Sentences with phrase «how much contemporary»

That's how much contemporary art sold in the week of November 2012 proving wrong every naysayer and pessimist waiting for the art market to crash.

Building on Northrup Frye's analysis of language, Trotter proceeds to sketch how much contemporary language has lost the dimension of imagination, leaving us impoverished and yearning for something more satisfying.

Not exact matches

Much of contemporary religion is geared toward teaching people how to navigate the first half of their lives, when they're building careers and families.

First, it is trying to articulate how contemporary rock seems to be in a pattern of Perpetual Repetition, but how that mode is different from the Retro Rock and Roll stance that arose in the late 70s / early 80s — this is very much a response to, or a working out of my own thinking in the light of, Simon Reynolds» fine book Retromania.

Returning then to the question of how the perspective on religion set forth in The Sacred Canopy is to be evaluated, given more than two decades of hindsight, it would appear evident that this perspective still contains much of importance to the contemporary situation.

It is hard to imagine how a population planner would have arrived at an accurate assessment of the present value of a birth in Korea in 1955, much less make confident assertions about the ways in which the present value of that birth would be changed through alterations in the contemporary Korean birthrate.

Harvey concludes: «It is extraordinary how well Feuerbach's later views stand up when compared with those of contemporary theorists; so much so that one can, by adopting his position, mount important criticisms of these theories.»

A general review of the endnotes from Gunter's paper reveals a fair number of sources who will corroborate the claim that Bergson's scientific views are nor only not outdated, but go very» much to the heart of current scientific methods and insights, but particularly, see A. C. Papanicolaou and Pete A. N. Gunter, eds., Bergson in Modern Thought Towards a Unified Science (New York: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1987), and for important background on how Bergson came to be seen as dated when he was not, see also, Milic Capek, Bergson and Modern Physics, (cited above) and The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics (Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1961), and the volume edited by Gunter, Bergson and the Evolution of Physics (cited above).

He had been taught that forgiveness was a virtue, and, in the spirit of much contemporary exposition of the Law, be would like to know exactly how far he was expected to go.

Thoughtful Hindus and Buddhists recognize how much of their contemporary self - understanding has grown out of their encounter and competition with Christianity, especially in India and Japan.

But the only thing that each of us can and should do is what we each must do ultimately alone, if we have vocations to be writers: Go off and write out of the very fullness of human experience about the very fullness of human experience and hope to find and affect contemporary readers and the greater world, and in the meantime leave the distracting and finally pointless diagnoses of who were the Catholic writers, and how much, and how well, how little, how importantly, to the critics and scholars.

When I see so much war and humankind's hatred for humankind I think wow — how can this ever stop, thinking of both contemporary life and human history.

By saying greatest, we are bringing elements into the mix such as historical significance and how much more dominant a team was compared to its own contemporary competition, not just in the Sac - Joaquin Section but for Northern California and the state in general.

This contemporary style dating has been much in talks and we appreciate how much the website has achieved in the scene.

And then you realize: this is supposed to be a «contemporary» interview — so, apart from the soundtrack, how much has actually changed in our cultural assumptions about women and class in America?

I wanted the film to feel real, to feel grounded, and I was going to incorporate as much of contemporary South Africa as I wanted to, and that's just how it is.

Besides such commonalities as Chris Cooper (here, Davis's disapproving boss and father - in - law), marijuana use and the topic of homophobia, «Demolition» — much like «American Beauty» — attempts to comment on materialistic consumption as a false measure of success and the breakdown of social connections (I liked how Davis» sleek and sharp - edged contemporary home looks and feels like a high - end freezer).

In his earlier films, such displacements are made to seem characteristic of Taiwan itself — a country in an existential crisis, not knowing how much its identity belongs to other countries that have occupied or otherwise dominated it, such as Japan, China, and the U.S. — but here they seem a more general condition of contemporary urban living.

But «Hall Pass» speaks less about sexual politics than about how much the Farrellys are now sucking wind trying to keep pace with their new comic contemporaries.

Anyone who is sick of how much of contemporary animated cinema is animals talking ought to check out The Red Turtle.

His contemporary efforts bear little resemblance to his earlier films... and that's not a criticism of either category, merely an observation of how much he's changed as an artist.

Much of the contemporary literature on the topic focuses on the domestic factors that enable these competitive authoritarian regimes to stay in power, however I focus on the global ontology, or the character of the world as it actually is, and how it has proved to be very conducive to this type of political system over the past decade.

Those matter more than a little in contemporary American K — 12 education as she is (a) close to the Obama administration, (b) the intellectual and spiritual leader of one of the two major «consortia» of states that are going to develop new assessment systems to accompany the new «common core» standards, and (c) she is at the epicenter of much work on multiple fronts — with big bucks from major foundations — to transform how the country views assessment and how states engage in it.

Like Arthur Miller, Howe leaves readers wondering exactly how much of a metaphor the Salem witch trials might be for contemporary goings - ons.

You repeatedly note how much King was admired by his contemporaries — by men like John Hay, Henry Adams, and many others.

Plus, fifteen contemporary nonfiction authors discuss the books that made them writers; how to write about your kids without messing them up (too much); the link between addiction memoirs and coming - of - age stories; Tiny Truths; and more.

How much should it be pitted against its modern - day contemporaries?

The question remains though — How much care and attention has been afforded to Raven's remastering efforts for Modern Warfare's genre defining campaign, and is this a respectful take on a classic title or just another cheaply ported cash grab squirted out to serve as an incentive for reticent fans to pick up Infinite Warfare over its contemporaries?

