It was too transparently desperate — unlike the pricey frivolity, backed by real artistic command, of our own Jeff Koons.
For Witz, using actual names and case histories brings the conceptual to painfully full light, and his well-known artistic command of light in these photo-realistic works gives these individuals an opportunity to step out from the shadows.
Dillon Dewaters see's his photographs as installations and much of his artistic process commands erasing and assembling.
Of Connecticut's high visibility Tony Award winning regional theaters -- Goodspeed has won two -- this is the only one to last under the same artistic and producing command, that of Michael Price.
The daughter of an oil-rich Osage Indian (she had the cheekbones to prove it) and a Scotch-Irish woman, she more or less epitomized what her contemporaries regarded as our national history, and her artistic virtues — grandeur, command — were exactly those that Americans of that period, the height of the Cold War, wanted to believe were specifically American traits.
The fundamental problem was that the fetish lost its power to command artistic production once The Pill and the resultant Sexual Revolution overtook the conservative moral climate of the 1960s.
That's why, when the part clicks, Schwartzman almost seems like the director's co-auteur — the role in question inevitably involves the depiction of creative command and artistic imagination, and the performance inevitably suggests a metaphorical representation of the director's own role.
When LACMA trustees failed to find a traditional director after a lengthy search, they decided to split the position, with Rich as president and chief executive officer, and a yet-to-be-hired artistic director as second in command.
He became the ensemble's second-in-command, supervising its artistic policy and political line with Brecht's widow.
Beginning in the late 16th century, collectors demonstrated their command over the natural and artistic worlds in the cabinet of curiosities — a room, a set of shelves or even (yes) a box displaying whatever caught the collector's fancy.
So we are searching for people who have high respect in the artistic community, who have the ability to command the leadership of a very complex set of galleries and relationships internally in the UK and outside".
