Whole Street is A Mosque,» written within 24 hours of the news cycle surrounding the proposal for a Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, was picked up by various web aggregators; «Looking for Art to Love, MoMA: A Tale of Two Egos» also did very well because of my speculation about how or whether Marina Abramovic peed during her performance «The Artist is Present» at MoMA, a subject of much prurient curiosity (interesting speculation was illustrated online at New York Magazine and resolution of the mystery came in the Wall Street Journal's blog, «Speakeasy»); «Anselm Kiefer@Larry Gagosian: Last Century in Berlin,» where I tucked a critical response to Kiefer's recent show into a bit of reporting about how Gagosian Gallery was using the NYPD as its private police force, also created a spike on my Google analytics; more recently I could perceive a noticeable uptick in my readership as well as in the number and enthusiasm of my Facebook friends» comments for «Should we trust anyone under 30?

Released to accompany a major survey at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Third Mind traces how the classical arts of India, China and Japan and the systems of Hindu, Taoist, Tantric Buddhist and Zen Buddhist thought that were collectively admired as the «East» were known, reconstructed and transformed by American cultural, intellectual and political forces.

The work, which first premiered at the 2015 Venice Biennale and will have its first New York presentation at the New Museum, focuses on the ocean as an environmental, cultural, and historical force, connecting literature and poetry, the history of slavery, and contemporary issues of migration and climate change.

Shonibare draws on surrealism as both an artistic and political movement aimed at the liberation of the human being from the constraints of capitalism, the state, and the cultural forces that limit the reign of the imagination.

As with many of Rakowitz's projects, an engagement with questions of craft soon complicates our understanding of the historical forces acting against transmissions of skill and expertise, hinting at the maintenance of tradition as a form of resistance to cultural erasure.

From multiple viewpoints, they examine the forces beneath the layered complexities of their political, social, economic and cultural territories, demonstrating a capacity to converse creatively with the present, responding to the distinct forces at work in their cultures.

They are becoming a major cultural force both at home and abroad as their art - related pursuits expand far beyond the auction block (see artnet News Top 200 Collectors Worldwide for 2015 Part One and Part Two).

She has over the past couple of decades become nothing less than a cultural force majeure — a «monstre,» in the sense of sacré, as she was described in Connaissance des arts last fall when her current traveling retrospective opened in Paris at the Centre Georges Pompidou.

Belonging to the generation that produced Abstract Expressionism (he was arguably the first champion of Jackson Pollock), Greenberg saw in that artist's personal tragedy a metaphor for the disasters of American life and art, in which people were alienated from real culture, were being forced to live off kitsch culture («one of faked sensations»... «because it was turned out mechanically») and he was resigned to the fact that at the other extreme, the so called avant - garde had taken off in another direction which was producing art for art's sake for themselves and the cultural elite.

In December 2000, Wheeler was named Tar Heel of the Year by the Raleigh News and Observer, which called him «the godfather of the Triangle's cultural boom» and cited his skill at melding «arts, politics and commerce into a powerful new cultural force.»

The panel will look at the strenghts and limitations of cultural infrastructure in the empowerment of intellectuals and social groups in the development and dissemination of culure, in organising effective and efficient roles for them in their own societies to make sense of history, map and influence contemporary forces at play and steer the particularities on local historical conditions in confronting globalisation.

His august title there is Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School, but my favorite incarnation of Kahan is as the driving force behind the Cultural Cognition Project, which has shown empirically that powerful predispositions shape how we select and react to information.

As the UK's new Apprenticeship Levy came into force last week, Suzanne Horne, Head of the International Employment Law Practice at Paul Hastings, reveals to Lawyer Monthly she is sceptical that firms will have the motivation to overcome the bureaucratic and cultural hurdles required to make new apprentices a staple of the white - collar workforce in the UK.