HOUSTON — Years before he stood on the sideline, Brad Stevens stood on a stage in St . Petersburg Fla., speaking about employee compensation to a gathering of almost 400 of his co-workers from Eli Lilly.
What began as a news conference by protest organizers on Monday afternoon in the Square of the Unknown Soldier unexpectedly developed into a gathering of almost 1,000 people.
On Sunday, as part of a two-hour presentation about Keystone XL at Power Shift, a gathering of almost 8,000 mostly college-age climate activists, organizers also encouraged local groups to make "climate time capsules".
CORALVILLE, Iowa — As Rick Santorum pondered something almost unthinkable a couple of weeks ago — a respectable finish in the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday — he urged a gathering of about three dozen potential voters to resist the impulse to play it safe.
In 1913, the historian Charles Beard dismissed the whole affair as a gathering of wealthy men, almost half of them slaveholders, scheming to preserve and enhance their economic power.
At first glance "Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings From the Blanton Museum of Art," at the Grey Art Gallery, looks like a dreary affair: a gathering of little-known draftsmen, almost all of them beholden to the Academy.
(Smith) 'Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings From the Blanton Museum of Art' / 'French Art From N.Y.U.'s Collection' (through July 14) At first glance this show looks like a dreary affair: a gathering of little-known draftsmen, almost all of them beholden to the Academy.
This gathering of almost 300 quilts was hung on both sides of a display wall that ran the width of a huge convention center, and it drew the silent attention of the thousands who attended.
Now you could view this mass gathering of almost 200 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures as resounding proof of Gauguin as the pioneer modernist, his statuesque Tahitians forefathers to Picasso's early figures, his tendrils and curlicues twining their way through Matisse, his wild and dissonant colours a palette for the fauves.
Sunspots, bubbles, a gathering of enigmatic scintillae, something that might almost be a bird taking flight that becomes, in turn, an uplifting shadow on the wall: there is a filigree finesse to Calder's late works.
And yet, Chekhov's ending cuts like a scythe anew as it almost always does in a play about a gathering of people forever calibrating their own happiness only to realize that they inhabit something close to hell.
