Sentences with phrase «urban city scene»

Wonderful mid-century urban city scene influenced by Richard Diebenkorn by Sally Kissinger Wilt (American, 1936 - 2004).

Not exact matches

It is not surprising that the slums in our cities, where there is an intense struggle for basic necessities, have become scenes of violent conflict, M.N. Srinivas, the eminent sociologist, observes «The richest soil for communal frenzy to build on is poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and slum — like conditions — all of which are m plenty in urban India» (India Today, January 16 - 31, 1993).

Their arrangement has played a major role in the dramatic revitalization a decaying urban neighborhood and has a huge impact on the city's art scene.

Montréal, Québec City and Gatineau — all of which are nicely situated alongside great waterways — each present a different facet of urban life in Québec, while sharing certain assets: an exciting cultural scene, top - notch hotels and gourmet offerings that reflect the very best culinary traditions.

Also, crime rates are lower in rural areas than in urban city centers, and police response times are much slower in rural areas than in urban areas due to the lower population density which means long distances from a police station to the average crime scene.

Fahy has been working behind the scenes to make sure the new Wadsworth is built in the city, and in February she wrote an opinion piece that was published by the Times Union advocating an urban campus.

This vibrant urban sprawl, inspired by the colorful buildings of the real - life city of Guanajuato, is as marvelously imagined as the cerebral landscape of Inside Out or Monsters Inc.'s bustling Monstropolis, another densely packed world of wonders that's both familiar — there's a scene about skeleton bureaucracy that kills, I swear — and otherworldly.

He's even opted to intercut urban «rap video» style bookmarks of the city in between scenes to avoid the typical formulaic ruts so many action films experience.

Director Harold Daniels is no visual stylist and there's a slackness to many of the scenes, but he comes to life in a nighttime murder scene that he transforms into a model of noir violence, an urban street fight in the dark of the empty city picked out in shards of light (credit likely goes to cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, RKO's crime movie vet), and the screenplay co-written by Steve Fisher has a bite of irony in its twists.

With Table Mountain and the Cape of Good Hope both in close proximity, nature is never far away, but within the city itself, you'll find plenty of urban charm, such as a world - class restaurant scene, fashionable shops, and modern art galleries, including the newly opened Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.

South Africa's largest city is a hotbed of urban renewal, with a trendy dining scene, nightlife, and shopping to rival any international city.

With a colorful rooftop showcasing spectacular city views and a three - story light sculpture of L.A.'s infamous freeways in the sky lobby, the property brings the indoor / outdoor lifestyle to life while drawing design inspiration from the city's car culture and urban scene, foothills and classic beach towns.

He creates melancholic urban scenes, often depicting a lonely or less glamorous side of city living.

Although Weegee is best known for his bleak shots of New York City crime scenes in the 1930s and «40s, he also had an eye for the less gritty, more playful aspects of urban life.

Featuring bright tones to capture the Mexican sunlight, these later works are a departure from his earlier scenes of nighttime city streets and urban interiors.

While his urban scenes of Manhattan and the New York City environs are especially coveted by the current market, Wengenroth was most adept at creating sincere yet vivid simulacra of the New England littoral and interior.

Up now is «The Urban Experience,» an exhibition that features paintings of city scenes.

Via the gallery, «Devoid of figures, Wolfson's scenes are primarily focused on the architecture and design of his chosen urban locations, but most importantly on the leftover evidence of those city dwellers that have been and gone.

He is primarily based in New York City where he has painted numerous cityscapes and urban scenes.

Approximately forty of Mark Rothko's rarely exhibited Depression - era urban scenes, still lifes and nudes from the 1930s and 1940s will be on view at PaceWildenstein (32 East 57th Street in New York City) from October 31, 2001 through January 5, 2002.

«That Rothko's images possess a distopian air during a post-utopian era of economic decline does require us to account for them in relation to the desolate culture of the urban scene, a conception of the city that is often expressed in turn as the experience of a peculiar space.

In capturing daily city life, some photographers produced abstract and dislocating views of vast urban architecture, while others depicted much more intimate, narrative scenes of abject poverty.

