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Several films feature children swept up in violent historical events.
Major historical events do not escape Trump's penchant for falsehood.
Americans need to pay close attention to these historical events.
Ancient Chinese texts record a mix of historical events and legends.
It is not just historical events that have caused this shift.
The violence from both historical events is not to be overlooked.
People then started photoshopping Ivanka Trump into random historical events, using #UnwantedIvanka.
Similarly, I loved seeing how ubiquitous mud was in these historical events.
He remembered names, dates, historical events, films, stage sets, pieces of music.
Aira's novel "The Linden Tree" proposes a different approach to historical events.
Other films set their stories in the context of greater historical events.
And there's no shortage of historical events that could inspire their own films.
Electronic Arts Yet EA says the game is drawing from honest historical events.
Have there been objections related to other historical events referred to in "Scaffold"?
Little Monsters bypasses becoming entangled with painful historical events, but explores similar dynamics.
What are the important historical events every American should know about, and why?
The drama infuses historical events with the director Kasi Lemmons's gothic mystical style.
It must account for race, language, religion, cultural rituals, and significant historical events.
But in none of these historical events was there a drop of American imposition.
Much of the power of the book comes from historical events not directly discussed.
There are some momentous historical events that you don't know about at the time.
Typically, Google Doodles honor famous personalities or historical events (and, sometimes, surprisingly addictive games).
" And further down: "Also, historical events will not be dramatized for an 'interesting' read.
It is more of an interpretation of historical events based loosely on the plays.
My previous artworks have dealt with historical events, such as the transatlantic slave trade.
So, we have-- a whole stack of, actually, books of historical events and the like.
Warning: If you consider historical events a spoiler, then this article is full of them.
However, the potential of this month is so much richer than only revisiting historical events.
Great Depression parallelsTo further his point, Shiller references major historical events like the Great Depression.
The subject is cultural images, with examples from film, literature, art and even historical events.
I love reading family sagas — the longer the better — that are wrapped around historical events.
There are also similarly named state holidays, which were declared in honor of different historical events.
Not in a series of major historical events, but in the accumulation of in-between moments.
In this new series, he debates historical events, alongside celebrities and experts, with his typical irreverence.
The exhibitions opening include new work by contemporary artists, as well as reconsiderations of historical events.
It's a pity more miniseries haven't tried to do the same for other major historical events.
Major historical events, from Pearl Harbor to JFK's assassination, have always been fodder for conspiratorial accusations.
This book is more occupied with the historical events and political movements that shaped those lives.
I made this book because I'm interested in people who are "alongside" the traumatic historical events.
"A Gentleman in Moscow" is fiction, but it draws much of its inspiration from historical events.
Provide Additional Historical Context What historical events alluded to in the graphic novel require more context?
" ​A disclaimer at the end of the film says it was "based on actual historical events.
After all, it is based on historical events, complete with regular splicings of television news clips.
Seen through Immerwahr's lens, even the most familiar historical events can take on a startling cast.
But while creating art, many of these artists have left raw commentary about extremely important historical events.
That means YouTubers will no longer be able to upload videos denying that these historical events happened.
Guests will discover that Bram Stoker's gothic classic was inspired by many real people and historical events.
Few things about the future captivate us like tech innovations, potential historical events and, especially, supermarket prices.
This has been done in other situations, by other people photographed in the midst of historical events.
Don Wildman hosts this series, which uses artifacts as a jumping-off point to investigate historical events.
For many years he wrote a column for Indian Country Today on historical events and contemporary issues.
And through literature and great philosophers we understand the impact of those historical events on the individual.
To that end, we have seized on four historical events, viewing them as milestones and starting points.
She tells her family's story with a focus on the historical events that helped shape their fortunes.
Think of other museums, or museum exhibits, that preserve and present the truth about other historical events.
One of the most striking things about the chart is how little most historical events affected it.
The violence in the film - reflective of true, historical events - is sure to earn it an "R" rating.
It features some neat CGI, live-action re-enactments of historical events, and interviews with academics and astronauts.
Covering the span of 21890 to 21959, it includes decade maps that illustrate design advancements alongside historical events.
But often, you're working with a limited number of observations, especially when it comes to important historical events.
He said he did not know Johnson personally but recognized him from gatherings to commemorate black historical events.
Wampum belts are used by many tribes and nations to seal treaties and to record important historical events.
Details like this will engage even readers who might otherwise find the sheer scope of historical events confusing.
As one might expect, some reflect the World Bank's changing priorities and concerns as well as historical events.
He cited an "observer bias to history" that makes people draw their own biased conclusions about historical events.
Frequently, it is to challenge my narrative and assert their own version of historical events or cultural trends.
Mr. Houellebecq's François speaks with colloquial candor, mixing personal and historical events, but we're stuck in his head.
With its rhetorical ruminations and dramatizations of historical events, Francofonia could be considered Sokurov's stab at creative criticism.
Sokurov shoots these dramatized historical events so that the scenes resemble long lost working footage for a movie.
That exhibition used visual art to illustrate deeply problematic historical events, many of them precipitated by the US government.
Armed with this continuous, high-resolution record of lead pollution, the researchers looked for links to significant historical events.
VR experiences that recreate historical events are becoming more popular in classrooms and at historic sites across the globe.
In the past couple of decades, historical events such as the Columbine high school shooting, the attacks on Sept.
Then there's a whole bunch of lore-based evidence for why their marriage would parallel some important historical events.
Various iterations of the building's use as well as historical events in Baltimore are examined in room-sized installations.
Video monitors are strategically placed featuring experts — historians, archaeologists and rabbis — explaining their choice of artifacts or historical events.
BEIJING — China has long made it clear that reporting on politics, civil society and sensitive historical events is forbidden.
During the types of historical events that friends say informed DeWine's approach to crises, he was mostly a bystander.
"We have a very consistent approach to looking at historical events through the lens of aesthetics," Mr. Armstrong said.
YouTube will begin providing contextual information from third parties such as Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica alongside videos about historical events.
Demands to tone down or remove sexual language are soon joined by embargos on religions, political parties and historical events.
Director Damien Chazelle keeps his eye on the unromantic details that usually get glossed over in retellings of historical events.
But despite the inherent distrust baked into April 22003, some serious historical events have happened on this day in history.
Berger's art criticism succeeds because of its tangibility — it is grounded in human experience, historical events, and the physical artworks.
It's a dark storytelling podcast that combines haunting campfire tales with real folklore and historical events from around the globe.
Daniel James Brown's writing focus is "bringing compelling historical events to life," which he strives to do in this book.
He realized that changing a few key historical events could have a cascading effect on American culture, economics and politics.
But there is a different way of viewing history, according to which historical events do not happen out of necessity.
