Sentences with phrase «of the mainstream art»

He is particularly proud to note that he acquired works by critically celebrated artists before many of them began to receive national recognition and appear on the cover of mainstream art magazines, including Xaviera Simmons (Art Pulse, Spring 2012), Wangechi Mutu (Art in America, June 2007), Rashid Johnson (Modern Painters, April 2012), Radcliffe Bailey (Sculpture, June 2012) and Theaster Gates (Art in America, December 2011).

Useful as it may be, the project is typical of the mainstream art world's boutique approach to hands - on - politics, one that often ropes its beneficiaries into being art objects themselves, as live performers.

«Duchamp's famous «underground» pronouncement struck a chord with Chimes, whose interest in the writings of Antonin Artaud and Alfred Jarry had encouraged him to explore the margins of mainstream art and literature... As a consequence of this withdrawal from the contemporary art scene, Chimes began to investigate issues such as esotericism and mystification in metal boxes and paintings whose irrational and often willfully obscure imagery reveals his affinities with Surrealism.

Joanne Cubbs is an independent writer and curator who has become a leading expert in art produced beyond the boundaries of the mainstream art.

This is cause for concern only because it would seem that ethnicity and gender - specific exhibitions have not yet had a significant effect on the exhibiting or collecting practices of mainstream art institutions in the US.

Unlike those artists, however, Herrera flew beneath the radar of the mainstream art world.

Robson started acquiring pieces by self - taught artists in the 1980s when, according to Leslie Umberger, the museum's curator of folk and self - taught art, «few grasped the inherent value of work that was often made amid challenging circumstances and by those who lacked the agency of the mainstream art world.»

Long recognized as one of NOMA's most crucial collection strengths, the acquisition of new works by artists working outside of mainstream art contexts remains one of NOMA's top collections priorities.

That such dedication was directed outside of the mainstream art world also suggests that the way forward depends upon including and fostering relationships with new audiences.

Members of the Hairy Who and various Funk artists have caught the attention of the mainstream art world from time to time.

For the second iteration of People's Biennial, the curators asked 17 recognized artists or artist duos / collectives from around the United States to connect and collaborate with creative individuals who are known to them but not part of the mainstream art world.

The exhibition, curated by Ugochukwu - Smooth C. Nzewi, celebrated 12 contemporary artists from Africa who have carved out success in the often too - exclusive world of mainstream art.

This day - long conversation proposes a question in two parts: How can one contextualize and display art that exists outside the norms of the mainstream art world in an innovative manner, and how can structures of display transform into ongoing systems of support for artists?

Recognizing that many artists struggle to find venues for promoting their work, Clio Art Fair created a unique platform to highlight artists currently outside of the mainstream art world.

Many of the 36 artists in the exhibit are at the center of the mainstream art world and have academic backgrounds (Deborah Grant, David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Lauren Kelley, Rodney McMillian, Jacolby Satterwhite, Rudy Shepherd, Xaviera Simmons are likely the most familiar).

New exhibitions include: Everything you are I am not: Latin American contemporary art from the Tiroche DeLeon Collection, curated by Catherine Petitgas, presents more than 60 works of Latin American contemporary art that subverts the canons of mainstream art in Mana's 50,000 - square - foot Glass Gallery.

«Alice Neel, Uptown,» a survey of her paintings from the 1940s through the»70s, puts the accent on the artist's response to her milieu, which — at least until she started to become successful in the»60s — wasn't that of the mainstream art world, but rather of her neighbors and friends in upper Manhattan: first in Spanish Harlem, where she moved in 1938, and then, from 1962 onward, on the Upper West Side.

True to its original vocation to support the French art scene, the Fair will be juxtaposing the subjective, historical and critical perspective of a Curator, with a selection of specific projects focusing on artists in France who, both in the past and today, have managed to preserve their independence from dominant trends, or were situated on the margin of mainstream art history.

Rail: What has happened to the artists who didn't become household names, the ones who at least were known during a certain time, but then fell out of the mainstream art world?

Chicago imagists refused to be part of mainstream art in the 1960s, creating the Imagist movement

Her independent personality, physical isolation and stalwart adherence to her own ideas took Corse out of the mainstream art world for a while, but the Lehmann Maupin show represents a recent revival of interest in her work.

But it illuminates aspects of mainstream art that have long been hiding in the light, and it both makes and remakes history.

