Sentences with phrase «working over the last century»

«We are delighted to be able to work on a project that brings together some of the most remarkable work over the last century,» says the WPO's founder and CEO Scott Gray.

We're looking forward to Chrissie Iles's Dreamlands exhibition, a survey of immersive moving image works over the last century, opening at the Whitney this fall.

It also provides an opportunity to reflect on the changing social, economic and political conditions that affected women's lives and work over the last century — which is rather fitting as we approach the centenary in 2018 of votes for women.»

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No, we generally have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century.

The assumption was on the part of the religious that what we do not understand must be the work of a god — except that over the last few centuries we understand more about creation — big bang, evolution, etc. which shows those creation stories to be incorrect.

Over the last four centuries, Decartes's work has become deeply embedded in Western culture.

You could say that it is very disrespectful to the men and women who have worked very hard to give us all this knowledge and understanding of how things works over the last few centuries to still believe in these ancient stories.

These disparate works of fiction punctuate the manner in which American attitudes towards death and dying have been transformed from an uncomfortable familiarity to a comfortable unfamiliarity over the last two centuries.

The city that less than a century ago was a fur - trading post known as Fort Garry was alive and throbbing last week with its birthday offering for Canada, the fifth Pan-American Games, and extraordinary charity was at work all over town.

The American Water Works Association (AWWA), a trade group representing water utilities across the country, credits the presence of chlorine in drinking water with a 50 percent increase in life expectancy for Americans over the last century.

A survey of science Nobels finds that the age at which winners do their work has been going up over the last century.

Dr. Ruth Patrick (1907 - 2013) probably needs no introduction to the readers of The American Naturalist, or to anyone who has taken an interest in environmental matters over the last half century, for she has become so well known and so influential in her work with water as to become something of a household name.

However, one of the panel's reservations was that ``... a statistical method used in the 1999 study was not the best and that some uncertainties in the work «have been underestimated,»...» The panel concluded «Based on the analyses presented in the original papers by Mann et al. and this newer supporting evidence, the committee finds it plausible that the Northern Hemisphere was warmer during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period over the preceding millennium.

France's «Of Gods and Men,» the grand prize winner at last year's Cannes Festival, offers up just such a message in a finely wrought, quietly observed ensemble piece starring Lambert Wilson and the 79 - year - old Michael Lonsdale, whose jowly, hangdog countenance has graced over half a century of great cinema.

The full report examines what has happened over the last half - century in our schools, our neighborhoods, our prisons, and our nation, and what work remains to be done to heal our divided society.

She further suggests that a working model for educator preparation reform is the one used at the beginning of the last century in overhauling and upgrading the country's medical schools, which resulted in the closure of over half of the medical training programs over a 25 - year period.

The organization of work in the countries with the best - performing education systems took its current shape over the last few decades, not in the first few decades of the 20th century.

A reporter asked me last night whether the US performance over the past half century shows that no reforms work.

Through his work, Gosling has drawn a parallel to the importance of the Potomac River for the United States and its growth over the last few centuries.

I'd go part way along with you, in as much as I absolutely agree that abstract painting has to get over the iconic works of the last century and discover some new territory.

Hunter College mounted a retrospective of conceptual artist William Anastasi's groundbreaking sound works created over the last half century, such as a curiously beguiling clanking radiator.

Looking back over Rauschenberg's career from its beginnings around the middle of the last century through his death in 2008, as the current retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (on view through September 17) invites us to do, it becomes clear that Rauschenberg was above all a restless and resourceful gatherer of materials, cultural as well as physical.

Featuring graphic design, film, photography, ceramics, taxidermy, furniture, textiles and fine art, this multi-media show explores work inspired by the 19th century and created over the last 20 years, highlighting the ongoing influence of the Victorian age.

By emphasizing the act of markmaking over its painterly support, Toroni helped erase the barrier between work and the gallery, an artistic spur to the last half - century of institutional critique.

