Sentences with phrase «modern city landscape»

Bangkok is a brilliant metropolitan, rich in culture and vibrant with modern city landscape.

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At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

EXPO's modern interior pays homage to the City of Light (past and present), featuring glass panels reminiscent of Niagara Falls, a green wall celebrating Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect), 8 - watt light bulbs similar to those that illuminated the Pan American Exposition, a mural by local artist Kimberly Halavin, and three 12 - foot high murals by local artist Casey William Milbrand that juxtapose the Buffalo of today with extraordinary moments of its past.

IN A LANDSCAPED lot on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, Utah, stands a modern building of glass and brick, typical of countless other offices built in the 1990s.

It's politically stable, the people are gracious, and it boasts an impressive range of landscapes, from modern city to desert to mountains to — you guessed it — beaches.

Formerly the Multnomah Hotel, Embassy Suites by Hilton Portland Downtown has been part of Portland's historic landscape since 1912 and features original architecture with modern comforts located in the heart of the city.

Beautiful landscapes, fascinating wildlife, modern cities pulsing with activity, and all kinds of fun attractions and activities make it about as well - rounded a destination as you could imagine.

Pleasant three story hotel offering modern amenities; set on twelve acres of landscaped grounds; situated 4 miles from Hull City...

Modern, high - speed tilting - trains connect Croatia's capital, Zagreb, with other major cities whilst scenic regional routes provide pleasureable journeys which showcase Croatia's unspoilt landscapes, wonderful Adriatic coast and historic towns and villages.

The city has an important port and is filled with wide streets, beautiful landscaped areas and some fine examples of modern architecture.

Other thrilling experiences include a visit to the Giant Panda Research Base, a ride on the bullet train from Chengdu to Chongqing, a calligraphy class, sightseeing with Local Guides, and much more.From the serene and picturesque landscapes to the vibrant cities and from the many historic sites to the modern accomplishments, this China tour is a once - in - a-lifetime vacation opportunity!

The French colonial architecture, high ceilings, beautiful Italian - marble floors and rich rosewood furniture at this luxurious colonial hotel will take you a step back in time.Built at the turn of the century, circa 1932, the luxurious Settha Palace Hotel in Vientiane, Laos has been restored to its former charm.Re - opened in 1999, the French colonial architecture, period furniture, French restaurant, landscaped gardens complemented by modern facilities, are some of the features of this historical landmark in the heart of Vientiane, the capital city of Lao P.D.R. (Laos).

There are many jewels amongst Scotland's breath - taking landscape including the vibrant capital of Edinburgh where historic fortresses and a medieval Old Town blend with the city's more modern areas.

The Look of Four Seasons Hotel Shenzhen: A Contemporary Green Oasis With its sleek and striking geometrical facade, Four Seasons Hotel Shenzhen complements the city's modern landscape.

It is easily reached from any of the major and minor Indonesian airports and offers a combination of modern city life and relaxed cultural and physically beautiful landscapes just out of town.

Dubai is a city which is often regarded as a luxury destination, with breathtaking natural landscape blended with modern man - made architecture.

Set in over 7 acres of landscaped gardens, enjoy the privilege of staying in a luxuriously appointed accommodation, in Garden city's only modern Palace hotel which comes with a host of complimentary amenities.

Set in over 7 acres of landscaped gardens, enjoy the privilege of staying in a luxuriously appointed accommodation, in Garden city's only modern Palace hotel, which comes with a host of complimentary amenities and a sumptuous breakfast spread served in Citrus.

The 4.6 - hectare stretch of land found just a bit to the south from Estació Sants — the largest railway station in the area, which provides you with very convenient means of moving around the city (just like the nearby Placa d'Espanya)-- is taken by a very spectacular mixture of natural landscape and modern artistic vision.

South Africa is not just about natural beauty and unparalleled wildlife: visitors can also get a taste of modern art and urban landscapes in major cities Taste some of the world's finest wines while gazing at gorgeous mountains as you follow the winding roads of the Cape Wine Route.

The canvas or sheet is the stage, the space in which movement brings forth impressions of remembered landscapes, gardens, the horizon, sky, and the city, both ancient and modern.

In these decades, photographers Garry Winogrand, Joel Meyerowitz, and Danny Lyon each turned their camera lenses on New York City's ever - changing architectural and social landscape in order to capture and illuminate some elements of truth about modern urban society.

PARIS — Bridget Riley's retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of the city of Paris opens with landscape drawings from the 1950s, passes through the Op Art with which she became famous, soars into the big lusciously colored abstracts of recent years and ends with a wall painting which the curator sees as a homage to the museum's prize possession, «La Danse» by Matisse.

