Sentences with phrase «made by great artists»

With a nod to art history and masterpieces made by the greatest artists of the last five hundred years, Stacy Cantrell brings her quirky humor and irreverence for the sacred to Looped, a show of free form macro-crochet.

Not exact matches

On the one hand, we're trying to keep doing better what we've been trying to do since we started Spotify — deliver great value to consumers and create value for artists by making sure that they are paid fairly for their amazing music and that we help them find new audiences in the process.

Part of what makes art so necessary in today's culture is that the artists behind great works don't allow themselves to be boxed in by conventionality.

Whimsical drawings by Malcolm Wells (world - renowned architect, artist, and author of several books, including The Earth - Sheltered Home, Classic Architectural Birdhouses, Recovering America, InfraStructures, and How to Build an Underground House) throughout the book make this a must for every bathroom library, a great gift for gardeners (and anyone who urinates), and an enlightening problem - solver for environmental planners dealing with the nutrient pollution of water.

Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's failed efforts to become a great artist, his frustration at watching his adopted country fall apart at the seams during World War I, his resolve to put Germany back on its feet by exploiting the nation's horrendous postwar economic woes and its ingrained anti-Semitism, his 1923 arrest, the publication of Hitler's virulent screed + Mein Kampf, the growing popularity of National Socialism, and the fatal error made by senile German chancellor Von Hindbenburg (Peter O'Toole) to «neutralize» Hitler by giving him a relatively unimportant political post in 1933.

Nothing here is as bracing as the wild - eyed fervor of «Lust for Life,» or as alive as the bit in Kurosawa's «Dreams» in which van Gogh is played by a cuddly Martin Scorsese, but the best stretches of «Loving Vincent» make a convincing case that great artists are better understood through their work than through the facts of their life.

It's a fascinating and creative look at Joseph Beuys, and more than anything made me admire this great artist and feel deeply inspired by his work and his outlook on life.

The Disaster Artist also makes good, possibly great art out of a film considered by many the worst film ever made (Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space excepted).

The Disaster Artist tells the true story of the making of his film, The Room, which has been lauded by «fans» as the greatest bad movie ever made.

Green Room is a rare gift from the genre gods: a nasty, punk - as - fuck midnight movie made by a genuine artist, a filmmaker with a great eye and a true understanding of the people and places he's splattering in viscera.

What makes this extra interesting is the talent behind the digital - first project: Co-writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray are joined by a great assortment of artists like Amanda Conner, Tony Akins, Ted Naifeh and Sanford Greene.

A whodunit inspired by classic literature, a tour - de-force story of a conflicted artist and the latest from Robert Galbraith (also known as J.K. Rowling) make for great listening this month.

Each mid-November, the cliffs along Bondi Beach are transformed into a sculpture garden with works by Australian artists; it's free and makes for a great walk along the shore.

While it would be great if you had the time or resources to commit to making your indie game look like Halo 4 or Diablo 3, those art styles were both developed over the course of many years by teams of hundreds of developers and artists.

Making an already great - looking game look even better are the beautifully drawn and animated portraits by celebrated comic book artist Dave Gibbons, who may be best known for his work on graphic novel «The Watchmen.»

It makes sense — after all, if you've spent the better part of two years and millions of dollars making something adored by the critics but ignored by your audience, you may be a great artist but financially you're up shit creek without a paddle.

By comparing notes left by artists and thinkers of the period, she hoped to create an exhaustive list of the Russian avant - garde since the Great Patriotic War — a difficult task, especially when one realizes that any documents that made their way through the Soviet tumult are now in private hands — hands wary to let them go, especially to a private museum bankrolled by one of new Russia's most visible billionaireBy comparing notes left by artists and thinkers of the period, she hoped to create an exhaustive list of the Russian avant - garde since the Great Patriotic War — a difficult task, especially when one realizes that any documents that made their way through the Soviet tumult are now in private hands — hands wary to let them go, especially to a private museum bankrolled by one of new Russia's most visible billionaireby artists and thinkers of the period, she hoped to create an exhaustive list of the Russian avant - garde since the Great Patriotic War — a difficult task, especially when one realizes that any documents that made their way through the Soviet tumult are now in private hands — hands wary to let them go, especially to a private museum bankrolled by one of new Russia's most visible billionaireby one of new Russia's most visible billionaires.

Divi by Elegant Themes is a great fit for artists because it's a theme specifically designed to make working in WordPress easier.

The paintings by this great Color Field innovator, now 80, looked as every bit as fresh as they did when they were first made in the»60s and»70s — prompting some fair goers to ask the gallery, «who is this young artist you are showing?»

«You have the greatest number of artists there has ever been who are wealthy from their own creative work and have to make provisions for the posthumous stewardship of that work,» said Christine J. Vincent, the project director for the Artist - Endowed Foundations Initiative at the Aspen Institute, which helps private foundations created by visual artists.

There is a great article by Linda Besemer, «Abstraction: Politics and Possibilities,» which tells a history of activist artists who make abstract work.

Overview: Inspired by the great architectural skyline of Chicago and the work of sculptor, installation / performance artist and urban interventionist, Theaster Gates, campers will make bas relief sculptures from found objects and create their own skyscrapers.

Auerbach's tabletop piece included in this Artists Space portfolio is made of 3D - printed matte gold steel and stands alone as an incredible deal for the $ 1,000 — which also comes with an absolutely first - rate photo of the great Andre Cadere walking through 1970s SoHo (walking stick in tow), a sexy K8 Hardy, and other strong works by Sam Pulitzer and Peter Saville.

Another famous work of similar proportions was «Spiral Jetty» by Robert Smithson; on the Great Salt Lake in Utah, USA, the artist built a 1,500 - foot long spiral - shaped jetty made of material found on site.

