Sentences with phrase «cultural icons with»

A major survey exhibition of Tom Sachs» paintings showcasing the artist's ongoing interest in combining mass - produced, pop cultural icons with a hand - made aesthetic.

Rachael Ray became a cultural icon with her hit show 30 Minute Meals.

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In particular, the cartoon character is associated with «shehuiren» subculture, referring to those who «run counter to the mainstream value and are usually poorly educated with no stable job,» said the Global Times, which called Peppa Pig an «unexpected cultural icon.»

As fans mourned the loss of the 91 - year - old cultural icon while others were critical of his exploits, speculation began almost immediately over who would inherit the magnate's remaining fortune, with several publications estimating Hefner's net worth at upwards of $ 45 million.

Since the launch of the campaign, Dos Equis has continued to be one of the fastest growing beer brands in the U.S., with the business nearly tripling since 2007, while making The Most Interesting Man a cultural icon.

BOARDWALK EMPIRE — «Coney Island's boardwalk becomes an NYC landmark on its 95th anniversary,» by Curbed New York's Tanay Warerkar: «The Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island was officially designated New York City's eleventh scenic landmark on Tuesday morning, capping a years long effort by local residents and elected officials to officially recognize the cultural icon that is synonymous with visiting Coney Island.

In her speech at its launching, Joan Kirner, the Premier of Victoria, equated the new facility with the National Tennis Centre and the Great Southern Stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as cultural icons of the future.

Synopsis: Poet and cultural icon Allen Ginsberg (James Franco) is living in San Francisco in the mid»50s with friends and fellow writers Jack Kerouac (Todd... [MORE]

Coogler is able to masterfully balance the action with humor, the comic book icon with the black touchstone, futurism and cultural relevance.

The writer / director, who's known for the epic samurai flick 13 Assassins among many other films, has pulled together a stellar Japanese cast, with talented youngster Hana Sugisaki starring alongside the action icon / cultural phenomenon Takuya Kimura.

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.

One teacher we know created a «celebrity interview hack» podcast, where the kids searched out, edited and remixed themselves into YouTube interviews with cultural icons.

I then moved on to Rodale Press and then Salem House where I helped bring British books to the US, finally moving up the publishing ladder to Pantheon's Associate Publisher, where I worked with some of the major cultural icons of our time, including Noam Chomsky, Studs Terkel, Matt Groening and Art Spiegelman.

That cultural icon was shattered when Grant Hadwin stole into the forest with a chainsaw and destroyed the tree.

His image became synonymous with protest against the government and the oppressions of society after Alan Moore and David Lloyd had the lead character in V for Vendetta wear a Guy Fawkes mask; the mask was later picked up by the protest group Anonymous and has become a major cultural icon.

This short getaway combines renowned icons and gorges of the region with a unique Aboriginal cultural experience that will etch the Kimberley into your memory for years to come.

Each label is synonymous not only with the Margaret River cultural icons that brand each brew type but with the venue of their birth.

We'll talk about this nature island with Alwin Bully about the UNESCO cultural icons on Dominica and how the focus now is on preserving the land and the culture, as well as the culinary experiences.

It is a quick excursion in Cusco, which gives you the opportunity to get to know some of the Incan culture's main architectural icons, along with the monumental aspect of The Imperial City's Historical Center declared as Humanity's Cultural Patrimony.

Melbourne is, of course, an exciting and world - class holiday destination that oozes with incredible attractions and exciting icons for the cultural, curious or sporting interests of any traveller and for any budget.

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.

With over 30 video game titles released and hundreds of awards, the heroine Lara Croft has been a cultural icon for 20 years and has made an indelible mark on virtually every facet of entertainment.

MMXVII, Luke Butler's second show with Charlie James Gallery, is an array of cultural landscapes and icons.

(It reads, «Grandiosity is the defense against depression which masks the deep pain over loss of self»; as is often the case with Martin's references to cultural icons, one senses a perfect balance between respect and irony.)

In the work of Jane Kaplowitz, cultural icons are imbued with emotion and nostalgia.

Through visual recognition of cultural icons, William Coupon mimics such childish storylines with his Polaroid portrait series, intimately portraying every player on the 1979 New York Yankees team during spring training in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, including Reggie Jackson, Thurman Munson, Billy Martin, Bucky Dent, and others.

