| 单词 | monumental |
| 例句 | Had anyone paid real attention to her subject—and not the styling of her hair—he might have noticed that she was circling a monumental conceptual advance, albeit with deliberate caginess. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Early human beings emerged from caves to become herdsmen and farmers, and, with a now secure food supply, they began crafting the first monumental “sculpture.” The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z The crowd had almost dispersed now, the stragglers giving the monumental figure of Grawp a wide berth as he cuddled Hagrid, whose howls of grief were still echoing across the water. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z At the climax of its monumental opening chorus, with two adult choirs and a double-sized orchestra already in full sway, Bach introduces a new, majestically slower tune on top of the entire structure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z On these occasions too, the child wrote with formidable intuition that charity had no effect on such monumental injustice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Living in a house with my mother, brother, and Nana means that someone is usually shouting or dashing from one room to the next as if everything is of monumental importance. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z While his father was involved body and soul with his water pipe, the willful first-born, who had always been too big for his age, had become a monumental adolescent. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Native peoples had created town sites, farms, monumental earthworks, and networks of roads, and they had devised a wide variety of governments, some as complex as any in the modern world. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z That show’s Library was a monumental edifice, with towering marbled halls and tinkling fountains, like the lobby of some five-star hotel. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Something that is small and common like a whisper, but monumental and rare at the same time. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Mendel wrote only one monumental paper on pea hybrids. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z His silence is an awkward one, like those times in history class when we reviewed monumental events from the BDC days. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The whole of the apse had been taken over by a monumental furnace, and a brick chimney cut right up through the center of the frescoed dome, obliterating the heads of angels. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The angularity of desert landforms imparts a monumental architecture to the clouds as well as to the land.... Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnham had devoted the last two years of his life to creating an impression of monumental beauty, and now Olmsted wanted to make visitors laugh. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This in conjunction with the development of lightweight hollow-bronze casting enabled the Greeks to experiment with daring poses in monumental sculpture before attempting them in marble. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And most native societies in what is now the United States and Canada did not have the written languages, monumental architecture, or wide-ranging aesthetic traditions of their neighbors to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Wow,” he said, feeling dumb at such a monumental understatement. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It was graced with broad avenues thirty meters wide, elegant architecture and statuary, Alexander’s monumental tomb, and an enormous lighthouse, the Pharos, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead we find there monumental stone structures of a different kind, called megalithic because they consist of huge blocks or boulders placed upon each other without mortar. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The shared vision expressed in their drawings struck him as being too sober and monumental. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Solid, monumental like his grandfathers, but with a joie de vivre and an irresistible good humor that they did not have, Aureliano Segundo scarcely had time to look after his animals. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z This monumental Polynesian architecture was obviously evolving in the same direction as the pyramids of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Mexico, and Peru. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I remember redwood trees so monumental it took five of us, fully grown with arms outstretched, to encircle just one of them. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She had worked at such a feverish pace to produce this monumental book that she was tired. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Now all the weight had left him, the monumental and oppressive fatigue. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z They did, however, find monumental pillared structures decorated with spectacular engravings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Like most monumental sculpture, Apollo and Daphne was intended for a specific location. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t going to let them steal this monumental moment from me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The first and most holy of the new wave of monumental churches. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Department of Education undertook a monumental project called the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z My father’s life story stands alongside such monumental works as The Diary of Anne Frank and others. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In her view, monumental buildings implied a large resident population, but again there were plenty of anchovy bones and little evidence that locals farmed anything but cotton. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Altogether, they uncovered more than ten monumental structures, the largest of them nearly 100 feet across. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Dedicated in the early third century at a cost of eight hundred talents, the Lighthouse was one of the first monumental structures completed after the city’s founding. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z No one wanted to be last—it was a monumental embarrassment. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It was a matter that concerned him a good deal, for the giving of names in his family was always surrounded by what he believed to be monumental foolishness. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if he knew that something monumental was about to happen. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The Hopewell culture introduced monumental earthworks and, possibly, agriculture to the rest of the cold North. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z So, in a monumental piece of symbolism that defined his age, at the end of the Ring Wagner annihilated the gods altogether in his musical Armageddon. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “We?” he asked casually, as though it weren’t a monumental question. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z So far the exposition’s publicity office had given the press a detailed list of monumental but dreary statistics. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z What I don’t tell him is that I can hardly get out of bed most mornings, that simply getting through the day feels like a monumental task. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Appalachian Trail maps are so monumentally useless that I had long since given up using them. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When he woke up, after eating sixteen raw eggs, he went directly to Catarino's store, where his monumental size provoked a panic of curiosity among the women. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I know it’s been said, but I'm a monumental idiot. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The Aztecs had monumental architecture, elaborate record-keeping, exquisite art and an astronomical calendar superior to that of any in Europe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He prayed for some monumental disaster to occur, some cataclysm that would shake the planet to its core, so that he would not have to do what he was about to do. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Pardee, Jacob, and Monod published their monumental study on the lactose operon in 1959, six years after the Watson and Crick paper on the structure of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was built into a white arch formed by two monumental stone wolves on their hind legs, and spanned the road leading up the hill to the Court. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the 5,000, well over three miles, turning a final lap in less than 70 seconds was a monumental feat. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Finally, Polynesian material culture varied from the production of no more than personal utensils to the construction of monumental stone architecture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Chicago had been trying to tidy itself for some time and had found the challenge monumental. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And the architecture...gods, the architecture—gilded marble columns, dazzling mosaics, monumental arches, and terraced villas. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z There are two others, and each is a monumental principle of composition. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But monumental changes in the economy and in attitudes toward immigrants have made it far less likely that Peralta and his children will experience the same upward mobility as Zannikos and his family. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Rather than the thick, unbroken, monumental snarl of trees imagined by Thoreau, the great eastern forest was an ecological kaleidoscope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens, and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory, and oak. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was a monumental irony: The man famous as the indefatigable orator of independence in the Continental Congress was obliged to remain silent in the legislative councils of the new government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Cities differ from villages in their monumental public works, palaces of rulers, accumulation of capital from tribute or taxes, and concentration of people other than food producers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Set down with geometric precision at the cardinal points were four monumental slabs of the same alien metal as the citadel. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The boys and their toys had turned out to be a monumental waste of her time. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It had been a monumental mistake, because today’s designers were all about shocking people out of their happy place. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In order to feed the people who built and used the monumental structures, particularly large quantities of food were required. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Libby, even I know Gone with the Wind was a monumental hit, even if it’s unwatchable now.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z After a few minutes she let out a monumental sigh. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The Caddo had a taste for monumental architecture: public plazas, ceremonial platforms, mausoleums. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Archaeologists are familiar with such monumental structures from sites around the world—the best-known example is Stonehenge in Britain. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z That Parr was a worthy subject precisely because he did nothing, because he was so monumentally good at doing nothing? Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Darwin now rushed to finish the monumental opus that he had originally intended to publish with all his findings. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He had been back in England for almost two years, after a monumental voyage around the world. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Theodore Roosevelt knew that a successful trip down the River of Doubt would be a monumental feat and a valuable contribution to science. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “Any discussion between you two is monumental. When did this happen?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The local newspapers have actually done stories about us bringing Zlata here and how we’ve made monumental changes in our lives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Rowan tried it once, and found it a monumental pain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z This monumental new piece announced to the next generation of composers that the symphony was now to have an epic dimension. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And so the day went, with monumental climbs and the hope of water over the next hill the principal thing drawing us on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z That same year de Vries published his monumental study of plant variants, Carl Correns, a botanist in Tübingen, published a study on pea and maize hybrids that precisely recapitulated Mendel’s results. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The dance is brief, ending with the girl unable to accept the boy's kiss, but "it feels monumental," said Cook; the music and movement combine to cast a hypnotic, gentle spell. PNB to mirror Robbins' 'Afternoon of a Faun' 2011-10-27T20:39:45Z Despite my initial, monumental prejudice, the machine does express an audacious, low-key luxury: crisp art-deco lines, Orient Express font, triple-striped silver trim. Kitchen gadgets review: Bacon Express – this toaster for bacon is the abomination we deserve 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z If the pandemic united people virtually, it distanced them physically, which created a monumental challenge for small distilleries. New York’s bars, restaurants and distillers say they’re suffering from the abrupt end of to-go cocktails 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z These salty pearls are the foundation for the story that she will write, one monumental tear at a time. Review: In Angelina Jolie Pitt’s ‘By the Sea,’ an Unhappy Ménage and Tear-Streaked Mascara 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Perhaps this legal sabre-rattling exists as a kind of perverse promotional puff, designed to emphasise the album's magnitude and significance: here is something of such monumental importance it requires a police escort. Goldfrapp: Head First | CD review 2010-03-18T03:30:00Z But he may be best remembered for “The Great War and Modern Memory,” his monumental study of World War I and how its horrors fostered a disillusioned modernist sensibility. Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88 2012-05-23T22:21:26Z But the movie, based on Victor Hugo’s monumental French Revolution novel, is “not a slam dunk,” Ms. Langley said. Working Title Films Looks to ‘Les Misérables’ for Oscars 2012-12-06T23:07:45Z Louver, Matt Wedel's second solo show of nearly two dozen ceramics ranges from modest wall reliefs to elaborate and monumental sculptures, the smallest just 17 inches high and the largest reaching nearly 7 feet. Around the Galleries: Matt Wedel's 'Peaceable Fruit' ceramics have a hint of fiery apocalypse 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z JR is known for his monumental public photography projects, and this show tracks his work in the Gaza Strip, the United States, and the slums of southern Sudan and Sierra Leone. New York’s Reopened Museums: Where to Go and What to See 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z What he's aiming for is something "abstract and monumental". David McVicar's Aida: the sound and the fury 2010-04-01T21:15:00Z It’s also a way of lampooning the pretensions of monumental public sculpture generally, as Claes Oldenburg did almost 40 years ago when he created that giant steel clothespin for Centre Square in Philadelphia. The Parisian Sex Toy Christmas Tree Is the Latest Great Art Scandal 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Monumenta, the hugely-mediatized annual art project that's in its fifth year dares an artist of international stature to "move into" the nave of one of the French capital's most monumental buildings, and own it. Monumenta exhibit goes minimalist 2012-05-09T16:09:09Z The series opens with an epigraph from Nietzsche—“Without music, life would be a mistake”—and soon finds Cornelius buttering up his talent with monumental slabs of creamy fat. “American Soul,” Reviewed: “Soul Train” and the Making of a Mogul 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “Celebrating my birthday in Manchester as news of the Manchester Arena bomb broke,” the singer wrote on his Facebook page in a comment that, true to form, began centered on him. “The anger is monumental.” Morriessy goes full #MAGA in comment on Manchester bombing 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z He too designed a monumental tapestry showing "The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek," made just less than a century before Rubens' similarly huge tapestry on the theme. Wonders unfurl at Getty, Met tapestry shows on Rubens, Coecke 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z The group blew up Palmyra’s monumental arch and beheaded its 82-year-old antiquities chief, hanging his body from an ancient column. Palmyra priest statue among haul of recovered Syrian relics 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z "When you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in the face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration," he said. Kanye West hit wrong note in latest Grammy diatribe 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Also coming out is "The Who Hits 50," yet another gathering of the Who's monumental rock jams. Throwbacks: New old sounds from Devo, No ID, Who, Jesse Saunders, more 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z And so, for me, it was one of the most monumental gifts I gave myself. “To Live in the World, and Not to Hide”: An Interview with Janet Mock 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z But when I arrived at Casa Tiny, with its pitched roof of poured concrete and monumental doors of local parota wood, the key was in the lock. Mexico’s Last Countercultural Coast 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The show has the capacity to be subtle and dramatic, picking out moments of monumental failure and private triumph. The female president we deserve: “Veep” brilliantly plays our cynical, broken political system for laughs 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z “It was a monumental change for me personally,” she says. 'A monumental change': how Ireland transformed transgender rights 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z “The last 15 years have seen monumental changes in how music is discovered and consumed,” Knutson said. More than 20 years after his death, Arthur Russell’s music is more relevant than ever 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Do yourself a favor: If you can, squat down in the gallery to get as low a vantage point as possible for seeing the two monumental sculptures. 'Sculpture in the Age of Donatello' shows artist's competitive spirit 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z In a way, stuffing words into the mouths of Lego characters feels as monumental as the first time Charlie Chaplin's tramp spoke. Lego Batman 2: DC Heroes – review 2012-06-19T07:25:00Z Her monumental sculptural figures that combine both animal and human, like the showstopper “Mama Ray,” will start conversations. Museum Shows With Stories to Tell 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z This is quite different from the monumental mounts of old, or the slice-of-nature dioramas that are so haunting partly because there is no sign of a human presence. Museum Review: The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, Redesigned 2013-08-02T19:53:12Z He was referring to Bach’s monumental work, which the ensembles prepared at short notice for a fund-raiser dedicated to victims of Hurricane Sandy. Music in Review: Music in Review: Trinity Choir 2012-11-11T23:11:04Z He also embraced the hottest technology of the late 15th century: printmaking, which allowed the emperor to broadcast his military prowess through books and monumental woodcuts. 20 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The most monumental thing about “Micro-Monuments II: Underground” is the way the sculptures are arranged in a semicircle at IA&A at Hillyer. Review | In the galleries: Tiny contemporary monuments to transient phenomena 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The same sale at Christie’s will feature Andy Warhol’s monumental “Sixty Last Suppers,” a piece from one of the pop artist’s final series before his death in 1987. Da Vinci portrait of Christ expected to fetch $100 million at auction 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Jane D. Hartley, the United States ambassador to France, was joking about the monumental sculpture “Five Empties,” which is on loan from the Calder Foundation at her Paris residence. At U.S. Embassy in Paris, the Art of Welcome 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The better of Norment’s two new works — both are untitled; the show is called “Plexus” — is in the first gallery, which contains a monumental brass structure in two parts, standing alone in the empty space. Camille Norment Explores New Sonic Terrains at Dia Chelsea 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z A 1965 essay by Charles Moore, "You Have to Pay for the Public Life," considered a range of new monumental architecture in California. Consider the social-architectural context of LACMA's 1965 design 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Every example of this brilliantly conceived monumental art is composed of fragments of that world. Through Catastrophe, and in Community, the Art of Daniel Lind-Ramos 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z It was the 1960s, campuses were alive with discord, parents and children were facing a monumental breech. Mike Nichols' incisive, touching films got personal 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z For Northwest Coast tribes, the influx of wealth brought by trade in sea-otter pelts with visiting Europeans "meant more opportunities to publicly exhibit status in the form of monumental art," the authors say. Book review: History of totem pole is a story of near-death and rebirth of an art form 2010-05-26T23:20:00Z I first met Judah in 1993 when the Calcutta-born artist created a moving and monumental Human Rights sculpture for Amnesty International. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-07-08T17:28:57Z This is really a monumental day for New York City. New York City Opens Its First Subway Station in Nearly Three Decades 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr. LeDray’s art is as monumental in concept as art gets, and it’s all about trying to give the child within some sense of control in an overwhelming world. | July 11-17 : July 18 ? 24 2010-07-16T15:05:00Z In Whistler’s work, it only grows more monumental as its end draws nigh. A change in visual language signals a bigger cultural shift This is to say that they are both monumental and awe-inspiring and, given that they were made four centuries after Michelangelo’s ceiling, something of an anachronism from the start. Review: ‘Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit’ 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Chaplin is universally recognized as a monumental figure in film history, not to mention the cultural history of the 20th century, so it seems silly to speak of his being underappreciated. "The Circus": Chaplin's little-known masterpiece 2010-07-14T01:01:00Z "I think it's monumental," says Tweedy of the group's work. Sound of civil rights rings out in resurrected Staple Singers records 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z We’re talking about such monumental things in this country, besides the election. Ted Danson Made D’Arcy Carden a Better Not-a-Robot 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z The general population swung between monumental indifference and reflexive dislike of a book deemed too clever and arty for its own good. Bloomsday: a rare chance to feel good about being Irish 2012-06-16T09:59:01Z Two big announcements came down recently about the trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard — both monumental, neither one a surprise. Terence Blanchard, Pushing Jazz Forward From a New Perch 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z The show also features Sargent’s only monumental male nude and his only portrait of McKeller as himself — a striking painting that usually hangs in the M.F.A. John Singer Sargent’s Secret Muse 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Their transition to married life, then, was not exactly monumental. What Changes in the First Year of Marriage? 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Victor Hugo's monumental 1862 novel about a decades-long manhunt, social inequality and redemption features the songs "I Dreamed a Dream," "On My Own," "Do You Hear the People Sing?" and "One Day More." 'Les Miserables' musical is Broadway-bound 2013-02-19T19:25:14Z She was feeling exhausted, and she worried she wasn’t up to the monumental task she faced: composing a poem about national unity to recite at President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inauguration. Amanda Gorman Captures the Moment, in Verse 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z I liked not having to make these big monumental choices. Katherine Heigl unfiltered: "I know my value. Beauty ... is the least interesting thing about me" 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z There’s mourning again in Henry Taylor’s muted “Homage to a Brother,” where behind the half-silhouetted torso of a departed boy, his name—Sean—stands in monumental capital letters. How Radical Can a Portrait Be? 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s not the third-rate attempted burglary that matters — it’s the monumental coverup. John Dean, sex machine? And other new revelations from the Nixon tapes. Ritzi Jacobi, a European pioneer of contemporary textile and fiber art who was best known for her monumental wall hangings and soft sculptures, died on June 19 at her home in Düsseldorf, Germany. Ritzi Jacobi, Maker of Mind-Bending Textile Art, Dies at 80 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z “I was creating at a monumental scale at a moment when monuments are seen as an imposition, or really haven’t aged well,” Ms. Bass said by phone. This Way to Chloë Bass’s Outdoor Art Show 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Harrington said she likes the idea of one child while Mr. Ballinger, always up for a monumental challenge, wants seven. Finding Romance in the Ups and Downs 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Here the monumental stasis of social realist statues contrasts with everyday life that passes them by, seemingly obliviously. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z But because he’s the first, I consider it pretty monumental.” 179 pro athletes’ reactions to Jason Collins 2013-05-06T18:50:00Z Its massive squared granite towers and a high steel arch are joined to a monumental viaduct that cuts a swath across the island. Randalls Island Paths for Urban Biking 2012-10-12T05:25:30Z It evokes the present becoming past, and yet monumental, before Losier’s very eyes; she appears to be rescuing fragments of Cassandro’s career before it passes into legend. “Cassandro, the Exotico!,” Reviewed: An Intimate Portrait of a Lucha-Libre Star 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Babayan described it as “one of those monumental things that you don’t forget.” Not Just a Philharmonic Residency: Daniil Trifonov Is a New Yorker 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z This monumental opera, Rossini’s final masterpiece, spins a tale of the legendary Swiss folk hero William Tell, a renowned archer who fought to liberate his homeland from Austrian rule. Review: A New, Abstract ‘Guillaume Tell’ at the Met Opera 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Artist Chuck Close was born near Everett and became internationally renowned for his monumental portraits of human faces — even though he suffers from prosopagnosia, also known as “face blindness.” Face value: Chuck Close, who revolutionized portraiture, has major retrospective in Everett 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Simpson plants artifacts of modern culture within her monumental blue landscapes and seascapes, evoking a darkening world. The Mysterious Darknesses of Lorna Simpson’s Paintings 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Yet “monumental” was first staged, without the live music, in 2005 — when BlackBerry was king, the iPhone was still a rumor, and the economic crash was three years off. Review: Setting a Squadron of Joyless Worker Drones to Music 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z But even as the spare language of her lines endows them with a monumental feel, their brevity and levity also prefigure the semiotically fraught short exchanges of the texting era. Perspective | For the new opera ‘Eurydice,’ a challenge of mythic scale: Retelling the Orpheus myth without looking back 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The most substantial Mark Rothko retrospective in a generation has opened at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, and it is a show of monumental dispersion: a pull-out-all-the-stops blockbuster where life passes into vapor. Mark Rothko at Full Scale, and in Half Light 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Parallel to that, I started to do more and more monumental sculpture for buildings and parks. To Design TEFAF, ‘You Have to Be a Little Crazy About Art’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z If her clothes were singular, however, it was at Louis Vuitton that things got, literally, monumental. At Louis Vuitton and Valentino, Mapping the Season’s Genome 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Or was this just a monumentally weird coincidence? Art imitates art? Damien Hirst’s Venice Biennale installation looks a lot like another’s 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z Although the book has been widely praised as a monumental text about black life, it’s more specifically a book about how to live free in a black male body. Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z It is not a monumental effort to shift the landscape. The Google doodles’ big diversity problem 2014-02-28T15:53:00Z The monumental salad was an appetizer Keller says he designed and first served for an Oscar party for Vanity Fair. Thomas Keller mines the past to create something new at Surf Club in Miami 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z For many people, the name Alexander Calder brings to mind large mobiles and monumental red steel sculptures that enliven public spaces. Small, intricate pieces by Alexander Calder on display at a New York exhibition 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z “Listen” displays a natural feeling for things that hover between ordinary and monumental, sad and self-renewing. On the Runway: Playing a Sad Song for Joy: Mark Seliger 2011-02-22T18:24:23Z The centerpiece is a set of monumental tapestries, laid flat on the floor like carpets, their embroidered surfaces sparkling with sequins and dense with sewn-on objects which partially obscure images of urban murder victims. Museum & Gallery Listings for Feb. 19-25 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Because endings are so monumentally difficult: the last episode of Seinfeld went down so badly that it put Larry David off finishing things altogether. Too closure for comfort: the death of definitive TV endings 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z What melts away as you get to know the characters are the monumental stigmas attached to jail time. Review | Lynn Nottage sets ‘Clyde’s’ in a truck stop cafe, and feisty comedy is on the menu 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z “Your body just created life and now it’s shifting in order to feed it. That’s monumental and we’re all expected to go: ‘Oh no, all good, I’m groovy – I haven’t slept, I’m fine. Keira Knightley: 'I can’t act the flirt or mother to get my voice heard. It makes me feel sick' 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Bereaved but resilient, the sound of the monumental Argentine folk singer heard in Rodrigo H. Vila’s biographical documentary “Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America” conveys eons of suffering and survival. Movie Review: ‘Mercedes Sosa,’ About a Voice for the Oppressed 2014-01-24T00:23:48Z Covering the whole of a nine-foot canvas, it depicts Little Richard’s face in monumental close-up, a froth of hair, wild eyes, mouth opened wide to emit a reverberant, eternal hysterical falsetto holler. No Prince Without the King 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z And so I found Caroline’s monumental dourness, no less than the clueless attempts of the Gellman family to get around it, as heartbreaking as ever. How Chicago Is Changing Theater, One Storefront at a Time 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z So what Netflix’s “The School for Good and Evil” attempts — to draw from and pervert cookie-cutter hero and villain stories in a novel way — is a task so monumental that it can’t measure up. ‘The School for Good and Evil’ Review: Ever Afters and Never Afters 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z “We took email conversations to our personal email and started talking there, about random stuff. What are you doing this weekend? Not anything monumental,” said Ms. Bartoloni, 30. For Obama’s Speechwriting Team, the Message Finally Got Through 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z It may be that the Nobel was never worthy of this iconoclastic satirist, wily cultural historian, sublime fictive ranter, comic tragedian, outraged citizen, contradictory wit, epic insulter and monumental imaginer. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Following her superb release of Bach’s monumental “Art of Fugue,” the pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei turns her attention to these smaller-scale pieces, finding the drama in each miniature and rendering the set with myriad nuances. Classical Playlist: Villegas, Praetorius, and Boulez's Mozart 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z It's a real say what? moment; while everyone knows money can't buy happiness, the notion that Saint Laurent, lover of beauty, needed a refuge from his more monumental possessions is startling. L'Amour Fou: Remembering Yves Saint Laurent 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z A tapestry titled “An Accident” conjures such abuse with a monumental close-up of an injured hand while its title echoes the excuse that battered victims, and batterers alike, typically use to deflect scrutiny. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z That’s why two films in particular stand out, and they’re not interested in making monumental statements about history and violence and terror, even though these realities undeniably lurk all around. What Does It Mean to Live in Ukraine? Filmmakers Offer Their Answers. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z This baby shower is a small occasion that’s happening at a monumental time in your colleague’s life — and a stressful one too. My Colleague Had an Affair. Now She’s Having a Baby. Do I Have to Act Happy? 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Yet what came through in the comments from readers and, I hope, my articles and videos is that for most of us these composers are not monumental idols but living, compelling presences. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z My frustrations with Mr. Lang also apply to his latest recording, which includes two accounts of Bach’s monumental “Goldberg” Variations. Lang Lang: The Pianist Who Plays Too Muchly 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z "Orange Crush," 9 feet tall, 15 feet wide and painted in garish, glossy enamels on a billboard-size metal panel, blows up to monumental scale a still from her high-definition video projection "Green Pink Caviar." Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z It was monumental not because of its controversial subject matter, but rather for the exhilarating virtuosity of Nabokov’s prose. Russia’s Literary Icons, Explored on a Budget 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z For Mr. Wright, the film is a chance to remember his cousin and remind viewers of the monumental injustice done. In Era of Black Lives Matter, Films Focus on Emmett Till Lynching 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z It should be included alongside the usual suspects — your “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Rubber Soul” and “Highway 61 Revisited” and “Pet Sounds” — each regarded as monumental. ‘Amazing Grace’: How Aretha Franklin Took Us All to Church 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The legal victories won by these groups in the domain of Civil Rights were monumental. "Blacks and Jews" authors: "Whoopi is not the enemy" but "it may be too late" for America anyway 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Guests were piled high on banquettes along the club’s narrow wood-paneled interiors, like modern vignettes from Rembrandt’s monumental group portraits. Miley Cyrus, Lil Nas X and DJ Khaled Party After the V.M.A.s 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z "Here Lies Love," which was recently extended through June 2, is a welcome and wholly singular vision of a monumental episode in Filipino history. Review: David Byrne revisits disco in new work 2013-04-24T02:11:13Z Mr. Cranston read “Master of the Senate,” the third volume in Mr. Caro’s monumental cycle, for clues to his legislative prowess. Bryan Cranston Is Playing Lyndon Johnson on Broadway 2014-02-05T20:10:11Z It was so monumental to talk about how, basically, we’re interchangeable. All Her Life Studies: A Downtown Dancer Finds Her Voice 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Tóibín’s slim 112-page novel is a retelling of the Bible, told from the perspective of Jesus’s mother, Mary, as she struggles to recount the monumental events of her life through her grief. Who Will Win The Man Booker Prize? Here’s The Shortlist 2013-10-15T15:51:23Z “It’s a little bit art nouveau; it’s a little bit art deco,” and it adheres to “a streamlined aesthetic” whereby “the human figure was monumental and powerful, but simplified,” she said. Diaspora: Lily Garafulic’s 100th It is beloved by locals, for whom it offers a leafy respite from the sun-drenched and monumentally scaled Mall. Perspective | How a rock wall and pool of water have thrown a wrench into the redesign of Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z This is true of monumental landscapes, like the one on the collection’s early-17th-century folding screens called “Willows and Bridge.” Masterpieces of Japanese Art at the Met 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z With little to lose, he changed his plans, creating a monumental structure layered with imposing arcades, colonnades and flanking pavilions, crowned with a dome and a pedimented tower. An Opera House Inspired by More Than Music 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Another monumental two-part drama, a revival of “Angels in America,” took 11 nominations, including best play revival, best actor Andrew Garfield and best featured actor for Nathan Lane as closeted conservative firebrand Roy Cohn. 