Whether these be the idyllic landscapes of his childhood memories, before rampant urbanization began its sprawl outwards from the city centers of India, or more current scenes of environmental degradation and urban decay, the balance (or imbalance) between humanity and its habitats has remained the primary focus of his work.

Helen Little, curator of the exhibition at the Tate Gallery, said: «We've brought together over 90 of what we think are the very best of Lowry's urban scenes and industrial landscapes, really to argue for Lowry's status as Britain's pre-eminent painter of the industrial city.»

Three Photographers / Six Cities April 30 — September 25, 2016 Julien Levy Gallery A unique look at life in six major African cities — Cairo, Nairobi, Lagos, Johannesburg, Bamako, and Tombouctou — through the eyes of three contemporary African photographers: Akinbode Akinbiyi's careful observation of urban centers; Ananias Léki Dago's off - beat urban scenes; and Seydou Camara's examination of endangered Islamic manuscripts inCities April 30 — September 25, 2016 Julien Levy Gallery A unique look at life in six major African cities — Cairo, Nairobi, Lagos, Johannesburg, Bamako, and Tombouctou — through the eyes of three contemporary African photographers: Akinbode Akinbiyi's careful observation of urban centers; Ananias Léki Dago's off - beat urban scenes; and Seydou Camara's examination of endangered Islamic manuscripts incities — Cairo, Nairobi, Lagos, Johannesburg, Bamako, and Tombouctou — through the eyes of three contemporary African photographers: Akinbode Akinbiyi's careful observation of urban centers; Ananias Léki Dago's off - beat urban scenes; and Seydou Camara's examination of endangered Islamic manuscripts in Mali.

2006 The Downtown Show, The New York Art Scene 1974 - 1984, New York University Grey Art Gallery, New York, US Onestar Shop by Hans Schabus, Art Metropole, Toronto, CA Public Space / Two Audiences, Works and Documents from the Herbert Collection, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ES Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, NO Location Shots, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, BE Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, FR Cerealart, Cerealart Lounge Pier 90, The Armory Show, New York, US Artists for Chinati, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, US The Early Show: Video from 1969 - 1979, curated by Constance De Jong, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, US Onestar Press, The First Five Years, The Engholm Engelhorn Gallerie, Vienna, AT Message Personnel, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR Not Quite Ten Years Without Martin Kippenberger, a project by Chris Hamond, Bar MOT for Kippenberger (MOT), London, UK That Was Then This Is Now, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL Czesław Miłosz / To Allen Ginsberg, Dvir Gallery, Tel - Aviv, IL Mental Image - Wortwerke und Textbilder, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, CH Conceptual Comics, curated by AA Bronson, Max Schumann, Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff Alberta, CA Libri Books Bücher, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Torino), IT The Shape of Sound, Radio Arte Mobile, Sound Art Museum, Rome, IT Wall Works - Sol LeWitt, C.A. Swintak, Lawrence Weiner, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, CA I: An Exhibition in Three Acts, Futura Gallery, Prague, CZ I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, Lithographs, Publications and Ephemera from The Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Printed Matter, Inc., New York, US On the Ball, Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, DE Group Exhibition, curated by Peter Kogler, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, AT The Title As The Curator's Art Piece, A Summer Show by Mathieu Copeland (spoken word exhibition), Blow de la Barra, London, UK Into Me / Out Of Me, curated Klaus Bisenbach, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, US; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE A Bit Of Matter And A Little Bit More, screening Turtle, curated by Michael Shamberg, Chelsea Space, London, UK Moving On: Motion, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, DE The Known and the Unknown, Gallerie Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DK As If By Magic, Bethlehem Peace Center, West Bank & Art School Palestine, Palestine, IL The Materialization of Sensibility: Art & Alchemy, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, US The Urban Forest Project, Times Square Information Station, Times Square, New York, US Word, curated by L. Brandon Krall, Deborah Colton Gallery, New York, US Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, curated by Jean - Marc Bustamante, City of Toulouse, FR Contraband, curated by Carolina Grau, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, BR São Paulo Bienale, Escola São Paulo, São Paulo, BR Busy Going Crazy, collection Sylvio Perlstein, La Maison Rouge, Paris, FR The RxArt Ball, New York, US The Title As The Curator's Art Piece (spoken word exhibition) curated by Matthieu Copeland, Blow de la Barra, London, UK Concrete Language, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA Project 2023 - Arteast Collection 2000 +23, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, SL Break Even, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, US Open, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US Wrestle, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annadale - on - Hudson, New York, US Ideal City - Invisible Cities, curated by Sabrina von der Ley & Markus Richter, Europe Projects, Zamość, PL Into A Journey, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, DE Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery Of Images, designed by John Baldessari, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, US Art Metropole: The Top 100, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA Poster, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US Pandora's Reisen, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Dedica - 20 Anni Della Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, curated by Julia Draganovic, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, IT Good Riddance, curated by Claire Davies & Sam Gathercole, MOT, London, UK Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, curated by Susan Davidson, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, CN Not For Sale, curated by Alanna Heiss, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US Il Faut Rendre À Cézanne, The Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR

