Sentences with phrase «like encyclopedic»
«Like all encyclopedic museums, the Brooklyn Museum has to divide its attention between balancing its costly obligation to care for, present and pay for artworks and experiences across 5,000 years of history and snagging the attention of price - and time - conscious smartphone users,» said Maxwell L. Anderson, who has served as director of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Like the Gulag, Sartre's Critique is an encyclopedic work that examines the foundations of social order and attempts to think beyond cultural relativism to a new ethic based upon a universal conception of humanity.
Francesa, a man of encyclopedic sports knowledge, had no desire to share a studio with a screaming punk who sounded, according to former station owner Jeff Smulyan, «like Donald Duck on steroids.»
If you'd like to grab a copy of Laurie Boucke's encyclopedic tome, Infant Potty Training, you can order it here.
In urging judges to think like scientists, the Court cited the AAAS / NAS brief to the effect that «Science is not an encyclopedic body of knowledge about the universe.
Do you let them win, like letting your boss win at golf, or do you crush them with your encyclopedic knowledge of obscure 80's break - dancing moves?
Even if you don't like the 40 - year - old's humour, and many don't, you can at least appreciate its gleefully juvenile craft — scenes chockablock with sight gags, rapid - fire cutaways to hilariously absurd punchlines, painfully awkward pauses that last so long you eventually laugh, all of it wrapped in an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture that has made him a bro deity among the coveted 18 - to 34 - year - old male demographic.
We liked this one because it is the first to provide encyclopedic treatment of its subject, attempting to cover every significant political and scientific event, personality, or discovery relating to atomic energy.
Entitled «The Encyclopedic Palace» after a sculpture by vernacular artist and auto mechanic Marino Auriti, the exhibition featured a century's worth of divergent work by the likes of Castle, Carl Jung, Aleister Crowley, and Swedish mystic Hilma af Klint alongside Biennale veterans such as Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman, and Steve McQueen.
When museums first truly came to the United States, it was part of an American effort to claim a seat at the table of Western civilization by brandishing collections of antiquities and masterpieces (the Met, our first world - class institution, was meant to be encyclopedic like its cousins the Louvre and the British Museum).
Working in a style similar to the meticulous precision of nineteenth century encyclopedic illustrations by the likes of Audubon or Ernst Haeckel, Don Nice refreshes a classical approach with representations of contemporary Americana (and some more traditional animals and objects).
But Hirst has always had more than a little touch of the provocateur about him, so in this encyclopedic show on the history of mankind and art, he slips in allusions to Walt Disney's Pluto, to a pharaoh who looks a lot like Pharrell Williams, and to a mythological character who seems to have leapt out of Paul McCarthy's imagination.
Like many other American museums founded in the same period, the Nelson - Atkins is an encyclopedic art museum whose collections spans a period of over 4000 years, from ancient to contemporary art.
I really like the way this title appropriates the language of the encyclopedic museum (more specifically, the language that this type of museum would use to introduce its gallery exemplifying Abstraction in art), but here it's used to frame a solo show by an emerging artist.
But it is not a surprise that the videos feel like kindred spirits, as they were both included in The Encyclopedic Palace exhibition at the 55thVenice Biennale, with Henrot's Grosse Fatigue taking home the Silver Lion prize.
Curatorial leaders at large, encyclopedic museums like the Brooklyn tend to come from within the ranks of such museums.
I like the fact that they have «chunked together» individual paragraphs from the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (CED) into a series of paragraphs in a single view (this avoids having to click on «next» or «previous» as much).
With any large scale revisions of publications like the Canadian Encyclopedic Digests, transitional issues inevitably arise.
In the case of a publication like a Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, a «key» Title for the user may be a Title on a relatively obscure subject where secondary sources are not readily available, as opposed to a Title like Criminal Law where many alternative sources of the same information are available to a researcher.
By creating a single page on your real estate website called something like «Home Buyer Resources,» you can include snippets of and links to all of this collateral and promote the page via email and social media, referring to it as something grand and encyclopedic like «The Ultimate List of [Your Market Name Here] Home Buyer Resources» or «The All - in - One Toolkit for Home Buyers in [Your Market Name Here]» — something that evokes just how much buyers can educate themselves about the entire purchase process... and how much you can help them as well.