'Harry Potter,' 'Angels in America' among top nominees for... 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z As for that monumental kielbasa, with its retinue of pork in various incarnations, no man or woman in my company was able to fit all of its ingredients into one mouthful. The Hot Dogs at Schaller’s Stube in Yorkville Have Been Working Out 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Over the top of this monumental geometric background, in gold paint metres high, the letters ‘2%’ shine out – the proportion of the Australian population who identify as Indigenous. Review: My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia 2013-06-06T03:00:00Z This amazing alien invasion that you’re spending 12 pages writing that takes a little bit of time, the artist has to do a monumental level of work to achieve. In ‘Invincible,’ a Young Hero Arrives for a Mature Audience 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z They don’t feature massive noses or monumental comb-overs, but the drawings in Deb Sokolow’s “Debate Stage Water Bottles” are political cartoons. In the galleries: Rustic landscapes with just a touch of menace 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The tabula ansata is particularly noteworthy, as it was a common Roman device for framing inscriptions on things like votive plaques, military standards and monumental buildings. Review: ‘Ennion,’ at the Met, Profiles an Ancient Glassmaker 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z According to the museum’s website, the architect “rejected the traditional notion that a museum needed to be a monumental container for art and decided it ought to be a sculptural work of art itself.” Six of I.M. Pei’s Most Important Works 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z This is a masterly and indeed monumental biography, some 800 pages long, a memorable portrait of the age as well as the composer. Gustav Mahler by Jens Malte Fischer, trans Stewart Spencer – review 2013-05-03T17:10:01Z But it came across as a monumental entity. Music Review: Mivos Quartet Performs Compositions by Modernists 2012-10-14T21:20:40Z The exhibition's centerpiece is the Art Institute's own monumental "Bathers by a River" that Matisse once said was his most important painting and one that he revised repeatedly. Matisse's "aha" moment subject of U.S. museum show 2010-03-23T22:35:00Z Using four massive curves of burnished wall to create any number of configurations – soldier's camp, gypsy encampment, nunnery, castle ramparts – the effect is sculptural and monumental. Il Trovatore - review 2011-02-27T18:03:39Z Rapping over grandly cinematic arrangements of his songs, with monumental rock beats, Jay-Z represented the businessman after Mr. Wonder’s idealist, and drew equally loud singalongs. Music: Today and Yesterday Sing Harmony as Bonnaroo Closes 2010-06-13T22:48:00Z “We are in front of a monumental work, in itself a pilgrimage,” she wrote. Exhibition Review: Balenciaga's Spirit of Flamenco and Toreros 2011-06-13T12:24:09Z She won first prize for sculpture at the 2003 Florence Biennial; a collection of monumental tree trunks lined with life-size family photographs — “Family Trees” — was recently shown in Dresden, Germany; Prague; and Gdansk, Poland. Emilie Brzezinski is her own kind of power player: an artist with a chainsaw The upper floor has become a museum reached by a monumental steel and aluminum staircase that serves as the backbone of the site. A Vault Holding Long-Hidden French Treasures Swings Open Its Doors 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Revisiting this play, which was first staged in 1999, Walsh has expanded the text significantly; and, under his own direction for Landmark Productions, it is given a monumental staging. Misterman - review 2011-07-14T16:15:31Z She has engineered a vast matrix of metal rods that cohere into a monumental yet ethereal globe. Art That Might Make You Want to Go to La Guardia 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z But for people who thought the mandolin was limited, performing monumental pieces of a sacred composer on the instrument might change their minds. In his Hollywood Bowl debut, Avi Avital aims to reshape the sound of classical music 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Over a four-decade career, the Bay Area-based artist became known for a diverse range of stark abstract works that included paintings, collages and monumental wall sculpture. Datebook: An anniversary show, works by a key Bay Area artist, paintings that touch on ideas of home 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The program also features Bruckner’s monumental Symphony No. 9 and Barber’s “Adagio for Strings.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for May 2-8 2014-05-01T22:04:07Z It is now thought the crucifix must have been painted around 20 years after Giotto finished his other well-known monumental crucifix in Florence's Santa Maria Novella church. British art restorer uncovers a lost Giotto masterpiece 2010-10-23T23:07:00Z At a time when sex was taboo in Los Angeles and actors signed morality agreements, Monroe was yet to be the monumental success that would make her a symbol of both Hollywood and sex. Nude images of Marilyn Monroe offer snapshots of taboo Hollywood history 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Along with 19th-century botanical prints and books and a digital edition of the monumental herbarium that Dickinson assembled in her teens, it includes autographed copies of two of her flower-intensive poems. Art: ?Emily Dickinson?s Garden,? at New York Botanical Garden 2010-04-29T23:07:00Z The portrait of Beethoven that Yannick Nézet-Séguin creates through his conducting tends to be one of monumental grandeur, of this composer as a towering Great Man. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Outside the main building at Glenstone, the private museum with sprawling grounds in Potomac, Md., visitors encounter two monumental works by Richard Serra. Glenstone Museum to expand with major Richard Serra acquisition and new pavilion to house it 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a doctor she saw five years earlier, in London, whose lab blundered monumentally by thawing five of Katkin’s embryos prematurely, should be glad Katkin was kind enough to identify him only as “Dr. P.” Two Books Explore the Front Lines of Infertility 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Important antiquities have certainly been damaged or destroyed, including a monumental Assyrian statue of a winged bull-man that stood watch at one of the 15 gates to Ninevah. The Mosul Museum video from Islamic State could be a staged drama 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z This anthology is a monumental tribute to persistence, from the colonial period to the present. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z It’s here that I began to sympathize with the monumental task “The Get Down” has set for itself. ‘The Get Down’ is a lavish remix of hip-hop history — and a big mess of a TV show 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z “The consequences for a player asking for production to get involved are monumental,” Shipman said. From "Survivor" to D.C., women are showing up strong on TV, but does patriarchal America care? 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z But the images are enriched by fluency in modern art, especially Cubism and Picasso’s two-faced heads, curvaceous Marie-Thérèse Walter images and monumental beached nudes. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z On the walls were monumental paintings showing her younger self, including one with her face peering through the elaborate stained-glass-framed door of their former home, an Upper West Side brownstone. ?Will Barnet at 100? at the National Academy Museum 2011-10-09T04:00:20Z Momos, the monumental dumplings found across the Himalayas, rise like islands from a sauce of tomatoes and earthy spices that Mr. Kharel would not name: “There are too many competitors,” he said. An Egg Is More Than Just an Egg at While in Kathmandu 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z She told the Dallas Morning News in an interview that she chose the famous 'grassy knoll' at Dealey Plaza because "it was the most monumental place in Dallas I could think of." Singer Badu causes stir with nude video at JFK site 2010-03-30T19:19:00Z That’s not to mention Lloyd Webber’s essential, monumental achievement here, of creating 90 minutes of music deftly combining orchestra, rock band and a small army of vocalists. Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Jenkins is fresh in town from the film’s monumental launch at the Telluride film festival. ‘It’s impossible to be vulnerable’: how Moonlight reflects being a black gay man in the US 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z More crucially, he remains apoplectic over Bannon’s decision, alongside other advisers, to toss out Christie’s monumental 30-volume plan for Trump’s transition. Chris Christie’s Memoir Praises Trump, but Says, ‘I Told You So’ 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z “It’s not the monumental or the heroic city that he’s showing, but it’s the city where we live,” said Sarah Henry, chief curator of the Museum of the City of New York. Frame: Neil Goldberg Exhibition at Museum of the City of New York 2012-03-02T00:33:51Z The best-known of those images is the monumental 1967 canvas, “A Bigger Splash,” in the Tate collection in London. Hockney Painting Makes a Medium-Size Splash at Sotheby’s 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z All but one of these artists collaborated, along with Parmigianino, on Correggio’s monumental frescoes. The Glories of Two Parma Masters 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Supreme Court, of the monumental scale of the atrocities. An actor of note seeks to unlock the mysteries of a hero of the Holocaust 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Even so, a sudden double-stopped fifth in one of the cellos — appearing sudden after what may have been 90 minutes of single notes played — registered as a gesture of monumental significance. Johann Johannsson’s ‘Drone Mass’ Bridges Ancient and Modern at Temple of Dendur 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z This escalation performs much of the same function as the wide, monumental steps that front many of the museums built a century ago. The problem with The Broad is the collection itself 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z In the garden, Othoniel has suspended glass necklaces in gold on trees and centered monumental gold lotuses in reflecting pools. A Glittering Honor for a Master of Glass 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z That monumental feat becomes even more mind-boggling when you consider that, less than a year ago, the denizens of Port Charles — including moody mobster Sonny Corinthos — were thought to be on death’s door. Q&A: As ‘General Hospital’ turns 50, a talk with Maurice Benard 2013-03-29T23:51:33Z Unfortunately his moral compass is so far out of whack he's monumentally unsuited to the task. DVD & Blu-ray out this week 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z In attempting to dramatise his consciousness Parini therefore sets himself a monumental challenge. The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini ? review 2011-02-13T00:08:03Z His achievement is monumental, marked by literary grace and intelligent commentary. New & Noteworthy 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z “The Word of Banksy — The Immersive Experience” opens Friday in the Mosaics Gallery, on the rail level of Milan’s monumental Central Station. Banksy street murals recreated in Milan’s main train station 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z A monumental bronze sculpture of an elephant standing on its trunk greets visitors at the foundation’s entrance on the Paseo del Prado. Getting to Know Barcel? at Madrid Exhibition 2010-06-08T10:00:00Z The first half is a selection of pieces from the Années de Pèlerinage, while the second is devoted to the monumental B Minor Sonata. Edinburgh festival 2012 preview: the best shows and hottest picks 2012-07-29T18:31:01Z Richard Attenborough, who after a distinguished stage and film acting career in Britain reinvented himself to become the internationally admired director of the monumental “Gandhi” and other films, died on Sunday. Richard Attenborough, Actor, Director and Giant of British Cinema, Dies at 90 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z On this album, clear-cut intros, verses, choruses and bridges have replaced bleary incantations, and the music has moved from the shadowy haze of trip-hop to an emphatic, monumental clarity — high-end pop craftsmanship. Review: The Weeknd Makes a Bid for Pop Outreach on a New Album 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Alternatively, the hall can be embraced as the most monumentally architectural of stages, the audience tidied away to the sides while the dancers pit themselves against its dramatic lines and scale. Clod Ensemble: Silver Swan – review 2012-11-27T13:02:24Z A production of Wagner's life-enhancing work is always a monumental undertaking because of the sheer scale of the work and the forces it requires, a large chorus as well as a considerable roster of soloists. This week's new live music 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z “It tells you everything you could want to know about it, all in cobalt-blue decoration, on a monumental scale.” Antiques: New Homes for Trigger, A Historian?s Archive And a Kentucky Churn 2010-12-23T22:49:23Z Donatello's competitive spirit is the exhibition's focal point, manifest in the stunning juxtaposition of two monumental seated sculptures. 'Sculpture in the Age of Donatello' shows artist's competitive spirit 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z For me, it was a monumental moment: I suddenly understood the power of photojournalism. Photographer Ron Haviv's best shot 2010-07-14T21:15:00Z "CNN apologizes for the unintended offense caused by an article from a contributor that was intended to be a humorous look at monumental architecture worldwide," it said in a statement. How Russia hits back at slights over WWII victory 2014-02-10T14:06:15Z Now it even includes the parallel experience of playing the same monumental role, and doing so without a trace of rivalry on either side. Learning 'Lear': We Really Are Putting on a Play 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Our reviewer, Tom Perrotta, called the story “a work of outsize ambition and remarkable craft, a monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes.” Paperback Row 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z It is only there that you encounter the monumental works of this exciting show. Postcards From the Biennale 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The group includes a study for his monumental “Gray Column” sculpture once featured at the Getty Museum. Artists Fight to Get Works Back Amid Ace Gallery’s Bankruptcy Case 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z It’s a glorious room, with seascapes and monumental rocks that emerged from Monet’s brush as he laid down quick strokes of the varied colors he observed in the moment. Seattle Art Museum has a new Monet exhibition. Is it needed? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z One of those touchstones is Mr. Baselitz’s monumental “Heroes” paintings from 1965-6, hulking figures that seem to carry the weight of German history on their shoulders. Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists’ New Work for the Opera Stage 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z In the book the sights of things like the white, flowerlike aerating ponds of a paper mill — which affect the water table for miles around — provide visceral testimony to the monumental despoiling of the planet. Art Review: An Artful Environmental Impact Statement 2011-01-13T22:44:37Z Because only a tiny fraction of these holdings is available for public viewing, the “Treasures” sets offer an invaluable glimpse of that monumental yet increasingly inaccessible achievement that was American moviemaking in the 20th century. DVD: ?Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938,? New DVD Set 2011-09-25T03:33:02Z But, despite yourself, you see something endearing in all this monumental stupidity. Die Hard 2 recap: 'Insane bloodlust, gratuitous profanity, zero logic' 2013-06-21T16:15:40Z I don’t mean the movie is so monumentally dreadful. “Ruby Sparks”: Writing the perfect girlfriend 2012-07-25T00:01:00Z Perhaps the biggest surprise is a pair of monumental Salvator Rosa canvases, each more than 8 feet wide, from the mid-1650s. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z These are often happenings which are as epic and monumental as say, World War II seems to us. Classic tales 2010-04-07T08:34:00Z The installation was the second monumental exhibit to remember virus victims that the Maryland-based artist has staged. COVID-19 memorial creators reflect as world nears 5M deaths 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z If there is one designer whose name has become synonymous with the monumental, elaborate print, it is Ms. Katrantzou. The Future of Fabric Prints Is Bright 2012-02-21T18:16:17Z And the set winds up looking like something old fashioned, both monumental and a little dusty. Review: Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo Sizzle in ‘Roméo et Juliette’ at the Met 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z He told Entertainment Weekly: “The show has proven that TV is every bit as impressive and in many cases more so, than film. What they’re doing is monumental.” Game of Thrones prequel series ordered from George RR Martin and Jane Goldman 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Richter is equally at ease when painting monumental sizes and small formats. Art: Gerhard Richter, Grand Master of Our Time 2011-10-28T12:00:09Z It counters by example the larger argument of the Mall, which is all about symmetry, extended vistas and monumental scale. Review | New Native American memorial offers peace in the heart of one of the city’s few wild spaces 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z In this desire for monumental memorialization — and, yes, its failure to achieve it — the museum is not alone. Recalling Sept. 11 by Inverting a Museum’s Usual Role 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The petite, monastically dressed, 78-year-old artist stood before a monumental black painting, with a row of broad white strokes from which rivulets of pigment spilled down the dark ground. Pat Steir Gets Discovered, Again 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Others were less monumental, but they gave glimpses of Nixon’s paranoia and vindictiveness. The man who knew too much about Richard Nixon 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The larger two pieces suggest monumental urn-like trophies set on ornamental bases and decorated with linear patterns and figures in relief. The Eyes Have It in Hew Locke’s Power-Challenging Show 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The saxophonists were an astonishing pair: Hughes’s inquisitive phrases seemed to ask questions of Settles’s monumental tone. Review | Janel Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash is making a jazzlike sound you can look forward to 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z The same went for “Titian: Women, Myth & Power” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, featuring a cycle of six monumental paintings on mythological scenes produced late in this Venetian artist’s career. Best Art Exhibitions of 2021 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z "His work has inspired and influenced modern architecture, as we all learn to do more with less, and to trade monumental structures for economy, light and air." Architect wins posthumous award 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Even when it’s small, it’s monumentally small: the largest-ever thread of sound, a magnification of delicacy. Paul Jacobs brings thundering drama in a calm package 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z This is a film that tramples on Fitzgerald's exquisite prose, turning the oblique into the crude, the suggestively symbolic into the declaratively monumental, the abstract into the flatly real. The Great Gatsby – review 2013-05-18T23:07:04Z After last week’s hugely ambitious sequel to Assassin, which featured yet another monumental performance from Ann Dowd and a tear-jerking sequence set to God Only Knows, something about last night’s tender send-off felt right. How The Leftovers became the most ambitious show of the decade 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Aravena’s Innovation Center, for example, is enveloped in a monumental concrete skin partly because it looks powerful — but also because it helps shelter the building’s atrium core from the elements. Rough, yet poetic: Chilean architecture has its moment 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z His monumental bronze sculpture titled "Dancers" was auctioned for more than $1.7 million in New York recently. Colombian artist Botero released from hospital 2011-12-07T17:08:14Z Artists who participated in the album, which has been in the works for almost a decade, expressed their sense of honor at being asked to complete the work of such a monumental musician. Music: Bob Dylan Assembles ?The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams? 2011-09-23T19:16:45Z Here, though, Lloyd’s doll is simple and straightforward, a classic children’s toy scaled to monumental proportions, cut from uncomplicated fabric and filled with packing peanuts. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z She found a tiny print in a book of Javanese batiks and enlarged it to monumental scale. T Magazine: The Reinvention of Beige 2013-12-05T20:16:25Z It could be a study for some monumental group of statues due to be carved in marble. Review: A Florentine Artist's Two Aesthetic Lives 2010-02-19T13:15:00Z Sheila Hicks, an artist whose career has involved melding art, design, craft and architecture, has created a monumental fiber sculpture from ceiling to floor in a spectrum of colors. A Guide to the 2014 Whitney Museum Biennial 2014-02-27T23:29:47Z The weight of Emmett Till’s murder, the horror of it — as well as both the history that preceded his death and that which followed it — is monumental, impossible, really, for one movie. ‘Till’ Review: He Was Someone’s Son, Too 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z You’ll see the monumental sculptures framed by lush lawns and the Hudson Valley’s rolling hills. A Labor Day Thank You for the Arts 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Acting in the plays of Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard or Annie Baker won’t adequately prepare you for the monumental task of performing “King Lear.” Summer Shakespeare: A critic's take on the secret to theatrical success 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Though high-profile performances of the monumental “St. Matthew Passion,” especially, have abounded in recent years, those who list such events at The New York Times have not yet turned up one. Music Review | Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra: At Trinity, Andrew Parrott Leads a Full-Bodied ?Passion? 2010-03-16T21:46:00Z At around 10 feet by 14 feet of unstretched canvas tacked to the wall, it has presence that is both monumental and informal. Jennifer Packer: Painting as an Exercise in Tenderness 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Schneider is transgender, and the most monumental thing to note about this is that it wasn’t treated as monumental. Perspective | Amy Schneider’s gift to America was bringing her whole self to ‘Jeopardy!’ 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z In her installation for Delta, the painter Aliza Nisenbaum has commemorated a cross-section of Terminal C’s labor force in a monumental group portrait. Ready When You Are, Terminal C Is Now an Art Destination 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z But this effect may also reflect the monumental internal scale of many of Mr. Puryear’s objects as well as their individual magnetism. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z That monumental discovery sparked decades of epic debates about the vastness and origins of the universe, and they involved a clash of titans, the Russian-American nuclear physicist George Gamow and the British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. When the Big Bang Was Just a Theory 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Rutter’s main goal is to see whether she can bring the kind of intimacy and excitement that dominates Chicago’s Orchestra Hall to the austere, impersonal, monumental spaces of the Kennedy Center. New president Deborah Rutter is Kennedy Center’s breath of fresh air from Windy City Several paintings are staggeringly beautiful, particularly the six pages torn away from the monumental volume commissioned for the library of Shah Tahmasp when the young Safavid prince mounted the throne of Iran in 1524. Art Review: Iran's Mirror of the World 2011-02-25T12:00:05Z Soldiers surrounded the building and moved inside to protect mummies, monumental stone statues, ornate royal jewelry and other pharaonic artifacts. Egypt's military secures famed antiquities museum 2011-01-29T01:22:13Z In 1715, the monumental canvas was cut down on all four sides to fit onto a wall between two doors in Amsterdam’s Town Hall. Rembrandt’s Damaged Masterpiece Is Whole Again, With A.I.’s Help 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z “Underground” came to life on a niche channel in an age of niches, a series about a monumental subject airing at a time when TV rarely delivered monumental statements. In ‘Underground’ Delivering Justice Along With Escapist Entertainment 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Remembering all my objectives – hands, eyes, vocal expressions, presence, active listening, projecting, oxytocin, serotonin – is a monumental, sweat-inducing effort. 'I am not naturally magnetic': can you learn how to be charismatic? 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Not long after completing the colossal project, Ganna was ready for his next monumental challenge. Could a mask maker’s quest to see the Dalai Lama bring about world peace? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z It wasn’t the proper government structure of Boston’s staid red-brick tradition; rather, it was a proudly monumental building that would command the vast plaza of the new Government Center complex with thunderous authority. Michael McKinnell, 84, Dies; Architect of a Monumental City Hall 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z The monumental buildings’ vulnerability in this seismically active landscape is driven home. You don’t need rules to look at Amir Zaki’s photography — just imagination 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z St. James Cathedral in Seattle was the scene on Friday evening for a 400th-anniversary re-creation of this monumental masterpiece, and the sheer freshness, indeed effrontery, of music and performance alike electrified the audience. Review: A 'Vespers' for the ages at St. James Cathedral 2010-12-04T18:09:00Z That’s not the kind of drama that expresses itself best in subtle acting, even aside from the monumental staging with which the actors must fend. Review: ‘Judgment Day,’ an Allegory of Blame, Goes Big 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Instead of soft sculptures, with their hilarious lumpy heft, he began turning out monumental sculptures with hard metallic surfaces. Claes Oldenburg Captured a Carefree (and Consumerist) America 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Her put-down of “Cleopatra” the next month as a “monumental mouse” added to her notoriety. Judith Crist, Film Critic, Dies at 90 2012-08-07T16:35:14Z ‘King Lear’ In Angus Jackson’s straightforward, storybook version of Shakespeare’s monumental tragedy, there’s not much doubt about what drives its title character around the bend. Theater Listings for Jan. 24-30 2014-01-23T23:45:21Z This was simply a moving and monumental list of people killed in 2008 by the collapse of shoddy and unsafe government buildings; the list is an ongoing, continuously updated work in progress. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry – review 2012-08-09T20:31:01Z More unexpected, perhaps, is a monumental woven work that touches on gay politics, sexual encounters and a supernatural soap opera. Tapestry in Seattle cathedral weaves history and mission 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z The 2011 “Morning Glory,” which twists and trumpets across a wide-open space in front of the museum’s Astor Court, is monumental but finespun and transparent. Art in Review: ‘Cambodian Rattan: The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich’ 2013-05-02T19:18:48Z Sinan has hundreds of monumental structures still in daily use, from Belgrade to Mecca. Cultured Traveler: Tracking Turkey’s First Starchitect 2012-06-08T18:10:50Z Rivera would spend the next year in the Motor City creating the monumental “Detroit Industry” murals that cover the DIA walls. Motor City exhibition ‘Dance’ shows how motion has long inspired American art 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z La Terre, monumental in its intensity and magnificent in its sheer chutzpah, projects a seething macrocosm of souls struggling against the odds to grace mere survival with meaning. Brian Ferneyhough: Total Immersion ? review 2011-02-28T22:00:00Z Daylight muted the opulent reds and golds of the abandoned Grand Foyer, its monumental stillness fraught with grief. Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra reunite, and it’s a joyful noise 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Fox reality programing chief Mike Darnell said the show, which offers an unprecedented $5 million prize and recording contract to a winner to be chosen in December, was "a monumental success." 'X Factor' to return for second season on Fox 2011-11-02T18:12:57Z “I was thinking of Claes Oldenburg by blowing up an item that was helpful to me when I was a kid with an Afro, and turning it into something monumental.” Missed Burning Man? Burning Man, or at Least Its Art, Is Coming to You 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Two large pieces, both created from plans left by the artist at his death, feel uncharacteristically monumental. Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a Master of Mutability 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The collection includes 435 watercolors engraved for Audubon's monumental "The Birds of America." NYC museum displaying Audubon's bird watercolors 2013-03-13T18:07:10Z In his latest exhibition at Vielmetter, he presents a series of monumental works inspired by the trees in Central Park — as well as eight new ink-and-paper drawings that take these concepts into a new medium. Datebook: LACMA's new gifts, a show about performance, a special screening of 'Nosferatu' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Much of what’s in the show is the opposite of ostentatious or monumental. What Museums Don’t Reveal About Religious Art 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z With Brahms, it is much more monumental, a kind of orchestral-sonata form. Well-traveled pianist Yefim Bronfman to return to Seattle 2012-12-06T22:14:14Z Lundens’s copy is less than one-fifth the size of Rembrandt’s monumental canvas, but it is thought to be mostly faithful to the original. Rembrandt’s Damaged Masterpiece Is Whole Again, With A.I.’s Help 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z That’s partly because his monumental “Birds of America,” a complete first edition of which sold at auction in 2010 for $11.5 million, was printed without the texts he wrote for it. Art: Audubon’s Words, Worthy of Show 2013-07-26T20:10:39Z The chosen medium for the message was mural painting — monumental, accessible, anti-elitist, in the public domain. How Mexico’s Muralists Lit a Fire Under U.S. Artists 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z It is best known for its monumental colonnades, temples and tomb complexes, many of which remain standing. Smithsonian Displays Ancient Artwork From City Threatened by ISIS 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Jenny Saville's monumental paintings of flesh in the raw have made her one of Britain's best-known artists. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-22T23:06:30Z “Because what happens is,” West said, “when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in the face after they deliver monumental feats of music — it’s disrespectful to inspiration.” Kanye West’s Stormy Relationship With the Grammys Erupts Again 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z In a packed room, a monumentally tight band surrounded by walls bedecked with decades of posters and Jagermeister ads is tearing through one hot jazz standard after another. In New Orleans, terrific cocktails never went out of fashion The show's opening work will be dramatic and monumental – the 4 metre high St Andrew Altarpiece, made in about 1512, which shows the outstanding levels of skill and sophistication in early Hungarian wood carving. Royal Academy to exhibit Hungary's art treasures 2010-05-14T23:49:00Z Her pictures appear throughout the stairs, some of them discreet, some monumental. Artist Selaron found dead by his work in Brazil 2013-01-11T00:22:22Z The new structures, dubbed the Reach, show no overt disrespect to their monumental neighbor, but they do just about everything differently. Review | Does the Kennedy Center have a vision for its elegant but awkward new annex? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z In achieving this extraordinarily difficult compromise, Wren had not just tested his genius to the limits, but realised the most monumentally discreet of all English compromises. St Paul's Cathedral has risen above its critics for 300 years 2011-03-01T11:00:00Z Richardson will discuss his monumental undertaking with art historian Gijs van Hensbergen, who is helping him write the fourth and final volume of the artist's biography. Picasso biographer talks about his subject's groundbreaking life 2010-12-07T21:11:00Z Renowned critic and poet Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy. AUDIO: Clive James on his obsession with Dante 2013-07-17T14:58:03Z Arata Isozaki’s Qatar National Convention Center is monumental: a pair of tree trunks are a major part of the building’s facade. What’s New in Doha? Basically Everything 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z “It’s as if he finally realized how monumental this crisis is,” tweeted The Post’s White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, commenting on the president’s more somber public remarks. Perspective | Surrounded by experts, Trump still needed an intervention by Tucker Carlson to take coronavirus seriously 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z His most impressive designs — a pyramidal apartment building in Manhattan, a power station in Copenhagen with a ski run on its sloping facade — are cheeky, monumental and ecologically friendly. Google's new headquarters design takes transparency to new levels 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Nolte has traveled to “dead” places in Europe and all over the “deceased” United States to collect his monumental impressions. EXCHANGE: Dead leave last impression 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z This building, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is monumental in scale. ‘Thinking of the past, considering the future.’ Inside the African American History and Culture Museum. 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z In the fall the arrival of the habagat, a weather system fed by southwest winds and easterly currents, creates even more monumental tubes. Next Stop : Surfing and Serenity on a Remote Philippine Island 2013-06-05T15:47:04Z Shot from a low angle, the truck appears monumental and heroic, but if it symbolizes something, it’s hard to say what. Art Review: William Eggleston at Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-05-02T21:26:29Z Such erasures are mundane and monumental all at once. Perspective | My mother has forgotten everything, including me. But her love is still here. 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z “The patch-up work for anchoring a piece to the wall is minimal, but the consequences of saving it from falling on top of a child, or you, is monumental,” Hawthorn warns. No closet? With a little creativity, you can make up for the lack of storage space. 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps the only way to get a clearer picture is to visit individual communities, where the national culture war yields to quieter yet no less monumental struggles over the meaning of particular historic sites. How America Remembers— and Distorts — Its Slavery Past 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z I gladly accepted and ate a few, only to find you’d left a monumental gob in the bag. A letter to … my older brother, who tormented me throughout our childhood 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z She describes it all with vivid recall, wit and monumental charm. Lenny Kravitz, Michael J. Fox, Cicely Tyson and Gabriel Byrne — All in Their Own Words 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z There are cigarettes, too -- monumental smokes to calm the nerves and aid in focused concentration, all while harboring rather more negative health consequences. Katherine Bernhardt takes a large look at consumerism 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Even when kicking off a triumphant occasion, such as the 60th anniversary of a modern-dance company, which is, by the way, a monumental mile-marker in the economically stressed field of dance. Review | 60 years on, Alvin Ailey’s dancers take the stage — and prove why the company is unlike any other 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Set in Australia, "The Tree" celebrates the country's monumental landscapes and unique wildlife. Life-affirming French film closes Cannes 2010-05-23T07:25:00Z In these brief personal pieces, Caro excavates his experiences creating his monumental biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson. New in Paperback: ‘Working’ and ‘Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know’ 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z It all leaves you pondering whether you have just seen a monumentally stupid movie or a brilliant movie about the nature and consequences of stupidity. Movie Review: Michael Bay’s ‘Pain & Gain,’ With Mark Wahlberg 2013-04-25T14:00:02Z The works in “Darkening,” a new exhibit of paintings by the artist Lorna Simpson, at Hauser & Wirth, are monumental panels that drown the viewer in blues—some shades so potent that they are black, purple. The Mysterious Darknesses of Lorna Simpson’s Paintings 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z In his lifetime, Clyfford Still demanded that his stark, monumental Abstract Expressionist canvases be exhibited in museum shows only in a separate gallery, and explicitly restricted institutions from lending paintings he donated. Rare Loan of Clyfford Still Paintings to Join Royal Academy Show 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Several blocks west, a monumental Miró bronze stood guard by a skyscraper known for its sloping glass facade and masterpieces inside. What Will Become of a Tycoon’s Art Gems? 