Sentences with phrase «debate over arts»

This was the same article that brought Wojnarowicz's A Fire in My Belly to the attention of Republican Congressmen — and then to Smithsonian chief G. Wayne Clough, who removed it in the belief he could avert a debate over arts funding.

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The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism By Wendy Steiner University of Chicago Press, 232 pages, $ 24.95 It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars»» the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied....

The debate over whether a part - public - financed museum can hang art that might be considered offensive is long since settled.

Western culture has been plunged into seemingly endless debates about what is art, or what is philosophy, or what is theology, and over and over again those who stirred such debates arrived at the answer that there are no answers.

the guy's story crossed him over to an audience well outside those who watch NFL games... he was much more FAME - ous than the long - debated Art Monk.

It echoes the debate over joining the Euro fifteen years ago when, as Larry Elliot reflected, «People who liked the Euro were civilised, supported the arts, went to Tuscany or the Dordogne for their holidays.

The Assembly debate over the mixed - martial arts legalization was, as expected, a rollicking one with lawmakers decrying violence and even comparing it to gay porn.

The studies» conclusions emerge from state - of - the - art ancient DNA and linguistic analyses, but the debate over PIE's origins is likely to continue.

Collectively they feel like a triumph over the long - simmering tension between art and commerce — between personal expression and commercial concerns — that has seen renewed debate in the film industry as artists endeavor to make movies that feel like more than another episode in a series.

On 4 July this year, the proposed new English Baccalaureate (EBacc) will be debated, having gained over 100,000 signatures on a Parliamentary petition which called for expressive arts to be included in the curriculum.

To name but a few: - Literature, History, Science, etc. discussion & debates over various aspects - Lab experiences - Band, Orchestra, Choral, Drama and Dance classes - Meaningful field trips - Physical Education (Sports)- Studio Art Except for the first one, all of the above experiences need a physical setup.

Yet after years of debate over perceived declines in access to arts education in U.S. schools, efforts are underway to expand funding and opportunities for students to draw, drum or dance.

Over the past few weeks, Mike Shatzkin, Neil Balthaser and Ali Albazaz have debated whether machine learning systems will be able to predict a bestseller (Mike's initial blog post is «Full text examination by computer is very unlikely to predict bestsellers»; Neil's response is «Yes, Machine Learning Can Help Predict a Bestseller»; and Ali's article is «Artificial intelligence and the art of reader - driven publishing.»)

It was actually an Electronic Arts game that stirred the ongoing debate over the nature of loot boxes and whether these constituted a form of gambling.

We've settled the debate over whether video games can be art or not, right?

Movie director Christophe Gans, the man behind the forthcoming big screen adaptation of Silent Hill, has joined in the debate over whether games are art - and he's got a rather strong message for Roger Ebert.

The debate over this may rage on in tiny pockets of the internet (and in some cases in mainstream media), but truthfully «Ozone» by Geardome skirts awfully close to art and delivers an experience that's complex and dazzling in its execution.

Signed by artists Loris Gréaud and Valerie Bélin, Palais de Tokyo cofounder Jérôme Sans, Galerie Art Concept director Olivier Antoine, Galerie Lelong president Jean Frémon, and Galerie Max Hetzler senior director Samia Saouma, the letter places the controversy surrounding the Koons monument within a history of debates over public art works throughout the French capitArt Concept director Olivier Antoine, Galerie Lelong president Jean Frémon, and Galerie Max Hetzler senior director Samia Saouma, the letter places the controversy surrounding the Koons monument within a history of debates over public art works throughout the French capitart works throughout the French capital.

Iniva has published over 50 titles, including exhibition catalogues, artists» monographs and anthologies of new critical writing, which promote diverse perspectives on modern and contemporary art and advance critical debate internationally.

Amid so much debate over oversized installations, one can easily miss the explosion of other media and other messages, from realism and abstraction to photography, a sparer conceptual art, and new media.

Art is no longer exclusively European or American, but there are still those who debate about the supremacy of representation over abstraction and vice-versa.

In that context the recent debate over whether direct action should be taken to protect Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, perhaps the quintessential work of post-war American Land Art, seems rather like a throwback to the old days.

Over the recent decades the Turner Prize has played a significant role in provoking debate about visual art and the growing public interest in contemporary British art in particular, and has become widely recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe.

The artists represented in the exhibition come from all over the U.S., with rooms devoted to groups such as AfriCOBRA, based in Chicago in the late 1960s, or East Coast Abstraction, which challenged the idea that art had to directly represent Black communities, prompting debate about Black aesthetics.

In a sense the IAE question recalls a similar debate over abstract art at mid-century, hinging on whether abstraction could truly be free of political values.

What about debates over the status of fabric and the decorative arts, as in «Thread Lines» at the Drawing Center?

In an extensive program of over 100 exhibitions, performances, screenings and debates, more than 50 of Amsterdam's cutting edge contemporary art venues showcase the newest developments in contemporary art, giving visitors the opportunity to be the first to see tomorrow's artistic talent unfold.

In addition to being able to see and buy art by over 1,000 of the world's leading artists, visitors can experience Frieze Projects, the fair's unique and critically acclaimed programme of artist commissions and Frieze Talks, a prestigious programme of debates, panel discussions and keynote lectures.

