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Today curators are sometimes more famous than the artists whose work they curate, and curatorship involves more than choosing objects for an exhibition.

Not exact matches

The first week numbers for «25» put the sultry singer at the head of an elite club of artists, including Britney Spears, Whitney Houston, Eminem and Lady Gaga, whose albums have debuted with more than 1 million U.S. copies.

We'll consider that album next, but then, we'll leave the last word for a contemporary artist, one whose young simplicity speaks more powerfully than Bowie's mature sophistication can.

Can we enlarge on the insights of artists such as Gerlach, whose creative gifts depend on the process of letting - go or opening, to receive imaginative insights from a Spirit greater than ourselves?

It's also why I invite comments and critiques from faithful collaborators — pastors, scholars, artists, scientists, doctors, parents, blog commenters, and editors — who often know more about a given topic than I and whose insights improve my writing by miles.

Painted in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, it then represented a new line for Picasso, whose abstract techniques have done more to influence 20th century painting than that of any other artist.

Makeup artist James Kaliardos believes that a strong set of arches creates an automatic air of confidence, and a 2013 study seemingly backs up his claims: Scientists discovered that women with «greater facial contrast» — specifically in the eyebrow region — were perceived as «younger» than those whose arches were not cosmetically enhanced.

Anyone whose been on a no strings attached dating site for more than a month has probably met more than a few con artists.

Synopsis: This is the true story of Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) and her husband Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), the larger - than - life painters who became the most acclaimed artists in Mexican history, and whose tempestuous love affair, landmark journeys to America, and outrageous personalities made them legendary.

Perhaps no American filmmaker has had more of an influence on the subsequent generation of artists than Ramis, whose writing managed to be simultaneously goofball and intelligent, his films impeccably crafted and open to improvisation.

Franco is a filmmaker whose ideas are nearly always more interesting than their execution, so fans of «The Room» had reason to be concerned when he announced his intention to do «The Disaster Artist.»

He's someone whose status as a great artist has allowed him to have total control over his life and surroundings, with everything flowing with grace and ease around him; it's ironic, then, that Alma (Vicky Krieps) catches his eye by being out of place and uncertain in her movements, causing him to beam warmly in a way that gives a totally different energy than his polite smiles toward his clients.

The story of an artist living an idyllic life by the sea, whose philosophies are shaken to the core by the (implied) onset of World War III, the film winds its way to a grand conclusion, an image of humble apocalypse that, more than glimpses of the tragedies of war or the destruction of a nuclear holocaust, will stay with you for a lifetime.

Paul McComas is a multidimensional performance artist whose high - energy acts have transfixed audiences for more than 20 years.

Centering on a family of four with a history of mental illness and mysterious rituals, the movie's increasingly unhinged mayhem is grounded by Collette's tour - de-force performance, in the role of a visual artist (and less - than - perfect mother) whose work consists of miniature dollhouses that plumb her own nightmarish autobiography.

Fresh off wigging - and - accenting his way through the role of would - be auteur Tommy Wiseau in his The Room tribute film The Disaster Artist, James Franco is gearing up to portray another modern Renaissance man — one whose efforts to wear multiple creative hats resulted in wide - spread acclaim, rather than ironic appreciation: cartoonist, poet, and songwriter Shel Silverstein.

Today, there are more Native filmmakers working than ever before, and the Institute is bringing forward a fourth generation of Native filmmakers and solidifying a pipeline of artists whose voices will have an important impact on American and global cinema and culture.

There are also those artists whose work was truly exceptional in movies that I found to be good (maybe), but perhaps less than amazing, and who elevated those films without overshadowing them.

And nobody has cut a swath through the later portion of the season more than Harvey Weinstein, whose company has taken best picture honors for «The English Patient,» «Shakespeare in Love,» «Chicago,» «The King's Speech» and «The Artist.»

This benefit may be particularly true with someone like Williams — who retains a larger - than - life reputation for being a troubled artist, and whose personal angst certainly plays out before us on the stage in his great dramas, but who, as these letters show, had a charming wit, a keen mind and an endearing lust for life.

The story serves as little more than a reason for Death to fight and scramble his way across several different worlds that in turn serve to show the undeniable talent of Joe M, a comic book artist whose talent shines through in every stunning locale.

The artist Sable Elyse Smith, whose father has been imprisoned for almost two decades, has been thinking about erasures longer than most.

If that ethos is compared with today, everyone is «told» they are an artist by social engineers whose priority, rather than the advance of artworks, is the increasing dominance of a political cause, (excessive Liberalism), serving the optimistic idealism of «equality».

You want to see an artist whose work looks more contemporary than Sillman's, yet it was made in the 30s?

This «augmented reality» is part of a major survey (more than 70 works) of the career of Mr. Chin, a conceptual artist whose work comments on environmental issues and social justice.

