Sentences with phrase «paint scandal in»

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Examples from the last few years include the subprime mortgage crisis; the failure of the Peanut Corporation of America; the 2007 pet food scandal; lead paint on children's toys in 2007; melamine - laced Chinese milk products; contaminants in the drug Heparin; and dioxin - contaminated Irish pork.

And when Housing Authority chair Shola Olatoye was facing calls to resign over a lead - paint scandal, de Blasio said, «I continue to have great faith in her.»

The embattled chairwoman of the New York City Housing Authority — buffeted by scandals over untested lead paint, false testimony and thousands of residents without heat in the winter cold — testified for nearly five hours before the City Council on Tuesday and did not heed calls by the chamber's leader to apologize.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday replaced the No. 2 official at the New York City Housing Authority, who was implicated in the lead paint scandal.

The Trump administration is curbing New York City's ability to spend money on major repairs to its public housing stock in its first major response to deteriorating conditions in the city's public housing and a scandal over false paperwork the city submitted about lead paint inspections.

Cuomo has been railing in recent weeks against NYCHA's mounting woes under de Blasio's leadership, including defective boilers that kept residents shivering through winter, mold and a scandal over false claims of lead - paint inspections.

Those include a lead paint scandal at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the city's involvement in a discussion about whether to lift a deed restriction on a nonprofit AIDS hospice, the Administration for Children's Services» (ACS) mishandling child neglect cases, and former Department of Correction (DOC) Commissioner Joseph Ponte and other agency brass using city vehicles for personal trips.

Lawyers for Bridget Anne Kelly, the former Christie aide accused of scheming to snarl traffic in the Bridgegate scandal as political payback, want to paint a picture of her for jurors as a hard - working single mom being hung out to dry by the former Port Authority exec who actually masterminded the plot.

Shola Olatoye, the chair and CEO of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), talks to In Focus Host Cheryl Wills about the housing authority not conducting lead paint inspections for years, and the scandal over Olatoye falsely submitting paperwork that NYCHA had conducted inspections.

«Concerning Nussle, he has yet to be implicated in any scandal and it appears to me it is political hack job to paint him in the same light...»

In response to the devolving condition of New York's public housing and the recent lead paint inspection scandal, the federal government is taking a firm stance.

The tabloids: The appearance of all - but - nude body - painted babes in sanitized Times Square — once home to strictly family friendly characters like anti-Semitic Elmos and cop - punching Spider - Men — gave editors of the city's scandal sheets the opportunity to plaster their pages with sexy pics and indignant headlines, engaging in what one Observer contributor described as the unbeatable paper - selling combo of «simultaneous shaming and titillating.»

Other striking male performances were provided by: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Alec Baldwin and Anthony Anderson in The Departed; Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Toby Jones in The Painted Veil; Wim Willaert in When the Sea Rises; Leslie Phillips and Richard Griffiths in Venus; Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Inside Man; Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase and Shido Nakamura in Letters from Iwo Jima; Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin and Paul Dano in Little Miss Sunshine; Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Rufus Sewell in The Illusionist; Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman and Ty Simpkins in Little Children; Keanu Reeves, Christopher Plummer and Dylan Walsh in The Lake House; Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena and Stephen Dorff in World Trade Center; Tim Blake Nelson, Pat Corley, Jeffrey Donovan, Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson in Come Early Morning; Ryan Gosling and Anthony Mackie in Half Nelson; Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, and Danny Huston in Marie Antoinette; Matt Damon, Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Keir Dullea, Timothy Hutton, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Ivanir and Joe Pesci in The Good Shepherd; Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones and Ben Foster in X-Men: The Last Stand; Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Simon Abkarian, Sebastien Foucan, Jesper Christensen and Tobias Menzies in Casino Royale; Ebru Ceylan and Mehmet Eryilmaz in Climates; Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Bob Hoskins in Hollywoodland; Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover, Keith Robinson and Hinton Battle in Dreamgirls; Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Trevor Fehrman, Kevin Smith and Jason Lee in Clerks II; Justin Kirk and Jamie Harrold in Flannel Pajamas; Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker and Adrian Grenier in The Devil Wears Prada; Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hulce in Stranger Than Fiction; Samuel L. Jackson, Curtis Jackson, Chad Michael Murray, Sam Jones III and Brian Presley in Home of the Brave; Harris Yulin, Ty Burrell and Boris McGiver in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel David Moore and Nick Swardson in Art School Confidential; Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes and Alec Baldwin in Running with Scissors; Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Ciarán Hinds, Justin Theroux, Barry Shabaka Henley, Luis Tosar and John Ortiz in Miami Vice; Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam and Tim McMullan in The Queen; Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie, Marlon Sherman and Clarke Peters in Freedomland; Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Linus Roache, Alex Rocco, Ron Silver and Raul Esparza in Find Me Guilty; Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley in Lucky Number Slevin; Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Chris Klein, Shohreh Aghdashloo, John Cho, Tony Yalda, Sam Golzari and Willem Dafoe in American Dreamz; Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochrane in A Scanner Darkly; Adam Beach, Ryan A. Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, John Benjamin Hickey, Jon Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker and Robert Patrick in Flags of Our Fathers; Chow Yun - Fat in Curse of the Golden Flower; Sergi López, Doug Jones, Álex Angulo and Federico Luppi in Pan's Labyrinth; Bill Nighy in Notes on a Scandal.