Contemporary players can expect some vintage teeth - gnashing boss battles, but may also be surprised just how much warmth and character Enix manages to inject into the tale of a butt - naked cherub and his glue - huffingly dopey human charges.

2007 Weather Report, Centro Atlantico de Arte Morderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Absent Without Leave, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK Unholy Truths, Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection, Manchester, UK Effigies, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, UK Fractured Figure, Curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece Beyond the Zero, Peres Projects, Athens, Greece Destroy Athens, The First Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece Get Lost: Artists Map Downtown New York, The New Museum, New York, NY How Much Longer, Belkin Staellite, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Out of Art, Centrepasquart, Kunsthaus Centre D'art, Biel Bienne, Switzerland Sweet Bird of Youth, Curated by Hedi Slimane, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany Chi Peng's Journey to the West, White Space, in association with Alexander Ochs Gallery, Beijing, China New York — States of Mind, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Terence Koh and AA Bronson, Galerie Fredric Giroux, Paris, France Between Two Deaths, Zentrum Für Kunst and Medietechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany Time Difference, Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK Body Politix, Witte De with Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands

In much of Barrada's work, she focuses on Tangier's relationship to Spain, a coastline only nine miles away, which was all but closed to Moroccan immigrants after the signing of the 1991 Schengen agreement, and the dissecting body of water — the Strait of Gibraltar — that defines much of how the artist understands contemporary life in Morocco.

White's work is, for me at least, really at the center of certain things going on in contemporary abstraction that i am still trying to understand, for instance the problematic issue of the self and how much it is invested in the work, or even where / how / if the self is.

2011 Ordem e Progresso: vontade construtiva na arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Art, Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue) The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Measuring the World: Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria (catalogue) Pandora's Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Mappa Mundi, Berardo Collection, Lisbon, Portugal Mexico: Expected / Unexpected, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, USA (catalogue) Vestígios de Brasilidade, Centro Cultural Santander, Recife, Brazil (catalogue) Gigantes por su propia naturaleza, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain Experimental station, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain Semana de Arte do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Our Magic Hour: How Much of the World Can We Know, Yokohama Triennale 2011, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in Four Acts.

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.

«Maybe it [painting] appears that way [dead] if you spend much time in New York City's major museums, where large group shows of contemporary painting are breathtakingly rare, given how many curators are besotted with Conceptual Art and its many often - vibrant derivatives.

«When you look at this work you can really see how much Rauschenberg has influenced contemporary art and contemporary artists,» comments Senior Specialist Alice de Roquemaurel as she gazes at Robert Rauschenberg's Transom, a silkscreen painting made in 1963.

(5) This awareness of context and how a room (or a gallery) can be approached holistically as a distinctive experience for the viewer has been a hallmark of much modern and contemporary art — from Marcel Duchamp's Sixteen Miles of String (1942) to Yayoi Kusama's dotted and mirrored rooms to Olafur Eliasson's immersive environments — and Holtzman brings his rare sensibility to this convention.

It interesting to see these materials trapped inside the glass in a way mirroring how painting can be viewed in contemporary art, trapped in tradition and without much room to escape its own conventions.

«This exhibition is very much inspired by Shonibare's exploration of how historical and contemporary forces affect people's concept of love,» Van Dyke states.

These Bauhaus designs remain startlingly contemporary and the exhibition will serve as a reminder that the simplicity and importance of the ideas born out of the Bauhaus can still, nearly 100 years after its inception, teach us much about how the art and design around us can improve our lives.

This concentrated experience has revealed to us how much this work reflects current ideas in contemporary art.

Lapthisophon contends that these process - driven drawings, made with such unconventional media as coffee grounds, bacon fat, smoke, latex, tea, vinegar, and rosemary, are «polemical» in how they go against the grain of much contemporary art.

At a moment of much debate about the status of global contemporary art, this exhibition examines how artworks drawn from the contemporary collection of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros navigate this complex issue by embracing appropriative strategies for making art.

Here, two hundred works from Leo and Gertrude's collection will further demonstrate how much they steered the course of contemporary art.

On the heels of «Doug Aitken: Electric Earth,» a major retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, this newest project, called Mirage, has been much anticipated, so AD sat down with the artist in the shade cast by the structure to discuss how he arrived at this particular form.

The eight curator / co-authors will be on hand at the Museum of Modern Art's Bartos Theater this Friday, May 4th for «DEFINING CONTEMPORARY ART: Writing Art History as it Happens,» a lively roundtable discussion that will see these contemporary art experts speak on their choices for the book and examine how one begins to analyze the historical significance of a movement that is still very much gCONTEMPORARY ART: Writing Art History as it Happens,» a lively roundtable discussion that will see these contemporary art experts speak on their choices for the book and examine how one begins to analyze the historical significance of a movement that is still very much gcontemporary art experts speak on their choices for the book and examine how one begins to analyze the historical significance of a movement that is still very much going strong.

Not only because she's one of the most recognizable contemporary artists in the world, but how she was so avant - garde and ahead of her time and being a Japanese female on top of that, makes her a true pioneer; I have so much to respect for her.

The exhibition will be a unique look at key works from these artists» careers and how they revolutionised American sculpture in a way in which contemporary visual art is still very much indebted.

I met up with her in her studio at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, where we discussed the Atlanta art scene, relationships, being an introvert, strange dreams, how her studio is like a Word document, and how her text - centered artwork is becoming much more performative.

Opening to the public officially on Friday, May 4 (following two days of previews) the New York edition of the London - based contemporary art fair regularly draws upwards of 40,000 visitors each year... despite how much of a schlep it is to get to.