Sentences with phrase «when contemporary life»

And how, when contemporary life demands so many different things from contemporary art, do we strike a balance between history and presence, politics and humor?

Not exact matches

Much of contemporary religion is geared toward teaching people how to navigate the first half of their lives, when they're building careers and families.

There is something literally death - defying about the contemporary opposition to cigarettes, a kind of rage that anyone would not choose 2.2 years of «healthy» life over a somewhat shortened and pleasurable existence, a resolute resistance to the intimations of death with which our ancestors knew how to live, and not only when they lit up.

I was one of those cutting edge ministers who was hired by a mainline church to start a «contemporary» service (read: a church service with a live band and worship team instead of an organ and choir) in the late 90's when it was the trendy thing to do.

When a contemporary Christian confesses the death of God he is giving witness to the fact that the Christian tradition is no longer meaningful to him, that the Word is not present in its traditional form, and that God has died in the history in which he lives.

Suppose that a contemporary who had been living abroad returned at a time when the Teacher had only a day or two to live.

Brooks warns contemporary Christians that when we try to engage in public life, we are perceived as prosecuting a «culture war,» one that has «alienated large parts of three generations» of Americans, turning «a rich, complex, and beautiful faith into a public obsession with sex.»

God is our Eternal Contemporary standing in relationship to us through Christ not merely when we are solving problems or launching projects, but at every moment of our lives.

The contemporary student of religion is living at a time when not only the reality but also the very meaning of religion threatens to disappear.

When we see how maturing in the Christian life works out in contemporary institutional terms, we shall see the prophetic note come to full clarity.

When Paul Lehmann in an often quoted sentence said that «God's purpose for human life is to make it and keep it human» he was putting the point in an admirable fashion — which helps to make contemporary people grasp both their high dignity as humans and their defection from that possibility.

When a historian sets out to learn what a person from the past was really like, he looks first for records contemporary with the life of his subject.

By definition, revival starts within the Church, when we recognise more clearly our true identity and calling, turn away from the contemporary idols that compromise our lives and give ourselves unreservedly to God.

When viewed as a general guide to faith rather than as a collection of specific teachings, the Bible can provide a basis for theological reflection and dialogue about every aspect of life for contemporary Christians.

In Galatians 1:13 - 16 he tells of his former life in Judaism, his progress beyond that of many of his contemporaries, his zeal for his ancestral traditions, and his devastation of the Church of God; this situation was transformed when God revealed his Son «in» him so that he might proclaim the gospel among the gentiles.

It is one kind of thing to understand a person when she is my wife in the context of our life together, another to understand her when she is a potential buyer and I an advertiser in the context of contemporary American consumerist culture, still another when she is a client and I a psychiatrist in a psychotherapeutic context, even though these various senses of «to understand» overlap in various ways.

(II Samuel 12:23) When to such influences from ancient racial tradition and from the controlling patterns of contemporary thought was added the fact that prophetic orthodoxy in Israel had held out no hope of a future life for the individual, it is not strange that even in the Old Testament's later writings we have explicit and convinced denials of such hope.

When I see so much war and humankind's hatred for humankind I think wow — how can this ever stop, thinking of both contemporary life and human history.

When too little heed is given to what is revealed of God through the life and ministry of Jesus, there is danger of constructing an ethical system out of something else, whether the «road to happiness» or the demands of justice in the contemporary world.

On the one hand, liturgy has depth but, when repeated week in and week out, can become very dry and formulaic, seeming to reflect a bygone era, making very little connection with contemporary life.

None the less, the contemporary Oxford theologian, Keith Ward (b. 1938), points out that although Charles Darwin spoke mostly of life on earth as a «war of nature», he occasionally struck a different note, as when he wrote, «I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the co-adaptations between all organic beings.»

And an experiment conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health suggests that contemporary Americans tend to slip back into a two - phase sleep pattern when (1) they are denied access to artificial lighting and (2) find themselves living under conditions that simulate winter at high latitudes.

When we hatch the dormant eggs of water fleas from the past and compare them with the contemporary population, we can reconstruct the evolutionary changes that occurred in that population and examine how they have adapted to the rising temperature of the water in which they live.»

This happened once before when Willa Cather's exacting prose (on heartbreaking / beautiful narratives of life on the prairie) was entirely underrated and overshadowed by her male contemporaries!!

When I designed this more sophisticated living room with Nicole Davis (seen below), I used a gray rug in a contemporary graphic print to create a more luxurious feel.

This is one of the downsides of contemporary life; the fact that everyone is constantly connected and therefore able to see when someone is online and not instantly replying to a message.

When you decide to make it a priority, that means you put aside social dollars into your budget so you can attend events, purchase tickets and certainly invest in the personal grooming and wardrobe required to enjoy a sophisticated, contemporary social life.

Adaptation of the 1938 children's book, set in contemporary Manhattan: When a distant father and ruthless businessman (Jim Carrey) inherits six penguins, he soon learns that the balance between work, life and personal space is easier when you add a little unexpected hWhen a distant father and ruthless businessman (Jim Carrey) inherits six penguins, he soon learns that the balance between work, life and personal space is easier when you add a little unexpected hwhen you add a little unexpected help.

When thinking about the 50's you have to remember that the 50's (as any decade) varied depending on where you lived and how you were raised - and this movie comes pretty close to what real life was like for these people - they were literally trapped inside a nightmare which they (and their contemporaries) had created - it's no wonder that a few years later their children would be burning their bras and protesting wars.

A college freshman (Lola Kirke / Tracy) in New York gets a crash course in city life when she befriends her glamorous stepsister - to - be in «Mistress America,» a contemporary screwball comedy from filmmakers Noah Baumbach and G...

Blending the macabre with a wicked sense of humor, director John Landis (National Lampoon's Animal House) delivers a contemporary take on the classic werewolf tale in this story of two American tourists who, while traveling in London, find their lives changed forever when a vicious wolf attacks them during a full moon.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High Where: Red Vic Movie House, 1727 Haight St., 415-668-3994 When: June 9 Why: Amy Heckerling's cynical slice of high - school life, adapted for the screen by first - time scriptwriter Cameron Crowe, is far from the contemporary classic its fans allege it to be, but it does feature a solid cast of future stars — among them, Sean Penn, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker, Nicolas Cage and Jennifer Jason Leigh — and one character, Penn's Jeff Spicoli, who would become a stoner icon for the ages.

If you're as terrified as I am by the content and tone of contemporary political debates in the US, then you will either be greatly cheered or terribly ashamed (or both) when you take a look at a very different approach to dealing with «the other» in our lives.

By offering a strong look at how Franklin succeeded in becoming a major force in gospel music — and failed as a preacher to be as strong a player as contemporaries Martin Luther King and Fred Shuttlesworth in rallying civil rights activism — Nick Salvatore provides important insight on what can happen to leaders when their focus is more on celebrity than on transforming the lives of the communities in which they live.

(General Contemporary from HarperCollins Christian Publishing) General Historical: Faithful by Carol Ashby — When a foolish choice lands one man in a fight for his life, unlikely friendships are born, love blossoms, and broken relationships are restored as his best friend's faith and courage guide the quest to rescue him.

TRAVEL INTERVIEW with Tony Eitnier of Contemporary Nomad Tony and Thomas have been out traveling the world nomadically since 2007, when they packed up their lives in Germany and hit the road.

Choose between a tropical, open - living layout or a more contemporary, two - storey style when you book a Two Bedroom Villa at Kubu, each with two luxuriously appointed bedrooms and ensuite bathrooms.

While works by living artists have always been collected by the MFA — Winslow Homer, Claude Monet, and John Singer Sargent were contemporary artists when some of their paintings were acquired — the Department of Contemporary Art was only established formally in the Museum's centennialcontemporary artists when some of their paintings were acquired — the Department of Contemporary Art was only established formally in the Museum's centennialContemporary Art was only established formally in the Museum's centennial year, 1971.

