Sentences with phrase «wall text tells»

(The wall text tells us that this work ``... communicates... the massive brutality of a catastrophe.»

So the wall text tells us in a new joint exhibition by the two Atlanta - based artists at the Swan Coach House Gallery through February 17.

So the wall text tells us in at a new joint exhibition by the two Atlanta - based artists at the Swan Coach House Gallery through...

At the opening of Comix Creatrix, just when I was hoping to reveal that this genre is not restricted to narrow boundaries, a large wall text tells us what we are looking at: «The art of comics is a distinct form of illustration.

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On the interior walls of these burial places were carved religious texts as well as many other things that tell of the life and thought of the ancient Egyptians.

Suspenseful text and wordless double - page spreads tell the story of young Hugo, an orphan secretly living in the walls of a train station where he labors to complete a mysterious invention left by his father.

The wall text, bending over further than usual to make Alÿs look serious, will tell you it's a work about «the present chaotic state of Mexico» [Hat tip Roberta Smith for the quote].

(It's hard to tell, exactly — as is the artist's wont, there is no explanatory wall text or title provided for the piece.)

Except for a crisp and adulatory wall text introducing the artist, «Waiting for God» — which kicked off with a 1999 text painting that tells the story of a young woman's inability to become pregnant, and concluded with The Cockpit (2008), a work that debuted on South African television — eschewed captioning altogether.

Add to this curator Julia Slaff's intelligently written story - telling wall texts and labels and what you have is a near - perfect installation.

Loosely organized by general themes unobtrusively embedded in the wall text such as «Abstraction to Figuration,» «Biomorphic Abstraction,» and «Abstract Expressionist Ceramics,» the curatorial rhetoric deployed in The Ceramic Presence is one of showing rather than telling.

In an attempt to carve out a niche for itself, and avoid Manichean oversimplification, the Hamburger Bahnhof show employs extensive wall text to tell the complex stories behind art that was both celebrated and despised at different times by the regime.

Waters» actual sources of inspiration, we are told by wall text, are typographic.

In the age of hyper - conceptual art, the story about the art often resides less in the object than in the stories that are told about it: the curator talks and wall text descriptions.

But who needs wall text to tell you about the hardships of the poor, when you can see the homeless RIGHT OUT FRONT OF THE CONVENTION CENTER.

As the sky turned deep purple, Christov - Bakargiev told me about a wall text by Lawrence Weiner, which she had installed in the 19th - century Italian workers» building known as the Casa Garibaldi, even though the space was declared unsafe for visitors because it didn't have an emergency exit.