Sentences with phrase «for fifty»

The tobacco industry did what the Koch brothers are doing now; we had to die from smoking for fifty years before some regulation took effect.

But if we can't determine how bad a problem AGW really was for fifty or maybe even a hundred years after beginning the massively expensive process of trying to stop it we have yet another problem on our hands.

As for Eastern Australia, we were short of rain for fifty years after 1895 (though, being Oz, we still managed some catastrophic flooding).

The consensus sneered at continental drift for fifty years.

An even more important question to answer would be: «Why, despite steadily accumulating greenhouse gases, did the rise of the planet's temperature stall for fifty years after World War II ended?»

Even though, if they listen to their own people, they should know that fish stocks have to recover before they can fish at the old levels they were used to, so fishing now robs their future for fifty years so that they get paid for one year now.

In talking with my colleagues, an older generation of artists who by that time had been painting for fifty years and sixty years --

This is the first significant survey in Europe for fifty years of the pivotal movement in western art in the second half of the twentieth century.

The Dorthy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Carl Belz, my friend and mentor for fifty - five years, died on April 28th.

Sounding a bit like the promotional spiel for a sci - fi convention, the tagline for the Fifty - fifth Carnegie International — which curator Douglas Fogle blithely titled «Life on Mars,» after David Bowie's 1971 classic — inspires visions of Roswell, tinfoil hats, and Heaven's Gate.

For fifty years, he has been training his eye on film and video, concentrating on how small breaks can make for big differences that bend our perspectives.

IF MASSIMILIANO GIONI»S «Encyclopedic Palace» for the Fifty - Fifth Venice Biennale was anchored by «a desire to see and know everything,» the lunch that Metro Pictures and Pinocateca Agnelli threw for Cindy Sherman on soggy May 30 signified a desire to see and know everyone.

Prior to joining the ICA, Weaver served as curator of modern and contemporary art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., where she organized such shows as «Willie Doherty: Traces» (2011 - 12), «Minimalism: Now / Then / Again» (2011 - 12), «Andy Warhol: Myths» (2010), «Abstract Art and the Nature of Things» (2009) and «The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States» (2009).

Recognizing that posterity would determine the true significance of his work, Duchamp told an interviewer in 1955: «You should wait for fifty... or a hundred years for your true public.

Gift of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services, 2009

This has apparently not been the case for the fifty - year - old Beijing - based artist Song Dong, who has titled his midcareer survey «I Don't Know the Mandate of Heaven.»

For fifty years, Trisha Brown reimagined the body's relationship to gravity and momentum and worked at the crossroads of dance and visual art.

The Akron Art Museum is thrilled to be the Ohio recipient of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States gift.

For fifty cents you could buy something somebody had carved out or painted.

For fifty years, the romantic, awe - inspiring paintings of the Hudson River School captured the imagination of the American East Coast, whose inhabitants had little if any first hand experience or photographs of the wilderness scenery of America.

Her work is in the permanent collections of major museums, and in 2008 — 09, was placed in over a dozen museums through the «Herb and Dorothy Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States Gift» with the assistance of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Australian painter Mandy Martin's ongoing art and social practice in Paruku (an Indigenous Protected Area in Western Australia) brings awareness to challenges facing Aboriginal peoples, and simultaneously informs positive environmental and cultural change in the area surrounding Lake Gregory — a terminal desert lake that has been a source of food and site of Aboriginal cultural production for fifty thousand years.

A master metalsmith in every respect, Yoshiko Yamamoto has been creating lyrical jewelry and hollowware for fifty years.

Olivier Mosset has been rigorously pursuing his work over the deconstruction of painting for fifty years now, which he started in the 1960s next to Daniel Buren, Michel Parmentier and Niele Toroni through their group B.M.P.T.. Following his research upon the concept of a painting referring only to itself and to its history as a medium, he challenges the notions of «savoir - faire», originality and the alleged unity of a painting in order to better approach the limits of what painting really is.

(Laughs) I've worked for fifty years with Michael Werner and he is an excellent curator for my work.

For Oursler video is a medium comparable to water in its extreme fluidity, one that had remained imprisoned within television for fifty years.

And because he thought it was truth, he kept painting it for another fifty years, so it got duller and duller.

The international art event La Biennale di Venezia is taking place for the fifty - fifth time from June 1 through November 24, 2013.

to the site dedicated to the life and work of Louis VAN LINT (Brussels 1909 - Kraainem 1986), a key Belgian painter whose plastic creation stretches for fifty years through the heart of the twentieth century.

For fifty years, the Art in Embassies program has played a leading role in U.S. public diplomacy through cross-cultural dialogue and understanding through the visual arts and dynamic artist exchange.

He was selling these paintings for fifty dollars apiece.

For fifty years, German artist Thomas Bayrle has critically echoed capitalism's all - pervasive organizational structures in his meticulously designed paintings, sculptures, and photo collages.

«Artists like Ellsworth Kelly and Daniel Buren who have worked to a strict set of colours and techniques for fifty or sixty years — to create a simplified consistent visual language.»

Inspired by Kohlmeyer, Carolyn Frohsin Heller (1937 — 2011) utilized bold shapes and colors, often depicting the tropical environs of south Florida, her home for fifty years.

New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, with the assistance of the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, have launched a national gifts program entitled «The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States.»

Curator of special projects in modern art, Ruth Fine, spoke with the Vogels shortly after they announced The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States project, which will distribute their vast collection across the country for all to enjoy.

On Kawara passed away in 2014 in Manhattan where he lived for fifty years and created close to three thousand acrylic paintings chronicling days pass one by one.

Earlier this year, following financial turmoil and the layoffs of six full - time staff members, the museum announced the curator for its fifty - seventh Carnegie International, and also hired a new curator of photography.

But I especially regretted not having the steam to accompany a friend to an intimate dinner for fifty — and given the melees that so many social events surrounding the fair tend to be, fifty is intimate — that another New York dealer, Andrea Rosen, was giving at Casa Tua, apparently one of the city's better restaurants.

This exhibition will feature 50 gifts of Minimal and Conceptual art the Museum recently received as part of the National Gallery of Art's Fifty Works for Fifty States initiative, for which MAM was the sole New Jersey state recipient.

That set us up for Okwui Enwezor's politically charged, morally uncompromised, and often unforgiving «All the World's Futures,» his exhibition for the Fifty - Sixth Venice Biennale, which requires some getting used to.

The plastic corncob in Still Life # 24 was bought by Wesselmann from a corn seller for fifty dollars.

Key collections include the Washington Gallery of Modern Art Collection, the Westheimer Family Collection, and The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States.

We rarely associate the Independent Group, much less Pop art, with political commitment, yet politics has been a persistent concern of Richard Hamilton's work for fifty years.

Key collections include the Washington Gallery of Modern Art Collection, the Westheimer Family Collection, and The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty... Learn More

YOSHIKO YAMAMOTO: FIFTY YEARS OF MY LIFE»S WORK, SURVEY TWO: 1967 - 2017 8/9 / 2017 -20 / 10/2017 A master metalsmith in every respect, Yoshiko Yamamoto has been creating lyrical jewelry and hollowware for fifty years.

He is an artist we represented while he was alive, and we've worked with his estate for fifty years now.

The most ambitious of his choreographic «services» to date, No. 5: Dare to Keep Kids Off Naturalism extends for fifty hours across ten days as four performers occupy the SLG's main gallery, utilising modular costumes to create ever - changing fictive situations that reconsider the relationship between their theatrical sensibility and the exhibition space.

For fifty years, Dan Graham has traced the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants.