Sentences with phrase «living artists whose»

At a press conference following the sale, Cheyenne Westphal, who came on as the company's chairman last year, was quick to note that the result makes Doig the priciest living British artist and one of only five living artists whose work has sold at auction for more than $ 25 million.

Formerly known as The Grange Prize, the 50,000 CAD prize honours living artists whose work in photography and video over the past five years has shown extraordinary potential.

Eight works by Nauman, including his 1989 sculpture «Hanging Heads # 3 (Green Andrew with Tongue / Green Julie, Mouth Open)» and his «Good Boy Bad Boy» video from 1985, are included in the exhibition.Perlstein's devotion to collecting and connoisseurship endures: he maintains close relationships with the living artists whose work he continues to champion and is still building upon his holdings.

Proceeding with this objective, in recent years KMAC has accessioned work by artists such as Wendell Castle, Ebony Patterson, and Simone Leigh; all living artists whose work is grounded in the materials and processes representative of traditional craft also who maintain positions as noteworthy figures within the landscape of contemporary art.

There are not many living artists whose latest show one would always want to see, and Mark Wallinger comes high on the list.

I Cheer a Dead Man's Sweetheart is both a celebration and an exploration of painting in Britain today, presenting the recent work of twenty - one living artists whose practices span six decades.

Compared to his contemporaries (meaning living artists whose careers began in the 1950s and 60s) Ellsworth Kelly and Alex Katz, Stella's prices are many multiples of Katz and on par with Kelly.

There are not many living artists whose every new work you would always want to see, but Tacita Dean is high on that list.

What I also liked about the space is that among the iconic artists were pieces by lesser known living artists whose work I was previously unfamiliar with.

There are not many living artists whose every new work you would always want to see, but so it is with Thomas Scheibitz, a painter and sculptor born in East Germany in 1968 whose work is gorgeous, original, exquisitely made and highly intelligent: a chain of stars in perfect alignment.

Novros was also the subject of «Contemporary Conversations: David Novros and The Menil Collection,» a one - person show that was part of a series of exhibitions that celebrate living artists whose work is in the Menil's permanent collection.

This exhibit was part of the Museum's Living Artist of Distinction Series to honor living artists whose Read more....

The refusal to recognize and acknowledge living artists whose works are being made today and many of whose works are in the Whitney Museum's collection verges on the criminally insane.

Earlier this year «System and Vision» at David Zwirner, in cooperation with Berlin's Galerie Susanne Zander, examined the obsessive work of vernacular artists such as Morton Bartlett, a doll maker who photographed his creepy creations; Prophet Royal Robertson, an artist of brimstone - burnt apocalyptic fervor; and George Widener, a living artist whose mixed - media pieces entail complex mathematical and calendrical calculations.

The $ 100,000 prize, now in its third year, is presented annually to a living artist whose work «elevate [s] the understanding of sculpture and its possibilities»; previous winners were Doris Salcedo and Pierre Huyghe.

But he didn't go into the Boetti, where the late embroideries on view were getting their first public exposure, or the Paglen, where he could have met a living artist whose photographs were etched onto a golden disc and launched into space last November, on a satellite now orbiting the Earth.

Famed before the French Revolution as painter to the court of Marie Antoinette, Anne Vallayer - Coster was a star still - life artist whose exquisite portraits of fruits and flowers, books and musical instruments were favorably compared to the work of the master, Chardin.

I can think of no other living artist whose work would make such perfect sense in that cavernous space.

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But new was the artist's social justice embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement — several videos on Lemonade and her song Formation prominently feature black women whose loved ones were killed by police — and thinly - veiled, sordid details of the singer's apparent marital strife.

International Living works closely with The American Writers and Artists, Inc. (AWAI), whose Travel Division is led by Director, Lori Allen.

Inside Llewyn Davis — a film about a talented artist whose work never quite gets the commercial recognition it deserves — was woefully snubbed is the Oscars, which is one of the great life - imitating - art...

Arakawa, the architect and artist whose buildings were supposed to help one live forever, has died.

The exhibit features the work of young artists whose lives have been touched by cancer and blood disorders.

In Gabriel Axel's Best Foreign Language Film Oscar - winner Babette's Feast, a single meal heals decades - old resentments, stands in for romance, and validates an artist whose life has been destroyed.

Teddy (Jack Kilmer) is an introspective artist whose best friend and sidekick Fred (Nat Wolff) is an unpredictable live wire with few filters or boundaries.

Frank (Elijah Wood) is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, whose life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition.

Instead, he is a topiary sculptor, an artist whose medium is discarded plant life and whose canvas is his magical and fantastical garden.

Irish actor Robert Sheehan delivers a nicely nuanced performance as Picasso's friend, Carles Casagemas, a young artist who could never gain a foothold in his career and whose life spiraled downward in a haze of alcoholism, opium addiction and unrequited love for a young prostitute named Germaine (Emma Appleton).

Synopsis: This is the true story of Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) and her husband Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), the larger - than - life painters who became the most acclaimed artists in Mexican history, and whose tempestuous love affair, landmark journeys to America, and outrageous personalities made them legendary.

Picking up the story towards the middle of Turner's life, and after he has gained fame, fortune, and both critical and public acclaim, it delves into the contradictions of a man who is moved almost to tears by music, and who delights in publically belittling a fellow artist, whose personal life is a mix of distance and desire.

