Sentences with phrase «whose brilliant work»

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Here is a brilliant female scholar, a professional, an educationist and a patriotic Ghanaian whose diligent works and strong educational reforms have raised Ghana's image in education to enviable heights.

This #InternationalWomensDay I wanted to honor a few of the brave and brilliant women whose life stories and accomplishments have inspired me (and countless others) to reach higher, work harder, and dare to do the impossible.

Kate Plays Christine from director Robert Greene is a brilliant spoil sport movie, a work whose sole interest is in the way that blissful disconnect from reality plays out.

Working from a brilliant screenplay by Steven Zaillian, Fincher's take on the story focuses more on what I've come to understand is really a classic locked room mystery in the Agatha Christie mode — in the case of the murder / disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the locked room is an island whose sole entry point is blocked by an overturned tanker truck — that is concealed within a study of unlimited misogyny and sidetracked into the discovery of a serial killer.

Missing from this list, in my opinion, is James Franco, whose work in «The Disaster Artist», was nothing short of brilliant.

Jessica Chastain is brilliant as the CIA agent whose obsession with tracking down bin Laden helped lead to his eventual death, while Jason Clarke also delivers a standout performance as a fellow agent working the case.

In addition to praising Aaron Guzikowski's brilliant screenplay, I have to mention cinematographer Roger Deakins, whose incredible work really elevates this film and adds so much depth to it.

To get to work with some of the country's most exciting writers and actors, whose work I have long admired, and with the brilliant Danny Boyle, is an amazing opportunity.

10:35 am — IFC — Barton Fink One of the Coen Brothers» most brilliant dark comedies (heh, I think I say that about all of their dark comedies, though), Barton Fink follows its title character, a New York playwright whose hit play brings him to the attention of Hollywood, where he goes to work for the movies.

The producer is Judd Apatow, whose hit comedies (The 40 - Year - Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Pineapple Express) trade heavily in the «bromance» among their male characters; the cowriter and star is Kristen Wiig, whose brilliant character work on Saturday Night Live and endless scene - stealing in movies (Ghost Town, Adventureland, Whip It) have finally won her the big - screen vehicle she deserves.

The political motivations of the three surviving members of the Abrasax family (whose name is a Santana album title, with two letters interchanged) are never properly explained, while Eddie Redmayne's Oscar campaign for his brilliant work in «The Theory of Everything» takes a huge hit thanks to his god - awful performance here as the conniving Balem.

That critique comes to the fore in a brilliant, Buñuelian performance - art sequence that will lodge itself in your brain for days, built around a terrifying turn by Terry Notary, whose animal / creature motion - capture work you may have seen in «Kong: Skull Island» and the recent «Planet of the Apes» movies.

A consistently intriguing figure in the independent film community, John Sayles is a sometimes brilliant, usually «meh», filmmaker whose recent work leans more toward the «meh» side of the fence.

«Happy End» is the latest from Michael Haneke, an uncompromising filmmaker whose work is sometimes brilliant and sometimes hard to watch — and sometimes both, but not this time.

The campaign to take on The System and its schools also enjoyed the services of a handful of intellectual spokesmen whose written works outline a case against education bureaucracy that remains brilliant in many small ways, if repulsive in several big ones.

A brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a «dew breaker» — a torturer — a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.

A work of deep artistic understanding, Miles Unger's Michelangelo brings to life the irascible, egotistical, and undeniably brilliant man whose artistry continues to amaze and inspire us after 500 years.

Buzzfeed «s list of «20 Brilliant Authors Whose Work Was Originally Rejected» documents why you hang in there.

I know brilliant writers, like RS Guthrie (whose new one, Blood Land, is a standout example of why some indie authors are completely capable of sitting at the big table with the trad pub boys), whose work isn't getting nearly the visibility it deserves.

Perennial bestseller and acknowledged master of the psychological thriller, Jonathan Kellerman has created his most riveting and memorable work to date in the Alex Delaware novel about a troubled and elusive young woman whose brutal murder forces the brilliant psychologist - detective to confront his own fallibility.

In a statement Thursday, museum Director Ann Philbin called Atwood and Ligon «two brilliant and visionary artists whose work is both enduringly significant and tremendously relevant in our current moment.»

Under the new leadership of Rodman Primack, who made his mark in London as chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company, the tented design fair translated the branding sponsorship of Perrier - Jouët, Audi, Fendi, Louis Vuitton and Swarovski into the dazzle of such over-the-top showpieces as a glittered sculpture of King Kong climbing Dubai's Burj Khalifa hotel, a monumental wood - hewn structure commissioned from Seattle architect Olson Kundig to house the cafeteria, furniture commissioned by Herman Miller from French modernist Pierre Paulin circa 1972, but realised only now, and a stream of technology - driven works involving a table whose motor sensors raised handcrafted metal flora at the viewer's approach, a clock spinning out countless time zones beforesettling on local time, and an installation by architect Jeanne Gang and photographer James Balog involving a resin iceberg, pierced with brilliants and set against an Arctic panorama.

