Sentences with phrase «cultural institutions like»

Most major cultural institutions like Tate Modern, Tate Britain and the Barbican Centre showcase exhibitions continually.
Big cultural institutions like Tate Modern have both internationalised their collections and provided high - profile platforms for women artists (under the brilliant stewardship of the newly appointed Director Frances Morris).
Often, cultural institutions like Tonic have been casualties in this transformation.
Prestigious cultural institutions like MOMA and NPR.
«We believe that events like the strikes of maritime workers, the Stonewall rebellion, the fight for the 8 - hour day, rent strikes, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the Black nationalist movement and the rest of our history deserves to be seen by the very people who build and provide the resources to maintain cultural institutions like our foundations and museums.
To avoid a situation in which only undocumented immigrants apply for the card, which could create a stigma and make some unwary about the I.D.s, Mr. de Blasio's administration has rolled out many perks for all New Yorkers who sign up — including yearlong memberships to cultural institutions like the Bronx Zoo and access to all three of the city's public library systems.
Though never a cultural institution like Sinatra or Nat «King» Cole, Vic Damone's rich baritone provided him with a slew of hits in the 1950s and a career on stage that compared with and even outlasted many of his contemporaries.

Not exact matches

According to a new study from WealthInsight, the favorite charitable cause for the world's millionaires is cultural institutions, like arts, music and museums.
Granted that religious forms and institutions, like other fields of human and cultural activity, are conditioned by the nature, atmosphere, and dynamics of a given society, to what extent does religion contribute to the cohesion of a social group and to the dynamics of its development and history?
What, then, would the twenty - first century look like if we were to bring together the Kuyperian cultural agenda, with its emphasis on institution - building for the kingdom, with the evangelical dynamism of Africa's churches?
«Senator Klein allocates State and Municipal Facilities funds to worthy projects like improving parks, fixing public housing, building up a world - class cultural institution and supplying firefighters with equipment.
That's also the case with the approach known as constructivism — the idea that every society's scientific theories are a social construct, like its political institutions, and have to be understood as coming out of a particular cultural milieu.
But recently, Pixar has tackled mature themes, the humor of South Park has become a cultural institution, Star Wars is an animated TV series, comic book characters have cartoons and thanks to genres like anime, R - rated animation isn't an oxymoron.
We're bringing in principals, we're bringing in parents, reaching out to other arts groups... so while I feel like we're definitely feeling the cuts and we're seeing it in schools and suffering is happening with museums and cultural institutions in Chicago, at the same time there's a lot of energy and excitement about national conversations around the arts.»
Experiences like these are possible because of collaboration between a world - class cultural institution, a global corporation, and a school district eager to innovate.
This growing segment of American society is marked not just by economic poverty, but also by social and cultural poverty: the decay of bedrock institutions like marriage and organized religion, as well as the erosion of cohesive social standards like the two - parent family.
At fully implemented OMA schools like Corbett, teaching artists — professionals from Tucson's cultural institutions — work with students on activities that dovetail with the classroom curriculum and state standards.
Wilshaw said cultural tensions surrounding things like race and religion seen outside schools were «not treated as handicaps» inside institutions, and that all children were «taught equally».
This is Europe's online cultural gateway, people can access over 26 million exhibits, including books, from over 2,000 institutions like libraries and archives.
I assume it's OK in an educautional setting, such as a college or for a cultural institution, but what about doing the same lecture (for profit), in a private setting, like someone's home?
Watch this video to get an idea of some exciting examples of what a 21st century cultural institution could look like.
What I like most about Melbourne: People always comment on the European feel of Melbourne, the vibrant café and restaurant scene, the great cultural institutions, the world - class sports events and the trams in the city centre (which, by the way are free in the inner city zone, how cool is that?).
Franchises like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft have become cultural institutions and tradeable names, and on the back of their success the CEO of leading game publisher Activision received an 800 percent pay raise, to nearly $ 65 million, last year.
She addresses the importance of cultural institutions creating educational programming and reaching out to youth, particularly for those who do not feel like they belong in such venues.
I wanted to ask you about how an international institution like Tate Modern works in a period where questions of cultural relations are in flux.
4) What should cultural institutions look like today and in the future?
