Sentences with phrase «hunt is the curator»

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Spend summer learning about moths, butterflies - Daily Herald - July 20, 2016 In the field and on the hunt for the Baltimore checkerspot, Chief Curator Doug Taron from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Chicago Academy of Sciences, described his work with an extensive collaborative project led by Chicago Wilderness that is targeting 12 animal species to be restored to the Midwest prairies, forests and rivers.

«Our recent work has demonstrated that we can determine what mammals are in a protected area without hunting, without trapping, without the use of scat or hair samples, and especially without camera traps - all of which are problematic methods for one reason or another,» said study author Mark Siddall, a curator in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out - of - shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world's artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners.

When astro - archeologist and museum curator Dr. Lexa Carter discovers a secret map to a lost old Earth treasure — a priceless Fabergé egg — she's excited at the prospect of a treasure hunt to the dangerous desert planet of Zerzura.

Throughout the day there will be art - making activities, a scavenger hunt, curator tours of the new exhibitions, free ice cream from the Stone Fox Creamery Truck, and live music by family - friendly Gent Treadly!

Because EXPO is known as a place for the Midwest's curators to hunt for upcoming exhibition fodder, the folks at David Zwirner made sure to bring a slate of first - class works by artists ranging from Isa Genzken to Flavin and Judd.

Resnick was once described as a «Monet for the nuclear age,» and as exhibition curator Amy Brandt asks, is this canvas the quick rush of a hunter through a forest or the pounding heartbeat of the hunted?

Randall Griffey, an associate curator at the Met who was involved in the acquisition with the help of the Alexandre Gallery in Manhattan, said he and Sheena Wagstaff, who leads the museum's modern and contemporary department, had long been trying to build on the Met's strength in early - 20th - century works on paper by African - American artists and were on the hunt for major paintings.

When the curator Franklin Sirmans was hunting for inspiration for the third edition of Prospect New Orleans, the quasi-biennial group show of contemporary artists that founder Dan Cameron designed to sprawl across the Big Easy, he looked to a literary beacon: Walker Percy's National Book Award - winning novel The Moviegoer.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 / The hunt for great art was on for Nasher Museum curators in Miami last week.