Sentences with phrase «through contemporary works»

This exhibition examines evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through contemporary works of art and rare historical printed media.
examines evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through contemporary works of art and rare historical printed media.
Japanese Art at Skinner includes fine paintings, calligraphy, and woodblock prints, pottery, sculpture, netsuke, and textiles from antiquities through contemporary works.

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His work is contemporary not because of its rejection of the past but through its judicious and organic development of history's architectural best.
The conception of peace as an ordered tranquillity which must continually be worked for through history contrasts markedly with the utopian ideal of peace found in some religious and nonreligious thinking about the possibilities of international order, not to mention with the empirical reality of conflict within states and conflicts between states and nonstate actors in the contemporary world.
Luther in these instances was anticipating our contemporary biblical scholarship, which was a later German gift to the Christian world through the Graf Welhausen School in the 19th century and through the work of Rudolf Bultmann in the 20th.
This 13 minute long video presents a compelling historical and contemporary portrait of the Great Marsh through the voices of those who have worked to protect it for future generations.
This oversized board book features a variety of facial expressions through 12 works of contemporary art from world artists.
About Site - Queensland's premier visual arts institution, the Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), connects people and art through a dynamic program of Australian and international exhibitions that showcase works from a diverse range of historical and contemporary artists.
The arrival of what appears to be the most purely non-fiction element in the film works to bind together what has been gleaned from the other sections, shot in Argentina, Mozambique and the Philippines: the meandering lives of contemporary youth in far - flung corners of the globe are increasingly connected through the medium of technology.
The sexuality might be a little less subtextual (though there's nothing explicit here), but the testy, shifting power plays in the relationship between Tom and Frances, which serves as the heart of the film, bring to mind a contemporary update of Highsmith's work, albeit seen through Dolan's lens, making it of a piece with his earlier films, particularly once Sarah (Evelyne Brochu), the co-worker posing as the late Guillaume's girlfriend, arrives on the scene to complicate things further.
Evocative, riveting and ultimately contemporary in a roundabout way, Moon is a superb mood piece, sublimely cradled by director Duncan Jones, filtered through tireless work from star Sam Rockwell.
I move to New York in 1976 and every day I comb through screening schedules and 16 mm catalogs for the works of Arzner, Vera Chytilova, Ida Lupino, Agnes Varda and Lois Weber, and I think: So many forgotten female auteurs — but apart from Elaine May, so few contemporary female ones.
Working from her own script and with the backing of VICE Studios and Seaside Productions, Foulkes will guide her leads Mia Wasikowska and Damon Herriman through a contemporary, often violent reinterpretation of the 16th century marionette play, «Punch and Judy».
Through these knowing touches to works of genre both contemporary and classic, Annihilation can, on occasion, feel a little derivative.
Yet even though Merchant - Ivory - Jhabvala cinema is still consumerist, Le Divorce gives a few glimpses into contemporary French cinema through the casting alone: Melvil Poupaud, who plays Charles - Henri, is a Raul Ruiz discovery and regular, and Nathalie Richard, who plays one of Charles - Henri's relatives and was also in A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, has worked with Jacques Rivette and Olivier Assayas.
She works through all these disciplines, which is so relevant in contemporary art.»
Through the Development strand, the inquiry work will consider contemporary opportunities and challenges for cultivating deep thinking and understanding.
Currently he is working in a strategic and staff development role promoting contemporary pedagogy through the molding of teaching and learning with technology.
Through her work, Ross uses contemporary art as a catalyst for civic engagement by young people.
The use of drama allowed students to learn from and evaluate their own work and the work of their peers through active participation in historical content that they connected to contemporary times.
«They should have the same conditions as their contemporaries who study through the medium of English, where there is no interference in the original work.
The completion of the work of the task force coincides with contemporary federal initiatives that have placed a priority on supporting science based approaches through encouraging and, in some cases, mandating the use of evidence - based programs.
The Broads work to create lasting positive change through institutions like high - quality public charter schools, genomics and stem cell research centers and contemporary art museums like The Broad in downtown Los Angeles.
Through readings, assignments, group - work and interactive class discussions, students explore critical foundations, contemporary issues and evidence - based strategies in English language teaching.
New development processes and computer tools allowed us to work through the programme at a quicker pace than anything previously; new technologies and materials combine strength with lightness; and Jaguar craftsmanship, too, has explored new, exciting contemporary avenues.»
Part history, part activist manual, that book, which remains in print 20 years later, typifies most of Hoose's work: solid information is tied to contemporary and historical events through stories that make the reader care.
