The phrase "a recent display of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a recent exhibition or demonstration of something, often in the context of behavior, skills, or artistic expression.
Example: "The artist's latest exhibition was a recent display of her innovative techniques and creativity."
Alternatives: "a recent exhibition of" or "a recent demonstration of".
The popular revulsion over extortion has become so powerful that the New People gang, a rival battling the Zetas, took pains during a recent display of grisly hubris to distance itself from the practice.
My female friends and colleagues, online and off, have been bleakly unimpressed this weekend by a recent display of bland and worldly impenitence from Bernardo Bertolucci about how he created the "butter" scene in the 1972 film Last Tango in Paris, starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider.
The contest at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday night was a chance for the two Democratic candidates to assure voters hungry for transcendence that they didn't hate each other and wouldn't wreck the moment; any recent displays of pique or bad blood should be forgiven, or swept under the rug.
David Kernis Trumbull, Conn., Jan . 9 2008 To the Editor: Re "Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House?," by Maureen Dowd (column, Jan . 9: Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent display of an emotion other than steely resolve and the obsessive dissection and derision of it left me feeling confused.
And for some it may also serve as a slyly invigorating antidote to the Guggenheim's recent display of Norman Rockwell's pallid paintings.
Under its director, Ronald Crusan, the museum leads an active life, mounting 8 to 12 shows a year, not all, to be sure, as large as the recent display of Surrealist-oriented contemporary works from the holdings of Arthur S. Goldberg, a Boston collector.
(A number of ironists appear to have found the recent display of adoration for the monarchy so excruciating that they have responded by creating commentaries that could almost be considered treasonous).
The most recent display of these attitudes comes from the heart of England, where a group of 50 protesters, equipped if not armed with ceremonial knives, disrupted a wedding in a Sikh temple between a Sikh woman and her chosen Hindu groom.
Her response was only the most recent display of her remarkable resolve.
Or Nascar's recent display of racecars; videos of the event have been viewed on YouTube more than 1,800 times.
Take the recent display of public toilets set up by Charmin bathroom tissue: Used by thousands in Times Square and viewed by 7,400 Web users on one site alone.