Liu Wei (born 1972, Beijing) is one of the most talented Chinese visual artists, widely known for his paintings, sculptures and installation works which explore contradictions of modern societies and the transformation of the urban landscape in developing cities in the post-Mao era of China's rapid urbanization.

Their subject matter remained largely the same as that of their still - active Impressionist forebears: landscapes, the modern city, and leisure - time activities.

About Generic Surplus Founded in Los Angeles as an extension of The Generic Man, Generic Surplus aims to continually push the evolu tion of everyday shoe design while simultaneously capturing the spirit and aesthetic of the city's diverse, modern - day urban landscape.

His fascination with New York's gritty urban landscape, its technological marvels and the diversity of its inhabitants, made him both an artist of the modern city and an insightful observer of the dynamic and challenging decades of the early 20th century.

A wide range of photographers — from early experimenters such as Eugène Cuvelier, Charles Marville and Anna Atkins to modern giants Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, as well as contemporary practitioners such as James Nachtwey, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Loretta Lux — are represented by portraits and figure studies, city scenes and still lifes, landscapes and seascapes.

The exhibition includes landscapes, portraits, intimate depictions of women and children, and images of modern life in American cities, which together generate dialogues about techniques, composition, and subject matter.

Highlights include works by the iconic 19th - century painter Childe Hassam, who popularized impressionism in the United States with his lush city scenes and natural landscapes; Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi's bold image of the modern woman as a bather in the 1920s; and a recent minimalist seascape by photographer Catherine Opie that reduces the ocean to subtle, ethereal layers of color in which the human figure is almost overwhelmed by natural environment.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 — Untitled --(12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul, Turquey 2011 — Iluminations — 54th Venice Biennial, Italy 2010 — Serpentine Gallery Map Marathon 2010, London, England 2010 — Panamericana — Kurimanzutto Art Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico 2010 — Zona MACO Project Room — Mexico City, Mexico 2010 — The return of the landscape — Akademie der Künst, Berlin, Germany 2010 — Frieze Art Fair — Luisa Strina Art Gallery, London, England 2010 — ART BASEL Miami Beach — Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Miami, USA 2010 — ART BASEL Miami Beach — Luisa Strina Art Gallery, Miami, USA 2009 — Moby Dick — CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA 2009 — Panorama das Artes Brasileira — Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Brazil 2009 — X Bienal de Cuenca — Cuenca, Ecuador 2009 — Intemperie — 2nd End of the World Biennal, Ushuaia, Argentina 2009 — 2nd Poligraphic Triennal — San Juan, Puerto Rico 2009 — ART BASEL Miami Beach — Luisa Strina Art Gallery, Miami, USA 2008 — Nuevas incorporaciones — MACRO — Juan B. Castagnino Fine Arts Museum, Rosario, Argentina 2008 — ART 39 BASEL International Art Fair — Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

A summertime oasis, the BMA's Sculpture Gardens feature a 100 - year survey of modern and contemporary sculpture on nearly three landscaped acres in the heart of the city.

