Sentences with phrase «of public monuments»

Ivan Argote's «Horses» series displays Parisian equestrian statues without their famous riders, subverting the traditional function of public monuments: «They are there to remind us that we belong to a nation, a history, a tradition.

The trouble with Moore is that the proliferation of his public monuments the world over, together with a critical accolade that put him in a league of untouchables, has caused a lot of people to think they are familiar with his work when, as a matter of fact, they are not.

«The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today,» at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, through November 1, moma.org This stunner, organized by MoMA photography curator Roxana Marcoci, may be the surprise star of the summer, assembling dozens of works that document other pieces, from Lee Friedlander's snapshots of public monuments to Robert Mapplethorpe's iconic portrait of the late Louise Bourgeois with a large sculptural phallus tucked under her arm.

Chesterwood in Stockbridge, MA is a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and was the summer home, studio and gardens of America's foremost sculptor of public monuments, Daniel Chester French.

Damnatio Memoriae is a tradition that dates back to the Roman Republic, based on older biblical practices in which unfavorable rulers were systematically erased from historical record and public discourse, often through the mutilation and transformation of public monuments.

Though Flack has become an artist with an impressive career as a representational painter, and later a sculptor of public monuments, her early experiments in abstract painting — like those of Pat Passlof, shown at Elizabeth Harris last year — mirror and impersonate the classic AbEx look.

For the documentary - style work titled Turbo Sculpture (2010 — 2013), Domanovic chronicles the history of a series of public monuments that sprung up across former Yugoslavia after its calamitous civil war (1991 — 2001).

In his previous works and projects, Bakhshi often looked at a role of a public monument as advertising for new ideas.

In the first group, the concept of the public monument is questioned.

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For Canadians the SkyDome became a monument to the inability of the public sector to deliver large scale infrastructure projects on time and on budget.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says the executive order President Trump will sign Wednesday won't jeopardize monuments or public lands for the purposes of developing oil, gas, coal, drilling.

A gleaming monument to the ambition and creativity of its age, the world's largest Victorian glasshouse re-opens to the public on May 5, 2018,...

Let's see, hmmm, even if I didn't have to pay for it or the cleaning of it with my tax dollars, I would object to any monument to any religion being placed in a public space that I pay to keep clear for my and others use.

But to the extent it is supposed to be a monument, it's a monument to the vision of its designer, not the remarkable public service of its subject.

Gorsuch also argued on behalf of public religious displays in dissenting opinions for cases involving Ten Commandments monuments and roadside crosses.

The KJV is a fine monument to what Ian Gordon P The Movement of English Prose calls «great public spoken prose.»

A national group called American Atheists is suing the museum to stop the display of the cross, arguing that a religious symbol has no place in a memorial that's backed by public funds and that is supposed to serve as a monument to victims of many different religions - and to those who had no religion at all.

This was a violation of something very sacred in the minds of the people; so it is little to be wondered at that soon after his own early death a reaction against the reform developed, and that finally his own name and the name of the god Aton, whose name he had incorporated in his own when he had it changed from Amen - hotep to Akhnaton, were likewise erased from public monuments.

Dozens of people testified at Public School 41 in the West Village last night in support of a proposal to create the first national monument to the gay rights movement, anchored by the Stonewall Inn and neighboring Christopher Park.

Senior House Natural Resources Committee Republicans sent their own letter Wednesday to National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis to ask him to «take steps as necessary to keep and not destroy documents related to the decision this week to restrict public access» to open - air memorials and monuments in the Washington area, including those honoring veterans of multiple wars, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.

The President did not mention where the monument would be erected in the memory of the soldier but there have been public suggestions that it should go to where he was killed — Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region.

They are boycotting to protest the mayor's 18 - member panel charged with identifying monuments on public grounds deemed «oppressive and inconsistent with the values of New York City.»

Soon enough, however,»... public monuments became a central means of rewriting history from the Confederate perspective -LSB-...]

The decision to reduce Bears Ears is expected to set off a legal battle that could alter the course of American land conservation, putting dozens of other monuments at risk and possibly opening millions of preserved public acres to oil and gas extraction, mining, logging and other commercial activities.

