Sentences with phrase «u.s. public art commission»

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No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries or hospitals into arms of ~ he state or employees «on the public payroll» [Walz v. Tax Commission, 397 U.S. 644, 1970].

Thomas is a member of the Public Design Commission for the city of New York and has exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad including at The International Center of Photography, Public Art Fund and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France; and Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, among others.

Women like Teresita Fernández, often known for large - scale, public sculptures (and as the first Latina to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, as appointed by President Obama), or Jacqueline Woodson, author of the best - selling memoir Brown Girl Dreaming and winner of the 2014 National Book Award.

MFAH is the only U.S. museum to present the Rothko exhibition, which culls the extensive Rothko holdings of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Houston, as it happens, is home to the Rothko Chapel, one of the Rothko's most renowned public commissions.

Fernández, who was invited by President Obama to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in 2011, most recently delivered an ambitious public art project at Madison Square Park, installing a canopy of golden, mirror - polished discs reaching in six sections to a total of five - hundred feet length.

Her work is held in private collections in the U.S., has been commissioned for permanent, large - scale public art projects, and has been exhibited in galleries, museums, and public venues throughout New York.

She has also produced many public art commissions throughout the U.S., focusing on large - scale mosaic murals.

Her work has been featured in museums, private collections and public commission spaces, in Canada and the U.S. Todd divides her time between Troy, New York, and Montreal, where she teaches in the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University.

In 1981, Serra's 120 - foot - long and 12 - foot high Titled Arc (1981, destroyed), commissioned by the Arts - in - Architecture program of the U.S. General Services Administration and installed in Federal Plaza, New York City, incited a national controversy and a lingering and fiery discussion was sustained throughout the 1980s and 90s regarding public art.