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To create a vintage American 1950s theme in your bedroom, find colorful fabrics for bed linen and pillows, and adjourn large prints of pop cultural icons from the era on the wall, such as Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley.

The exhibition brings together twelve of his canvases from this period, which combine spectacularly rendered psychedelic surfaces with provocative imagery from a staggering array of cultural sources and assemble a cast of characters including religious figures, political and cultural icons from across history, and imaginary heroes.

Zhang's images have frequently featured a central cutout, the edges of which form the silhouette of an well known cultural icons from both eastern and western culture.

Never mind that the religious holiday called Christmas has been a political and cultural icon from its inception.

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However, its amazing rise — from a common weed, to staple food and cultural icon of Native Americans, to modern hybrid cultivar, to versatile and ubiquitous component of processed food, to precursor of clothing and motor fuels, to pharmaceutical factory — is little known to students or the general public.

Some iconic people from the decade in the cultural context includes icons such as Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, Grace Jones, Liza Minnelli, Davie Bowie and more.

Nevertheless, that didn't stop director Bill Condon from trying to cast the cultural icon in his live - action Beauty and the Beast film.

18) Shawn Corey Carter, aka Jay - Z, wasn't always a cultural icon married to Beyonce» who had parlayed his success as a rap artist into a multi-millionaire empire with a host of diverse holdings ranging from a record label to a music publishing company to a clothing line to a nightclub chain to an NBA team.

Today, the project has become a veritable global phenomenon, and because of it, thousands of children from more than forty countries have exchanged pictures, stories, and goodwill, turning a half - inch - thin storybook character into a cultural icon.

Cultural icons like the RX - 78 Gundam from the original Mobile Suit Gundam share space with newcomers like Gundam Barbatos from Iron - Blooded Orphans, and seeing Gundams from different series duking it out is a nostalgic joy.

Whenever a cultural icon dies, Twitter and Facebook are sure to light up with anecdotal R.I.P. messages from fans.

2017 — LOG at LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, NC, curated by Maria Britton — AWKWARD MOMENTS, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY 2015 — SACRED PLACES, Smithy Center for the Arts, Cooperstown, NY 2014 — MEMENTO MORI, Field Projects, New York, curated by Deborah Brown — CROWD, curated by Andrea Brown for The Outsider's Studio Collective, Liberty, NY 2013 — NYFA@GOVERNORS, curated by New York Foundation For The Arts for Governor's Island Art Fair, New York 2012 — DAY JOB, curated by Nina Katchadourian, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA, and Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 2011 — HEAD CASE, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, curated by Laurel Farrin — 30: A BROOKLYN SALON, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer — CHAIN LETTER, Samsøn Projects, Boston, MA — NEXT Art Fair, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart, Chicago 2010 — DAY JOB, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, curated by Nina Katchadourian 2009 — ONCE UPON A TIME AND NOW, Evanston Art Center, IL — THE HAIRY WHO AND IMAGIST LEGACY IN CONTEMPORARY ART, at ART CHICAGO, Merchandise Mart, curated by Lynne Warren, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago — ART CHICAGO, Linda Warren Gallery booth, Merchandise Mart (Also 2006, 2007, 2008) 2007 — THE MISSISSIPPI STORY, Mississippi Museum of Art 2006/7 — RAGDALE, Chicago Cultural Center, curated by Margaret Hawkins 2006 — SALTONSTALL: THE FIRST TEN YEARS, curated by Andrea Inselmann Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY — RISD BIENNIAL, Exit Art, New York, NY, curated by Robert Storr — ARTLA, Linda Warren Gallery Booth, Santa Monica Civic Center, CA — ART ADORED: Icons from the Permanent Collection, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson

Altered and Irrational: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Art, Design and Barbie: The Evolution of a Cultural Icon, Liberty Street Gallery the World Financial Center, New York, NY Recent Acquisitions, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL Art & Architecture, Miami, COCA / Center for Contemporary Art, Miami, FL A New York Time: Selected Drawings of the Eighties, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT

Keith Haring: Journey of the Radiant Baby — Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania, United StatesEditions on Paper — University of Valencia, Valencia, SpainKeith Haring: Art and Commerce — Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, United StatesKeith Haring: Paintings, Sculpture, Objects and Drawings — Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York, United StatesAgainst All Odds — Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, United StatesKeith Haring: POP Haring — Symbols and Icons Editions on paper from the Estate of Keith Haring — Singapore Tyler Print Institute, SingaporeComplete Editions on Paper — Centro Cultural Montehermoso Depsito de Aguas, Vitoria, Spain — Fundacion Caixa Galicia, Ferrol, SpainKeith Haring: Monumental Sculptures — Poppy & Pierre Salinger Foundation, Le Thor, FranceKeith Haring Drawings — Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, New York, United StatesKeith Haring — Early Drawings — Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United KingdomKeith Haring — Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, FranceKeith Haring Prints — Memo - art Galeria, Budapest, Hungary

Drawing inspiration from popular icons of cinema and theatre, Ourhouse hybridises aspects of British sitcoms, absurdist theatre and science fiction, while making pointed observations about language, cultural appropriation and power structures.

Artists, thinkers, and cultural icons are paired on stage with Jungian analysts or scholars and invited to respond to and interpret a folio from Jung's Red Book as a starting point for a wide - ranging conversation.

Let's begin with the allegory of Superman and the way the cultural icon pushes the conventions of heroics (alien on Earth and alienated from Kandor), all expressed within the concision of a comic strip.

