Sentences with phrase «urban fabric of»

In Dallas, the transformation of a former freeway into an innovative green space has been described as creating a «natural landscape that heals the urban fabric of the city.»

I am very excited that bike share will become an essential part of the urban fabric of the Bay Area.»

The theme resonates with this year's Bienal de La Habana, which will be held at locations across the city, integrating into the urban fabric of Havana and its communities.

The meshing of «Urban Insights» with «Who's Afraid of Politics» drew attention to the fact that the urban fabric of Timișoara is itself deeply rooted in political uprisings.

Limo 227 NE 2nd Street Miami, FL 33132 Known for architectural scale interventions that unsettle the functionality of quotidian infrastructure, Los Angeles based artist Nate Page created a dramatic temporary intervention into the urban fabric of Miami's downtown.

She has traveled extensively in Europe, Mexico and South America finding inspiration for her work in the art, architecture and urban fabric of these places.

Her extensive travels in Europe, Mexico and South America and the art, architecture and urban fabric of those places bring inspiration for her artwork.

All of these changes amplify and shift the features of the space, opening up new possibilities for imagining the shape of space within the urban fabric of Vancouver.

He looks also to the relationship of Wave Hill to the urban fabric of New York, particularly to the increasing development of the city and the potential commoditization of natural resources and public amenities.

Kim Córdova looks at recent evolutions in Francis Alÿs's interventions in the social and urban fabrics of cities, as he moves from Mexico City to a more international context.

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Only insofar as the congregation as texture strengthened the fabric of urban community would it gain its true nature.

Using our custom certified organic cotton blends, low - impact dyes, and other trendsetting fabrics, we hope to inspire families to be make better choices and of course - do it all in urban style!

A grassroots movement dedicated to protecting and preserving the diversity and uniqueness of the urban fabric in New York City, #SaveNYC officially endorses the Small Business Jobs Survival Act and rejects all other plans currently on the table.

Using custom certified organic cotton blends, low - impact dyes, and other trendsetting fabrics, they hope to inspire families to be make better choices and of course - do it all in urban style!

«Urban» is the name for the fabric that went with one of the previous versions (the Gabe B. 2 I believe); the current fabric they're using is named Edition.

... The particular histories of slavery, Jim Crow, urban segregation, racism, and patriarchy that are woven into the fabric of American politics have created a specific citizenship imperative for African - American women — a role and image to which they are expected to conform.

THR: Can The Grandmaster also be seen as a chronicle of how Hong Kong became what it is, given that it ends with all the martial arts experts settling in the city and becoming part of its urban fabric?

 Spider - Man: Shattered Dimensions is a thrilling action - packed adventure set in four dramatically different universes from legendary Spider - Man lore, each with a distinct Spider - Man armed with unique skills and strengths, in one original storyline. Players will be transported to new locations never before seen in a Spider - Man game, from lush jungles and dusty deserts to various urban terrains. Acclaimed Marvelcomic book writer Dan Slott takes players on a mission to contain the magical energy of the Tablet of Order and Chaos, which has been shattered and sent hurtling across parallel universes, and battle fan - favorite villains in a quest to restore the fabric of reality.

First, by ignoring the closure of urban Catholic schools, we have not only allowed high - quality seats to disappear, we've also allowed the further deterioration of the threadbare social fabric of fraying communities.

Jim Buford, president of the St. Louis Urban League and founder of the Black Leadership Roundtable, explained, «public schools are engrained into the fabric of the community.»

Plus, the contrast of textured and smooth fabrics gives it a decidedly dynamic and urban feel.

A fine example of the Swahili coastal trading towns of East Africa, the destination has maintained its urban fabric and contains many fine buildings that reflect its particular culture.

In a prime tourist location these new one, two and three bedroom apartments offer luxury accommodation including easy living with plenty of space, ample storage and modern chic that blends with Kingscote's historic urban fabric.

In terms of the design, Puro will have a more cosmopolitan and urban feel that's underscored with a mix of contemporary art, smart leather furniture and earth - tone fabrics that offset the pure white setting.

While he started looking at how abstraction is embedded in the urban fabric, it has grown into a far more personal project: a psycho - geographical map of each city he visits.

In the 1960s Inokuma began to paint works based on imagined aerial views of cities, reducing three dimensional topography to two dimensional patterns which at once suggest the energy and visual complexity of the urban fabric yet remain completely abstract.

The artist, who was born in Brussels in 1958, has undertaken an extensive examination of the museum and the surrounding urban fabric, creating numerous new pieces that take up the entire ground - floor gallery.

The monograph is also a visual record of contemporary New York's urban fabric, indelibly transformed by the designer's innovative approach to environmental graphics and identity design: from MoMA to Charter Schools; from the High Line to Shake Shack.

Focusing on the developments of gentrification and on how community is constructed in this particular neighborhood, the feminine cinematographic gaze engages with the social and historical fabric of the urban geography, the spatial legacies of Apartheid, the class and gender based diversity of life experience and the current transformations in Jeppestown.

By applying the visual vocabulary and conventions of glorification, wealth, prestige, and history to subject matter drawn from the urban fabric, Wiley makes his subjects and their stylistic references juxtaposed inversions of each other, forcing ambiguity and provocative perplexity to pervade his imagery.

The Bigfoot sculpture on display at The Fabric Workshop and Museum is part of a series exploring myth and urban legend.

Employing found materials culled from urban detritus and popular media such as postcards, wallpaper, stickers, and fabric, Wesselmann executed several discrete but related series of collages that variously depict figures (both anonymous and known), interiors, and still lifes.

