Sentences with phrase «ancient objects»

Through the coexistence of contemporary art video - works along with ancient objects from the permanent collections housed in the Museum of Cycladic Art, new questions are anticipated to arise in what concerns the provenance of human culture and its contemporary evolution.

The exhibition continued in the Louvre's Department of Near Eastern Antiquities (in the rooms devoted to Syria, Jordan, and Palestine) and the medieval moat, where videos were projected directly onto the walls and ancient objects in the museum's collection.

Among the stunning array of ancient objects on display is a rare and exquisitely carved Roman marble theatre mask from around the third century AD which once belonged to the politician and socialite Sir Philip Sassoon, and an enormous multibreasted torso of the Great Mother Goddess Artemis from Ephesus which dates from the first century AD.

By pairing twentieth - century sculpture with ancient objects, this exhibition explores how objects resist the origins, names and histories humans accord to them.

Ani Kasten's work embraces a modern and minimalist aesthetic, while also having the appearance of natural and ancient objects arising from the earth.

Sara VanDerBeek's photographs in her latest exhibition Ancient Objects, Still -LSB-.....]

New Horizons also could potentially take a close - up look at a smaller, more ancient object much farther out in the Kuiper Belt: the disk - shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune believed to contain comets, asteroids and other small, icy bodies.

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart - tongued archaeologist Ruth Galloway lives happily alone in Norfolk.

Whilst the National Archaeological Museum recounts a chronological narrative of Mediterranean journeys primarily through ancient objects, the aim of XENIA: Guests, Hosts, Friends is to allow for the relationship of host and guest — so crucial to the Odyssey — to be considered within the contemporary contexts of migration.

Before ancient objects enter a museum collection, they often travel vast distances and endure various periods of use, disuse, loss, and rediscovery.

From our partners at Art Practical, today we bring you Danica Willard Sachs» assessment of Sara VanDerBeek's solo show Ancient Objects, Still Lives at Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco.

Sean Kelly announces From Pre-History to Post-Everything, a group exhibition that presents ancient objects alongside contemporary paintings, providing the opportunity for a visual dialogue between the forms found in ancient cultures and the forms being investigated by today's youngest generation of painters working with abstraction.

Indifferent Matter: From Object to Sculpture pairs four key twentieth - century sculptures by Felix Gonzalez - Torres (1957 - 96), Hans Haacke (b. 1936), Andy Warhol (1928 - 87) and Robert Smithson (1938 - 73) with a series of ancient objects including Neolithic jades, a yet to be named mineral, fragments of Roman sculpture and a collection of eoliths.

These six original sculptures are present - day reinterpretations of Egyptian artifacts, and each will be placed in the same case as the related ancient object.

Sadly there's a much larger number of Afghan and Iraqi items that have been stolen, for the most part truly ancient objects looted during the wars.

Uranium dating is one of the ways of determining the age of ancient objects, even one million years old, by measuring how much of the following are present in them: the amount of radioactive isotopes of uranium, and the amount of other materials into which the radioactive isotopes would decompose.

Sara VanDerBeek's photographs in her latest exhibition Ancient Objects, Still Lives counter any notion that the still life is a staid mode of image making.

One finds exquisite works by Jean Michel Basquiat, Vassily Kandinsky, Girgio de Chirico, Kazuo Shiraga and others juxtaposed with ancient objects and artefacts.

Curators Tamara Chalabi, co-founder of the Ruya Foundation, and Paolo Colombo, a former artistic director of the Istanbul Biennial, have selected 40 ancient objects from the National Museum of Iraq to display alongside work by contemporary artists and modern masters.

When this ancient object passes in front of a background star, the star's light dips — like a mini-eclipse — allowing the astronomers to tease out the mystery world's size, shape and reflectivity.

Thanks to the new Advanced Camera for Surveys, installed 2 years ago by astronauts during the space shuttle's last servicing mission to Hubble, the telescope can now detect those ancient objects.

This year we learned even more about the ancient object and, in turn, the solar system.

Eager to stake a claim in the burgeoning science, researchers raced to extract DNA from any ancient object they could find.

Webb — custom - built to study these murky epochs — could use gravitational lensing to unveil these and even older galaxies in sufficient detail and number to pin down exactly how these ancient objects arose and first brought light into the universe.

At a large table set up in the hall on the staff - only fifth floor, Clark photographed these ancient objects under the watchful eye of AMNH curators and scientists.

Jerry Nelson, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, US, Ray Wilson, formerly of Imperial College London and the European Southern Observatory, and Roger Angel, of the University of Arizona, Tucson, US, share the astrophysics prize for their respective innovations in the field of telescope design that have allowed us glimpses of ever more distant and ancient objects and events in the remote corners of the universe.

J. Roger Angel is one of the three 2010 Kavli Prize Laureates in Astrophysics who share the prize for their respective innovations in the field of telescope design — allowing us to glimpse ever more distant and ancient objects and events in the remote corners of the Universe.

A form of radiometric dating used to determine the age of organic remains in ancient objects, such as archaeological specimens, on

A lowly factory worker is delivered from a world of misery and discovers his destiny via an ancient object on the other side of the stars.

When St. Pierre is first approached by Colonel Issac Lucas about a sensitive recovery operation on an ancient object, Michael turns it down.

Where Art Meets Science: Ancient Sculpture from the Hindu - Buddhist World, a focused exhibition of primarily Cambodian sculpture from the Norton Simon foundations» permanent collections, examines the connoisseurship and conservation involved in identifying and preserving these ancient objects.

Here, in a pair of grandly appointed tents in Regent's Park, art is for sale as in a deluxe flea market — contemporary work on display at Frieze art fair itself; and Old Masters, ancient objects and art of the 20th century at its companion, Frieze Masters.

The ancient objects in the exhibition are geographically diverse, originating from the pre-Columbian Americas to China.

He briefly attended SUNY Oswego and spent a year in the painting department of an art school in Denmark, but it is his reverence for history and the simplicity and elegance of ancient objects that inspire him and the command of his materials that enables him.

Sara VanDerBeek: Ancient Objects, Still Lives is on view at Altman Siegel Gallery, in San Francisco, through August 2, 2014.

25 July - 20 October 2013 Galleries 1, 2 and 3 By pairing twentieth - century sculpture with ancient objects, this exhibition explores how objects resist the origins, names and histories humans accord to them.

Thursday, June 5, Altman Siegel Gallery hosts a public reception for their new exhibition of work by Sara VanDerBeek, «Ancient Objects, Still Lives.»

Here 40 ancient objects from the Iraq Museum in Baghdad (some dating back to 6100BC) are shown alongside contemporary work by eight Iraqi artists and recent paintings made by the Belgian artist Francis Alys on a visit to Mosul.