Sentences with phrase «for higher art»

While some programs and school districts are pushing for higher art education requirements, technology can provide many more educators with the opportunity to teach arts.

Though Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code will never be mistaken for high art, the novel was, at the very least, consistently interesting and generally entertaining.

And they have been «shopping in our closet», unearthing from their stores a bust by Pietro Torrigiani of Archbishop Fisher, and a number of Staffordshire teapots given by private collectors in the mid 20th century but never shown because of the Met's traditional distaste, in its quest for high art, for pottery.

The sculpture demonstrates a combination of delicacy, decoration, pleasure, and artistic ambition, as well as a revealing degree of ambivalence about traditional female roles — the very ones that, paradoxically, Schapiro was proposing as a vital new source of inspiration for high art!

Womanhouse celebrated what has been considered trivial: cosmetics, tampons, linens, shower caps, and underwear became the material for high art.

He attended the Academy for Higher Arts and Cultural Studies, Paramaribo (Suriname), before moving to Amsterdam where he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

This article titled «Space Jam, Daddies ketchup — and other bizarre inspirations for high art» was written by Jonathan Jones, for theguardian.com on Wednesday 7th January 2015 15.20 UTC

Not exact matches

Only once every few years do they turn up at a high - profile wedding or bestow money on a worthy cause such as the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC.

She held fast to that dream throughout high school, toiling over her art portfolio and racking up painting awards, all the while maintaining top grades, earning her grade 10 Royal Conservatory of Music certification for piano, and playing saxophone in seven different bands.

But despite the good numbers, there are indications that the market for high - end art and other items is slipping.

Ailes» legal team includes high - profile litigators such as John Quinn, the general counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Susan Estrich, the former campaign manager for Michael Dukakis and a notable voice in efforts to reform rape laws in the U.S.

In recent years the Puerto Rican capital has risen as a destination of choice for high - end travellers seeking contemporary art, inventive cuisine and luxurious jungle retreats.

How about «a totally private, worldwide high - speed internet with locally cached video and free state - of - the - art PCs for every end user»?

The launch, at an arts venue in North London, takes a cue from Apple and Samsung, both of which have made new product announcements at high profile events for a number of years.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

But Art Allen cautions that companies should have a firm understanding of their own cash - management needs before turning to a bank for high - tech solutions.

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With wealthy buyers flocking to Art Basel, we trained our expert eyes on the high end of the Miami metro to see what's available for high net worth set.

Shine MSD was born to raise relief funds for victims and their families and provide mental health programs centered around the arts at Stoneman Douglas High School and Parkland.

With that in mind, Shine MSD was born to raise relief funds for victims and their families and provide mental health programs centered around the arts at Stoneman Douglas High School and Parkland.

20 % is the all - time high (from back in 2004) for Electronic Arts (EA) over the past 15 years.

For example, the cost of setting up a full - service state of the art pressure washing cum cleaning facility which has the following features: a seventy foot fully automatic tunnel; 3 high pressure wand self - service bays; 5 vacuum stations complete with fragrance and carpet shampoo dispensing machines, Insulator washers with a pump pressure of about 1000 psi and a nozzle pressure between 500 and 750 psi, centrifugal water pump, stainless steel water storage tank, high - pressure water hose, high - pressure dead - man type water wash gun, electrical grounds for the wash gun and washing system and chemical supplies for cleaning are same especially when bench — marked against the US DollaFor example, the cost of setting up a full - service state of the art pressure washing cum cleaning facility which has the following features: a seventy foot fully automatic tunnel; 3 high pressure wand self - service bays; 5 vacuum stations complete with fragrance and carpet shampoo dispensing machines, Insulator washers with a pump pressure of about 1000 psi and a nozzle pressure between 500 and 750 psi, centrifugal water pump, stainless steel water storage tank, high - pressure water hose, high - pressure dead - man type water wash gun, electrical grounds for the wash gun and washing system and chemical supplies for cleaning are same especially when bench — marked against the US Dollafor the wash gun and washing system and chemical supplies for cleaning are same especially when bench — marked against the US Dollafor cleaning are same especially when bench — marked against the US Dollars.

«The market as a whole is quite high on a historic basis... interest rates are so low that there's no real competition for the money other than art and real estate,» Robertson said.

Meanwhile, a system ensuring that state - of - the - art controls on emissions do not translate into a fatal competitive disadvantage would enable Canada to throw all its energies at providing incentives for the high - quality «green jobs» that need to be in place for the next generation.