Among the administrators' goals are to attract and educate visitors and uncover connections between their entombed residents and historical events.
The major trajectories of their lives were determined by historical events, random coincidences, their own psychological needs and irresistible impulsions.
She uses the voices of witnesses, interspersed with her own reflections, to express the collective trauma of world-historical events.
Scanning the timeline of historical events distributed at the group's meetings, she was stunned by all she did not know.
Perhaps Americans will use these historical events to reflect, ponder and become inspired to demand real tax reform in 2017.
Mini-Europe is a tourist attraction in which Europe's landmarks and historical events are reproduced in a miniature, Legoland-style diorama.
If we're feeling sad or panicked, we're more prone to remember historical events that once made us feel the same way.
For Season 2, that meant delving into a timeline of historical events ranging from the Suez Crisis to the Profumo Affair.
A casual viewer could easily come away with the impression that the Egyptian exile and exodus were, in fact, historical events.
This strident student of history tempers his vision of past historical events and future possibility so that polemical language is avoided.
Clues relate to current and historical events: "material used in fracking" and "Dick Cheney went to jail for one" are examples.
He captured the audience by giving information many people didn't know about some historical events, college statistics and advances in medicine.
Bonus episodes for Patreon backers examine specific historical events, such as the 1921 Tulsa race riot or the wild "Killdozer" incident.
Any references to real-life companies, persons, or historical events have been fictionalized for the purposes of furthering this narrative story.
The fluctuations associated with nearly all historical events are dwarfed by the changes associated with just one event: the Industrial Revolution.
There's a curious thing that happens to major historical events: They can be so momentous that they lose their power to impress.
In Call of Duty, Urzikstan is an Ur-Country; a prototypical Over There that developer Infinity Ward can layer historical events on.
Without a meaningful story on which to hang its historical events, the actors are left looking like vehicles for a history lesson.
Game of Thrones is heavily influenced by real life historical events, many of which come from the medieval history of Great Britain.
AMC's The Terror is a horror anthology series based (loosely) around historical events, and it's about to return for its second season.
When you think back to your coming of age, you can probably remember a few key historical events that shaped your worldview.
For young people, two world-historical events make up large portions of their biographical memory: the Iraq War and the Great Recession.
The cores provide an objective and comprehensive dataset that offsets subjective interpretations in manuscripts, artwork, and other human accounts of historical events.
There is a prejudice that oral history is conflated by ego and enthusiasm, making tall tales rather than accurate accounts of historical events.
In nearly every poem, formal strategies of disjunction and estrangement connect to a representation of physical and historical events outside of the poem.
The Crown is a dramatized version of historical events, so while some creative liberties were taken, there was one they decided to avoid.
We are both cursed and blessed to live in interesting times, and the past twelve months have been packed with world-historical events.
They used it to joke about other historical events that Trump certainly did not attend, and also to show off their Photoshop skills.
Most of them are recognizably monumental, commemorating historical events (the war, the revolution), historical figures (politicians, revolutionary heroes) and historical artists (composers, writers).
He often sets his stories during dramatic historical events, such as China's massive Tangshan earthquake of 1976, and a famine in the 1940s.
In memoriam: Shan Tianfang, who revived the pingshu storytelling tradition after China's Cultural Revolution with renditions of classical Chinese novels and historical events.
"Someone is trying to make a fortune off these important historical events" with "shameful" casting decisions, complained the descendant of a military commander.
And yet, as eyewitness survivors age and pass away, we must focus on combating the passage of time's impact on remembering historical events.
It is known that Bran is not the first Bran Stark to have been at the center of major historical events in Westeros.
Since he stepped down in 2004, he has appeared on the network's news shows, most often to discuss politics, elections and historical events.
And that legacy is not only a matter of distant historical events from hundreds of years ago but rather what is taking place today.
" Applicant: "Well, I'm pretty good at dramas with lots of fictional characters whose lives gradually intersect and are also shaped by actual historical events.
Being in the Zappos Theater, there's so many historical events that have happened there — so many amazing shows — so there's so much history there.
What Twenge and other researchers found is that temporary historical events like wars and depressions have not meaningfully affected America's long-term mental wellbeing.
There are also seeming references to past historical events, like aristocrats giving birth in public spaces and America's incarceration of "promiscuous" women around WWI.
A new trailer for Netflix's new original The Crown — also known as Downton Abbey meets Game of Thrones meets actual historical events — is here!
Between 1968 and 403, when he turned 13, Hei was at or near the epicenter of several catastrophic historical events reverberating across Southeast Asia.
"A Lab of One's Own" is an engrossing, exciting tale of uncelebrated scientists who innovated and experimented against a background of grand historical events.
Positioning past and present in conversation reveals how historical events inextricably shape contemporary life, and it can help us to locate new pathways forward.
Article of the Day Before reading the article: What historical events do you think should be taught in school so they are never forgotten?
The series reconstructs historical events moment by moment, using archival materials, and the episode captures in gripping detail how the anger and destruction spread.
Throughout "Struggle," Mr. Lawrence recasts familiar historical events, from the Revolutionary War through the War of 2100, that were formative in the nation's birth.
"Most of the city's widely recognized historical events over the past four decades involved Glide," reporter Jenny Strasburg once wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle.
And in more recent pictures, they're not about Navy scenarios, but they're about other historical events, where I'm trying to recreate an event or scenario.
Likewise, the researchers were able to match the ebbs and flows of industrial pollution to known historical events, such as imperial expansion, wars, and plagues.
He has snapped pop legends from The Beatles to Michael Jackson, to Amy Winehouse, witnessed countless historical events, and met with generations of world leaders.
Boyle has frequently drawn on historical events in order to explore the dynamics of devotion and cultishness; in The Terranauts, the scientists are the acolytes.
One broken link at a time, one of the most heavily documented historical events of the social media era could fade away before our eyes.
Using Kensho, a tool designed to quantify historical events, CNBC Pro set out to find what happens if those losses extend into a second week.
There's more than meets the eye in Amsterdam-based artist Jasper de Beijer's stark renditions of historical events, like the 1993 Waco siege, visualized above.
As with so many of his predecessors, President Donald Trump is inclined to recall historical events to better frame his own performance and political agenda.
The pious might frown upon such artistic license, yet they would do well to remember that the Gospels themselves are creative adaptations of historical events.
But his painterly black-and-white images, which include everything from candid street shots to world-historical events like Gandhi's funeral, are anything but reductive.
This earlier event, the Permian–Triassic Extinction, is frequently called "the Great Dying" by paleontologists who like historical events to sound like Morrissey album titles.
President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have compared the president&aposs expected impeachment and the impeachment inquiry to a host of dramatic historical events.