At 6 p.m., Rep. Jerry Nadler, U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell and Director of the National Park Service Jonathan Jarvis hold a public meeting on the Obama administration's proposal to make Stonewall Inn & Christopher Park a national monument, PS 41, 116 West 11th St., Manhattan.

About 50 members of Italian American groups protested de Blasio's controversial monument commission across the street from Columbus Circle outside of Central Park on Saturday, the day after the public got its first chance to weigh in at a Queens hearing.

A commission appointed by the mayor is examining whether controversial historical figures honored with monuments on public grounds are «oppressive and inconsistent with the values of New York City» — and subject to possible removal or alteration.

«The Oneida County Courthouse is not only a monument to the time in which it was built, a time when the spirit of grandeur was part of our public buildings, but it is also a major historical property in downtown Utica.

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But the monument was designated to protect the 33 groves of the largest trees on earth, allowing for removal of the trees only when there is a «clear need» for maintenance or public safety.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) is leading the charge to dismantle the state's sole national monument, arguing that the public has seen a reduction in access to the nearly 88,000 - acre site, largely made up of former working timberland.

«Apparently, the 2.7 million public comments submitted in favor of keeping these monuments were not enough to help Mr. Zinke make up his mind,» Cortez Masto said in a video released last month.

And I think that this combination of his public service in Washington — he advised, for example, presidents on developing [the] U.S. Park System, protecting U.S. national monuments.

There are a number of historical buildings, shopping streets, monuments, old churches and public fields.

The Monuments Project: Giving students as young as middle school opportunities to do the real work of historians — and provide meaningful public service in the process — is the idea behind the Monuments Project.

It was finally moved out of public view on Aug. 27 after both a federal district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, held that the monument was an endorsement of religion that...

Leader: Fitzhugh Brundage, William B. Umstead Distinguished Professor; Department Chair, History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NHC Fellow 1995 — 96 Teacher Leader: Kevin Levin, Civil War historian and former history teacher Confederate monuments are the most common form of monumental public art in the former states of the Confederacy.

There is a sharp contrast between the intense public debate that preceded President Obama's designation of the Bears Ears National Monument and President Clinton's stealth designation of the Grand Staircase - Escalante monument.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After - school religious clubs appear to be the next venture of a national group that sought to install a statue of Satan outside two state capitols to protest Christian monuments on public grounds.

With two Tony ® Award - winning theatres, museums, historic sites and monuments, music, public art, dance, film, galleries, missions and a multitude of other cultural offerings, San Diego is truly a world - class international cultural destination.

An open - air museum, the city has an ever - growing list of spectacular (and visitable) archaeological sites and monuments, gilded churches filled with paintings by Italy's top master artists, exquisitely sculpted fountains, and beautifully manicured public parks.

Princes Street Gardens, which is centrally located in Edinburgh, is a public park that provides excellent views of Edinburgh Castle and is home to many intriguing sites and monuments.

Tourism to the city is increasing given the city's relative proximity to Moscow on the main transport route, coupled with an attractive city centre, lovely parks and public squares, and multitude of theatres, cinemas, monuments and churches.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages the monument, has developed gateways in cooperation with other agencies along the California coast to introduce the monument to the public.

Student volunteers age 15 and up are organized into small groups to work at a variety of parks, monuments and other public lands across the country.

Photos of the monument which includes the main wall located on Venice Beach's Recreation and Parks and LAPD substation building and three public restroom exterior shower walls can be found at www.flickr.com/photos/venicevandal/sets/72057594139745013/.

If you plan on visiting a number of museums and monuments, I'd recommend getting the Lille City Pass which gives you access to the museums as well as a 1 hour city bus tour, a guided walking tour of the old town and all public transport.

It is distinguished by its square, public garden with a towering Roman column at its centre - the 41 foot tall Melville monument (built in memory of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville).

Many of these monuments have been restored now, and there have been discussions about opening them in limited fashion to the public.