Sentences with phrase «race riots half»

«The Agenda» and «The Narrative» have taken control of our government, from IRS with selective prosecution of innocent conservatives, to JustUs ignoring Hillary crimes, to Obama using Sharpton to stir up race riots, and even NASA tortures numbers to get the desired result (not to mention that alleged directive to task NASA with making Muslims feel better about themselves).

Executed in 2011, For Race Riots and Salon Gatherings is an iconic example of Theaster Gates» groundbreaking, politically - engaged practice.

For Race Riots and Salon Gatherings is characterised by the same desire to highlight the political agency of ready - made objects.

Simultaneously recalling paintings on velvet, black - light posters and Warhol's disasters and race riots, Ratcliff's works consistently negotiate the oppositions of positive and negative space, of abstraction and figuration, and of a conceptual rigor and the punk aesthetic.

Theaster Gates (b. 1973) For Race Riots and Salon Gatherings wood, glass and hoses, in six parts (i) 27 x 18 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.

A six - part installation of framed objects created in 2011, «For Race Riots and Salon Gatherings» sold for $ 369,328 on Feb. 11, 2015.

This work comes from a series of prints titled «Birmingham,» a possible reference to the location of her subject, or, poignantly, the historic 1963 race riots in the Alabama city.

The subject matter of his paintings, installations, and public projects is drawn from African American culture and rooted in the geography of his upbringing: in 1963 he moved with his family to the Nickerson Gardens public housing project in the Watts district of Los Angeles, just a few years before the race riots began.

A six - part installation of framed objects created in 2011, «For Race Riots and Salon Gatherings» sells for $ 369,328.

1967 was a very delicate moment in American history: the Vietnam war raging as were race riots, but it was still before the chaos of 1968.

Above all, Warhol's art revolved around iconography made famous through TV, newsfilm - clips and advertising, such as atomic bomb mushroom clouds, penitentiary electric chairs, car crashes and race riots.

If Andy Warhol approached the theme of race riots with emotional distance and the serial process of silkscreening media imagery in his 1964 Race Riot series, Bradford pursues an approach that is as expressive, as it is abstract.

Referencing the ways that landscapes have been politicized through historical events — from the violent expansion of the American West, colonialism, war, and abolition, through to more recent race riots and social protests — Mehretu began by combining photographs from these events with nineteenth - century landscape paintings.

Congratulations to Leo Gabin on their nomination for the NEW: VISION Award at the CPH: DOX Film Festival for their film A Crackup at the Race Riots, a feature length adaptation of Harmony Korine's 1998 novel.

Faith Ringgold's «American People Series # 20: Die,» an imaginative depiction of the race riots that engulfed the United States in the 1960s, is currently on view at MoMA in «From the Collection: 1960 — 1969» through March 12, 2017.

Opening: «Andy Warhol: Little Electric Chairs» at Venus An important part of Andy Warhol's seminal «Death and Disaster» series — which also includes suicides, race riots and car crashes — the electric chair paintings were based on a news image of the deadly electric chair that was used to execute Julius and Ethel Rosenberg at New York's Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1953.

Just four years after One Day Wonder Painting, Kienholz created The Little Eagle Rock Incident (1958), a reaction to the race riots at Arkansas Central High School in Little Rock the year prior.

Martin Luther King speaks, race riots explode, the Ku Klux Klan act extremely racistly, the moon landings wow the world, and Obama talks about diversity.

They saw art as providing an opportunity to criticize progress and an answer to race riots, totalitarian regimes and the effects of the war.

Of her works, Campbell notes: «As we approach the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Red Summer, and other race riots that took place across the country, I offer this installation to ponder the architecture of our country and its relationship to justice, reparations, accountability, privilege, civic responsibility, codes of silence, generational trauma, tradition, legacy, apology, national inheritance, and reconciliation.»

For Race Riots and Salon Gatherings is an iconic example of Theaster Gates» groundbreaking, politically - engaged practice.