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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 RigArtist 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 RigArtist 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 Rigartist'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!

«Figure Study II is one of the greatest acquisitions the Contemporary Art Society has ever made and the first painting by Francis Bacon to enter a public collection in this country... Its display with Figure Study I offers a rare opportunity to understand the artist's thinking across two works from a critical moment of Bacon's career».

These two great artists have made work inspired by and dedicated to each other after being introduced by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alex Poots in 2013.

We present rare and rediscovered prints of movie classics, new and historic works by the world's great film directors, restored silent films with live musical accompaniment, thematic retrospectives, and innovative works made by today's film, video, and new media artists working in the areas of animation, documentary, experimental, and fiction film.

In 2014, after much discussion and careful consideration, the Directors determined that FCA could make the greatest impact by focusing on its core mission of supporting individual artists.

Here, we survey 15 of the most exciting practices this year, by artists who made great strides to cement themselves as part of the growing canon of contemporary art.

Selected exhibitions include: Atomic Sunshine at The Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Japan (2009); Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison at The Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2009); Making a Home at The Japan Society, New York (2008); Second Lives at The Museum of Arts & Design, New York (2008); Wall Rockets, Curated by Lisa Dennison at The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2008); Free Fish at the Asia Society, New York (2007); Thermocline of Art - New Asian Waves at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2007); Attention to Detail at The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2007); The Shapes of Space at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2007); Greater New York at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY (2005); Yokohama International Triennial, Yokohama, Japan (2005); and Fuchu Biennale at the Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2004).

This is Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) made in 1950 by the great American painter Jackson Pollock, nicknamed «Jack the Dripper» — the artist who swept the art world with his revolutionary drip paintings.

Identified by the well - known art historian John McGregor as a great American Outsider Artist, Dwight Mackintosh began making artwork late in life and after spending over fifty - five years in institutions.

And a morning visit to the Brooklyn studio of soaring young artist, Angel Otero, was a great excursion made possible by the Kavi Gupta Gallery of Chicago, who thought Anderson Ranch's collectors important enough to send the dealer to Brooklyn to greet us.»

The galleries in the fair made huge efforts to bring ambitious presentations of the highest quality work by artists from around the world — ultimately, this is what made the fair a great success.»

The paintings (made by spraying, soaking and staining huge swaths of sheer cotton with the artist's proprietary diet cola formula) make direct use of the caramel - colored gold that is one of America's greatest symbols of youth and freedom as well as its premier health risk — an exported analogue to crude oil.

The gallery in London made many distinguished exhibitions by some of the greatest artists of our time including Willem de Kooning, Carl Andre, Maurizio Cattelan, Lawrence Weiner, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Jannis Kounellis, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Long, Bruce Nauman, Gilbert & George, Richard Hamilton, Brice Marden, James Turrell, Rachel Whiteread, Sigmar Polke, Cy Twombly, Ron Mueck and Andy Warhol, who he commissioned to make the celebrated «Fright Wig» Self Portraits.

Just like we are able to peel away the many surfaces that make up great artwork and reveal the base colour used by the artist, the Making Colour exhibition journeys below the surface of modern tube - paint, with the purpose of finding its origin.

It is also thanks in large part to the great generosity of the artist that we are able to respond to the Laing Art Gallery's desire to make this inaugural acquisition of work by Glenn Brown.»

It is also thanks in large part to the great generosity of the artist that we are able to respond to the Laing Art Gallery's desire to make this inaugural acquisition of a work by Brown.

Artist Pension Trust hands out returns for the first time The Artist Pension Trust, a US - based fund designed to provide greater financial security for artists by pooling sales revenue, has made its first monetary distribution since it was established in 2004.

The fully illustrated catalogue does them more justice, featuring essays by seven writers, including Philippe Cézanne, the painter's great - grandson, which discuss in full detail Fiquet's relationship with her husband, the procedures used by her husband to make these pictures, and the influence of these paintings on Juan Gris, Henri Matisse, and a host of other later artists.

Collaborating closely with established and emerging artists, the store prides itself on displaying «great quality art by the best artists and making it available to everyone.»

Jim Richard: Make Yourself At Home on view in NOMA's Great Hall October 5, 2012 — February 24, 2013 (New Orleans, LA)-- This fall the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents a solo exhibition of paintings by renowned New Orleans artist Jim Richard.

2003 «Conversations with Artists,» Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov 6 «Great Cities, Great Ideas,» Forum Series, Regency Center, San Francisco, Oct 20 «030303: Collective Play,» Intel Research Laboratory, Berkeley, Mar 3 «Making Movies by the Bay,» San Francisco, Feb 26 International Media Art Festival, Berlin, Feb 1 - 5

«They sought to redefine what it meant to be an artist working in the shadow of the Great Depression by making no distinction between art and political struggle.»

The curators of the Chicago exhibit were extremely thoughtful in selecting works by a diverse roster of artists, taking great care to make sure the content of the installation was fully inclusive.

A Century in Flux aims to make a selection of modern works accessible for study by researchers, scholars, artists, curators, and art enthusiasts to encourage a greater understanding of the region's history of artistic production.

And as the speech dragged on, some wondered whether he would remember to mention the patron who made it possible, but then he ended his speech by thanking Damien Hirst, whom he called one of the greatest artists of all time.

Art: 21's new «Calling from Canada» blogger Raji Sohal has written a great piece on the curatorial decisions made by the Vancouver Art Gallery «s director Kathleen S. Bartels and artist Jeff Wall in organizing Kerry James Marshall «s first solo exhibition in Canada, which runs from May 8, 2010 to January 3, 2011.