The photographs on view are awe-inspiring, unique, and impressive, but the exhibition is, shall we say, rather discreet with its depiction of historical events.
It provides an arsenal of aesthetic tactics as a useful frame of reference, from manipulating images to using the body to re-stage historical events.
The timeline is a clever highlight reel documenting systemic racism in both English and Spanish, illustrated with meticulously rendered watercolors that punctuate the disturbing historical events.
Although he was illuminating opinionated and newsworthy pieces, his images were not topical: neither anchored by historical events nor political perspectives, he highlighted everyday human folly.
Using historical events, Lushkov crafted a few theories that could shed some light on what could happen as Dany fights her way towards the Iron Throne.
But piecing together historical events that have been long omitted or glossed over is tricky, and Apostol's storytelling mirrors the disorientation such a task can create.
Using Kensho, a tool designed to quantify historical events, CNBC Pro searched for the best and worst performers during tech's first-quarter earnings season since 2005.
The court said allowing de Havilland's case to proceed would interfere with the rights of authors and filmmakers to make creative works that dramatize historical events.
To tell a coherent story, films sometimes have to combine two characters to make one or compress historical events, in order to make the narrative smooth.
So find an issue or topic that matters to you, either from current events or historical events covered in The Times, and make your own cartoon.
Between 1968 and 1981, when he turned 13, Khiang H. Hei was at or near the epicenter of several catastrophic historical events reverberating across Southeast Asia.
On occasion, however, Olmi shifts into a cooler, more documentarian perspective that emphasizes the factual basis of both the individual story and its larger historical events.
Indeed, students who learn about moral reasoning, building arguments and evaluating historical events show significant increases in civic literacy and in rates of voting in America.
While Columbus is obviously not a Confederate icon, the incident exemplifies heightened scrutiny of the historical events and figures memorialized in statues and monuments across the country.
Serena Powers Tim Powers is one of the foremost practitioners of the secret history genre, in which real historical events are revealed to have surprising fictional explanations.
Theoretically maybe it would, if you called up all 40,000 Nielsen houses and convinced them not to watch one of the biggest historical events in the nation.
Through the years, Freemasons earned a reputation as a secret organization, leading to conspiracy theories that the group is behind many of the world's biggest historical events.
The new bands also suggest that new events to come will eclipse past historical events in their impact, and shape a whole new Westeros as a result.
Tinged with both fear and fascination; the timeline for AI development is punctuated by cultural and historical events that have brought with them new speculation and theories.
There was a time when historians simply tracked the personalities at the center of decisive historical events — and, yes, their idea of "great" was generally only men.
Oliver Stone's "Snowden," a quiet, crisply drawn portrait of the world's most celebrated whistle-blower, belongs to a curious subgenre of movies about very recent historical events.
He also explained how Great Depression parallels were still alive and well and outlined how people tie current trends to historical events in the absence of explanation.
It is by focusing on this singular disaster that Lloyd Parry finds he can come to grips with the world historical events he has just lived through.
One thing that becomes apparent is that, when pathogenesis is absent, historical events and cultural shifts have an outsized influence on prevailing views on causes and treatments.
Melisandre lived longer than most of the other characters, so she could be around during Aegon's Conquest or the Dance of the Dragons, or other historical events.
What have tree rings revealed to help explain historical events such as the declines in the Ming dynasty, the Ottoman Empire and the Jamestown colony in Virginia?
After Life ceased publication in 1972, he worked for Time and Sports Illustrated magazines, where he covered other historical events — including uplifting ones, like several Olympic Games.
While at the Examiner, Matthews covered iconic historical events across the world, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and producing scoops on the Nixon presidential tapes.
"We studied many historical events like World War II and the Vietnam and Korean Wars, but this was stuff I had actually lived through," Mr. Mann said.
On your own or with a partner, list at least 10 names, places, adjectives, facts, historical events, news items or other details that you associate with Iran.
Once announced, the wall began to divide people (as walls do), stirring up debates about painful historical events that are never far from the surface in Germany.
All of these historical events have had lasting repercussions on indigenous peoples and communities of color, and have left deep and disturbing traces in the memorial landscape.
It highlights basic U.S. holidays, sure, but also international holidays, historical events, birthdays of icons like Michelle Obama, and even fun goofy holidays like mac-n-cheese day.
The show is also part of a growing trend of podcast shows, such as Slow Burn and Constitutional, which have cast historical events alongside the ongoing political drama.
Tracing dozens of historical events around the world from the fifth century BC to 19643, Tchijevsky found that many of the most significant events in history occurred periodically.
Where Get Out relied on horror/sci-fi to symbolically represent the dangers of this relationship dynamic, Detroit reminds us of the historical events that inspired said imagery.
On the right of the image is the "clean" area and brain-dump wall, which contains sketched images from historical events, music, pop culture, dreams, and personal photos.
In The Danish Girl, Eddie Redmayne plays the main character grappling with his gender identity, and is based on historical events of the world's first sex reassignment surgery.
Some of the stories featured in the show might not strictly be true or accurate, but the same can be said for movies about historical events or figures.
Grant's reliance on Hill and Thomas' public statements, and the predictable unfolding of historical events turns the story into a series of bullet points on a classroom syllabus.
In Vo's art, elements of his biography interact with and vivify evidence of the historical events and the political ideas that have shaped the world he lives in.
Reading about historical events and watching documentaries can tell us the facts, but it's a different thing entirely to think about what it was like to experience it.
In the years since, the collection of materials has repeatedly been used as a reference for insight on the U.S.'s thinking about foreign officials and historical events.
All these elements are present in First Man, but the challenge with any movie based on epochal historical events is to find a fresh story in familiar facts.
Notre-Dame is in innumerable books, poems, films, momentous historical events, plus so many people have been there and marveled at its epic execution and place in history.
" Part of the way YouTube is tackling the issue is surfacing more authoritative sources for subjects like "news, science and historical events, where accuracy and authoritativeness are key.
Many have spent lifetimes scouring the details of historical events and data points trying to hash out an accurate picture of where markets are headed in the future.
Seeing firsthand where historical events had occurred, interviewing those that have been affected in current events, travelling the world and living the lives of other people besides myself.
But when Americans invoked historical events in politics, they tended to be more recent—the founding of the republic; the struggle against slavery and segregation; victory over Nazi Germany.
The entries memorialize such historical events as the first operation with ether, Grace Hopper's coining of the term "bug" to describe computer glitches, and Matt Damon's arrival on Mars.
What makes the exhibition more than just a series of dreamily rendered analogue status updates is the intersection of Kim's personal timeline with the timeline of world-historical events.
The artist points out in his statement that politicians and governments have a tendency to rewrite or adjust the telling of historical events to better serve their party's purposes.
