Sentences with phrase «much interest in art»

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For example, if you're a designer but not much interested in logo creation, digital art and other printables such as to - do lists and calendars are hugely popular on sites like Etsy.

A series of articles by Tim Schneider from ArtnetNews pretty much sums up the current state of play in the art world and the digital economy, and I urge anyone who is interested in the topic to review those in greater detail.

having reflected on the grand amount of time i spend @ sk... i would like to state that i truly look forward to an interesting & exciting sk 2011... i have learned so much from you this past, as i strive to be better educated in the art of baking... so thank you for a great year & a treasure trove of amazing recipes.

Much is covered in this book, and I was most interested in how it explains working through the challenges of incorporating Reggio practice into American classrooms and the art of documentation for advancing child learning.

Lovers of music, art and, of course, sailing, will find much of interest in the displays, such as two paintings by Winston Churchill, and many depictions of Heath's yachts, all called Morning Cloud.

This is about their pure self - interest: the concern that someone who lives near the construction will vote against Hannon or Phillips because there is too much noise or inconvenience in eliminating deadly crossings or erecting state - of - the - art sound barriers — ones that will actually stop the noise.

Sharp - eyed reader Paul Marks spotted the following interesting paragraph in the Office of Science and Technology's Forward Look report on government spending on science: «Despite enormous progress over the past decade, software engineering still suffers from being too much of an art and not enough of a science and much remains to be done to establish it on a firmer scientific basis.»

I'm also much more interested in other types of design (home / packaging / social) and art now rather than my younger self who was gaga about clothes / personal accessories.

I linked some more «interesting pieces» that do not require much fussing, as they are just pieces of art in themselves.

I am interested in many art forms besides ballet and would like very much to meet a man that has the same interests.

New York's guide to theater, restaurants, bars, movies, shopping, fashion, events, activities, things to do, music, art, books, clubs, tours, dance Hinge put together a list of the 40 most eligible people in New York City, based on how much interest they got coupled with success in career

Above all else, movies and art, in any form, exist to entertain and I remain much more interested in how art affects others, more than with myself.

Which is why it's just much more fun to watch the Spirit Awards or watch Ricky Gervais or Tina Fey and Amy Poehler do their thing (in under three hours mind you) with The Golden Globe awards and not take any of it seriously at all — because honestly, voting on art by committee is about the least interesting thing I can think of — outside of Cricket.

These two characters have much in common, however, beyond their shared vocation: passion for their work, care for their patients, side interests in art (he with literature and visual art, she with music).

However those people who are mainly interested in the art itself, the much cheaper alternative of the regular edition or even the digital version may be a more fitting option.

It's been ten years since his last movie, and many may stay away if they can't divorce the art from the artist, but it would be very interesting to see if this awards baity film has a real soul to it in retelling a story of a man who has seen far too much bloodshed and loss on the battlefield.

All of these early scenes stick pretty closely to the historical record and are much more interested in the specifics of the Wing Chun art than they are any kind of personal or historical drama.

By the same token, Anderson's much discussed penchant for virtuosic camera maneuvers and creating holistic, heroic movie - movies is perhaps revealed by Inherent Vice to be somewhat less impressive than his intuitive facility with actors — don't forget he molded art from lumps of clay like Mark Wahlberg and Adam Sandler — which suggests that his abiding interest might just be in homo sapiens as well.

If you are interested in something that is a different yet meaningful cross-curricula learning experience with elements of: wonder, awe, descriptive writing, poetry, philosophy, science, nature, geography, team work, art, appreciation of nature and so much more, then this is for you.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

The newly minted secretary of education is pushing for schools to take advantage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to give every child the kind of broad background «that engages and intrigues kids, allowing them to discover interests in the arts and the sciences and world languages and so much else.»

«I owe much of my professional identity to Sizer's interest in arts and humanities,» he said.

They also administered three questionnaires to teachers asking them to rate: 1) their perceptions of students» imagination, risk - taking, expression, and cooperative learning; 2) their school climate in terms of affiliation, student support, professional interest, achievement orientation, formalization, centralization, innovativeness, and resource adequacy; and 3) how much they integrate the arts, collaborate with arts specialists, and use the arts as a tool to teach other subjects.

Students» interest in the arts piqued so much that they started a video project to share with their student - teachers what they were doing.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

A recent report by the National Endowment for the Arts found that 53 percent of Americans surveyed hadn't read a book in the previous year — a state of affairs that has prompted much soul - searching by anyone with an affection for (or business interest in) turning pages.

We translate most of the articles into German, so I think the site appeals to people visiting Berlin, ex-pats living in Berlin, original Berliners, Germans outside of Berlin... pretty much anyone with an interest in the city, though perhaps especially those who have an interest in our main categories such as food, art and culture, history, family...