«Black Mass» expertly details the twists and turns of this highly complex story, painting a vivid portrait of Boston's underbelly and its corrupt political machine, as well as exposing the worst scandal in FBI history.

Julie B. Montgomery has had her paintings featured on Mad Men, Glee and Scandal, and throughout the U.S. and Europe — come see her work and meet the artist at MichaelKate Interiors & Art Gallery in Santa Barbara's Funk Zone.

The strange violence that has been exerted on the canvas, and therefore to the Nurse of Greenmeadow herself, with paint dripping down the surface, recalls the shock and scandal with which de Kooning's celebrated paintings of women were received in the late 1940s and early 1950s, puncturing the myth of the woman in art.

The latter section also somehow incorporates reflections on the fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga, memories of the Watergate scandal, details of trips to Italy and France, and a precise critical discussion of illusionism and colour in mid-century painting.

[49] In 1907, as Picasso was painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Oskar Kokoschka was writing Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen (Murderer, Hope of Women), the first Expressionist play (produced with scandal in 1909), and Arnold Schoenberg was composing his String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp minor (1908), his first composition without a tonal centrIn 1907, as Picasso was painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Oskar Kokoschka was writing Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen (Murderer, Hope of Women), the first Expressionist play (produced with scandal in 1909), and Arnold Schoenberg was composing his String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp minor (1908), his first composition without a tonal centrin 1909), and Arnold Schoenberg was composing his String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp minor (1908), his first composition without a tonal centrin F sharp minor (1908), his first composition without a tonal centre.

In the November 2008 issue of W Magazine, a 26 - year - old Nina Chanel Abney explained to Haven Thompson how celebrity scandals inspire some of her vibrant, often brazen paintings that at once suggest Francis Bacon, David Hockney, and contemporary street murals.

His poetic, provocative, and at times humorous paintings — from landscape and nature to politics and history — fearlessly address issues that resonate today such as the rights of openly gay men and women to serve in the military, the aesthetics of gay subcultures, and the rampant scandals that mar our political landscape.

Following the scandal surrounding this painting, Bernard Goldberg ranked Ofili No. 86 in 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America.

When Chris Ofili painted a Madonna in pushpins and elephant poop, did he deserve the scandal?

The artist who painted the portrait of Bill Clinton that hangs in Washington's National Portrait Gallery says he painted a shadow of the Monica Lewinsky scandal onto the canvas.

In 1970, the first exhibition of these paintings outfitted with an anarchistic sense of humor and the grotesque caused an art scandal in New York, as numerous critics took offense at his «betrayal» of abstract arIn 1970, the first exhibition of these paintings outfitted with an anarchistic sense of humor and the grotesque caused an art scandal in New York, as numerous critics took offense at his «betrayal» of abstract arin New York, as numerous critics took offense at his «betrayal» of abstract art.

He is best known for canvases painted in a purposefully naïve and confrontational style, which caused quite a scandal when he first began to exhibit them just after World War World War Two.

But an exhibition that purports to reflect the representational impulse in postwar painting and excludes the extraordinary work of Louisa Matthiasdottir while including the gimmicky work of Peter Heinemann is nothing short of a scandal.

Georg Baselitz was the cause of much disapproval and a great many scandals during his studies: after only two terms he was expelled from the academy in East Berlin on the grounds of «socio - political immaturity» and his first solo exhibition in West Berlin at the Werner & Katz Gallery was a scandal, two of his exhibited paintings having been confiscated by the public prosecutor's office.

While in Paris, he immersed himself in the paintings of Cezanne (1839 - 1906), and attended the salon of Leo and Gertrude Stein, where he met modern artists from the Ecole de Paris (Paris School), including Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), the Cubist theorist Juan Gris (1887 - 1927), and Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) whose Cubist painting Nude Descending Staircase (1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art) caused such a scandal at the 1913 Armory Show in New York.

Christopher Wylie, whose allegations blew open the scandal involving the Donald Trump presidential campaign and the official Brexit campaign, painted a picture of a company involved in illegal activity around the globe as he addressed a British parliamentary committee on Tuesday.