Where Mr Piketty sees the inequality-compressing historical events of the early 20th century as an accident, Mr Milanovic believes them to be the direct result of soaring inequality.
Greenblatt's book has two chief projects: showing that Shakespeare was consciously responding to historical events, and defining the "tyrant" as Shakespeare saw it through a very Trump-colored lens.
While Morawiecki commended Netflix for teaching about historical events, he wrote: "It was important to honour the memory and preserve the truth about World War II and the Holocaust."
Paul Goldin, who studies China's Warring States period at the University of Pennsylvania, also sees the stories of Yu and the Great Flood as unlikely to represent historical events.
"Someone is trying to make a fortune off these important historical events," Ye Daying, a grandson of Ye Ting, a Communist military commander, wrote on Weibo, a microblogging site.
In contrast, other big historical events, like the panic of 1907, have been almost totally forgotten by the public and are unlikely to develop into a big new epidemic.
"Victoria" follows, in broad fashion, historical events, but its primary interest is in presenting its heroine as doe-eyed, headstrong and romantic, in contrast to her traditionally stodgy image.
Kaplan, in other words, employs racism as a deus ex machina — something that exists outside of history but that can be invoked as the ultimate explanation for historical events.
By including the news and editorial opinions in class periods and drawing connections with historical events, I do full lessons on the structure and general content of a newspaper.
The most absorbing entrants to the revised-history genre are the ones that dive into singular historical events with great modern resonance, as "Uncivil" does with the Civil War.
Covering the span of 21950 to 18903, A Visual History of Graphic Design illustrates design advancements alongside historical events, from the founding of Pepsi-Cola to the stock market crash.
Many of the leading figures of the 1988 uprising are still active in political and social work, and several on Wednesday recalled the momentous historical events and how they started.
Using Kensho, a tool designed to quantify historical events, CNBC Pro searched for what happens with other commodities after gold rises 10 percent or more in a quarter since 1990.
It's possible to argue that obliterating evidence of "bad" historical events or "offensive" people might in the end be counterproductive, allowing a collective amnesia that the bad events ever happened.
On Twitter, the #LostTrumpHistory hashtag gained traction, with people mocking Trump's claim by editing him into photos of historical events like the lunar landing and the sinking of the Titanic.
You can choose between Duolingo for language cards, TinyHistory for historical events, TinyScience, TinyGeo and Chineasy, which Duolingo partnered with to bring its popular system for learning Chinese to Tinycards.
Or why our memories for feelings of significant historical events — like the O.J. Simpson murder trial — tend to reflect what we think today rather than what we felt back then.
We should thus be wary of any narrative on which historical events are straightforwardly explained by the fact that the people in any society hold whatever religious beliefs they do.
From June 19-22, families will want to check out Xtinguish Torch Fest, a series of cultural and historical events in parks along the river, from Cuyahoga Falls to Akron.
Although poets, landowners, chroniclers and others noted these historical events, manual record-taking can be imperfect and limited in geography, and they don't quantify their scale over the whole region.
Finally, tell us more about what you think: Are museums, memorials, special commemorative days, films and academic lessons in schools enough to preserve knowledge and memory of important historical events?
As I reported the story over many months, I often felt like I was living in Rashomon Congress: I was witnessing, close up, historical events from two entirely different perspectives.
Through the years, Freemasons earned a reputation as being part of a secret organization, leading to conspiracy theories that the group is behind many of the world's biggest historical events.
One from the backlist, Sequoia Nagamatsu's Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone is a collection of 12 fabulist tales inspired by Japanese folklore, historical events, and pop culture.
And since Bran's head is now too full of knowledge of historical events for there to be any room left for feelings, he absolutely could not give less of a shit.
In a way, this is the problem with making a TV series about historical events that directly interprets said events instead of loosely flirting with them (as, say, Boardwalk Empire did).
The biggest problem was the sheer cluelessness shown: The spot seemed to draw on a mish-mosh of recent and past historical events, some deadly and horrifying, and previous soda commercials.
We look at historical events and we take primary sources at face value but a lot of them are sensationalized and the events are described as really heroic or really dastardly.
Using cake as a sugary medium, Heimark creates dessert sculptures of these horrifying historical events as a statement about how they're commodified into media fodder and consumable forms of popular entertainment.
For all of the ardent protests on cable news and the Sunday shows about Trump's debasement of the office, journalists now judge historical events based on a scorecard he has devised.
The site Information is Beautiful is providing an invaluable service to the film-going public: the ability to be an insufferable know-it-all during films based on true historical events.
Movies based on historical events often employ dramatic license, which is an accepted practice, but can pay a price if those flourishes are deemed to have significantly distorted the central message.
Carry-On Derek Waters is the creator and star of the Comedy Central show "Drunk History," on which comedians attempt to recount and re-enact historical events while throwing back booze.
Early archaeologists, such as Heinrich Schliemann, who first excavated Troy and Mycenae, believed the "Iliad" recounted historical events and were quick to see proof of this in the artifacts they found.
Shan Tianfang, a storyteller whose energetic oral renditions of classical Chinese novels and historical events propelled the ancient pingshu tradition into the modern age for generations of Chinese, died on Sept.
Both of these other historical events are important to learn about, but because slavery was domestic and that is the topic we don't talk about as much, it raises some questions.
Chinese art is often framed as uniformly defined by select historical events, but such frameworks uphold erroneous presumptions and impose a cause-effect relationship that rejects multicultural sensitivities and personal reflections.
But the moves toward examining past abuses are so far limited to relatively small nations or countries where the focus is on historical events rather than the current use of torture.
Are you trying to make yourself the center focus of a place that has been home to pivotal historical events, or are you more of a wonderful and appreciative addition to it?
A mysterious user named _29MOTHER221HORSE21EYES9 (MHE) has been posting pieces of what appears to be a novel that draws heavily on historical events and religion, and show up in apparently random order.
Students will more and more immerse themselves in simulations of historical events, explore previously inaccessible places with their friends or visualize abstract concepts without ever having to step foot outside their classroom.
The most seismic change captured by the survey, from a theological standpoint, may be the declining number of people who said they believed the biblical story of Christmas accurately reflected historical events.
The problem, Loewen argued, was our impulse to turn historical events and figures into "moral examples," which usually involved whitewashing the past in order to reinforce a familiar story about American greatness.
Previous seasons have leaned on shared cultural knowledge like gory urban legends or well-known historical events, and a few have taken place in the present day, but none have ever done both.
Starz's lavish drama defies categorization — it blends real historical events with fantastical time-traveling fantasy, romance, psychological thrills and a smattering of the supernatural — which would probably be overwhelming in any other package.
Kohl, however, interpreted this not as a reflection of historical events but as a snub that indicated that, in the eyes of its Western allies, Germany was still a political and moral outlier.