The vast technical background necessary for creating cinematic stories, illuminating interviews with the greatest living filmmakers, in - depth analyses of high quality movies... The material provided by Cahiers du Cinéma, Sight & Sound, Cinemagic, Cinefantastique and many others has inspired thousands of people to dedicate their lives to filmmaking, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology, these priceless cultural beams of historic value and prime educational significance continue to inspire, astonish and enlighten us, bringing up a new generation of artists who might persevere and thrive to one day fill the shoes of the likes of Orson Welles, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Jean - Pierre Melville, Agnes Varda, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher and dozens of others whose work continually delight and move us in every way possible.

He's someone whose status as a great artist has allowed him to have total control over his life and surroundings, with everything flowing with grace and ease around him; it's ironic, then, that Alma (Vicky Krieps) catches his eye by being out of place and uncertain in her movements, causing him to beam warmly in a way that gives a totally different energy than his polite smiles toward his clients.

THE DANISH GIRL, directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper, is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einar and Gerda Wegener (being portrayed, respectively, by Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander), whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einar begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world's first transgender women, Lili Elbe.

«We want so badly for artists to be geniuses whose lives we can only dream of emulating.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent - Down Girl hasn't always received the same critical respect as the»90s other major films about the Cultural Revolution, in part because it was harmfully assumed that director Joan Chen — who was and still is best known to the Western world for her playing Josie Packard in Twin Peaks — was not a «serious» artist whose work deserved to be considered in the same breath as that of Tian Zhuangzhuang (The Blue Kite) or Zhang Yimou (To Live).

The story of an artist living an idyllic life by the sea, whose philosophies are shaken to the core by the (implied) onset of World War III, the film winds its way to a grand conclusion, an image of humble apocalypse that, more than glimpses of the tragedies of war or the destruction of a nuclear holocaust, will stay with you for a lifetime.

The Florida Project is a deliberately modest - sized film made by an artist whose sense of ethics is matched by his pursuit of exciting and tough - to - render behaviors and situations and the small - scale delights and disasters of life on the tips of the edges of the margins.

Nell Minow: Sally Hawkins gives an exquisite performance as the outsider artist whose vibrant, life - affirming paintings brought joy to everyone who saw them.

Illustrated with performance, private videos, and recollections from those who knew him, this detailed and innovative documentary looks at the life of the always provocative artist Chris Burden, whose work consistently challenged ideas about the limits and nature of modern art, from his notorious performances in the 1970s to his later assemblages, installations, kinetic and static sculptures, and scientific models.

The Danish Girl is the remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Einer and Gerda Wegner (portrayed by Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander respectively) whose marriage and work are cast into the unknown when Einer begins a groundbreaking journey to become one of the world's first transgender women, Lili Elbe.

Mateo (Amistad's Djimon Hounsou) is the portrait of the black Nigerian artist as a angry man, whose rage melts when the two Sullivan girls, on their first Halloween outing, nobly pound him out of his reclusive isolation and mystically connect his life spirit with theirs.

This is a beautifully written and acted piece inspired by real life early 20th century Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerde Wegener whose married life shifts as Einar / Lili explores her identity as a transgender pioneer.

There were great performances across the board by Christian Bale (whose combover alone deserves some kind of award) and Amy Adams as the con artists, Bradley Cooper as the fed who is as tightly coiled as his perm and Jeremy Renner as a politician who falls into their trap out of a genuine desire to help his constituents but the whole thing was stolen outright by Jennifer Lawrence as Bale's wife, a live wire whose innately direct nature is enough to blow the entire deal in an instant, in what may be the best performance to date of her already incredible career.

Based on the best - selling tell - all book about the making of the cult - classic disasterpiece The Room, «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountableArtist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountableArtist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountableartist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.

In the Society's most prestigious category, the Buried Treasure, the nominees are: DAVE MADE A MAZE, a unique adventure film about a frustrated artist and his creation; the compelling documentary THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON, about an icon of the queer and trans movements; Dee Rees» MUDBOUND, a story of 2 families working the same land in 40s Mississippi; PATTI CAKE$, whose eponymous white lead dreams of being a rapper; the latest from the Dardennes brothers, psychological drama THE UNKNOWN GIRL; and WINDOW HORSES, an animiated film based on a graphic novel written by its Asian - Canadian director.

11 Minutes (11 Minut)-- Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland / Ireland North American Premiere A jealous husband out of control, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a reckless drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled student on a mysterious mission, a high - rise window cleaner on an illicit break, an elderly sketch artist, a hectic paramedics team and a group of hungry nuns: a cross-section of contemporary urbanites whose lives and loves intertwine.

Working in the hills of rural Pennsylvania, Brent Green is a self - taught filmmaker, storyteller and visual artist whose films have screened, often with live musical accompaniment, at the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the San Francisco Film Society, MoMA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Walker Art Center, The Hammer Museum, as well as at warehouses, galleries and rooftops across the globe.

In The Red Book, her touching, provocative, whip - smart romp of a novel where The Big Chill meets Mary McCarthy's The Group, Kogan begins with the Red Book entries for a group of roommates from the class of 1989 who are all headed for their 20th reunion weekend just as the financial and professional walls are crumbling around them: a self - made, childless securities broker, recently pink - slipped, eager to conceive a baby before her fertility window closes; a blue - blood «artist» and former lesbian, married to a writer's - blocked male novelist, living disingenuously and beyond their means off a no - longer - viable trust fund; a former actress, the star of every school production, who has become the stay - at - home wife to a famous Hollywood director; the adopted war orphan, now a foreign correspondent clinging to her dying industry, whose war journalist husband has recently been killed.

To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a miniaturist - an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny creations mirror their real - life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways... Johannes» gift helps Nella to pierce the closed world of the Brandt household.

Price describes himself as a hobo artist whose mission is to travel without a destination, observing and distilling the joys of simple living.