LARA FAVARETTO Born 1973 (Treviso, Italy) Lives and works in Torino, Italy EDUCATION 1994 - 1999 Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano, Italy 1998 Advanced Course in Visual Arts, Visiting Professor Hacmilton Fulton, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy Scholarship at Kingston University, London, UK SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea (forthcoming) Aspen Art Museum (forthcoming) 2018 «SUCKING MUD» Galleria Franco Noero, Piazza Carignano, Turin, Italy 2017 «Absolutely Nothing», Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK 2015 «Good Luck», MAXXI, Rome, Italy «Lara Favaretto: Collected Works», Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada «REDEFINE», Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy 2013 «The 2013 Carnegie International», Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA 2012 «Just Knocked Out», Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE and MOMA PS1, New York, USA 2009 «Absolutely no Donations» Tramway, Glasgow, UK SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 «Reichtum: Schwarz ist Gold / Black is Gold», Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany «Sexy and Cool», Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany «Playtime», Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA «Stories of Almost Everyone», Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA 2017 «I am you, you are too», Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA «A Poet * hical Wager», MOCA Cleveland, USA Skulptur Projekte Münster, Münster and Marl, Germany 2016 Liverpool Biennial 2016, Liverpool, UK 2015 «The Event Sculpture», The Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, UK 2014 «Manifesta 10», The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia «Infinte Jest», Schrin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany 2013 «The 2013 Carnegie International», Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA 2012 «When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes», CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA «dOCUMENTA (13)», Kassel, Germany and Kabul, Afghanistan 2011 12th International Istanbul Biennial, cur.

It did not appear in the Saatchi Gallery until 1992, but when it did, it radically changed the world of contemporary art — and the course of Damien Hirst's life.

2015 To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Disguise: Masks + Global African Art, Fowler Art Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Screen Play: Life in an Animated World, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Mirror Stage: Visualizing the Self After the Internet, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX America is Hard To See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Radical Presence, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco, CA When the Stars Begin to Fall, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Weird Science, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Queer Fantasy, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, CA

«When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South» queries the category of «outsider» art in relation to contemporary art and black life.

In a time when the word icon can mean anything from commercialized images that flood the media to religious icons, the paintings of Linda Smith, Secular Icons, help to fill a void in contemporary life.

As part of Joan Mitchell Foundation's ongoing collaboration with Voices of Contemporary Art (VoCA), please join us on Thursday, September 14, when artist Gwen Fabricant will sit down with VoCA Program Committee Member Jennifer Hickey to discuss her life, work, and artistic legacy.

«I wanted to show how his jewelry lives off the body, as an object, then has a kind of second life when it's worn,» explains Rohaytn, who partnered with Sotheby's on a catalog that also includes the 18 Calder pieces from its November 14 contemporary auction in New York.

Recent group exhibitions include When lives become form: Contemporary Brazilian Art, 1960s to the present, Museum of Contemporary Art MOT, Tokyo (2009); Flower Myth - Van Gogh to Jeff Koons, Foundation Beyeler, Basel (2005).

Your contemporary paintings are so vibrant with such an immediate attraction, and the intensity that each painting owns, triggers so much energy and life when observing them.

There's persuasive evidence to support this sharp reputational shift: this was the moment when post-industrial architecture led to new forms of loft living; it was the era in which performance, film and installation became central features of contemporary art; and it's where more fluid notions of gender and sexuality were evolving in pulsing clubs and decaying factories.

Atlanta artist Mario Petrirena used found and treasured family objects to create a kind of self - portrait of his life as an evacuee from Cuba when he was only eight years old in his show The Distance Between at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (February 25 — April 29, 2017).

As part of Joan Mitchell Foundation's ongoing collaboration with Voices of Contemporary Art (VoCA), please join us on Thursday, October 12, when abstract painter and Yaqui Indian Mario Martinez will sit down with Steven O'Banion, Director of Conservation at Glenstone, to discuss his life, work, and personal philosophy.