Sentences with phrase «meditations on contemporary life»

T.S. Elliot's The Waste Land (1922) an epic reflection on metatextual narratives, has undoubtedly provided a plethora of influential meditations on contemporary life.

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Whether within the fantasy of childhood play or the familiarity of adult life, the more than 75 works in the exhibition generate a spectrum of meditations on the contemporary construction of self and society.

During his tenure, he curated award winning exhibitions such as Ryan McGinness: Studio Visit (2014); Xu Bing: Tobacco Project (2011); Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit (2010); Chuck Close: People Who Matter to Me (2010); Artificial Light (2006), which appeared at VCU Anderson Gallery and MOCA at Goldman Warehouse in Miami; Robert Lazzarini (2003), recognized by the International Association of Art Critics as one of year's best exhibitions; Outer and Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts (2002), recipient of an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award; and Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art (2000).

2004 - 2005 The Wall at WAM, Jim Hodges: Don't Be Afraid, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA 2003 Jim Hodges, The Francis Yang Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, New York, USA 2000 Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia, USA

, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France Projects 70 - Jim Hodges, Beatriz Milhazes, Faith Ringgold, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA Outbound: Passages from the 90's, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, USA ZONA F; An approach to the spaces inhabited by the feminist discourses in contemporary art, EACC, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain The Trunk Show, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, USA 1999 1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late 20th Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900 - 2000, Part II, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Natural Dependency, Jerwood Gallery, London, England Matter of Time, Dorsky Gallery, New York, USA Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990 - 1999, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Fresh Flowers, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington D.C., USA 1998 Let Freedom Ring, ICA / VITA BREVIS, Boston, Massachusets, USA Abstract Painting Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, continues to Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA Political Pictures: Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont,Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA Outbound: Passages from the 90's, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, USA ZONA F; An approach to the spaces inhabited by the feminist discourses in contemporary art, EACC, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain The Trunk Show, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, USA 1999 1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late 20th Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900 - 2000, Part II, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Natural Dependency, Jerwood Gallery, London, England Matter of Time, Dorsky Gallery, New York, USA Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990 - 1999, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Fresh Flowers, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington D.C., USA 1998 Let Freedom Ring, ICA / VITA BREVIS, Boston, Massachusets, USA Abstract Painting Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, continues to Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA Political Pictures: Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont,Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, USA ZONA F; An approach to the spaces inhabited by the feminist discourses in contemporary art, EACC, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain The Trunk Show, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, USA 1999 1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late 20th Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900 - 2000, Part II, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Natural Dependency, Jerwood Gallery, London, England Matter of Time, Dorsky Gallery, New York, USA Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990 - 1999, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Fresh Flowers, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington D.C., USA 1998 Let Freedom Ring, ICA / VITA BREVIS, Boston, Massachusets, USA Abstract Painting Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, continues to Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA Political Pictures: Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont,contemporary art, EACC, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain The Trunk Show, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, USA 1999 1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late 20th Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900 - 2000, Part II, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Natural Dependency, Jerwood Gallery, London, England Matter of Time, Dorsky Gallery, New York, USA Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990 - 1999, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Fresh Flowers, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington D.C., USA 1998 Let Freedom Ring, ICA / VITA BREVIS, Boston, Massachusets, USA Abstract Painting Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, continues to Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA Political Pictures: Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont,Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, USA 1999 1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late 20th Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900 - 2000, Part II, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Natural Dependency, Jerwood Gallery, London, England Matter of Time, Dorsky Gallery, New York, USA Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990 - 1999, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Fresh Flowers, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington D.C., USA 1998 Let Freedom Ring, ICA / VITA BREVIS, Boston, Massachusets, USA Abstract Painting Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, continues to Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA Political Pictures: Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont,Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, USA 1999 1999 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late 20th Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900 - 2000, Part II, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Natural Dependency, Jerwood Gallery, London, England Matter of Time, Dorsky Gallery, New York, USA Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990 - 1999, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Fresh Flowers, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington D.C., USA 1998 Let Freedom Ring, ICA / VITA BREVIS, Boston, Massachusets, USA Abstract Painting Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, continues to Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA Political Pictures: Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont,Contemporary: 1990 - 1999, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Fresh Flowers, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington D.C., USA 1998 Let Freedom Ring, ICA / VITA BREVIS, Boston, Massachusets, USA Abstract Painting Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, continues to Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA Political Pictures: Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont,Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Fresh Flowers, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington D.C., USA 1998 Let Freedom Ring, ICA / VITA BREVIS, Boston, Massachusets, USA Abstract Painting Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, continues to Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA Political Pictures: Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont,Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, continues to Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA Political Pictures: Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont,Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA Political Pictures: Confrontation and Commemoration in Recent Art, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington.

2000, Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

Samet writes: «Dov is a romantic storyteller in his painting — even contemporary life (he paints on the street as well as in the studio), becomes timeless, universal meditations on humanity.

Thelen brought two seminal texts with him: the 19th - century French Symbolist novel A Rebours (Against Nature or Against the Grain), by Joris - Karl Huysmans, and contemporary critic Wayne Koestenbaum's Hotel Theory, a philosophical meditation on hotel living.

His experiments with media, space, and sound, with the relationship between art and audience, as well as his nuanced meditations on modernity, print culture, and everyday life will come as a revelation to many,» said Kelly Baum, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Princeton University Art Museum.

When she returned to her home country in 1990, she found it barely recognizable from the Iran before the 1979 Revolution, a shocking experience that incited the meditations on memory, loss, and contemporary life in Iran that are central to her work.

A selection of major paintings by Antoni Tàpies (1923 — 2012) from the last four decades of his life, this exhibition is a comprehensive meditation on the postwar master, illuminating the many connections between his influential body of work and contemporary art history.