Sentences with phrase «of jazz age»

The property also provided lodging to various legends of the Jazz Age who were turned away from nearby hotels because of their race.

The artist Hernan Bas seized on the subject of the «Bright Young Things» generation after discovering a book about Stephen Tennant, a dandy figure of that Jazz Age period.

Stettheimer (1871 — 1944) is a consummate figure of the Jazz Age in New York.

The exhibition also features his noteworthy depictions of Jazz Age Paris and 1950s Mexico.

Evoking the character and energy of the Jazz Age, the exhibition will be complemented by prints from Sheeler's «Doylestown House» series, early portraiture, and his photographs of modern sculpture, as well as period costumes.

The beloved style and culture of the Jazz Age in 1920s America is given its first major museum exhibition this month.

This is Archibald Motley, whose boldly colored Harlem Renaissance - era paintings chronicled the African American experience of the Jazz Age.

The exhibition also features his noteworthy canvases of Jazz Age Paris and 1950s Mexico.

His 1929 work Blues, a colorful, rhythm - inflected painting of Jazz Age Paris, has long provided a canonical picture of African American cultural expression during this period.

The exhibition also features his depictions of Jazz Age Paris and 1950s Mexico.

An African - American painter born in New Orleans, Motley's depictions of Jazz Age Paris, Mexico and his hometown of Chicago are vivid; explosions of color and energetic shapes practically spill out of these Deco masterpieces.

Shows this summer are highlighting feminist art with group exhibitions redefining past histories and retrospectives of a Jazz Age artist and a genre scene painter.

Still, the larger scenes draw on Jacob Lawrence or Romare Bearden for their echoes of the jazz age — and Florine Stettheimer for their symmetry and celebration.

Comprising photographs and paintings by Sheeler along with fashions of the era, Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography and Sculptural Form evokes the personalities, glamour, and promise of the Jazz Age, and reveals for the first time how Sheeler's «day job» at Condé Nast shaped his aesthetic vision and artistic career.

Starting with her friends, a glittering roster of Jazz Age Paris sat for Abbott, including Sylvia Beach, Jean Cocteau, Djuna Barnes and her lover Thelma Wood (Abbott's ex), André Gide, Buddy Gilmore, Max Ernst, Marie Laurencin, and Janet Flanner.

Called «roaring» for a reason, the 1920s brought a surge of prosperity to NYC — the height of the Jazz Age, the birth of the Broadway musical, the construction of skyline - defining art deco skyscrapers and the dawn of a new era of urban development.

Opened in 1924 in the height of the Jazz Age, this hotel boasts a prime location, close to the Grand Central Terminal and JFK Airport, as well as loads of shops on Fifth Avenue, theatres on Broadway and bars, restaurants and nightclubs everywhere in between.

Join me on my Facebook author page for a LIVE discussion on the third of my Jazz Age novels, Cocoa Beach.

- Juliet Nicolson, author of Abdication and The Great Silence: Britain From the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age «Jewell's many fans should eagerly embrace this story about two different women living in two different times whose lives converge in the most unexpected way... Family «Lisa Jewell's latest escapist love story is heartbreakingly good.»

She espouses a conservative kind of modernism specific to the 1920s, one that allows her to celebrate the technologies that give her gender a new freedom in the workplace, but deplore the sexual freedom of the Jazz Age.

Enter Odalie Lazare, the other typist of the title and the very embodiment of Jazz Age licentiousness.

From the time Tatum started playing in clubs in 1926 at the age of 16, his short life spanned the heyday of the Jazz Age through the mid-1950s.

Meanwhile, Daphne, a cosmopolitan socialite, was drawn to the bright things of Jazz Age London.

Jennifer Lawrence is set to play Zelda Fitzgerald in a biopic of the jazz age icon, socialite and novelist.

In Baz - world, there's nothing illogical about mixing Jay - Z with F. Scott Fitzgerald's cynical portrait of Jazz Age values.

The film leans heavily into the trappings of the Jazz Age, and really embraces the classic visual elements of the era.

Her stunning and quite sparkly beaded and tasseled Ralph & Russo Couture gown was reminiscent of the dresses worn by the stylish socialites of the Jazz Age, and Kelsey wanted to incorporate some of that vintage glitz into her award's look.