«Without even trying I can think of 1/2 dozen well respected NYC galleries than deal with artists whose subjects works around realism in some manner.

Organized by the Aperture Foundation, this traveling exhibition features more than 40 photographs by Mickalene Thomas along with a selection of images by fellow contemporary artists — including Derrick Adams, Renée Cox, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lyle Ashton Harris, Deana Lawson, Zanele Muholi, Malick Sidibé, Xaviera Simmons, Hank Willis Thomas and Carrie Mae Weems — whose work is a source of inspiration.

In 2008, she began a series of unconventional portraits of artists» shoes and to date has painted more than 120 portraits of both world renowned and obscure contemporary artists whose work she admires.

Songsong isn't any less professional — that is to say slick and superficial — than any number of artists whose names you could rattle off.

American Dada is elevated to a more important position than it held, while dozens of artists whose works created the art of the thirties and forties are omitted.

Works by John Baldessari, a conceptual artist and former UCLA instructor whose signature style includes overlaying historical images with opaque colored dots, now fetch more than $ 1 million.

The most curious and unusual sculpture of the fair was found at Dublin - based Kerlin Gallery's booth: a tiny, stunningly lifelike rendering of a crab whose front claws were molded from artist Dorothy Cross's own index fingers was painted silver, mounted on a small white plinth no more than two feet high (I'm not great with numbers, but as a reference, it's roughly as tall as my friend's art - going, Instagram - celebrity French Bulldog named Miss Pickle, if she sits upright).

«Journeys with The Waste Land» includes work by more than 60 artists who have been inspired by T.S. Eliot's great modern lament, or whose art resonates in the context of the poem.

Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp, on view from February 17 through May 20, 2018, revisits the 2003 Tang Teaching Museum exhibition Living with Duchamp and features more than 50 artists whose conceptual and irreverent works engage with Duchamp's oeuvre.

The prize recognizes an artist younger than 50 whose body of work shows depth, breadth and distinct creativity and includes a $ 25,000 award.

The artist recalls being mesmerized by the mobiles of Alexander Calder and the sculpture of Michael Steiner, whose name is less - known now than it was in the»60s and»70s when such powerhouse critics as Clement Greenberg and Karen Wilkin hailed him as an important figure.

Stella's openness to an artist whose roots, as he said, run closer to «Steve Martin and Mel Brooks than Piero della Francesca and Picasso» disarmed many listeners.

Schiele, whose oeuvre spans just ten years, cut short by his death from influenza at twenty - eight, made more than 250 self - portraits in that brief period, «more than any artists since Rembrandt.»

From a group of early, never - before seen notebook drawings by Carl Andre, dated 1959 - 1960, to Lawrence Weiner's All About Eve, 1992, this exhibition reflects the richness of thought and experimentation undertaken by more than thirty artists whose work reflects the fundamental tenets of Minimalism.

This is an extraordinary achievement by an artist whose career has spanned more than six decades.

A particular standout in the show is the work of watercolor artist Fahren Feingold, whose ethereal nudes bring to mind romance rather than erotica.

Not Californian will examine the prolific careers of eight seminal Californian artists of the 1970s and 80s, whose work reached an international — rather than only a regional — audience.

In Europe, those artists whose work was most morphologically similar to Nauman's such as Joseph Beuys and Marcel Broodthaers, were much more political than Nauman.

The Exhibition `' ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow,1950 - 1960» features more than 40 artists from 10 countries, the exhibition explores the experimental practices developed by this extensive ZERO network of artists, whose work anticipated aspects of Land art, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art.

«I must have bought more than 100 works at Art Basel,» she said, reeling off the names of artists whose pieces she has bought, including the Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson, the American photographer Cindy Sherman, the American painter Jeff Elrod and the German photographer Andreas Gursky.

John Fare, who himself was present as a sort of phantom host, is an artist whose myth extends much further than his artistic practice.

In 1974 he founded, together with a group of artists, writers, film - makers, performance artists and musicians, the Laboratoire Agit» Art, whose aim was to transform the nature of artistic practice from a formalist, object - bound sensibility to practices based on experimentation and agitation, process rather than product, ephemerality rather than permanence.

Adrian Piper's work Mythic Being (1973) and the work of Sara Greenberger Rafferty, an artist whose critique of social roles in stand - up comedy Grabner also curated into the Biennial, appear to have directly influenced Scanlan's choices.The problem with his project is that it functions by exploiting rather than critiquing the severely limited representation of minority artists at the Whitney, and in the art world more broadly.

Similarly Robert Motherwell, whose more than 200 Elegies to the Spanish Republic (1965 — 75) are contemplative; the version in this gallery in particular was inspired by Pollock's Mural, doubling as a memorial to that artist.

No artist has the power to make you stop in your tracks more than the Turrell, whose contribution to contemporary art was recognised with ground - breaking concurrent solo exhibitions in 2013 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).