Like its predecessor The White Queen, the series will portray real historical events, but from a female-centric angle — a refreshing break from the dude-led version you probably learned in history class.
"The redactions can detail historical events that Mr. Flynn has cooperated on or they could focus on ongoing efforts and what we call proactive cooperation that is still taking place today," Waxman said.
The movie presents Mr. Snowden — who appears in person in its final scene — in starkly heroic terms, mixing accurate re-creations of people, historical events and N.S.A. programs with exaggerated or invented ones.
For this contest, we are accepting drawings or illustrations, or a series of artworks, that offer commentary or criticism about current issues, political topics or historical events covered in The New York Times.
" Cleopatra, in its appeal, also argued that it had a First Amendment right to "produce and distribute a dramatic film depicting, describing and/or based upon true, historical events, as it sees fit.
At the time of writing, 3,752 people had liked her Instagram post, which recounts a raft of people, political concerns, discourses, and historical events that Leigh implicitly draws on to make her work.
At Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Md., he edited the school yearbook and, as a social studies project, produced "The Pear Press," a Times look-alike packed with coverage of historical events.
Then, challenge students to pair a song of their choosing with one or more Times articles and write an essay that explains the relationship between the song and the current or historical events.
Historical events, such as the murders of civil rights activist Medgar Evers and Emmett Till and the Freedom Riders' courageous bus rides in protest of segregation, are made more personal through Cassie's eyes.  
Hardcore History There's a lot of reasons why Hardcore History shouldn't work as a sleep aid, like its undeniably captivating host who immerses you in historical events with nothing more than his words.
The censor panel cleared the film late last year, suggesting modifications such as changing the name to "Padmaavat" from "Padmavati" to reflect that the source material was a poem, rather than actual historical events.
Mixing everyday anecdotes, clinical studies, historical events, and philosophical thought, Bloom demonstrates how empathy—or "empathic bias," to use his term—drives sexism, racism, and discrimination of all sorts, often triggering violence and war.
The situation in Turkey isn't isolated; it's part of a fault line of major historical events throughout the world that are causing humanism and humanity to crack under the pressure of capital and fantasy.
And so, in writing about historical events, authors tend to streamline, to throw out the pieces that don't add up, introducing new elements to enhance the narrative while clarifying the motivations of the players.
Still, he notes, his books are more inspired by historical events, such as the Hundred Years' War in 14th-century France and Great Britain and the War of the Roses that followed soon after.
It is interesting to learn, through actual historical events such as these, how seemingly benign dinners can lead to, in some cases, unexpected extemporaneous results and in others a still-unexpected but desired result.
It's up to the librarians to identify what's in each photograph, which range from historical events to candid behind-the-scenes shots, and from the documentation of rooms from administration to administration to decor.
Alias Grace, as an adaptation of a book that is itself a fictionalization of historical events, is passed though more filters than either of its peers—but it serves as something of a middle ground.
If you put in the right amount to work to create pictures, banners, titles, title histories, wrestlers, announcers, historical events, and so much more, the greater the illusion will be when you start the game.
In addition, scenes of war or historical events that "hurt the feelings of the Chinese people" or are "harmful to the unity and sovereignty of the country and its territorial integrity" will not be allowed.
The fact that Mahaney's team has been able to pick up this path is exciting enough on its own merits, but it also offers a lens through which to view historical events beyond Hannibal's crossing.
"The necessary step is the discussion — how to deal with these historical events from our modern point of view, what parts of our past we will honor, and see as an example for life today."
They can be understood against the background of Chile's history, both historical events and natural disasters, but they can also be loosened from these proceedings and seen in another way, as a kind of counterpoint.
I am an enormous fan of DKG because of her good-humored appearances on PBS and NBC, but mostly because she is a genius historian who helps put historical events into context for her readers.
In the same 2015 debate, the chair of the Arizona Historical Advisory Commission, Teresita Majewski, said that while "history is not always pleasant," it is the historical advisory commission's job to accurately depict historical events.
Tsutaja's anthropomorphic animals enable her to move closer to various historical events and look at them with a kind of innocence that allows her to place all kinds of disturbing information in front of the viewer.
For example, some are about historical events, others about pop culture, others about nature or science, and so on – they're not all that dissimilar from those you'd find in a game like Trivial Pursuit, in fact.
Historical events involving conflict, like the Great Fire of London, and peace-time events, like George Washington's speeches, take intense work alongside historians, archivists, National Park Service staff for US projects and other experts, Yigiter said.
"Historical events show that the mujahedeen of the Islamic State prevented the apostates from enjoying a single day of safety and security," the article says, in an ominous warning of what might be next for Iraq.
Full of noble heroes and pitched battles, Cha's stories were epic, featuring not just fantastical kung fu swordsmen who can fly and walk on water, but also complex characters and plots woven into dramatic historical events.
President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have compared the president&aposs expected impeachment and the impeachment inquiry to a host of dramatic historical events, including Pearl Harbor, the Salem witch trials, and Jesus&apos crucifixion.
This would prove that the event really occurred, so in 200 years one could not question the validity of the killing as some have to other historical events, such as conspiracy theories concerning the moon landing.
He was also much bolder than other philosophers in stating what many of them surely believed, that the Bible was a human document that contained no privileged information about historical events or the nature of divinity.
A state appeals court in California threw out the case in March 2018, ruling that allowing the litigation to proceed would interfere with the rights of authors and filmmakers to make creative works that dramatize historical events.
"I accept that previous laws, practices and policies deeply affected the lives of Aboriginal people and that police involvement in historical events has led to mistrust in law enforcement and the damaging of our relationship," Dawson said.
When he's not making Bourne movies, Greengrass has perfected reproducing the experience of deeply traumatic historical events (2002's Bloody Sunday, 2006's United 93, 63's Captain Phillips), and that skill is on ready display here.
Through tight control over its media and internet access, China has created the "Great Firewall" that prevents people living there from accessing certain websites or searching some historical events, like the protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989.
We don't often think about the reverberations of historical events such as these on visual culture, but as the book shows, visual culture both shapes and is shaped by culture at large, dramatically impacted by world events.
" In terms of mediums, Hinkle creates salient, eco-friendly ink and watercolor illustrations while also engaging in collaborations, performance art, and "projects that are intimate and based upon private experiences in relationship to historical events and contexts.
The genre of melodrama, which displays the grand, tragic passions that mark everyday lives while also detailing historical events that knock those lives out of joint, is close to the cinema's essence—its populist and documentary roots.
Mr. Obama's calls for transparency about the massacre played a prominent role in his presidential campaign, held up by him as an example of the type of sorely needed straight talk about foreign affairs and historical events.
