Sentences with phrase «none of the artists even»

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And here's the thing: while I think none of us would have asked a man like O'Reilly for the sheer volume of selfhood that musical artist and writer Amanda Palmer brought to her pivotal keynote address at the Muse this weekend in Boston, I can tell you that a lot of TOC folks — even business - side operatives, not artists — thought that in this man O'Reilly we were seeing what the critic James Wood (also in Boston) has reminded us Walter Benjamin quoted Nicolas Malebranch to call «the natural prayer of the soul»: attentiveness.

Then I met a bunch of artists over a period of time, none of whom had their own website — or even a business card!

12 In the middle of the century, there were only a third as many women as men artists, but even this mildly encouraging statistic is deceptive when we discover that out of this relatively meager number, none had attended that major stepping stone to artistic success, the Ecole des Beaux - Arts, only 7 percent had received any official commission or had held any official office — and these might include the most menial sort of work — only 7 percent had ever received any Salon medal, and none had ever received the Legion of Honor.13 Deprived of encouragements, educational facilities and rewards, it is almost incredible that a certain percentage of women did persevere and seek a profession in the arts.

[4] The proportion of artists of color was even smaller, and none of them were women.

While much has been made of the «international» character of this year's shortlist, with none of the artists ticking the «White British» box, all represent, in one way or another, what it means to be British today — even Andrea Buttner, who is actually German.

None of these artists take on these contemporary issues directly or didactically, but rather make use of unconventional materials to produce a particular experience of the work's physical presence, or else to present surfaces that evoke the polyvalent potential of digital screens to display multiple, even conflicting, perceptual modes, both sequentially and simultaneously.

The difference now compared to even a decade ago is that we have artists like Kondabolu, Jordan Peele and Aziz Ansari challenging the status quo with films and shows like Get Out and Master of None.