The exhibition will bring together more than 12 of his canvases from this period, which combine spectacularly rendered psychedelic surfaces with provocative imagery from a staggering array of cultural sources, from religious icons to Blaxploitation films.

And that has a kind of African context too in that the African artists or the medicine men and others who were involved with creating things — cultural icons and other things — would determine the value of something and place it in a different context; such as the use of objects from nature.

Jeremy Deller's show focuses on British society, its cultural and political history, its people, icons, myths — from the past, present, and an imagined future.

Venturing away from his last exhibition at Freight + Volume, There's a Riot Goin» On, a self - described «rogue's gallery» of musical and cultural icons of the 1970's, Song of the Earth shows the artist honing a complex synthesis of influences involving poetry and song lyrics to experience and memory.

From the historic monuments of the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, to the cypress lined stretches of the 101, to the cultural icons of beach life like the VW Bus and the classic Woody surf - mobile, Jon Francis gets outside and paints it all.

Deep inside a maze of spaces in a scaffolded building at the city's southern embankment, Khaled Hafez of Cairo showed Mirror Sonata for a Temple, his colourful video of millennia of cultural icons in a parade on the screen — satirically muscled men, bulls from Mesopotamian history, elegantly decorated architecture.

Drawn from the museum's permanent collection, this wide - ranging exhibition looks at the representation of the self, examining the idealized and mythicized ways that artists have portrayed pop and cultural icons, from Malcolm X to Thelonious Monk to a New Orleans grand marshal.

Here we find Eugene von Bruenchenhein's copious photographs of his often topless and apparently game wife; the rather creepier ballerina - doll pictures made by Morton Bartlett, after devoting laborious attention to crafting the dolls themselves; the insouciant intensities of Greer Lockton, revolving around gender reassignment and the refashioning of icons, both cultural (Jackie O.) and subcultural (Candy Darling) through dolls and photographs; and selections from the inscrutable archive of Polaroids taken of actresses on television by the anonymous photographer known as Type 42.

This exhibition surveys twentieth - century African American artists from the South, restoring their identities and drawing in examples that range from stunning abstract compositions to brilliantly - conceived tributes to cultural icons like Jackie Robinson.

THIS LONG CENTURY is an ever - evolving collection of personal insights from artists, authors, filmmakers, musicians and cultural icons the world over.

Chagoya pulls from a range of sources in constructing his images: figures from art of all forms, cultural icons, sociological texts and recent journalism.

This provocative iconoclastic act liberates the borrowed paintings from their cultural mythos, reinvigorating the icons into bold enigmatic prototypes.

Unabashedly ornamental, Hankwitz assimilates mark making from pop, but instead evoke nature's prolific order rather than a critique of our cultural icons and clichés.

The exhibition will bring together more than twelve of his canvases from this period, which combine spectacularly rendered psychedelic surfaces with provocative imagery from a staggering array of cultural sources, from religious icons to Blaxploitation films.

Her silver gelatin prints from the 1960s, 70s and 80s offer an intimate and fresh perspective on the familiar faces of cultural icons, from Philippe Petit to Robert Palmer.

(catalogue) Persona, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Switzerland 1995 It's How You Play The Game, Exit Art, New York; curated by Thelma Golden, Nancy Spector, Robert Storr, Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo Strung Into the Appolonian Dream... an exhibition of a private collection, Feature, NYC, NY Seven Llongish Wodden Sculptures, Feature, New York, NY 1994 The Ecstasy of Limits, Gallery 400, School of Art and Design, UIC, Chicago, IL Amenities, Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee 1993 A Sequence of Forms: Sculpture by Illinois Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Mettlesome & Meddlesome: Selections from the Collection of Robert J. Shiffler, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Urbana - Champaign, IL; I Space, University of Urbana - Champaign Gallery, Chicago, IL 1992 Drawing New Conclusions, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1991 Office Party, (March) Feature, New York, NY Power: Its Icons, Myths and Structure in American Culture 1961 - 1991, Museum of Fine Art, Richmond VA: curated by Holliday T. Day (catalogue) 1990 Toward the Future Contemporary Art in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Awards in the Visual Arts, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Southeastern The Thing Itself, Feature, New York, NY (brochure) New Generations Chicago, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; curated by Elaine A. King (catalogue) Half - Truths, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY; curated by Marge Goldwater 1989 On Kawara: Date Paintings 1966 - 1988, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Signs of Life: Contemporary American Sculpture, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian; Fundacao Luso - Americana Para O Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, Portugal; curated by Judith Russi Kirshner.

I interpreted the series of illustrations as a circle jerk between cultural custodians and European cultural icons, from Michelangelo's David to Marcel Proust.

American painter Elizabeth Peyton is celebrated for her highly stylized paintings of cultural icons, which portray a wide range of subjects from Kurt Cobain to Napoleon to Marc Jacobs in her characteristic fey, androgynous fashion.

Also on view is Keith Mayerson: My American Dream, a salon - style show presenting 100 + paintings ranging from landscapes to portraits of cultural icons and the artist's family that offer a progressive view of American values.

Included in the mix are portrait subjects ranging from known to unknown: Among those «known» to us are a host of cultural icons, and — closer to home — Fountain House members.

Centre stage is the musical heritage that took them from a London blues band in the early 1960s to inspirational cultural icons.

The works presented in Repossession exemplify Attia's aptitude in creating hybrid cultural objects and collages that transform Western artifacts from icons of power and domination into symbols of freedom and resistance.

Leaked photos show a body that doesn't depart radically from the shape that has become a cultural icon, but does update it with new styling cues — and may even lose the horizontal bar across the rear window that has caused visibility problems for so many Prius owners.