Sentences with phrase «cultural touchstones in»

I was instantly drawn to the way she uses textures like Nigerian portrait fabric and symbols like food labels or magazine clippings to weave together memories from her childhood in Africa and her adulthood in the United States, creating her own cultural touchstones in the process.Since receiving an MFA from Yale University five years ago, 33 - year - old Akunyili Crosby has worked almost nonstop, building an impressive CV of prestigious art prizes and gallery shows across the US and in Europe.

They provide an important cultural touchstone in today's world.

In Asia, the Pacific, Middle East and Latin America, Grand Mercure is a cultural touchstone in each destination, capturing guests» imagination and bringing local stories to life.

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To me, this approach is the touchstone for assessing the difference between fact and fiction in history The core question is: Does the description of ancient people's behavior ring true when we compare it to the way contemporary people behave in a similar cultural area?

Each generation has its cultural touchstones and millennials are more in tune with hip - hop than Hollywood.

The show has become a cultural touchstone because it explores sexuality from the woman's point of view in frank, funny, and honest ways.

It's not merely a relic of a time when near - nudity could be plentiful in a PG - rated film, but a historical record: this particular cultural touchstone is said to be responsible for ushering in the enduring popularity of the wet - T - shirt contest.

Films like Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous have deservedly lasted as cultural touchstones, but even then their conflicts seemed pretty inane in the grand scheme of things.

These Russian cultural touchstones engage in the performance of dignified ritual, emanating a want for recognition, one thing never truly received from their European neighbors.

«American Graffiti»: Wednesday is your shot, Daddy - o, at viewing George Lucas» cultural touchstone, an ode to early»60s teenage abandon, drive - ins, James Dean, muscle cars and Wolfman Jack («Rock and roll yourself to death!»).

Ashley Hamilton, whose credits include such cultural touchstones as Beethoven's 2nd and Sunset Beach, has reportedly been cast in a minor villain role as Firepower, which has seen various incarnations in the comics but is essentially another guy in an experimental power suit.

The music, curated by Lamar, in its exploration of sound and texture, its lyrical bravura and messaging aligned with the movie, has the makings of a cultural touchstone.

Early in her career, Myers established herself as a great cultural and community resource for Native - content projects being produced by networks and studios including: Monsters of God (Plan B / TNT); Magnificent Seven (MGM / Columbia Pictures); Wind River (Weinstein Co.); The Lone Ranger (Walt Disney / Jerry Bruckheimer Films); And, Apocalypto (Icon Ent / Touchstone).

It's a cultural touchstone with imagery that instantly became iconic, a deeply layered satire, and an exploration of race and relationships that has made an indelible impact on the world in the year since it debuted.

There is solipsism as well as grandeur in these doom - and - gloom spectacles, but there is also tremendous feeling — and in «Donnie Darko,» that feeling manifests itself most powerfully in an abiding reverence for the cultural touchstones of its moment.

Smack dab in the middle of a season dominated by superheroes and minions comes «The Stanford Prison Experiment,» a re-enactment of the shocking»70s psychology project so disturbing and infamous it remains a hot topic in textbooks and a cultural touchstone for conversations about the abuse of power by authority figures.

The connecting thread between Empire Records, The Craft, and End of Days is of course Robin Tunney, who hit it big in the late «90s and has grown to show as much longevity in her career as the select films from her body of work — cult phenoms, if not cultural touchstones by some measure.

It's the perfect kind of manufactured reality for a guy who doesn't make documentaries that tell the truth — he makes propaganda films in hopes of breaking the population free from its cultural touchstones.

And while Phi and Bui are telling a specific story about a Vietnamese American experience, there are many touchstones to other cultural experiences in the narrative, which will resonate more widely with readers and, hopefully, generate some much - needed empathy with others.

Take in major cultural touchstones like Osaka and Hiroshima, along with lesser known... Read More

It is a touchstone for contemporary art internationally, plays a central role in London's cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of the world's most vibrant contemporary art quarter.

Throughout her career Pensato's eye has been drawn to the cultural touchstones and abandoned ephemera of a quintessentially American childhood, and boasts an enormous collection of plush toys, models and statuettes of cartoon characters and mascots in her East Williamsburg studio.

