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.
Not exact matches
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.
Current partners include: A Blade
of Grass, American Folk Art Museum, Bad at Sports, BRIC, Bronx Museum
of Art, Bureau
of General Services — Queer Division, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Community Access Art Collective, Decolonize This Place, Discwoman, El Museo de Los Sures, Eyebeam, Flux Factory, Fourth Arts Block, Interference Archive, International Center
of Photography, Knockdown Center, Maker Park Radio, New York City Department
of Cultural Affairs, New York
Hall of Science, No Longer
Empty, Recess, Social Justice Tours, Social Practice Queens, Studio Museum in Harlem, Swale, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, The 8th Floor, and Visual AIDS.
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