Sentences with phrase «revered figures»

As New York dealers compete to sell works to buyers in ascendant art markets like China, Turkey, and the Middle East, a relationship with the estates of revered figures like de Kooning is an important signifier of status.

Collaborating with revered figures like Mark Mothersbaugh and Saul Williams, and new makers like Dana Michel and Ligia Lewis, Klein's curation centers on championing the adventurous within a context that honors the community for which he is working.

Our Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction features work by some of the most revered figures in 20th and 21st century art, with Andy Warhol's seminal pop portraiture and the visceral action painting of Jackson Pollock offered alongside superb pieces from the likes of Francis Bacon, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Lucio Fontana and Peter Doig.

From the publisher: «Through his quietly powerful leadership and influential use of nonviolent resistance in India's struggle against the British Raj, Mahatma Gandhi became one of the most revered figures of the modern era.

Thierry Henry is one of the most revered figures in Arsenal «s history on account of his playing career, and the Frenchman is now taking the first significant steps towards becoming the club's long - term successor to Arsene Wenger.

Where these revered figures arrived, that is the point where everybody in our day begins to go further.

Norman Finkelstein's targets include revered figures of the Jewish world such as Elie Wiesel, influential Jewish groups such as the World Jewish Congress (WJC), and, most of all, the State of Israel and its vocal supporters.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»

As a Jew, he has dared to take on the sacred cow of militaristic Zionism, and has even forcefully criticized such a revered figure as Auschwitz survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel, charging that Wiesel turns a blind eye to the suffering that Israel, «the homeland for persecuted European Jews and Holocaust survivors,» has inflicted upon the Palestinians.

For centuries Jewish thought has attempted to adapt itself to foreign philosophical categories, and Wyschogrod's bold return to biblical sources provides a platform upon which to critique even such a revered figure as Maimonides.

Harwell, 69, is probably the most revered figure in Michigan, politicians being ineligible for that distinction and Gordie Howe having moved to Connecticut.

His superlative performances in attack for Monaco have resulted in people drawing comparisons with Thierry Henry, who himself was a Monaco player before he eventually became a revered figure at Arsenal.

After losing an arm and a leg to a ravenous cannibal, Arlen kills her captor and escapes, navigating her way across a Texas wasteland occupied by the muscular Miami Man (Jason Momoa), a mysterious hermit (Jim Carrey) and a revered figure known as «The Dream» (Keanu Reeves).

He is a revered figure, and spent most of his life in front of the camera, so his life is already fresh in the minds of many people.

Crash Bandicoot is one of the classic gaming IPs and a revered figure on the PlayStation platform.

Freilicher, who was an integral part of the New York School circle of poets and artists and a notable and revered figure for many years in the art world of Long Island's East End, turned 90 on November 29, 2014.

A much - revered figure in the art world, Robert Ryman has, over six decades, continuously and methodically experimented with the different possibilities inherent within a painting — abolishing color in order to focus on material, brushstroke, support, and scale.

Then there's a gallery featuring the peculiar creations of former Bennington College music professor Gunnar Schonbeck, a little - known but revered figure who during his lifetime hand - built more than 1,000 instruments.

(Stieglitz was a revered figure in the development of art photography.

Crash Bandicoot is one of the classic gaming IPs and a revered figure on the PlayStation platform.

Not exact matches

Robert Mugabe is a massively divisive figure — a despot and an educator, reviled by many for his policies, but also revered as one of Africa's greatest revolutionary statesmen.

In the last century, one of those messiah figures was Haile Selassie (1892 — 1972), King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, who is revered as the returned messiah of the Bible, God incarnate, by Rastafarians.

The idea of Jesus arose like so many other religious and mythical figures, particularly Classical Greece, and just as the Greek gods were revered and accepted as real, so too is this Jesus Christ figure.

Hindus revere Shakti, or the personification of God's energy through a female figure.