Since the late 1990s, he has been replacing the faces of cultural icons chosen by advertisers with the faces of anonymous people to question the controls imposed on public space, the role models designated and the type -LSB-...]

The blank stare of a giant Homer Simpson; a gurning Mickey Mouse; a half - erased Batman cowl: this is the vocabulary of Joyce Pensato (b1941), the born - and - bred Brooklyn artist who for the past 30 years has been creating eerie and explosive large - scale portraits of cartoon characters and cultural icons, marrying pop art sensibilities with abstract expressionist - inspired execution.

In the institution's central hall, Da Corte will erect a large - scale stage on which to examine, via imitation, four iterations of the Detroit - born star — as pop - cultural icon; as social phenomenon; as a brand so sensationally vast that in 2017 the word «stan» was added to the Oxford English Dictionary, its definition, in accordance with Eminem's song of the same name: «an overzealous or obsessive fan of a particular celebrity».

Known for his self - portraits and use of pop culture icons (such as Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson), Harris teases the viewers» perceptions and expectations, resignifying cultural cursors, and recalibrating the familiar with the extraordinary.

Known for his self - portraits and use of pop culture icons (such as Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson), Harris teases viewers» perceptions and expectations, resignifying cultural cursors, and recalibrating the familiar with the extraordinary.

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.

Meanwhile the National Portrait Gallery breaks new ground with a show celebrating key cultural icons of Russia's artistic golden age, part of an unprecedented art exchange with the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

UNDERCOVER designer JUN TAKAHASHI blinds prophets, dignitaries, and other cultural icons in a series of black - and - white illustrations; writers and graffiti artists NUG & PIKE collide tagging with trance rituals; photographer ALASDAIR MCLELLAN finds adolescence's last idyll; artist MATTHEW BARNEY takes us behind the scenes of his CREMASTER CYCLE; writer EMILY KING digs up ASPEN magazine's protest against uniformity;

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.

And finally, artist John Baldessari is the latest in a line of cultural icons honoured with a guest appearance on The Simpsons (he joins Art Spiegelman, Frank Gehry, Thomas Pynchon and Shepard Fairey, among others)-- in a recent episode, Baldessari appears in a flashback scene with a young Marge, then a news reporter, who hopes to interview him.

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.

Portrait photography by Lyle Ashton Harris runs to white cultural icons along with a Harlem politician and himself.

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.

Jen Liu (USA, 1976) examines the contemporary cultural and political frontier through its collision with old and new pop models - music, icons, pop history, computer and print graphics.

By 1984, the woman who spent the first half of her career in poverty and obscurity was enough of a cultural icon to appear on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, not once, but twice.

With the assistance of Space Haus, a Chicago - based art, design, and engineering firm, Ott composed an 8,000 - cubic - foot mountain out of polystyrene, plywood, industrial spray foam and paint inspired by Gertrude Stein's «The World is Round» (1938), the cultural icon's only children's book.

Presenting the stones along with icons of the American West, Echakhch provides a poetic and complex view of the eroding cultural divide.

His subjects include family and friends but also psychiatric patients, whom he worked with while employed at a hospital, cultural and historical icons, strangers, celebrities, and himself.

With images, icons, symbols and figures relating to Ireland's religious, medicinal, corporeal and cultural histories, Mark O'Kelly's ambitious history painting is interwoven with elements of conceptual and renaissance art histWith images, icons, symbols and figures relating to Ireland's religious, medicinal, corporeal and cultural histories, Mark O'Kelly's ambitious history painting is interwoven with elements of conceptual and renaissance art histwith elements of conceptual and renaissance art history.

This holiday season we are excited to bring two cultural icons, Andy and Barbie, to fans with the Andy Warhol Collector doll and lifestyle collection.»

Fryer's scientific inquiry, his visual awareness of popular cultural icons, combined with a sense of a poetic pieta gives his work a definite sense of the now.

The exhibition offers a new, large - scale commission, a curtain made of hexagons that mixes Hubbard's portraits of cultural icons, along with color blocks, forming a hive shape.

The term «Nose Art» refers to a military form of folk art, where aircraft are graffitied often with popular cultural icons.