Sentences with phrase «much contemporary art»

Indeed, the scale of much contemporary art demands an architecture of almost civic proportions.

The second incarnation is bigger, features artist self - publishers only, and «continues to avoid the restrictions and market dominance of much contemporary arts culture».

Given the ideological nature of much contemporary art, such a question may be moot.

So, why is so much contemporary art so fucking BORING!?

Despite these disquieting elements that also describe late 20th century life, Murray's paintings clearly display an optimism absent from much contemporary art.

During the 1930's, much contemporary art critical rhetoric was surrounding the «American Scene,» or, at the very least, a return to realism, as seen in the work of Thomas Hart Benson and Reginald Marsh.

That's how much contemporary art sold in the week of November 2012 proving wrong every naysayer and pessimist waiting for the art market to crash.

Unlike much contemporary art, we didn't always have to guess what Stark is trying to convey because the accompanying descriptions were comprehensive.

Mr. Dawson has shown all four years with Expo, and a gallery rep tells the Observer that collectors are drawn to the historic objects on view after seeing so much contemporary art across the aisles.

As Alvarez notes, while much contemporary art today delves into the horrors of modern - day life, in his work, he chooses instead to explore the compassion, generosity, bravery, and immense creativity that exists in the world as well.

REVIVAL examines the spectacle and visual enchantment that underlies much contemporary art.

SITE Santa Fe exhibit pushes boundaries of aesthetics «You are here, 2008» Judith Schaechter Much contemporary art is highly intellectualized, sprouting from institutes of higher learning, embedded in a system that eschews beauty and prefers provocation.

It's not that Wiley or DeBalincourt don't have a political agenda, It's just clear that their work, like much contemporary art, has no teeth beneath the attractive, accessible imagery.

The lapse is especially curious given that such recent and renown museum exhibitions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's 2007 spectacular, Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, and the Centre Pompidou's extensive survey of sculpture in Le Surrealisme et L'Objet of 2013 - 14 both pivoted on the thesis that much contemporary art remains crucially indebted to Surrealism.

The gallery expanded on the legacy of Jermayne and Douglas MacAgy and James Johnson Sweeney, who introduced much contemporary art to the state through their directorships of Dallas and Houston museums in the early and mid-sixties.

The «I could have done that» factor, which prevents so much contemporary art from being widely accepted and engaged with, doesn't apply here: Hanson's skill in creating these sculptures is admirable.

The shallow novelty, the low - cost nihilism, and the vague and sentimental spiritual pretensions of so much contemporary art — in every medium — are the legacy of this schism, as well as the cynicism that pervades the arts world.

Schwartz's animations and screen captures have the cartoon colors of much contemporary art — and enough failure screens to challenge even Windows.

Mehretu's encompassing and relatively low - key abstractions are, in aesthetic effect, divorced from the obnoxious nature of much contemporary art — you know, the high - profile stuff that trades in Pop spectacle of one sort or another.

Fun is a quality sadly lacking in much contemporary art, but Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander...

Much contemporary art (though perhaps all art, always) has trust issues.

Much contemporary art has chosen instead to articulate profusion, fragmentation, and the squiggly line between explanation and digression.

Fun is a quality sadly lacking in much contemporary art, but Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander showers viewers with giant colored discs of confetti at the Linda Pace Foundation's SPACE.

He joined the Evening Standard in 1984, and stayed for over 30 years, establishing himself as an uncompromising and outspoken art - world commentator, and a fierce critic of much contemporary art, from the Bridget Riley to Bansky.

A Performa Commission with HAU and SFMOMA, the performance continues SFMOMA's Now Playing live art series, which has transformed the nature of the museum's public programming by embracing the event - driven, performance - based aspect of much contemporary art.

Loudon sees the growing interest in such objects as a sign of the public's boredom with the inflated scale of so much contemporary art, «a reaction against Jeff Koons, if you will.

Lapthisophon contends that these process - driven drawings, made with such unconventional media as coffee grounds, bacon fat, smoke, latex, tea, vinegar, and rosemary, are «polemical» in how they go against the grain of much contemporary art.

«The explosion of that much contemporary art in a concentrated area.

A sneaking suspicion that much contemporary art is a load of blather and baloney still lingers among large sections of the population.

On the ruptures and restlessness of much contemporary art, and how this is reflected in the 56th Venice Biennale

Derby's recently launched QUAD continues to establish itself as a contemporary art venue of convincing ambition with an intriguing and at times enchanting show charting the tendency of so much contemporary art to make magic out of the mundane and to tell lies that seem true to life.

If this exhibition of work by five Puerto Rican artists (timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Puerto Rico attaining U.S. citizenship) initially seems reminiscent of much contemporary art, a closer look reveals its distinctly Caribbean flavor.

Hambling's work offers a counterweight to the careful irony and self - conscious allusion of much contemporary art, demanding a direct and unmediated encounter with the viewer.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ «There's an exuberant, messy physicality to this work that flies in the face of the clinical neatness of so much contemporary art... A wonderland of trashed surfaces and junkyard materials.»