«The Gang: Photographs by Catherine Opie,» Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK, October 4, 2014 — February 15, 2015 «Only Miss the Sun when it Starts to Snow,» Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway, June 21 — September 13, 2014» 2013 «In and Around LA,» Julius Shulman Institute, Los Angeles, CA, February 16 — March 24, 2013 «Catherine Opie,» Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, February 22 — March 28, 2013 2012 «Twelve Miles to the Horizon: Sunrises and Sunsets,» Long Beach Museum of Art, CA, October 5, 2012 - March 24, 2013 «BROADWAY BILLBOARD: Catherine Opie, Untitled (Stump Fire # 4),» Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY, September 9, 2012 - March 31, 2013 «Catherine Opie: High School Football,» Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY, March 10 — April 14, 2012 2011 «Catherine Opie,» Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK, November 23, 2011 — January 28, 2012 «Catherine Opie: New Zealand; Zero to Something,» projectspace B431, Elam School of Fine Arts, New Zealand, August 9 — 13, 2011 «Catherine Opie: Empty and Full,» Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, April 12 — September 5, 2011; catalogue «Catherine Opie: Football Landscapes,» Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway, January 15 — February 26, 2011 2010 «Catherine Opie,» Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, October 23, 2010 — February 6, 2011 «Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape,» Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, July 25 — October 17, 2010 «Catherine Opie: High School Football Players,» Sabine Knust Galerie Maximilian Verlag, Munich, Germany, May 20 — June 10, 2010 «Venezia / Venice,» Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy, May 19 — July 30, 2010 «Catherine Opie: Twelve Miles to the Horizon,» Regen Projects II, Los Angeles, CA, April 24 — May 22, 2010 «Catherine Opie: Girlfriends,» Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, March 19 — April 24, 2010 2008 «Catherine Opie The Blue of Distance: Photographs from Alaska,» Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK, October 14 — November 14, 2008 «Catherine Opie: American Photographer,» Guggenheim Museum, New York, September 26, 2008 — January 7, 2009; catalogue «Catherine Opie,» Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, April 10 — May 17, 2008 2006 «1999 & In and Around Home,» Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, January 22 — May 14, 2006; traveled to The Orange County Museum of Art, CA, June 4 — September 3, 2006; Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, OH, September 29 — December 30, 2006; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, February 11 — April 29, 2007; catalogue «Catherine Opie: Chicago,» Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 20 — October 15, 2006 «Catherine Opie: American Cities,» Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, September 8 — October 14, 2006 2004 «Catherine Opie: Children,» Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy, October 27 — December 4, 2004 «Catherine Opie: Surfers,» Gorney, Bravin & Lee, New York, NY, March 13 — April 10, 2004 «Catherine Opie: Surfers,» Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK, January 22 — February 21, 2004 «Catherine Opie: Surfers,» Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, January 10 — February 14, 2004 2002 «Catherine Opie: Icehouses,» Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy, October 2 — November 6, 2002 «Catherine Opie: Icehouses,» Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, May 11 — June 15, 2002 «Catherine Opie: Skyways and Icehouses,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, April 28 — July 21, 2002; catalogue 2001 «Wall Street,» Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK, November 30, 2001 — January 19, 2002 «1999,» Galeria Presenca, Porto, Portugal, November 10 — December 20, 2001 «Wall Street 2000 - 2001,» presented by Antik in cooperation with Gorney, Bravin & Lee, New York, NY, November 3 — December 10, 2001 2000 «Catherine Opie: In between here and there,» curated by Rochelle Steiner, The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, October 6 — November 26, 2000 «Catherine Opie,» The Photographers» Gallery, London, UK, August 9 — September 24, 2000; traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, November 18, 2000 — February 18, 2001; catalogue «Catherine Opie: Large Format Polaroids,» Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, May 12 — June 10, 2000 «Catherine Opie,» Artpace, San Antonio, TX, April 6 — July 2, 2000 «Catherine Opie,» Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, NC, April 1 — May 27, 2000 «Catherine Opie,» Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY, March 18 — April 15, 2000 «Catherine Opie,» Susan Inglett, New York, NY, February 24 — April 1, 2000 1999 «Catherine Opie: A Survey,» Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, September 3 — October 16, 1999 «Domestic,» Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, April 17 — May 22, 1999 1998 «Mini-Malls,» Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY, March 21 — April 25, 1998 1997 «Catherine Opie,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, October 5, 1997 — February 8, 1998 «Houses and Landscapes,» Ginza Art Space, Shiseido, Tokyo, Japan, February 25 — March 31, 1997 «Portraits and Houses,» Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI, 1997 1996 «Houses and Landscapes,» Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, April 27 — June 1, 1996 «Houses and Freeways,» Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY, February 24 — March 30 «Freeways,» Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1996 1995 «Portraits,» enterprise, New York, NY, 1995 «Portraits,» Parco, Tokyo, Japan, 1995 «Portraits,» Galeria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy, 1995 «Portraits and Freeways,» Richard Foncke Galerie, Ghent, Belgium, 1995 1994 «Portraits,» Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, June 4 — July 2, 1994 «Portraits,» Kiki Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1994 «L.A. Freeways,» Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA, November 19 — December 13, 1994 1991 «Being and Having,» 494 Gallery, New York, NY, 1991 1990 «A Long Way from Paris: Photographs from MacArthur Park, Metro Rail, and Their Surroundings,» Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA, 1990 1989 «Master Plan,» United States Post Office, Valencia, CA, 1989 «Master Plan,» Mills College, Oakland, CA, 1989 Selected Group Exhibitions:

It reveals what Lowry learned from the strange symbolist townscapes of his French born teacher Adolphe Valette and demonstrate important parallels with the painters of modern life Vincent van Gogh, Camille Pissarro, Georges Seurat and Maurice Utrillo, drawing upon these artists's continuous search for ways to depict the unlovely facts of the city's edges and the landscape made by industrialisation.

Concentrating on the random routes drawn daily by taxis on the map of the city, my research focused on this alternative and «intimate» space, thus inhabiting the modern landscape through the use of a taxi.

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