Sentences with phrase «empty hall of»

COPENHAGEN — I wandered the fast - emptying halls of the Bella Center shortly before the final plenary of the climate conference here concluded and diplomats, observers and journalists scattered for hotels and the airport.

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Despite the fact that it's a weekday afternoon, city hall is empty, too -; the result of a government - mandated four - day workweek to help close the budget gap.

From empty prison cells to mysterious nuclear laboratories, the US is full of fascinating, slightly unnerving places whose empty halls echo with the stories of past occupants.

What about Boston, and New York,» where the empty seminary halls, we are told, produce only echoes of bygone days?

She could not fathom the thought of letting her baby sleep in the quiet and adorable empty room down the hall, so they slept together.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Wednesday is releasing a trio of social media ads knocking three Republican House members from New York, casting them as empty chairs at town halls in their districts.

News 12 Brooklyn story on an empty coffin placed in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall by BPAdams after a violent weekend

Former New York governor Mario Cuomo has, for some reason, long declined to sit for an official portrait, resulting in a sad, empty space on the wall of Albany's Hall of Governors.

There have been rows of empty seats in the conference hall.

A day after a 14 - acre North Shore estate owned by the Russian government was emptied of its occupants in retaliation for that country's alleged cyberattacks, a Long Island operator of catering and banquet halls said that he wants to buy the property.

The halls of the Capitol are relatively empty this week as lawmakers have embarked on their winter break.

The best day so far, in fact, after a week of mostly dull, flat speeches by Cabinet ministers, often to a half - empty hall.

Around us, the year sixes have departed and the dining hall is empty, as of course is Nick Clegg's plate.

When I visit Lincoln Center, I find noise up to 80 dB on the street corner outside, but after I step into the empty Tully Hall and close the door behind me, my meter bottoms out at its lower limit of 50 dB for the first time; Holden tells me his firm's measurements show that the sound level in the space is actually less than 25 dB.

In the new film, he gives one fond and musing speech — «I grew up lookin» at Oklahoma, from the south bank of the Red River» — that may be the most placid interlude in any Friedkin film, and the cinematographer, Caleb Deschanel, backs it up with some tack - sharp images of busy pizza parlors and empty pool halls, where life clatters on or comes to a lonely halt.

In a memorable one, Elizabeth in a fluted high collar revolves around an empty hall on her throne, looking like a figure out of Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum.

Allerdale Hall, on the other hand, is a black turreted ruin of a mansion standing in the middle of empty fields.

We meet Kristen Stewart's lead character Maureen wandering the vacant halls and vast, empty rooms of a derelict, but likely once grand, house.

Later in the film, Wade is walking through the halls of a strangely empty X-mansion with Colossus and states, «You'd think the studio could throw us a bone.

And, there was an empty space in the basement of Town Hall, so a whole environmental - studies program from the high school was relocated there.

We quickly realised that the vast majority of school halls, pitches, classrooms and theatres were lying empty and unused on evenings and weekends, while at the same time grassroots sports and community groups were crying out for affordable, accessible venues to host their activities.

Even it were to make a return in two years» time, Detroit show planners will not be happy to see the section of Cobo Hall normally reserved for Mercedes empty next year.

When you started walking faster, I did too, forgetting entirely the advice of a junior high hall monitor re: empty parking lots — splay your keys between your knuckles (he showed us, cheerfully); walk with your hand in a fist.

It was down a long hall that was kind of an empty wing where the offices were.

Installation view of Empty Lot Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London October 13, 2015 - April 3, 2016 Photo © Tate, London, 2016

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Empty Lot is the title of Abraham Cruzvillegas's new Turbine Hall installation for Tate Modern — a soaring plank and scaffolding construction veering like a ship's prow through the oceanic space, bearing aloft what amounts to a vast multi-part allotment.

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The Mexican conceptual artist's big Tate commission, «Empty Lot,» fills the Turbine Hall with a grid of planters containing soil from London parks; it may not look like much now, but it's likely to evolve over the course of the six - month show.

