Sentences with phrase «gilded age»

With the help of interior designer Steffani Aarons, the owners of this fabulous Gilded Age Park Slope mansion were able to modernize this antique town house in the most beautiful way.

Check out the 6 lessons I learned from Rosecliff, a stunning Gilded Age Mansion.

If history repeats, Zell just might find his next great distressed real estate bargains in the palatial homes of the (once) superrich — dazzling jewels of the «new» gilded age now past its prime.

And the Gilded Age, and the Bronze Age?

Apple has led today's gilded age of smartphone technology with its innovative and inspiring iPhone series launched back in 2007.

Sure, few of us live in a Gilded Age mansion, but the number of insurance companies who want your business makes a comprehensive comparison of them pretty intimidating.

Although the Gilded Age is but a preserved memory, Rhode Island auto insurance is still expensive.

The world economy was booming in the late 19th century, this is best illustrated by the UK's Edwardian Era of plenty, the US's Gilded Age and France's Belle Époque.

She can be described as obsessive about Gilded Age mansions and musicals from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

We are experiencing a turbulent, changing legal market, and the gilded age for law firms is over.

Nano - technology may resurrect Thomas Edison's prized Nickel - Iron battery, the lithium - ion of the Gilded Age.

The Gilded Age of climate science.

Perhaps the question is: how far will the majority of hard - working Americans allow themselves to be predated upon by the super-rich in this second gilded age before waking up?

Art in America by Brian Boucher «It's like a new Gilded Age for art collecting,» New York dealer Cristin Tierney told A.i.A. by phone after the sale.

The Pre-World War I era was dubbed the «Gilded Age» by writer Mark Twain at a time when artists such as Whistler (1834 - 1903) and Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910) helped introduce a sophistication into American art and society.

Over four decades of cultural development, from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age, the exhibition examines Stettheimer's unique artistic style, her position as a link between groups within the New York art world, and her continued influence on artistic practice today.

Decorative art covers the colonial period through the so - called Gilded Age and onto the present day.

Other types of art, including Contemporary folk artifacts, 19th century landscape painting, American Impressionism, and pieces from the Gilded Age are all well represented, as is African - American art, photography, sculpture, prints, drawings, folk art, 20th century abstract art and New Deal projects.

In our new Gilded Age in which inequality runs rampant, Shonibare's filmic suite of twelve photos Dorian Gray (2001) remains a potent metaphor to explore the roots of power and the constructs of social hierarchy.

The museum also has an extensive collection of American Impressionism and Gilded Age works; including paintings by Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916), Childe Hassam (1859 - 1935), and John Twachtman (1853 - 1902).

September 22 Member Preview October 4 Gallery Talk October 5 Art After Dark: Treasure Trove October 14 Second Saturdays for Families: Think Ink October 22 Four Nations Ensemble Concert Series: Redefining Rococo October 27 Gilded Age Happy Hour November 10 — 11 Morgan: Mind of the Collector Symposium November 12 Film Event: Titanic November 16 Member Morning

«The Gilded Age» Scholar, National Endowment for the Humanities Landmark and Culture workshop, Washington, DC

This timeframe unfolds within Southampton's Gilded Age, which began in 1880 and

-LSB-...] Gilded Age attire.

The American Colonies, 1730 -1776 The Young Republic, 1790 -1860 Romantic Portraits for Eastern Cities, 1790 - 1860 Country Portraits, 1790 -1860 The Rise of Landscape Painting, 1825 - 1880 The Civil War and Its Aftermath, 1860 - 1900 The Lure of Europe, 1850 - 1900 The Gilded Age, 1875 - 1900 The New Woman, 1875 - 1900

«It's like a new Gilded Age for art collecting,» New York dealer Cristin Tierney told A.i.A. by phone after the sale.

Treasures of New York: The Frick Collection takes you on an intimate, behind - the - scenes tour of this Gilded Age house museum dedicated to Old Master paintings, notable bronzes, sculpture, and the decorative arts.

Galerie Manqué, A new pop - up gallery at 56 Bogart will be celebrating it's inaugural show by taking a look at «the second gilded age» in «Capital In The Twenty - First Century.»

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»

British artist Martin Creed transforms the Park Avenue Armory into a Gilded Age fun house, thru Aug. 7.

Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Nov. 10, 2015, Q&A: Linda Roth WSFB / Better Connecticut, Nov. 9, 2015, Get Some Art History at this Local Stop by Kara Sundlun The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 13, At the Wadsworth Atheneum, an Old Building Gets New Life by Lee Rosenbaum The Economist, Oct. 1, Temple of Delight by Miles Unger Hartford Courant, Oct. 1, Renewed Atheneum a Cultural Tourism Spark Op - Ed by William Hosley The Boston Globe, Sept. 19, European marvels await in Hartford at refurbished Atheneum by Sebastian Smee The Hartford Courant, Sept. 19, Wadsworth Atheneum Reopens To Line Of Visitors Saturday by Kristin Stoller The Hartford Courant, Sept. 19, Editorial: Wadsworth Atheneum Makeover is a Triumph Hyperallergic, Sept. 18, 2015, A Worthy Renovation for the Wadsworth Atheneum's European Art Galleries by Benjamin Sutton The New York Times, Sept. 17, 2015, Review: Wadsworth Atheneum, a Masterpiece of Renovation by Roberta Smith WNPR, Sept. 17, 2015, Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Newly Renovated Galleries by Diane Orson The Art Newspaper, Sept. 16, 2015, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin Hartford Courant, Sept. 13, 2015, Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Final Phase of Years - Long Renovation by Susan Dunne Fox CT, Sept. 11, 2015, The art of a reopening at the Wadsworth by Jim Altman Apollo Magazine, Sept. 5, 2015, J.P. Morgan: The Man Who Bought the World by Rachel Cohen The New York Times, Aug. 31, 2015, The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback by Ted Loos The Art Newspaper, September 2015, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin Observer, June 16, A Peek Inside Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum as It Preps for a Grand Reopening by Alanna Martinez

The book coincides with my exhibition «Lost in the Light» on view at the Vanderbilt Mansion, and it features my works alongside a lyrical and fragmented story — an imagined history — of the women who lived and worked at the Vanderbilt Mansion in the Gilded Age.

Dada's snideness and Cubism's deconstruction limned the collapse of traditional order signaled by the end of the Gilded Age and the carnage of World War I. Grant Wood's American Gothic exudes a hard - bitten stoicism that reflects the futility of government policy during the Great Depression.

Since it appears we're truly, seriously headed for a new Gilded Age courtesy of the GOP's tax scam, it feels perversely appropriate that Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC) is the new home of a mostly cinematic exhibit by a poetically damning British artist and filmmaker.

The favorable review in The Boston Globe said that the work «ghoulishly satirizes the extreme wealth exemplified by Gilded Age industrialists, and draws a clear line to today's 1 percent, buyers who snap up wildly expensive art on a whim and drive an overheated market.»

He added that the exhibition «defines our times, a kind of gilded age on steroids, when the past gets repackaged as farce.»

A new, modern steel - and - glass entrance on Madison Avenue took the place of the smaller, more old - fashioned entrance to the museum's original Gilded Age building around the corner on East 36th Street.

Knoedler would become a leading supplier of Old Master paintings to the robber barons of the Gilded Age, counting among its clients Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Clay Frick.

Equally important were the wealthy industrialists of America's gilded age, including Henry Clay Frick, Samuel H. Kress, Andrew W. Mellon, and Joseph E. Widener, who sought to revamp the country's cultural landscape by collecting these masterpieces and giving them to museum collections for the public.

SAAM contains the world's largest collection of New Deal art; a collection of contemporary craft, American impressionist paintings, and masterpieces from the Gilded Age; photography, modern folk art, works by African American and Latino artists, images of western expansion, and realist art from the first half of the twentieth century.

The Earl of Iveagh's personal collection was shaped by the tastes of the Belle Époque - Europe's equivalent to America's Gilded Age.

Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads: Gold Smaller, gold - plated versions of Ai Weiwei's globetrotting bronze Zodiac Heads make their way to a city that's thriving in our new Gilded Age.

Conceived as the companion to the 2009 publication Art at Colby, the catalogue includes seven essays on the collection's major areas: ancient Chinese art; art through the American Centennial; the art of James McNeill Whistler; art of the Gilded Age; art of the American West; American Modernism and contemporary art; as well as 17 reflections on specific works or groups of work in the collection.

The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, located in a restored Gilded Age mansion built by a Chicago banker in 1879, houses period decorative arts.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts recently acquired one of only two known Herter Brothers Drawing Room chairs from the iconic William H. Vanderbilt Gilded Age residence; a pair of Lockwood de Forest Indian - manufactured chairs; a Marguerite Zorach modernist painting; four Cy Twombly photographs from his Black Mountain residency; and two Zulu beaded costumes.