What some of the first trustees didn't realize was that the community knew that that kind of mainstream art, black or white, can be shown in museums all over the world.

«Clio Art Fair is a unique platform to highlight artists currently outside of the mainstream art world.

Not exact matches

- Despite the rise of mixed martial arts — and subsequent talk about the decline of boxing in mainstream culture — six boxers led their countries in earnings, and four of them made in excess of $ 20 million last year.

Danese has no dreams of scalability that might make art lending a competitor of mainstream finance.

Scholarly and articulate, engaged and engaging, Fuller is the author of twenty - two books (several of them lauded by mainstream periodicals), and a member of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

It is in fact the modern world's return to the mainstream of art.

The great mainstream of humankind's art has been nonrealistic, often abstract, usually expressionistic and deeply related to religion.

And Bohr is as aware as Whitehead that literature and art are the prime articulators of this mainstream.

But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

My friends and pioneered the art of Breast feeding back into the mainstream.

Few events do a better job of demonstrating mainstream Britain's baffled relationship with comics, which is now the subject of a major exhibition at the British library: Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK.

Russell said that for all of the attention mainstream sports such as football and hockey get when it comes to concussions, performing arts is a «hidden industry behind the scenes.»

Cognitive neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese of the University of Parma in Italy, who is also exploring how the brain responds to works of art, finds the new link between real and fictional worlds exciting, but is skeptical of the distinction between literary and mainstream fiction.

Once dominated by men who strived for superhero physiques, the art of weightlifting has gone mainstream over the past decade as both men and women are hitting the gym to lift heavy handweights and load their barbells.

With meditation fast becoming mainstream, the mission behind The Big Quiet is to deepen our real - time interactions with others and make meditation a part of our culture — much like music, art and food — fostering a sense of community and interconnectedness.

Thanks to the «sport's» move into the mainstream, the original Miss Pole Dance Australia now splits her time between judging world - class pole dance events, performing and teaching her art to women seeking access to their sexy side (with the fringe benefit of creating a killer body you'd be devastated to hide under clothes).

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About Blog Founded in 1962, Film Comment magazine features reviews and analysis of mainstream, art - house, and avant - garde filmmaking from around the world.

Just when we were ready to give up mainstream movies as braindead, along comes the controversial and gleefully subversive V for Vendetta, a piece of corporate - sponsored art that will have audiences rooting for a bomb - throwing anarchist.

Possibly the most stressful watch of 2017, or at least neck and neck with Dunkirk, it's an uncompromising art film that predictably turned mainstream audiences off when it was somehow released into 2,000 - plus theatres -LRB-!).

And based on the trailers released thus far, which showcase its marriage of art house and mainstream sensibilities, «Snowpiercer» is living up to its promise as one of the year's most intriguing movies.

With «The Kids Are All Right,» Lisa Cholodenko interestingly courted mainstream audiences, playing gender roulette with classic rom and bedroom - farce formats; the result was arguably her most well - rounded film, but still not as sensual or electric a study of lesbianism as her 1998 breakthrough «High Art.»

When: September 9th Why: Mixed martial arts may still be in its infancy, but the sport is growing faster than ever at the moment, and «Warrior» could be the thing that finally pushes it into the mainstream — especially since it's already being called the «Rocky» of MMA films.

A top - notch actress who managed to remain a complete unknown as far as the general moviegoing public was concerned (spending over a decade starring in numerous art - house flicks for ex-husband Nicolas Roeg probably had a lot to do with that), Theresa Russell enjoyed a soupçon of mainstream success when she co-starred in Twentieth Century Fox's production of Black Widow, an ever - so - modest box office hit ($ 25 million) back at the start of» 87.

After going from esoteric art house darling to Oscar - winning mainstream mogul without losing his soul, it was probably inevitable that Steven Soderbergh would eventually make an industry farce — and «Full Frontal» is the consummate ironic marriage of his two worlds.

Way back in 1986, out of Reagan - era conservatism where drugs, crime and gang warfare reigned over South Central L.A. and adjacent areas sprang a group that forever changed the face of music — N.W.A. Eazy - E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, DJ Yella, and MC Ren cranked out hit after hit, taking an underground art form mainstream.

Our philosophy of cinema remains the same: to stay outside the mainstream system of distribution and promotion that rules public film culture, and to champion what is innovative, challenging, personal and under - recognised in the art of cinema.

represented thousands of billable hours of therapy, converted into mainstream art that played in multiplexes.