Sentences with phrase «statement about contemporary art»

It would make a fuller statement about the history and the emergence of this extraordinary material, and, in the process, it would make more of a statement about contemporary art.

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Rarely do these commissions make any kind of larger statement about American art, but last fall, when Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley — a figurative painter who deploys the techniques, poses and patterns of the grand tradition of Baroque European paintings to portray contemporary black and brown men he finds on the street — to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian, it at least reflected the Obamas» well - developed connections to the world of culture.

Vaisman's art is, then, an ironic, telling statement about prevailing conditions of production and consumption in the contemporary art market.

He said: «I think it is really important to spark a debate about contemporary art and that is why it is an important statement by Tate to hold this year's Turner Prize in Liverpool.»

Tonight are the free screenings of two films about the life and work of Corita Kent: «Sister Corita: Mary's Day» (1964) & «We Have No Art» (1967) by Baylis Glascock and on Thursday October 27, 7 pm Become a Microscope: 90 Statements on Sister Corita (2009), a documentary by Aaron Rose Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery 555 Nelson Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6B6R5 Canada 7 - 9 pm

1987 Message Units, 516-277-4338, New York, US About Sculpture, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, New York, US Saga 87 (premiere foire), Eric Linard Editions, Grand Palais, Paris, FR Ohne Die Rose... Grusse an Beuys von 199 Kunstlern, Stadtisches Museum Haus, Monchengladbach, and Koekkoek, Kleve, DE XXX Anniversary Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, DE Group Exhibition, Rudiger Schottle Gallery, Munich, DE Hyperspaces, Art City, New York, US Group Exhibition, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Snow, Weiner, Nannucci, Art Metropole, Toronto, CA; Alberta College Art Gallery, Calgary, CA; MacDonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph, Ontario, CA; Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax, CA; Forrest City Gallery, London, Ontario, CA; Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, B.C., CA Marc Hostettler und die Editions Media, Graphik - Sammlung ETH, Zurich, CH Stichting Fort Asperen, Asperen, NL Group Exhibition, Galerie Francoise Lambert, Milan, IT Group Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, IT Jack Goldstein, John Lamka, Lawrence Weiner, Piezo Electric, New York, US Folkwang Video, Videogalerie Gerry Schum, Essen, DE Incrocio - Un Racconto, La Saleriana, Erice, Sicily, IT Aspects of Conceptualism in American Work, Part II, Avenue B Gallery, New York, US Leo Castelli y Sus Artistas, XXX Anos de..., Centre Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco, MX Leo Castelli: A Tribute Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, US Comic Iconoclasm, ICA, London, UK; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IR; CornerHouse Gallery, Manchester, UK Dessins, Gallerie Catherine Issert, Paris, FR In Print - Artists» Books, Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, AU Director's Invitational, David Brown Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, US Musee St. Pierre Art Contemporain Lyon, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE Strong Statements in Black and White, James Goodman Gallery, New York, US Hommage a Leo Castelli, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, FR Group Show, Galerie Johnen and Schottle, Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, DE Group Show, Galerij de Lege Ruimte, Brugge, BE Nachtvuur, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, BE

The catalog for Shinique Smith: Menagerie at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami contains an essay by the forever groovy DJ Spooky, aka Paul D. Miller, who writes about Smiths knack for synthesizing mediums, her stature in the post - Facebook / YouTube generation and the «libidinal economy of «scripting autobiographical statements into her work.