Sentences with phrase «more quotidian»

It will become bearable when decidedly more quotidian things become commonplace — like paid parental leave and affordable, quality day care (which Sandberg and Slaughter both advocate).
JASON STOPA Your paintings are rooted in the formal language of high modernism, but they have titles such as Depression (2016) and Opioid Addiction (2016), which suggest something more quotidian than the lofty ideals espoused by Barnett Newman or Josef Albers.
For the Hepworth Wakefield, now in its fifth year, and described by its director Simon Wallis as but a «toddler» of the museum world, this gift is a major boon — one they hope will be emulated by more quotidian collectors.
But in more recent works Gursky descends from high abstraction to more quotidian subjects: the famously expensive Rhine II (1999, remastered 2015)-- it sold for $ 4.3 m in 2011, breaking the auction record for a photograph — is displayed adjacent to a newer work, El Ejido (2017), in which the edge of a Spanish road echoes Rhine II's minimalist colour bands, but the landscape has been polluted with rubbish from passing cars.
Coal, meanwhile, is believed responsible for a host of more quotidian problems, such as mining accidents, acid rain and greenhouse gas emissions.
Thomas says there are also more quotidian benefits to spending the summer at an incubator.
The idea of Getting to Yes was to translate their thinking about multilateral peace agreements into lessons that might be applied to more quotidian forms of negotiation.
As completely unprecedented and literally out of this world as the experience was, when the crew of Apollo 11 came back to Earth, they still had to handle some of the more quotidian aspects of business travel.

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More than a decade after Teilhard's phrase «everything that rises must converge» had been on English - speaking lips, the debut of Telstar, the first of a shining silver constellation of communications satellites, established a quotidian engineering footing of sorts for the grand mystic vision.
The arthritis is accompanied or preceded by fever for at least two - weeks that is daily («quotidian») for at least 3 of those days, with one or more of the following symptoms: red rash (evanescent erythematous rash), enlarged liver, spleen or lymph nodes, and inflammation of the tissue lining (serositis) of the lungs, heart, or stomach.
Blogging has (usually) more substance, I prefer to know something about the «real life» of the people, their thoughts and feelings, their creativity but also their quotidian life, their stressful job or their problems with plumbers.
Writer - director Richard Linklater's latest and unique cinematic achievement is less about a 12 - year production and more because of his almost seamless blend of the melodramatic and the quotidian.
Magical and quotidian, Boyhood is just such a victory, which is why the Sundance audience, some of whom remembered seeing Slacker when we and Linklater were more than two decades younger, laughed and cried and clapped like crazy when he took his bow.
And if this kind of quotidian encounter was part of modernism's initial dream, we should remember that for a long time, abstract painting in particular has confined itself to much tinier spaces and more exclusive demographics.
Beyond the museums, villas, and grand urban plans that by the mid-20th century had become emblematic of a modern architecture, Giedion was concerned with the chairs, tables, beds, bathtubs, and kitchens — the objects that more immediately organized quotidian life and increasingly shaped the way humans engaged with the world.
This grounds his work in the quotidian texts and visuals of our daily lives — the currency of exchange — the detritus of the collective unconscious that has become ever more universal in the social networks of our contemporary life.
Regarding the latter, Mourão's incorporation of quotidian items is more than an aesthetic decision; these elements offer social commentary and satirize living conditions in some of Brazil's urban centers, where upper - and middle - class families reside in gated neighborhoods, fenced off from the larger community.
Lexicon juxtaposes quotidian manifestations of language — including fragments of vintage signage, scrolling LED texts, neon signs, printed posters, cartoon and diary - like narratives — to create a kind of visual «chorus,» a polyphony of voices, in which language becomes more elastic and open to multiple readings and interpretations.
With the several large paintings and stack - cardboard - box sculptures on view, Toren looks to find in the quotidian ample evidence of the supramundane... read more
«Tara Donovan: Drawings (Pins)» at the Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, opening February 11, 6 - 8 p.m., through March 19, thepacegallery.com Since being featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2000, Tara Donovan has become a bona fide international sensation by using everyday materials — styrofoam cups, pencils, straws, paper plates, Scotch tape, and more — to create sculptures that invade larger spaces that one would think possible with biomorphic shapes, mini cities, and quotidian - made - fantastic vistas.
«Tara Donovan: Drawings (Pins)» at the Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, opening February 11, 6 - 8 p.m., through March 19, thepacegallery.com Since being featured in the Whitney Biennial in 2000, Tara Donovan has become a bona fide international sensation by using everyday materials — styrofoam cups, pencils, straws, paper plates, Scotch tape, and more — to create sculptures that invade larger spaces that one would think possible with biomorphic shapes, mini cities, and quotidian - made - fantastic
Chamberlain's idiosyncratic approach to titling is indebted to the often quite abstract ways in which these writers interacted with language and, more specifically, with quotidian words, not only as referent but also as sound and mood.
An exhibition of selected works that was recently on view at Marlborough Gallery in New York highlighted the simultaneous effect and affect with which Bravo infused his art by means of masterly technical precision but perhaps more importantly through a singular use of color inspired by quotidian life in his adopted home of Tangier, Morocco, and the depiction of the art that he collected and maintained while living there.
In fact, Delvoye is more Gnostic than Catholic, as his penchant for converting the quotidian into fine - art «gold» attests.
ANDREW KREPS GALLERY The larger of this gallery's two spaces has been dimmed to screen four moving - image works by the Ohio - born artist Kevin Jerome Everson, whose laconic films explore the quotidian passages of African - American life and, more recently, the everyday consequences of the Midwest's economic downturn.
Romuald Demidenko (1985, PL) is a curator, researcher and producer currently focused on the exploration of the impact that increasing digitalization and social media have on quotidian real life events, as well as on... More
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