Distinctly European in its look and origins, West's art is now decidedly global,
with monumental works populating plazas throughout the world.
Ranging from text to installation, painting, sculpture, performance and sound, the selection presents some of Lisson's leading artists, of both the past and present — beginning
with monumental works such as one of Dan Graham's large - scale glass - and - steel pavilions, entitled Two Vs Entrance - Way (2016), which reflects and refracts visitors and its Brutalist architectural surroundings.
One has to spend considerable time
with a monumental work such as Minutiae to garner any sense of this.Rauschenberg's use of cartoons in the present work strikes a chord with both Warhol's and Lichtenstein's use of cartoons as source materials for their earliest Pop creations.
Caro in Yorkshire commemorates the artist's extraordinary career with two distinct yet complementary exhibitions presented at The Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park from July 18 to November 1, 2015, along
with a monumental work sited in Victoria Gardens, Leeds.
In conjunction
with this monumental work Zimoun presented new projects at Bitforms Gallery in New York and Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University.
The installation comprises some 30 drawings, together
with a monumental work on fabric.
Not exact matches
I opened my mail box today and happily found a package
with Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (Viking, March 2010), a
monumental work by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University and author of The Reformation and Thomas Cranmer, both highly acclaimed....
Brunner's
work runs to some 1,200 pages, but in comparison
with Barth's
monumental and still unfinished opus, it is a model of clarity, brevity, and simplicity.
Not only its aesthetic value, which is apparent in the power of its expression, in the depth of its sensitivity, and in its
monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle
with the ancient, and at the same time always new, human problem of the meaning of suffering — all this puts the
work, in its universal significance, in a class
with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8
Most noted for his
work at the intersection of theology and science, for which he was feted in 1978
with the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, and as co-editor of the English version of Karl Barth's
monumental Church Dogmatics, Thomas Forsyth Torrance was the greatest British....
However, accomplishing that
monumental task is unlikely and those who support political independence will likely need to leave the Green Party and join
with other socialist groups to form a new political organization that will fight for a truly independent
working class party.
It follows Darwin, having returned from the Galapagos to his home and family in the British countryside, as he experiments
with the selective breeding of pigeons and begins writing his
monumental work.
Famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is an extraordinary man
with monumental achievements, advancing our understanding of how the universe
works while simultaneously battling a disease that left him nearly paralyzed and unable to speak.
With a script
worked on by a quartet of legendary names (William Nicholson, Richard LaGravenese and the Coen brothers), Jolie took on the
monumental task of sitting in the director's chair for Unbroken.
Considering the less than stellar track record of Stephen King adaptations (including the recently released
monumental failure that is The Dark Tower), it's pleasant to report that director Andy Muschietti's (Mama) stab at one of the writer's most revered
works of art doesn't float like a lifeless corpse down in Pennywise's sewer lair, but instead propels forward
with frightful momentum and probably the best character
work that could be done when bringing such a lengthy and detailed story to the silver screen.
With Varda's latest film, Faces Places (Visages Villages), she returns to her roots in photography, working with JR as they travel through the French countryside in his mobile photo booth to produce monumental photographs of the people (and goats) they meet and paste them on the sides of walls, rocks — even shipping containers piled high on a dock in Le Ha
With Varda's latest film, Faces Places (Visages Villages), she returns to her roots in photography,
working with JR as they travel through the French countryside in his mobile photo booth to produce monumental photographs of the people (and goats) they meet and paste them on the sides of walls, rocks — even shipping containers piled high on a dock in Le Ha
with JR as they travel through the French countryside in his mobile photo booth to produce
monumental photographs of the people (and goats) they meet and paste them on the sides of walls, rocks — even shipping containers piled high on a dock in Le Havre.
From the passage of Governor Brown's Proposition 30, to the
monumental win in San Diego
with the passage of the Proposition Z facilities bond, to wins in key races for school boards in Oakland and Santa Clara County, to charter supporters being elected to the Assembly, the November 2012 election results are a clear indication of the kind of impact we can have as a movement when we
work together.
Book Three of Robert A. Caro's
monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson — the most admired and riveting political biography of our era — which began
with the best - selling and prizewinning The Path to Power and Means of Ascent.
Book Three of Robert A. Caro's
monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson — the most admired and riveting political biography of our era — which began
with the best - selling and prizewinning The Path to Power.
She is a two - time finalist for the National Book Award, and Praying for Sheetrock, which the Boston Globe described it as «a
monumental social history
with implications that go far beyond the borders of a tiny coastal Georgia county», was named one of the top 100
works of journalism in the 20th century.
We created a Y shaped strap that combines the stretch characteristic of elastic,
with the staying power of Velcro and they
work so well that you can keep a diaper or a belly band in place even overnight, which is a
monumental task given how much dogs roll, move, burrow etc..
It's like Gaben had an idea, did the minimum
work to make the idea happen, struck gold
with ignorant people looking for something different who then couldn't stop praising (and vociferously defending) it even
with the
monumental problems the service continues to have, and
with each new «addition» to the service it's met
with either intense hatred by the consumers (paid mods) or is abused by consumers and hated by the devs (refunds).
Monumental's website says that they can't reveal the franchise they're
working on yet, which basically backs up the Mega Man theory completely: they're
working on a franchise and Mega Man is the only one all of us have gone to sleep dreaming about as an MMO; cuddled up
with our Mega Man plush, cursing Dr. Wiley's name as we steadily fall asleep hoping that some day the blue bomber will sweep us up in his arms and... where was I?
The game of Firmament is a resplendent, magical journey — a
monumental voyage through four diverse and curious realms where you
work in concert
with an ever - present clockwork companion, under the guidance of a long - dead, ethereal mentor.