It's home to the Fox Theatre, High Museum of Art, and the inventive world of the Center for Puppetry Arts.

So both fine arts music and great books education are left in the dust, but with vague aspirations for higher things... er, better make that avant things, left festering in the soul.

Tolkien says it best: «It is the mark of a good fairy - story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the «turn» comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art... In such stories, when the sudden «turn» comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.»

For a long time he will look to the marvels of art to provide him with that exaltation which will give him access to the sphere — his own sphere — of the extra — personal and the suprasensible; and in the unknown Word of nature he will strive to hear the heartbeats of that higher reality which calls him by name.

The notable exceptions are people like Mark Steel and Mark Thomas — acts who genuinely are using comedy to undermine the ground on which the high and mighty stand — and geniuses like Daniel Kitson, who shuns fame for the sake of beautiful art.

Also leaping to mind is the director who raised the «mockumentary» to high comedic art: Christopher Guest has not only directorial but screenwriting credits on most of his movies, which include Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind.

Formerly, when the liberal arts college was the major form of higher education, and when it understood its mission as the prepartion of leaders for society, there was some chance of such health.

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.&raqFor example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.&raqfor academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.&raqfor cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

We must accentuate the positive of high art, telling our students and kids and friends not «The music and movies you consume are junk,» but «Today, let's try The Magnificent Ambersons, not Breaking Bad,» or «Let's listen to Mahler's Fifth, not Classic Rock — just for a change.»

In April this year, said Heyman, «World Productions, Britain's leading producer of drama, was awarded the British Academy of Film and Television Arts» Special Achievement Award for consistently high standards of programming and for the encouragement of new talent.»

If we would glance back at where we are, we might see in order to have rubbernecked so hard and so far we've been standing with high heels ground down on top of the hand painted, one - of - a-kind life art crafted for us.»

Philadelphia (CNN)- The sound of high heels clicking against the marble floor and the din of ice cubes in cocktail glasses fills the main lobby of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts on a recent Friday night.

But I believed in Great Books and High Art, and I assumed that a taste for them meant a distaste for mass culture.

What about the fancy new industrial «campuses» where high - tech kids work for their video - game money and where executives display their postmodern art?

Whereas, earlier, it had been believed that the Aryans found only peoples of relatively undeveloped culture, now it is known that at least some of these early Indians had developed the arts to a high degree, that they even had a kind of hieroglyphic writing, not yet deciphered, and probably an equally well developed religion which, suppressed for a time, gradually reasserted itself and greatly modified Vedic religion, gradually transforming it into the Hinduism as practiced in India today.

It is a small book, and the supporting sociological evidence is mainly referenced in the footnotes, but Greeley does propose evidence that, among other things, Catholics have, compared to non-Catholics, a significantly higher appreciation of the arts and high culture; they have more satisfaction and fun in sex; they better understand the uses of leisure; they have a deeper and more stable relationship to family and community; they have a greater respect for the life of the mind, with educational achievements reflecting that respect; and they understand the nuanced connections between freedom and authority.

From the rise of the institution of the university in the Middle Ages onward, because of its base in divine revelation theology had been the highest and dominant faculty, superior to the faculties of arts and sciences and to the faculties of law and medicine, for theology was the «queen of the sciences» whom all other inquiries ultimately served.

His art was paganism's highest ingenuity, for the Christian type has still another consideration.

«After the High Renaissance 17th century and the 18th - Counter-Reformation, art in most of Europe drifted towards pompous political and religious propaganda for a time.

And while the name might be a tad confusing (considering the album art color is blue), anticipation for the follow - up to 2010's «There Is Love In You» couldn't be higher.

200 years is paltry given that modern humans have been around for some 200,000 years with 50,000 years of behaving much like modern humans (organizing cultures, developing higher level thinking), 16,000 of creating art, 3000 years of writing.

In this case the devotional speaker is admired for his art, his eloquence, while that decision of which each man is capable, and that which it may be well to note, is the highest thing of all, is completely ignored.

For Hart, all art despite its differing expressions, shares a theme: to mediate between some higher realm and the artist's own world.

And if the «higher power» bs really bothers you, it can be absolutely anything... my friend uses «art» as her higher power as well as the power of her love for her children.

Whereas prior to World War II liberal arts colleges provided the model for higher education, and universities were liberal arts colleges with graduate and professional schools attached to them, now the heart of higher education became preparation for a job.

At that instant of time when I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.