Sentence examples for artist protest from inspiring English sources

George Brandis has threatened the withdrawal of commonwealth funding for the Sydney Biennale festival for "blackballing" Transfield Holdings after it severed ties with the company because of an artist protest over its contract work on an offshore detention centre.

"I have children, I had to leave," the artist protested.

Ms. Bausch was not just a green artist protesting the desecration of the environment (though that was a powerful element in her works) or a feminist depicting the opposition between women's pain and their social conformism (though that was evident) or an expressionist emitting rage at aspects of the socio-political status quo (though the intensity of that feeling was unmistakable).

By Tuesday morning, at least seven of the 10 ads had been altered by a street artist protesting AFDI's message.

Other window displays by a number of artists protest at corporate greed and art-world corruption.

The Israeli artists' protest began with the publication of the theater program for the 2010-2011 showing showing that five major Israeli theater companies were scheduled to perform.

Other modern works by other artists protest American militarism, the local military dictatorships of the 1970's and 1980's and the impersonality of contemporary life.

Mr Netanyahu, who flies to Washington for the talks tomorrow, raised the artists' protest at the weekly meeting of his cabinet and declared that Israel was facing a campaign from "elements" abroad to "delegitimise" Israel.

The artists' protest awakened internal debate in Israel over the legitimacy of the Jewish settlements, while the Palestinian government condemned the sermon delivered by the influential rabbi on Saturday in which he described the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, as "evil" and called on God to strike "these Ishmaelites and Palestinians with a plague; these evil haters of Israel".

Irini Spanidou's new novel, "Before," is set in New York City in the 1970s, a time when SoHo was still a dangerous neighborhood, lofts were occupied by starving artists, protest marches were about Vietnam, and self-styled radicals subscribed to Ramparts magazine and listened to the Velvet Underground.

At the end of the closed session it was suggested by Adolph Gottlieb that the assembled artists protest the conservative bias of the jury for the upcoming competition at the Metropolitan.