Sentences with phrase «focus on outsider»

The project builds upon the 2013 Biennale of Massimiliano Gioni, whose self - described encyclopedic exhibition put an intense focus on outsider art.
Historically, the focus on an Outsider artist's biography often compensated for an absence of the artist's voice, especially in the case of artists whose disabilities prevented any conventional form of communication (such as Judith Scott who was a deaf mute who also had Down's syndrome) or when the artist worked outside of public scrutiny (as with someone like Darger).
Denis Côté is a Québécois filmmaker whose films focus on outsider figures and communities, the violence that can exist between the two and the blending of genres and styles.
While the likes of Sony and Nintendo typically get most of the attention at the annual E3 video - game convention in Los Angeles, this year the industry was firmly focused on an outsider: Netflix.
Perhaps for this reason he tended to avoid romantic relationships in his films, instead focusing on outsiders, soldiers, and people drawn to close confederations -LSB-...]
Ramin Bahrani, the best new American director of recent years, has until now focused on outsiders in this country: A pushcart operator from Pakistan, a Hispanic street orphan in New York, a cab driver from Senegal working in Winston - Salem.
In her free time, she is a freelance writer focusing on Outsider Art.
Andrew Edlin Gallery was established in 2001 in a loft space in Chelsea with a program focused on outsider artists.

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With his focus on Barrick's balance sheet, his outsider status in the mining industry and his reluctance to draw attention to himself, Thornton must identify with these leaders.
Today, it's a messaging platform like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or WeChat and is known as an easy place to create group chats and for its focus on encryption and privacy, protecting conversations from being viewed by outsiders.
About 25 percent of the projects come from inside, but the incubator also evaluates proposals from universities and other outsiders — so long as the startups are focused on new initiatives involving energy.
Walmsley, who took over a year ago, is focusing on rebuilding GSK's drug pipeline by overhauling research and appointing heavyweight outsiders, such as veteran Roche scientist Hal Barron.
When you explain your profession to an outsider, focus on that very coolness to get the message across without getting bogged down in technical jargon.
A few projects are underway to address the concerns, and the company seems interested in recruiting a chairman who might help things along — during an investor call, executives said they planned to appoint an outsider to the role, one with public company experience, a global perspective, and a focus on products.
As for the focus on Trudeau's wardrobe, most of it is coming from the intellectual, international elite of India, who resent outsiders exoticising India, but the fact that Trudeau is allegedly wearing Indo - Canadian designers will garner plenty of positive reaction.
While studies show that mergers and acquisitions as a group are value neutral or negative for shareholders (on average the selling company gets all the excess returns), The Outsiders explored how some management teams focused on driving shareholder value with their M&A rather than simply using it as a mechanism to get bigger, have shown extraordinary success.
Inside his new community, Epstein noticed there was a misconception among outsiders that Lubavitcher Jews — who are distinguished by dark clothing, frequent use of Yiddish and what they say is an unyielding focus on devotion to God — shun the outside world.
And African - American women, to take another example, have complicated the Anglo - European interpretation of the Abraham / Sarah narratives by focusing on the character of Hagar, the ethnic outsider, the slave, the surrogate wife.
We are an insider organization that focuses on ourselves, except (or especially) when we try to get outsiders to come to our building and become like us.
He has focused on the fact that he's an outsider completely disconnected to the political system, insisting both Rice and Schneiderman have an «Espada problem» and are too conflicted to clean up Albany.
This post focuses on some of the better known and most distinctive features of it from the perspective of an outsider.
The problem for Cameron is that the leave campaign is no longer focused on divisive outsiders such as Nigel Farage and George Galloway but has senior members of the Cabinet involved too.
The voters of Westchester and Rockland will have a clear choice in this election between a political outsider, who is laser - focused on addressing the considerable economic and fiscal challenges facing our nation, versus someone who continues to kick the can down the road.»
Focusing on the overlooked, she has found, can lead to important scientific discoveries, ignite conversations, and inspire outsiders to see the beauty in science.
Because parasites seem less likely to control mammals than insects, fish and crustaceans, McAuliffe explores their possible indirect effects — such as how our desire to avoid them may make some societies more fearful of outsiders and more focused on the greater good.