Most of the paintings displayed in this area concentrate on New York scenes, in a variety of styles, in which artists investigated the pictorial possibilities of these new subjects: city people, construction sites, urban entertainments, and bustling traffic.

Though he is primarily based in New York City, where he has painted numerous cityscapes and urban scenes such as his series of four paintings, entitled «Four Spots Along a Razor - Wire Fence», [4] Downes has traveled widely, creating a significant number of landscape paintings on site in Maine and Texas, of subjects including the harbor of Portland, Maine and the Donald Judd structures in Marfa, Texas.

Each transformation of the city, each territorial reorganization, each new building or multiplex mega-market, articulates new forms of relationship or estrangement from the urban scene.

The term «Ashcan School» - first used in print in the book Art in America in Modern Times (1934) edited by Holger Cahill and Alfred H Barr - refers to a loose - knit group of American painters active in New York (c.1900 - 15), whose works depicted scenes of everyday urban life in the city's poorer areas.

The film works as a time capsule, as it takes its viewers into the forgotten era of the city, depicting its vibrant urban art scene, but also as a redemption story of an artist who by the time he reached the fame and was in high demand, also fell as a victim of drug addiction.

Other urban landscapes are explored in works by artists Oliver Comerford, whose recently acquired painting Out Here III depicts a night - time scene on the peripherary of the city, and Beat Klein and Hendrijke Kuhne, whose installation Property comments on how our cities expand at an alarming rate, encroaching on the countryside.

Her films about cities, like Midtown, Chicago, «Los Angeles», and Rio depict urban scenes, capturing the architecture, politics, industry and leisure which define a specific place.

Jacinta presents a collection of nude studies and abstract urban scenes inspired by her walks around the city and along the Liffey.

Focusing on the best of Lowry's urban scenes and industrial landscapes including Tate's Coming Out of School 1927 and The Pond 1950 alongside significant loans, this timely and carefully selected exhibition aims to re-assess Lowry's contribution to art history and to argue for his achievement as Britain's pre-eminent painter of the industrial city.

One Reason It Makes the Cut: A sure sign that the grassroots cycling scene has fully blossomed: Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade and former teammate LeBron James regularly joined 3,000 - plus passionate urban cyclists on the city's monthly Critical Mass ride.

But another excerpt from the movie is just as revealing about what it really means to be truly resilient — and this one comes from a former teacher turned urban farmer who is making a living from the land on less than half - an - acre of abandoned inner city real estate.We have, of course, covered the urban farming scene in Detroit many times over here on TreeHugger.

At 6.44 %, the Texas capital city's growing reputation as a progressive, young epicenter goes against the grain of some of the state's conservative - leaning mores — as such, it's evolved into an urban hotspot for young professionals in the tech scene, not far removed from the likes of Portland, San Francisco or Seattle.

Jeff Speck, an urban planner and author of «Walkable City,» said Lancaster has a lot of things going for it, including numerous downtown anchors, great restaurants, a thriving arts scene, history and other cultural activities.