Sentences with phrase «museum as an archive»

Restaging the exhibition at the Jewish Museum offers the occasion to rethink the role of the museum as an archive.

Restaging this exhibition at the Jewish Museum, a collecting institution with holdings that span centuries, offers occasion to rethink the role of the museum as an archive.

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Danish toymaker Lego recently opened a new amusement park / museum / archive in Billund, Denmark, called Lego House, which pays homage to the iconic plastic brick in both function and form: the entire structure uses the same proportions as the toy version, making it appear to be something you could really snap together.

The Mass Audubon Museum of American Bird Art has presented two exhibitions of his work, in 2000 and 2011, and owns more than 30 Clem artworks, as well as his archive, including correspondence and photographs.

Although records are sparse, New York State's museum archives can document at least six Erie County residents who served in the all - black 369th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed by the Germans of WWI as the «Harlem Hellfighters.»

He served as the north eastern chairman of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, 2002 - 08.

The team applied the technique to cross sections from 14 mature hawksbill shells provided by museums and archives, as well as law enforcement agencies that had confiscated them from traffickers.

The method was previously used on human organs as an anatomy study aid for medical students, and has since been adopted to digitally archive artifacts such as ancient pottery and prehistoric skulls so that students and researchers can interact with otherwise rarely handled specimens from museum collections.

Brown was quite the roué, as the museum's archives reveal.

As paleontologists with access to the archives of the American Museum of Natural History, we have a unique opportunity to look back a century later on his discovery of the world's most famous dinosaur.

«We are able to go back in time and analyze archived museum earplug samples that were harvested in the 1950s and examine critical issues such as the effects of pollution, use of sonar in the oceans and the introduction of specific chemicals and pesticides in the environment over long periods of time,» Usenko said.

Special Award: Brattle Theater, on its 100th anniversary, «for maintaining the tradition of revival film programming in the Boston area and for its commitment to quality prints and projection» (the Globe's language, not necessarily the BSFC's) Special Award: The Coolidge Corner Theater Foundation and Friends in Support of the Somerville Theater, «for their efforts to preserve historic theaters as sites for alternative film programming» (ditto) Best Discovery or Rediscovery: The Great Rock»n' Roll Swindle (Temple), The Dybbuk (Waszynski), Coonskin (Bakshi), restored Lawrence of Arabia (Lean), Carnival of Souls (Hervey) Best Film Series: The West Rides Again (Museum of Fine Arts), The Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer (MFA), The Boston Jewish Film Festival (MFA), The Films of Anna Magnani (MFA), and The Films of John Cassavetes (Harvard Film Archive)

In order to ready himself to play Reynolds Woodstock, he studied the lives of designers, learnt to sew, watched archive footage of 1950s fashion shows, consulted with the Victoria & Albert Museum's curator of fashion, apprenticed for a time under the head of costumes at the New York City Ballet and created his own couture dress from scratch using his wife, Rebecca Miller, as a model.

Review: Nationally known scholars, master teachers and education specialists, as well as museums and various archives, regularly contribute articles to NCHE, making it a tremendous resource for history educators.

Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12 This online exhibit features the Lakota Winter Counts from the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives and National Museum of the American Indian as well as other general information about the culture and history of the Lakota.

This included national programmes such as Take One Picture and its new sister programme, Take One..., which is delivered by regional museums, galleries and archives.

She specializes in the cultural and political history of Vietnam, print culture, and knowledge institutions such as libraries, archives, schools, and museums.

Dig deep enough at locations such as the US Archives, Yad Vashem, The US Holocaust Museum and many other significant international resources and you will discover plentiful, comprehensive records about the Nazi genocide of the Jews.

Jeanette has worked as a historian for over 20 years, in the BC Archives and the Campbell River Museum.

This website includes information about the Chumash people's daily lives, as well as resources archived by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

They are in part the results of research by Museum scientists and in turn serve as a vast research archive for ongoing investigations.

However, garments and other elements of this extraordinary archive will be permanently on display at the Museum as part of their Collections showcase series.

But the conservation of physical items is every bit as important as digitizing them, so we work closely with the major video game museums and archives to make sure artifacts have permanent homes.

While recreating aircraft, we used recently de-classified documents from the Central Archives of Russian Ministry of Defense as well as other archives from museums all over the world, allowing us to achieve the highest level of aArchives of Russian Ministry of Defense as well as other archives from museums all over the world, allowing us to achieve the highest level of aarchives from museums all over the world, allowing us to achieve the highest level of accuracy.

[As a guest GSW article, professor and exhibit advisor Stephen Jacobs was nice enough to fill us in on the opening of a dedicated video game exhibit in New York state at the Strong Museum Of Play, including a host of excellent resources and archives from the history of gaming, from arcade machines to historical artifacts and beyond.]

