Sentences with phrase «provocative exhibitions of»

In the fall of 2009, Andrew Edlin Gallery relocated to a light - filled ground floor space in lower Chelsea where it continues to hold visually and intellectually provocative exhibitions of both trained and untrained artists.

NYU»S Grey Art Gallery presents contemporary Israeli art in «Desert Cliché: Israel Now — Local Images» New York, October 17, 1997 --» Desert Cliché: Israel Now — Local Images,» a provocative exhibition of contemporary Israeli art at the Grey Art Gallery at NYU, inaugurates New York City's commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel.

-- A provocative exhibition of garments by avant - garde Japanese designer Issey Miyake, «Issey Miyake Spectacle: Body Work,» gets the town talking.

«Taboo,» a provocative exhibition of contemporary Australian and international artists, whose works are presented alongside various archival ephemera ---- newspaper clippings, postcards, and photographs ---- attempts to lay bare the moral impositions wrought by collective institutional bodies upon individual ones.

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Symposium, Exhibition, & Concept Bar at Breakthrough Napa Valley Conference November 13, 2014: Rootstock presents a full day of high - level, provocative seminars and industry experts, wine trials and tastings, and exhibits when this revolutionary conference designed for top quality grape growers, vineyard and winery owners, and winemakers worldwide...

From engaging histories and research - driven treatises, to provocative exhibitions and popular films, to mobile applications and podcasts, Science book and media reviews feature smart commentary on a wide range of timely scientific topics.

A provocative exhibition at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona shows the ways that Banksy, Basquiat, Vik Muniz, Chéri Samba, and others have embraced the legacy of the modernist master Read More

More Mergers & Acquisitions is a continuation of our popular and provocative exhibition Mergers & Acquisitions (December 12, 2008 — January 25, 2009), that brought together works by renowned modern masters and consequential contemporary artists.

Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens presents a thematic survey comprising four decades of Bruce Nauman's innovative and provocative work over three exhibition sites: the United States Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, Universití Iuav di Venezia at Tolentini, and the Exhibition Spaces at Universití Ca»exhibition sites: the United States Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, Universití Iuav di Venezia at Tolentini, and the Exhibition Spaces at Universití Ca»Exhibition Spaces at Universití Ca» Foscari.

CHICAGO — Curated by John Corbett, Anthony Elms, and Terri Kapsalis, and opening at the Hyde Park Art Center in October 2006 (5020 S. Cornell Avenue Chicago), this unique exhibition showcases a diverse, brilliant, provocative and by - and - large never seen range of materials related to pianist, bandleader, mystic, philosopher and Afro - Futurist Sun Ra.

November 25, 2014 Gustave Caillebotte Exhibition Presents French Impressionist's Most Important and Provocative Paintings; Premieres at National Gallery of Art, Washington, June 28 — October 4, 2015

Crowd - funded through the Art Fund's Art Happens project, this exhibition features a series of brand new works by the provocative artist - siblings.

The New Museum reviews its history in this thick if slightly too tall book, from its founding in 1977 by Marcia Tucker to the white Sanaa - designed building on the Bowery it moved to in 2007, growing up if not old while maintaining its run of provocative exhibitions, performances and lectures.

Shonibare, whose work offers a provocative exploration of race, slavery, economics, and European and African identities, conceived of this exhibition after researching Barnes» progressive educational practices.

Last spring, the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, celebrated the birth of Dada's centennial with an exhibition, «Everything Is Dada,» of masterpieces from their collection and a series of provocative events.

Highlights of the exhibition include Stark's pre-YouTube Cat Videos (1999 — 2002); the playful, provocative and psychedelic «chorus girl» collages from the series A Torment of Follies (2008); My Best Thing (2011), a video that debuted at the 2011 Venice Biennale edited from Stark's cyber exchanges with two online paramours; the celebrated video installation Bobby Jesus's Alma Mater b / w Reading the Book of David and / or Paying Attention Is Free (2013), set to a West Coast gangsta rap soundtrack and featuring images that range from Renaissance paintings, to family snapshots, to portraits of hip hop legends.

The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are organized around two seminal art - historical moments: the display of Dubuffet's collection at the home of artist and collector Alfonso Ossorio in the 1950s, and Dubuffet's provocative speech «Anticultural Positions» delivered at the Arts Club of Chicago in 1951.

Join one of our Museum Guides for a conversation about the provocative artworks on view in Nothing Stable under Heaven, SFMOMA's current exhibition on Floor 7.

The 15th edition of this exhibition will feature 37 new works, ranging from the lyrical floor to ceiling installation piece Skins (made of birch bark, zippers, pins, velcro and lace) by Rebekah Miller to the provocative dirty - talking video work, SPAM by Willie Baronet.

When I received a recent newsletter from the Photographic Center Northwest announcing their upcoming exhibition of South Korean photographer Jun Ahn «s provocative self - portraits, I had a stomach dropping visceral reaction to her photographs.

This provocative exhibition focuses on issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture while exploring the powerful influence of artistic legacy and community across generations.

The section of the exhibition devoted to his activity in the city features the screening of his Super 8 mm films Brasil Jorge, Fillmore East, Gay Pride Parade (all from 1971), Agrippina is Rome - Manhattan (1972), and his slide shows Neyrótica (1973), which shows young men in various sexually provocative poses, and South Bronx (1973 - 76).

So far, Muir has nearly tripled the number of ICA patrons, according to The Art Newspaper, and has been drawing crowds with shows of popular artists like Jacob Kassay and the provocative new drawing exhibition «Keep Your Timber Limber,» which brought out 1,200 visitors to its opening earlier this week.

