Sentences with phrase «plays about modern art»

To open the Westport Country Playhouse's 86th season, Mark Lamos had the artful concept of presenting a gallery of plays about modern art and the people who appreciate it.

Not exact matches

It's not often that theater and modern art collide on stage, but the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall will be offering a melding of the two with a production of «Red,» John Logan's play about the artist Mark Rothko and his struggles with one particular commission.

Symposium subjects included, among other things, discussions of Alfred Stieglitz as a major proponent and supporter of early American Modernism, the ways in which art critic Clement Greenburg's definition of Modernism shaped thinking about this issue for generations yet was exclusive to issues of race, gender and politics, the role of photography figured prominently into the dissemination of the term «modern,» and the many ways photography has played a major role in shaping the history of Modernism in America.

In her first UK exhibition at Modern Art Oxford that opens this weekend, she creates a theatrical environment in which performers interact with everyday objects and sculptures, while in another gallery an actor plays the part of a professor, lecturing about the nature of storytelling.

Armed with this background (though not unwilling to play along with the Yanquis» desire to see him as an embodiment of Indian folk traditions), Tamayo set about visiting all the museums in New York and gorging on classic European and modern art.

Art & Stupidity, Focal Point Gallery, Southend - on - Sea, UK I speak, knowing it's not about speaking, Caixaforum, Barcelona, ES British Art Show 8, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK THE DREAM OF MODERN LIVING: Contemporary Artists Explore Ikea, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington, UK CRU - Comida Transformacao e Arte, CCBB - Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Brasília, Brasília, BR Open City Festival, Lublin, PL Ryan Gander and A.FOUR present Brand Evalgelism and The universe as I knew it aged 5, collapsed and expanded several times or more (Reflector), Wild West Space, Maastricht, NL Adventures in Bronze, Clay & Stone, Arezzo Biennale Arts Festival, Arezzo, IT Art as a Verb, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, AU Let's start playing the game, Onomatopee Eindhoven, NL When I Give, I Give Myself, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL Transparenzen, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, DE 2014 I would like to Join a Club and Hit Myself with It, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK The Peace One Day Project for 2014, ICA, London, UK L'Avenir / Looking Forward, La Biennale de Montréal, CA Art as a Verb, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, AU Blue Times, Kunsthalle Wien, AT The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Will Happiness Find Me?

Kathy Halbreich, director of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, writes about the range of influences he absorbed: «From his early drawings rooted in a European Surrealist tradition to his monumental abstract canvases, Motherwell's visual language synthesizes a veritable history of modern painting, reflecting ties to Picasso's early collages, Matisse's color - rich paintings, and the development of American Abstract Expressionism in which he played such a pivotal role».

Throughout the 1930s she wrote about and taught art - the latter in both Dublin and Cork - playing an important role in the history of Irish painting, as an early proponent of abstraction in art and as a champion of the modern movement.