The Geoffrey Young Gallery is proud to present «Pickup Lines,» an exhibition featuring work on paper by a brilliant cast of known and unknown artists from New York and Los Angeles, whose work will joust on the wall for aesthetic hegemony, critical supremacy, or ideological inscrutability.

New York spaces included Allan Stone Projects, who showed strong works by George Deem and Wayne Thiebaud, and Luhring Augustine, whose booth included celebrated modernist Lygia Clark and the brilliant geometric paintings of Jeremy Moon.

A guide to the work of the brilliant art historian and critic, whose writings are key to understanding artistic production from the «Pictures Generation» to our post-9 / 11 era.

She spent seven and a half years in Spain (1963 - 1970), where her work «gradually developed from broad gestural and spatially referenced painting to compositions of a somewhat surreal figure / ground composition... (her) highly saturated brilliant color separated (her) paintings from the leading Spanish artists whose work was darker, grayer and Goyaesque.»

«Metalling» showcases a stunning array of pieces that celebrate not only fine and costume jewelry, but the creativity of brilliant designers and artisans whose talent shines as brightly as the work they produce.

To the past honorees, however, among whom I feel especially humbled and privileged to share this honor, I'd like to thank you for your example and achievements that have enriched us all: Andrea [Barnwell Brownlee], whose ambitious and inspired curatorial work gives voice to women artists of the African Diaspora; Jerry [Cullum], a visionary writer whose genius lies in his ability to synthesize the experience of art with poetic complexity; Louis [Corrigan], a trailblazing community leader whose innovative ethos and generosity has rekindled the boundless spirit of Nexus; Lisa [Cremin], a leader of responsible and responsive philanthropy who personifies the idiomatic true north for the arts in Atlanta; Lucinda [Bunnen], a brilliant artist and pioneering collector who established photography as an essential feature of contemporary visual culture in our city... and at the High Museum; and Susan [Bridges], den mother to us all, whose generosity of spirit is set off by her unshakable personal integrity.

In this special edition, we unveil this year's [pounds sterling] 20,000 winner, 19 runners - up and nearly 400 other finalists, whose vibrant work can all be seen at our brilliant annual exhibition - see over for details.

Carrie Moyer has also used works from the Everson's acclaimed ceramics collection in her installation — showcasing select large - scale sculptural works whose brilliant color and organic forms share an allegiance with her new large - scale acrylic paintings and monoprints.

This brilliant exhibition catalogue presents the work of ten younger artists whose work reflects the distemper of the times.

There are a couple of artists who have done brilliant work in London recently who should have been shortlisted: where is Thomas Hirschhorn, whose installation at the Stephen Friedman Gallery last year was the most coruscating and pungent assault on taste in years, a neo-Dadaist howl of rage at the invasion of Iraq, and where is Enrico David, a sublime pop genius of the same camp as Leckey?

These are ghost paintings, if you like — or in modern eyes, the brilliant works of a woman whose creativity was liberated by her identity as a medium.

I'm also drawn to contemporary artists who engage with photography in fascinating ways, including my husband Dillon DeWaters, Sophie Ristelhueber, Viviane Sassen, Gabriel Orozco, Sigmar Polke, R.H. Quaytman (herself, the daughter of a poet, Susan Howe), Leslie Hewitt (whose work engages in a fascinating way with history), my friend Lucas Blalock, the brilliant Paul Chan, Lorenzo Vitturi, whose work I just discovered, and I could go on for pages and pages.

Rodney Graham: A Little Thought tracks the career of a brilliant, idiosyncratic artist whose work spans a range of media including photography, film, book works, installation and pop music.

There are a great number of brilliant and celebrated contemporary artists living and working in Africa whose works are as inventive and great as any and will sit well in any museum, private collection or great offices.

I'm excited to be working with the brilliant Juliana Engberg as curator; someone whose intelligence and integrity I admire.

Another artist, Wei Jia is a brilliant theorist and painter, whose works also involve the saturation of color inks on xuan paper, one upon another.

The exhibition also features work from surrealists and contemporary artists including Mona Hatoum, Francis Alÿs and that brilliant charter of the American gothic, Robert Gober, whose disembodied leg sculptures stick out from walls as if their owners were buried inside.

The shortlisted artists have together produced a show that offers powerful commentary on current issues, and it is brilliant to have someone whose own work has continually reflected what is going on around him presenting the award.

Shame on me for making Jordan do my work for me: I meant to thank Steve Matthews, whose brilliant idea this way, and failed to do it... unitl now.