Sentences with phrase «performance piece about»

Decorative Movement The Uncollective Site - responsive performance piece about queer bodies and decoration in architecture.

The ensuing «Art War» between the two artists over colour became a conceptual performance piece about acceibility, eletism and community.

Milford Thomas, $ 500 for the Miss Dockery Project, a performance piece about Octavia Dockery, the 1930s Mississippi writer.

One a performance piece about food labor on Thursday, September 22, and the other an interactive exhibit where museum patrons are encouraged crack nuts with nude female mannequin legs.

Although a lot of specs are still a mystery until the SRT Demon hits the streets, we thought it's time to write up a performance piece about this muscle car monster.

She's currently (always) working on a novel, called Step on a Crack, and on Overflow, a one - woman performance piece about lingerie and breast cancer.

Not exact matches

However, one piece of professional advice he offered is, importantly, to avoid any discussions about investment performance in their blogs and online approaches.

It may have only been the second game of pre-season for Arsenal and although there was a piece of silverware on offer, you would say that this final against Everton was more about preparation for the serious business to come, it was very good to see the Gunners put on a very good performance.

Steve: As I said, I've promised we have something for the dog people out there, and we have a short article in the front of the magazine, where we have the news pieces, about the amazing physical capabilities of high performance sled dogs.

The California Academy of Science has reached out to them about a public event and Stanford has expressed interest in having a chamber music group do a live performance of the piece.

De Niro's performance begins to seem more a matter of well - practiced gestures than real conviction, and the long, silly finale more an exercise in empty panache by director Tony Scott than a truly gripping suspense piece involving people we care about.

It showcases a career best performance (Ed Norton in that movie) in a character piece that isn't so much about a personal journey as it is a grand statement about a specific social problem that will continue to thrive with no end in sight.

Nicole Kidman stars in this adaptation about adult siblings who help their parents pull off one final performance art piece.

Felicity Jones, who picks up the Best Female Newcomer award for LIKE CRAZY, is similarly absent; however, Tom Hiddleston is awarded the Best Male Newcomer award for his performance in THOR, and naturally he's chuffed to pieces about it.

Winner: Alicia Vikander, «The Danish Girl» Should win: Jennifer Jason Leigh, «The Hateful Eight» Upset player: Kate Winslet, «Steve Jobs» Nightmare win: Rachel McAdams, «Spotlight» (love her but she's not even the fourth best performance in the movie) Lowdown: The pundits have been fishing for a category that might provide an upset and if the Best Picture race wasn't so tight there would be more think pieces about this race than you can shake a stick at.

But The Big Lebowski isn't about plot, it's about the individual pieces of the film, The Dude's bathrobe, John Turturro's wonderful performance as Jesus Quintana, and the way the White Russians gleam on screen.

Anchored by astonishing performances and the singular vision of filmmaker Barry Jenkins, Moonlight is a groundbreaking exploration of male masculinity — a sensual, intoxicating piece of cinema that uncovers deep truths about the moments that define us, the people who shape us most, and the ache of love that can last a lifetime.

Wheatley beautifully blends the freaky sound design and unsettling atmosphere of his previous picture to a comedic sensibility that owes a little something to Julia Davis («Nighty Night «-RRB- and Mike Leigh, but the real genius of the piece comes in the way that Lowe and Oram's script (and the hopefully - star - making performances from the duo) is really a trojan horse; underneath the glam - free «Natural Born Killers» overtones, it's a beautifully observed drama about a dissolving relationship — a blood - spattered «Blue Valentine,» if you will.

But while there's no denying that its message resonates even more in light of the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and Staten Island, hopefully those parallels won't end up overshadowing the movie itself, because although it's not quite as sobering as last year's Oscar - winning «12 Years a Slave,» «Selma» is a deftly made drama about an important piece of American history that's guaranteed to be a major awards contender, largely due to the outstanding lead performance from David Oyelowo.

With a sure thing in Keaton, and bolstered by another perfect performance by Jack Nicholson (Anger Management, About Schmidt), in a script deliberately written with both of them in mind, Something's Got ta Give is an impressive personality driven piece that is easy to like, mostly because we like the stars enough to forgive the heavy contrivances that necessitate the traditional romantic comedy mold.

Those pieces look at the source novel and its adaptation, cast and performances, costumes and props, visual design, editing, and general thoughts about the flick.

• The Cut «I'm rooting for the Lannisters» fun piece on Game of Thrones (which I still read about on occasion even though I haven't watched since season 2) • / Film Guillermo del Toro's official tequila looks like it's from one of his movies • Vulture every Charlize Theron performance ranked.

The Invisible Woman Strong performances and tasteful, intelligent direction highlight this well - made period piece, about the enduring romance between married Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes, who also directed) and 18 - year - old actress Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones).

