Sentences with phrase «art pilgrimage site»

Today's episode is all about Marfa, Texas — a contemporary art pilgrimage site and Donald Judd's art installation opus... read more

Not exact matches

While her earlier work looked at art museums as places for worship or contemplation — in the vein of cathedrals or pilgrimage sites — and artworks as objects of faith, her recent works, such as Deposit III (2015), give more importance to painting as an actual object in its own right: «It allowed me to leave bi-dimensionality, unhang [painting] from the wall and naturally add other supports of images (video, mirrors, printed matter, found paintings) and link them to a same genealogy.»

But for anyone who wants to ask the questions, Dia: Beacon, the Dia Art Foundation's sprawling upstate outpost, has been an essential Ryman pilgrimage site since it opened in 2003, with rooms full of natural light dedicated to his mostly white, mostly square minimalist works.

In the downstairs gallery, Henry presents a group of mostly nocturnal landscape paintings that take into account how artists as different from one another as Frederic Remington and Ed Ruscha have influenced how we see the West, while Minimalists such as Donald Judd and Dan Flavin have transformed how visitors and locals experience it thanks to Marfa's Chinati Foundation, a pilgrimage site for international art tourists.

This anchoring work, in combination with the carved wooden pews, creates an ecclesiastical ambiance within the museum, alluding to how art museums, not unlike churches, are sites of pilgrimage and contemplation.