Sentences with phrase «of the renaissance society»

Officials also presented Golden Lions that were announced last month, to artist El Anatsui and curator Susanne Ghez, the former long - serving director of the Renaissance Society in Chicago.

Solveig Øvstebø Solveig Øvstebø is Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA, which celebrates its centenary this year.

Your upcoming exhibition is framed as «working within the parameters set forth by the structure and progression of Palermo's installation...» How did you and Øvstebø navigate working within Palermo's parameters in the context of the Renaissance Society's distinct space?

How much has the physicality of the Renaissance Society influenced or altered the curatorial layout?

SO: For this particular project, the installation had less to do with relating to the specific architecture of the Renaissance Society.

This week: From our residency at Expo Chicago 2013 we talk to the new (as of June 2013) Director of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Solveig Ovstebo.

Included in the show REPRESENTATIVE WORKS BY CHICAGO ARTISTS 1947 with David Bekker, Aaron Bohrod, Richard A. Florsheim, Todros Geller, June Ives, Max Kahn, László Moholy - Nagy, Harry Mintz, William S. Schwartz, Kenneth Shopen, Frank Vavruska, Nicola Ziroli, Rudolph Weisenborn, Laszlo Moholy - Nagy and others included as a part of the regular program of The Renaissance Society.

Courtesy of The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.

As Director of The Renaissance Society, Ghez has curated over 150 exhibitions and edited various publications in conjunction with these exhibitions.

Since 1974, Susanne Ghez has been the Director of The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, one of the oldest, most renowned, and innovative contemporary art museums in the United States.

More than a dozen anonymous nominators participated, along with the following jurors: Susanne Ghez, director of the Renaissance Society; Lane Relyea, art critic and professor at Northwestern University; Lisa Dorin, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago; Carol Ehlers, independant curator; and Nick Cave, artist and past winner of the individual artist award.

In Chicago, events included a tour of the Renaissance Society with then exhibiting artist William L. Pope, followed by tours of Theaster Gates» Dorchester Projects, Aspect Ratio with Jefferson Godard, threewalls with Lauren Basing, Johalla Projects with Anna Cerniglia, Spudnik Press with Angee Lennard, and Comfort Station with Jessie Devereaux and Jordan Martins.

Ghez is celebrating her 40th anniversary as Director of The Renaissance Society this year.

«We wanted it to be a new commission,» she said, «a comprehensive new installation related specifically to the space of the Renaissance Society.»

Join us on Saturday, January 12 for an opening reception and artist conversation with curators Naomi Beckwith of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Hamza Walker of the Renaissance Society, artists Dawoud Bey and Theaster Gates, Tang Museum director Ian Berry, and Northwestern art history professor Huey Copeland.

According to the show's curators, Aram Moshayedi of the Hammer and Hamza Walker of the Renaissance Society in Chicago, this focus on the creative value of expatriates or immigrants was not intentional but natural, given the cosmopolitan nature of Los Angeles.

Teen Paranormal Romance Installation View, 2014 Courtesy of The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago

A jury of five arts professionals selected the recipients of the award and included Susanne Ghez, director of the Renaissance Society; Lane Relyea, professor at Northwestern University; Lisa Dorin, assistant curator of contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago; Carol Ehlers, independent curator; and Nick Cave, artist and past winner of this award.

R. H. Quaytman, Passing Through the Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, 2012, acrylic, tempera, gesso on wood, 32 3/8 x 32 3/8 inches; Courtesy of the Renaissance Society.

The Hammer Museum announced Thursday that its next biennial art show, Made in L.A. 2016, will be co-curated by Hamza Walker of the Renaissance Society in Chicago and the Hammer's own Aram Moshayedi.

The Hammer's Aram Moshayedi, left, will co-curate the museum's 2016 biennial along with Hamza Walker of the Renaissance Society, a non-collecting museum on the campus of the University of Chicago.

Not exact matches

So we see that a renaissance of marriage and family life based on natural law has taken place once already in Britain, serving the good of society and upholding the absolute sacredness of human life from the moment of conception to natural death.

After studying a series of Western societies from ancient Greece and Iran through the history of Israel, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and on into the twentieth centuries, Polak concludes that the most important single factor involved in the generation of change is the image of the future held by a given group.

The question of society's need for religion came to the fore again during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.

Rather it is a reconnaissance — perhaps too a renaissance — a rediscovery of» the role of the church in society with a particular and urgent emphasis on the cure of souls.

To this end St Philip worked hard to invent diversions which would keep his charges occupied, especially at what he considered the most dangerous times — the long sultry Roman afternoons, and the period of the pre-Lenten carnival, when Renaissance society gave itself up to a distinctly un-Christian preparation for Lent (and if anyone doubts that Sixteenth Century Rome could be fully as immoral as our own times, let him read the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, a great artist, but far from a good man).

The Renaissance was the expression of the spirit of the lay world which, in the towns and cities, had first emerged as a new and partly foreign element in the structure of medieval Christian society.

In Othello Shakespeare develops the ambiguous status of the dark - skinned African in Renaissance European society.

This is also necessary in order to free all those positive and productive energies that are currently idle in the society — not least because of the crisis — and which could significantly contribute to a new «European Renaissance».

A Ba'athist society seeks enlightenment, renaissance of Arab culture, values and society.