For example, a performance task in writing would require students to produce a piece of writing rather than answering multiple - choice questions about grammar or the structure of a paragraph.

It's also true that I have been conducting experiments on how the performing arts affect students, including this piece on a musical performance, and a forthcoming piece in Education Next about an experiment in which students were assigned by lottery to see Hamlet and A Christmas Carol or to serve in the control to identify what students learn from seeing live theater.

Meanwhile, in declaring that «Schools should teach about the French Revolution, not have their parents act it out», Rotherham reinforces a conceit found far too often found among Beltway reformers (and, as evidenced from Teach For America President Wendy Kopp's thoughtless piece on releasing teacher performance data, even among some operator - oriented reformers): That families — especially those from poor and minority backgrounds — just aren't equipped to make smart decisions when it comes to school operations.

In this commentary piece she lays out why the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBAC) testing system fails to provide accurate and useable information about student performance, why it should not be used as part of an effective teacher evaluation system and why Connecticut's elected officials should defund the SBAC testing madness and use those funds to help address Connecticut's budget crisis.

Information about teaching performance was assembled in discrete pieces of data and there was never a big picture approach toward the first - year student's development over time and from multiple lenses.

+1 - Washer pumps aren't exactly low tolerance high performance pieces of kit - I'd certainly not worry about frozen washer fluid from this point of view.

But the parts we remain excited about to this day are the intake manifolds, valvetrain pieces, and headers that made Dodges and Plymouths so predatory on street and strip, establishing Mopar as synonymous with Chrysler performance.

Our performance was nothing impressive, mind you: watching Tomahawk X's wild active aero pieces flail about organically distracted us enough to miss all the braking points at virtual Laguna Seca.

In almost all comparison tests between the BMW i8 and the Porsche 911, the conclusion was clear: the BMW i8 is a piece of art, if we speak about hybrid technology and all things around it, but can not compete against the 911 in terms of performance.

But when I was in junior high or high school, I read about this guy who had someone shoot him for a performance piece, for an art piece!

The Desire is yet another fine piece of work from HTC — build quality is top notch as usual, and there's little to complain about the software except for the Flash performance.

Hence this short piece rather than a full review to warn people about the PC versions performance problems.

Bayonetta 2 is not «about» finishing the story or being blown away by the set - pieces, visually astounding as the latter often are — it's about becoming better at playing to the extent that combat becomes almost a performance.

Not only do you put in a lot of emotional and mental effort thinking up and creating individual pieces and performances, but then you have to spend time figuring out how to get the word out about your work and how to sell it.

«I never met Mac Low, but I've heard about him over the years from his poet friends Charles Bernstein and Kenneth Goldsmith, as well as from publisher Steve Clay, whose Granary Books produced the so - far definitive book of his work, Doings: Assorted Performance Pieces 1955 — 2002.

This is an interview with the artist Joan Jonas, who talks about her performance piece Mirror Check, which she showed...

Stuart Comer, the museum's chief curator of media and performance art, described the piece as «a watershed transition in her work, about activating a social and political space for the viewer.»

This is an interview with the artist Joan Jonas, who talks about her performance piece Mirror Check, which she showed at 14 Rooms, the Live Art exhibition during Art Basel, organized by Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel, and Theater Basel.

What about the contradiction in trashing art as a performance piece that has now lasted well over a decade?

The resulting print records a twenty - two - foot tread mark, about three revolutions of the wheel.2 In the decades since its creation, Automobile Tire Print has been interpreted as a monoprint, a drawing, a performance, a process piece, and a primary example of Rauschenberg's use of indexical marks.

In this conversation with Dr. Bettina Krogemann, Jamie Isenstein talks about this performance / sculpture piece and her work in general.

LHL: They were combinations of things I did before, like performance (Roberta), hotel rooms (Dante), site specific pieces, but they combined time and interactivity and took into account a «user» (a term I invented then) and created a dialogue about choice change, and the politics of dialogue.

In this video, the choreographer of the performance talks about the ideas behind his choreography: how he approached the project, the differences between this and previous performances, how he developed the two characters and what the specific characters of the two characters are, and what personally interests him in this piece by Jean Dubuffet.

Known for extravagant and baroque site - specific work, the Bartram's piece is McDonald's most pared - down work to date, and the clear, compact book reflects a new sort of logic with its juxtapositions of raking photographic documentary from the performance with chapters of floss embroideries containing a minimal, unfolding narrative about loss and the evolution of the species.

Used in sculptural pieces, room - sized environments, drawings and paintings, performance, artist sketchbooks, LED sample models and documentary film, Miyajima's electronic counter gadgets draw together a single conversation about the nature of time, renewal and questions of mortality.

The answer pivots on how the pieces say something about the connection between live performance and painting.

In this excerpt from Phaidon's «The Artist's Body,» Carolee Schneeman speaks about the inspiration for her iconic performance piece, «Interior Scroll.»