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z Robertson Dean narrates this monumental work in a nicely paced, unflappable bass baritone. The best audiobooks for your summer drive, sorted by length — and who’s in the car 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Much of Reyle’s work, from his large-scale wrinkled silver foil sculptural paintings to his new monumental, rough-surfaced Fat Lava ceramic vases, is about discarded materials and preserving mistakes. In Berlin, a Creative Paradise That’s Easiest to Reach by Boat 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z How much is put on and how much is genuine is, in the end, no more relevant than it is for any other rappers boasting about their monumental badness. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z The show’s mad masterpiece is a monumental, 12-panel drawing in felt pen and colored marker that stretches horizontally along most of a wall, like a Japanese scroll. Review | From Basquiat to ‘Black Panther’: How graffiti went mainstream 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z There are superb examples of Anni Albers’s monumental, abstract weavings, with their loamy colors and sunlight shimmer, but also gouache drawings that look like unraveling lengths of thread. The Short Life and Long Legacy of Black Mountain College 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Clare Stewart, London Film Festival director, described Fury as "a resounding cinematic achievement" that would bring this year's event "to a monumental close". Pitt war film to end London festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z “We are at a point now where we don’t have to have these monumental signs hanging over the streets of Arlington.” When a county changed a Confederate highway name, some navigation apps were slow to change it 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z It feels both amazingly dull and monumentally important – like social history. Gap-year travel won't broaden the mind ? it just turns the young into fantasists 2011-01-09T00:05:35Z The show incudes dozens of her best pictures, her monumental 1930s camera and a short film of which she is the very engaging subject. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z The artist’s monumental ‘‘Maman’’ aims to depict the ferocity of motherhood. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z A crowd is pushing into a meeting hall deep inside the monumental Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill. Net neutrality, sex, falconry: In one week, I crashed as many D.C. conferences as possible. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z In the ’90s he had a restaurant in London called the Pharmacy, with three monumental medicine cabinets. Parting Is Such Sweet Spectacle: A Collector Sells His Hirst, Koons and Calder 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z This is Andy Warhol at his most abstract: part of a monumental installation that consisted of roughly 100 silk-screen panels that the artist created of the shadows in his studio in the late 1970s. Datebook: Dreamy stop-motion, German cinema and Andy Warhol's shadows 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Kim and Jake are working to capture the spirit of Mississippians in the Civil War, specifically those who fought in the Battle of Shiloh, a task so monumental it would dwarf many artists. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z In “Spatial Rapport #1,” children appear on parallel bars of color as if they’re climbing a monumental staircase. Review | In the galleries: Artist explores how castoff materials can be a venue to enlightenment 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z "The first choice has to be the wrong choice," as Žižek says in his monumental new book, because "the wrong choice creates the conditions for the right choice". Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Žižek – review 2012-06-27T11:52:01Z The French luxury supernova is known for its monumental sets, which recently included a giant bottle of its best-selling No. 5 perfume or a life-size barn with real - and really smelly - hay. Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh Chanel! 2010-07-06T22:50:00Z “It is of monumental significance,” said Stephen Little, a curator of Chinese art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Charges of Looting as Heirs Dispute C. C. Wang Collection 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Hittite influence must therefore have reached the Arabian Peninsula at least three centuries before the Tayma’ monumental head was carved. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z Mark Lewisohn’s “Tune In” is a monumental work about the Beatles. No Literary Horse Race, Just Books We Like 2013-12-19T15:32:26Z While Mr. Oldenburg’s work is most often linked to the Pop Art of the 1960s, he saw his monumental versions of humble objects as more than just celebrations of the mundane. Claes Oldenburg Dies at 93; Pop Artist Made the Everyday Monumental 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z At the same time, he is of course very much in the news for his winning bid to design a monumental viewing tower for the London Olympics. My Anish Kapoor confession 2010-06-10T16:42:00Z A blackened-steel light fixture, almost 22 feet long and over 10 feet wide, presides monumentally above the space. Into the West 2010-05-01T04:00:00Z One of the musicians told me after the show that an agreed silent opening seemed to stretch on and on, as if Turner was aware of what a monumental step that first sound would be. The disquieting sound of The Great White Silence 2010-10-25T14:33:00Z Whiteread's sculptures often present a kind of monumental blankness that resists us, while her drawings are more revealing. Rachel Whiteread: Through the eyes of a child 2010-09-06T20:31:00Z Revolutionary mobs toppled Bouchardon’s monumental bronze equestrian sculpture of his aristocratic patron, decked out like Emperor Marcus Aurelius while prancing on horseback atop a high perch. Edmé Bouchardon's extraordinary drawings changed the way sculpture looked 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z "That was my first big musical love. "Having the Stone Roses open up the first episode is monumental to me. TV drama revisits 'optimism' of 1996 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z There was a tumultuous ovation, since Beethoven was a living legend and the sheer impact of this monumental symphony must have been astonishing. Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z The episode only builds suspicion around Hardy: If he missed so much in the Sandbrook case, are there monumental things he doesn’t know about Broadchurch as well? 'Broadchurch' Recap: Going Rogue 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Leigh plans to do an outdoor monumental bronze statuary in the forecourt, framed by the building’s architectural colonnade, and a series of sculptures and installations throughout the five interior galleries. Simone Leigh Is First Black Woman to Represent U.S. at Venice Biennale 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z But they were the most monumental of his life, and arguably of the life of the country. On a Virginia driving tour, tracing patriot Patrick Henry’s path to history 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Four years after they issued a club blockbuster with an unpronounceable title, the Paris DJs reveal the monumental artwork for their new single, Civilization. Justice to return with Civilization 2011-03-14T13:36:04Z When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on September 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the "Divine Comedy," a monumental poem that would inspire readers for centuries. The women who appear in Dante’s "Divine Comedy" are finally getting their due, 700 years later 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z His images – of miners as monumental as standing stones, of masked dancers in a doorway that seems to echo the shape of Zapata's moustache – show another world, almost inconceivably remote. Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-40 – review 2013-07-06T23:05:35Z But the marvel of Bon Iver is how fragile and conditional each song seems; not monumental but precarious and permeable, susceptible to chance or whim or fate. Bon Iver Steps Back From the Brink on ‘i,i’ 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z So is it surprising that both women and men involved in this monumental cultural shift are experiencing some challenges and frustrations, some struggles to adjust, some mixed or outright conflicting emotions … some qualms? Motherlode: Talking About Torn 2011-06-21T15:52:15Z Eig’s 2017 book, “Ali,” was a defining account of Muhammad Ali’s life; now, he offers a monumental new biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 13 New Books Coming in May 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z A new documentary series that will cover a monumental event in near real time, "Countdown" is the behind-the-scenes story of the four crew members making history as the first all-civilian mission into orbit. From a "Dear White People" swan song to Tokyo assassins, here's what's new on Netflix in September 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Ms. Whiteread has often worked at monumental scale, in projects that this show can only evoke through video, photographs and maquettes. Ghosts of the Past, Embalmed in White Plaster 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The show explores the theme of freedom through monumental, steamroller-printed woodcuts and stories, poems and oral interviews. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction Classical Anthony Tommasini This week the adventurous Miller Theater opens its season with the American premiere of “NINE RIVERS,” a monumentally proportioned symphonic cycle by the intriguingly eclectic British composer James Dillon. The Week Ahead: Sept. 11 ? Sept. 17 2011-09-09T14:39:13Z One is an etching in which the tableau of Jesus’ body being lowered from the cross is monumentally composed, theatrically illuminated, observed from a distance. ‘Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece,’ a Portrait of a Biblical Betrayal 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Other events in Europe scheduled to commemorate the anniversary include the creation of a monumental portrait made of about 50,000 dahlias, in Museumplein in Amsterdam. Visit to van Gogh's Grave Part of Events for 125th Anniversary of His Death 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z This is a monumentally scaled “open” memorial design, which depends not just on a building or fixed object but also on a process — the reclamation and adoption of local lynching memorials. Perspective | What should a coronavirus memorial look like? This powerful statement on gun violence offers a model. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z “It’ll take art history another 20 or 30 years to tell us whether this is really a monumentally important piece of art or not,” he says. Meet the very wealthy, very private couple behind Washington’s most original museum 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z I wanted to create a monumental portrait of M.L.K., so I thought about a statue or a big poster. Diana Ejaita’s “Portrait of History” 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Through eight days I had stood up to performance after performance of monumental, sorrowful Bach works with all my faculties intact. Critic?s Notebook: Bach Passions in Performance for Holy Week 2012-04-04T21:56:13Z Using minimal means, he made something as simple as a plain red wedge against a white background seem monumental. Honoring Ellsworth Kelly’s Work by Giving it Away 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z It was fascinating to hear this monumental symphony performed with an episodic, lurching final movement lasting 22 minutes. Music Review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-26T21:18:46Z Another monumental two-part drama, the revival of “Angels in America,” goes into Sunday’s ceremony with 11 nominations, a record for a non-musical. Angels, wizards and SpongeBob vie for Tony award honors 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Rauschenberg’s monumental 1959 assemblage or “combine” titled “Canyon” has pride of place just inside the gallery entrance, and for good reason. Art Review: ‘Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New’ at MoMA 2013-12-19T22:57:15Z One fast plot twist later, he stands atop a monumental stone wall, one guarded by thousands of Chinese warriors in dazzling uniforms. The East Lobs a Blockbuster-Hopeful to the West With ‘The Great Wall’ 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Acting as beacon for the capital, a monumental pillar of light beamed into the clouds from Victoria Tower Gardens. Lights go out across Britain, 100 years on from World War One 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z In front of this monumental work is a sitting area, designed by Thomas, with patterned ottomans, potted plants, and stacks of books that have inspired the artist. Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Figuring History’ a powerful look at who is represented in art 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z “His paintings are small, but when you get up really close, you see these monumental worlds opening up.” Rackstraw Downes?s Landscapes, at Three Sites 2010-07-23T21:42:00Z She sponsored “The Lightning Field” by Walter De Maria and “Spiral Jetty” by Robert Smithson and paid for the land on which Michael Heizer carved his monumental earth work “Double Negative.” A gallery owner talked herself out of the business and into the desert 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Containing nearly 90 objects the exhibition includes everything from crude cartoons and doodles on torn tablecloths to bronze sculptures and monumental oil paintings. Picasso’s life, portrait by portrait 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z But what they’ve also done is create a world so insistent on its own cinema and legacy that it can feel desperately monumental largely — and simply — by good design. Review | Like most sequels, ‘Savage Mode II’ is an underwhelming blockbuster 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Its title works equally well as a description of Michael Hersch’s “The Vanishing Pavilions,” a monumental solo-piano work that he started the day after the attacks and composed over the next five years. Review: Sept. 11’s Monumental Despair, Evoked by Solo Piano 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The Pompidou was a rebellion against the idea of a monumental gallery. Renzo Piano's new Oslo art gallery is a strangely soulless place 2012-10-11T12:30:00Z Suddenly, flat panels conveyed the startlingly powerful and monumental illusion of three-dimensional, vaulted chambers. How a Family Transformed the Look of European Theater 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z The 83-year-old novelist, who used the library as a student and later researched his monumental “American Trilogy” in one of its reference rooms, plans to bequeath his personal library to it. America across the river 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Orson Welles’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare was best realised in his monumental version of the Henry IV plays. The best Shakespeare films – ranked! 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z He used the method again while doing the monumental backdrop for “Rouge et Noir,” a 1939 production by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Two Exhibits Celebrate Matisse in All His Forms 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z As an artist, she is equally at ease with the monumental and the hand-held, with found and manipulated materials. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Designed by urban planner Luis Costa, with Oscar Niemeyer the main architect, it’s an ambitious homage to the principle of the modernist movement, with its monumental buildings and symmetrical layout. 10 of the best architecture tours 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z He marvels at the wren's "monumental song" – produced by "a bird the size of a ping pong ball". A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley 2011-03-20T00:02:02Z More than a mile away, the pyramids of Giza stand in monumental splendor. Can Architecture Build Values, Too? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Today, they have rolled into London as the main attraction on the press roadshow for The Irishman, Martin Scorsese’s monumental new gangster picture – and there is a lot to get through. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: 'We’re not doing this ever again' 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z But its windows weren’t energy efficient, its interior spaces were dark and dirty, and, with the exception of its monumental ground-floor atrium, it offered few inspiring spaces, for reading, contemplation or community gatherings. Review | America’s libraries are essential now — and this beautifully renovated one in Washington gives us hope 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z “To the history that binds and the values that still unite us,” Biden said on a dais in a monumental pavilion built for the occasion out of vinyl, glass and wood on the South Lawn. At state dinner, Biden and Macron stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’ 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z You stroll past examples of early Modernism, Streamline Moderne, Structural Expressionism, the International Style and much more, taking in sleek glass curtain walls, monumental facades, colorful building-size murals, gigantic arched roofs and zigzag-shaped structures. Seeing Mexico City, Guided by Architects 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z In addition to “Walking Man I” the artist thought of creating at least one standing woman and a monumental bust. 2010-01-08T04:36:00Z Newly installed in the museum’s garden is the monumental 2013 “Lament,” three large hunks of red oak arranged in the perpetual solitude of standing in close proximity without touching. Sculpture shows by Emilie Brzezinski, Bernardi Roig diverge sharply in theme Others would like to see it serve as a place to debut rotating works of modern monumental art, much like the work of Philadelphia's Monument Lab. Louisville mayor removing Confederate relic statue amid protests is literally the least he could do 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z His work ranged in scale from the architectural and monumental to small pieces for domestic interiors. Peter Thursby obituary 2011-02-20T18:03:36Z The most monumental images of Close are on tapestry. ‘Chuck Close Photographs’ is about more than photography 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Finally, end your visit with a quiet moment or two in the museum’s Great Hall, with its monumental collection of totems and canoes. In Vancouver, discover University of British Columbia’s delightful attractions 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z To many believers — and even to many nonbelievers — the story of Christianity seems monumental and unchanging, the stuff of oft-recited creeds and hymns. Jesus Died Only to Rise Again. Where Did the Concept of the Resurrection Come From? 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Manifest in its pages are such Giubbilei hallmarks as green palettes, layouts drawn from a building’s architectural lines, and monumental special effects. Rooms With a View 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z If the image of Jerusalem in art is otherworldly and monumental, the one projected by the show, of a city with appetites, personalities and ethnic tension, is human-scale and earth-rooted. Jerusalem as a Place of Desire and Death, at the Metropolitan Museum 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “The original Kennedy Center is monumental,” she said. Kennedy Center looks to the future with opening of The Reach 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z A monumental sculpture is billed as the centrepiece of this latest show, surrounded by a full range of Creed's ideas-rich output, including a new single from his band. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-15T00:06:09Z “Because what happens is, when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in the face after they deliver monumental feats of music — it’s disrespectful to inspiration.” The Morning After the Grammys, Kanye Speaks Out About Beck 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z But both were outdone by Fritz Lang, whose monumental Metropolis became the most ambitious, most expensive, and most influential silent film ever made. New Europe: A history of German cinema in clips 2011-03-15T14:20:00Z Lee's monumental work spans 500 years and extends from Canada through the United States to several Latin American countries, notably Mexico, Brazil and Peru. 'The Making of Asian America' is a stirring chronicle long overdue 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Henry Moore was assiduously interpreting Picasso's grand monumental women when Picasso had moved on to bullfights, minotaurs and war. Picasso and Modern British Art ? review 2012-02-13T16:01:52Z His traveling is a lot like the new series he created for Hulu, “Up to Speed,” which takes viewers to America’s “monumentally ignored monuments.” Q&A: Richard Linklater on America’s Ignored Monuments 2012-08-24T20:33:56Z That such monumental, comical figures harbor such poignant emotions is what makes them more than just oversized tchotchkes. 2010-02-16T22:40:00Z It is overwhelming to contemplate the variety contained in this monumental tribute to Black poetry from the colonial period to the present. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z And because there were no examples of monumental totems in town for him to model, he used old photos, museum exhibits and totems by masters of the art form as his guides. In making art, Haida culture is revived 2013-11-25T23:26:01Z “It felt like a miracle on set that day. And to be able to get to the point where we’re able to finally move Harriet into freedom felt really monumental.” We all know Harriet Tubman was a hero. The stars of ‘Harriet’ want you to see her humanity. 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The Yucatan peninsula is studded with monumental relics of the Maya people, whose cities drew upon an extensive network of sinkholes linked to subterranean waters known as cenotes. World's biggest flooded cave found in Mexico, explorers say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Something as beautifully monumental as that, as founded on thin air and bloody magic, will need preparation. AL Kennedy: Taking the temperature of work in progress 2010-03-30T08:00:00Z When you do a show every night, hosting an awards show doesn’t seem as monumental a task as it might. Jimmy Kimmel on Hosting the Oscars at a Political Moment 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The artist embedded slabs of imported marble into concrete to create monumental doors, just slightly ajar so that viewers could walk through them. Does Public Art Have an Afterlife? 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z A final wall displays eight monumental drawings in ink and sometimes acrylic of his three old friends. David Hockney: A Life in Drawing 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Her stance is heroic, nearly monumental, and her smoke-blackened face is brightly lit as she stares into the distance. Anna Lim’s Vision of Nuclear Anxiety in South Korea 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Then comes the industrial sheet glass, the theatrical balconies and monumental staircase. Shopping Under the Stars 2012-10-22T13:14:30Z After a monumental cleanup, the young homeowners ripped off the hazardous porch and re-plumbed the house. Outdoor Makeovers 2010-05-15T00:07:00Z This did not prevent the long-established Galerie Perrin from giving up the finicky style of the Louis XV age in favor of the monumental mahogany furniture that became the rage across Europe following Napoleon’s conquests. Art: At Maastricht, the Great Art Is Getting Scarce 2011-03-18T13:00:34Z “River Crossings” is the project of the luminist painter Stephen Hannock, whose contemporary style owes much to the Hudson River School’s monumental studio work. ‘River Crossings,’ a Contemporary Art Exhibition at 2 Historic Sites of the Hudson River School 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z We’re all familiar with the monumental shifts that came about as a result of protest in the civil rights era. Protest doesn’t work — except when it does 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z "We are proud to continue working with this monumental organization to further support our military community." Budweiser launches 'Summer Patriotic Cans' ahead of Memorial Day 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Wagner’s monumental “Ring” tells the story of the end of the old world and the dawn of a new one. Countdown to Seattle Opera’s ‘Ring’: 10 ways to get ready 2013-07-18T21:50:22Z Offered by an anonymous private collector, the monumental Victorian-style painting shows an animated debate in the British Parliament conducted entirely by chimpanzees. Banksy Is a Control Freak. But He Can’t Control His Legacy. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Leonard’s “Analogue,” at the Museum of Modern Art, is a monumental survey of the large and small of commercial life in the modern city. Season Preview: For a rainy-day plan, Caillebotte at the National Gallery 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z For his first subscription concert of the new season at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday night, Dudamel led a magnificent account of the composer's monumental Fifth Symphony. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z And it can also be just a distraction, as it is in an adjoining high-ceilinged hall devoted to monumental Buddhist images. Review: In ‘China: Through the Looking Glass,’ Eastern Culture Meets Western Fashion 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z This construction technique, traditional and experimental at once, gives the houses a monochromatic and monumental quality, a sense that they’re growing like trees directly from the earth. Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Why his Los Angeles houses deserve a closer look 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The bodies of men and eagles merge on a monumental Heiltsuk house post. Art Review: ‘Life, Death and Transformation,’ at Brooklyn Museum 2013-01-17T23:01:56Z This time, however, she has done the film, the audience, the reviewing profession and herself a monumental disservice. Review: On Violence and the Pain of Others in ‘Three Billboards’ 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Far more compelling are Lead Pencil’s earlier monumental drawings of collapsing nighttime landscapes illuminated by artificial light. 2017 California-Pacific Triennial at OCMA: The art of building up (and tearing down) 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Rarely has there been such interest in this monumental work, with a 2016 translation by Caroline Alexander, the first by a woman, emphasising latent anti-war themes. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Notwithstanding some quibbles, this monumental undertaking affords a rare opportunity to experience one of the great American plays of our time. Ellen Geer leads a crackling 'August: Osage County' at Theatricum Botanicum 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z This will cast gentle natural light by day and uniform illumination by night for the first time on Mark Rothko’s 14 monumental black canvases, faceting the octagonal interior designed as a holistic work of art. Rothko Chapel to Be Seen in New Light 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Then, 75 years after Coecke's death, came "The Triumph of the Eucharist," a group of 11 monumental and nine smaller tapestries woven in Belgium for a royal convent chapel in Madrid. Wonders unfurl at Getty, Met tapestry shows on Rubens, Coecke 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z So to stumble upon five of the monumental faces in the middle of Manhattan’s bustling Rockefeller Center is a shock. Five Massive Masks Take Over Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center, Thanks to Artist Thomas Houseago 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z The Red Cross brought it to P.O.W. camps to offset monumental boredom. Books of The Times: ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy,’ by Nicholas Griffin 2014-01-02T22:23:15Z “It is anything but monumental, anything but beautiful and aesthetic,” he says. Perspective | The best way to understand a Beethoven concerto? From a musician’s point of view. 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z It also had a history of making monumental auction prices. Basquiat Tops Phillips Contemporary Sale at $85 Million 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z He is a monumental boor and promoter of a Mexican-financed wall on the border. Review | For your playlist, three great new audiobooks 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z When the Andersons established the foundry in the ’80s, it was not with the express goal of building monumental art. In Washington, a Beloved Birthplace for Artistic Giants 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z It opened in 1925, underwent a monumental sleek overhaul in 2016 and is now the pride of Nashville’s film community, as well as the city. 36 Hours in Nashville 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z They were just as important — maybe more important — in symbolic, aesthetic and monumental terms. Why the time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The American artist Leo Villareal also considered Fuller in creating “Buckyball,” a monumental sculpture that will be on view in Madison Square Park Oct. Inside Art: Van de Velde War Painting From 1600s Goes on Sale 2012-06-28T21:19:04Z When he then launched into the monumental cutouts with which the show ends, Matisse made a sudden U-turn: He went back to his own radical artistic beginnings. 'Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs' at MoMA follows artist's paper trail 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z There is the Old Regime Right Bank, both monumental and orderly, with some of the city’s best-known sites — the Louvre, the Tuileries Gardens and the Palais Royal. 36 Hours in Paris, Right Bank 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Almost all the film was shot in the former East Berlin, including shots of lead Daniel Brühl speeding past celebrating football fans on the monumental Karl-Marx-Allee.• 10 of the best films set in Berlin 2011-08-17T09:51:19Z I’m immediately accosted by three men who want me to take a photo of them with the monumental D.C. skyline as the backdrop. Net neutrality, sex, falconry: In one week, I crashed as many D.C. conferences as possible. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Andrew Lack, the former and current head of NBC News, started his old job anew last week staring at a monumental dilemma: What to do about Brian Williams? A decision on Brian Williams’s future at NBC could be coming soon 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z David Chase revolutionized television with his monumental mob opera led by James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano, ushering in a new era of ambition on the small screen. Don’t Stop Believing: David Chase returns to ‘The Sopranos’ 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z With every concrete step almost as tall as her little legs, climbing each one felt like a monumental accomplishment for her, even with my help. Trump-era anti-Semitism changed my family — we started going to synagogue 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z It also undertook permanent installations in New York and in the American west, where Dia commissioned Walter De Maria’s “The Lightning Field” and now maintains Robert Smithson’s monumental earthwork “Spiral Jetty.” Dia Diversifies, While Staying True to Its Roots 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The piece, “On the Transmigration of Souls,” received its premiere just weeks after the first anniversary of 9/11, sharing a program with Beethoven’s monumental Ninth Symphony. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs 9/11 tribute paired with Beethoven The title of the movie, filmed on a minuscule budget, is cruelly double-edged, for on the surface there is nothing notably strange or new about Wayne’s monumentally banal existence. | 'Everything Strange and New': Bye-Bye, Happiness; Life Is a Trap 2011-02-25T01:03:32Z The new approach will be less monumental and more incremental. Lincoln Center Scraps a $500 Million Geffen Hall Renovation 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z It was a monumental drama that played out on televisions around the world. How CBS stole the show in covering Tiananmen Square A study for his monumental masterpiece "Composition VII," the turbulent, colliding forms were painted in Munich in 1913. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Another calls it “the Holy Grail of Hollywood sites” and others have hailed it as “iconic”, “legendary”, “of monumental significance” and “sacred ground”. Silent witness: the Hollywood alley with the five-star reviews 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Considered one of the greatest figures of a distinctively American art form, Mr. Brubeck was a modest man who left a monumental legacy. Jazz legend Dave Brubeck dies at 91 2012-12-06T03:26:03Z So that was a very monumental part of my life and I learned a lot from immersing myself into a culture in such an extreme way. Matisyahu: The Former ‘Hasidic Reggae Superstar’ Talks to TIME 2012-07-16T12:00:17Z These monumental canvases, filled with exuberant red looping ‘‘handwriting,’’ date from the mid-2000s and were in the artist’s studio when he died in Rome in 2011. Gagosian Expands with Third London Gallery 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z The tombs and memorials make up one of the most significant collections of monumental sculpture in the UK. BBC goes inside Westminster Abbey 2012-08-02T15:57:08Z It is worth a visit for the Matisse room alone, which offers two of the artist’s monumental triptychs of “Dance” murals from the early 1930s. | How to Visit Some of Paris’s Finest Museums but Skip the Crowds 2014-02-01T00:15:00Z The exhibition looks at Rubens’ designs for a startlingly innovative group of monumental woven tapestries, and I’ll have a review of the exhibition later. Peter Paul Rubens was a brilliant sensationalist 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Specifically, Oxbridge-educated scientists from the middle of the last century who made monumental breakthroughs despite enormous personal obstacles. The Theory of Everything review: Hawking's story packs powerful punch 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Doyle has achieved something monumental in the three volumes that comprise "The Last Roundup." 'The Dead Republic' concludes the saga of Irish revolutionary Henry Smart 2010-05-01T00:14:00Z To challenge an entire culture of objectification is monumentally ambitious; to make it slightly less damaging is more doable. Kat Banyard: 'We were sold a lie on an almighty scale, that equality had been won, the battle was over' 2012-10-14T19:45:01Z He even summoned his rival for a dressing-down, an example of Pinter's monumental chutzpah. Joan Bakewell: 'Women have a different way of being thick-skinned' 2010-04-04T20:00:00Z He reserved an even more modest space for “The Flight to Egypt” in one of his monumental pictures dealing with Biblical themes. Exhibition Review: 17th Century Art: The Landscape Comes of Age 2011-06-03T12:00:43Z His Beethoven is very much his own – neither irresistibly dynamic in the Carlos Kleiber mould, nor monumentally imposing like Klemperer, but somewhere in between. CBSO/Nelsons – review 2013-06-30T14:11:54Z The result was a great big middle-of-the-road splat, presided over by a monumentally uncomfortable pair of stars, the miffed-looking James Franco and the perky-like-a-little-coffeepot Anne Hathaway. The Oscars' black hole of boredom 2011-02-28T16:01:00Z All these intimate and finely drawn details are nested within a masterful work of historical fiction that traces monumental economic and political currents. Review | ‘The Taste of Sugar’ offers a thrilling look at Puerto Rico’s history through the tale of one couple’s struggle to survive 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z The album is cherished as a magnum opus and grand oddity: solitary yearning expressed by a platoon of musicians, derangement mapped with architectural thoroughness, diffidence on a monumental scale. Music Review: Spiritualized ?Floats in Space? at Radio City 2010-08-01T22:22:00Z Earlier this year, Govan headed to the White House with Heizer, posing with President Obama as he signed a proclamation forever protecting “City,” the aging cowboy artist’s monumental work in the Nevada desert. Michael Govan: A museum director who goes beyond the gallery walls 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Throughout the 1960s, Mr. Bertoia produced monumental works in metal, some of which were flexible and designed to be interactive: Their rods vibrate when they are gently touched, producing musical tones. From Shed to Museum: Bertoia Sculpture Returns to Public Square 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Beethoven composed this monumental piece over four years, finishing it in 1823, a period that overlapped with his work on the Ninth Symphony. Music Review: London Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-10-24T21:46:31Z The show concludes with Chicago’s monumental “Bathers by a River,” which Matisse grappled with off and on for most of the period covered by this exhibition. Art Review: Matisse at MoMA: Carving With Color 2010-07-15T16:01:00Z There is magic in the monumental effort of putting vérité on screen with narrative elements. How do you explain death to a kid? Mark Webber on fantasy and reality in "The Place of No Words" 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z “Our monumental kind of approach to bringing art to the public is aligned.” Dance — and art — make a scene at Seattle’s Waterfront Park 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z JNR Robin Gibb was too ill to attend the April premiere of his monumental final composition, so it is shown here as a kind of epitaph to the modest, talented former Bee Gee. TV highlights 04/01/2013 2013-01-03T20:00:01Z “As it tells that focused tale, it becomes — almost unwittingly — a case study that speaks more broadly to our current moment, about building monumental change brick by brick,” Anand Giridharadas writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z The Historic Preservation Review Board bestowed landmark status on the monumental Beaux-Arts building on 17th Street, a block from the White House, after the structure was nominated by a local nonprofit, the DC Preservation League. Landmark Status for Corcoran Gallery of Art Interior 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Artist Michael Heizer, long known for pushing the boundaries of scale in sculpture, just barely reined in his monumental tendencies for his new show at Gagosian’s Chelsea gallery in New York, open through July 2. Land Artist Michael Heizer Takes the Spotlight at New York’s Gagosian Gallery 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z And who should be the star of next year’s monumental Super Bowl L? Katy Perry's Super Bowl set joins long, strange halftime show history 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Created by artist Kehinde Wiley, who painted President Barack Obama’s iconic presidential portrait, the monumental work is meant to serve as an invitation to question our collective history and its heroes. As Confederate monument debate continues, Kehinde Wiley’s new statue challenges the heroic narrative 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z So he decides to produce a monumental fund-raising singing contest and sees talent immediately in a punk-rock porcupine, a crooning mouse, a teenage elephant and more. Fall Movie Release Schedule 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z In this exhibition, he presents a series of monumental works inspired by the trees in Central Park — as well as eight new ink-and-paper drawings that take these concepts into a new medium. Datebook: Art inspired by the media, music by Leonard Cohen, an L.A. artist's painted collages 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z He focuses on normal people but in doing so tells us about China’s past as well as its present and the monumental change that was coming. