Sentences with phrase «films by contemporary artists»

Karl Valentin's famous phrase «Kunst ist schön, macht aber viel Arbeit» («Art is beautiful, but it takes a lot of work») is the inspiration for this program of short films by contemporary artists on the relationship between work and value.

Islas Nuevas is an exhibition of recent films by contemporary artists presented at Galería Macchina, Campus Oriente UC.

Matthew Barney is working on a project to be included on a DVD of pornographic / sexually explicit films by contemporary artists.

Destricted - a collection of erotic short films by contemporary artists that includes Matthew Barney's 14 1/2 minute video Hoist - has been released on DVD in the UK.

A free programme of films by contemporary artists featuring film screenings, live music, live performances, talks and audience Q & A.

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The film is a deep character study of Riggan Thomson played by a moving and stellar Michael Keaton a once - time big movie star struggling to regain importance in his contemporary setting while trying to establish himself as an artist worthy of praise and to get rid of his «Birdman» image.

Music by Questlove and Om «Mas Keith, and commentary from prominent African - American artists and activists who were influenced by the struggle — including Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli, and Melvin Van Peebles — give the historical footage a fresh, contemporary resonance and makes the film an exhilarating, unprecedented account of an American revolution.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

I thought it an interesting film, what with the modern updates by contemporary artists bringing a similar energy to the original in the tracks played.The music also explained pieces of the jig - saw: the multi-personae that he adopts - the psychic trickster, the outlaw cowboy, the mystic savant, the Cassandra of doom.

It celebrates the Turner Prize by encouraging young people to explore contemporary artists, offering stimulus for young people's creation of art using film, animation and video installations.

Set up in 1984 with the aim of fostering the study and knowledge of modern and contemporary art, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies showcases one of the biggest collections of his art works but also hosts many temporary exhibitions by contemporary artists, various art symposiums, lectures and film sessions, and also produces publications which all complement the main activities and exhibitions devoted solely to Antoni Tàpies.

The historic East London Group returns to the Nunnery Gallery, selected and curated by writer broadcaster Michael Rosen — whose parents were contemporaries of the Group's artists — and radio producer film - maker Emma - Louise Williams.

Füsun Eczacıbasi's six - story home in Istanbul's old city is a beacon of contemporary art filled with video installations and other works by Turkish and international artists, including an animation by the South African William Kentridge, a transformed door by Polish artist Alicja Kwade, and films by Turkish artists Ali Kazma, Inci Eviner, and Extrastruggle.

Screening: AMBOY at the Kitchen AMBOY, a film originally produced by Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell for an exhibition at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, is described by the artists behind it as a horror - documentary hybrid.

Today, with more than eight hundred fifty titles, the Ruben Collection brings together classic and contemporary cinema as well as documentaries, avant - garde films, and video works by artists.

A new exhibition, curated by Mo'Wax and UNKLE founder, artist and musician James Lavelle, featuring a host of contemporary artists, film makers and musicians showcasing works inspired by Stanley Kubrick.

The world's largest open submission contemporary art show will be continuing the tradition of showcasing work by both emerging and established artists in all media including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, architecture and film.

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead This mesmerising collection of film and video work by the Israeli artist is full of dangling clues and subliminal messages, playing fast and loose with our credulity

The atmospheric townhouse was designed by Soane himself, and houses an impressive collection of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities — ancient works, yes, but ones that have proven an inspiration to contemporary artists like Fiona Tan, who made a haunting recent film about the museum, and others.

FotoFocus has provided support to the Cincinnati Film Society project presented at the Cincinnati Art Museum; the Fractured Atlas lens - based project in Havana, Cuba; the screening of the film Punctured by artist, William E. Jones, at the Arles Photography Festival in southern France; the FotoFocus Symposium «Mapplethorpe + 25» held this past fall at the Contemporary Arts Center; and the symposium's follow up discussion at the New Museum in New York.

A film by Hito Steyerl, Abstract (2012), has been acquired by the Contemporary Art Society for GoMA, becoming the first work by the artist to enter a public collection in the UK.