by Alan Feuer Boston Globe, Nov. 16, Intimacy of attention paid in close up by Sebastian Smee Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Nov. 16, «Visions of an American Dreamland:» New book and Brooklyn Museum exhibition highlight Coney Island by Peter Stamelman The New York Times, Nov. 15, Amusement for Everyone by Ken Johnson Boston Globe, Nov. 11, Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe Rocked the Boat by Mark Feeney Crave, Nov. 11, Exhibit Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls by Miss Rosen Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Nov. 10, Q&A: Linda Roth WSFB / Better Connecticut, Nov. 9, Get Some Art History at this Local Stop by Kara Sundlun Take Magazine, November 2015, This MATRIX is Real by Janet Reynolds American Fine Art Magazine, November 2015, Radical Chick and Taylor Made by Jay Cantor Art New England, November 2015, Preview: Warhol & Mapplethorpe: Guise & Dolls by Susan Rand Brown The Hartford Courant, Oct. 16, Gender - Bending «Warhol & Mapplethorpe» Exhibit At Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 13, At the Wadsworth Atheneum, an Old Building Gets New Life by Lee Rosenbaum Hartford Courant, Oct. 2, Artist Pokes Fun At «Great Chain Of Being» With New Wadsworth Exhibit by Susan Dunne The Economist, Oct. 1, Temple of Delight by Miles Unger Hartford Courant, Oct. 1, Renewed Atheneum a Cultural Tourism Spark Op - Ed by William Hosley Art in America, October 2015, Coney Island Forever by Jonathan Weinberg The Boston Globe, Sept. 19, European marvels await in Hartford at refurbished Atheneum by Sebastian Smee The Hartford Courant, Sept. 19, Wadsworth Atheneum Reopens To Line Of Visitors Saturday by Kristin Stoller The Hartford Courant, Sept. 19, Editorial: Wadsworth Atheneum Makeover is a Triumph Hyperallergic, Sept. 18, A Worthy Renovation for the Wadsworth Atheneum's European Art Galleries by Benjamin Sutton The New York Times, Sept. 17, Review: Wadsworth Atheneum, a Masterpiece of Renovation by Roberta Smith WNPR, Sept. 17, Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Newly Renovated Galleries by Diane Orson The Art Newspaper, Sept. 16, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The Hartford Courant, Sept. 13, Wadsworth Atheneum Unveils Final Phase of Years - Long Renovation by Susan Dunne Fox CT, Sept. 11, The art of a reopening at the Wadsworth by Jim Altman Apollo Magazine, Sept. 5, J.P. Morgan: The Man Who Bought the World by Rachel Cohen The Art Newspaper, September 2015, Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening by Julia Halperin The New York Times, Aug. 31, The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford Puts Final Touches on a Comeback by Ted Loos The Independent, Aug. 28, Warhol and Mapplethorpe capture each other by Charlotte Cripps The Hartford Courant, Aug. 18, Three «Aspects of Portraiture» at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Hartford Courant, July 16, Vibrant Paintings of Modernist Peter Blume at Wadsworth by Susan Dunne The Boston Globe, June 30, Hank Willis Thomas's slick image masks a closed door by Sebastian Smee The Boston Globe, June 25, Bradford enters MATRIX at Wadsworth Atheneum by Sebastian Smee Hartford Courant, June 25, Artist Creates Site - Specific «Pull Painting» at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Observer, June 16, A Peek Inside Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum as It Preps for a Grand Reopening by Alanna Martinez The Wall Street Journal, June 5, Madrid's Thyssen Offers the Dark Religiosity of Zurbarán by J.S. Marcus Art New England, May / June 2015, Reviving the Grande Dame by Susan Rand Brown Humanities, May / June 2015, The Coney Island Exhibition That Captures Its Highs and Lows by Tom Christopher The Magazine Antiques, May / June 2015, Visions of Coney Island by Robin Jaffee Frank The New York Times, April 19, An American Dreamland, From the Beginning by Sylviane Gold Artes Magazine, April 16, At Hartford's Atheneum: «Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861 - 2008» by Richard Friswell Hartford Courant, April 9, Sideshow Mind Game at Atheneum by Susan Dunne Hyperallergic, March 4, Two Exhibitions Examine the Art of the American Side Show by Laura C. Mallonee Republican American, March 1, Coney Island R us by Tracey O'Shaughnessy Hyperallergic, Feb. 24, Mapplethorpe's Other Man by Larissa Archer WNPR, Feb. 24, Where We Live: The Lore and Lure of Coney Island by Betsy Kaplan and John Dankosky The Boston Globe, Feb. 24, Frame by Frame: Behind «Agbota,» an artist's irony and imagination by Sebastian Smee Real Simple, March 2015, A Life in Full Antiques and the Arts Weekly, Feb. 20, Step Right Up!

32) William Powhida: The artist's second show at Postmasters, titled «Overculture» — of paintings, drawings, sculpture, lists, and charts — provided the perfect portmanteau for our own Gilded Age, Part II.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American - born, British - based artist active during the American Gilded Age.

The rapacity of top - tier collectors in the present gilded age effectively makes the market value of the Anderson Collection incalculable.

Smaller, gold - plated versions of Ai Weiwei's globetrotting bronze Zodiac Heads have made their way to a city that's thriving in our new Gilded Age.