"I think history is for all of us to discuss," he said, dodging the question of why the Labour Party should have chosen the Holocaust, of all historical events — and not slavery, say — to subject to scrutiny.
With "A Taxi Driver," the director Jang Hun ("The Front Line") takes historical events in South Korea — the imposition of martial law in 1980 by the dictator Chun Doo-hwan — to construct an affecting what-if tale.
He retired 211 years later, in 2002, as editorial director of book development, a post in which he inaugurated volumes on the best travel writing by Times reporters and anthologies of Times reportage on great historical events.
And I'm enough of a multiverse nerd that I started to become mildly obsessed with figuring out where Veep's universe and ours split, and why a few historical events seem to have still happened in both places.
Anne Frank's adolescence and images of concentration camp liberation were seared into American consciousness, but absent greater historical context the Holocaust quickly became an all-purpose symbol rather than a series of historical events to be reckoned with.
Capturing every angle of historical events like Stonewall is an impossible task, and it's hard not to see the instances where the book inevitably falls short, but its efforts remind readers of the complexity buried underneath dominant narratives.
When: February 16–May 3 Where: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (5905 Wilshire Blvd, Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles) At 113 years old, Luchita Hurtado has lived and experienced several lifetimes' worth of art movements and historical events.
The company envisions having a Bose AR device reenact historical events or speeches from landmarks and statues as you visit them, or get audio directions to your gate when your GPS detects that you've arrived at the airport.
And it would be in the Democratic Party's interest if Clinton served eight successful years in office, and then let historical events and demographic changes determine whether the party moves forward in a more progressive or centrist direction.
But when historical events seem to be the result of very, very close calls where it could have gone the other way very easily, it is easy to imagine that chance contingency could have played an important role.
But between ancient historians (an interesting moniker) exaggerated claims of Roman sadism and the Hollywood's sensational versions of semi-historical events, inaccuracies regarding Roman culture, and specifically Roman gladiator events, have become deeply entrenched in our cultural imagination.
READ MORE: How 'The Boys' comic book survived cancellation and inspired Amazon's new hit superhero TV seriesIn the novel, a character named Dr. Manhattan has God-like powers and his existence has a direct impact on historical events.
"Ding Dong" also suggests that in the face of world-historical events, chiefly climate change, nothing that happens in one evening at one outer-borough birthday party can possibly matter and it would be weird to pretend otherwise.
Maybe Odyssey will prove or disprove some of his wackier accounts of historical events and he'll serve a similar role to Charles Dickens in Syndicate, who was inspired by the player's adventures to write some of his stories.
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake detected near a known nuclear test site signaled that North Korea had probably conducted a fourth nuclear test, and that is what state TV told its audience, in the reverential tones saved for historical events.
The series, which debuted in 23 one week after the "Mad Men" midseason finale, shared that show's time slot as well as its workplace vibe, enigmatic antihero (here, Lee Pace from "Pushing Daisies") and intricate engagement with historical events.
In practice this means stuff like videos that make nonsense claims the earth is flat, or blatant lies about historical events such as the 9/11 terror attacks, or promote harmful junk about bogus miracle cures for serious illnesses.
The cops' fictional pursuit of the Red Queen intersects with historical events and there are some delightful real-life cameos here, particularly the portrait of a wry and courtly Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., then the ambassador to South Vietnam.
One initiative was a mandatory "National Education" program that opponents decried as pro-mainland propaganda, with historical events like the Tiananmen Square protests censored out of existence, and grades based in part on students' emotional displays of loyalty to the state.
On September 1, viewers who have slept through the Narcos phenomenon can get a taste of what makes Narcos so good: An intertwining of historical events and narrative, fascinating and morally ambiguous characters, and the violent business of the drug trade.
"With the cross-border operations we maintain in Syria, and also historical events happening in the area centered around Syria and Iraq, it became a must for Turkey to climb over the uncertainty as soon as possible," the president said.
Muscular political drama is an entire genre on the small screen, whether it's made up ("The West Wing" and all its thematic offspring) or based on historical events ("Game Change" and "Recount," both of which Mr. Roach also directed for HBO).
"We don't even have a front desk in the hotel lobby anymore," says Westbeld, adding that services such as checking in and out, and concierge inquiries about Singapore art, cultural and historical events are all handled directly by suite butlers.
Elsewhere in her artistic practice, Grullón performs re-enactments of politically charged historical events, most recently her April 13 re-enactment, at BRIC House in Brooklyn, of Texas Senator Wendy Davis's eleven-hour-long 2013 filibuster against a restrictive abortion bill.
We Wanted a Revolution coheres around significant historical events rather than a standard artist-centric group show design, meaning that the same artist is often represented in different areas throughout the show, dependent on which movements and moments they participated in.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The social upheavals that took place in Watts in 1965 and South Los Angeles in 1992 were more than simply historical events — they were profound experiences for the African-American communities that lived through them.
"That shows the impact that studying historical events can have on our society today," said Tim Kaiser, deputy director of the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, which served as an adviser for the study.
It's fine for many of the more well-known historical events here to serve as understated commentary on today's world, but the present-tense immersion in the proceedings means that complex social and political issues mostly pass by as background blur.
That may puzzle audiences expecting the kind of documentary that informs you in an ostensibly objective manner about historical events, or that guides you through what to feel; instead, Bisbee '17 leaves generous space and requires us as viewers to connect the dots.
The view from the other side That doesn't sit well with others, said Dr. Finnie Coleman, an English professor at the University of New Mexico who's teaching a course on the historical events that led up to the Black Lives Matter movement.
When Russian media photoshopped US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft into an event with opposition leaders last year, embassy staff immediately produced a series of parody images with Tefft on the moon and at other historical events in photos that went viral.
Along with being a famous landmark and tourist attraction, it has played host to countless religious ceremonies and historical events ... including the crowning of Henry VI of England in 1431 and the beatification of Joan of Arc by Pope Pius X in 1909.
Ultimately, though, this is a novel that strives to define a generation — the one known, ominously, as X — and it falters when Adams overreaches, struggling to establish her characters as representatives of their era, shaped by the historical events of their day.
As their lives are upended by World War I, the story explores "timeless conflicts of love and loyalty, conflicts that can be rendered even more consequential when they intersect with large-scale political and historical events," as our reviewer, Randy Boyagoda, wrote.
With the 2628th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion on June 28503, the Veterans History Project is uniquely able to make the "voices of those who were there" accessible to enliven shared history and shape common understanding about historical events like D-Day.
Though both Arendt's defenders and detractors are heard from, Ms. Ushpiz's film situates the Eichmann episode within a broad and rich portrait of an intellectual determined to use the tools of rationality to comprehend historical events that seem to defy all reason.
