Sentences with phrase «mythic status»

Pronger's (andTorres's) devastating hit on Weight - natural attrition in a two - month hockeymarathon - seemed to be just one of those things until Carolina turned it intosomething that had the potential to be one of Those Things, an event soinspiring, so memorable, that it may attain mythic status: in this case, thereturn of Cole last Saturday.

But it's high time that young and developing artists are giving something to hang on to other than the edifice of privilege maintained by organizations of important and almost mythic status in the art world like Cooper Union.

For her second edition for The Multiple Store, «Meteorite lands... in the middle of nowhere», Cornelia Parker created a series of meteorite «landings» made by heating a 400 year - old iron meteorite which originally fell on Namibia, and then using it to scorch impact craters on six road maps of the American south, hitting or missing locations she has never visited but which have achieved mythic status in her mind.

And it elevated what was really a fairly simple track into mythic status.

Once demonised as bankrupt and crime - ridden, New York in the 1970s now holds mythic status as the site where so many of today's most significant cultural trends first emerged.

As he ascended to near - mythic status throughout the 1980s, the looming skeletal effigy offered a poignant and prophetic memento mori.

Artists these days have to prove that they deserve mythic status, and the summer shows at P.S. 1 do their best.

Beuys was the last of art's great 20th - century myth - makers, an artist who, since his death in 1986, has attained mythic status.

Educated by the white man, Nobody is well - versed in the classics, and takes Blake's name to heart, believing he is the reincarnation of the poet William Blake, and throughout their misadventures, (almost cannibalized by Iggy Pop, Billy Bob Thornton and Mad Men «s Jared Harris — over a decade before he'd play Lane Pryce), Depp gains almost mythic status.

Although the photograph achieved mythic status, and some of its subjects scaled the heights of fame, Ms. Sterne retreated to the margins of art history.

It was the largest IPO in history, catapulting Ma to near - mythic status.

The ever - humble inventor of the drug, Etienne - Emile Baulieu, has called it the «most important invention of the twentieth century» and commented on the drug's «mythic status.»

Consider the mythic status of Walter Johnson, who threw so hard he never bothered to learn to throw a good curve - ball and still won 416 games and led the American League in strikeouts 12 times.

But Wade enjoys the escape and anonymity of The Oasis long after Halliday's death, the genius having developed a mythic status of near religious proportions.

Quite a bit of Nebraska takes place in the distance between Hawthorne and Lincoln, and there's no doubt that Payne's quiet ambition is to sketch the fate of certain American myths symbolized by those names — and by a third, still - active American of near - mythic status that the film's title can't help but evoke, Bruce Springsteen.

Instead of a series of linear missions, MechWarrior 5 puts you in command of a mercenary unit and gives you the freedom to either rise to mythic status or crash and burn along the way.

Yet it obliges one to see his earthy realism and its mythic status altogether differently.

In the seven years since Jason Rhoades passed away, at the age of 41, the Los Angeles artist's overwhelming installations have taken on near mythic status.

For Molesworth, Black Mountain College's mythic status — as the birthplace of the neo-avant-garde and the site of legendary collaborations by Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage and Merce Cunningham — has in fact been a problem to overcome, an impediment to a more complete understanding of its history.

Marlene Dumas Hon RA's paintings elevate women to mythic status.