Sentences with phrase «through political protest»

Brackens has worked through political protest and personal pain in creating compositions that incorporate joy, pleasure, and imagination.

In a similar vein, Brackens has worked through political protest and personal pain in creating these new compositions that incorporate joy, pleasure and imagination.

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Macron, who left political rivals reeling when he won power barely a year after launching a new centrist movement, has already rattled his way through an overhaul of French labour rules, in spite of street protests and a pushback from unions.

Though clergy and ecclesiastical officers must refrain from partisan political activity, as I have cautioned elsewhere, condemning the taking of innocent lives is not partisan, whether through protesting abortion clinics or (as the British clergy did in World War II) denouncing a government for bombing civilian targets.

Through the poignant juxtaposition of citizenship and slavery, young people's protest against attacks on their economic activity and more broadly against the employment crisis, reflects their efforts to force their way to political recognition, rather than existing a political space that seems to exclude their voices and needs.

«Al Qaida is now weaker than at any time in the decade since 9/11 - and political progress through peaceful protest in the Middle East and North Africa has shown it to be increasingly irrelevant to the future.»

Marshall says she and other advocates have learned, through the fracking fight, where years of protests eventually led Cuomo to ban the natural gas drilling process, that applying political pressure can work.

Abstract: In this article I examine the successes that led to the toppling of both the Tunisian and Egyptian authoritarian regimes through non-violent protest, as well as some of the failures of the leaderless youth movements to accede to political power following the «downfall of the regime.»

Real societal change comes through the political process, and I would challenge those «protesting» to form a new political party, and articulate a distinctive set of views, so that average Americans could understand what they stand for.

About An Incomplete History Through the lens of the Whitney's collection, An Incomplete History of Protest looks at how artists from the 1940s to the present have confronted the political and social issues of their day.

Where the artist's previous work pointed to the instability of capitalism and often included photographs taken by the artist at political protests, the works in the current exhibition refer to the rise of the Bauhaus and Deutscher Werkbund and their imminent destruction through the Nazi regime.

Beginning with her early photographic series Women of Allah (1993 - 1997), and continuing through her current practice, Neshat has consistently and fluently probed issues of gender, power, displacement, protest, identity, and the space between the personal and the political with a singular and powerful aesthetic.

The Dreams section presents future - oriented and activist art through political posters and graphics, the publication as conceptual art project, cinematic protest, and the legacies of utopian architecture.

Last year Vélez was featured in the Whitney Biennial, and a version of this piece was a prominent part of his display (which referred to the path that a review he wrote, «White Privilege in Criticism,» took through social media over the course of a year in which NATO protests, outrage over the Trayvon Martin verdict, and other political flashpoints occurred.)

Along with headliners Walid Raad and Khalid Rabah, standout contributions were Rabih Mroue's controversial political play How Nancy Wished that Everything Was an April Fool's Joke (2007), originally banned in Lebanon and then later allowed to take the stage after public protest, and Sharif Waked's video satire about what clothing to wear through a checkpoint, Chic Points (2003).

Yet there is a somewhat political tone running through the work as well, with Sam Durant's pop - ish coloured light boxes, like protest placards calling for Basel fair - goers to think a little deeper about their social context, and work by legendary second - wave feminist artist Judy Chicago on show at Jessica Silverman Gallery.

Ezawa's material ranges in source from the iconic to the obscure, from commerce to politics, to entertainment and art: from the televised footage of the reading of the verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial through Richard Burton's and Elizabeth Taylor's on / off - screen marital strife John Lennon, Susan Sontag and Joseph Beuys speaking publicly on art as political protest, to the assassinations of two American presidents and the home videos of celebrities.

Edited and designed by Dias (born 1944), the volume moves through the many phases of his varied practice, from his early experimentation at age 19 with visual representations of protest — before the 1964 military coup and at Brazil's political and social climax — to his conceptual production in Milan, his early film work, his works on paper developed in Nepal and the painting practice that has continued throughout his life.

Responding to the controversy surrounding NFL players protesting racial injustice during the national anthem, Galerie Lelong put together a group exhibition of eight contemporary artists who, through various mediums, explore race and inequality in a political system that is becoming increasingly polarized.

Through the lens of the Whitney's collection, An Incomplete History of Protest looks at how artists from the 1940s to the present have confronted the political and social issues of their day.

Moreover, if you look at recent events such as the violent protests through much of the UK and Europe against government cutbacks and austerity, it would appear that the Left are somewhat more inclined to resort to violence in order to advance their political goals.

Sarah van Gelder: In a lot of movements, there's some combination of putting pressure on the political process, through lobbying and so forth; protests out on the street; and building the new society — not asking for permission, just going ahead and doing it.

First, why is it called extremism when you try to «intimidate» companies into making policy decisions you prefer, when that intimidation is done through protest, campaigning and civil disobedience, when the grand old tradition of political lobbying and corporate campaign contributions essential does the same thing?

MEXICO CITY — An organized protest march of about 1,000 Central American migrants slowly traveling through Mexico toward the U.S. border has become a hot - button political issue in Washington,...