Celebrating its founding anniversary, a front-page editorial of the Saturday edition of North Korea's official Rodong Sinmun said the country should make "more high-tech Juche weapons to continuously bring about big historical events such as a miraculous victory of July 28.".
The Guardian has also reported on TikTok internal documents that directed platform moderators to censor "highly controversial topics" that were likely to anger the Chinese government — namely, videos criticizing China's stance on political policies and historical events, such as the Tiananmen Square protests.
In January, the video-sharing platform said it was making changes in the US to limit the spread of conspiracy theory content, such as junk science and bogus claims about historical events — following sustained criticism of how its platform accelerates damaging clickbait.
But his strongest work draws upon visual culture and its relationship with blackness, from ironic self-portraits — including one from 20133 titled "Monster" — to the visual representation of historical events, some of which may not be known to younger generations of Americans.
But his strongest work draws upon visual culture and its relationship with blackness, from ironic self-portraits — including one from 20133 titled "Monster" — to the visual representation of historical events, some of which may not be known to younger generations of Americans.
As his protagonist, a runaway slave named Cora, makes her way North on the railroad's various and unpredictable stops, readers are ushered through a series of harrowing experiences, each inspired by historical events, which remind them of the singularly disgusting machinery of slavery.
Few historical events have ever inspired such a sweeping common experience, and though Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the only humans to make that giant leap in person, millions of spectators vicariously imagined leaving those first dusty footprints on another world.
By covering the debate surrounding Caster Semenya, along with historical events concerning Polish sprinter Ewa Klobukowska and Indian sprinter Dutee Chand, this video explains why athletic officials have repeatedly failed in their attempt to establish definitive sex testing regulations for female competitors.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads COLUMBUS, Ohio — It is possible — tempting, even — to view historical events through a gauzy filter, once which lends a layer of abstraction to the fact that they took place in the same reality as the one we currently inhabit.
Using data from Kensho, a tool designed to quantify historical events; CNBC PRO ran a study to find out how stocks could react to a further slide in the 10-year yield, specifically by 0.4 percentage point, which would take the yield below 1 percent.
In addition to the relationship of the original Japanese-language versions of the poems to their translations, as well as the integration of historical events, interpretation of Gozo's poetry hinges on the "intertextuality" of the poems, as translator Jordan A. Yamaji Smith calls it.
Consisting of three movements scored mainly for solo soprano and strings, and libretti that repurpose folk texts concerning Polish religious culture and historical events, it's a post-modern, minimalist document of heart wrenching expressionism that calls for just under an hour of slow, mournful reflection.
"We live in an age of the commercialization of everything, so it just seems rather natural to me that in Washington you're going to have tourism around what is one of the great historical events in the life of the city," Mr. Bernstein said.
We tend to think of history as a done-and-dusted thing, but the people who are living through historical events don't know that they're going to end up on a textbook timeline, or as a theme for parties and fodder for Halloween costumes.
"Sontag" is an episodic journey of a life and a body of critical work that uncannily intersect with historical events of the 20th century, from the Vietnam War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the emergence of AIDS and the siege of Sarajevo.
"Sontag" is an episodic journey of a life and a body of critical work that uncannily intersect with historical events of the 20th century, from the Vietnam War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the emergence of AIDS and the siege of Sarajevo.
A year of real-world time is roughly equivalent to ten years of notional in-game time; at present, Arelith has some 120 in-universe years of recorded history, all of it made up of player-driven storylines spiralling out and becoming major historical events.
This affects how the show looks back at past historical events (like World War I, as we see in this episode) and what it will look like going forward with Robert Redford as president and paying reparations to descendants of the victims of the 1921 Tulsa massacre.
The new timeline will add context to important historical events, including conflicting interpretations of the war when appropriate, said Mark Franklin, a retired Army colonel who is the chief historian for the commemoration, a $5-million-a-year effort through 2018 to thank Vietnam War veterans.
Having been involved in one-half of the historical events covered in the book—the investigation and defense of the only person ever tried for the crime—I obtained most of the story, and all of the important pieces of it, when or shortly after it occurred.
Just a few months ago, The Guardian reported on TikTok internal documents that directed platform moderators to censor "highly controversial topics" that were likely to anger the Chinese government — namely, videos criticizing China's stance on political policies and historical events, such as the Tiananmen Square protests.
While the film plays out against China's tumultuous passage from feudalism to communism, Mr. Bertolucci conceded that his primary interest was less in historical events than in the psyche of his passive protagonist, who was re-educated during the Cultural Revolution and died a humble gardener.
With more than 1.5 million residents, Philadelphia, the largest city in Pennsylvania, was home to some of the most pivotal historical events in American history, including the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Second Continental Congress, and enjoys a scenic perch along the Delaware River.
The decision is the latest such call for name changes over the last decade, as community groups across Australia have voiced anger at names that they say are offensive either because they are overtly racist, or because of their portrayal of painful historical events that occurred there.
He told an interviewer in the journal "The Americas" in 2015 that comic strip superheroes and historical events like "rockets vaulting the English Channel" during World War II, and "then rockets on their way to the Moon and Mars," had seized his imagination when he was young.
In the Western forms of genres such as folk and rock, lyrics referring to witchcraft often commemorated specific historical events and figures, like the Salem witch trials (Rob Zombie's "American Witch", Marilyn Manson's "Cupid Carries a Gun") or ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley (David Bowie's "Quicksand", Iron Maiden's "Moonchild").
Since then, the Chinese government has increasingly curtailed what its citizens can or and can't do online by blacklisting websites and access to information about certain historical events — like the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square — and requiring people who use online forums to register with their real names.
Through this disparate selection of works, the viewer must discern the curator's idea of "performing the retrospective," which attempts to showcase different perspectives of the past with a strong emphasis on the atrocities of subjugation and repression in Taiwan and Korea, and Western representations of historical events in Africa.
A shroud of thousands of white shirts sewn together hung ominously from the ceiling, referencing both the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 in New York and the Rana Plaza collapses of 2013 in Bangladesh, two historical events that needlessly caused massive death and injury to garment industry workers.
He determined that the cause of this historical periodicity to be the result of the Sun's electromagnetic influence over the Earth—in particular, he linked the regular occurrence of historical events to the solar cycle, matching battles, riots and revolutions throughout world history with particularly strong solar flares.
The senator's request comes just a couple weeks after The Guardian reported on TikTok internal documents that directed platform moderators to censor content that was likely to anger the Chinese government — namely, videos criticizing China's version of political policies and historical events, such as the Tiananmen Square protests.
Five decades of historical events normally portrayed in black and white — from the Roaring Twenties to the Depression to the war era to Elvis and civil rights — are brought to life in a five-part series being promoted as one of the most ambitious colorizing projects ever undertaken.
