Jerry Yang

Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.

American Businessman

George Woodcock

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

Canadian Writer

Erik Larson

In hunting ideas for books, I look for stories about long-past events that once commanded the world's attention but that, for one reason or another, faded from contemporary awareness.

American Author

Emma Donoghue

I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work, so please give us more historicals.

Irish Playwright

Giles Deacon

I go to contemporary galleries all around the world when I can. There's always something historical and something contemporary; those are my rock references.

British Designer

Joseph Campbell

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Hilton Als

In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential.

American Writer

Marco Bizzarri

Gucci has always represented great design and contemporary lifestyle.

Italian Businessman

Forest Whitaker

Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

American Actor

John Eaton

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

American Composer

Refers to people or things that exist during a specific period, emphasizing current relevance.

Time Relevance

Use 'contemporary' to connect individuals or events with the same historical period.

Historical Context

When discussing art, music, or literature, it highlights the creation time's spirit or style.

Cultural Connection

Emphasizes a style or design that aligns with what is fashionable and recent.

Current Style

In arts, 'contemporary' often contrasts with 'classical' or traditional styles.

Not Classical

'Contemporary' can be vague — newly created or just fitting current styles.

Ambiguity in Timing

Highlights individuals coexisting in a particular time, whether famous or not.

Shared Era

Contemporaries may share an era but not necessarily know each other.

Not Necessarily Friends

Don't confuse 'contemporary' (noun) with 'colleague'; not all contemporaries work together.

Common Misuse

 We go to museums to see art from the ages, but our experience of it there is drastically removed from the context in which it was originally intended to be seen. It might be said that the modern viewer lacks the richness of engagement that she has with contemporary art, which has been created relevant to her time

A brief history of...

 Including more people in more ways is what causes economic growth in market economies. The third principle is the purpose of the corporation is not merely to enrich shareholders. The greatest grift in contemporary economic life is the neoliberal idea that the only purpose of the corporation

The dirty secret of...

 While criticized at the time by their respective governments for bargaining with the enemy, contemporary historical analysis shows great admiration for Kennedy's and Khrushchev's ability to diplomatically solve the crisis. But the disturbing lesson was that a slight communication error,

The history of the Cuban...

 can influence how we feel. When we talk about heartbreak, the feeling of brokenness becomes part of our experience, where as in a culture that talks about a bruised heart, there actually seems to be a different subjective experience. Some contemporary thinkers aren't interested

 also added to its intrigue and growing base of followers. The question of space and ownership is central to graffiti's history. Its contemporary evolution has gone hand in hand with counterculture scenes. While these movements raised their anti-establishment voices,

Is graffiti art? Or...

 The last hundred years have seen an incredible proliferation of devices that help you listen to the same thing again and again. Records, cassettes, CDs, or streamed audio files. Have these technologies bread some kind of unique, contemporary experience,

Earworms: Those songs...

 believed was important about the process of telling stories of building worlds on stage frustrated I went and I spoke to one of my friends and mentors playwright William yellow robe about it one of the fathers of contemporary native theatre

Language is the building...

 imagining a world where certain trends in contemporary society are taken to extremes, exposing their underlying flaws. And the next few centuries would provide plenty of material. Industrial technology that promised to free laborers

How to recognize a...

 being able to eat pretty well anything was by no means the basic condition of mammals the very first of them contemporaries of the dinosaurs small insignificant creatures had such tiny

Prehistoric Mammals PIPE...

 had lived there uninterruptedly for 80 thousand years this is a picture of ancient aboriginal life and this is a picture of contemporary Aboriginal

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