Developers Iron Galaxy are soon to let us loose on Extinction,
with us
working towards the
monumental task of taking down the goliath enemies that can be encountered.
MONUMENTAL AWESOMENESS: We'll
work with you to come up
with a SPECIAL MONUMENT that is placed in the city of Distance.
With her large - scale installations, Barlow constructs imposing
works that play between the
monumental scale of public art and architecture and the precariousness of her chosen materials and compositions.
Shown for the first time in the U.S., Gaillard's
monumental work Artefacts (2011) imparts a reflection on the myth of Babylon takes form through a montage of scenes from post-conflict Iraq interwoven
with images of the ancient civilization's antiquities, none more famous perhaps than the Ishtar Gate, reconstructed in an austere gallery of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin in the 1930s.
Teresita Fernández's seventh solo exhibition
with Lehmann Maupin, coinciding
with her
monumental sculptural installation Fata Morgana, showcases her newest sculptural
works — intimate interior landscapes in concrete, cast bronze, and highly - detailed glazed ceramic.
The most
monumental of Matta - Clark's
work is saved for last, as the final room contains photos, diagrams and large - scale projections of both Conical Intersect and Day's End, presented back to back
with emphasis on the connection between both projects.
On view March 26 — October 1, 2017, the exhibition transforms the wall adjacent to the East Lobby staircase
with a
monumental Wall
Work by Pendleton.
Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of
work: large abstract figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3,
with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in bronze
with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases,
monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection
with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.
Most of these are more intimately scaled than the early
monumental «Fuck» paintings, 1969 — , for which the artist is perhaps best known, doing away
with some of the optic strangeness of those
works and replacing it
with something similar to, but not quite like, eroticism.
Golub experimented
with scale, and the
works assembled for this exhibition range in size from the smaller
works on paper to
monumental, unstretched canvases that extended from floor to ceiling at the Serpentine Gallery.
The 164 - acre Museum Park is home to more than a dozen
monumental works of art,
with artists actively involved in the restoration of the Park's landscape and the integration of art into its natural systems.
Following her
monumental installation in MASS MoCA's largest gallery, Building 5, in 2007 — which marked her first indoor projection in the U.S. — Holzer returns
with a campus - wide series of
work that will include a large - scale outdoor projection on the River Street side of the factory's complex titled For North Adams, 21 of her celebrated carved stone benches located throughout MASS MoCA's sprawling campus, an installation of her Inflammatory Essays posters, and rotating exhibitions of her
work spanning the breadth of her career.
In 1958 DeFeo began
working on The Rose, a
monumental work created over eight years,
with so much oil paint that she called it «a marriage between painting and sculpture.»
With his
monumental iron and steel public sculptures, Chillida's
work engaged both earthly and metaphysical concerns.
Schapiro continued to
work with dancing figures in large paintings such as Ragtime (1988) and in her
monumental public sculpture, Anna and David, a 35 - foot outdoor piece in Rosslyn, Virginia.
With a palette of muted reds, blues, greens, and grays, the works are inspired by Chinese steles — monumental stone slabs carved with religious inscriptions dating back to AD
With a palette of muted reds, blues, greens, and grays, the
works are inspired by Chinese steles —
monumental stone slabs carved
with religious inscriptions dating back to AD
with religious inscriptions dating back to AD 800.
Inspired by the Pulitzer's
monumental Ellsworth Kelly wall sculpture, Blue Black, Ligon will expand Kelly's exploration of the two colors
with a diverse selection of more than forty
works spanning almost a century and touching upon notions of language, identity, and memory.
Working on site they will make a
monumental installation from paper and cardboard, reshaping the materials into building blocks
with the help of giant handmade tools.
Fernández's seventh solo exhibition
with Lehmann Maupin, coinciding
with her
monumental sculptural installation Fata Morgana, currently installed in Madison Square Park in New York, showcases her newest sculptural
works — intimate interior landscapes in concrete, cast bronze, and highly - detailed glazed ceramic.
Adriana Varejão fills the Lower Gallery
with a
monumental wall based installation, Macau Wall, while the Upper Gallery houses new individual floor and wall based
work.
Accompanied by Bove's own
monumental sculpture, Cretaceous (2014), an ancient, four - metre chunk of petrified wood bolted directly to an I - beam, the
works are seen against white walls,
with sunlight flooding in through the skylights of the gallery — a fitting homage to Scarpa in more than one way.
Titled Mana
Monumental, the exhibition features projects that utilize colossal proportions as a means to connect
with viewers in a personal, meaningful way — much like Jackson Pollock and Sol Lewitt, whose sizable
work effectively enveloped viewers
with the sheer experience of confronting them.
The
work is in direct dialog
with the surrounding
monumental industrial buildings of the former coal mine Zeche Zollverein.
Serves as a member of the Pennell Committee at the Library of Congress until 1993, replacing Jim Dine;
works first
with Donald Saff and then
with Yvonne Jacquette to select prints for the Library of Congress Pennell Print Collection; is guest teacher at Cornell University, SUNY Purchase, and University of Southern California, Los Angeles; sings in and designs a set based on Goya's prisoner figures for the «El Salvador» oratorio concert by the Back Bay Chorale under the direction of conductor Larry Hill, which takes place at Harvard's Sanders Theater on 18 May; exhibition Wakeby Day / Wakeby Night:
Monumental Monotypes by Michael Mazur opens 11 March at the Hayden Gallery, MIT (colorplate 18), in conjunction
with installation of Wakeby monotypes at the 500 Memorial Drive dormitory building.
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.
On the heels of his blockbuster career retrospective at the Whitney Museum, the artist visited Balloon Monkey (Orange) on view at Christie's in Rockefeller Plaza, and spoke
with Brett Gorvy about the inspiration behind this
monumental work.