thru 3/11; New Pictures thru 3/3; Etc. / MoMA PS1 / 22 - 25 Jackson / Long Island City Donut Muffin curated by J. Duffett & T. Gonzales / Dorsky Curatorial Programs / 11 - 03 45th Ave., Long Island City / thru 3/10 How Much Do I Owe You / No Longer Empty @ The Clock Tower / 29 - 27 41st Ave., Long Island City / thru 3/13 Nancy Dwyer; Visual Conversations / Fisher Landau Center for Art / 38 - 27 30th Long Island City, Queens / thru 4/7 Emerging Artist Fellowship / Socrates Sculpture Park / 32 - 01 Vernon Blvd. / LIC / thru 3/31 Process and Progress: Engaging in Community Change / Bronx River Art Center / 305 E 140 / The Bronx / thru 5/30 Joan Semmel / Bronx Museum / 1040 Grand Concourse, The Bronx / thru 6/9 Contemporary Cartographies / Lehman College / Bedford Park Blvd West, The Bronx / 2/5 thru 5/11 Reception 3/18 Vital Signs: Dean Dempsey; Susan Fenton, Amy Jenkins; Lorie Novak; Dread Scott / Pelham / 155 Fifth Ave. / Pelham / thru 3/30 OTHER: Walter De Maria / The Broken Kilometer / DIA / 393 West Broadway / ongoing Walter De Maria / The New York Earth Room / DIA / 141 Wooster / ongoing A. Ruppersberg; R. Artschwager; El Anatsui; V. Overton; S. Finch; T. Houseago; Lilliput (group) / High Line Park Leo Villareal / Madison Square Park / thru 2/15 Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder / Madison Square Park / thru 4/5 Opening 3/1 Monika Sosnowska / Public Art Fund / Doris C. Freeman Plaza: 5th Avenue @ 60th / thru 2/17 Mark di Suvero / Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1 / ongoing Oscar Tuazon / Public Art Fund / Brooklyn Bridge Park / thru 4/26 SELECTED EVENTS: Monday, 2/4, 6:30 PM / David Diao on Barnett Newman / DIA / 535 W 22 — floor 5 / $ Tuesday, 2/5, 6:30 PM / Donald Baechler on his work / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE Tuesday, 2/5, 7 PM / Vitaly Komar on his work / SVA / Amphitheater / 209 E 23 / FREE Tuesday, 2/5, 8 PM / Trenton Doyle Hancock on his work / Columbia / Prentis Hall / 632 W 125 / FREE Wednesday, 2/6, 6:30 PM / Rebecca Rabinow on Matisse / New York Studio School / 8 W 8 / FREE Wednesday, 2/6, 7 PM / Mierle Laderman Ukeles on her work / The New School Kellen Auditorium / 66 Fifth Avenue / FREE Thursday, 2/7, 6:30 PM / Christopher K. Ho reads, with curators Sara Reisman & Herb Tam / MOCA / 215 Centre / RSVP / FREE Friday, 2/8, 9 AM / Performa: Black Surrealism film program / NYU Einstein Aud.

Previously she held curatorial positions at the South London Gallery (SLG), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London and the Hayward Gallery in London where she curated film, performance and exhibitions, and commissioned new works by artists including Juliette Blightman, Michael Smith, Bonnie Camplin, Kapwani Kiwanga, Jill Magid, Lis Rhodes as well as the group exhibitions Last Seen Entering the Biltmore (2014) and independently Duh — Art and Stupidity (co-curated with Paul Clinton) at Focal Point Gallery (2015).

NEW YORK, January 29, 2018 — Paintings, sculptures, video, film, and works on paper by 35 contemporary artists will be exhibited in the galleries of the American Academy of Arts and Letters on historic Audubon Terrace (Broadway between 155 and 156 Streets) from Thursday, March 8 through Sunday, April 8, 2018.

Performa: New Visual Art Performance presents an authoritative introduction to the genre, many forms including radio broadcast, dance, live installation, new technologies, film and video, music, historic reconstructions and lecture - as - performance, and provides a vivid tour through the world of contemporary performance, featuring inventive documentation of works by some of the most significant artists of our time, including Jesper Just, Francis Alys, Christian Marclay, Laurie Simmons, Tamy Ben - Tor, Melik Ohanian, Michael Smith, Christian Holstad, and Gelitin.

Moving Pictures brings together some 150 works by 55 contemporary artists who use photography, films and video as a means of creative expression.

Romanov Grave's video program will feature a revolving presentation of historical significant video (and film) work intercut with contemporary material by artists working in video (and film) from a broad international pool.

The world's largest open submission contemporary art show, now in its 244th year, continues the tradition of showcasing work by both emerging and established artists in all media including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, architecture and film.

By juxtaposing work across time the display will highlight unexpected affinities between works by artists as various as Lucian Freud and Victorian agricultural painter Thomas Weaver or contemporary artist film - maker Tacita Dean and Pre-Raphaelite painter John BretBy juxtaposing work across time the display will highlight unexpected affinities between works by artists as various as Lucian Freud and Victorian agricultural painter Thomas Weaver or contemporary artist film - maker Tacita Dean and Pre-Raphaelite painter John Bretby artists as various as Lucian Freud and Victorian agricultural painter Thomas Weaver or contemporary artist film - maker Tacita Dean and Pre-Raphaelite painter John Brett.

Victoria Miro is delighted to announce the publication of Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston, a lavishly illustrated, limited edition book by the internationally acclaimed artist and filmmaker, featuring newly - conceived photographic works, texts by the artist and Pulitzer Prize winning critic Hilton Als, in addition to storyboards from Julien's seminal 1989 film, Looking for Langston, never before published contemporary Polaroids and rare archival material including storyboards by artist John Hewitt.