(CNN)- Which revered religious figure - Moses, Jesus, or the Prophet Mohammad - spoke out boldly and unambiguously against slavery?

Even gangsters respect and revere Jesus, he's some kind of mythical figure of good, like the Devil, but the opposite.

Among converts to Orthodoxy, for instance, as well as among many cradle Orthodox of a particularly rigorist kind, Dostoevsky is especially honored for having held firmly to Chalcedonian orthodoxy and having introduced the greater world to the figure of Father Zosima, from whom all the light of Eastern Christian contemplative spirituality shines out; and, more generally, among Christians of many confessions, Dostoevsky is revered as a prophet, the great Christian anti-Nietzsche, the voice of ancient Christian truth crying out in the spiritual desert of the modern West.

I certainly do not mean to offend the sensitivities of those who have been taught to revere the Virgin as the ideal of womanhood, but I do intend to examine the effects on woman of the figure of the Virgin when compared with the creation of Charles Moulton.

We have archeological evidence for the existence of almost all revered historical figures dating back to the stone age.

Is it possible that Harold Camping could be revered as a religious figure thousands of years from now, assuming he once again «miscalculates» Earth's expiration date?

Palmer is among the most universally beloved golf figures in history, revered by players, fans, and media members alike.

Zico is a true legend of the game and one of the most revered footballing figures.

In the latest of our «We Meet Again» series, we look at the last time we met, a clash City fans will enjoy, one for our visitors and a figure equally revered by both clubs...

The President continued, «What it has done is that the figures have revered.

Even Rep. John Lewis (Ga.), the revered civil rights figure, joined the fray.

In the process, he would become both a nationally revered cancer surgeon and an embattled figure who stubbornly defended both his treatment and his reputation until his death in 1936.

No one has yet figured out a straightforward method of ensuring that one of the most revered democratic institutions — in this case, electing a U.S. president — can be double - checked for fraud, particularly when paperless e-voting systems are used.

Finally, there's The 99th Monkey, which is less a book about spirituality and more an exposé of the humans behind the revered guru figure.

Ronit lives in the modern age, in the here and now of groovy tattooed seniors, art photography and liberated women, but «Disobedience» tracks her when she steps back in time after the death of her rabbi father (Anton Lesser), a revered religious figure in north London.

Anderson, 44, has become an unlikely lightning rod and a polarizing figure, both revered and derided (and sometimes a bit of both at once).

Harry recognizes corporate up and comer Adam as «an arrogant Little snot» from her past, while he is appalled that he struck such a revered legal figure, which prompts him to take a leave of absence and lend his skills to Harry's new practice, which she accepts grudgingly.

What could have been an affecting, quiet bit with our most revered national figure ends with a clumsily proselytized mission statement as a black soldier recites the end of the Gettysburg Address — a not - subtle reminder that the mandate of Lincoln's second term carried with it the responsibility to push the 13th amendment ending slavery through a divided Congress.

Nicolas Cage may look to redeem his recent career misfires by starring as Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, in an upcoming biopic centered around the revered conservative figure.

It's a well - made and intimate look at a man who has influenced so many of us, one who remains a revered and adored figure among anyone who loves film.

In a culture that reveres youth — a culture he helped create — Thom needs to figure out what his purpose is now that he's halfway to death and nobody cares what he thinks.

One of the most instantly recognizable pop culture figures of all time, Mario's adventures across the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond are universally revered as some of the greatest games ever made.

Falling (perhaps deliberately) just short of the revered 100 - horsepower / liter figure achieved by its pricier stablemate, the 2006 Acura RSX Type - S, the 2006 Honda Civic Si is still the more engaging drive of the two.

The Judge's grandfather had fought with Forrest at Shiloh and throughout the Deep South, and to him no figure in history was more revered.

Never before have I seen a character that I created and developed become a revered NPC figure in the sequel.

One of the most instantly recognizable pop culture figures of all time, Mario's adventures across the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond are universally revered as some of the greatest games ever made.