Projects featured include House (1993) a monumental cast of a nineteenth - century terrace house in the East End of London for which she won Britain's Turner Prize, the Water Tower (1998) which graced the skyline of downtown New York, Vienna's Holocaust Memorial (2000), Monument (2001) created for the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, and Embankment (2005 - 2006) installed in the Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall.

The creation of the exhibition space itself is similarly deliberate: For each of the last six years in which Mr. Jetzer has led Unlimited, he has begun with an empty hall and created roughly a mile of wall space to accommodate the artworks.

As Linda Norden writes in Parkett # 62: «The «Bumstead» paintings — whether detailing scenes of domestic misunderstanding, zooming in on off - camera moments of bafflement or simply scanning empty halls and walls for private memories — are excruciatingly specific representations of the gulfs between feeling and comprehension... smart, funny, startling, irreverently empathetic, and often heartbreaking, they are a welcome antidote to more laborious discourse.»

Why, above all, has Tate Modern filled its Turbine Hall with the huge non-event that is Abraham Cruzvillegas's Empty Lot, a portable allotment of planks and scaffolding that might, if we're lucky, look mildly interesting in a couple of months, when it could have devoted some space to Collishaw?

Now emptied of its industrial apparatus, the hall is instead occupied by the physical and vocal energy of the participants and visitors, whose movement, sound and interaction produce another type of force.

In the NYTimes, Roberta Smith reports:» If there was any doubt that we live in a reasonable facsimile of the Gilded Age, it disappeared Monday night during «Greeting Card,» Aaron Young's enormous paint - by - motorcycle spectacle in the vast, emptied - out drill hall of the Seventh... read more... «Young stunt»

Tate Modern Turbine Hall The artist's Empty Lot is like an allotment in winter — with the slight air of a displacement camp.

Prison and the disciplinary society, Byron as a modern day celebrity, the digital and agricultural commons, culture after transatlantic slavery, and the legacies of «68 and Nottingham's radical past, were examined in projects at an Elizabethan hall, an empty shop, a unique medieval village, Byron's ancestral home and a former prison.

Titled «Decor,» after the Broodthaers show, it consists of one easy gesture: the artist has removed a false wall to reveal the dirty and undecorated windows and alcoves lurking behind, exposing their structure and the streets beyond — an empty hall á la Michael Asher, circa 1970s.

Empty Lot is a new work by Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas (b. 1968), the first of the Hyundai Commissions for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.

The large square foyer of the Fridericianum — the starting point for any documenta viewer — is empty; so too are the long vast halls to the right and left.

We watch him meander through empty halls, read aloud passages from Richard Adams's 1972 fantasy classic Watership Down, improvise his bed on a baggage carrousel, boogie to Boney M.'s 1978 version of «Rivers of Babylon» (not coincidentally, a lament over exile), seek affection from a statuesque female mannequin in an Olympic Airlines uniform, and, most significantly, narrate letters back to his wife.

Brian Hopson, assistant superintendent at Alameda County Juvenile Hall, stands in one of its many empty units.

This speech was given by Merna Ghaly of the Arab Youth Climate Movement to an empty plenary hall.

They also include «empty chair» town halls, held with or without the attendance of an invited elected official.

What: Organized by student - led groups Student March to Stop Gun Violence and the National Association of Students Against Gun Violence, this «empty chair» town hall invited congressional representatives from Florida districts 18, 20 and 21.

I followed him and saw that there was a hall running the length of the room and it emptied into a room with windows.

Church of England Primary School, London School Cleaner, 2/2014 to Present • Clean rooms and halls of the school on a regular basis • Ensure cleaning staff is taking an active role in the daily cleaning activities • Dust, mop, empty bins and maintain washroom hygiene • Handle vendor communications, order deliveries and receives • Ensure safety policies are met and all health & safety regulations are maintained at all times