Sentences with phrase «acquire contemporary artworks»

A gift of one million Deutsche Marks ($ 645,000)-- given by the Daimler - Chrysler firm Debis in 1999 for the Hamburger Bahnhof to acquire contemporary artworks — simply «disappeared.»

Not exact matches

The partnership forges new territory in co-commissioning and acquiring exceptional artwork to build a collection of Chinese contemporary art at the University of Salford.

High Anxiety: New Acquisitions (30 November 2016 - 25 August 2017) presents selections of artworks from 32 artists acquired since 2014, many of whom explore polarizing social and political concerns through a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practices.

1998 Four artworks from Skin to Work exhibition acquired by Artbank, an Australian library of contemporary arts.

A major artwork by the celebrated Turner Prize winning British contemporary artist Yinka Shonibare MBE has been acquired by The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington.

This groundbreaking program was dedicated to the purchase of contemporary art and, over the next fifteen years, enabled the Gallery to continue acquiring innovative artworks.

The Museum of Contemporary Art was honored to be part of the fair with Vernissage, the hugely successful preview party organized by talented MCA Trustees who also acquired great artworks, some of which are promised gifts to institutions right here in Chicago.»

He has exhibited worldwide for over 30 years and this selection of paintings, offered for sale for the first time, offers an opportunity to acquire a stunning artwork by a practising contemporary artist.

This exhibition was not only successful in demonstrating the active collector base in the area that is supportive of the Columbus Museum, but highlighted challenging contemporary artworks the Museum will acquire (or has «recently» acquired in the past 60 years).

The Museum has continued this legacy of acquiring leading contemporary artworks that represent major international aesthetic positions into the 21st century.

Gao suggests that compared to the more mainstream contemporary artworks, particularly those acquired by museums or other arts institutions during the 1990s, China's blossoming period of Apartment Art provided more thought - provoking simplicity, as the essence of such work «dwells within an artist's innermost being».

In galleries 9 and 11, a collection of contemporary artworks from all over the world is shown, most of which have been acquired by the MoMA over the past two years.

Record attendance and sales, stunning new location at Nova's Ark Project, mark fourth and largest - yet edition of East End's premier contemporary art fair Southampton, NY (July 17, 2015)-- Wrapping up its fourth and largest edition yet, Art Southampton, the leading international contemporary and modern art fair for acquiring investment - quality 20th and 21st century works of art, presented by Art - Miami, drew a record 21,000 collectors, art enthusiasts, curators and art lovers to the world - renowned pastoral Attendees resoundingly noted the distinguished array of contemporary artworks and installations, paintings, photography, prints, drawings, design, video art, and indoor and outdoor sculptures showcased by more than 80 international galleries at the fair.

Through revisiting the contested histories of how Egyptian collections have been amassed by numerous museums from the 19th century onwards, it brings together antiquities, modernist works, archives, and 26 international contemporary artists and artist collectives to explore the mechanisms by which artworks come to acquire a range of meanings and functions that can embody a number of diverse, and at times conflicting narratives.

The San Antonio Museum of Art announced it has acquired major artworks by three contemporary African American artists — Kevin Beasley (b. 1985), Rodney McMillian (b. 1969), and Martine Syms (b. 1988).

A large - scale sculpture with an equally large - scale title — Nancy Rubins» 2001 work «Chas» Stainless Steel, Mark Thompson's Airplane Parts, About 1000 Pounds of Stainless Steel Wire and Gagosian's Beverly Hills Space,» fashioned from used airplane parts — is among the artworks acquired through gifts and purchases by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in 2001.

A collector of three decades standing, with his wife Dominique he began in 2005 to acquire contemporary Chinese artworks.