Sentences with phrase «present cultural moment»

The fair, which is organized by the cultural production company, Candlestar, is doing an admirable job of honoring the city's photography history while simultaneously appreciating the present cultural moment, a notion best examined through one of the five commissioned exhibits on display.

We withhold a third cheer — partly because at the present cultural moment it seems inappropriate to give three full cheers for anyone or anything, partly because we remember too well recent history's oppressive misuses of Thomas's thought.

Not exact matches

The film spans 15 years and traces important cultural moments from the singer's perspective, starting in 1999 and ending in the present day.

If this all sounds a little oblique, Kates presents a dizzying whirlwind of visuals, which not only illustrate the argument, but also make the intellectual babble seem terribly exciting — re-creating a cultural moment when ideas still mattered and an aesthetic revolution was there for the taking.

In our current cultural and political moment, independent storytelling is vital: to help make meaning and present a layered, complex interpretation of truth.»

The artist conceived and re-conceived the exhibition in his Los Angeles studio, eventually presenting paintings, sculptures and video the reflect his individual voice, collapse the division between artist and ordinary people, and emphasize his belief in the social and cultural influence of art, particularly in this historic, political moment.

From Neolithic hand axes, through William Morris, John Ruskin and the socialist movement, to David Bowie's 1972 Ziggy Stardust UK tour, 21st Century capitalism and the invasion of Iraq, the exhibition weaves a mythical narrative through moments and events from Britain's shared cultural memory, moving back and forth between the past, present and an imagined future.

Recent exhibitions and publications include New American Paintings, issue 107; the LA Art Show 2018, Los Angeles, CA; Present Standard, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; Transient Visitant (with Marimba, Clarinets, Body and Chair), Truman State University, Kirksville, MO; performance piece in collaboration with composer Victor Marquez - Barrios; Mutual Dealings, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago; The Moments Between: New Work by Rafael E. Vera, Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, Chicago; Pillow Talk: New Sculptures by Rafael E. Vera, Seerveld Gallery, Palos Heights, IL; Nothing Concrete, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago; and the 23rd Evanston and Vicinity Biennial, Evanston, IL.

Organized by Sharon L. Kennedy, curator of cultural and civic engagement, and Brandon K. Ruud, curator of transnational American art, the exhibition presents major figures and events — along with some overlooked moments and people — from the past.

There have always been the kinds of artists who present themselves as avatars of our perceived cultural moment, as if that's the job description.

The exhibition weaves a mythical narrative through moments and events from Britain's shared cultural memory, moving back and forth between the past, present and an imagined future.

At the present moment in Toronto, many people are feeling pressure from the shifting and changing social, cultural and political environment.

In his recent project The Last Pictures, Paglen worked with MIT scientists to design a spacecraft able to last billions of years, which was launched into space with an archival disc inscribed with one hundred photographs that the artist chose to capture our present historical and cultural moment.

It will map out aesthetic and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the dispersal of peoples of Black African descent, and will also present key moments within the cultural politics of the Black Atlantic.

Among these new works is an environmental installation with sound entitled Pinocchio Is On Fire, which examines key moments in the history of the black community in Los Angeles from the early 1980s to the present (with cultural references that include the rise of HIV and crack cocaine during the 1980s, gangster rap, and mega-churches, along with aspects of the artist's own biography).

The exhibition is the first solo show dedicated to an African artist at IMMA and continues a strand of programming presenting artists from the periphery, whose socially engaged work documents a moment in time in a particular cultural milieu.

The initial essay summarised some of the issues associated with the vast cultural organism that is Abstract Expressionism, but a show of actual Abstract Expressionist works in the contemporary moment is likely to present different challenges.

Through varied media and diverse approaches, they chronicle the present moment and their work often questions dominant cultural narratives and addresses important contemporary issues.

The green cultural moment, with its emphasis on redemption, harmony, and healing, was less a response to the fear of future ecological disasters than to present - day social ones.

Can MBSR (mindfulness based stress reduction) really be labeled as mindfulness meditation if it only relies on the sustained present moment awareness and not without the old theories (religious and cultural) and proven stages of awareness?