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z But Teresa Reichlen’s dramatic sweep across the stage in the delicate second movement was more monumental. Dance Review: City Ballet Offers ‘The Cage’ and ‘Rubies’ at Koch Theater 2012-10-04T21:06:04Z She is painting 28 large canvases with the spectrum of colors in gradation, turning the museum’s inner circular gallery into a monumental color wheel. Pat Steir Gets Discovered, Again 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The monumental chocolate cake with thick applications of salted caramel and Nutella and a crown of candied bacon fairly threatens to challenge height restrictions in the District. Review | Count on crisp and juicy fried chicken at the bustling new Yardbird in D.C. 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The sculptures in “Brighter Days” are less visceral and more monumental than the “Lynch Fragments,” resembling the abstract, burnished steel sculptures of David Smith. Sculpture Transplanted to the Gardens 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z To say that “Game of Thrones” fans are accustomed to death would be a monumental understatement. The 9 most horrific deaths on “Game of Thrones” 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z I remember visiting the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where a cast of Auguste Rodin’s monumental sculpture of Balzac towered over me. For Future Generations, It’s Time to Reflect on Black Art 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z When he launches into song and is joined by people sitting in the pews, we watch it grow into something monumental. PBS' ambitious & fraught "Black Church" takes a tour of America's complex history, music and faith 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z The new Library of America anthology “African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song,” edited by Kevin Young, is a monumental tribute to that persistence, from the colonial period to the present. A Monumental and Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z If you're a recipient of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, it's important to know that there is a monumental change going into effect, effective Sept. 1. Major changes are coming for SNAP recipients in September 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Yet the sheer amount of effort put into the investigation seems to underscore one of the defense’s implicit arguments: This entire case has been a monumental waste of resources. Asleep at the Roger Clemens trial 2012-06-10T13:00:00Z At 10 feet high, “Balloon Dog” is big but not monumental. At 37 feet tall, Jeff Koons’s flower-draped ‘Split-Rocker’ demands a whole lotta love 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z And, from Sonic Youth, an amalgam of both, as terse, punky verses dissolved into scrabbling, squalling, ringing guitar passages, cataclysmic and monumental. Music Review: Allies in Improvisation and in a Cause 2011-03-28T23:31:42Z “For me, they are monumental,” Mr. Urban said. In This Exhibition, You Walk Through Excrement 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z They are durable and may be monumental, and while Futura, Helvetica and Gill Sans are the best known, there are countless numbers in our daily lives. True to type: why letters are a labour of love 2010-10-16T23:00:00Z The work is a stage, set to project the artists' collective memory of Black – the monumental absence of colour. Divine dispatches: a religion roundup 2011-03-23T17:06:04Z The new museum building, by the 86-year-old Maki, strives for the monumental solidity of ancient forms, with a nod to the precise lines and counterintuitive bravado of contemporary ones. Toronto’s new Islamic art museum aims to express a non-threatening Islamic identity More than 100 paintings are at LACMA, ranging from small oils on copper medallions worn as nuns’ habit décor to a monumental oval altarpiece 13 feet tall and 10 feet wide. 'Painted in Mexico': LACMA's remarkable and important new show 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z “Having moved here from Arizona, Dia was striking for me because it was in the city but on the other hand it was supporting all this monumental art work out West,” Raven, 44, said. Dia 2.0: Facing the Future 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z “Voltaire’s Politics,” published in 1959, was followed by “The Enlightenment: An Interpretation,” a monumental two-part study whose first volume, subtitled “The Rise of Modern Paganism,” won the National Book Award in 1967. Peter Gay, Historian Who Explored Social History of Ideas, Dies at 91 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The last of his monumental bather paintings, it represents 14 naked women rendered with sketchy outlines and patchy films of tan paint. Art Review: ‘Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2012-07-01T22:11:53Z The temple contains a monumental frieze of basalt relief sculptures created by the ancient Hittites, whose empire once stretched from Anatolia to northern Syria. Syrian Conflict Imperils Historical Treasures 2012-08-15T22:13:47Z At moments monumental and combative, at others strangely elusive, almost retiring, it is one of the most beguiling and powerful works I’ve seen in a lifetime of looking at architecture. Architecture Review: Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing 2011-07-12T12:26:40Z But Perl does persuade us that Calder, although inspired by isms — modernism, cubism, abstractionism, surrealism — somehow evaded their constricting clutches and pioneered new forms that evolved from playful to beautiful to monumental. The magical movement of Calder’s mobiles — and mind 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Cohen was a monumentally painstaking songwriter who described, in interviews, a process of endless writing and rewriting for his lyrics. An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Hardy, in his final years, for a monumental lifetime achievement? The damnable task of being a Man Booker International prize judge 2011-03-30T14:46:06Z Transforming her signature medium of marble, a traditionally monumental and prone-to-fracture material, into intricate, seemingly weightless works of art. List of 2010 MacArthur Foundation grant recipients 2010-09-28T11:49:00Z Showtime, David Lynch and Mark Frost went to monumental lengths to keep everything about these new episodes a secret. Lots of table setting, hold the pie: “Twin Peaks” returns and keeps us waiting 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Academy President and CEO Harvey Mason jr. called the concept a “monumental step” for an inclusive music community. Grammy Awards to adopt inclusion rider for 2022 ceremony 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z An order of hummingbird cake, served on a plate that looks like something from grandma’s stash, is portioned as if everyone at the table is sharing the monumental wedge. Review | With Southern-inspired Succotash, Edward Lee makes a commitment to D.C. 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z The second issue was far more monumental: up to that point, no species had been put on the Endangered Species list as a result of climate change. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z Of all the monumental sculptures she dreamed of making, only the beguiling prototypes exist. Saloua Raouda Choucair – review 2013-04-20T23:05:40Z The most sacred Islamic site is the Kaaba, the monumental black cube in the courtyard of Masjid al-Haram, the great mosque in Mecca. Design: It's a World of Black Rectangles 2010-12-12T18:30:00Z And for his concerts this time around — part of a barely advertised mini festival called “Spirit” — he has taken up a pair of monumental works: Messiaen’s “Turangalîla-Symphonie” and Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion.” Review: The Philharmonic’s ‘Passion’ Is a Surprising Achievement 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z It boasts 16 Unesco World Heritage sites, including the ruins of Persepolis dating to 518 B.C. and the 17th-century monumental arcades of Imam Square in Isfahan. Update: Tour Iran? Operators Hope So 2013-08-29T20:15:15Z They include half a dozen monumental assemblages erected in Purifoy's open-air environment in the Mojave Desert at Joshua Tree, most effectively installed on broad, sand-covered platforms. 'Junk Dada' assembles Noah Purifoy's overlooked, pivotal works 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z These artworks aren't "monuments" in the way that many people may think of, but they are monumental. As Confederate monuments come down, what should replace them? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Inevitably, some business was left unfinished, the saddest miss being a rare performance of Luciano Berio’s monumental “Coro” on Saturday, with Simon Rattle conducting the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra and Chorus. Lucerne Festival in Switzerland Aims for Accessibility 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Jan Fabre is a monumental artistic personality, a distinctly European type that hardly seems to exist in America. Dance Review: A Visit From Europe?s Do-It-All Artist 2011-01-21T23:28:50Z But Marisol Mosquera, founder and CEO of Aracari Travel, said: “It breaks my heart to see one of the most monumental and gorgeous landscapes in the Andes being defaced in the name of ‘progress’. Unesco demands answers from Peru over impact of new Machu Picchu airport 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z “Mountain Group,” the show’s largest painting, depicts a monumental peak crawling with people, including a man with an orange comb-over who might be Guston. Dana Schutz’s New Paintings Just Might Be Her Best 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z This second volume of a monumental biography looks at both the public and private life of a major figure of the 20th century. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z If it wasn’t that “Never win … no you’ll never win” lyric, it was the monumental peak that followed: a female singer wailing as if in final defeat, one that echoed in an eight-bar loop --- “Oooooooh!” Tortured by music: The year's most insidious, relentless earworms 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z But the monument of stones at Walden is the opposite of angry, or declarative or, for that matter, monumental. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z It was “the most ancient, monumental, and powerful kingdom of their world and a land of incomparable wonder and mystery.” Review | From the Pharaohs to Cleopatra and Julius Caesar: how Egypt influenced Greece and Rome 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z On her first day back at the office, Smith visited the warehouse to see what she called "Johnson's monumental work." Mislabeled work by African-American artist is museum's gain 2012-02-21T00:29:04Z Ultimately, I suspect, it will be preserved in memory mainly by the high-end art world as just a work by Mr. Hirschhorn, another monument to his monumental ego. Art Review: A Visit to Thomas Hirschhorn’s ‘Gramsci Monument’ 2013-07-25T21:19:20Z “It was a pretty monumental moment for me,” Mr. Elba said. Idris Elba’s Toughest Role Yet: Going Brutal With Grace for ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z But a high A — a combination of genetic gifts, rigorous training and psychological discipline over two fragile vocal cords — is monumental, and unprecedented at the Met, according to its archivists. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Such a culture spreads far and wide, reaching its tentacles into the society at large, influencing even such monumentally consequential things as who occupies the Oval Office and appoints the Supreme Court justices. Perspective | Abusive media moguls harmed more than just individual women. They shaped a misogynistic culture. 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z It was heralded as a monumental advance — noted in newspapers and scientific journals. What Does It Mean to Be a Living Thing? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z "For a building that reads so monumentally on the outside, when you get into the galleries, they're really small and chopped up," says Rub. Frank Gehry's Philly museum design takes on the "Rocky" steps 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Meyers’s most monumental work will not be a permanent landmark, and the drawing’s final slippage will be into memory. In the galleries: A sweeping riff on the circle at the Hirshhorn 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z These filmmakers, celebrating their truncated yet monumental versions of history’s heroes, are separating the public figures from their private lives, their visible greatness from mores that might not pass current-day muster. The Beauty of Sam Mendes’s “1917” Comes at a Cost 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z An architectural critic called their two monumental houses “the thingiest edifices in New York.” An Immigrant Named Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z The London version is more monumental, more heroic, because by the 1500s Leonardo had mastered the eloquence and calm of classical Greek art. Leonardo swap will make for the greatest gathering of his work to date 2011-07-28T10:39:30Z Picture a sterling example of National Park Service rustic architecture tucked at the base of a monumental granite cliff, and you have Yosemite’s Ahwahnee Hotel, opened in 1927. Visit Yosemite’s stunning Ahwahnee, but stay in the less crowded, less pricey Wawona 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The playing is at once monumental and nuanced, rigorous and flowing. Box Sets Highlight Leonard Shure and Howard Karp 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Silent films could get pretty long but this 1927 work – one cut runs at more than nine hours – is probably the medium’s towering achievement: a monumental biopic of the general by Abel Gance. Neverending stories: five of the best very long films 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z In the summer of 2015, when the Walt Disney Company unveiled plans to build monumental “Star Wars” lands at its California and Florida theme parks, a wave of euphoria washed over the planet. Welcome to Galaxy’s Edge 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z He throws his hands up, taking in the dazzling off-white world of Lincoln Center, with its busy plazas, its monumental buildings, its fountain. The Out of Towner: Seeing New York City?s Changes With a Native 2011-11-03T22:08:55Z Instead, Altoon's monumental woman, seated with a child in her lap, is a virtual Madonna enthroned. LACMA exhibit on John Altoon shows his jazzy, seductive touch 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z The monumental entrance hall of Tate Modern has staged some extraordinary dance performances and this event by Clod Ensemble promises to be an atmospheric addition to the canon. This week's new dance 2012-12-01T00:06:20Z His long and wide perspectives took in sweeps of sea and sky, great forests or monumental rooms that dwarfed the small dramas that were his focus. Jean-Jacques Sempé, Cartoonist of Droll Whimsy, Dies at 89 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The result has the exhilaration of real-life gossip, while offering a moving depiction of a family, and a nation, at a moment of monumental change. 9 Books to Read About Queen Elizabeth II 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z But in the context of crippling depression and anxiety, it becomes a monumental tribute to their dedication, drive and ability. Depression and anxiety threatened to kill my career. So I came clean about it 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z “Rather than large monumental statements, he wants to populate it with small characters — a mouse playing the piano, a tulip falling over in its vase, a motorcycle helmet,” said Kate Fowle, the museum’s chief curator. David Zwirner Is Selected to Display the Works of Josef Albers 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Accredited institutions are invited, even encouraged, to borrow, say, a simple Christopher Wool word painting or a monumentally complex tapestry of woven metal bits by El Anatsui. Here's why the Broad museum's generous lending program may not work out 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The canvas had in its favor monumental size, museum approval — in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1979-1980 retrospective — and its six-decade-long career on the national scene. The Fever Bubbling in Contemporary Art Sales 2011-11-11T14:00:10Z Oh — they also provided the capital for truly monumental accomplishments, such as the laying of American railroads and the excavation of the Panama Canal. Review | With the opening of ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ Broadway just got smarter — and more exciting 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Early in “monumental,” a choreographic denunciation of corporate culture by the Canadian troupe the Holy Body Tattoo, a bit of life advice is projected upstage. Review: Setting a Squadron of Joyless Worker Drones to Music 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z The project was monumental and modern, with earnest allusions to ancient Athens. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z What comes across, wandering among these works that take the most banal of found images and raise them to the monumental, is a sense of huge energy and compulsion in the pair's search for ephemera. Gilbert and George: Postcards from the sluice gates 2011-01-12T21:45:01Z The centerpiece is a display of numerous monumental figurative sculptures in Pioneer Work’s yawning main space — a vibrant carnivalesque antidote to the classical sculpture courts of western museums. Four Knockout Group Shows to See Now 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z His voice is a sweet high-tenor croon, right in Michael Jackson’s range, while his songs — most of them slow, mournful and monumental — painstakingly explain how that sweetness is mostly a lie. Review: The Weeknd Tiptoes Toward Intimacy, Then Retreats 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Never in a million years did I think that one day I'd be on the cover of @britishvogue even more so one that marks such a monumental change and a new beginning. Halima Aden – why a model wearing a hijab on the cover of Vogue matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z These reconsiderations of “Vertigo” can feel like grabs of intriguing, but very particular, bits of a monumental elephant. ‘Vertigo,’ Through Two Artists’ Eyes 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Morton writes, “The two sisters were contradictory and conflicted, butting heads over matters both small and monumental, but they also loved one another.” 9 Books to Read About Queen Elizabeth II 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The eighth season of “Dance Moms” has been monumental for Abby Lee Miller, the dance instructor who has starred on the show since its beginning. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Dance Moms’ and a New Trolls Series 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The Mostly Mozart Festival concludes with a performance of one of its namesake’s most powerful works, the monumental REQUIEM. The Week Ahead: Aug. 21 ? 27 2011-08-19T19:54:02Z It also didn’t travel if it was monumental or fixed in place. Art Review: MoMA?s ?Original Copy,? Photos Meet Sculpture 2010-07-29T21:15:00Z A lightweight box covered in ducts and pipes, it defied the notion that cultural architecture should be solid, monumental, intimidating. The Shard: Renzo Piano's great glass elevator 2012-06-13T17:43:50Z Spanish lists are dominated by Javier Marías, lugubrious to some and monumentally beautiful to others. The best summer reads ? and where to read them 2011-07-15T13:15:01Z The production’s monumental aspects notwithstanding, this “Atys” is sung almost as chamber opera, or at least closer to what you hear in a relatively small house like Glyndebourne than at the Metropolitan Opera. Music Review: Lully?s ?Atys? at BAM, With Les Arts Florissants - Review 2011-09-19T22:00:13Z Given its enormous length and its encyclopedic examination of wood, “Barkskins” felt like a singular creation, but now it has a monumental companion planted right alongside it: Richard Powers’s “The Overstory.” Review | The most exciting novel about trees you’ll ever read 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Advertisement A framing device finds Mr. Burstein first standing on a bare stage, a contemporary figure in a red parka facing a monumental gray brick wall. Review: A ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Revival With an Echo of Modernity 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z “It was the most ambitious thing I ever attempted even prior to the pandemic, and then once the pandemic hit, it just became so monumental that it was almost funny.” ‘Foundation’ based on Asimov’s work thinks big — galaxy big 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z I think it's fair to suggest the inspiration for the euphoric, yet monumentally odd, Latin-tinged breakdown at 2:40 may have been chemical-related. Readers recommend: songs about assassination 2010-08-19T23:01:00Z It was only when Liszt, partly out of showmanship, began playing everything, including monumental Beethoven sonatas, from memory that the mystique took hold. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z The only wild shot was in the digital lighting reflected on Giorgio Vasari’s monumental battle frescoes. Florence and its Men’s Wear Future 2013-01-11T15:00:33Z Hall, at 80, is a monumental figure in his own right, inspirations aside. Guitarist Jim Hall masterful at Jazz Alley Thursday 2011-03-18T20:32:04Z In so doing, the film etches a King who's engaging in monumental work without treating him like a monument. In 'Selma,' David Oyelowo digs deep to play Martin Luther King Jr. 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The show is built around the Belgian painter's claustrophobic, dissonant, raucously monumental picture of a street carnival — a painting that predicts the entry of Christ into Brussels a year into the future. LACMA's 'Expressionism in Germany and France' an edifying mix 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Instead, these monumental new structures seem to crush the area around them, overwhelming the nearby neighborhoods and the city itself, and acting as smokescreens for the crimes of authoritarian regimes. T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z Eddie Murphy’s monumental success in the 1980s inspired a new generation of Black comics to enter the game. Jon Stewart, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien and the behind-the-scenes secrets of comedy’s ’90s glory days 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The album ends with a staggering account of the final Fugue in D minor, a piece that grows inexorably from the stately to the monumental. Alexander Melnikov Records Shostakovich Preludes 2010-07-04T02:16:00Z “So you have to design, engineer, fabricate all those extraordinary unique pieces and create a system for assembling them. It’s a monumentally complicated undertaking.” The Lucas Museum Finds Your Lack of Faith Disturbing 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z We had beaten out the collective gay world for these five coveted positions, and we all knew it was a monumental opportunity. Jonathan Van Ness on being HIV positive: 'It gave me a reason to really fight' 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Over the course of a day in March, Haring painted a monumental hybrid creature — part dog, part fish — with one of Haring’s signature figures riding the beast. Keith Haring Mural in Amsterdam Is Uncovered After Nearly 30 Years 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z The book-matched French walnut paneling is glossier and more radiant, the patterns in the grain more evocative of monumental abstract paintings, than before. The Grill Is Confident, Theatrical, Sharp and New Yorky 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z She volubly recounts the mishaps that plagued Franco Zeffirelli’s monumental staging. Leontyne Price, Legendary Diva, Is a Movie Star at 90 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z But for all the excellence of “The Agitators,” there is monumental work yet to be done about the “She-Moses,” the hundreds she wrested from Pharaoh’s grip and their thousands of descendants. An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z He assigns monumental importance to the “Republic of Letters” but offers frustratingly little detail on how it actually worked. The role of ideas in the “great divergence” 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The struggle between the two belief systems was so monumental and fought over so many decades, and we won so we keep returning to the story. A Minute With: Director Phillip Noyce on "Salt" 2010-07-29T16:13:00Z Author of a monumental biography of Orson Welles, Callow now turns to an equally operatic subject: Richard Wagner, his life and times. New & Noteworthy 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Trouble was, Sabbath's monumental sound required focus in the studio, and he couldn't comply. Black Sabbath on the occult, God, cocaine and reuniting for new album 13 2013-06-06T16:35:50Z The ultimate discovery is a monumental marble vessel derived from an Ancient Roman model. Maastricht Signals an Art Market on the Rebound 2010-03-19T15:25:00Z Wulf offers a highly readable account of the German scientist’s monumental journey in the Americas. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z When the museum reinstalled objects, such as the monumental carved poles and ceremonial masks and weavings in its Northwest Coast collection, it worked with Indigenous leaders to hold rededication ceremonies recognizing their sacred value. What a Museum Wants to Be in the 21st Century 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z It includes more than 200 objects that help tell the story of the ancient city, including monumental sculpture and smaller-scale objects that include precious stones. Essential Arts & Culture: Our spring arts preview, more silence from MOCA, a feminist 'Shrew' 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z “It was surreal, knowing that it was hardly on the radar of the rest of the world, but for us it was this monumental thing.” film: Mark and Jay Duplass Go From Indies to Studio Films 2010-06-11T23:35:00Z Doug Hall’s video focuses on the bridge’s monumental architecture and the container ships that pass below, while David Littschwager’s photographs reveal the microscopic ecosystems in the seawater. Art Show Celebrates 75 Years of the Golden Gate 2012-06-10T04:27:04Z With a monumental performance as Abraham Lincoln, Day-Lewis became the only performer to win three best-actor Oscars, adding to the honors he earned for “My Left Foot” and “There Will Be Blood.” ‘Argo,’ ‘Pi’ split honors 2013-02-25T06:12:59Z Daniel Day-Lewis has joined a select group of Academy Award recipients with his third Oscar, taking the best-actor trophy Sunday for his monumental performance as Abraham Lincoln. ‘Argo,’ ‘Pi’ split honors 2013-02-25T06:12:59Z The result was a monumental mishmash of confusion, joining the long history of misreporting on the deaths of well-known people. News organizations take back reports of Tom Petty’s death amid swirl of confusion 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Papert’s inability ever to put himself in Sherry’s place was monumental. A Life Spent Focused on What Computers Are Doing to Us 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The award was monumental in Bigelow's life, and as it turns out, the lives of everyone watching as well: Bigelow would be only one of three women to ever win an Oscar for Best Director. With 2023 Oscar nominations, women are forced to take a big step backward 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z It was a monumental test of my independence and a challenge to all the fear I feel in my life. I’m not achieving my dreams! 2013-05-22T00:00:00Z A monumental jade-colored staircase led to a public space where at least 20 visitors typed furiously on laptops among Turkish-rug-covered couches, eggplant ombré Italian Renaissance columns and what felt like a jungle of plants. Bobby Berk’s New York 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z What impresses most in the Ruhr is the monumental scale: Coal mines and steel works evoke nature’s creations rather than the more modest structures we encounter in cities today. Germany’s Ruhr valley beckons with converted coal mines and a unique industrial heritage 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Instead, after briefly setting the scene through a series of handwritten postcards, he opens with Japanese troops breaching the monumental wall that once circled Nanjing. | 'City of Life and Death': A Tale of Nanjing Atrocities That Spares No Brutal Detail 2011-05-10T22:03:01Z He brought a light touch, bright sound and bracing energy to the monumental first movement. Alexander Schimpf and Alon Goldstein at Mannes Festival 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z We go elsewhere and make monumental changes in other countries and rely on other people to come here and make enormous changes back. A life in books: Janice Galloway 2011-08-05T21:55:05Z While Churchill awes spectators with its size and scope, on par with the world’s monumental stadiums, Keeneland, opened in 1936, guards its idyllic appeal. For top horse racing without Triple Crown crowds, try Keeneland, not Churchill Downs 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z They are a dramatic departure from the billowing quilts and monumental collages that have earned the artist a following among museum curators. An Artist’s Portraits, Stitched Together on the Subway 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z As if committing such a monumental gaffe in front of millions of viewers wasn’t bad enough for Harvey, social media was waiting to pounce. The Internet Reacts to Steve Harvey's Miss Universe Mistake 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Certainly, the monumental Lego installation, “Trace,” has his fingerprints all over it. Ai Weiwei Takes His Work to a Prison 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z “We’ve never had a showing like this in our city before. It’s pretty monumental.” COVID and Black Lives Matter brought an explosion of street art to Seattle. But graffiti was already having a moment 2020-08-22T04:00:00Z But Jacob approaches with a modicum of restraint, as if he knows that this relationship could be something monumental. Gaga in Love With Like Crazy 2011-10-27T22:58:38Z Salvatore Settis, the art historian and curator chosen by the family to curate the exhibition, described the catalogs as a “monumental work.” Statues in Torlonia Collection, Long Out of Sight, Will Soon Be on Public Display 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Substantive and stunning, the documentary “Time” delivers on the title’s promise of the monumental as well as the personal. ‘Time’ Review: What We Really Mean When We Say Mass Incarceration 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Bach’s monumental set of Six Suites for Solo Cello, while universally regarded with great reverence, are nonetheless works that require bold artistic choices and interpretive daring to bring to life. Alisa Weilerstein woos in romantic reading of Bach Cello Suites 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z And, although I was just a bit-player in the story, the film dramatises a monumental mess-up on my behalf – the biggest mistake of my career. 'You've caused an international incident': how my work mistake came back to haunt me 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Often, they are monumental places, designed to instill, in future generations, a sense of heritage—heritage that is now unwanted. The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z “Everything seemed like a monumental task,” she recalls. How to actually fit in a workout, at every stage of parenthood 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z I think she's so monumentally talented, and to get to play in something as important as women trying to pass the ERA, that was a dream. "Lost Girls" star Miriam Shor: "I was enraged about how these women had been treated" 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z And it’s slammed home in a production that’s minimal at first — an adamantly slow tempo, deep bass tones, viscous wah-ing synthesizer chords, some scattered percussion sounds — but grows monumental. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z So, Lewis and Haggerty own their songs and all future revenues, which Lewis says is monumental. Ryan Lewis speaks on the year of Team Macklemore 2014-01-26T01:13:42Z The Whitney, packed with references to organic, indigenous and monumental architecture, is among the most direct and uncompromising products of that period of shifting allegiances. The restored Met Breuer (formerly the Whitney) has a new energy as well as a lived-in look 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The leading Oscar contenders, The King's Speech and The Social Network, both offer fictionalised portraits of familiar but enigmatic public figures – a monarch and a monumentally successful entrepreneur. Why fact-based stories are destroying the art of fiction 2011-01-23T00:04:25Z Some of it is monumental: Magdalena Abakanowicz’s 1973 “Wheel With Rope,” shipped from Poland, looks like a prop for a titanic production of “Mother Courage.” Are All-Women Shows Good or Bad for Art? 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z George Stubbs’s 1762 monumental painting “A Lion Attacking a Horse,” for instance, is rooted in the comparative anatomy studies of the Enlightenment but could also be taken as a comment on human-on-human violence. Review: ‘The Critique of Reason’ Revisits What Romantic Art Means 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z It seeps into your home and work, and shapes monumental and seemingly trivial choices as well as your art and your entertainment. What It’s Like to Be a Female Movie Critic in the #MeToo Era 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Imaginatively shaped, a very small object can seem more monumental than something many times its size. Art Review: Ken Price: Yes, the Ceramics Are Art 2013-06-20T23:21:14Z The result was a series of monumental masonry buildings, their facades cut into shapes derived from vernacular Indian architecture. Balkrishna Doshi, Modernist Indian Architect, Is Dead at 95 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z His monumental “Christ and the Sinner,” which made his fortune when he sold a version to the czar, shocked Orthodox society when it was first shown in 1887, because it showed Christ as unequivocally Jewish. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Artist's Family Home Sustains Legacy 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z But on a bright spring day, pausing during the installation of her monumental new sculpture that opened July 3, the artist Firelei Báez was contemplating the harbor’s earlier history: The U.S. In Boston, Art That Rises From the Deep 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Titled "Blue Poles," it is pointedly named after Pollock's final, monumental drip-painting. Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z He called the book "monumental and absorbing" but worried about the "perspective and balance," noting Gaddis never mentioned that in 1968 Kennan endorsed an anti-war Democrat, Eugene McCarthy, for president. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z Black Emperor, “monumental” holds a mirror up to capitalism and sees cruelty and discontent. Review: Setting a Squadron of Joyless Worker Drones to Music 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Balking at the premise that it is in any way about death, he instead called this monumental work “a very natural, three-dimensional shape that is older even than a pyramid.” Art That Lets You Walk on Water 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Well done Jason Collins for having the courage to take a monumental step forward. 