Jennifer Levonian will screen her latest film, The Oven Sky, with a live performance by New York - based artist and singer Rachel Mason on Thursday, October 20 at 6:30 pm at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.

The new protégés — a Swiss architect, a writer from Brazil, a Peruvian musician, a dancer from South Africa, an Argentinian / Spanish theatre artist, a film - maker from India and a Vietnamese visual artist — are being mentored by some of the most acclaimed figures in the contemporary arts worldwide: British architect Sir David Chipperfield, Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin, Mexican film director Alfonso Cuarón, poet and novelist Mia Couto, from Mozambique, American composer Philip Glass, Canadian theatre director Robert Lepage and American performance and video artist Joan Jonas.

Titles include Boomerang by Richard Serra (1974), featuring Nancy Holt vibrantly experimenting with the then - new and immediate medium of video; SHEDS (Jane Crawford and Robert Fiore), a short documentary produced for the 2004 Robert Smithson retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, that features newly compiled footage of two Smithson works (Partially Buried Woodshed and Mica Spread); video excerpts from artist Renee Green's Partially Buried gallery installation; and the experimental 16 mm films Monuments by Redmond Entwistle (2010) and Center of the Cyclone by Heather Trawick (2015), among other titles.

In fall 2018, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania will present the exhibition, Give It Or Leave It, a solo exhibition of film, video, and sculpture by filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith, curated by ICA Chief Curator Anthony Elms.

Paintings, sculptures, video, film, and works on paper by 35 contemporary artists will be exhibited in the galleries of the American Academy of Arts and Letters on historic Audubon Terrace (Broadway between 155 and 156 Streets) from Thursday, March 8 through Sunday, April 8, 2018.

Then we will turn to the beginnings of film and move through video to contemporary moving image technologies used by artists including Philippe Parreno, Trisha Baga, and Josiah McElheny, among others.

The first Ellsworth Kelly Award is going to the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania for a solo exhibition of film, video and sculpture by the Chicago - based filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith in the fall of 2018, curated by Anthony Elms.

BAMPFA is also well - known for its film program, featuring about 450 screenings a year, aimed to present American and international films ranging from movie classics to innovative works by contemporary new - media artists.

in the exhibition, each month — starting in April until May next year — the museum will screen video works and films by important contemporary artists.

A new touring exhibition looks at contemporary African design with works by more than 120 artists including sculpture, prints, fashion, furniture, film, photography, apps, maps and digital comics.

Other contemporary artists who are keen on the late Belgian include Shahryar Nashat and Uri Aran, who have been awarded commissions by the Walker Art Center to make a series of Broodthaers - inspired films.

Showcasing works by Norwegian contemporary artists Per Christian Brown, Benedicte Clementsen, Elin Melberg, Margrethe Aanestad, and Kristin Velle - George, Transcendental Tactility will utilize a variety of media, such as film, painting, textile, sculpture, and drawing.

The show comprised 96 works by 39 artists and focused on contemporary film and photography works from 1970 to 2007.

The proximity of Hawkins the artist and Hawkins the persona projected by the work is apparent, for instance, in a series of book pieces he made by gluing and Sellotaping images of male models, rock stars, film stars and porn stars into the pages of monographs on contemporary artists such as Julian Schnabel and Cy Twombly (for example, Untitled (Slash / Twombly), 1992).

To accompany two solo shows of Lubaina Himid's work at Spike Island and Modern Art Oxford, Nottingham Contemporary has brought together works by more than 25 artists associated with the Black Arts Movement in a major survey of painting, sculpture, film and archives.

«Screens Series: Fern Silva» continues the New Museum's Screens Series, a platform for the presentation of new video and film by emerging contemporary artists.

A diverse programme of public and family events accompanies the exhibition, including free exhibition tours, regular and February Half Term children's workshops, a Friday night film programme selected by the artist (to enrich the references to these works in the catalogue), and Daria Martin In Conversation with Catherine Wood, Curator, Contemporary Art / Performance Tate Modern, on Thursday 23 February at 6.30 pm.

Borrowed from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, artists Broodthaers, Constant, Dubuffet, Escher, Kandinsky, Nauman, Riley and Wool are presented alongside a contemporary film by British artist Catherine Yass.

The show is curated by Leanne Mella, a contemporary art curator, specializing in American artist's work in film, video, performance, photography and new media.

MK Gallery's summer exhibition, Cadences (27 June — 7 September 2014), brings together a selection of 40 historical and modern works on loan from one of Holland's most illustrious collections - the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam - alongside a contemporary film, Flight by Catherine Yass, a British artist who was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2002.