My favourite look from the runway... With gorgeous long stand necklaces, a divine cloche hat, a beautiful floral day dress; Ralph Lauren's collection is an exquisite vision of jazz age finesse.

Inspired by the decadent glamor of the Jazz Age, Lipstick Queen's «Cool Gin» lipstick is infused with golden pearl - like pigments for a molten finish.

Evoking flapper girls of the Jazz Age, the look serves up elegance rather than over the top pageantry.

This party - ready pearl tassel necklace echoes the lavish sophistication of the Jazz Age.

you look so dreamy in this silver gown... you make me think of the Jazz age... so glam and beautiful!

By the end of the Jazz Age in the 1930s, the mindset of the people had caught up with technology and wasn't imbued with this supernatural quality that it was before.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is careful to depict the decadence of the Jazz Age as a fast - burning flame, a volatile marvel until it burns swiftly and catastrophically out.

Not exact matches

Yesterday I saw two biopic films: «Amy» about the life of Jazz sensation Amy Winehouse who died of alcohol poisoning at the age of 27 and «Montage of Heck» about the life of Kurt Cobain, the grunge - rock generational voice who died of an overdose of heroin and valium at the age of... 27.

The internationally renowned South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela, whose music was an integral part of the soundtrack to the struggle against Apartheid, has passed away at the age of 78 following a battle against prostate cancer.

Nat died recently at the ripe age of ninety - one, receiving the laudatory obituaries he so richly deserves for his decades of contributions to civil - liberties discourse and the popular understanding of jazz (his personal passion).

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller — The book that is likely on the short list for 90 % of evangelicals my age, Donald Miller made me feel a little less crazy.

when most of America hadn't: the kitschy well - meaning illustrations on the endpapers of the Watch - tower books from the Jazz Age and the Depression: a Mexican family all in sombreros, an African family in embroidered A-line robes, a clean - cut white family, a Chinese family in their conical straw hats, all the families standing together, their faces raised toward heaven, where a pale, bearded Jesus rides down on a horse.

I was recently reminded of the ongoing problems with a historical paradigm that has been with us since the Jazz Age, when fundamentalist Baptists and Presbyterians in largely northern denominations broke with modernist Baptists and Presbyterians.

Nat Hentoff — author, jazz critic, and Village Voice columnist for 50 years — died this weekend at the age of 91.

Spanning genres of classic genres and new age Jazz, Blues, Rock, Soul, Pop and Samba, the stage is set for an exciting evening Downtown

«Instead, we focused on a slightly Jazz Age, slightly Mad Men ambience with overtones of a speakeasy, pulling inspiration from old school New York.

The Jazz Age Comes Alive in July at Windsor Court Hotel June 20, 2017 The Windsor Court Hotel is excited to again participate in Tales of the Cocktail by hosting the annual weekend of Prohibition Tea, as well as a Spirited Dinner, in partnership with William Grant & Sons, devoted to American jazz greJazz Age Comes Alive in July at Windsor Court Hotel June 20, 2017 The Windsor Court Hotel is excited to again participate in Tales of the Cocktail by hosting the annual weekend of Prohibition Tea, as well as a Spirited Dinner, in partnership with William Grant & Sons, devoted to American jazz grejazz greats.

Each child learns ballet, hip hop, cheer, modern, tap, jazz, tumbling Session 1 week of June 14 12 to 4 pm ages 13 to 18 Session 2 week of June 21 12 to 4 pm ages 13 to 18 Session 3 week of July 6 8 to 12 pm ages 7 - 13

The projected Jazz starting lineup (Trey Burke, Alec Burks, Gordon Hayward, Derrick Favors and Enes Kanter) would be one of the youngest starting fives in the league with an average age of 21.6.

Renowned Jazz pianist and longtime Riverdale resident Billy Taylor died of heart failure on Dec. 28, at the age of 89.

«New York has great rooms for opera, classical, and jazz, but for the aging rock and roller or pop fan, there really isn't a room with the amenities that people would like» — amenities like good food, wine served in glasses (not plastic cups), and of course, great music in a 900 - seat venue.

This year's concerts will be dedicated to jazz pianist Horace Silver, who passed away in June at the age of 85, the event's website said.

By the age of three I was enrolled in tap, jazz, and ballet classes and loved them each in their individual way.