Sentences with phrase «such celebrated figures»

Important examples of video and film work by such celebrated figures as Francis Alÿs, Pierre Huyghe, and Steve McQueen will be presented.

A lively and comprehensive overview of painting of the last 30 years, presenting work by such celebrated figures as Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch, alongside emerging artists including Jumaldi Alfi and Ingrid Calame

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But the person who insists she is a Catholic, but finds the Trinity «patriarchal and oppressive», Christ's Sacrifice on the Cross «just so bloodthirsty», lesbian and homosexual relationships «a lifestyle to be celebrated», and the Pope «a ridiculous figure»......... such a person's contribution to dialogue lacks integrity and meaning Pro's And Con's Of The Ghetto Culture Of course, the reasons for wanting to emphasise one's Catholicism are pretty obvious: it gives status, enlarges one's importance, and is, at present, very fashionable.

Written, directed, and produced by its star, Tommy Wiseau — an enigmatic figure about whom little more is known now than when the film came out over a decade ago — The Room is regularly celebrated with midnight screenings at indie movie theaters around the world, by a rabid fan base that upholds such sacred traditions as hurling plastic spoons at the screen during one key scene.

A visual and aural experience, the exhibition feature's some of the artist's most celebrated and innovative creations, including Aviarium works that explore wave vectors of bird vocalizations; and examples from his sculptural Recital series paying homage to overlooked figures such as blues legend Bessie Smith and Arctic explorer Matthew Henson.

Penn developed that artistic vision over the next sixty years, shooting more than 150 covers for Vogue between 1943 and 2004 (a selection of which will be on view), creating celebrated portraits of leading cultural figures such as Pablo Picasso, Truman Capote, and Miles Davis, and producing groundbreaking fashion editorials noted for their natural lighting and formal simplicity.

Curators Beckwith and Roelstraete make salient connections between celebrated contemporary artists such as Emilio Cruz, Nick Cave, and Glenn Ligon and lesser - studied figures of the early movement....

Lawrence's John Brown series was one of many such historical epics he produced in the 1930s and 1940s, examining the lives and experiences of African Americans — from heroic 19th - century figures like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to the early 20th - century cultural phenomenon of the Great Migration — work for which he continues to be celebrated today.

The island has a storied visual arts history as a site where celebrated queer artistic figures such as Paul Cadmus, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Peter Hujar once sojourned.

The show features over 40 architects, ranging from renowned 20th century masters and internationally celebrated contemporary architects such as Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA) and Kenzo Tange; to exciting figures little known outside of Japan including Osamu Ishiyama, Kazunari Sakamoto and Kazuo Shinohara and young rising stars such as Hideyuki Nakayama and Chie Konno.

In Pose Work for Plinths (1971; David Roberts Collection), a photographic documentation of one such performance, he used his own body to parody the poses of Henry Moore's celebrated reclining figures.

In this work, and into the current work, memorial and personae became sources for content, as works paid homage to celebrated figures and close friends of the artist, such as the painting E-Stamp II (The Black Butterfly: For Bobby Short)(2007).

These celebrated artists will be shown alongside under - recognised figures of their time, such as Hedda Sterne.

All Too Human celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships, and their surroundings in the most intimate of ways — and features breathtaking works by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon alongside rarely seen pieces by contemporaries such as Frank Auerbach and Paula Rego.

Recitals, which Adkins orchestrated with the Corps through collective improvisation, have commemorated and celebrated such figures as abolitionist John Brown, musician John Coltrane, explorer Matthew Henson, and singer Bessie Smith.

Based in Paris and Rio de Janeiro, Gonzalez - Foerster is celebrated for her interdisciplinary practice and, alongside contemporaries such as Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe, is considered one of the preeminent figures of relational aesthetics, the term proposed by critic and curator Nicholas Bourriaud to describe practices that emerged in the 1990s exploring human relationships and the social contexts in which they operate.

It affirmed its belief in the power of the image, and it was often humorously and sometimes ironically, that it reappropriated iconic figures such as Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, and depicted «the American way of life», in order to celebrate and criticise it at the same time.

IN ADDITION TO SHOWCASING HIS SCULPTURES, «Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963 - 2016» will unite for the first time the artist's celebrated Black Monolith series, works that pay tribute to black cultural figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, John Coltrane, Ralph Ellison, and fellow artist Jacob Lawrence.

Now new buzz is being generated around Frank's art, and with good reason: The Drawing Center has recently tapped her for a 2015 solo show of drawings based on classic fairy tales, which will be accompanied by a lavish book containing over 100 works from the series and essays by such figures as art historian Linda Nochlin and celebrated director Julie Taymor.

Monica Banks uses porcelain to create Big and Small Moments, 2015 - 2016, cakes carrying miniature animal figures and objects such as bees, feathers, stones, and distressed dinnerware to both celebrate and grieve events she observes in nature and domestic life.

Since the inception of the program more than 130 artists have participated, including celebrated figures such as Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol.

Rendering such figures in heroic and erotic exploits with spare, painterly lines sculpted in bas - relief, Nakian sought to celebrate love and life in his work.

«Painters and Poets» celebrates and tracks a number of crucial friendships from these interconnected circles of artists and poets, some of which were also love affairs, sometimes sexual sometimes not: Frank O'Hara and Larry Rivers, Frank O'Hara and Grace Hartigan, Joe Brainard and Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard and John Ashbery, John Ashbery and James Schuyler, James Schuyler and painter and writer Fairfield Porter, Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby, Rudy Burckhardt and Red Grooms and Mimi Gross, with central figures also including painters such as Jane Freilicher, Rackstraw Downes, Neil Welliver, Yvonne Jacquette, and Alex Katz.

However, before anyone in Washington celebrates too much, the U.S. figure was achieved thanks in large part to support initiatives such as the federal loan guarantee program and a Treasury grant program which have now expired.»

Now, though, recycling and upcycling has become a huge trend, thanks to the backing of celebrated design figures such as Wayne Hemingway and Timothy Oulton.