The museum and database serve as an archive of artwork and information on the series itself.

For his 2011 exhibition «Create,» Lawrence Rinder, director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, collaborated with organizations that support disabled artists, such as San Francisco's Creativity Explored, Oakland's Creative Growth Art Center, and Richmond's NAID Art Center, home base for JTT artist Mullen.

Zaha Hadid recently purchased the museum's current building to use as an archive of her studio's architecture.

His works have also been shown at places such as Participants Inc., New Museum, Anthology Film Archive in New York, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Selected solo and group exhibitions include Archive As Impetus at The Museum Of Modern Art; Underscore at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; and Radical Presence at The Studio Museum in Harlem among many others.

Her videos have been screened at venues such as Anthology Film Archives, New York (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2015); Images Festival, Toronto (2015); and The New York Film Festival (2014).

From 2004 to 2005, Zuckerman served as the Chair of the Art Curatorial Department at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and from 1999 to 2005, as the institution's Phyllis Wattis MATRIX Curator.

Selected solo and group exhibitions for 2013 - 2014 include Archive As Impetus at The Museum Of Modern Art; Underscore at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Open at David Castillo Gallery; Rehearsals at The Savannah College Of Art and Design; and Radical Presence at The Studio Museum in Harlem among many others.

Prior to his retirement as Chief of Library and Museum Archives at The Museum of Modern Art (1999 — 2016), Milan R. Hughston was a librarian at the Amon Carter Museum from 1979 to 1999.

In addition to the CCS Bard Galleries and the newly inaugurated Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard houses the Marieluise Hessel Collection of more than 2,000 contemporary works, as well as an extensive library and curatorial archive that are accessible to the general public.

In addition to the CCS Bard Galleries and the Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard houses the Marieluise Hessel Collection of more than 2,000 contemporary works, as well as an extensive library and archive that are accessible to the general public.

Prior to ICP she worked in the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art, as well as arts foundations and artist archives.

Seven reel - to - reel and 20 cassette tapes, all with various enticing descriptions such as «Letter to Rothko, and «Letter to Greenberg,» some dating as early as 1949, were found in the Clyfford Still Museum archives inside a small gray box with the inscription Still Audio Tapes.

In 1974 they founded Art Metropole, Toronto, a distribution center and archive for artists» books, audio, video, and multiples, which they conceived as the shop and archive for their Gesamtkunstwerk: The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, a kind of meta - museum.

After attending the San Francisco Art Institute (then known as the California School of Arts), Wiley, along with Robert Hudson, Bruce Nauman, Robert Arneson, and Roy DeForest, among others, formed the Bay Area Funk movement, which gained national notoriety after the infamous «Funk Art» exhibition in 1967 at the University Art Museum in Berkeley (now the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive).

Visit the Conservatory Gallery to see Isamu Noguchi: The Transformation of Nature, a selection of rare photographs from The Noguchi Museum's archives relating to Noguchi's vision of public spaces and his work as a garden, park, and playground designer.

«Black Chronicles II makes the archive, which is often viewed as a static place for researching the past, come alive,» said Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Ph.D., director of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.

Clyfford Still and the San Francisco Scene, 1946 — 1950 also includes materials culled from the Clyfford Still Museum Archives, such as Still's teaching materials, photographs, and correspondence related to these and other artists active in San Francisco at this time.

Culled from the artist's archive of hundreds of color slides originally shot using Ektachrome film (which Kodak discontinued in 2013), Harris initially presented selections from his archive publicly as digital projections at Yale University, as well as in conjunction with the exhibition Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art at New York University's Grey Art Gallery and the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2013 - 14.

In addition to pivotal works by Noguchi, the exhibition illuminates his relationships through personal photographs, exhibition - related ephemera and correspondence from The Noguchi Museum Archive, as well as sculptures, paintings and drawings by those who influenced his artistic practice.

Co-organized by the Menil Collection and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Silence takes a multimedia approach to understanding the ways contemporary visual and sonic artists such as John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Doris Salcedo, and Christian Marclay have practiced withdrawal as a response to the complications and multiplicities of contemporary life.

CSMRC Fellows will have an opportunity to access materials from the CSM archives and art collection, as well as other collections, including materials from two adjacent institutions, the Denver Public Library (DPL) and the Denver Art Museum (DAM).

A subsequent presentation of archive selections as projected images with accompanying musical mash - up took place at the Guggenheim Museum's «Past Tense / Future Perfect» performative event, produced to accompany the exhibition Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video.

The Albright - Knox's Archives include the official records of the museum's governing body, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, as well as special collections of archival material, including the Natalie and Irving Forman Papers and Clyfford Still Photo - Documentation.

Kasper Pincis studied at Camberwell College of Art, Goldsmiths, and the Royal Academy Schools, and his work has been shown nationally and internationally, being acquired by collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (Miami, Florida).