Sentences with phrase «major cultural force»

They are becoming a major cultural force both at home and abroad as their art - related pursuits expand far beyond the auction block (see artnet News Top 200 Collectors Worldwide for 2015 Part One and Part Two).

They were both making big paintings in New York at a time when American painting was a major cultural force.

But after 1900 years ago, India's caste system became a major cultural force, the team concludes, based on its new genetic findings and confirmed by evidence from ancient religious texts.

And while the brand is smaller in the U.S — at a 1.9 percent share — it has been a major cultural force with a history of groundbreaking ads dating back to the 1960s when Doyle Dane Bernbach won plaudits for an anti-establishment approach and classic copy lines like «Lemon» and «Think Small.»

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The evangelicals and fundamentalists, who were not seen as a major force within the mainstream of American cultural and religious life, existed mainly on the fringes of influence within the television industry.

What I propose in the present analysis is to emphasize three major sets of forces to which the leadership of emerging universities and their constituencies were responding: first, those having to do with the demands of technological society; second, those having to do with ideological conflicts; and third, those having to do with pluralism and related cultural change.

The driving force of the programme is the involvement of youth as a major segment of the community, taking cultural dimensions into account, encouraging them to become thinkers and actors of development.

Released to accompany a major survey at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Third Mind traces how the classical arts of India, China and Japan and the systems of Hindu, Taoist, Tantric Buddhist and Zen Buddhist thought that were collectively admired as the «East» were known, reconstructed and transformed by American cultural, intellectual and political forces.

Cultural sites severely damaged in Nepal; major fire rips through Clandon Park; Museum of Biblical Art forced to close in New York

I do think that there's something to be gained by actually forcing commercial institutions, or even major cultural institutions that are non-profits but for all intents and purposes they're like multi-nationals (for me the Guggenheim, MoMA, they're like multi-national corporations), I do see a value in making incursions into those spaces.

They ultimately parted ways with the Contemporary Arts Association of Houston - now the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - but not before mounting major exhibitions and enabling Jermayne MacAgy, perhaps the first professionally trained art historian in the city, to serve as its director and a cultural force at large.

As the world's biggest subscription music service by members, Spotify has been a major force in a larger cultural shift in music.

While not a cultural movement per se, Distrowatch is a major driving force for a user base that concentrates and shifts over time.