Sentences with phrase «modern cultural narrative»

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The dominant interpretation, derived from Franco - German scholarship of the nineteenth century, emphasized material aspects: political contest and domination in the Near East; the social structures of the Levantine crusader principalities viewed, especially by Francophone scholars, through the lens of modern colonialism; cultural confrontation and exchange through settlement and trade, a topos made familiar by eighteenth - century Enlightenment writers seeking to integrate the Crusades into a narrative of European progress; military adventurism that exposed the mentality of crusaders — heroic, passionate, devout, or misguided according to taste.

As she charts the dilemmas and gestures of an European trader Almayer (Stanislas Mehar) and his «mixed - blood» daughter, Nina (Aurora Marion), Akerman's decision to take Conrad's 19th - century, Malaysia - set story to modern - day Cambodia without acknowledging the changes comes to strike less as an eccentric gesture than as a purposeful extension of the narrative's inquiries into cultural identity and colonial uprooting.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New York, NY

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL The City College of New York, New York, NY Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, Atlanta, GA Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME Deutsche Akademie Der Kunst, Berlin, Germany Fisk University Art Galleries, Nashville, TN Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Howard University Gallery of Art, Howard University, Washington, DC Intergrafik, Berlin, Germany Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL Library of Congress, Washington, DC Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles County Public Library, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles State College, Los Angeles, CA Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Chicago, IL Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Academy Museum, New York, NY National Afro - American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH The National Archives, Washington, DC National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA Pioneer Museum and Haggin Galleries, Stockton, CA Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, NY Selma Burke Art Center, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY Taller de Grafica Popular, Mexico City, Mexico Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Academy, Berkeley, CA University of Illinois, Chicago, IL University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, KS The Wylie and May Louise Jones Gallery, Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA

Select group exhibitions featuring her work include Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (2016 - 2015); Open Rhapsody, Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon (2015); The Noir Effect, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2014); No Fashion, Please: Photography Between Gender and Lifestyle, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2011); and New Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010).

What does it mean for a national museum of modern art to embrace the «global» and «cultural diversity» when their collections are rooted in Eurocentric art historical narratives?

His work, which includes documentary, fiction and experimental narratives, takes a critical stance on modern - day social, political and cultural phenomena to suggest a reading of our society from its margins.

Traveled to Grazer Kunstverein, Austria and The Studio Museum, New York Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2000 Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900 - 2000, Section 5, 1980 - 2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue) 1999 Through the Looking Glass, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NY 1995 In a Different Light, (co-curator), University of California, Berkeley Art Museum (catalogue) Into a New Museum - Recent Gifts and Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1994 Body and Soul, (with Cindy Sherman, General Idea and Ronald Jones), Baltimore Museum of Art Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (catalogue) Black Male, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) 1993 Building a Collection: The Department of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston I Love You More Than My Own Death, Venice Biennale 1992 Translation, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw California: North and South, Aspen Art Museum, CO Recent Narrative Sculpture, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI Facing the Finish, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (catalogue) Nayland Blake, Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, Gary Hume, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Effected Desire, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic, Portland Art Museum, OR The Auto Erotic Object, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York 1991 Third Newport Biennial: Mapping Histories, Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA (catalogue) Facing the Finish, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Louder, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago The Interrupted Life: On Death and Dying, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Anni Novanta, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna.

This traditional oral form inspired the region's cinema at its origins, as well as other modern narrative genres, and intersects in their work with archival footage assembled to represent contemporary history and engender new cultural forms of post-colonialisation.

Taaffe strives for a visual energy and an optical vibrancy that integrate the decorative with the narrative, and the ancient with the modern — entwining cultural lineages and histories to create something authentic from these interwoven sources.