Sentences with phrase «museum on a monumental scale»

The unique placement, dimensions, and scale of the Atrium Gallery provide a compelling challenge to the chosen artist - a call to reinvention and active collaboration with the architecture of the Museum on a monumental scale.

The unique placement, dimensions and scale of the Atrium Gallery will challenge the artists, a call to reinvention and active collaboration with the architecture of the museum on a monumental scale.

Not exact matches

The exhibition features 31 works including monumental and small - scale pieces installed throughout the sculpture park and museum, and is focused on a new commission that resurrects Deacon's 1993 work Never Mind, which has been re-fabricated in stainless steel.

Gagosian's monumental Richard Serra exhibition, which has been going on since October, looks like a museum show and by its very scale defies any possibility that someone would buy something so gargantuan.

«Black Block» Is Newest Brooklyn Buy — So taken is the Brooklyn Museum with their current exhibition of large - scale sculptures by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, that the institution has decided to purchase «Black Block,» an unusually monochromatic wall hanging comprised of everyday materials, which is currently on display in the institutions's current show, «Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui» and will be traveling to museums in Des Moines, Miami Beach San Diego once the exhibition ends in August.

It provides Zeitz MOCAA the ability to commission and exhibit monumental interventions on a scale never before seen in a public museum in Africa.

Like his masters, Thomas Struth shot one - point perspective of empty, unpopulated scenes, sometimes of the streets in Düsseldorf, and later in his career made pictures on a monumental scale: The photos in his museum series are as big as the paintings they depict.

Other ambitious, memorable projects Ms. Pasternak oversaw during her two decades at the high - profile organization include Kara Walker's monumental sugar sphinx sculpture, A Subtlety, at the Domino Sugar Factory, and Doug Aitken's large - scale film projection Sleepwalkers on the side of the Museum of Modern Art, among many others.

Richard Deacon, Some Time, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp Comprised of 31 works of both monumental and smaller scale, Some Time refers to the temporary nature of Richard Deacon's work and focuses on the theme of «variations» — a trademark of the British artist's practice.

In recent years Wood's distinctive still lifes have taken on a monumental scale, covering the facade of Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and stretching over the Highline in New York.

A monumental event, the African American museum finally opened on the National Mall last Saturday with a grand - scale ceremony featuring President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

We're tough around here, and we can take it if someone's talking behind our backs: Hilton Kramer, testy art critic for the New York Observer, came to San Francisco on «other business,» he writes, but managed to stop in at the Museum of Modern Art, where he glanced at the Gerhard Richter show (which he'd «already suffered through at MoMA in New York») and looked both at the permanent collection (early Matisses «remain, in my opinion, SFMOMA's principal aesthetic asset») and the Ellsworth Kelly exhibition («What could be more personal than the persistent, unvarying project of self - abnegation on a monumental scale that we observe in his own most ambitious abstractions?»

The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.