In hindsight the Electronic Arts confine was never going to hold them for long — their interests lay much beyond the commercially - safe work at the publisher; Gabler was one of the team behind the respected Experimental Gameplay Project while Carmel had previously developed visual FX software and haptic simulations.

The game looks interesting enough for me, I kind of like the art style, didn't know much about the story initially and still don't, but I like the puzzle aspect of the game that was presented in the trailer and the info pages — so far so good.

Art historians and museum curators don't seem to have much interest in it.

If you are an art collector, however, you may not have as much of an interest toward in - depth tutorials on color theory.

I read this with great interest but there is one problem that is not being addressed here: buying art online can lead to some huge disappointments — Almost any painting / drawing can be made to look much better posted on facebook than when you see it «in person», plus (many) online artists can puff up who they are and their backgrouns — which entitles them to inflate their prices.

Russian artists such as Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, and especially Alexander Rodchenko emerge as much more influential and interesting in this storyline than they do in standard modern art histories, in which they're often more mourned as political victims than celebrated as art theorists.

Martin's art is more retiring in temperament, sparse in means, and, in the end, takes too much for granted, not least the viewer's interest.

In an interesting post-auction wrap up Kelly Crow of the Wall Street Journal reported that even though most of the media melted over the Bacon sale, the tallied sales numbers from both auction houses show a much more balanced picture with Christie's slightly edging over their competitors and selling $ 1,076,080,500 worth of art versus Sotheby's $ 1,021,465,430.

, both on view through December 17 — engage that complicated relationship in indirect but interesting ways: Betbeze is a Georgia native who continues to make work here despite now living in New York, and Detroit artist Harrison's show draws much of its source material from Atlanta - based collections of African art.

Each of the museum's two current headline exhibitions — Anna Betbeze's Venus and Matthew Angelo Harrison's Dark Povera Part 1, both on view through December 17 — engage that complicated relationship in indirect but interesting ways: Betbeze is a Georgia native who continues to make work here despite now living in New York, and Detroit artist Harrison's show draws much of its source material from Atlanta - based collections of African art.

At first blush, Annell Livingston's tightly gridded abstractions might appear to be successors to the Op Art frenzy of the 1960s, but on closer scrutiny her gently rippling canvases are not so much interested in playing visual tricks as in conveying the passage of light and a feeling of transience.

But, as I expressed an interest in fine art at that time — because I had been going to museums — he really gave me my first serious critical confrontation with how hard you had to work, how you had not to expect much, because you were dealing with a tradition which was an extraordinary community of excellence.

I am interested in closing as much of the distance as possible to the model that I am using to produce the images, as a way of intensifying its position within art and also as a way of bringing the kind of rarefied perception associated with an art work into alignment with a vernacular way of seeing.

Paradoxically, this cultural distance between center and periphery in American art seems to underscore much of the truly interesting art to come out of New Orleans, while ensuring that many valuable developments go unnoticed by the national mainstream.

Sandy, who had as much interest in illustration as he did in gallery art, happened to say that it was a fond hope of his to one day have an illustration collection in the New Britain Museum, but he didn't know how to go about it.

Of my writings published online on this blog and The Huffington Post since last April 2010, the ones that have in any small way gone viral, very relatively speaking, were those in which I wrote fast enough about current hot news items or ones relating or engaging with artworld celebrities: as one example, «My Whole Street is A Mosque,» written within 24 hours of the news cycle surrounding the proposal for a Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, was picked up by various web aggregators; «Looking for Art to Love, MoMA: A Tale of Two Egos» also did very well because of my speculation about how or whether Marina Abramovic peed during her performance «The Artist is Present» at MoMA, a subject of much prurient curiosity (interesting speculation was illustrated online at New York Magazine and resolution of the mystery came in the Wall Street Journal's blog, «Speakeasy»); «Anselm Kiefer@Larry Gagosian: Last Century in Berlin,» where I tucked a critical response to Kiefer's recent show into a bit of reporting about how Gagosian Gallery was using the NYPD as its private police force, also created a spike on my Google analytics; more recently I could perceive a noticeable uptick in my readership as well as in the number and enthusiasm of my Facebook friends» comments for «Should we trust anyone under 30?

(«He was already a famous artist who taught one night a week; he had his followers who came regularly, and they were interested not in art so much as in jazz and baseball.»)

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It interesting to see these materials trapped inside the glass in a way mirroring how painting can be viewed in contemporary art, trapped in tradition and without much room to escape its own conventions.

If one is interested in Frank Stella's association with Op Art, one doesn't need to look much further than his hypnotic and minimal «Aluminum Series» from 1970.

To activate the city, to bring in the required attendance, you need to consider a crossover approach, a way to attract those people who are interested in visual culture but who don't differentiate that much between professional art culture and new music, or new film, or new fashion, and so on.

Thousands of people who otherwise weren't much interested in modern art found his work irresistible.

Rawlings» other stated interests in art history and education are seen very much through the female gaze.