The last work in the initiative will be Birnbaum's, a video and sound installation that focuses on the aftermath of the 1964 Rochester race riots and includes images of black Americans from mainstream television.

As «Regarding Warhol» at the Met made deadly obvious, he kept returning to violence in America, as with cars, electric chairs, and race riots.

Warhol's prints include Birmingham Race Riots, much as Robert Indiana singles out states with violence against civil - rights workers, but Warhol stops short of sending a message.

The exhibition features Walker's «Sketch for an American Comic Opera with 20th century Race Riots» 2012 (above), a pastel and graphic work that measures more than 200 inches in length and is executed in three panels.

«Sketch for an American Comic Opera with 20th century Race Riots,» 2012 (pastel and graphite on paper, 3 parts) via Sikkema Jenkins

The edifice bore witness to cultural transitions from the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, the Chicago race riots and beyond.

Political issues have appeared throughout Warhol's work in such images as the electric chair paintings (1963 - 1967), the race riots (1963), the atomic bomb (1965), the Mao portraits (1972), the Vote McGovern poster (1974), and the American Indian paintings (1976).

Korine's novel, A Crack Up at the Race Riots, was published by Mainstreet / Doubleday in 1998.

Like all American artists of his generation, Nauman spent his formative years surrounded by the political clashes over the war in Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement (particularly the race riots in American cities) and what was back then called the Women's Movement.

In the late»60s, Philip Guston abandoned Abstract Expressionism for creepy cartoons dealing with race riots and inner - city horrors.

The dual exhibition marks a pivotal moment for the artist, whose previous films include a documentary on the Handsworth race riots and another on influential black cultural theorist Stuart Hall.

In the 1960s and»70s, American artist David Hammons created his own series of body prints, using the technique to comment on the Civil Rights - era race riots in the U.S. and the Vietnam War.

Kelley Walker paints his lively chocolate abstractions over a famous 1960s photograph, similar to one borrowed earlier by Andy Warhol, of attacks on a civil - rights worker in Birmingham Race Riots.

The testimony of the Harlem Six, a half a dozen black youth arrested for murder during the 1964 Harlem race riots was the genesis for his latest series of text - based paintings.

Known for having a high level of gang activity and race riots in the 1990s, its crime rate has decreased considerably but is still higher than average.

- jww Did you gain any special insights about the race riots from Jonah's perspective?

The Red Summer of 1919 followed, and as race riots spread to other cities, it became clear that equality would be hard won.

After chairing the school's first Commission on the Status of Women as a Kansas undergraduate, Paretsky worked as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side during the turbulent race riots of 1966.

In Detroit, where forty - three people died in race riots in 1967, the police already had five armored vehicles but were stockpiling tear gas and gas masks and were requesting antisniper rifles, carbines, shotguns, and 150,000 rounds of ammunition.

Mildred, the first generation, escapes her memories of the race riots by going to the cinema; her daughter, Angela, builds on her mother's love of film to run away to Hollywood and have bit parts in the blaxplotiation films of the 1970s.

They even included African American converts, inspired by a new faith and hardened by race riots half a world away.

When race riots tore through Newark in July 1967, the National Guard stormed into Quitman and evacuated all white staff members working in a summer kindergarten preparation program.

The pain of the race riots of the mid 1960s probably shaped some of the education policies to foster racial inclusion and tolerance, and those memories are likely at the root of some of the current emphasis of the curriculum on the development of cross-cultural competence and global citizenship.

The universities were worried that the race riots happening all around them were going to spill onto their campuses.

Therefore, it is worthwhile to look at some of the dynamics and causes of the major urban race riots that have occurred in the United States.

Race Riots / Urban Riots in the United States: 1917 East St. Louis Essential Question: To what degree is change dependent on Conflict?

Race Riots / Urban Riots in the United States: 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma Essential Question: To what degree is change dependent on Conflict?

The principal heard the predictions that unruly students, race riots, and poor test scores would plague the new school.

Race Riots / Urban Riots in the United States Essential Question: To what degree is change dependent on Conflict?