Co-presented by the Nation Art School (NAS) in association with the Sydney Festival, and displayed in what was the former cell block of the infamous Darlinghurst Gaol, it is a stunning and provocative exhibition.

On the occasion of the exhibition, Andrea Schlieker stated that «provocative, curious, disquieting — as all the work in this exhibition may be — the desire to represent the world and the experience of living is a major concern that can be clearly discerned through the babel of different voices.»

The curator Okwui Enwezor's provocative 2008 exhibition at the International Center of Photography «Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art» (the title of which references philosopher Jacques Derrida's 1995 book, Archive Fever) highlighted numerous examples of artists who employ archival documents in their work.

They are all provocative answers to the title of a provocative exhibition, «Where Sculpture and Dance Meet.»

In keeping with our mission to investigate critical moments in the interconnected histories of global black life, Goodman Gallery is pleased to present To Be Young, Gifted, and Black the next edition of the ongoing series Working Title, an exhibition curated by one of our most thoughtful and provocative artists, Hank Willis Thomas.

BAMPFA offers one of the most distinguished and provocative programs of art and film exhibitions in North America, reflecting the diverse interests of the University and Bay Area communities.

HEAVY WITH VISUAL SAMPLING, Amir H. Fallah has produced a provocative series of vibrant, Arabesque paintings for his new exhibition with Shulamit Nazarian.

This year's diverse group includes Thomas Hirschhorn's socially interactive «Gramsci Monument» at the Bronx's Forest Houses Project; the revelatory scholarship demonstrated by the Crocker Art Museum's «An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle,» and provocative thematic exhibitions like The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's James Turrell retrospective and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's innovative juxtapositions of 19th century fashion and art in «Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity.»

Original artworks and commentary by Mark Tansey (b. 1949), whose large scale monochromatic allegories reference the art of photography, a pivotal technology in the reproduction and dissemination of popular images; John Currin (b. 1962), who has referenced the art of Norman Rockwell, and whose provocative figural paintings reflect upon domestic and social themes that were prevalent, though differently portrayed, in the mid-twentieth century; Vincent Desiderio (b. 1955), whose dark intellectual melodramas re-imagine scenes of crime and adventure from pulp fiction; Lucien Freud (1922 - 2011), the painter of deeply psychological works that examine the relationship of artist and model; and Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), son of noted painter Andrew Wyeth and grandson of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, whose images convey stories real and imagined, among other artists, will be featured in the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue.

«Solitary Pleasures» is a provocative exhibition exploring the theme of masturbation and other forms of solitary pleasure, including smoking, drinking, reading, and art itself.

While all the artists included in this exhibition are fascinated with the natural beauty, complexity and forms of flora, each represents images of flora in a personal and provocative manner, resulting in an array of strong and diverse images.

As the fine arts museum of the University of Chicago, the Smart is home to thought - provoking exhibitions and an exquisite collection of more than 15,000 objects, including modern masterpieces, millennia - old Chinese artworks, rich examples of European painting, and provocative works of contemporary art.

A fully - illustrated exhibition catalogue, dedicated to Carol Plenda Thompson (the artist's wife who passed in 2004), will include a preface by critic and historian Stanley Crouch and a reprint of Crouch's provocative 1986 Village Voice article «Bob Thompson: Meteor in a Black Hat.»

Combining a fast - moving, provocative approach to exhibitions with the direct involvement of artists, MoMA PS1 presents an extensive program of exhibitions and events in its nearly 125,000 - square - foot repurposed school building in Long Island City, Queens.

The exhibition features photographs, sculptures and paintings which provide provocative and sometimes disturbing insight into the psychological terrain of their creators.

With over 100 works, many on public view for the first time, this exhibition examines her provocative portraits of people and landscapes.

The Bureau has collaborated with organizations such as Visual AIDS and Fire Island Artist Residency, as well as with veterans of The Lesbian Avengers activist group and activists fighting police violence against people of color to bring you provocative and inspiring exhibitions year round.

Immediately challenging and provocative, the exhibition uses the hotly desired Oculus Rift headset device to present a biting critique on the world of pornography.

It was the exhibition Post-Sense Sensibility, Alien Bodies and Delusion — a provocative and extreme group show of young Chinese artists who wanted to highlight their discontent with the art scene and the system.

This year's exhibitions were broad range of provocative works that ranged from Video Art in Latin America, High Anxiety, and New Shamans.

The exhibition will bring together more than 12 of his canvases from this period, which combine spectacularly rendered psychedelic surfaces with provocative imagery from a staggering array of cultural sources, from religious icons to Blaxploitation films.

Video of anonymous bodies wrapped in fabric and provocative mattress sculptures fill the dimly lit exhibition.

Although Big Youth was not necessarily aimed toward marking a specific movement among Chicago artists, there is something to be said for being able to engage with young artists in a provocative setting through curated exhibitions of local work on a thoughtful platform.

The Jewish Museum's Other Primary Structures [1] is a provocative call to action that seeks to confront a «mythologized» exhibition of U.S. and British Minimalist sculpture...

So we should expect a renewed energy around the Turner Prize — last year's exhibition was neither provocative nor surprising, merely dull — and a broader understanding of the role that living artists and their works should play in the museum.

Whether or not the artistic intents, aesthetic strategies, and contexts of production are similar or in dialogue in any way is one of many questions this provocative exhibition raises yet leaves unanswered.

Inspired by a set of female nudist playing cards, which she found in her father's drawer as a child, her most recent solo exhibition, «Joker of Solitaire» while provocative, seemingly humorous, and often seductive, is inherently seeking to stimulate a dialogue around the history of the mythological and historical «trickster».