Commercial fishing and the growth of sea power reinforced globalization in Renaissance Europe, William Hutchinson of the University of Hull in England and colleagues write September 9 in Royal Society Open Science.

Editor - in - Chief of Volume 31; Elected to Council of Gordon Research Conferences, 1984 - 1987; College of Natural Sciences Award for Teaching Excellence, 1984; Appointed to the Editorial Board of Polyhedron, 1984 - 1998; Mobay Lecturer, University of New Hampshire, 1985; Karcher Lecturer, University of Oklahoma, 1985; Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1986 - 1991; Elected Councilor, American Chemical Society, Division of Inorganic Chemistry, 1986 - 1989; Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 1987 -; Appointed to the American Chemical Society Committee on Divisional Activities, 1987 - 1989; Reilly Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, 1987; Appointed to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Chemical Sciences Review Panel, 1987 - 1990; Appointed to the Editorial Board of Organometallics, 1988 - 1991; Appointed to the Editorial Board of Progress in Inorganic Chemistry, 1988 -; Appointed to the Editorial Board of Heteroatom Chemistry, 1988 - 1996; Elected to the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences, 1989 - 1998; Appointed to the Editorial Board of Advances in Inorganic Chemistry, 1989 -; Irvine Lecturer, St. Andrews University, Scotland, 1989; Fischel Lecturer, Vanderbilt University, 1991; Frontiers of Science Lecturer, Wayne State University, 1991; Appointed by Governor Richards of Texas to the Executive Board of Texas Science and Mathematics Renaissance Centers, 1991 - 93; Baxter Lecturer, Northern Illinois University, 1992; Appointed to the Scientific Committee of the European Journal of Solid State and Inorganic Chemistry, 1992 - 8.

«During nearly 5,000 years of recorded history, female achievers have been on hand, making the world a more interesting place, often outraging their societies in the process,» says author Vicki Leon in the introduction to her book, Outrageous Women of the Renaissance.

Thirty seven pieces of art from the Samuel H. Kress and European Art Collections at the Allentown Art Museum are used to take students into the past to explore the art, thought, and society of the Renaissance period in Europe.

More than 45 PROSE Awards, including the top prize, the R.R. Hawkins Award, were presented February 3, 2011 at a special awards luncheon during the PSP Annual Conference at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Award winners included Elsevier, the American Psychological Association, Oxford University Press, John Wiley & Sons, University of Texas Press, Getty Publications, and the American Chemical Society.

We are at a point in time when what most would benefit society is a renaissance of culture.

It is just incredible to think of the audacity of naming a program «Renaissance 2010» and then ignoring the richness of the lessons from the great European Renaissance it refers to: that the ARTS, Languages, History, Social Knowledge, as well as Science and Math were all important and crucial to a well - educated person who would then contribute to the good of a greater society.

The lovingly restored Ladies Smoking Room at the St. Pancras Renaissance puts on receptions worthy of Victorian high society

The 2016 edition of the Hammer Museum's biennial, «Made in L.A.,» will be organized by Aram Moshayedi, a curator at the museum, and Hamza Walker, the director of education and associate curator at the Renaissance Society in Chicago.This marks the... Read More

Prior to joining LAXART, Walker served as associate curator and director of education at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and cocurated (with Aram Moshayedi) the 2016 edition of the Hammer Museum's «Made in LA.»

A catalogue raisonné of the artist's paintings made between 1980 and 1999 was published last year as an accompaniment to a traveling retrospective, currently on view at the Renaissance Society in Chicago.

Teen Paranormal Romance was first presented from March 9 — April 13, 2014 at The Renaissance Society, an independent, non-collecting museum of contemporary art located on the campus of the University of Chicago.

Persona, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, IL (cat.)

A two volume exhibition catalogue documents both exhibitions and features contributions by Hamza Walker, LAXART Executive Director and former Director of Education and Associate Curator at the Renaissance Society, and Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum of Art.

During his lifetime, Felix Gonzalez - Torres (1957 - 1996) was the subject of several important museum exhibitions, including Felix Gonzalez - Torres: Traveling (1994) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, and a retrospective organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1995), which traveled to the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, and ARC - Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

The Silent Echo Chamber has been exhibited at the Susan Inglett Gallery in New York, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, CT, and The Renaissance Society in Chicago, IL.

The concept of a point of view, a perspective, an act of framing on account of the viewer is as evident in Camera as it is in the Window sculptures presented in the solo show at Frankfurt's Portikus in 1992 — a traveling exhibition with other stations in various places, among them the Renaissance Society in Chicago — with the evocatively shimmering and metaphorical title «Everyone needs at least one window.»

Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only is organized by Hammer curator Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker, director of education and associate curator, Renaissance Society, with January Parkos Arnall, curatorial assistant, Public Engagement and MacKenzie Stevens, curatorial assistant.

His work has been featured prominently in biennials including the 12th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates (2015) and the 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York; as well as in many group exhibitions including at the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (2016 and 2005); the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the Contemporary Art Museum Houston (both 2014); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012 and 2006); Project Row Houses, Houston (2010); and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and Artpace, San Antonio (both 2008).

APPOINTMENT On Dec. 18, Hammer Museum names Hamza Walker, director of Education and associate curator for the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, co-curator of «Made in L.A. 2016.»