From the eroded fibers of human industry and the tide of urban development to the awareness of ourselves as part of the fabric of a larger universe and a connection to all things, Drew exhumes the visions of the past in a mirror of organic reality that reveals the resonance of life - the nature of nature.

The City Lost and Found explores photographic and cinematic responses to the changing fabric of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles that contributed to a reconsideration of cities in popular media and urban policy during this period.

Artists have been adding exclamation points to the tattered urban fabric for years, as several examples found within the comfy confines of Battery Park City and elsewhere attest.

Site95 curated projects include: the «Dead in August» series in New York, «P2V: P. Scott Cunningham and Antoine Lefebvre» at Dimensions Variable, Miami, «Trombly Rodriguez: The Fabric of a Space» at the Abrons Arts Center, New York, «Urban Interactions» at the Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC, and outdoor public commissions in Miami, Florida with Patrick McDonough and Sam Trioli.

«Art Conversation with Filipa Ramos,» Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy, December 12, 2013 «Conversation in Urban Art: Theaster Gates and Steve Edwards,» The Women's Board, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, December 10, 2013 «To Dig Constantly, Mining Myself,» The Rapp Lecture in Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, November 20, 2013 «Theaster Gates: A Way of Working,» Sears Crosstown Arts Visiting Artist Series, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN, November 16, 2013 «Artist Talk: «12 Ballads for Huguenot House» with Theaster Gates,» Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL November 11, 2013 «Du Bois: The Early Social Practitioner with Theaster Gates,» University of Massachusetts Amherst Architecture + Design Public Lecture Series, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, November 4, 2013 «Walid Raad and Theaster Gates in Conversation with Mohsen Mostafavi, «On Art and Cities»,» Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, October 24, 2013 «A Way of Working,» Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics Public Lecture, The New School, New York, NY, September 18 — 19, 2013 «Thought Leadership Speaker Series,» Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, June 12, 2013 «Urban Think & Drink: Theaster Gates,» Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago, IL, May 22, 2013 «Artist Talk: Theaster Gates with David Levin & Hamza Walker,» Museum of Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 18, 2013 «To Make the Thing that Makes the Thing,» 16th Annual Benesse Public Lecture, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, April 3, 2013 «Current Perspectives Lecture Series: Theaster Gates,» Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, March 28, 2013 «I Believe in Places,» Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, March 27, 2013 «Architecture Lecture: Theaster Gates,» University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI, March 20, 2013 «To Make the Thing That Makes the Thing,» The University of Pennsylvania School of Design, February 2013 «Leading Ideas Speaker Series: Theaster Gates,» in conjunction with Our Literal Speed, The Banff Center, Banff, Alberta, Canada, January 30, 2013 «Theaster Gates: Soul Manufacturing Corporation: To make the Thing that Makes the Things,» Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, January 21, 2013

Mehretu's «Cairo» (from 2013), recalls the Freudian overlays of history and the unconscious that are the essence of the megalopolis lifestyle; Bradford's «Corner of Desire and Piety» (2008) refers to the social failures of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe and by extension the frailty and irrationality of the urban fabric; and the El Anatsui tapestry, «Red Black,» 2010, undulating on the wall, recalls the skin of the museum itself, woven of many pieces, with a curious declivity dramatizing its strength.

Site95 curated projects include: «P2V: P. Scott Cunningham and Antoine Lefebvre» at Dimensions Variable, Miami, «Trombly Rodriguez: The Fabric of a Space» at the Abrons Arts Center, New York, «Urban Interactions» at the Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC, and outdoor public commissions in Miami, Florida with Patrick McDonough and Sam Trioli.

Focused on domesticity (and lack thereof), technology, and the urban fabric, they have a show at Native Informant in Mayfair and are also participating in a Frieze Project, part of a program sponsored by the fair itself.

Whether adapting to a venue or altering the urban fabric, Sze's patchwork compositions seem to mirror the improvisational quality of cities, labor, and everyday life.

Often addressing the use of feminine gendered adornment in the construct of urban masculinity within popular culture, Patterson embellishes photographic tapestries by hand with beading, sequins, fabric and jewelry.

Included will be drawings and sculptures which explore the lives of teenagers and the ordinary people (and subcultures) who make up the fabric of urban life in Philadelphia.

His recently published book, Canto a MATANZAS, is dedicated to the historical urban fabric and architecture of his native city of Matanzas, Cuba.

Repponen, who has a background in architecture, is clearly interested in urban space, exploring how the removal of urban fabric changes our perception of buildings.

Or maybe it's that down - east guard - dog the Mercer curators have posted at the entrance of their gallery: Colette Urban's hound (the artists have nicknamed him Spot), a rather sinister, lifesize statue made of branches and twigs, worn feathers, scraps of fabric, all lashed together with twine and wire, and standing in a circle of plaited, dry grass.

Here is a sideways view of the genre with a sense of the urban fabric at the end of the twentieth century.

Focusing on the physical fabric of the urban built environment and the hyper - city, her lens - based practice meticulously captures and transcribes its viral quality and alienating sense of the spectacular, while always maintaining an objective distance.

The legacy of echt - modernist architecture and planning, for example — a creed of formal sobriety in the service of rationalized material (and social) technologies that was uniquely influential on the condition of the twentieth - century urban fabric — has long provided raw material for any number of theoretical and artifactual recapitulations.

As well as the forms and patterns of flowers and leaf shapes that find their way into her painting and mixed media oeuvre, Milhazes has incorporated the rich atmosphere of Rio via its cheap, colourful fabrics and jewellery, its embroidery and folk art, and references to its rich and multi-facetted urban architectural mix.