Sentences with phrase «pointed cultural critique»
Our reviewer writes, «Along with his pointed cultural critique are stark, electrifying pieces like «Ode to a Drone» and inventive, playful poems like his celebratory ode to grammar in the sly «His Love of Semicolons» («The comma is comely, the period, peerless, / but stack them one atop / the other, and I am in love»).
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These new works take historical paintings and Internet culture as their point of departure and utilize paint and digitally manipulated printed images to create hybridized portraits suffused with cultural and societal critiques.
Trying to critique a blockbuster museum show like «Picasso and Chicago» at the Art Institute of Chicago is kind of like trying to offer thoughtful criticism of Coca - Cola; at this point, there's not much that can be said that would enhance or diminish the iconic status of either of these monolithic cultural forces.
For her solo show she has created large format paintings and sculptures using the foundation's main gallery as her studio this summer: these new works take historical paintings and internet culture as their point of departure and utilize paint and digitally manipulated printed images to create hybridized portraits suffused with cultural and societal critiques.
Just as we come from across national, cultural, material and conceptual boundaries our student body includes recent graduates, mid-career artists, writers, teachers and thinkers who come to Transart Institute to expand their points of view and invigorate their practice by participating in intensive immersive residencies including workshops and seminars, presentation and critique, peer dialogue and debate and becoming part of an international artistic research community.
Neshat, whose work critiques the cultural construction of difference, fully turns her attention to American culture for the first time in this show and depicts the ambiguity of feeling for an outsider through enigmatic images, haunting encounters and mystified points of view in her film and photography.