«As Franklin Furnace approaches its 40th anniversary in 2016, collaborating with a formidable educational institution like Pratt will make it possible for us to provide public and pedagogical access to emerging artists, and for Pratt and Franklin Furnace to undertake long - term preservation and documentation projects that will have cultural impact long into the future,» said artist Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace founding director and visiting associate professor of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute.
The work is based around Kelley's concept of Educational Complex, or the invisible construction of cultural mythos through social institutions like school and domestic life.
#race #ethnicity #gender #institutions #access #identity Since the Civil Rights Era, it has become commonplace for marginalized ethnic communities to instate their own institutions of sociological and cultural study such as university Ethic Studies departments and museums like Brooklyn's Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts.
As a creative source, curator, event organizer or media - rich platform, Installation partners with the most influential art fairs, museums, galleries, cultural institutions, education organizations, non-profits and like minded brands.
Since the Civil Rights Era, it has become commonplace for marginalized ethnic communities to instate their own institutions of sociological and cultural study such as university Ethic Studies departments and museums like Brooklyn's Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts.
As the Center's director, Catherine de Zegher, told TimeOut New York in early August, «Like any cultural institution, we work with artists who question society.»
Those who like contemporary photography, they will certainly enjoy works by Candida Hofer, a photographer known for her large - format images of architectural interiors, which address the psychological environment of social and cultural institutions by acknowledging how public spaces are designed to accommodate and inform the public.
Calling on cultural institutions to close on inauguration day only serves to make the likes of Cindy Sherman and Richard Serra feel good about themselves
This expanded to encompass other symbols of bourgeois society, like Finance, Publicity and Modern Art, with the image of the eagle representing the «high falutin, «exalted view of art in cultural institutions inherited from the past.
Like many other cultural institutions, Wave Hill is working harder than ever to keep its key programs vibrant.
I do think that there's something to be gained by actually forcing commercial institutions, or even major cultural institutions that are non-profits but for all intents and purposes they're like multi-nationals (for me the Guggenheim, MoMA, they're like multi-national corporations), I do see a value in making incursions into those spaces.
He is a pioneer of cultural tourism, the idea that a magnet institution, like the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain, can alter the economy and character of a region.
Miky spends his time creating new possibilities for major cultural institutions, luxury clients like Chanel and Barneys, and creatives like Jurgen Teller and Stella Mccartney.
Tipped to put Santander on the art map much like the Guggenheim has done for neighbouring Bilbao, the building by renowned architect Renzo Piano — creator of the Shard in London, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Whitney Museum in New York, and many others — is expected to become an invaluable cultural institution for the city and for Spain.
Our major cultural institutions have not saddled up like our So Cal brethren (or ponied up like the Getty) to present a united front in support of a multifaceted regional cultural history.
The attention surrounding it has encouraged developers and local government to launch and fund new museums and cultural institutions, like the Perez Art Museum Miami, a modern and contemporary art museum opened in 2002, and The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Florida's largest performing arts center opened in 2006.
They recognized early on that offering contemporary artists the opportunity to «raid» collections could give new life (and perhaps new cultural value) to art objects that are often stored in an institution's tomb - like vaults or sequestered in the homes of private collectors.
Lee's quest brought him to Bushwick, then a gritty area of Brooklyn that had the basic ingredients needed to build an artistic community: large spaces and cheap rents; access to New York's cultural institutions and numbers of like - minded individuals willing to work together in a grass roots effort.
Lead by an adventurous steering committee representing a wide range of cultural institutions and independent curatorial voices, our aim is to open up political and dialogical space to answer questions like:
Over the years, he has written about art, music and culture for international magazines; he has contributed to research projects on cultural policy with institutions like the Council of Europe and the De Montfort University of Leicester; he has worked as a consultant for fashion and design companies; and he has also organised concerts and DJ sets in clubs, theatres and non-conventional spaces.
The generation of women who were radicalized in the 1970s are now in their 40s and 50s, and many of them, like Reilly, have ascended to positions of power at major cultural institutions, and are now reexamining their holdings and the ways in which they are represented to the public.
Whether cultural institutions should consider the personal and political allegiances of their contributors remains thorny territory, particularly since nonprofit organizations can rarely afford to turn away generous donors like the Mercer family.
This city is also the home of different establishments and institutions like Gwinnett Civic and Cultural Center, Gwinnett Medical Center, and Gwinnett Place Mall.
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