It is a touchstone for contemporary art internationally, plays a central role in London's cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of the world's most vibrant contemporary art quarter.The Whitechapel Gallery does not own a Collection, but has a dedicated gallery for opening up public and private collections, including five displays from the British Council Collection from April 2009 — May 2010; four displays from The D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece, from June 2010 — May 2011; five displays from the Government Art Collection, from June 2011 — September 2012; four displays from the Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo from September 2012 — September 2013; four displays drawn from member museums of the Contemporary Art Society from September 2013 — August 2014 and four displays of works from the V - A-C Foundation collection from September 2014 — August 2015.

Besides exhibiting at Kingston Gallery, Boston, her work has been featured at Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (Germany), the Cultural Association of Rosa Venerini, Viterbo (Italy), The Painting Center, New York, Site: Brooklyn, New York, The Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA, and Touchstone Gallery in Washington, DC, among others.

The gambit was risky: Abstract Expressionism was in its artistic heyday, but it had not yet become a cultural touchstone worthy of postage - stamp commemoratives.

-- The Gallery is a touchstone for contemporary art internationally, plays a central role in London's cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of the world's most vibrant contemporary art quarter.

Never performed in the Bard's lifetime, though it seems to be enjoying a revival today, «Timon» functions for Drennen as a cultural touchstone that seems at once familiar and not really well known.

Young's project, as well as the other three, emphasized architectural place as a touchstone for cultural memory; stressed community involvement in the construction and reception of the work; and reflected upon how a historically black neighborhood has consistently and creatively attended to its own needs despite meager resources and the continued trauma of structured inequality.

The film earned Julien a cult following and its focus on a Black, Queer experience within the American cultural landscape retains its urgency and relevance regarded as a touchstone for Cultural Studies and has been taught widely in North American and Australian universities, colleges and art schools for nearly 3cultural landscape retains its urgency and relevance regarded as a touchstone for Cultural Studies and has been taught widely in North American and Australian universities, colleges and art schools for nearly 3Cultural Studies and has been taught widely in North American and Australian universities, colleges and art schools for nearly 30 years.

From Pratt's rich artistic history and its impact on American culture and architecture, to the innovations it has pioneered in both education and business, this show promises an in - depth look at touchstone in Brooklyn's cultural landscape.

Rooted in the personal experiences and reflections of each artist, the works explore family, historical figures and events, and cultural touchstones that resonate within the African American community.

Among the people and cultural touchstones Mr. Elderfield compares Mr. Dylan's 35th album to are: Picasso, Coriolanus, Goya's Disasters of War, «Carl Jung's thoughts on James Joyce,» the Burial of the Dead in the Book of Common Prayer and William Blake.

In his work, cultural touchstones ranged from high to low, including the artists Marcel Duchamp, Donald Judd, and Paul McCarthy, race - car driver Ayrton Senna, actor Kevin Costner, the big bang, Swedish erotica, and the California gold rush.

After the Smithsonian's G. Wayne Clough decided to remove David Wojnarowicz's film A Fire in My Belly from the exhibition Hide / Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Wojnarowicz became a household name and a cultural touchstone, to the point where Vanity Fair can now glibly claim, «Right - wing America will be begging for David Wojnarowicz...» and expect its readers to get the joke.

She also examines the narrative of domestic interiors (and the personal and cultural touchstones contained in them) through still life images that echo the home designs found in «The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement.»

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The Mindset List, «provid (es) a look at the cultural touchstones and experiences that have shaped the worldview of students entering colleges and universities in the fall.»

Each year at this time, Beloit College produces it's Mindset List, in their words «It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall.»

In a North American context, for many people blackface is cultural touchstone that signals the symbolic domination of black bodies and its ugly, not so distant, history.

Even more so than those films, however, Black Panther has become a cultural touchstone for moviegoers, and, hopefully, a wake up call for Hollywood, which has traditionally shied away from diversity in film.

The UK version also gives you British English spellings and jokey Easter eggs relating to British cultural touchstones like «Monty Python», among a number of uniquely UK - focused features — this video shows just some of those British features in action.