His body of work arguably forms one of the most comprehensive archives of Downtown cultural and political activities and luminaries over the last half century.

Highlighting lesser - known works by prominent artists and key works by some less familiar names, Artists at Mid to Late Career provides another view of the history of art over the last half century.

The resulting works are abstract, minimal paintings that offer insightful commentary on the history of innovation over the last century, revealing the interdependent dance of man and machine — and the incidental absence of women.

«Master Drawings unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions,» on view through January 29, 2017, at the Art Institute of Chicago, is a treasure trove of works on paper purchased by the Museum over the last quarter century... More»

Brazil has exercised a strong fascination as a site of modernity over the last half - century, from the first São Paulo Bienal of 1951, to contemporary artists working in the present day.

Over the last decade, Art21 has worked closely with all five honorees, each of whom has extended their relationship with our organization beyond their initial filming sessions for the «Art in the Twenty - First Century» series.

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Over the course of the last century a body of iconic work has been created and previous artists who have created a poster include Howard Hodgkin (Welcome, Winter Games in Sarajevo, 1984, above), David Hockney, Andy Warhol and RB Kitaj.

Consistently working with both established and emerging artists, Brooke Alexander has published over 1,500 editions with more than 75 painters and sculptors offering a particularly dynamic view of American printmaking in the last quarter century.

Besides an aesthetic artistic language which has its roots in certain reductive styles developed over last century, his work offers a far - reaching construct of possibilities to participate in the process of perception.

Highlighting lesser - known works by prominent artists and key works by some less familiar names, The Long Run provides another view of the history of art over the last half century.

The Verus Painters are the new generation of painters working with a wealth of painterly history and ideas accumulated over the last century.

A survey exhibition organized by independent curator Todd Levin provides an overview of work by 37 African American female artists from over the last two centuries.

Frank Stella's career retrospective, opening at the Whitney Museum this Friday, Oct. 30, showcases approximately 120 works, including paintings, reliefs, maquettes, sculptures and drawings, that the 79 - year - old artist has produced over the last half century.

SFU Galleries stewards the Simon Fraser University Art Collection that includes, in its holdings of over 5,500 works, significant regional and national art works spanning the last century.

«Uneasy Dancer» at the Prada Foundation (2016 - 17) presented more than 80 works produced over the last half century (1966 - 2016).

Together, A. Conger Goodyear, Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Martha Jackson, and Natalie and Irving Forman donated more than 1,300 works to the Collection over the course of the last century and a half.

Over the last half century, our working environment, physical or virtual, has changed constantly in response to technology and ideology.

With its concentrated focus on these three twentieth - century virtuosos, along with additional works by Edgar Degas, Willem de Kooning and Susan Rothenberg, the Wexner Family Collection is truly incomparable to any other private collection formed over the last 50 years.

The show brings together a selection of works by artists belonging to the movement, who were chosen and fostered by Margherita over the years and is a tribute to the last avant - garde movement of the 20th century.

A 50th birthday usually signifies a midlife crisis, but not in the case of the Pace Gallery: this week, in celebration of a half - century of being modern, the institution's four New York outposts are debuting a multi-gallery exhibition featuring 200 of the most seminal works to have been displayed at the gallery over the last five decades.

With its concentrated focus on these three 20th - century virtuosos, along with additional works by Edgar Degas, Willem de Kooning and Susan Rothenberg, the Wexner Family Collection is truly incomparable to any other private collection formed over the last 50 years.

But, within the media coverage of greenhouse gases and climate that has accumulated over the last half century, there's also a broad body of work that has clearly described the science and its significance for human affairs and the wider nature world.

Grima and I both agree, I think, that a steady linear trend is not going to work as an underlying basis for long term trends over the last several centuries.

There has been work done reconstructing the solar irradiance record over the last century, before satellites were available.

Next, the model is run in changing conditions, simulating the last couple centuries using our best estimates of the climate «forcings» (or drivers of change) at work over that time period.