Sentences with phrase «recent fascination»

First noted at Designboom, her new series is concerned with a recent fascination with Greek mythology, and results in some very provocative work.

Adrift is a solo exhibition featuring new works by conceptual artist Ryan McIntoch that investigate the artist's recent fascination with dark and ominous nautical themes through various mediums including photography, printmaking, painting, and temporal site - specific installation.

Painting from life, over a long period of time, she chooses subjects ranging from plants, rocks, logs, and gourds to a more recent fascination with the male figure.

-- Art advisor Todd Levin in Artinfo's article on the art market's recent fascination with the careers of «rediscovered artists.»

Anyone who dislikes BMW's recent fascination with thick - rimmed steering wheels will be pleased to see the daintier rim in this CS.

This time - tested anti-wealth strategem undoubtedly explains my recent fascination with old Peugeots.

Note, however, that this study took place before even more consequences were attached to students» test scores, given the federal government's more recent fascination with holding teachers accountable for their quantifiable - by - student - test - scores «value - added.»

Of ESSA Plans and TPS Reports, May 31, 2017: All the recent fascination with states» ESSA plans brings to mind the infamous TPS reports from the movie Office Space.

One of the more striking examples of this is the recent fascination with state plans for the Every Student Succeeds Act (especially where they build on decades of paper - driven plans to improve «teacher quality»).

During our chat, Ms. Nadda and I talk about her recent fascination with thrillers, the art of on - screen chemistry and the difficulties, especially in today's landscape, of romances that simmer just below the surface.

Given the recent fascination with the pontificate of John Paul II and with the election of Benedict XVI, it would seem that the papacy is on the Protestant horizon in a way that would have been unthinkable even a generation ago.

Not exact matches

The Carnival Fascination failed a recent health inspection after inspectors found live flies, roach nymphs, dried food waste, and many other violations throughout the cruise ship.

For grasping the cultural fascination with heaven, perhaps nothing compares to two recent best - selling novels about the afterlife: Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones and Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

In a recent study» of the evangelical impact on the Victorians titled The Call to Seriousness, Ian Bradley contends that the decline of evangelicalism into narrow bigotry may be dated from about 1860 and correlated with the rise of a fascination with prophecy and a more literalistic use of the Scripture.

This has been the subject of a number of lengthy articles, the most recent of which ran in New York magazine and was full of juicy tidbits, though didn't necessarily shed much more light on an already well - visited topic of fascination for New York politicos.

Dr. Jill Tarter points to the fascination of the recent solar eclipse that swept North America and reminds us that «For millennia, across the world humans have looked to the sky to navigate their world.

In recent years, this fascination has translated into concrete plans for a manned mission to the red planet, with the goal of eventually establishing an extraterrestrial colony.

In recent years, there seems to be an increase in the fascination with the use of sage burning.

I don't know when my fascination with flamingos started, but it must have been fairly recent after I stumbled upon this fabulous Instagram post!

Joe Wright's film shares with the recent Sucker Punch a fascination with young ass - kicking girls on the hunt for empowerment and actualization, but whereas Zack Snyder's pop - culture upchuck fetishisized via videogame and blockbuster cinema clichés, this saga blends fairy tales with grim Cold War-esque espionage.

In recent years fewer features have broached the topic, yet still the fascination remains.

The best Italian zombie flick is of a more recent vintage: Michele Soavi's Cemetery Man took me three viewings to love, but held enough fascination to merit the effort.

The film industry has long held a fascination with the lives of actual politicians, with recent examples including movies based on people like Richard Nixon, Harvey Milk, and Abraham Lincoln (vampire hunter).

The recent nationwide fascination with forensics may have helped course enrollment as well, Butler observed.

As Lev Grossman writes in Time about the recent (and not - so - recent) fascination with this genre, «It's a contradiction that's oddly impossible to resolve: we loathe and decry the 1 %, but at the same time we're very sentimental indeed about the box they came in.»

With all of the investor fascination on the «BRICs» in recent years — and particularly on Brazil and China — Middle Eastern and African markets have been largely off the radar.

«Sacrifice for the Fleet,» now at L.A. Louver, hosts a series of new and recent works born from the artist's fascination with Greek literature, Biblical texts, and Armenian manuscripts (he is the son of Armenian refugees).

Of those presenting recent work, a two - gallery exhibit of sculptures by the West African artist El Anatsui reveals a more of - the - moment fascination with unusual materials.

