Sentences with phrase «major centers of history»

I mean, getting the chance to run around places of interest like Paris, Rome, Venice, and other major centers of history has always been a huge selling point for me.

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The firm is already helping a variety of major cancer centers with its tech; the new worker benefit program will allow employees to consult with their doctors by giving them their medical history and getting their specific cancers genetically sequenced.

Berman's death was one of a handful of unsolved cases — all of which shared Durst as a suspect — at the center of The Jinx, which aired last year and covered Durst's history of run - ins with the law as well as his ability, to that point, to wrangle away from any major conviction of wrongdoing.

(Indeed, fascinating histories might be written of major changes in the identities of both denominational and university - related theological schools that came about over the past thirty years not by grand vision and masterful decision but through the accumulated impact of individual decisions about particular proposed courses, programs for this and centers for that.)

The history of all the major religions presents many examples of the formation of new vital centers or brotherhoods in which we may see renewed attempts at the realization of the ideal fellowship.

«We have a major medical center and law school, and we have our own rich traditions rooted in the Carolina soil, such as being the nation's oldest public university with a strong history of diversity.»

The United Kingdom hasn't had an investment in science communication on that scale since proceeds from the Great Exhibition in 1851 were used to set up several major British institutions, including the precursors to London's Science and Natural History Museums, says John Beetlestone, founder of Techniquest, one of the few U.K. science centers started before the lottery bonanza.

With a cadre of Insta - famous runway models gracing its March cover (and yes, Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid are front and center), it was easy to overlook that American Vogue made major history on Wednesday.

Despite lying dead - center between two major This page gives an overview of the history of Bratislava (~ 1000 - 1919 called Pozsony / Pressburg), the capital of Slovakia and the country's largest city.

Lindaman, a Harvard University graduate student, and Ward, an assistant professor at Indiana's Vincennes University, take many of the major historical events that occupy center stage in standard U.S. history textbooks and show how texts from other countries involved recount the same episodes.

First, I listened to students in a Hartford high school address an adult and student audience about their projects, such as starting and running a successful business, designing a mural to encompass major elements of African Americans history in this country, making music the center of their lives by creating and performing in a band, and making a documentary about a previously unrecognized medical researcher in order to give fellow students a sense of their own possibilities to achieve and change the world.

Over 2,100 publicly - available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African - American documents, the Bible, and much more.

A graduate of Columbia University with a triple major in Art History, French and Women's Studies, she additionally studied art and photography at Parson's School of Design, International Center of Photography, School of Visual Arts, The Art Students League and New York Academy of Art.

«A new series of outdoor paintings by Julian Schnabel that will transform the Legion of Honor's courtyard into a temporary gallery, a major film production by DIS commissioned for the de Young's atrium and a new media installation by Lynn Hershman Leeson that reflects the particular history of the museums, put us at the center of artistic production and institutional reflection.»

Today, CAAM sits among the many major institutions transforming Exposition Park and South Los Angeles, including the California Science Center, the Natural History Museum, and the proposed Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.»

Building upon the MCA's long history of working with artists and exemplifying the artist - activated, audience - engaged MCA vision, this yearlong creative residency is offered in conjunction with our May 2011 presentation of Bradford's major solo exhibition organized by the Wexner Center.

Noted projects of the Rosenwald - Wolf Gallery include «Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions 1961 — 2002» and «Seductive Subversion: Women and Pop Art 1958 — 1968,» — both supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage — which have won AICA Awards and been reviewed in major publications such as The New York Times, Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Artforum, Art in America, Artnews, Art History and Burlington Magazine, among others.

He has also exhibited in major museum group shows, including Thingworld — International Triennial of New Media Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (2014); ON / OFF: China's Young Artists in Concept & Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2013); Image History Existence, TAIKANG Life 15th Anniversary Art Collection Exhibition, National Art Museum of China (2011); Reflections of Minds — MoCA Shanghai Envisage III, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China (2010); China China China!

His extensive exhibition history includes major venues on both sides of the Atlantic that include several solo shows in New York at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

For the more recent project Local Industry, Wilson created a temporary textile factory at the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee from February to April 2010, drawing on Tennessee's history as both a major center of industrial textile production in the United States and a region associated with hand weaving traditions.

Joe Goode, who was born in Oklahoma City towards the end of the great depression has played a role in art history as a Los Angeles painter, adjacent to, but somewhat outside of the Ferus Gallery school, which defined the city's turn towards a major art center in the 1960s.

The Ab Ex NY App utilizes the technological capabilities of the iPad to foster enjoyment and understanding of major works of art from the Abstract Expressionist movement, which catapulted New York City to the center of the international art world in the 1950s and had a lasting influence on the history of modern art.

Call this the year of institutional consciousness - raising: three major art centers, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Brooklyn Museum, have scheduled big events devoted to feminism's impact on art history — past, present, and future.

There is something deeply odd about the absence of a major research and educational center about slavery in Washington, D.C., New Orleans, or elsewhere on the beaten path of tourism and public history.