In the time since, the Chinese government has increasingly curtailed what its citizens can or and can't do online by blacklisting websites and access to information about certain historical events — like the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square — and requiring people who use online forums to register with their real names.
Neiss' project comes right after reports that President Donald Trump would issue an executive order restricting refugee visas from several Middle Eastern countries, but Neiss explains that his primary goal is to raise awareness for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and he cautioned against drawing parallels between current and historical events.
Featuring 750043 chronologically displayed masterful works, including Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Gertrude Stein" (1906) and Fernand Léger's "The Wedding" (1911-12), the exhibition makes an argument for Cubism as a revolutionary movement with a far-reaching influence on architecture, literature, philosophy, and the art historical events of Futurism, Dada and Suprematism.
As its subtitle indicates, this jocular, fact-filled volume imagines what it would be like to witness or participate in various historical events, complete with tips on where to eat, what to wear, what the weather will be like, where to stay and how dire the bathroom situation will be.
We hear less than we might like about major literary or historical events: a dinner with T. S. Eliot and Stephen Spender in London, or her Tuesday-afternoon classes at B.U. with Robert Lowell, or drinks afterward with Anne Sexton and George Starbuck at the Ritz bar in Back Bay.
Much in the way that the immersive qualities of Hamilton and the familiar style of the play's hip hop soundtrack have made people empathize with centuries-old historical figures, Google is hoping that its virtual reality Expeditions program can cause students to more easily identify with historical events by taking on different viewpoints.
In addition to changing the way search results are organized, the company says it will begin providing information from third parties such as Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica for videos about a small number of historical events that have been subject to misinformation campaigns, such as the Apollo moon landings and Oklahoma City bombing.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Baneful Medicine, currently on view at the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College, posits two historical events as the exhibition's conceptual foundations: Joseph Mengele's experiments on human beings at Auschwitz and the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments in Alabama during the early-to-mid 20th century.
Narcos The trouble with adapting biographies or historical events into a fictional narrative is that real life doesn't unfold in a neat three-act structure — it lurches and wheezes through bursts of activity and stretches where little of consequence happens and it doesn't usually end how a dramatist would prefer to write it.
Mr. Beloufa's contribution — "The Enemy of My Enemy" — consisted largely of artifacts related to war and to other horrific historical events, like the My Lai massacre and the bombing of Hiroshima, arranged on platforms that were constantly moved around the space by small robots, similar to those used by Amazon in its warehouses.
What's more, tying these big, historical events to our fictional characters allows us to observe a secret history of the world we already know — what if Gorbachev's enemies failed to bring him down because of Oleg, or Philip telling Kimmy to stay in Greece, or any of a number of other options?
Runtime: one hour Debuted: Monday, October 3, at 10 pm on NBC Timeless essentially makes time travel the basis for a crime procedural, with a crack team composed of a professor, a scientist, and a military operative regularly going back in time to stop a shady criminal (Goran Visnjic) from rewriting crucial historical events.
"I don't care who you are, these subjects involve all of us as a society and in a world where we can't remember what we had for lunch yesterday, uncomfortable social and historical events are often too quickly pushed and filed away in the recesses of our busy minds and forgotten," says the artist.
With three works from the 703s and five from the first decade of the 21st century, this exhibition samples the amazing range of Dial's work in his final decades, when he became more cognizant of mainstream art styles without losing touch with either his roots or the historical events that often fueled his art.
It is clear that for him — and presumably for much of his audience — ideas of biblical and historical events in Palestine were shaped fundamentally by paintings and prints and other representations circulating widely at the time: old master paintings of St. Veronica, "fanciful pictures of Belshazzar's feast," steel engravings of women at a well.
It's her fidelity to the story and the ordinary people swept up in historical events — particularly victims of the "evil stupidity" of nations at war, the "lies and chicanery" of statecraft and the global propaganda machine — that make Gellhorn's novel "A Stricken Field" (1940) essential reading for the political moment we're living through today.
Set in west Africa and based on historical events surrounding an all-female military unit that fought to protect the Kingdom of Dahomey from the French in the 18th and 19th centuries, the film has a potent mix of clear plot, black heroes and as many gorgeous warrior women as you can shake a stick at.
Brown's death and the deaths of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Alton Sterling, and many others are the obvious, continuing present-day context for the historical events Detroit depicts, but they're also looming reminders that Bigelow and Boal hardly had to go back 50 years to find a significant incident of police brutality against black victims.
But what might be more troubling is the shellacking that American business is being subjected to now, much of it based on a bad-faith exploitation of world-historical events that business didn't have that much to do with (and by "business" I don't mean "finance" — the two have separated in their priorities since the 1980s).
The problem is that all these data points never connect to form an illuminating portrait; the book does not open out to become the sort of resonant narrative that Robert A. Caro and Ron Chernow have pioneered, in which momentous historical events are deftly recreated, and a subject's life is situated in a time and a place.
Many of them then served in the Finnish military until the end of World War II. A copy of Friday's report was given to Paula Lehtomaki, a state secretary with the Finnish government, who said it was a valuable contribution to existing research "on difficult and significant historical events" during Finland's complex World War II history.
With a focus on art driven by crisis, the Yokohama Museum of Art, and the two well chosen historical venues — the Red Brick Warehouse No. 20173, and the Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall — displays most of the works in which artists mine current and historical events to level indictments as well as reappraise the precariousness of contemporary conditions.
On Monday, October 20, the organization announced that it was indefinitely postponing the gathering, sending out an announcement by email and on its website that read in part: Artistic and cultural institutions and initiatives are in no way isolated from broader civic, political, economic, and ideological contexts, but rather shaped as a result of and in response to historical events and their repercussions.
There's an expectation of accuracy that comes with depicting historical events, especially an event as iconic and globally known as World War II. But beyond the accuracy of the uniforms, the architecture of the environment, and the make of the guns, there's another accuracy that's even more important—how those guns felt, and what it was like to handle and fire them.
But in making the cyclorama one of many formal elements in the work, treating it as a kind of medium interacting with the paper, rope, and paint that surround and obscure it, Bradford appears interested less in history as it really was and more in how historical events are mediated by later interpretations, entailing certain forms of complicity and partiality.
Other than shared roots in Romanticism, the only thing these three seem to have in common is that Jaeggy is the Italian translator of both De Quincey's "The Last Days of Immanuel Kant" and Schwob's "Imaginary Lives," two books that take an elliptical approach to biography, less interested in historical events than in rendering the tone of a life, its uniqueness.
Where once a television set was our primary gateway to unfolding events in the world, the ability to follow live events more or less in real time via social media feeds has downgraded the necessity of a networked TV. Gone are the days when a united culture gathered around a TV set to view footage of historical events as they were unfolding.

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