The minor miracle of the show is the late burst of color and texture in the recent work, such as the dense patterning and thick impasto of Joe's Joy (in which the fascination with quilts is particularly evident).

Halkin's most recent paintings share with his earliest work a fascination with hieroglyph - like shapes and mottled fields of muted color, though the palette is overall less subdued and the forms less abstract.

Cameron - Weir's most recent works also reflect her fascination with emerging methodologies within archaeology that question the discipline's privileging of vision and aim to enrich speculations about the past through a multisensory approach.

Selected group exhibitions include NOW - ISM: Abstraction Today at the Pizzuti Collection (Columbus, Ohio); Alice Konitz, Pamela Jorden, Jeff Ono at Samuel Freeman Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Forms of Abstraction at the Irvine Fine Arts Center (Irvine, CA); The Working Title at the Bronx River Art Center (New York, NY); Themes and Variations at the Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA); and (Keep Feeling) Fascination: Recent Abstract Painting in Los Angeles, Luckman Gallery, California State University (Los Angeles, CA).

Steven Kinder's recent work reveals his fascination with dynamic tension and movement found in nature.

In recent works such as Double Vision (2004) and Bellona (After Samuel R. Delany)(2005), she develops her fascination with spatial concerns and psychological and cognitive patterns in digitally manipulated environments.

From his early works in the 1990s, such as the «illusory» optical machine Beauty (1993), to the architectural project developed together with Henning Larsen Architects (Reykjavik Concert Hall, 2005 - 2011), to his recent «total artworks» like Seu corpo da obra (2011) and installations like Big Bang Fountain (2015), Eliasson always expresses his fascination with the world of perceptions, sometimes physical, sometimes immaterial — but always transforming passive visitors into «inhabitants», as well as with the hybridization of different languages, means of expression and temporal planes.

The two pieces demonstrate LeWitt's career - long fascination with the cube and his more recent exploration of the potential of the concrete block in art.

Taken as a whole, «China Then and Now» aims to shed turn its attention to America's recent engagement and fascination with China and its arts.

The solo exhibition by Berlin - based artist Judith Hopf features a wide selection of her recent work and emphasizes her fascination with everyday materials like brick, concrete, glass, packaging, and easily understood manufacturing processes.

But the drive toward narrative, and an art audience's fascination with stories, has resurfaced in recent years, often in video, but perhaps more evocatively in installations, which invite comparisons with developments in contemporary fiction — shuffled chapters, meandering plot lines, mash - ups of genres, and elusive or unreliable narrators.

This exhibition shows us that this fascination is not a recent phenomenon and the obsession with ruins has often inspired some great art.

Project Room: Series # 7 Displaying lushly coloured visceral forms against surfaces so glossy that they seem wet, Rose Kallal's recent photographs create a provocative sense of organic ambiguity, fascination and dread.

Predominantly monochromatic, each work introduces a different approach to forming a face — a reference to the artists fascination with mask sensibilities — and in reaction to his recent sculptural works.

Annie Leibovitz's «Isabella Rossellini and David Lynch» is about the closest Masters comes to the post-Warholian pop cultural obsession of emerging artists scattering the Frieze London tent, a collective fascination with the Kanyes, Clintons and #NSFWs of recent, to extremely recent history pointing to the total infiltration of mass media, post-2000.

It is hard to cite plausible precedents for these recent paintings, which, because they are an assemblage of fragments, speak to our contemporary fascination with rejections of traditional preconceptions of visual harmony.

His most recent work illuminates the artist's fascination with African voodoo cultures, as well as the invisible and the supernatural.

«I think high and low culture have to go together to exist,» says Smith of being able to reconcile his fascination with both the latest Usher single and the recent Fischer show in New York City, a «Spider - Man» reboot and a «Gerhard Richter Painting» documentary.

His recent works reveal a fascination with Rube Goldberg machines, Andy Warhol and The Factory, Schrodinger's Cat, and quantum equations.

The artist has spoken in recent interviews about a fascination with the demeanour of this series of powerful men, reading character traits into the faces along with a reading of class structures.

In her recent AICA - USA Distinguished Critics Lecture, Carolyn Christov - Bakargiev explored this question through the lens of Lacan's fascination with topology and the creation of chain relations or knots.

But in more recent years he had taken his fascination with paint to a whole different level.