Edith, a social outsider, is unimpressed with the city's new arrival, focusing instead on getting her latest story published.
Outsider is planning a theatrical release in Miami soon after the festival with Focus World releasing the picture later in 2012 on VOD, DVD and other formats.
It will return to the single - protagonist format of Dishonored, focusing on Lurk alone as she works with her old mentor, Daud, to kill the godlike figure known as the Outsider.
Ultimately, «Spotlight» turns on two key outsiders that take on the Church: editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), who shifted the paper's focus from international to local investigative coverage, and attorney Mitchell Garabedian (Stanley Tucci), who represented the victims.
Instead of the sprawling multi-character panoramas of Boogie Nights and Magnolia, Anderson focuses on one oddball individual, magnifying our intimacy towards this outsider and his interpersonal relationships.
Black Panther focuses on the history of Africa and the idea of a reclusive society that has no interest in outsiders.
Focusing on students likely to be considered outsiders, or simply ignored by those around them, the genre has taken a leap outside of the mainstream in the wake of the unexpectedly successful Napoleon Dynamite.
Despite a long running time and a profusion of baroque horror visuals, It is an effective adaptation of Stephen King focused on a band of outsider kids forced to confront their fears.
The real trick of the film, though, is the way Legrand subtly shifts perspective from this outsider point - of - view of Antoine to a more subjective one, first by focusing attention on Julien's interactions with his father, then by letting us see him through Miriam's un-blinkered eyes.
The film follows a group of such entitled teens from party to party, focusing especially on the one outsider, a boy from the blue - collar class who has to rent a tux and pretend he likes to walk to avoid letting his new friends know he has to take the bus home.
Though EA had big announcements — A Way Out and Anthem — and Bethesda's showing was strong — Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus and VR games — the focus is always on the manufacturers to deliver.
I Kill Giants tells the story of young Barbara Thorson (Madison Wolfe), an outsider at her school who spends most of her time focused on the task of killing giants that threaten her small town.
Brigadoon Documentaries will weigh heavily in the Brigadoon sections, with films such as Sangue Marginal - Relatos de cinema e vídeo underground, dedicated to Brazilian fantastique and horror film; Eurociné 33 Champs Élysées, focused on the iconic French production company Eurociné; or The Outsider - Il cinema di Antonio Margheriti, an overview of the works of the Italian director Antonio Margheriti.
In the first Shaft / Superfly blaxploitation wave, the movies focused on outlaws and outsiders, defying the white establishment.
Serkis said his take on the Rudyard Kipling classic focuses on «the journey of Mowgli of being an outsider.
Unbeknownst to outsiders, however, most Head Start programs focus on child development rather than on early literacy and numerical skills.
We excluded instances of conflicts between schools and teachers (such as teacher dismissal cases) and between schools and nonstudent outsiders (such as drug - and weapon - free - zone cases that did not involve students), as well as student rights cases focused exclusively on free speech issues (that is, those not combined with the school's use of suspension, expulsion, corporal punishment, and transfer).
Since 2006, New York City's schools have begun to assimilate new supports, from Quality Reviews in which outsiders carefully observe the school, to creating in - house teams of teachers and administrators focused on refining instructional practice based on data and results for students, to building relationships with peer schools and support providers through networks.
She focuses on the theme of deforestation, specifically delving into the way it can divide people — the more the outsiders exploit and change the environment, the more indigenous people's ways are judged as lazy and unintelligent.
But both ultimately focus on racism and nativism, the «smothering set of prejudices» in Sweden that defied Abbas» efforts to fit into Swedish society, support his family, and keep Jonas from feeling that he's an outsider.
Here is a memoir with a very specific focus: the author's experience of traveling to China and her reflections on an «outsider's sense of self.»
His touching, hilarious memoir, Bad Kid, focuses on growing up as an outsider with a penchant for trouble in small - town America.
He is outsider type CEO with focus on disciplined acquisition using combination debt and equity.
Focus on socializing your Puli while he's young or enrolling him in puppy classes so that he develops the ability to be around outsiders.
While most of the greater focus and advertising money is spent on the large games like League of Legends and Call of Duty's competitive PVP, speedrunning is slowly but surely becoming the outsider's choice for competitive viewing.
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