Sentences with phrase «cultural progress within»

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Overall, interviewees observed that while progress is incremental, the needle is moving, with changes accomplished through cultural shifts within the field and in broader society, and with the emergence of a new generation of leaders.

The exhibition allies a range of highly varied works; Reza Aramesh's critical reconfiguration of postures of oppression taken from the documentary photographic record of the late 20th century within the context of high - cultural legacy of the Enlightenment, Jake & Dinos Chapman's attack of those same Enlightenment spawned delusions of cultural progress, Desiree Dolron's exquisite, dense, almost painterly rendering of light and shadow within the photographic medium, Terence Koh's white - on - white neon declaration of Eternal Love, Wayne Horse's lighter - lit display of sub-cultural, cul - de-sacs articulated in a trash aesthetic, Dawn Mellor's radical portraits of female film stars, re-contextualized from the objectifying gaze of cinematic light into the critical, imaginative space afforded by painting, Gino Saccone's loose but formal play of material, surface and light in his multi-media, sculptural assemblages, Peter Schuyff's abstract, shaded path from ambient light into a dark portal and finally Conrad Shawcross» beautiful and austere kinetic work that emanates an ever shifting pattern in shadow and light.

In light of the recent decision by the Museum of Modern Art, New York to hire a consulting curator to help with «the strengthening of its holdings» in black art, this closed door session addressed the idea of «progress» made by ethnic specific institutions and the nature of curatorial work within these institutions in today's social and cultural conditions.

Read our interview with ICA director Stefán Kalmar who joined the ICA at the beginning of this year, who told us in February: «Can the ICA be an organization that revitalizes the belief of civic responsibility in cultural institutions, but also of progress within society?