Sentences with phrase «active photography program»

«The Chrysler Museum has an active photography program, and the time seemed right to share remarkable things from the archives while highlighting an array of new additions to the collection.

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Among the acquisition highlights during the past two decades have been: in Archaeology, the Renée and Robert Belfer Collection of Ancient Glass and Greek and Roman Antiquity and the Demirjian Family European Bronze Age Collection; in Jewish Art and Life, an illuminated Mishneh Torah of Maimonides (ca. 1457), acquired jointly with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the restored 18th Century Tzedek ve - Shalom Synagogue from Paramaribo, Suriname; and, in the Fine Arts, Nicolas Poussin's «Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem» (1625), Rembrandt van Rijn's «St. Peter in Prison» (1631), the Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art, Jackson Pollock's «Horizontal Composition» (1949), the Noel and Harriette Levine Collection of Photography, and Gerhard Richter's «Abstraktes Bild» (1997); together with an active and ongoing program of acquisitions in contemporary art, including site - specific commissions by such artists as Olafur Eliasson, Anish Kapoor, and Doug and Mike Starn.

Mr. Stout is also active in various roles with charitable institutions and non-profit organizations, including the following: President of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation (Mandated to fund AIDS and HIV - related medical research, to support photography programs of arts institution); and a member of: Board of Directors, The Robert Mapplethorpe Residential Treatment Facility at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York; Visiting Committee — The Robert Mapplethorpe Laboratory for Medical Research at Harvard Medical School (1990 — 2000); The Whitney Museum of American Art — Photography Committee (1990 to present); The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Photography Committee (1994 to present); University of Wisconsin — Chazen Museum of Art Council; and Bard College — Center for Curatorial Studies Board ofphotography programs of arts institution); and a member of: Board of Directors, The Robert Mapplethorpe Residential Treatment Facility at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York; Visiting Committee — The Robert Mapplethorpe Laboratory for Medical Research at Harvard Medical School (1990 — 2000); The Whitney Museum of American Art — Photography Committee (1990 to present); The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Photography Committee (1994 to present); University of Wisconsin — Chazen Museum of Art Council; and Bard College — Center for Curatorial Studies Board ofPhotography Committee (1990 to present); The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Photography Committee (1994 to present); University of Wisconsin — Chazen Museum of Art Council; and Bard College — Center for Curatorial Studies Board ofPhotography Committee (1994 to present); University of Wisconsin — Chazen Museum of Art Council; and Bard College — Center for Curatorial Studies Board of Governors.