It's been 25 years since the Contemporary Arts Center ignited a national debate over artistic freedom and censorship with Robert Mapplethorpe's The Perfect Moment.

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, the blogz — if you can type on the platform and you're in the art world, you've probably weighed in on the debate over Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till.

Embracing painting's possibilities, the pursuit of the artists in this exhibition is to continue the ongoing debates over the practice of painting and its location within contemporary art.

Based on a Columbia University conference organized by the National Arts Journalism Program, The New Gatekeepers explores the reconfigured ranks of those who decide what the public gets to see, hear and read, from struggles over intellectual property and copyright, to continuing debates about acceptable and offensive content in the cultural marketplace, to the less visible biases of the arts funding sysArts Journalism Program, The New Gatekeepers explores the reconfigured ranks of those who decide what the public gets to see, hear and read, from struggles over intellectual property and copyright, to continuing debates about acceptable and offensive content in the cultural marketplace, to the less visible biases of the arts funding sysarts funding system.

As the country become increasingly diverse — and divided, with events like the Rodney King riots inflaming debates over racism in America — a number of artists rose to prominence in the 1990s who making art that sought to challenge and expose the underlying racial stereotypes that pervaded society.

In subsequent decades, the project instigated critical debates over definitions of folk art, artistic value, and authenticity; the relationship between academically trained African American and black folk artists; and the framing of such marginalized artists within the artistic mainstream.

Acquisitions of net art by the Tate Modern, the Guggenheim, and other institutions have given institutional validation to the genre, but complicated curatorial debates rage over what exactly it includes: Can it be shown on a computer in a gallery?

The hard - fought debate over selfies in art institutes rages over in London, where the National Gallery acquiesced to the selfie lobby and allowed cell phone photography in the museum.

Taken as a whole, the exhibition is a striking curatorial achievement, but the vast space and avalanche of debate over just a couple of controversial works made starkly visible that scale may be the most significant issue in the presentation of contemporary art today.

New York sculptor Joel Shapiro, still working his signature, nearly abstract stick figures, showed how personal responses to momentous events — in this case the political debate over torture and terrorism — can find expression in an art idiom that at first looks reassuringly familiar.

Mann's pieces have evolved greatly over the course of her career, sparking much debate amongst art critics and historians.

Motherwell and Shahn had very different aesthetics and philosophies, and even though their time only overlapped for a few days, their opinions sparked many vehement debates over whether abstraction or realism was the superior art form.

Made over a period of six years, the series brackets a historical period that saw the much debated Culture Wars and the de-funding of the National Endowment of the Arts, the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, and perhaps most significantly the death of nearly 350,000 Americans to AIDS - related causes prior to the development of an effective combination of antiretroviral medications in 1996.

Group Exhibitions 2017 Kitchen Debate, curated by Paulina Ascencio, organized by Site95, Rawson Projects, and Regina Rex Rawson Projects, New York 15th Istanbul Biennial, Curated by Elmgreen & Dragset, Istanbul Pool, TROPEZ, Berlin 2016 Group presentation at Artissima, Turin +52 Paisajes recientes, Fundación Calosa, Irapuato, Mexico Umwelt Inversion, Proposed by Thomas Jeppe, Galerie Conradi, Hamburg Leaping over a bush to surprise a quail, Chert, Berlin 2015 Club of Matinée Idolz, CO2, Turin Sexxxitecture, CULT, San Francisco, USA Bienal Nacional De Paisaje, Museo De Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City Dialogo entre Patrick Hamilton y Alejandro Almanza Pereda, The 9.99, Guatemala City 2014 XVI Bienal de Fotografía, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey Nuevo León Foreshock, La Fabrica, Brooklyn, NY Delirios de declive, Curro y Poncho, Guadalajara, Mexico Largo x Ancho x Alto / Height x Width x Depth, The 9.99, Guatemala Game changer, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado About a Mountain, Aysa Geisberg, New York What goes there?

Consistently controversial, The Turner Prize has inspired debate over the nature of art today, with many traditionalists taking issue with its very naming and questioning whether the eponymous painter would have approved of the myriad installations, video works and photographs that have been displayed over the years.

In this state of relative non-recognition within the discourse and debate around art and culture in general, the subject of the «reductive» as a possible antithesis to the overpowering reintroduction of representational painting and at the same time to the emergence of the focus on new media, technology and photography, has regained considerable strength over the last decade within an international frame of cultural production and commerce, as well as through the firmly held lone positions of artists like Mosset, Charlton, Armleder, Morellet, Palermo and others throughout the 80's and 90's.

This year's series looks to the future and artificial intelligence and art over 12 hours of debate at London's City Hall.

The project learns form 1980s and «90s art debates in Australia over «appropriation» and the misguided or wrong - minded effort to insert Aboriginal art into a Western cannon through visual cues alone.

Over the past twenty years, Khoj has pushed artistic practice across the region by encouraging dialogue and debate in the arts community through workshops, residencies, exhibitions, talks, and community art projects.

A debate over who and what would define American art as Modernism began with the 1913 Armory Show in New York between abstraction and realism.

Prize that remains a head - turner Love it or loathe it, for over 20 years the Turner Prize has brought the contemporary art debate into the mainstream.

We debated art as vociferously as Parisians once raged over Manet's Olympia.