The sleek and contemporary design is the work of award - winning architects Gillespie & Steel and uses some of the island's most choice materials, connecting it closely with its coastal position through the clever layout of the interiors and grounds.
Riviera Nayarit offers an authentic cultural heritage combined with a dynamic contemporary art scene through a combination of traditional Huichol art, Mexican handicraft artisans and the contemporary work of many Mexican and international artists drawn to the area.
The quest to stop Dal Gren follows the formula laid by many of Paladin's Quest «s 16 - bit JRPG contemporaries: Travel from town to town solving problems, working your way through vast dungeons along the way.
Arguing that this kind of conscious practice — which now constitutes the avant - garde of the computer game medium — can inspire new working methods for designers, Flanagan offers a model for designing that will encourage the subversion of popular gaming tropes through new styles of game making, and proposes a theory of alternate game design that focuses on the reworking of contemporary popular game practices.
At MoMA, visitors wandered through the recent exhibition «Contemporary Art from the Collections,» which included works from 1970 to the 2000s.
The piece is striking, sly, and layered — and for sale as part of a 65 - work benefit show for the storied Foundation for Contemporary Arts that is on view at Zwirner through January 28.
Said Valdés Figueroa, «CIFO is a remarkable, activist resource that fosters appreciation of contemporary Latin American art around the world, both through its exhibitions and its support of ambitious, groundbreaking works from some of the region's most exiting artists.
Through dynamic spreads, you'll discover the Berlin - based studio Hort's transformative campaign for Nike; Base's responsive, flexible logo for Munich's Haus der Kunst museum; how design agency Bond worked with ArtRabbit, a website and app that catalogs contemporary art exhibitions, on a clever identity rollout; and how John Haslam, managing director of bespoke paper company G.
The exhibition explores the history of American modernist ballet and new representations of the body through a combination of contemporary works by Mauss and historical works from the 1930s and 1940s in ballet design, the visual arts, theater, and fashion.
Opening at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City on Saturday, May 10 and continuing to August 1, 2014, the exhibition will present work from Resnick's entire six - decade career, including a rare 1937 portrait; quintessential Abstract Expressionist paintings from the 1940s and»50s; a selection of the large allover paintings of the 1960s through 1980s for which Resnick is best known; and a group of late figurative works.
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by José Carlos Teixeira, on view in the Imprint Gallery January 13 through May 20.
Its upcoming show, for example, will explore the theme of desire through photo and video work from 14 international, contemporary artists; previous exhibitions have documented the gay subculture that thrived around the Hudson River piers, focused on the works of Paul Thek and his associates, and highlighted the stitched works of John Chaich.
From his earliest works, Mellors has explored themes tied to contemporary society, from mediation and cultural systems, to technology, art and civilization through the use of video, installations, puppets and animatronics equipped with an irreverent and cutting irony.
«El Anatsui is perhaps the most significant living African artist working on the continent today,» said Baratta, citing his «originality of artistic vision, his long - term commitment to formal innovation, and his assertion through his work of the place of Africa's artistic and cultural traditions in international contemporary art.»
The contemporary art survey — a mix of performance, film, photography, sculpture, painting and other work — runs through May 27 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
His work reveals the relationships and discrepancies between personal and public experience as seen through the lens of contemporary media.
La Fragua artist residency is looking for artists who are working with moving projects that aim to dynamically reinterpret the rural environment through contemporary artistic practices and experiments.
Next to Nothing presents a group exhibition that revisits early Modern figurative painting and Symbolist poetry through the recent work of 12 contemporary artists.
At Fourteen30 Contemporary, Rafferty, a participant in this year's Whitney Biennial, presents new work concerning language and the body, a connection bridged through the concept of «figure drawing,» which applies both to the classical practice of artists observing and representing a model as well as using the innate elasticity of words to suggest multiple, sometimes contradictory meanings.
4 February — 5 March 2016 6 Burlington Gardens, London, W1S 3ET Private view: Thursday 11 February 2016, 6 — 8 pm London — Pace London is pleased to present The Calder Prize 2005 — 2015, an exhibition exploring the enduring impact of Alexander Calder through the work of six contemporary artists.
Each artist is making a significant contribution to the contemporary art dialogue in New England today through the originality and dedication to excellence in their work.
Frieze produces Frieze Masters Magazine, an annual publication that looks at historical art through a contemporary lens, reflecting the diverse range of work included in the fair.
Apsara DiQuinzio, our Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Phyllis C. Wattis, MATRIX Curator, has a number of wonderful small - scale MATRIX shows in the works, and we are doing several borrowed solo exhibitions that are emblematic of the kind of art that we love, such as a survey of Ana Mendieta's films [Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, on view November 9, 2016, through February 12, 2017].
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