179 pro athletes’ reactions to Jason Collins 2013-05-06T18:50:00Z But there is one crucial element that frustrates him: the portrayal of the cruel and monumental Iron Throne. George R. R. Martin Wants More ‘Game of Thrones,’ Too 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z On Monday, news broke that the Tesla CEO is all set to purchase Twitter after reaching a monumental $44 billion deal. "The View" host Sunny Hostin slams Musk buying Twitter: "Billionaires want to take over free speech" 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z One astounding result is "Huck and Jim," a monumental new work based on Mark Twain's literary masterpiece. Charles Ray's sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The effect is monumental, grand, colossal—it creates the sense of a cosmos right at hand—and it’s one that has a particular place in Godard’s own work and thought. Godard’s Revolutionary 3-D Film 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z It is important not just because it is the most comprehensive single collection of stories about Cosby’s monstrosity that we’ve yet seen, or because it celebrates the monumental power and courageousness of these women. The world let these monsters get away with it: Bill Cosby, Jimmy Savile & the license to commit hideous crimes 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The railroad owed the city a “thoroughly and distinctly monumental gateway,” McKim argued. Architecture: A Proposal for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden 2012-02-08T16:59:06Z How could anyone bother with "an immensely pretty film of monumental triviality" when it was placed beside a harrowing vision such as ? Mere fact, mere fiction 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z The plans don’t just demonstrate great care but are also self-consciously monumental, as if this project were as grand as, say, the construction of dams and canals. Museum Review: New York Transit Museum 2011-12-15T23:03:45Z Koons, 63, is known for monumental reflective sculptures and inflatable flowers. Artist Jeff Koons, New York gallery are sued over late sculptures 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z But Mr. Stone’s romantic brand of monumental modernism was never to her liking. Ada Louise Huxtable, Architecture Critic, Dies at 91 2013-01-08T00:34:22Z Gold and indigo are the colors worn by the monumental shepherdess in Nicolas Poussin’s most famous classical French landscape. A walk through Isabelle Cornaro's 'Landscape' 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z And of course the constant criticism of the architects who lost, including the incontournable Viollet-le-Duc, who among other things hated the monumental staircase. Review: Starchitect of the Second Empire 2010-11-18T08:00:00Z And yet, her monumental wardrobe is testament to the fact that she left nothing to chance, choosing outfits and accessories that accentuated her good looks with their own stylishness and class. Inside Elizabeth Taylor's blockbuster wardrobe 2011-09-20T19:01:00Z Their Philadelphia firm famously proposed a monumental red apple set on a pedestal in the place of the Times Tower. ‘Times Square, 1984,’ at the Skyscraper Museum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z As we approached the painting, its monumental scale loomed over us with Thomasos’ distinct visual lexicon, an intense use of densely overlapping black and white lines that achieved a sense of spatial distortion. My Artist Ghost 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Given this background, you might expect Adams’s piece to be lighter and funnier than it was; had I not known the subject, I’d have thought it was depicting something rather monumental. Review | A gleeful resumption of routine: Standard program makes for diverting evening 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z “But theirs was very specific as tapestry that was very monumental. Their pieces were so large that they would command wonder, and they would engulf you, because they were also very organically architectural.” Ritzi Jacobi, Maker of Mind-Bending Textile Art, Dies at 80 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Right at the entrance, in a simple frame, is a presidential proclamation: a monumental swipe at the nation’s secular century, and an affirmation of a new Turkey worthy of its Ottoman heyday. How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z To suggest that these monumental works are somehow giant ciphers for political ideology does the artist and her work a disservice. Review | At the Whitney, the monumental works of Julie Mehretu begin to stack up 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Brian tries earnestly to reel in his father’s slack but is quickly overwhelmed by the monumental task. In ‘Summer Brother,’ Sibling Bonding During a Season of Turmoil 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z The book, Mr. Parfrey and Mr. Nelson write, “mixed sexual braggadocio, mystical communications with the dead, monumental self-pity about the torments of the artist and delusional patches of self-inflation.” Created by Hand: Lock, Stock and Barrel 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The magnitude of this transgression reveals itself on Susan Hilferty’s monumental set: The towering house of the ruling family, rising amid a landscape of black, molten rock, has walls encrusted in scarlet. Review | Michael Kahn turns to a timeless play from ancient Greece to send off his career 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z The dress was so heavy, so monumental, that the model sporting it got stuck at the end of the runway, her stick-thin thighs not strong enough to make a U-turn. Call the chauffeur: Paris designers ban walking 2011-07-06T00:58:11Z Later this year, the monumental birthday present will be unwrapped to reveal a pristinely restored facade. A 7-Hour, 6-Mile, Round-the-Museum Tour of the Prado 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z She is and she isn’t as Mr. Bong reveals through a kinked narrative and a monumental, ferocious performance by Kim Hye-ja as the title character. Movie Review | 'Mother': Bong Joon-ho?s Fierce Love: Better Not Make This Mom Angry 2010-03-12T00:04:00Z At its core is a cycle of six monumental oil paintings of mythological scenes that Titian, who died in Venice in 1576, produced, late in his career, for the Spanish king Philip II. Can We Ever Look at Titian’s Paintings the Same Way Again? 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Fittingly, a show that’s big on weird and basically all about ego, ends with a shrewdly monumental example of both: a larger-than-life wax portrait of the artist Julian Schnabel by Urs Fischer. Picturing America in the Selfie Age, at the Whitney 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z A photograph taken in the 1960s shows a young Lee Bontecou sitting in her New York City studio, ringed by steel cages and the half-finished shells of monumental wall sculptures. Fifty Years of Lee Bontecou's Surreal Drawings 2014-02-06T05:00:00Z Dang said in the written announcement of his award that he’s “overwhelmed” to win an honor named for “a monumental leader and pioneer” such as Fichandler. In 23rd year, East West Players' leader honored for 'unwavering support' of Asian artists 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z A journal is a small first step but only a paltry comfort, unable to offset such a monumental tragedy. Now on Netflix: Portraits of Grief With Unplanned Relevance 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z It's a bit like being able to buy a flat in the Palace of Westminster, or the Law Courts on the Strand, London's two other monumental gothic revival masterpieces – only they're not for sale. St Pancras Chambers: no place like home 2010-05-02T20:30:00Z Four years later he set himself the monumental challenge of “King Lear” at the National Theater in London. Ian Holm, Malleable Actor Who Played Lear and a Hobbit, Dies at 88 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Lots of them — the grander, the better — along the lines of the monumental coronation anthems Handel had written for the crowning of George II in 1727. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z This would be a monumental shift in how soil is cared for in England. Environmental plan for England asks farmers to "restore nature" 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Although he concentrated on monumental portraits, his signature, Mr. Leslie also completed “100 Views Along the Road,” a series of 100 black-and-white watercolors documenting road trips undertaken in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Alfred Leslie, Artist Who Turned Away From Abstraction, Dies at 95 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Before the concert, he spoke about the fifth's daunting scale, those monumental harmonic support pillars that carry the weight of its epic 80 minutes. BBCSSO/Volkov - review 2011-01-31T18:04:33Z Ever fearless, Wunder opened with one of the most artistically challenging and elusive works in the piano repertoire: Schubert’s monumental final Sonata in B-flat. Pianist Ingolf Wunder gets carried away with his fearless approach 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Countless hours of labor are poured into the architecture and design of monumental show booths. Roberto CoinVoice: Inside BaselWorld 2015: The Best From Roberto Coin 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Or a man looking at a monumental abstract sculpture on the leafy grounds of a wealthy estate. Review | Artist Noah Davis died tragically at age 32. A New York show reveals a great lost talent. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z In spite of its monumental scale, this is no old-school macho gesture made of bronze or stone. Artist of the week 146: Jess Flood-Paddock 2011-07-14T11:38:47Z The attribution of the monumental handscroll “Dwellings Among Mountains and Clouds,” once thought to be by Gong Xian, one of the Eight Masters of Nanjing and a late-in-life recluse, is now being reconsidered by scholars. Looking Close at the Fragile Beauty of Chinese Painting 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Despite this ecological pioneering, his name, though monumental in Brazil, is not widely known in New York. Revisiting the Constructed Edens of Roberto Burle Marx 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Matisse eventually fused the kinetic friction between them in a series of increasingly large, finally monumental collages made by cutting colored paper. 'Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs' at MoMA follows artist's paper trail 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z This is where we run into one of the novel's monumental improbabilities, because Harry – good-natured, easy-going, somewhat retiring Harry – is supposed to be a Manhattan plastic surgeon. Mimi by Lucy Ellmann – review 2013-02-15T08:01:01Z It’s a monumental, sphinxlike sculpture made of sugar, which represents a departure in medium, if not theme, for an artist best known for her subtly filigreed black-and-white images of the antebellum South. | Kara Walker on Aerobics, D’Angelo and Her Favorite Hair Haunt 2014-05-06T23:00:25Z In the Byzantine era, when the temple had been turned into a church, two bishops — Marinos and Theodosios — carved their names on its monumental columns. How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Against a monumental grey background – no whisper of samovar or silver birch – to the accompaniment of sombre, sometimes liturgical music, scenes unfold as if in an absurd circus routine directed by a manic-depressive ringmaster. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z In “Early Jazz,” Mr. Schuller explained why “the spectacular cascading phrases” of Louis Armstrong’s trumpet solo on “West End Blues” in 1928 produced such a monumental breakthrough in music: Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who bridged jazz and classical music, dies at 89 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Still, with its monumental halls, the park offers a fleeting glimpse of the pomp and outsized grandeur of the U.S.S.R. 36 Hours in Moscow 2010-09-30T20:40:00Z “I have tasted a high level of that, but really nowhere near that monumental, symbolic representation of an entire people or nation.” Kristen Stewart gains perspective on fame playing Diana 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z "She leaves a monumental legacy that has improved and extended millions of lives and will enrich countless more for generations to come." Reaction from across the world to Taylor's death 2011-03-23T17:08:11Z "While it doesn't seem like there was a lot of widespread damage, this was for a lot of people a monumental event," Al Roker said on MSNBC. New York-bound storm draws out media's big guns 2011-08-28T20:46:04Z The work is monumental: 15 feet wide and 11 feet tall, composed of a dozen separate panels, depicting hundreds of figures, and weighing more than a ton. Getting around the medieval yet very modern city of Ghent 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z NOIDA, India — He may be history’s most prolific monumental sculptor, and now he hopes to win what may be one of history’s largest artistic commissions. An Indian Sculptor With Monumental Ambition 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Leaving aside moral consequences, the regular consumption of monumental wines and exquisitely prepared foods diminishes their capacity to inspire. The Pour: El Bulli and a Meal for the Ages 2010-09-22T04:20:00Z Its monumental crab cake benedict is a good way to get one last crab fix. Eight road-trip-worthy restaurants in Maryland and Virginia 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z "It was a monumental year for music, period," says Wilson. Supreme marks first hit anniversary 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z “ToasT” has taken on a monumental subject in a monumental style. Review: ‘ToasT’ Where Words Are a Cellblock’s Weapon of Choice 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Other attractions include the Frieze Sculpture Park of monumental outdoor works, also in Regent’s Park, as well as a series of newly commissioned works, live participatory performance pieces and gallery talks. At Frieze London, Throwing Light on Tense Times 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Like so much that counts as “front of house” at the Vatican, the “backstage” of the pope’s private apartments has, for all its privacy, a monumental grandeur. Henschel Quartet Offers Solace for Pope Benedict 2010-03-26T16:30:00Z Mr. Stocchi invited Gelatin to create a piece for the museum’s contemporary Bodon Wing, which was built in the 1970s to accommodate land art pieces, minimalist installations and monumental art. In This Exhibition, You Walk Through Excrement 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Her muscular approach illuminated the nobility and monumental sweep of “Funérailles.” Music Review: For Liszt?s 200th, a Youthful Tribute 2011-02-22T00:00:09Z Because it was such a monumental contest on every level from the sports field to outer space, because we won. A Minute With: Director Phillip Noyce on "Salt" 2010-07-29T16:13:00Z Shortly before he died, Schimmel said, Burden was working on plans for what he called "Xanadu," reinstalling some of his monumental sculptural works in a public setting. LACMA to show Chris Burden's last finished work, 'Ode to Santos Dumont' 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z One would think keeping a secret this monumental would be difficult for just about anyone in the world, but “not for me,” Abrams said with a laugh. J.J. Abrams Knows Rey's Secret Parentage 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z “It’s a great example of an artist who does something simple again and again, throughout her career, until it become monumental,” Tulchinskaya said. ‘Kusama’ wraps up its run as the ‘Hamilton’ of the D.C. art world 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The nature of magic is perhaps that it is fleeting and monumental both, everything and nothing – dust and water. Snowmaking is the most dangerous part of skiing 2013-02-23T13:00:00Z Mr. Chailly, who is also the music director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, will start at the Lucerne festival next summer, with a performance of Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 8 on Aug. 12. Riccardo Chailly to Take Over Lucerne Festival Orchestra 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The Hôtel de Ville, Paris’s city hall, will be offering visits inside the complex mechanisms of its monumental clock, alongside a show of craft watchmakers at work. In Transit Blog: For 'Heritage Days', Access to Hidden Paris 2011-08-26T10:00:51Z “Double Column Gray,” a monumental diptych of dark gray, wedge-shaped volumes, each almost 12 feet tall, recalls the monoliths in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Museum & Gallery Listings for Aug. 7-13 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z In his 2007 film “RR,” a monumental study of railroads in America, each shot lasts as long as it takes for a passing train to cross the frame. ArtsBeat Blog: Smoking a Cigarette, Making a Film 2011-09-13T00:10:20Z Pavilion at the international show, the American sculptor installed a monumental 24-foot sculpture outside the Palladian-style brick building, which she topped with a thatched raffia roof on wooden columns. US artist Leigh recasts colonial imagery at Venice Biennale 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. Henry Moore works to go on show 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Alas, the pointlessly updated production by the acclaimed British director Richard Eyre, with oddly monumental sets by Rob Howell, is a major disappointment. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z They were starting over in America, with houses quite different from the monumental villas with which Bauhaus designers had established architectural modernity in the Weimar era. Ezra Stoller Turned Buildings Into Monuments 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z I was a grumpy Brit in the run up to this, i thought the Olympics are a monumental waste of money. Feedback loop: your reviews and comments 2012-08-06T09:53:38Z Regrettably, the monumental vessel, 90 centimeters high, about 35 inches, is reproduced in the book but did not make it to the show. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z The monumental paintings, each nearly 7 feet high, have never appeared at auction and could bring a combined $130 million when they go up for bid on Nov. 12. Warhol’s Brando, Elvis could bring $130 million at auction The tone and pace makes you feel involved in an inquiry that turns a monumental art into the human record it was, and is. The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z But the extreme lightness of sonority robbed the monumental work of nine tenths of its grandeur. Beethoven Loses to Piazzolla at the Seattle Symphony 2012-12-29T18:39:04Z The seventh anniversary of the Sudden Departure is at hand, and with it the widespread belief that something monumental is about to happen. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 6: The End Is Near 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z In one 1990s picture a monumental nude woman sat, encircled by much smaller figures of men, protectively cradling an infant daughter. Art in Review: ARPITA SINGH 2012-11-22T21:25:04Z As the American press grappled with “fake news” and heightened criticism last year, Steven Spielberg turned the nation’s attention to a monumental journalistic feat. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Post’ and ‘Girl From Nowhere’ 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z The performance artist Leigh Bowery, monumental and defiantly naked – no hiding: no surrender. Life writ large 2011-07-22T17:34:00Z In the second in a new series of public art projects, officials there have invited the Los Angeles artist Aaron Curry to create 14 monumental site-specific sculptures. Inside Art: Met Is Ready to Unveil New European Paintings Galleries 2013-05-09T20:39:52Z But they quickly start to read like monumental obscene gestures of the adolescent kind, numbing, boring feats of nose-thumbing. Art in Review: Dan Colen: ?Poetry? 2010-09-17T16:47:00Z In 2009, Sly seemed to be back in shape when he embarked on a world tour, with a brief and monumental live hook-up with George Clinton's own acid-funk carnival last September. McGee on music: Will.i.am is the true successor to Sly Stone 2010-04-07T11:28:00Z Much of it was music from a gravely supernal, monumental realm. Music Review: Johann Johannsson?s Music With Images at Winter Garden 2012-02-02T23:09:34Z The sculptures can be robust and monumental, or finely detailed and uncannily tender. For Chakaia Booker, Whose Medium Is Tires, the Art Is in the Journey 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z They were rehearsing a monumental concert to be held here on Saturday night and simulcast live in Boston’s Copley Square: Mahler’s epic Symphony No. 8, sometimes called his “Symphony of a Thousand.” Memories of Tanglewood on Its 75th Birthday 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The positive of the monumental sculpture is only given its form and scale and presence in the landscape against the negative of the sky. Perspective | Finding the flower bed in the firmament 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z A monumental figure in American popular music, Franklin was discharged from a Detroit hospital in December after the surgery that she said was "successful." Aretha Franklin says health problem "resolved" 2011-01-06T23:18:37Z If in moments he seemed pressed to his limits, and dropped some notes, this enhanced the sense of something monumental taking place. Review: Yuja Wang Tackles Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier,’ Assured to a Fault 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z After the funeral, they go on a monumental 48-hour drinking spree in Manhattan to anaesthetise their grief and fear. Husbands – review 2012-09-27T21:50:01Z “I really don’t approve of them deep-sixing her monumental records,” she said. Who Owns Helen Gurley Brown’s Legacy? 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z It opens with a 3-D rendering of a monumental statue rotating over a montage of blurry photos. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z New York City is in the middle of a plumbing repair job of monumental proportions. How workers in New York City are fixing a crucial busted pipeline, 55 stories underground 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The loungy attitude was a neat contrast to the show venue: Paris' monumental Place Vendome, which is steeped in grand history. Simons in confident Christian Dior style evolution 2013-03-02T00:08:15Z In 1984, Mr. Chamberlain's "American Tableau," a monumental automotive-steel piece evoking a skyline or a line of pedestrians, was created for temporary display in the plaza. ArtsBeat: Chamberlain Works to Be Displayed at Seagram Plaza 2012-08-08T19:20:48Z “It’s as if the Centquatre is constituting a collection of monumental works that maintain a trace of exhibitions past,” said Mr. Gonçalves. Scene/Seen: Paris Regains Some of Its Lost Aura in Art World 2011-10-28T13:30:24Z These waist-high pieces in glazed stoneware and porcelain descend equally from monumental urns, architectural columns and Voulkos stacks. At the Pit in Glendale, sculpture that keeps you on your toes 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Ludovica Ferrario, the set designer, said she tried to balance the monumental architecture of the Catholic Church with more intimate and sober interior spaces. In HBO’s ‘The Young Pope,’ the Vatican Gets an Eccentric New Resident 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z That includes how we incorporate the monumental and horrific into the steadily flowing banalities and necessities of daily life. Review: ‘This Flat Earth’ Traces Childhood Fears No Parent Can Allay 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Instead Springsteen rose to a monumental challenge, and passed a tough test, once again earning his placement in stone on the Mount Rushmore of American songwriters. Springsteen’s “Rising”: How Bruce reclaimed his role as a vital voice for America 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z This meant that it had been given a certain look: monumental, monolithic, luminous, lapidary, imbued with the moody stillness of Stoller’s stated influence, the pioneering French documentary photographer Eugène Atget. Ezra Stoller Turned Buildings Into Monuments 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z We’re used to seeing her shining in triumph, then an episode later sipping from a salad bowl of red wine after yet another scandal; the Kings don’t allow monumental highs without devastating lows. Where will The Good Wife's rollercoaster plotlines head next? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The core of monumental Washington is on the Mall, but museum-quality sculptures — from the traditional to the whimsical — are all over this town. Perspective | Washington’s sculptured life 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z It also served as the basis of the University Art Museum's effort to commission and collect monumental outdoor sculpture and showcase it on the campus. Why the Getty is giving Cal State Long Beach's 1960s sculpture park a fresh look 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Yet this is a monumental telling of one of sport’s great stories, based on thorough, sometimes groundbreaking research. Batting for survival 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z In pursuing a monumental scale, the freeway has historically refused to acknowledge its role in shaping, dividing or serving individual neighborhoods. What those homeless camps along L.A.'s freeways mean for a public space once above it all 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z The composer and scholar George Lewis told the story of the association in his monumental 2008 study “A Power Stronger Than Itself.” Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z “It’s giving monumental weight to matters of a text message.” Texting Anxiety Caused by Little Bubbles 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Underlying all of this is the monumental overclassification of government information that drastically increased after 9/11 — a system that’s almost universally acknowledged to be badly broken. Perspective | How the new Assange indictment ‘crosses a bright red line for journalists’ 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z All this was in the span of only a few days, and only a few weeks after the monumental decision by the Supreme Court that reversed Roe v. Language is flexible, unlike boomers Bette Midler and Jordan Peterson 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z They evoke the rounded, elemental forms of Isamu Noguchi or Henry Moore, but where those iconic artists tended toward the monumental, Yazaki’s works operate at a much more relatable, almost miniature scale. With just with carved wood or terra cotta, one artist makes the miniature feel monumental 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z It literally says, this sandwich is so monumental, we had to add an extra level of bread. ‘The Founder’: Burgers, Fries and a Couple of Wiseguys 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Two monumental paintings commissioned from the Russian artist Erik Bulatov that include the phrase “Come to Garage!” will be visible from outside. Russia’s Expanded Garage Musem Aims to Be a Global Art Player 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z But it was monumental in its influence on the revolutionary generation in Russia. Ian Frazier Wishes Somebody Would Write About the World’s Largest Beaver Dam 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z From the Great Sphinx of Giza to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., its use in monumental sculpture embodies power. The Mosul Museum video from Islamic State could be a staged drama 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z And so, in less monumental ways, does other art in “Fore,” simply by bearing the clear, proud influence of older artists, living and gone, black and not. Art Review: ‘Fore’ at Studio Museum in Harlem 2012-11-29T22:40:44Z But certain high-value lots were not included in the sale, such as Henry Moore’s monumental bronze “Reclining Figure: Festival,” estimated at £15 million to £20 million. Two Views of Cubism 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Fusing these disparate things yields pictures that are both spontaneous and monumental, like the more solemn examples of abstract expressionism. Review | In the galleries: Julia Mae Bancroft stitches the past to the present 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z In general, though, her own tastes ran to a different kind of art: abstract, stripped-down, discreetly monumental, maybe transcendental. A Bold New Landing for Modern Art at the National Gallery 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Eight years ago, Norton published “Cultural Amnesia,” a monumental collection of his biographical/critical essays about 110 key figures in modern art, literature, politics and history. Clive James’s ‘Last Readings’ review: A critic’s final homage to literature, life 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z To do this, he fills the blank twin towers site in each photograph with a drawing of a monumental grid-patterned abstract form. Art Review: Manuel Acevedo Shows His Visions at Bronx River Center 2010-08-18T22:35:00Z It's interesting how we spent monumentally more time together this year than we have in the last 12 years making the movie. Oscars 2015: 'Boyhood's' Ellar Coltrane balances fame and the future 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z Included is his monumental video trilogy “The Red Tapes,” in which he plays a Melvillian poet-prophet, leading revolutions, forecasting disaster and shuffling American history with a card sharp’s hand. Museum & Gallery Listings for July 8-14 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z But Underwood’s artworks also are beautiful, exuberant and monumental. Review | In the galleries: A heightened homage to trees and what they can teach us 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Auction highlights included Andy Warhol’s “Sixty Last Suppers,” a monumental work that fetched $60.9 million, exceeding the estimate. Da Vinci portrait of Christ sells for record $450.3 million in New York 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z “Making monumental sculpture has a lot to do with places like Walla Walla,” Mr. Haas said. In Washington, a Beloved Birthplace for Artistic Giants 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Tony answers: The sheer vitality and ingenious inventiveness of Bach’s music in the “Goldberg” Variations — moment to moment, section to section — surely accounts for the enduring popularity of this monumental work. Love Classical Music? Anthony Tommasini Recommends Contemporary Composers 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Their first challenge was a monumental one: They’d entered some of the most rarefied halls in government as that government remains partially shut down. For Ayanna Pressley, the beauty of unexpected wins led to Congress and a historic office 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z This review makes the book and its writer sound monumentally stupid. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z With plenty of patience and luck, German scholars and archaeologists have managed to re-assemble over 30 monumental basalt sculptures that were once thought lost to World War II bombs. From the Ashes: Reviving Ancient Works in Berlin 2011-02-05T14:35:00Z To experience Goya the monumental painter, you go to the Prado. ‘Goya: Order and Disorder’ at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z There is a built-in tension and excitement in watching one superb amateur athlete after another tackle the monumental “Sasuke” course. Critic?s Notebook: A ?Ninja Warrior? Upgrade Into Network Prime Time 2011-08-21T22:05:35Z Speaking strongly to our present climate crisis, this monumental animation centres around a stand-off between iron manufacturers and ancient forest spirits. Every Studio Ghibli film – ranked! 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z The building is monumental but retiring, forceful but not overbearing. Perspective | The best way to honor I.M. Pei? Spend some time at the National Gallery of Art. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z As a teenager, he said, he read Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” in a day and Marcel Proust’s monumental “Remembrance of Things Past” in a week. Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Initially, the work's monumental steel set is seen only in silhouetted darkness and flashing light; it looks like a space station, floating in a dimension beyond the dance. Merce Cunningham Company ? review 2010-10-27T22:00:00Z But Ms Lall’s book is also a sobering reminder of what a monumental job the new NLD government has to reconstruct the country. All change, or not 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Though monumental, the lonely chicken nugget is hardly the first edible item launched into space. British supermarket chain launches frozen chicken nugget into space to celebrate anniversary 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z From under the space-age canopy, my partner, Anya, and I stared down into the monumental Stone Age panorama before us, like awed and slightly spooked time travelers. In Sanliurfa, the Silk Road Meets the Stone Age 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z It centers on Bucher’s monumental but ethereal “room skins,” made by covering whole walls with a thick coating of latex and then peeling it away. Art Trek: A Critic’s Gallery Crawl Through SoHo and TriBeCa 2014-04-04T17:47:11Z Nearby, at the base of the Apex Building, sculptor Michael Lantz’s monumental figures of men wrestling horses, the 1942 “Man Controlling Trade,” looks over to the offset memorial to one of this country’s richest men. One of D.C.’s great fountains comes back to life, but it shouldn’t have taken so long 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Tubman is also represented in two monumental outdoor figures, a new mode for Ms. Scott, whose work is generally modest in scale. Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Every song aims for the monumental, a strategy that’s competitive for radio play but wearying over the course of a whole album. Review: New Releases by Kelly Clarkson, Sannhet and Asleep at the Wheel 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z A fake NBA.com store was advertising Kobe Bryant jerseys for 70% off, which struck me as a deal so monumental that I just had to purchase one on my phone while in the bathroom. All hail Will Smith and Tom Hardy, Hollywood's bad accent kings 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Colbert also grilled Mr. Hayden on the monumental leak Monday of what appeared to be C.I.A. documents, which described technologies that the agency uses to spy on people. Stephen Colbert Isn’t Sure Whether to Trust the C.I.A. 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z That’s a slight exaggeration, but in some ways the new hub, called the Interchange, more accurately reflects today’s urban ideals than those monumental terminals of the railroading era. Commuting to Disneyland 2012-07-14T16:00:00Z But it wasn't his finances that caused what he calls his "monumental breakdown". Steve Mason: Out of the blackness 2010-04-06T21:00:00Z Though supposedly cultural, such gatherings are an opportunity for trade too and the Swiss are always keen to sell monumental works. Art Basel – review 2012-07-03T12:59:01Z Eig’s monumental work, the first major biography of Martin Luther King Jr. in decades, challenges the image of him as a peaceful advocate of incremental change. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Jaguars, in some respects, were Maya lords of the underworld; this representation — formal and monumental — is coiled with menace, threatening death. Critic’s Notebook: Maya Treasures Visit Los Angeles to Help Build a Musuem 2014-01-17T22:54:32Z Standing on the lid of his sealed tomb, the monumental figure of Christ is presented to the viewer in an attitude of 'heroica maesta'. Titian identified as Christ painter 2013-09-27T14:35:50Z Visually they find the artist returning fully to two dimensions after her triumphal public sculpture, “A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby,” the monumental and vexatious sugarcoated woman-sphinx of 2014. Kara Walker Traces Slavery’s Bitter Legacy with New Ways of Drawing 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z They include several monumental sculptures, which were on display on Sunday. Lady Gaga's latest frock has her airborne as 'ARTPOP' launches 2013-11-11T04:25:39Z And let’s be frank: This is a no-kidding Met power moment, with monumental pictures by three of the grandest painters of the Venetian age, meaning of any age, lined up side by side. A Question Still Hanging at the Met Breuer: Why? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Artists will include Aleksandr Razin, born in Uzbekistan and based in New York, whose monumental sculpture built from mixed media — part machine, part creature — will anchor the rotunda. New Portal Art Fair to Run Concurrent With Frieze New York 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z On a recent visit, daing na bangus — whole fried milkfish, butterflied and divested of bones, with a short tail still attached — arrived bronzed and near monumental, larger than other specimens around town. At Lahi, Filipino Dishes, Classic and Idiosyncratic Alike 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Ms. McBride, who was born in Iowa, studied at Bard College and now lives and teaches in Düsseldorf, specializes in monumental works in a variety of styles and materials. Rita McBride School Sculpture Will Use Found Tiffany Glass 2013-04-27T00:06:36Z There’s the long shadow of Charlie Chaplin, whose monumental success and undeniable genius torment Laurel, and the usual exploitation by Hollywood producers like the titan of silent comedy, Hal Roach. Imagining the Unhappy Life of Stan Laurel 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z But exploding Ernst's modest floorboard drawing to monumental scale does say something about the technique's relative enormity in subsequent art history. 'Apparitions' at the Hammer explores low-tech art in a high-tech world 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Ostensibly exploring a monumental what-if in a musician's life — a late-career reckoning that aims to make up for lost time — the movie is itself a missed opportunity, especially given that it stars Al Pacino. 'Danny Collins' finds Al Pacino in soul-searching artist mode 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The inexorable trance arc from sustained chords to big beat to swooshing crescendo was thrilling for about the first 10 minutes — and then, the next times around, monumentally cheesy. Music Review: Hard-Driving Star D.J.?s Serve Up the Thumps 2010-09-06T22:48:00Z Plastic foam, wooden sticks and VHS tape are not the most monumental of materials, but then one of the advantages of building “Micro-Monuments” is that they needn’t be made of durable substances. In the galleries: ‘Micro-Monuments’ that take on a global perspective 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z In “The Magician,” his 12th novel, Toibin delves into the layers of the great German novelist’s unconscious, inviting us to understand his fraught, monumental, complicated and productive life. Colm Toibin Imagines the Life of Thomas Mann in ‘The Magician’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Nor has he shied away from making dance to “important” classical music, including compositions by Brahms, Schubert, Schumann and Mozart, composers often considered too monumental for dance. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z It’s just one of the ways that Brugnoli combines the wispy and the monumental. In the galleries: A ‘Homage to Hillary’ is repurposed 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z In the last year, I experienced a really monumental shift in my life, specifically in my life as a director. The film that changed my life | Lynn Shelton 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z In an interview, Marans said the play is not perfect — he still has concerns about the depiction of Caiaphas — but that “the progress is monumental.” ‘It’s My Tradition Too’: A Town’s Centuries-Old Passion Play Evolves 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z A decade later Gossaert produced a monumental version that signals a profound break with the past. Art: At the National Gallery, Art That Made the Leap to Real Life 2011-04-29T11:57:27Z There's something of an elderly artist's daring about the monumental image. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-12T00:05:41Z Fortunately, it was readily portable work, even though it was monumental in concept and scale. How an Afro-Cuban Visionary Made a Man’s World Her Own 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Like a Bruckner symphony, the work is monumental, mesmerizing, cumulative in its impact and mostly lacking in air, light and sex. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: Blockbuster exhibition reveals a brilliant but bleak legacy 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z “This cathedral is monumental and very lofty, and the phoenixes now have a sacred quality.” Xu Bing Installs His Sculptures at St. John the Divine 2014-02-14T22:56:02Z Furious orchestral virtuosity was balanced by singing of monumental splendour from the London Symphony Chorus. LSO/Zhang ? review 2011-04-06T18:00:29Z Let’s be honest: it will be David Letterman, whom Leno beat out for Johnny’s chair, who TV history remembers as his generation’s most influential, inventive, monumental late-night host. Jay Leno Says Goodbye to the Tonight Show, Probably for Real This Time 2014-02-07T05:35:52Z She carried herself not only as an intimate of her subjects, but also as an equal, no matter how monumental in stature — or how notorious — that subject was. Lisl Steiner, Colorful Creator of Black-and-White Photographs, Dies at 95 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Hill decided to commemorate this significant event in the nation’s life with a monumental painting depicting the hundreds of participants of the packed meeting at a former gas works. How Photography Cast New Light on Art 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Maintaining his monumental hubris, Jay-Z unveiled the album cover at Salisbury Cathedral in England, alongside a somewhat more historic document: one of the four extant copies of the original Magna Carta. Music Review: Jay-Z Frets on ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ 2013-07-04T22:31:32Z Inevitably, this leads to some strange encounters, such as meeting a monumental mason who needs a prayer because he's "a squashed thing". Unreported World 2010-05-14T07:00:00Z “The Neighborhood,” Vargas Llosa’s 20th novel, is a political mystery of the kind he regularly turns out between his more monumental historical productions. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Jefferson’s biggest mistake was to put his monumental, 1,000-foot-long garden on the south side of this mountain, where it is in full sun from dawn to dusk, with no water source. In the Garden: Jefferson?s Vegetable Garden Still Grows at Monticello 2010-07-01T13:37:00Z His portrayals of those characters verged on the monumental, while poignantly conveying the cracks that would undo them. | 'Richard III': In Power Grab, the Force Is With Him 2010-08-23T22:21:00Z An earthquake shook the city in the 9th century, leading a large part of the structure's monumental roof to collapse onto the floors of one of the halls, where it remains today. ArtsBeat: Ancient Arts Center Discovered Under Rome's Piazza Venezia 2012-12-28T21:30:52Z But his unusual pace and monumental undertakings have grandly served what many people described here as a naïve vision of environmentalism. For a Filmmaker, the Green Things in Life Are Free 2011-01-30T02:13:01Z It's one creative way to do justice to such a monumental topic when full-blown reenactments aren't within the budget. '1915' a creative take on Armenian genocide 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z They continue to grow into monumental forms, spreading their bounty to a new generation. Review | Neglected visionary Agnes Denes altered our landscape with her art. At 88, she’s finally getting her due. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z First up is the monumentally exciting "True Lies." Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Transformers 3" 2011-06-27T22:27:06Z This is the legacy of Earthworks, also known as land art; site-specific open-air installations; and monumental sculptures. | Art : Ideally, Striving for an Organic Fusion 2013-07-18T21:23:03Z Its root causes are either petty, which means I am an idiot, or they are monumentally serious, in which case I am still an idiot, but also powerless. How should you deal with stress in 2020? First, ditch the meditation 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z Instead, Mr. Brod published many of the writer’s most monumental, if incomplete, works, including “The Trial” and “The Castle,” bringing Kafka posthumous fame. A Yearslong Battle Over Kafka’s Legacy Ends in Jerusalem 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Morrison lives in my imagination at a higher plane than any other living writer, a Nobel laureate operating at the peak of language and moral clarity — a mythical, monumental deity of American letters. Analysis | Toni Morrison has kept the public at arm’s length. Now she’s letting people in on her terms. 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Elegant as the lighting effect is, it forms a strongly patterned background that is uncongenial to any but the most assertive works, including a monumental table and chairs by Robert Therrien. Open doors 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z “What you did today in hip-hop is monumental,” Mr. Darden told him. The Hip-Hop D.J. Mister Cee Spins On After Quitting Hot 97 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z Still, some patrons are holding judgment on how he handles the monumental works of the repertory, like the mighty Mahler Sixth. The Week Ahead: Sept. 26 ? Oct. 2 2010-09-24T16:00:00Z And so it was that a sculptural group covered in soot and dead spiders was dragged out of a recess concealed by a monumental commode. When Roman Statues Play Pranks 2010-06-18T15:00:00Z She was inspired by Louise Bourgeois’s monumental sculptures of spiders when designing her tree’s animated roots that appear to be scrambling from the plinth. Pamela Rosenkranz Wins the High Line Plinth’s Third Commission 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Price favored the ephemeral gesture over the monumental flourish, and Gehry's design for the exhibition follows a similar path, sensitively emphasizing the artist's achievements while paying tribute to the understated qualities of his work. | Ken Price at LACMA 2012-10-12T20:15:17Z This bust of the Native American leader — made from "archival cardboard," glue and drywall screws — is simultaneously monumental and vulnerable. Review: From micro-detail to grand overview, from figurative to abstract, group show discloses local arts talent 2010-06-25T21:32:00Z For the Chelsea show the Roths are continuing one of the most monumental food-based works, towers erected from stacks of small busts made from chocolate and sugar. Dieter Roth’s Works Live On as a Family Business 2013-01-17T13:00:00Z Siqueiros too is at his best in a terrifying, monumental portrait of the revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata, whose scale conveys the dynamism of the murals that electrified American art. Royal Academy's Mexican revolution misses the bigger picture 2013-07-09T16:43:38Z It is monumental in scale, and thus initiates our reflexive tendency to submit or show respect to things that are powerful or commanding. Review | Hans Haacke makes that banana on the wall look ridiculous 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The setting betokens the monumental standoff expertly executed by Boston and Wallace, who stand as twin pillars of this transitional American age. Shylock goes to Washington in ‘District Merchants’ at Folger 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z A dancer twists her body around a cellist as he performs one of Bach’s famous solo suites; a string quartet plays Beethoven’s monumental late music between readings of poetry. The Week in Arts: Elton John, Ethan Hawke, ‘Imagining Madoff’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The same sale at Christie’s will feature Andy Warhol’s monumental “Sixty Last Suppers,” a piece from one of the pop artist’s final series before his death in 1987. Da Vinci portrait of Christ expected to fetch $100 million at auction 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z “His work has inspired and influenced modern architecture, as we all learn to do more with less, and to trade monumental structures for economy, light and air.” Frei Otto, German Architect, Wins Pritzker Prize Posthumously 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z We knew it would be a monumental task because the number of different songs from different musical eras that would have to be cleared. Secrets of the “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” soundtrack: “When you can hear the vocals, you say, ‘Oh my God, this song is about Cameron'” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Egypt, a monumentally ambitious book that was pummeled by critics, though sometimes with grudging respect for Mailer’s attempt to haul the Book of the Dead into contemporary letters. Matthew Barney’s Most Punishing Tour: ‘River of Fundament’ 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z “So much land art is monumental, static,” he said. Doug Aitken Plans Underwater Art Installation 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Sculpture, with its antique precedents and monumental durability, was the medium à la mode between the wars. Art Review: When the Artists Voted for the Politics of Order 2010-10-10T21:37:00Z DeFeo, who died in 1989, at age 60, is known for a single work, her astounding “Rose,” a monumental accretion of oil paint that consumed her for more than seven years. Jay DeFeo and Bruce Conner Were BFF’s (Bohemian Friends Forever) 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Wilson sweeps us through the key points, which are sometimes personal but which dwell mainly on the monumentally historical. Review | ‘Thurgood’ serves Justice Marshall in George Stevens Jr. tribute drama 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Furlong considers the magazine a work of art itself: a monumental audio sculpture. From William Furlong and Audio Arts, a New Book 2010-04-28T22:49:00Z I don’t generally think about things in the intensely spiritual way this friend does, but finding these Google Maps photos of my mother felt like a wink of monumental proportions. The Ghosts in Our Machines 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z It was inspiring to witness our colleagues in action, to be part of this monumental effort. The 20 Phrases That Defined 2020 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z The intense red of Degas’s “La Coiffure” finds echoes in Matisse’s expanses of rich colour; the thick limbs of Cézanne’s bathers find their counterpart in his monumental sculpture “Back III”. Beyond influence 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Suddenly it feels monumental: They aren’t just cheery young singers still making good. They’re a little bit durable: Donny and Marie bring Christmas show to National She provides steady glimpses of the African diaspora cultures that inform her monumental installations and ceramics, along with images of the work itself, both in progress and in the gallery. Five Artists to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z And how about his monumental narrative in Act II? A New Wotan Reigns in the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z Deluxe reissues are decadent, they teeter into kitsch, but if one of my favourite records got this monumental treatment, I'd be thrilled. Be grateful to the Grateful Dead 2011-01-27T21:30:01Z So let me offer a few belief-building facts: Most of its 160 sculptures, monumental and minute, are national treasures in an unprecedented transmigration from Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. Art Review: In ‘Lost Kingdoms,’ National Treasures From Asian Countries 2014-04-10T23:05:18Z Designed by Piergiorgio Robino, an architect by training, who called it “Copper Age,” the streamlined piece made of polished copper plates is a monumental exercise in solid geometry. Showcasing Modern Masters 2010-10-15T13:30:00Z From music and fashion to monumental political events and notable economic statistics. What life was like 50 years ago in America, compared to now in 2022 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z But the strong slate of contenders also has the makings of a monumental headache. Best Picture Race Puts Fox in a Tight Spot 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z In his monumental interpretation of Géricault’s “The Raft of the Medusa,” which was shown at the 1-54 African art fair in Paris in January, he appears as three of the shipwrecked figures. A Painter Explores His Royal Roots 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Cast in bronze by the Morris Singer Foundry, these monumental works, weighing up to three tonnes, were erected in the US, Germany and the UK. Peter Thursby obituary 2011-02-20T18:03:36Z Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration. Kanye West: Grammys 'lack respect' 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z He was so fascinated by its spatial effects that he made his own, monumental version, which again injects bright colors to the biblical scene. Hockney close to home with Yorkshire landscape show 2012-01-17T16:58:00Z These references find themselves encased in bronze in one of the show's monumental sculptures. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z “The Shade” is a monumental sculpture by Teresa Margolles, an artist with a degree in forensic medicine who has worked in a Mexico City morgue. 'Current: LA' art biennial: Water may be the theme, but gas is what you'll need to see it all 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z By contrast, Stein remains, in her portrait, recognizably, monumentally herself, possibly because Picasso — who had a hard time with the picture — couldn’t turn her into an extension of his own ego. Art Review: ?Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum,? a Retrospective 2010-04-29T22:48:00Z Ms. Medvedow persuaded the Massachusetts Port Authority, the agency that operates nearby Logan Airport and public terminals, to lease the condemned, 15,000-square-foot space for monumental artist projects. In an East Boston Shipyard, a Watershed Idea for Art 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The Alcázar of Seville is necessary viewing for all visitors — a monumental palace built in the 10th century for a Muslim governor and still in use by the Spanish royal family. Vibrant and Seductive Seville, Easy on the Wallet 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z There is a world-weary heaviness to the work, with lumbering chords in the strings, monumental outbursts and abrupt silences. ARVO PäRT: ‘ADAM’S LAMENT’ AND OTHER CHORAL WORKS 2012-10-28T04:20:05Z The vivid colors and complex composition of Luini’s monumental fresco depicting the passion and crucifixion of Christ still wow visitors entering the church 500 years after it was painted. 36 Hours in Lugano 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z "A monumental disaster," France's sporting daily L'Equipe concluded, calling for the immediate sacking of those responsible. Is France in the grip of an existential crisis? 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z What if he only got to that place after experiencing monumental heartbreak? These aren't the spinoffs you are looking for: Star Wars movies that should never get the green light 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z I hiked into a 7,000-seat theater, up to a massive mountaintop sacrificial altar and past monumental facades whose decorations ranged from geometric steps to flowing colonnades. Exploring Jordan’s cultural fusion 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z One in four of us have had lives that were determined in monumental ways by our abortions, and the vast majority of us do not regret our decisions. After my abortion I felt relieved — and I’m in the majority 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z At night the Square, with its monumental rosy tufa stone buildings, is lit up; the fountains spew through colored lights, music plays, people dance. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z In his monumental installation “Windward Coast,” a star attraction of the show, Mr. Bailey has created a rolling ocean of wooden keys harvested from some 400 pianos. In the Picture: Atlanta, Africa and the Past 2011-07-03T00:28:47Z Two of his earliest influences, Henry Moore and Eric Gill, also sculpted holes in monumental stone. Gustav Metzger: 'Destroy, and you create' 2012-11-26T20:00:08Z Lavishly built on a monumental scale with shiny gold and glass, the "time-eating" clock aspires to rival the heroic timepieces of the Baroque era. The art of time-keeping 2011-03-23T14:48:36Z Herzog & de Meuron designed a monumental spiral staircase to connect the vast lower level and a smaller glass pavilion at the top, with a mezzanine floor in between. The Ultimate Video Art Retreat 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Govan was 9 years old when Heizer bought land in the Nevada desert and began moving mounds of dirt and rock into what would become his monumental shadow burg. Michael Govan: A museum director who goes beyond the gallery walls 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Richardson was perhaps best known for “A Life of Picasso,” the monumental biography, three volumes of which have been published. Works by Sir John Richardson’s Many Friends in Sotheby’s Sale 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z In the mid-’60s Mr. Foulkes began to use rags to apply and selectively wipe away black paint, creating monumental pictures of towering rock formations on canvases up to nine feet tall. Art Review: Llyn Foulkes Retrospective Opens at the New Museum 2013-06-20T23:05:46Z They were known for monumental paintings, including one of Stalin killing himself in a New Jersey motel, in the style of Socialist Realism, and for teaching elephants in Thailand how to paint like Abstract Expressionists. Can a Picasso Cure You? 2011-05-24T20:43:07Z But the monumental "Elia Kazan Collection," curated by Martin Scorsese for 20th Century Fox, makes a powerful argument for Kazan's artistic and social importance. DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't: Beat the winter blahs! 2011-02-02T01:30:00Z “When I look back on 9/11, it’s an event that happened on one day in the monumental number of birthdays I hope to have in my life,” he said. This Life: A Day to Dance or Weep? 2010-09-03T20:42:00Z But what is so remarkable is that these volcanoes remain so monumentally themselves no matter how theatrical the metaphor. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Each piece was then scaled up to monumental size and redrawn on graph paper, a process that often took several months. 2010-01-23T04:36:00Z “It is possible through television to take a small matter and blow it up to monumental proportions.” Books of The Times: Dave Itzkoff’s ‘Mad as Hell’ Recounts Making of ‘Network’ 2014-02-24T22:37:52Z Near the center of the 6-foot-by-23-foot canvas stands the monumental figure of man in what seems to be a prison exercise yard. Art Review: Henry Taylor?s Portraits and Other Paintings at MoMA PS1 2012-02-02T23:19:39Z An aerial view of Brasilia’s monumental core is cut out to emphasize the design’s birdlike shape and underpinned with fake grass. In the galleries: Elvis and E.T. meet an ancient Asian art form 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z As well as monumental statues, they found it built military installations such as a munitions factory and bases in Namibia. White tiger, dark horse: North Korean art market heats up 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Apparently not “At Canaan’s Edge,” the third volume of Taylor Branch’s monumental biography of King, “Parting the Waters,” with its account of the “historic collaboration” between King and Johnson. “Selma” Vs. “Selma” 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The paintings are both monumental and explosive, with shimmering surfaces that suggest three-dimensional depth. Review | At the Whitney, the monumental works of Julie Mehretu begin to stack up 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z It may be one of the most monumental discoveries in contemporary American literature. Harper Lee Lawyer Offers More Details on Discovery of New Book 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z While the museum is certainly stunning, Volubilis' 2,000-year-old ruins are obviously the real draw — a fascinating assemblage of granaries, villas, colorful mosaics and a monumental basilica. TIME Traveler: Five Reasons To Visit Fez 2010-05-06T06:45:00Z But as we celebrated her monumental birthday, I learned that her happiness came in the form of an apple pizza, prepared only a block away by a red-brick home-turned-"specialty shoppe" called Country Style. The apple pizza that Pittsburgh’s oldest residents are obsessed with 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z The exhibition contains a monumental, hand-printed edition of the Volsung saga, which Morris believed to be as central to northern civilisation as the fall of Troy to ancient Greece. William Morris 2010-09-07T22:29:00Z Like most monumental events, there’s a distinct before and after. We can’t embrace hate now: In Paris, after the prayers, check-ins and acts of kindness, the real tests of compassion will begin 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z US cinema’s enduring maverick, Robert Altman, dissected the damaged American psyche in the monumental Nashville. From Don't Look Now to The Godfather – why the 1970s is my favourite film decade 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z The piece’s monumental nature was unhinged by the fact that it would melt, while British artist Andy Goldsworthy installed giant snowballs in London on the summer solstice. Snowmaking is the most dangerous part of skiing 2013-02-23T13:00:00Z This Saturday, May 14, Thomas, who composes as well as conducts, will lead her singers and a period-instrument orchestra in a performance of the monumental Mass at St. James Cathedral. Mystery Mass: Seattle Pro Musica celebrates Bach’s enigmatic masterpiece in B minor 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Marvel’s “Black Panther” film was monumental and culturally significant from the day it was announced, but this album managed to become its own moment. Eight Albums That Defined 2018 for Me 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Aside from the monumental difficulty of the job, Isaac resents the constraints. Just what America needs: A former New York City cop in the Oval Office 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z For "The Last Kingdom," it kept things steady and reliably amazing throughout, taking fewer risks and reaping less monumental rewards. Was "The Last Kingdom" better than "Game of Thrones"? 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z But with just one baking assistant, it seems like a monumental task. Kentucky's 'Pie Queen' hopes to bake 1,000 pies this holiday season 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Made in his Long Island studio, they are among his signature works in which he crushes, crumbles, bends, twists and paints scraps of cars forming graceful sculptures in various scales, many monumental. The Week Ahead: May 1 ? 7 2011-04-29T16:20:02Z Birkerts, a Late Modernist who produced monumental if also quixotic forms and died in August, is long overdue for his own monographic museum show. Best architecture in 2017: In a tough year, plenty of highlights 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z This is, and remains, a monumental film, and should have won every award going. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The Pace Gallery, which represents Calder’s estate, will install three monumental sculptures created in the last two decades of Calder’s life in front of the building, which was designed by Mies and completed in 1958. Calder and Seagram: Kindred Spirits Reunited 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z A highlight will be the exhibition of all 33 of the museum’s monumental paintings by the Abstract Expressionist pioneer Clyfford Still, the second largest holdings of the artist worldwide after the Clyfford Still Museum’s collection. Buffalo Museum to Reopen in May 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Not only would monumental writers be missing from your literary tour, but entire angles and moves and structures of which the novel, in its bulk, is incapable. Zadie Smith Experiments With Short Fiction 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z “To graduate in this moment is altering,” Holland said, “and if you breathe with it and you let the moment change you — and we should let the moment change us — this was monumental.” These Drama Students Trained for Years. Then Theater Vanished. 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z What the photographer Edward Weston did for peppers, Man Ray did for these strange models, dramatizing them, and rendering them with a strange, monumental glamour. Man Ray inserts the human factor into the equation 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Richard Strauss' monumental tone poem requires an extravagant orchestra of 150. L.A. Phil and Semyon Bychkov achieve a musical summit with 'Alpine Symphony' 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The tortilla is monumental, stretched to its limits on the tin platter. An Ex-Bodega Takes a Star Turn at Cienega Las Tlayudas de Oaxaca 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z On her first day back at the office, Ms. Smith visited the warehouse to see what she called “Johnson’s monumental work.” Art by Sargent Johnson, Berkeley?s Loss, Is Museum?s Gain 2012-02-20T17:59:44Z Adams explained that getting the IRA to agree to a cease-fire had been a monumental feat. How an undocumented Irish immigrant became an unofficial U.S. diplomat 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z A cello’s switch from single notes to a double-stopped fifth, she wrote, “registered as a gesture of monumental significance.” Listen to Three Hours of Music, From a Single Note 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Chipperfield wants this 50-year-old gallery, as delicate as it is monumental, to perform as well as the most modern, assiduously climate-controlled and carefully lit museum — without any visitor noticing that he was ever there. When a Star Architect Wants You Not to See His Work 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z But creationism’s foremost historian, Ronald L. Numbers, wrote in his monumental study “The Creationists” that “no country outside the United States gave creationism a warmer welcome than Australia.” The scary future of creationism in America 2014-02-09T17:00:00Z It’s a monumental, historical treasure to this country. Just Asking: The construction manager for the Capitol dome restoration project on the layers of history 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z He attributes Gehrig’s famous consecutive game streak to “a monumental vanity,” and speculates that the daughter adopted by Ruth and his first wife was probably Babe’s child by another woman. Review: Books About Babe Ruth 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z A fellowship lured Briggs to Oxford's Worcester College, where he helped Churchill with his monumental History of the English Speaking Peoples. Special Relationships: People and Places by Asa Briggs – review 2012-08-10T21:55:01Z “It’s a monumental experience. It’s worth the lines, worth the wait,” said Tahani Cooper, a retail fashion manager in New York. African American Museum’s same-day passes are snapped up quickly on website 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Billy Name, who became Warhol’s lover, muse and court photographer, leaving behind a monumental visual record of the 1960s art world in and around the Silver Factory, died in Poughkeepsie on Monday at 76. Billy Name, Who Glazed Warhol’s Factory in Silver, Dies at 76 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But Snohetta’s initial scheme undid the formal logic of how the mass of the granite facade is poised on its monumental base of big-footed columns. For AT&T, Balancing Change and Preservation Under the Same Broken Pediment 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z If a monumental sculpture can simply vanish, what are the odds that a newspaper story — or the ideas in it — will endure? Review | In the galleries: Simple objects speak about living in an 18th-century hostelry 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Yet no number of monumental performances can compare to the enveloping force of tens of thousands of people, announcing as they did in Paris this week: “We are the show.” For France’s Protesters, the Streets Are the Ultimate Stage 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z And it works with dark, monumental classics like “View” and “The Crucible.” The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z It is edifying to see a show of Warhol photographs isolated from the rest of his work, a compelling counterpoint to the monumental Warhol retrospective at the Whitney last year. Andy Warhol Through the Lens 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z For Swoon, art is a way to process monumental change, on a global and personal level. Swoon Blurs the Line Between Art and Activism 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z This week a monumental version of that Black Dada flag was planted on Randalls Island as part of Frieze New York. A Young Artist and Disrupter Plants His Flag for Black Lives 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Through his sense of light and shape, he lends his subjects a monumental, historic dimension, presenting their essential and inalienable dignity without shying away from their sufferings. “Black Mother,” Reviewed: Khalik Allah’s Deeply Personal Portrait of Jamaican Life 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The only way to increase the power of monumental sculpture is to increase the size. Perspective | Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z It is going to be such a monumental setback for reproductive rights. Me Too founder on her healing memoir and creating change: "All of us contribute to rape culture" 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Gray and black are dominant tones in "Bathers by a River," but traces of brighter pigments remain on its four monumental and faceless human figures. Exhibit looks at enigmatic phase in Matisse's art 2010-03-19T10:29:00Z Of the earth as well as about it, the sculptures were each fired in a single piece in kilns large enough to accommodate their sometimes monumental size. Around the Galleries: Matt Wedel's 'Peaceable Fruit' ceramics have a hint of fiery apocalypse 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Temporary fencing, topped with barbed wire, encloses not just the Capitol, but also a “Green Zone” that stretches deep into the monumental core of the city. Perspective | The danger of right-wing mobs is real. Fencing at the U.S. Capitol won’t help. 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Ibram X. Kendi was in Washington this weekend for the National Book Festival talking about his monumental history of American racism, “Stamped From the Beginning.” How ‘The Snowy Day’ — on a postage stamp — can help us rethink race in America 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Together they form the grand avenue that connects the monumental core of the nation’s capital, laid out in the 1902 blueprint known as the McMillan plan. Once barely surviving, the grass on the Mall gets a serious makeover 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z A foot and a half long by a foot wide, with numerous single and double gatefolds, the word “monumental” is no overstatement. 15 books for the readers on your list 2012-12-13T00:35:33Z All in Asgard are awaiting a monumental moment in the Nine Realms’ history. Thor: The Dark World: A God-Awful Villain Steals the Thunder 2013-11-06T23:49:43Z Rodrigo called the song “a little time capsule” of a monumental six months she experienced last year. Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’ Hit No. 1 in a Week. Here’s How. 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z On the one hand, they throw public money at cinema, architecture and monumental sculpture, producing mounds of propagandist kitsch, of course, but also providing the wherewithal for real talents to learn their trade. The best art is born from democracy 2010-04-07T11:48:00Z Titled “Pied Piper Playing Under the Aqueduct,” it shows the artist, tall and lean, dressed in a floral mini and fishnet stockings walking among the monumental columns of an aqueduct in Rio de Janeiro. Art In Review: Sergei Tcherepnin: Ear Tone Box 2013-04-18T20:29:55Z "There's a monumental relief with diagnosis. It changes everything," said Dr. Richard Gibbs, director of the Baylor Human Genome Sequencing Center, who sequenced the Beery twins. As sequencing moves into clinical use, insurers balk 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z “Everything about it is monumental,” said Ron Simoncini, who was the director of security at the Museum of Modern Art when that institution moved to and from temporary quarters in Queens during its 2004 renovation. For the Whitney’s Move, Boxes and Burly Men Just Won’t Do 2014-04-29T21:38:57Z Joining their ranks was yet another monumental shift for Ms. Branch, who was soon attending events every night of the week, many of which included the flashbulbs of the paparazzi. At the Magic Kingdom, a ‘Magical’ Wedding 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z In the end, tragedy arrives abruptly, an unsurprising turn given the unchanging circumstances, yet one that imparts a girl with a sudden awakening to the monumental bleakness of her fate. ‘Prayers for the Stolen’ Review: Coming of Age Among the Poppies 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The weather was ideal and the lawn full of picnickers when Mr. Dutoit, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus returned on Saturday evening for Berlioz’s monumental “Requiem.” Music Review: Tanglewood?s Season Opens With Good Friends Like Verdi and Bellini 2011-07-10T21:36:09Z The English conductor Simon Rattle will cut a monumental profile in New York this fall. Review: With a Tribute to an Esteemed Organist, Simon Rattle Settles Into New York 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z And a drama often presented as something monumental, to be approached with awe and piety, becomes refreshingly accessible. Theater Review: ‘Raisin in the Sun’ Brings Denzel Washington Back to Broadway 2014-04-04T02:00:14Z And what wealth of satisfaction results from such collective and monumental effort? A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z The 12-inch-square plates based on the signs had the added convenience of being small units that were easy to work on, pack and transport, but that could also assume monumental scale when installed. Jennifer Bartlett, Conceptual Painter on a Vast Scale, Dies at 81 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The most poignant exhibit, though, and the most strikingly monumental, must be the display of three 8-foot-wide white-marble slabs carved with royal symbols, likely made to decorate the Cairo palace walls. The Art Lovers Who Founded Cairo 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Her back to the viewer, her gaze fixed on clear blue sky outside a high window, she conveys a monumental yearning. Thrilling new exhibition shows modern Mexican art is bigger than murals 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Lautner's fan base -- which I would presume to be young and female and interested in viewing his hairless and monumental chest -- isn't super-likely to read reviews before rushing out to see the movie. "Abduction": Taylor Lautner's chest gets a movie 2011-09-23T17:45:00Z From tiny to monumental, Art and Design projects a view of today’s aesthetic environment — as approved by the avant-garde establishment. Art: Art & Design London Succeeds With an Outstanding Mix of Pieces on Offer 2011-10-14T13:00:17Z They glossed over, or didn’t understand, Facebook’s monumental influence on the vote, and how what appeared on social media was so deeply affected by forces outside the United States. Perspective | Media coverage of the 2016 campaign was disastrous. Now’s the last chance to get 2020 right. 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z The rehearsal was all about fine-tuning the Finale movement of Mozart’s 40th, the composer’s monumental “great G minor” symphony — which Noseda is turning into a stagewide workout. Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra reunite, and it’s a joyful noise 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z The Spanish director and performer, who has crafted her share of monumental productions over the past three decades, pushes herself to grating, visceral extremes onstage. For This Spanish Provocateur, Each Performance Is About Survival 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Scenes from Boccaccio and Dante gave way to static, monumental figures whose threat, or promise, only hint at what comes next. Saints and sinners 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z In "Romania," the slightly obscured profile in a monumental sculpture suggests Vladimir Lenin. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z On a wintry March day in Minneapolis, a small group gathered underground to look at monumental and hyper-colored works of art. Coloring in the Margins: Pacita Abad 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z For Europe, Boulez's 90th is a monumental milestone. As Pierre Boulez turns 90, conductor-composer's impact beyond question 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z It is set among the restlessly shifting American landscape of three different centuries, and its characters are shaken by three monumental wars. Review: ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Is a Transfixing Epic of Riches and Ruin 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z He was a man of monumental talents, of teeming ideas, of burning passions, and it is unfair for lesser mortals to criticise him for not being able to settle on just one. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z The piece is monumental, stark and uncompromising, foregrounding the tension created by fugal structure, in which musical themes are alternately presented by different instruments, while the others play contrapuntal harmonies and rhythms. Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Showcases Beethoven and Female Choreographers 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z As well as monumental statues, they found it built military installations such as a munitions factory and bases in Namibia. White tiger, dark horse: North Korean art market heats up 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z “Santini is the guy who was really monumental in the development of cocktails in the state, and he’s kind of gotten short shrift,” said Nick Detrich, a New Orleans bartender. Resurrecting a New Orleans Bar and Its Dramatic Drink 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The city was on lockdown, its streets mostly empty, its monumental core encased in fencing and barricades. Perspective | As Trump slips out of town, Biden repurposes old symbols for new life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z These monumental portraits reflect Lincoln's status as an almost mythological, godlike figure in American history, but the photographs taken in his lifetime preserve close-up glimpses of a more human face. Lincoln's face was made for photography 2013-02-11T14:36:33Z There are many famous paintings here: Renoir's Mount Etna, Millet's shepherdess in her monumental stillness, Degas's fantastically nervy Before the Race, showing the riders and horses arriving in good time for the start. From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism, Paintings from the Clark – review 2012-07-07T23:05:18Z There are actors who become stars because they strike awe–because they’re imposing, powerful, monumental. James Garner, 1928-2014 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z The first, “Walks of Life,” opens on Sept. 18 and will consist of three monumental bronzes by the sculptor Tony Cragg. A Renaissance Master Finally Gets a Showcase 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z It's not quite because "Red Riding Hood" is a monumental disaster, although I'm sure some reviews will make it sound that way. "Red Riding Hood": The "Showgirls" of fairy-tale movies 2011-03-10T23:01:00Z Another man, with his rugged, monumental head filling the whole picture, the hollows of his gaunt face deeply shadowed, looks as if he could have modeled for the ancient sculptors of Easter Island. Art Review: Leon Levinstein?s Photographs of New Yorkers 2010-06-24T20:30:00Z Though the $5 million project was already substantially underway, he voiced his doubts several times as to whether the whole thing would succeed or end up as a monumental high-desert flop. Robert Irwin’s Big Visions, Barely Seen 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z The finished history promises to have monumental stature, and this warm-up may turn out to be its most revealing installment. Books of The Times: ‘Tune In,’ Part 1 of a Beatles Biography, by Mark Lewisohn 2013-12-11T21:46:20Z It may not have a large orchestra, but this opera, as presented and gently updated by director Louisa Muller, was at times downright monumental in its statements, with even its whispers sheathed in iron. A powerful opera about a horrible subject 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z This is an exceptional, absolutely transfixing audio version of a monumental work. Review | Best new audiobooks to listen to this month 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z It's a monumental event in the life of William, so you see him at the funeral. Wills'n'Kate: the comic book 2011-01-16T22:00:00Z Here too is the monumental Engle Clock from 1876 that once drew crowds with its 48 moving figures that evoke Christian iconography, Revolutionary War history and the passage of human life. Museum Review: National Watch & Clock Museum, Columbia, Pa. - Review 2011-09-08T22:42:06Z The Yucatan peninsula is studded with monumental relics of the Maya people, whose cities drew upon an extensive network of sinkholes linked to subterranean waters known as cenotes. World's biggest flooded cave found in Mexico, explorers say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Ms. Butler said she was intrigued by the challenge of expressing “something as ephemeral as an idea about line in a space as monumental as the atrium.” Museum Shows Leap Beyond The Frame 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z Auction highlights included Andy Warhol’s “Sixty Last Suppers,” a monumental work that fetched $60.9 million, exceeding the estimate. Da Vinci portrait of Christ sells for record $450.3 million in New York 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z I don’t know what it is about my brain, but the idea of starting a movie always feels so monumental to me. John Paul Brammer Is Obsessed With Kate Bush 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Explosions, skulls, flying pyramids, atoms, and airplanes—none of these are regularly associated with Keith Haring’s eye-popping street art, but they appear in five monumental paintings he completed between 1984 and 1985. An Exhibition at Skarstedt Chelsea Reveals Keith Haring’s Dark Side 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The American artist Clyfford Still led with two monumental early paintings from the 1940s. Auctions: Fortune Smiles on Abstract Art 2011-11-10T12:00:07Z Two years in the making, "Promise" is a monumental painted aluminum sculpture of a hand suspended from the ceiling. Olympic Sculpture Park makes grand plans for summer 2010 2010-05-20T23:22:00Z Ms. Bergmann said it was “pretty humbling” to be making such a monumental work, adding that every single creative decision was carefully considered. For Three Suffragists, a Monument Well Past Due 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z They set up makeshift markets near the monumental drawbridge leading into the Old Town. Ibiza may be a party island, but we made it a family vacation spot 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z While the early edginess has gone, it is not replaced by any sense of wholeness or repose, which is what monumental architecture calls for. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z His often monumental and extravagantly glazed objects ricochet between extremes of beauty and ugliness. Sterling Ruby Pipes Down, a Bit 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z As complex and perplexing music theater for complex and perplexing times, the production makes our social concerns no less monumental, just more exciting, which may be the greatest form of activism. 'Steel Hammer' bangs out a spectacularly inventive social message at UCLA's Royce Hall 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z On "The Late Show," Stephen Colbert reflected on just how monumental this meeting is for the United States and the global community. Here's how late-night comedians reacted to the Trump-Kim summit 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Stella does confess to admiring at least one midcareer artist, Kara Walker, whose monumental sculpture of a sphinx-like deity was displayed to great acclaim in a former sugar factory in Brooklyn last year. The Whitney Taps Frank Stella for an Inaugural Retrospective at Its New Home 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Patiño also takes us to a carnival and a horse festival, sudden pockets of activity among the monumental vistas. Review: ‘Costa da Morte’ Lustrously Depicts Extreme Coastlines 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Both are made of repurposed wood and assume monumental forms while rejecting the heroic tenor of traditional monuments. Review | In the galleries: A wide array of media carry election-year messages 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z And if the monumental exhibition at Christie's, which was more elaborately staged than many a museum show, is any indication, interest will be sky high. Sky's the limit for Elizabeth Taylor gem sales 2011-12-12T19:32:56Z And if you think this classic work has to sound heroic and monumental, this performance was not for you. Review: Carnegie Hall Reopens With a Blaze From Philadelphia 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The result was a unique art of the intimate within the colossal, the sort of monumental pointillism that had its closest prior likeness in Jacques Tati’s “Playtime.” Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z There was Stern, surrounded by projections of the monumental past, made possible through up-to-date technology. Architecture's King of Tradition 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z “Ancestor” is a monumental version of a work in the series called “Artemis.” Now Visiting From India, an ‘Ancestor’ for Everyone 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z “I want to make a small contribution, however small that might be, to the monumental event in which a Korean writer wins the prize,” he said. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Especially in the current climate, news that seems monumental today may not seem very significant in a month or two, let alone a year or more. ‘Every day brings some new trauma’: keeping calm in an anxious world 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Even so Robson’s unflashy yet monumental technique found unsuspected colors in shades of gray, and simply watching his hands overwhelm the keyboard proved, in itself, enlivening. With a magnificent Piano Spheres recital, Mark Robson resonates in the new year 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Keepers at London Zoo on Wednesday took on the monumental job of measuring and weighing their inmates to check their health. How to weigh a penguin and other tricks from London Zoo 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z His monumental 1964 ink and charcoal drawing “Birmingham Totem” is a response to the bombing, the previous year, of the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Ala., in which four young black girls were killed. Charles White Was a Giant, Even Among the Heroes He Painted 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Austin Allsup said that his father took losing the coin toss as “a blessing” and was humbled to be connected to “such a monumental moment in music history.” Tommy Allsup, Guitarist, Dies at 85; a Coin Toss Saved His Life 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Attia’s curatorial statement notes that today’s “profusion of sprawling, monumental exhibitions” mirrors “the material excesses” of global capitalism, and asks: “So why add yet another exhibition to this?” Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself) 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Twenty years on, Wood, now 40, reminisced about the monumental filmmaking adventure. Elijah Wood on ‘The Lord of the Rings’ at 20 and Being Frodo to Fans Forever 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z It was decided to balance this revolutionary work with less monumental pieces: lighthearted variations, lieder and an earlier sonata. Music Review: Beethoven Elegant and Beethoven Frenetic 2011-06-07T21:43:37Z Born and raised in Brooklyn, Mr. Delsarte created monumental murals throughout New York City. Louis Delsarte, a Muralist of the Black Experience, Dies at 75 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Near the end, Adams brings in monumental brass, but he leaves us as he found us, drifting off into microtonal harp and piano reverie. A serious Beethoven in John Adams' latest 'Absolute Jest' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z George was also contemplating a monumental extravagance, but of a much more sober character. Royal stamp of approval: Exhibition unveils George V's guilty secret 2010-05-06T17:50:00Z In a separate chamber, they came upon a ghoulish spectacle: four monumental coffins, containing the skeletons of the 17th century Prussian king, Frederick the Great, Field Marshall von Hindenburg, and his wife. Did Nazis really try to make zombies? The real history behind one of our weirdest WWII obsessions 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z On the other side of the spectrum, the Big Four bands struggled with their monumental success. Eddie Vedder on the cover of Time. Pearl Jam and Nirvana at No. 1. In the fall of 1993, grunge was king. 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Lewis’s performance highlighted the classical elements of this monumental 50-minute concerto. Music Review: The Pianist Paul Lewis Makes His Philharmonic Debut 2014-04-11T21:43:04Z The Indian Museum in Kolkata has a monumental example: a tall sandstone railing dated around 100 B.C. that once encircled a stupa at Bharhut in central India. A Memory Museum, Courtesy of a Critic-Curator 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Possibly ripped from its socket, and perhaps rotting, this monumental three-dimensional version nonetheless evokes the act of looking as irresistible, invasive and voracious — especially where photography is concerned. Review: In ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Piotr Uklanski’s Unblinking Gaze 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Week four is when most people experience a crash, and mine is monumental. How to quit sugar this year: 'It's a lifestyle change, not a diet' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z Made with the help of Big Ink, a New Hampshire company whose portable press allows printmakers to work on a monumental scale, “Stupor Mundi” is an abstraction that suggests Persian, Islamic and Celtic motifs. Review | In the galleries: Contemplations on the memory of personal spaces 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z These changes weren’t made, of course, but similar gambits were used elsewhere in the city’s monumental core. Review | In the galleries: Cold War ignites inspiration for Culture House DC artist 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z At the center of the room stands a monumental bronze sculpture by Leonardo’s teacher, Verrocchio, showing Saint Thomas poking doubtfully at the wound in the risen Christ’s torso. Review | Quiet, please. At the Louvre’s ‘Léonard de Vinci’ exhibition, you’re in the presence of genius. 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z But in the end, the monumental Grill is as much about time travel and romance as what’s on the tines of your fork. Review | Four splurge-worthy reasons to eat in New York City right now 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Photograph: Daniel Hopkinson/Urban Splash When English Heritage decided, in 1998, to make the 1,000-flat Park Hill estate in the largest listed building in Europe, it seemed to many a monumental joke. Sheffield's streets in the sky 2011-08-20T23:04:08Z Layman's gift, in part, is in making the mundane look monumental and in imbuing unimpressive sights — an ice-cube tray, an accumulation of used Kleenex — with strangely universal meanings. Photographer captures curious power of common items 2012-01-13T18:22:42Z Mr. Distler was discussing the latest and most ambitious recording of his career: a full-on reckoning, alone at the piano, with the monumental songbook of Thelonious Monk, roughly 70 pieces in all. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z When she became his model and lover, in 1904, Rodin was 36 years her senior, monumental, lauded and powerful. Looking to the Past, an Artist Finds a Soul Mate in Gwen John 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Claes Oldenburg, the Swedish-born American Pop artist known for his monumental sculptures of everyday objects, died on Monday at his home in New York City. Claes Oldenburg Dies at 93; Pop Artist Made the Everyday Monumental 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Characteristically, he is following “Two Pianos” with something like its opposite: Messiaen’s thorny, monumental “Turangalîla-Symphonie,” with the New York Philharmonic, beginning on Friday. For This Classical Piano Star, a Detour Is Business as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z To put his mark on the runway, Ruby draped it with his soft, monumental sculpture of dripping fangs. | The Top Five Fall/Winter 2014 Men’s Wear Shows in Paris 2014-01-21T23:36:53Z Among the most acclaimed works in this medium are a monumental series of abortion pictures, which she made after the narrow defeat of a 1998 referendum on changing Portugal’s anti-abortion laws. At Tate Britain, Celebrating a Mischievous, Subversive Talent 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Here, the designers added a kitchen, a lounge complete with its own monumental brick hearth, and—most dramatic—a cantilevered canopy that shelters a dining area. Manhattan Penthouse - Modern Decor Inspiration 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Prior to the play’s monumental night at Radio City Music Hall, the average price for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time tickets was $306.19. Tony Awards Success Making Secondary Market Ticket Prices Rise for Several Broadway Shows 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Advertisement Ella Fitzgerald also contributed to that preservation with her monumental “songbook” albums, but with a couple of exceptions, they pale beside the power and authority of Sinatra’s best work. Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z This monumental mountain range in northeastern Italy is one of the world’s most beautiful playgrounds for outdoor adventurers, from winter skiers to summer hikers, bikers, mountain climbers and more. 36 Hours in the Dolomites 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Not only were viewers able to scrutinize every monumental pore and wrinkle, “they became completely different images. Not just a blowup, something far more interesting and stranger,” he said. Passport Photos and Online Porn: The Dizzying World of Thomas Ruff 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z This was a starting point for another monumental nude, but because Helena was now pregnant and very much on the artist’s mind, Ms. Dumas began to work her daughter’s likeness into the image. A Radical Artist Takes a Startling Turn Toward Love 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z The exhibition is anchored by monumental pieces such as Stephanie Patton’s puffy warning, “It will happen when you least expect it,” written in mattress quilting and upholstery foam. Ten Years After Katrina, New Orleans Museums Reckon With Recovery 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z “So for this story now to be in people’s homes, where they can see what really happened, I think is a monumental event.” Rupert Murdoch Is a ‘Big Feminist,’ Says His Wife, Jerry Hall 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z What better way to ease into a week of disorientation and monumental questions than to run away from reason and open your mind? Net neutrality, sex, falconry: In one week, I crashed as many D.C. conferences as possible. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Measuring 17 feet by 46 feet, it is one of several monumentally scaled canvases he has produced in his career. Inside Art: A Warhol Is Said to Be Bought by a Walton 2013-12-05T21:27:16Z “We’ve reconstructed the structure of the sanctuary, but there is still much more to know about the overall site which must have been monumental,” he said. These Bronze Statues Reveal Ancient Healing Rituals 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Their likenesses appear on mobile flats that suggest monumental headstones. Review: Sara Baras in a Flamenco Whirlwind 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Newark Liberty International Airport’s just-completed Terminal A makeover comes with two monumental new works of art. Art Tells New Jersey Stories at Newark’s New Terminal A 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z Officially, however, Antony Gormley's latest monumental sculpture is known as Exposure, and will be formally unveiled in the Netherlands on 17 September. Antony Gormley drops 60-tonne load for monumental sculpture 2010-08-27T17:05:00Z Despite its monumental footprint, “Rumors of War” has been easily absorbed into the Times Square rhythm. They Keep Times Square in Order, and a Statue Front and Center 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Their two biggest recordings — “The Sun of Latin Music” and “Unfinished Masterpiece” — were a monumental step away from Latin dance music and further expanded what popular Latin music could sound like. How the Record Man Harvey Averne Helped Take Latin Music Worldwide 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Eleven contemporary artists comment on the environment, scale and pace of Beijing, Shanghai, Mumbai, Delhi and Seoul, in nearly 20 new monumental sculptures and installations, including works created on-site during the exhibition. A Nationwide Guide to Art Exhibitions This Spring 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Soon after, he mustered unexpected power, and he went on to explore every dynamic and tone quality in between in a monumentally expressive performance. Review: Vienna Philharmonic’s Familiar and Fierce Show of Brahms 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Kingston is the mecca of R&R. That’s reggae and Rastafarianism, two of the Caribbean’s most monumental cultural movements. 36 Hours in Jamaica 2014-03-27T18:33:52Z But Godwin, recently arrived from England, seems in possession of the restless variety of enthusiasm required for this monumental assignment. Perspective | How do you sell Shakespeare in 2020? The Englishman newly heading a storied D.C. theater has a playbook. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z It’s meant to shrink monumental events into the galactic blip they truly are, but the play is too intent on being experimental to make an effect. Review: In ‘Field of Mars,’ a March Toward Oblivion 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z They acknowledge this monumental moment, to be sure, but they’re more interested in Robinson the human being and civil rights advocate. Sports Stories That Transcend Sport 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Silverio is so determined to defend himself that it may be superfluous to defend “Bardo,” which is proudly and self-evidently the product of a monumental ego. ‘Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths’ Review: It’s a Stressful Afterlife 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z He was only 46, and his death, apparently from a drug overdose, foreshortened a career that was already monumental. An Appraisal: A. O. Scott on Philip Seymour Hoffman 2014-02-03T17:36:07Z Other than that, the monumental but unsubtle portrait does not live up to the lyrical praise lavished upon it by Christie’s experts. Tracking the Elusive Masters 2010-07-09T14:30:00Z Thelonious Monk’s 100th birthday in 2017 brought a flood of tributes, but the most monumental statement of devotion came a year late. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z "They show that being monumental is not to do with the size of your canvas, it's to do with the intensity of the image and the subjects you tackle." Tate Britain makes room for William Blake art found in railway timetable 2010-08-12T06:00:00Z For example, the Conciergerie, the former palace/prison where Marie Antoinette was held before her execution, is hosting an exhibit by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, who was given carte blanche in the monumental space. In reopened Paris, creative energy and festive euphoria set the mood 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z The monumental catalogue, written with David Griffiths and Rob Philpott, is another important reference work. Geoff Egan obituary 2011-02-09T18:17:57Z As the novel opens, Pinhead is approaching the end of a monumental — and genocidal — mission: destroying all living human magicians, usurping their powers and absorbing their arcane knowledge. ‘The Scarlet Gospels,’ by Clive Barker 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z This is annoying because, deep down, it's what we all feel and suppressing that feeling is a monumental act of politeness and one which we secretly fear is corrosive to our self-esteem. Vandalising an old master is bad, but not quite as evil as queue-jumping 2011-07-23T23:06:18Z When the award was announced by Queen Elizabeth II earlier this year, Stewart said it was "a monumental honor." Tonight's the knight: Rod Stewart becomes Sir Rod at palace 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z He set out to “challenge the norms” surrounding public art, he added, by encouraging people to think beyond monumental stand-alone sculptures. From Bronze in Motion to Fake Iron Trees: Public Art at Art Basel 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z As to the psychological obstacles to learning to pitch and sell our work, they are indeed monumental and acute. Do you like my book idea? 2013-02-21T01:00:00Z He eliminated the illusion of permanence, the essence of monumental. Carl Andre’s Epic Sculptures, United at Dia:Beacon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Stevenson’s heroism is a monumental one—both in scale and in form. “Just Mercy” and the Challenges of Depicting Real-Life Heroes 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Salama-Caro said that among the troubling recent pieces was “WINE,” a sculpture that mimics the monumental imagery of “LOVE.” Robert Indiana Had All but Vanished in Recent Years. Some Friends Wondered Why. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z A lone family of sightseers climbed the steps of the Nyatapola temple next door, flanked by monumental guardian statues of gods and warriors. My Return to Nepal, in Memoriam 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z This monumental legacy does not come without its complications. Karl Lagerfeld, the Designer Who Dressed to Survive 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z This month, officials also unveiled a monumental bronze sculpture of a kneeling woman by the British artist Tracey Emin on a pier in the fjord. More Than Fjords: A New Museum to Put Oslo on the Map 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Outrageously beautiful and irresistibly disturbing, Ms. Minter’s increasingly monumental paintings invoke a spectrum of human desires: for sex, food, affection and, hardly least, for being seen. Lush Morsels From an Artist’s Erotic Imagination 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z And his most dramatic acquisitions are a series of monumental works installed on the campus. Michael Govan: A museum director who goes beyond the gallery walls 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The group was headlining a triple bill — with the band Low and a solo-piano set by Eluvium, a k a Matthew Cooper — that elevated modest brooding to monumental scale. Music Review: Guitar Rock, Stretched on the Canvas of a Big Stage 2011-04-07T21:56:34Z “I guess we like things that are potentially monumental, but that aren’t necessarily monumentalized yet,” the woman says. NextStop Theatre’s ‘Middletown’ ponders the potentially monumental 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z There is work that is harrowing, humorous, monumental and sad. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z In his latest exhibition at Regen Projects in Los Angeles, Kapoor takes his explorations of materiality in an intriguing new direction in two monumental sculptures composed of resin and earth. Recent works by British artist Anish Kapoor are on view at a compelling new show 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z It is a monumental task to figure out how to parent them, but if I’m honest, I feel okay about the role I will play in my daughter’s life. Perspective | A single mom wonders: Are the boys going to be all right? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Designing a relatively portable machine that could type 4,000 individual characters had been a monumental task, and people gathered in the July heat to hear Zhou speak. They Wanted to Write the History of Modern China. But How? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z But it still feels monumental, like wandering through King Tut's tomb if King Tut happened to be a hoarder of television sets and police badges. I gave my heart away at Graceland 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Cigarette finished, he opened the impossibly heavy glass doors to his monumentally modern glass building, where his gallery occupies a couple of floors. Up Close: Max Levai Directs the Marlborough Chelsea 2012-03-07T00:33:45Z But when “La Bayadere” premiered, it was more of a monumental risk than a sure thing. How Natalia Makarova changed the ballet world with this landmark production 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z A recent monumental work contains 25,781 spots, each only 1 millimeter in diameter with no single color repeated. British artist's spot paintings at 11 locations 2012-01-11T17:31:09Z But he quickly realized it was too monumental a task. Marie Kondo makes tidying look easy. These devotees hit a few bumps on the road to joy. 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Burroughs adopted the Cut-Up as a narrative technique, one that worked perfectly to expose what he later called “the monumental fraud of cause and effect.” Gysin, In-Depth, at New Museum of Contemporary Art 2010-06-23T22:28:00Z The parade cuirass carved with the chariot of the Sun god and two winged victories flanking a trophy show that the monumental fragment was once part of an imperial statue of the first century A.D. When Roman Statues Play Pranks 2010-06-18T15:00:00Z Painting with what he calls Shostakovich’s “cold colors,” Nelsons traces the tragic arc of the monumental first movement, slowing building tension to a tightly controlled climax before receding in weary resignation. CD reviews: Two lyrical recordings of classic 20th-century scores 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z “Midden” refers to monumental mounds of oyster shells that were present when Dutch colonialists “settled and unsettled,” in Michelson’s words, what would become New York City. Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z The monumental “Mahabharata,” adapted from the Sanskrit epic poem, had a cast of 21 performers from 16 countries and toured for four years. For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z The performance will result in the creation of a monumental work on paper that will be used in an upcoming exhibition the artist has in France. Datebook: Model U.N., art of the Middle East and vintage erotica 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The fifth installment of the show is being held at One Santa Fe, the monumental mixed-use development conceived by architect Michael Maltzan. Los Angeles’s Parachute Market Design Fair Opens this Weekend 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Still, he and his colleagues are wrestling with monumental challenges: How do 10 or 20 or possibly even 30 productions — all essentially starting from zero in ticket sales — manage to reanimate Broadway all at once? New York City can’t rebound without Broadway. And Broadway’s road back is uncertain. 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Playing comedy or tragedy, pathos or hilarity, Mr. Bedford was known for controlled and layered performances, and for finding the depth and subtlety in monumental characters, from King Lear to Tartuffe. Brian Bedford, Stage Actor Who Brought the Classics to Life, Dies at 80 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The exhibition opens with early head-and-shoulders portraits from the 1940s and '50s, then moves on to the to vast, monumental nudes for which Freud became famous. Lucian Freud exhibition opens with royal visit 2012-02-08T16:31:04Z But overall this was an accomplished performance of a monumental piece. Music Review: The Russian Pianist Denis Kozhukhin at Zankel Hall 2010-06-27T21:08:00Z For years Congress has pledged to stop the proliferation of memorials that threaten to turn Washington’s monumental core into a virtual necropolis, though it has had trouble keeping that promise. America’s front yard 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z A monumental carved mahogany desk sat on a platform at the end of the room. Amazon Tackles Hollywood’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Obsession 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Reflecting on the monumental effort that went into opening the depot space, Yashar calls it “the greatest achievement of my life,” revealing a tinge of emotion. Nina Yashar Opens Milan Gallery 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The Internet interrupts the privacy of this era; it tends to scale up mistakes to monumental proportions, and to put them on our permanent records. How Social Media Shapes Our Identity 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z What inspired the monumental work you created for Art Basel Hong Kong? Amir H. Fallah Feels the Pull of His Iranian Origins 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Yet none of this turned out to matter when set against the monumental achievement of Fry's text. The Books that Shaped Art History – review 2013-04-20T10:00:01Z "Li Chen: Eternity and Commoner": The exhibit features a monumental wooden figure titled "Eternity" by a renowned sculptor who works in Shanghai and China. Art critic, 90, can't complain about this show ? it's hers 2012-02-11T04:08:04Z The monumental dignity of the African American women who dominate Winslow Homer’s 1876 composition in “The Cotton Pickers” is undiminished — and even patently current. The new LACMA: Plans call for radical change to how we see the permanent collection 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Scale is generally small, and of the few monumental pieces, most are sculptures or installations in break-downable formats. New Museum Triennial Explores the Hidden Strengths of Soft Power 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z This was history with a vengeance: detailed, rigorous, monumental. Film: David Bordwell, Film Historian, Focuses on Movie Blog 2010-04-24T02:36:00Z You also find that he was not at all the invariably slow, monumental conductor he is often remembered as. A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Her monumental new book, the result of many years' work, is the richest and most exhaustive study on Wyatt to date. Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest by Susan Bridgen - review 2012-12-14T22:55:11Z Perhaps not as monumental on the policy front but important nonetheless, we saw R&B crooner Frank Ocean come out and straight jocks speak out against homophobia. The year in sex 2012-12-22T00:30:00Z The woman was never found, but Shigroff’s monumental piece — made from tufted fabric reclaimed from the apparel and costuming industries — serves as a baroque memorial, replete with shrieking skulls and a kneeling angel of death. 5 Artists to Watch at the California Biennial 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z These include the Hundred Fountains, a wall of jets and streams, and the monumental Ovata Fountain inspired by the water garden of the Emperor Hadrian, also in Tivoli. ‘Elton John of the fountain world’ shows just how far water features have come 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Now on her latest album, "Resonances," Grimaud takes on the challenge of playing Liszt's Sonata in B minor, what she calls "a monumental quest." Quick Hits: Helene Grimaud plays live 2011-09-10T16:01:00Z He began his career in the 1970s painting murals, including a section of Judith F. Baca’s monumental “Great Wall of Los Angeles,” a half-mile long mural in a flood control channel in North Hollywood. Ulysses Jenkins: Journeys of a Video Griot 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Brought overland by Indian monks traveling the Silk Road, it entered China from the north, where it took monumental visual form in the giant cave sculptures of Shanxi province. Review: Chinese History, Writ in Stunning Stone 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The monumental mound of salt — a preservative and curative that also inflames open wounds — conjures altars and offerings, as well as pain and healing. Art Review: Crawling for Peace in a Not-Quite Salt Mine 2011-03-10T16:30:07Z In the monumental film biography of Lawrence that Mr. Korda does his best not to mention, this is the very famous “Aqaba — from the land!” moment. Books Of the Times: Lawrence: Fresh Look at Warrior of Desert 2010-11-21T22:37:00Z I set out to chronicle this ongoing erasure in my installation The Dinner Party, a monumental, symbolic history of women in western civilisation through. Don't write women out of art history 2012-10-09T19:15:01Z In making the songs so monumental, Florence and the Machine have also made them impersonal. New Music by Florence and the Machine and Meshell Ndegeocello 2011-11-07T22:33:38Z Several other monumental nudes, both male and female, were propped against the walls in two light-filled studio spaces, representing what she calls “strange, mixed-up figures, not quite human.” A Radical Artist Takes a Startling Turn Toward Love 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Below the floating roof lay a pool as still as a forest pond and a giant boulder “breaks” into a glass wall of the house, bringing nature indoors in a truly monumental way. 2010-02-01T05:00:00Z The cover lot, Jacopo Amigoni’s “Venus and Adonis,” was hailed in Sotheby’s catalog as “magnificent and monumental, one of the most exciting mythological works by the artist to appear on the market in recent years.” Auctions: No Starry-Eyed Buyers at Christie's and Sotheby's Art Sales 2011-01-27T12:30:03Z “Whether she ever asked herself if she could have truly become a successful headline singer is doubtful — Florence’s monumental ego prevented that kind of self-analysis.” The Amazing Life of a Robber Baron’s Daughter-in-Law, With Caveats 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Titled Seven Magic Mountains, the long-term installation will comprise seven monumental totems—each made with brightly colored boulders—that rise from a stretch of desert outside Las Vegas. AD Innovator: Art Production Fund 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Obviously such a monumental moment, what a time for you. "I feel absolutely relieved": "Top Chef: World All-Stars" champ on the road to making TV history 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Against that backdrop, Soundgarden’s songs remain as odd and monumental as they were. Music Review: Delivering Squalls of Grunge Anew 2011-07-10T22:01:08Z Some start out as drawings and over time morph into a painting or a monumental sculpture. Arts & Leisure: Ellsworth Kelly, Explorer of Shape, Line and Color 2012-01-20T13:01:06Z His impact on the musical life of Seattle is monumental and can't be overestimated. Musicians' notes on Gerard Schwarz 2011-06-08T19:32:04Z As pictures of the monumental Brest sculpture filled the screen, Dmitry Kiselyov told viewers how the Americans had ridiculed the Soviet soldier depicted in the war memorial. How Russia hits back at slights over WWII victory 2014-02-10T14:06:15Z Over several months it evolved into a monumental structure, with walkways cresting some 50 feet in the air. Inside Art: Above the Grand Canal, ?Big Bamb?? Rises 2011-06-02T22:00:57Z The monumental wartime mobilization of millions of people placed more Americans into contact with sharks than at any prior time in history, spreading seeds of intrigue and fear toward the marine predators. Before Shark Week and ‘Jaws,’ World War II spawned America’s shark obsession 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z We see a city otherworldly and monumental, but also one of appetites, personalities and ethnic tensions, as real today as they ever were. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z A monumental new exhibition in New York City offers a hemispheric survey of Native American Indians, highlighting their complex and dynamic interconnected societies. Expansive Native American exhibit opening in NYC 2010-10-22T11:10:00Z Also on view are haunting photographs of Soviet prisoners of war, and one of eight grimly violent, monumental "The Year of Peril" series of paintings by American artist Thomas Hart Benton. Chicago museum's unearthed Soviet posters a diary of war 2011-07-28T20:44:40Z Today a monumental piece of that puzzle is in place. Roundup: Jubilant celebs hit social media over same-sex marriage ruling 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z They did, financed by the sale of a monumental religious painting to Czar Alexander III. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Artist's Family Home Sustains Legacy 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z The Metropolitan Opera announced Sunday that it was suspending its relationship with James Levine, its music director emeritus and a monumental figure in the world of classical music, because of multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. Metropolitan Opera suspends James Levine over sexual abuse allegations 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Despite a monumental performance by Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president, "Lincoln" is more academically than emotionally engaging. AP writers pick `Argo' for Oscar best picture 2013-02-21T17:46:04Z On Wednesday, in Baltimore, four monumental sculptures with Confederate association were hoisted, by night, onto city trucks and driven away. We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z “This is the first time we are doing anything on this scale. The flashy, splashy, huge monumental thing is an exception, an opportunity to communicate something iconic.” Dancers From the Deep Sea Shine on the U.N. for Climate Week 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z He was nearly 50 when he began the assemblages, and 72 when he began his monumental, often thrilling environmental opus in the desert. 'Junk Dada' assembles Noah Purifoy's overlooked, pivotal works 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z This, you see, is the crown of England, and — as three monumental men learn to their sorrow — it is as much a thing of pain as of beauty. Review: ‘DruidShakespeare: The History Plays’ Is Complete With a Crown Fit for Many Kings 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z That monumental, still stunning artwork sits at the heart of “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map,” opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith, Shaped by the Land 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Among the most eye-catching loans to the show are three monumental portraits that will be familiar to any attentive participant in the guided tours at Windsor Castle. National Portrait Gallery shines light on forgotten artist Thomas Lawrence 2010-08-04T18:38:00Z The Los Angeles artist Andrea Bowers made a monumental artwork that she hoped would support the #MeToo movement and presented it, with the help of four galleries, at the prestigious Art Basel fair in Switzerland. #MeToo Work at Art Basel Offers Cautionary Tale About Political Art 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Instead, he filters the legend to render it even more monumentally, unequivocally, inhumanly heroic. “First Man,” Reviewed: Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong Bio-Pic Is an Accidental Right-Wing Fetish Object 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z At the end, after the quietly monumental Prelude and Fugue in B minor, the audience remained silent for a spell, letting the experience sink in, and only then broke into a rousing ovation. Pierre-Laurent Aimard Plays Bach at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z In his clinical practice, he writes, he observed patients with monumental problems triumph. Jordan Peterson is on a crusade to toughen up young men. It’s landed him on our cultural divide. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z The task of Ackerman and Liz was monumental: a daily bombarding of words to keep West's mind engaged with their sounds and meanings. Diane Ackerman's 'One Hundred Names for Love': A wife brings her stricken husband back from the brink 2011-05-25T22:51:05Z She was also mercurial, cantankerous, infuriating, monomaniacal, self-protective and monumentally egotistical. ArtsBeat: More Words About Ellen Stewart 2011-01-23T22:13:35Z Based on cropped news photographs, they catch her smiling on arrival in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, and monumentally veiled at her husband’s funeral days later. Art Review: Warhol Shows Open, on World’s Fair and on Jackie Kennedy 2014-04-24T12:00:01Z In 1994, the renowned California photographer created a monumental photographic installation titled “Docile Bodies,” which combines images of surveillance with fragments of human bodies. Datebook: Art inspired by Octavia Butler, photos that get gender-ambiguous, revisiting a Bay Area group 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z First by unfolding amid such truly monumental tranquillity; second by banishing distractions so that you can see some of the strata on which the present scene resides. Alone in the City: a Christmas Day walk around London 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Indeed, “The Guest Book” is monumental in a way that few novels dare attempt. Review | Is the end of an American dynasty a real tragedy? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The finished illustrations actually are monumental in size — 3 feet by 9 feet — and represent an enormous time commitment, since Christopher Myers used oil pastels to create them. The story behind the new book 'We Are America' 2011-05-28T03:13:05Z Bach's chromatic harmonies, so prickly when heard on a delicately plucked string, became monumental and modern. Originality enlivens the birthday party for Hurricane Mama 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Overflow visitors from the Whitney’s mobbed Andy Warhol show will find three monumental reliefs — he calls them “slab sculptures”— made by embedding raw cotton, clothing and other objects in resin. Firing up Weird Science at the Whitney 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z That family disaster is not the only monumental life crisis in this brisk, musically supple 70-minute performance. Singer-guitarist Benjamin Scheuer purrs his life and times in ‘The Lion’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z In the shadow of monumental Mount Rushmore, Rapid City might suffer from a slight inferiority complex. A Renaissance in Rapid City, S.D. 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z “If we look back 50 years, the old Pennsylvania Station in New York would have been characterized as a reviled building, but now we long for that monumental Beaux-Arts style.” Gerhard Kallmann, Architect, Dies at 97 2012-06-25T00:06:38Z This monumental biography of Lincoln’s secretary of state is impeccably researched and written in an engaging manner that keeps the pages turning easily — not always the case with biographies. 25 best books of 2012 2012-12-13T00:31:12Z Much of the choreography has a monumental quality that recalls the mythic works of Martha Graham. Dance Review: Sean Curran Company at the Joyce Theater 2013-02-01T22:53:53Z The image is an apt representation of the reverence that musicians, scholars and listeners often bring to a discussion of these monumental works. Into the Music: Jennifer Koh to Play Bach?s Partitas and Sonatas 2011-10-23T03:39:15Z They take a street- or window-level view of everyday scenes, with only the occasional glimpse of the city’s monumental precincts. Review | In the galleries: At two Washington spaces, art of a political caliber 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z This new museum in Lisbon, a cavernous space dedicated to showcasing monumental art, opens Oct. ‘Faust’ in South Korea and Cervantes in Mexico: Global Arts Guide 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Until we overcome our indifference to this monumental problem, the outlook is only going to get worse. Is climate change Hollywood's new supervillain? 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z In all, there are 67 monumental carvings, including house posts and other sculptures, ranging in height from 3 to 17 feet. Museum of Natural History’s Renewed Hall Holds Treasures and Pain 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z During the summer, Farage promised to give May’s government time and space to tackle the monumental task of extricating Britain from the E.U., but he has started to agitate from the sidelines again. Nigel Farage on the Story Behind His Friendship with Trump 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z His remark on Boris that "there is a wild recklessness about him born of a monumental arrogance," rings very true. Can 'Bonking Boris' have his cake and eat it? 2010-07-20T10:30:00Z The monumental Mount Rushmore in Mr. Friedlander’s picture is just a dim reflection in a window. Art Review: MoMA?s ?Original Copy,? Photos Meet Sculpture 2010-07-29T21:15:00Z Selecting the museum’s location is shaping up to be a monumental turf war. Latino Museum backers are pushing for a prime spot on the National Mall. But a turf war is looming. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z The East Building of the National Gallery, in Washington, D.C., married a sharp, trapezoidal construction with a monumental marble veneer. The Impeccably Understated Modernism of I. M. Pei 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The imposing shadow of Beethoven the monumental symphonist meant nothing to Chopin. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z This monumental hormonal shift can cause extreme behavioral changes. Perspective | Ask Amy: ‘Barking’ episodes make partner flee 2021-01-17T05:00:00Z While monumental, they had the intimacy of doodles and were drawn all at once without adjustments, which was impressive. Joe Bradley Begins Again 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Plus, there’s abundant space for monumental special exhibitions. New Marciano foundation proves the potential and the pitfalls of a vanity art museum 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z He soon realized that he faced a monumental task in encouraging big league, brand-name players to stand up for themselves against management. America’s next big labor battle could be Minor League Baseball 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z It takes more than 100 performers, technicians, craftspeople and other hands to conjure this monumental work — which clocks in, over four nights, at about 17 hours. Director of Seattle ‘Ring’ operas: Go, ponder, enjoy 2013-08-02T22:06:32Z Monumenta, the annual art project, dares an artist of international stature to "move into" the nave of one of Paris' most monumental buildings, and own it. Monumenta exhibit goes minimalist 2012-05-09T15:32:09Z Assyrian texts mention the Arabs as early as the eighth century B.C. and monumental bas-reliefs depict the Assyrians on horseback triumphantly attacking their nomadic foes riding camels. Review: 'Routes of Arabia'' Exhibition at Louvre Is Startling 2010-07-23T11:56:00Z During the 1960s and ’70s, Yugoslav architects rejected both the monumental austerity of Soviet design and the Modernist movements unfolding in the West. Heads Up: New Design on Croatia?s Coast 2011-10-21T18:50:00Z The project evolved, and Ms. Klayman, perhaps inspired by her monumentally minded subject, ended up with hundreds of hours of material. Movie Review: ‘Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,’ on the Chinese Artist 2012-07-26T22:42:29Z Despite its monumental stature, however, the Seven Countries Study, which was the basis for a cascade of subsequent papers by its original authors, was a rickety construction. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Just as Muse couldn’t exist without Queen, its opening act, Silversun Pickups, owes a lot to ’90s grunge and to Smashing Pumpkins in particular, as its songs climb from the sullen to the monumental. Music Review | Muse: Slaying the Dragon Called Subtlety With Large-Scale Heroics 2010-03-08T06:39:00Z Nestled within the monumental renovation of the 12th-century Hotel-Dieu, a former hospital, this interactive museum dedicated to food, gastronomy and health occupies four floors. In Lyon, a new museum celebrates a longstanding culinary tradition 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z He seems more driven and distracted than monumentally evil. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 20-26 2013-12-19T23:22:44Z That same year he transformed one of Venice’s Gothic landmarks by wrapping the facade of the Palazzo Fortuny in a monumental metal hanging. Inside Art: Robert Adams Chooses Photos for National Gallery 2012-08-02T20:13:47Z Now there is another: A monumental installation evoking a brutalist pergola by Mexican artist Teresa Margolles that pays tribute to the Angelenos killed in violent crimes over the course of 18 months. An artist's imposing new monument at Echo Park Lake honors Angelenos killed in violent crimes 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z The resonance of Mueck’s work lies in his ability to capture a moment, three dimensionally, and in his masterful manipulation of scale to elevate the minutiae of the everyday to the monumental — and the existential. The Uneasy Mirror: Ron Mueck’s Super-Freaky, Hyperrealist Sculptures 2013-05-03T09:45:21Z A monumental Mike Kelley acrylic on paper shows nested picture frames around the tiny vista of a bucolic mountain cabin, which gets swallowed up in a psychedelic frenzy of painted wood-grain that surrounds it. An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Niemeyer left his mark in the flowing concrete of the cabinet ministries and the monumental dome of the national museum. Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brazil's capital, dies aged 104 2012-12-06T01:23:38Z Every injury to a 37-year-old athlete, or dancer for that matter, feels monumental, and this is Federer we are talking about. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z It’s such a monumental lack of judgement that it barely even qualifies as an insult. What about Twin Peaks? The 2018 Emmys' bizarre snubs 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Both BBC Radio 1 and 2 will broadcast live from the event across the evening in what Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw called "a monumental simulcast". One Direction join BBC Music Awards 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The Gettysburg Cyclorama, a monumental 1884 painting by the French artist Paul Philippoteaux that depicts Pickett’s Charge, is worth a look. 36 Hours in Gettysburg, Pa. 2013-06-27T23:20:01Z All 40 feet of it is unrolled here in a room-long display case — an eerie, monumental and anxious declaration of Divine Right. Critic?s Notebook: ?Making History? and ?Remembering Shakespeare? at Yale 2012-03-22T22:50:43Z The San Francisco show, as yet unnamed, will include monumental works inspired by the landscape of Mr. Hockney’s youth in Yorkshire, England, which he returned to in 1997. Inside Art: The Met’s Exhibition Catalogs Are Revived for a Digital Life 2012-10-11T20:48:50Z The manner is monumental; there is little fragility or vulnerability. The Shimmering Magnificence of Jessye Norman 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z A monumental bronze candelabrum, weighing more than half a ton and meant for the tomb of the lavish cardinal Thomas Wolsey, was cast in London by an immigrant artist from Florence, Benedetto da Rovezzano. Behind Every Monarch, an Art Alliance 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z But there is also layer upon layer of human tragedy, from the minute to the monumental. Radio review: Going to the Flicks 2011-01-17T08:00:04Z Ms. Burton’s presentation was beautiful, but the monumental aspect was riveting — how it affects your eye. On the Runway Blog: McQueen: Changing the Perspective 2012-03-06T20:47:18Z Champaign ILL has the best premise of any show ever – a rapper’s posse struggle to adjust to the normal world after the rapper dies – and two monumental central performances by Adam Pally and Sam Richardson. Tired of rewatching Fleabag? Here are 30 TV hidden gems to stream 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Bell’s installation amusingly sets up a staring match between Akio Takamori’s monumental ceramic “Boy” and Storm Tharp’s “Sister” on the facing wall. ‘A Closer Look’ at more of Paul Allen’s art collection at Pivot 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The museum, while acknowledging the monumental Fisher collection, is plainly concerned about appearing to have a lone, big-foot benefactor. SFMOMA's expansion offers a deep dive into blue-chip artists' works 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z In Schwanthalerhoehe, the district that lies downtown just beyond the monumental statue of Bavaria, many bars remain open and rowdy all night long. Trip Tips: Munich's Oktoberfest stems from tradition, draws millions 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z This eight-episode series tracks the band’s seven young Korean singers across their 2017 world tour, through monumental peaks and suffocating hardships. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Americans’ and a Tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z In this second volume of Leader’s monumental biography, Bellow enters the mature stage of his career, as a writer for the ages. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z McLaren drivers Hamilton and Button are featured in this video leading up to the monumental race in New Delhi. First Formula 1 Indian Grand Prix Underway 2011-10-29T18:45:26Z Solo versions of “Pocahontas” and “Powderfinger” focus attention on the concision of the storytelling, but Mr. Young and Crazy Horse would, rightfully, go on to forge them into the monumental arrangements of “Rust Never Sleeps.” Blasts From the Past From the Rolling Stones, D’Angelo, Neil Young and Can 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z “Welcome to your country,” announced the monumental sign outside the ferry terminal, somewhat ambiguously, in Arabic and French. In Spain’s Andalusia region, discovering tuna and sherry and a kinship with the Phoenicians Frank Gehry helps transform a monumental museum into a better place. Perspective | Interlochen has been building an arts-education hub for almost a century. Now it’s all about building artists. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Of the more than 30 works in the show, about half are monumental in scale; some of them are 10 feet wide, said Michael Brown, the exhibition’s curator. New Southern California Exhibitions Reveal Riches of Art and Tradition 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s just a block up from the waterfront to the Palais de la Bourse, the monumental former stock exchange building. Thanks to Netflix, the Mediterranean city of Marseille gets an overdue close-up 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z When his presidency begins, “Washington” becomes a mini-“Team of Rivals,” complete with stellar cast and monumentally important issues to be faced. Books of The Times: Dusting Off an Elusive President?s Dull Image 2010-09-27T23:42:00Z When confronted at auction with the chance of grabbing monumental pictures by the most famous masters that are about to vanish from the market, they feel that they cannot afford to pass. Auctions: Bring on the Old Masters 2011-02-04T12:00:05Z And all those light boxes that flew in from the sides, and popped up from the floor, putting those up and taking them down every day was a monumental task because of the size. The Story of a Production That Changed the Metropolitan Opera 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The amount of brainpower I spend every day thinking about how I look is a monumental waste. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z AD: Much of your work is on a monumental scale. Designer Thomas L. Woltz Is Changing the Landscape of Green Space Design 2013-12-05T05:00:00Z Jamison is the first biographer who isn’t afraid of Lowell; neither tarnishing his monumental reputation nor admitting that an identification with his insanity intimidates her. How much did Robert Lowell's manic-depression affect his poetry? A new biography tries to find the answer 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Here is music functioning as liquid architecture: monumental, certainly, but lightened by a grace and brilliance worthy of the buildings that inspired it. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z His Travis is one of the great self-destructive personalities of the modern cinema: capable of monumental acts of both self-annihilation and yet self-assertion. Accommodating Harry Dean Stanton's unique character-player starpower was not easy 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Among upscale fare, Komi and Minibar are worth the monumental effort it takes to get a table. At Home in Washington 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The season also includes two major American plays - James Baldwin's "The Amen Corner," set in a storefront church in Harlem, and Eugene O'Neill's monumental family drama "Strange Interlude." Sam Mendes, Tori Amos set for UK National Theatre 2013-01-30T14:14:09Z “It’s important at the University of Chicago, where the Great Works loom monumentally, to free students from the paralysis of intimidation by them,” he wrote. Richard G. Stern, a Writers’ Writer, Is Dead at 84 2013-01-25T03:25:06Z For this monumental work Mr. Nauman set video cameras running in his studio overnight for several nights to record what happens when he wasn’t there. Bruce Nauman Reappears: Pay Attention 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z On my last day, I tied my shoelaces tight and hiked up the steep streets that lead to the city’s crown jewel, the monumental Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière. Two French Cities, Neither of Them Paris. Which One to Love? 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Verrocchio constructed monumental bronze sculptures, carved delicate marble and terra-cotta portrait busts, designed porphyry tombs and marble fountains, as well as painting exquisite panel paintings. ‘Leonardo: Discoveries From Verrocchio’s Studio’ Review: Searching for a Master’s Hand 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z All through 2020, as coronavirus case numbers soared and hopes plummeted, I watched and whimpered as one monumental Beethoven tribute after another crumbled. Perspective | The best way to honor Beethoven’s 250th? Listen to every note he ever wrote. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The second in a series of contemporary works sponsored by the Met consists of two monumental new paintings by the Canadian artist Kent Monkman, installed inside the museum’s main entrance. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z But in striving to reveal its monumental and harrowing qualities, Mr. Toradze sometimes sounded halting and labored. Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z These days, however, the northern Syrian city of Aleppo is acquiring a renewed appreciation of its monumental past, sprucing up its historic Citadel and medina with the help of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. Five Reasons to Visit Aleppo: Silk Road Splendor 2010-12-09T14:05:00Z Like many film plots, the story of MoviePass has been filled with monumental peaks, contentious rivalries and plenty of confusion. Tracking MoviePass’s Bumpy History as It Slashes Movie Allowance 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Unlike recent years, which saw monumental advances in luxury air travel such as Qatar’s Qsuites or Emirates’ Residences, 2018 was a bit of a snooze. Longer hauls, nicer planes and other ways travel changed in 2018 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z There is always an element of kitsch in monumental memorials, a built-in grandiosity that exaggerates the physical and spiritual statures of their human subjects. Memorial Review: Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Opens in Washington 2011-08-25T12:00:00Z The museum’s famous Rubens Gallery, featuring the Flemish master’s monumental church paintings, “The Adoration of the Magi,” “The Baptism of Christ” and “Madonna Enthroned Surrounded by Saints,” is largely unchanged. The Royal Museum With a White-Cube Gallery Inside 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Nodding to the history of terrorism against Native Americans more than 9/11, Galanin’s “Never Forget” turns the standard acknowledgment of Indigenous land rights into a monumental admission of wrongdoing. Desert X Artists Dig Beneath the Sandy Surface 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z Vicuña has used variations on the quipu form repeatedly, and produced a monumental version for the occasion. The Precarious Art of Cecilia Vicuña 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z A grave for something as clinical as reproductive tissue and as monumental as unborn children. Their embryos were destroyed. Now they mourn the children they’ll never have 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z The plants that bear them are striking features in the landscape, with their monumental form and spiky gray-green leaves. Globe artichoke, one cool delicacy for the home garden 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z But as it tells that focused tale, it becomes — almost unwittingly — a case study that speaks more broadly to our current moment, about building monumental change brick by brick. Why the Death Penalty Is Dying: A New Book Tells the Surprising Story 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z But the monumental scale of many works may make it difficult to sell to anyone who does not own a museum-size house. Damien Hirst Is Back With an Underwater Fantasy. Will Collectors Care? 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Stephen King is so monumentally productive, even now, five decades into his career, that it’s hard to nail down the peaks of his bibliography. ‘Pet Sematary’ Review: An Unsettling New Take on a Stephen King Classic 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Those working in Zildjian’s shop produced cymbals for the mehter — monumental ensembles with double reeds, horns, drums and other metallic percussion that belonged to the empire’s elite janissary military corps. A Family’s 400-Year-Old Musical Secret Still Rings True 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z But it was harder to maintain a sanguine attitude about the monumental popularity of bro country songs leaving room for little else on country playlists. Brothers Osborne Want to Bring Guitar Heroes Back to Nashville 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z But are they ready to take on the monumentally shady ethics of national politics? The Week Ahead: Oct. 21 — 28 2012-10-21T07:30:05Z Called “Big Bambú” it will be a monumental bamboo structure in the form of a cresting wave rising as high as 50 feet above the roof. 2010-02-11T23:56:00Z Certainly, with no orchestral clothing to cushion its dissonances, the music seems more anguished, more modernist, especially in the monumental first movement. Mahler/Cooke: Symphony No 10 (transcribed Stevenson & White) | CD Review 2010-03-25T23:00:00Z And few concertgoers would feel cheated by hearing just that monumental work. The Week Ahead: Feb.13 ? 19 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z After a brief spoken introduction, the work opens with a monumental outburst from the choristers, who plead with Oedipus to save them from the plague. Music Review: Philharmonic Takes on Stravinsky at Avery Fisher 2010-04-29T20:49:00Z This monumental task is personified in a doctor described as “more corpse than man.” ‘Balm’: A D.C. writer’s moving tale of hope and healing in slavery’s wake 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Christie's said printing the catalogs constituted one of the auction house's most monumental publishing projects ever. Can't afford Liz Taylor gem, how about $2500 catalog? 2011-12-01T14:07:00Z And the museum recently completed a monumental, nearly $3 million digitization process of its entire archive, making thousands of items available for listening and viewing online. Louis Armstrong House Museum Hires a New Director to Guide Expansion Project 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Robert Smithson, creator of the monumental “Spiral Jetty” in the Great Salt Lake, suggested that the idea belonged to the park’s beginnings: He called Frederick Law Olmsted, its chief designer, the “first ‘earthwork artist.’ ” Tatiana Trouvé Unwinds History in Public Art Project 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Seated, wearing all black, she is a monumental, forceful presence. Iiu Susiraja: She Has Issues? No, You Have Issues 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z And this implicitly sculptural figure is but a precursor to the monumental women that emerged in the wake of Picasso’s exposure to the ancient Iberian sculpture of Spain, starting in the summer of 1906. Art Review: Lines That Kept Moving and Knew No Boundaries 2011-10-06T22:45:51Z Pennebaker's Bob Dylan film "Don't Look Back" stand as monumental rock portraits of the 1960s. Movies and music: Toronto film fest turns tuneful 2011-09-09T13:12:09Z One monumental example from the Branly collection, fittingly known as the Grand Robe, depicts, in more than a dozen episodes and with a cast of some 60 figures, the Homeric exploits of two Lakota warriors. Review: ‘The Plains Indians,’ America’s Early Artists, at the Met 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Yes, that "Iliad" — the classic saga, credited to Homer, that details the monumental war between the ancient Greeks and Trojans. Solo actor tackles 'An Iliad' at Seattle Rep 2010-04-08T20:15:00Z White's monumental, bayonet-wielding infantryman stands alone on a desolate plain looking skyward. Huntington's new gallery rooms show promise 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z The naturalism and specificity of the local landscape, whether monumental volcanoes in Mesoamerica or misty mountain tops in Central Europe, were infused with portentous meaning. Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z An exhibition of monumental wood sculptures by Brzezinski reflects the artist’s fascination with trees and her adoration for the environment. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction From where I sat, in the boxes upstairs, he felt far away until he hit the first note and the sheer depth and resonant sovereignty of his tone engulfed a monumental space. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z But their characters here are in one case monumentally irritating and in the other case nonexistent. “Ruby Sparks”: Writing the perfect girlfriend 2012-07-25T00:01:00Z Most parents, holding a new baby, face the most monumental work of their life. Motherlode Blog: Must-Reads: Feminism, Travel, Milk Wars and More 2012-07-16T15:21:03Z Alter, who just completed the monumental task of translating the entire Hebrew Bible, presents his thoughts on what he learned. New & Noteworthy 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z For all the weaknesses and sometimes tedious minutiae of his monumental biography, it remains an important contribution to the history of American science fiction. ‘Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with his Century,’ by William H. Patterson, Jr. An unsmiling woman with a hard, monumental profile stands alone next to a truck. ‘Hive’ Review: In the Aftermath of War, a Survivor Finds Herself 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z It bursts into the centre of a huge exhibition space to reveal the lurid hues of an oversized bunch of Jeff Koons tulips in front of an array of austere monumental paintings by Christopher Wool. Open doors 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Around the monumental 19th-century statue of a woman on horseback — Joan of Arc, of course — dozens of stands ply their wares, from pungent cheeses to used books. 36 Hours in Orléans, France 2012-07-18T16:09:31Z Old photographs in “Naga Identities” show big thatched-roof houses outfitted with monumental wooden sculptures. Art Review: Naga Peoples Made Beauty From the Ugly in Northeastern India 2013-06-27T21:18:57Z Its monumental forms express Mr. Pei’s ideal of a world in which modernity and tradition exist in perfect balance. Critic?s Notebook: Building Museums, and a Fresh Arab Identity 2010-11-29T19:10:00Z Also Joseph Frank's monumental biography of Dostoevsky – though I will have to pay excess baggage, as the condensed version comes in at 1,000 pages. Best holiday reads 2013 2013-07-14T07:00:00Z It was also below last year’s monumental total of $430 million, perhaps signaling that the long-booming classic car market is starting to stabilize. Most Expensive Cars at 2015 Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z But Mr. Bourland, 58, has spent nearly a decade on a monumental task that he hopes will make his a name to remember in the world of movies. Film: Brad Bourland, Grocer With a 10,000-Top-Movie List 2010-04-16T18:42:00Z Some of the “1” material may seem slight, but Mr. Lindsay-Hogg emphasized how the visuals connect these monumental songs back to their creators. The Beatles’ Video Collection ‘1’: Baby, You Can Film My Song 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z This was a monumental performance in every sense, big on beauty and warmth and with the strange disjunctions of the music embraced rather than softened. Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Oramo 2010-08-16T16:12:00Z Christie's said it will devote all its Rockefeller Center headquarters gallery space to an unprecedented, monumental 10-day exhibition of her collection beginning on December 3. Liz Taylor's jewels, fashion set for December auctions 2011-06-29T15:09:31Z They refused to repatriate the monumental canvas, cautioning that it was too fragile to make the return trip. Happy Birthday to the Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa and Took It to Italy 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The former described what Stern calls the "monumental vastness" of Bruckner's compositions as "cathedrals in sound." Seattle Philharmonic embraces Bruckner's 'big' symphony 2010-03-17T23:14:00Z He reportedly put only $40 into the machine before his monumental win. Las Vegas slots player wins $15.5M jackpot on Christmas Eve 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z The monumental canvas riveted other artists, critics and casual visitors at the Third Impressionist Exhibition in 1877 — defenders and detractors alike. The Kimbell captures 'Painter's Eye,' but it can't elevate Caillebotte 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z This will be the fifth monumental statue constructed by the artist. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z It is a language that makes lives perceived as marginal not only visible but monumental. Review: August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ Magnifies Marginalized Souls 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z A monumental egotist, perfectionist and harsh taskmaster with a streak of paranoia, Brown reigned as the absolute monarch of his personal kingdom, answering to no one but himself. ‘Get On Up’ Stars Chadwick Boseman as James Brown 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z But Burr turns out to have been a voracious, monumental reader, the kind of guy libraries are made for. “Hamilton” and the Books That Hamilton Held 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z “Fade to Black” is a powerful suite of five monumental mural paintings by Gary Simmons in which history and memory toil mightily to keep from vanishing. In Gary Simmons' hands, classic film titles ooze with racial history 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The organization is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year with the release of the monumental book “Save Venice Inc.: Four Decades of Restoration in Venice.” T Magazine: Venice Scrubbed and Polished 2011-10-07T17:00:20Z A 7-8-hour drive south lies Phonsavanh, and its enigmatic Plain of Jars, a scattering of monumental vessels whose purpose still puzzles historians and visitors. Laos holiday guide: plan the perfect two-week trip 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z While “Cotton Tenants” feels like a rough draft to a far more monumental venture like “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” Mr. Summers said he believed that was part of the strength of Agee’s piece. James Agee’s Article as ‘Cotton Tenants: Three Families’ 2013-06-03T22:41:39Z The centerpiece is a monumental work that depicts the battle between good and evil. Amir H. Fallah Feels the Pull of His Iranian Origins 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z Assorted monumental sculptures and installations backed by wallpaper dominate at the galleries of Boone and Lisson. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z As monumental mosaics, as landscapes of metallic bits and bobs? El Anatsui’s Monumental New Show Is an Act of Justice 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z It included long-unseen works from the Ballet Russe repertory, among them excerpts from Frederick Ashton’s witty “Devil’s Holiday” and a movement from Massine’s “Seventh Symphony,” a monumental depiction of the creation of the world. Frederic Franklin, Inventive Ballet Star, Dies at 98 2013-05-05T17:58:24Z That’s really a pretty monumental thing to happen, as far as music is concerned. Remembering Kurt Cobain and Nirvana: the band that defined Seattle 2014-03-30T02:01:27Z There are often important issues at stake in seemingly small-bore design disputes, and no change to the design of anything in the monumental core of Washington is trivial. Perspective | How a rock wall and pool of water have thrown a wrench into the redesign of Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Some academics found the book not scholarly enough, but most agreed with the journalist and historian Theodore H. White, who called it, “a monumental work, a grisly and thrilling story.” Books of The Times: A Foreign Correspondent in Nazi Germany Who Interpreted It for the World 2011-08-09T21:57:15Z The second volume of Guha’s monumental biography takes on Mohandas Gandhi’s political and personal struggles and evolving views on caste up to the end of his life. New in Paperback: ‘The Parisian’ and ‘Black Moses’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z “But this work is all heavy and monumental,” she said. Porcelain Finds Its Outside Voice 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z And its experiments continue in monumental pieces by two contemporary Tibetan artists in the show. Art In Review: ‘Tibet and India: Buddhist Traditions and Transformations’ 2014-03-20T23:45:56Z |
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