Sentences with phrase «as a museum piece»

If that were not so, religion would become a fossil in the modern world, appropriate only as a museum piece.

«The one or two remaining proponents of hard - left socialism in Parliament like Corbyn and McDonnell were for years treated almost as museum piece dinosaurs, worth preserving for the sake of historical curiosity» he jibed.

One of Weber's bars now sits as a museum piece at the LIGO site in Hanford, Washington.

The cars on - track at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion often are referred to as museum pieces, and Peter Mullin (Oxnard, Calif.), owner of the Mullin Automotive Museum, appreciates the irony of speeding around the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca circuit in his own priceless works of art.

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If they should keep it in the museum I feel like it shouldn't be a «center piece» but more or less as a reminder to those who held it as a sign of hope in those days.

You have people who thought it was a sign, used it as a symbolic piece that would relate to many Americans who are Christian, and is therefore a piece of history that could very well belong in a museum.

That cross has every right to be displayed in the museum, it is a piece of art as well as a symbol of our beliefs in this country and our pride.

So, what needs to happen, and the museum already said this, is that there is a piece of rubble that stood for a long time near the site as a beacon for some people to look toward for strength.

If the museum is to capture a piece of history, then it would be correct to showpiece what many people hold as a symbol of their faith and resolve to carry on.

The pieces, on loan from museums in Karachi and Lahore, highlight Pakistan's history as a crossroads of cultural influences, despite present - day associations of the country as an incubator of religious extremism, museum director Melissa Chiu said.

Museum of the Bible President Cary Summers said it's an honour to add the Bible to their collection as it's a piece of American history.

The holy places would be turned into museum pieces or archaeological curiosities, as they have been elsewhere in the ancient world, such as Turkey or Tunisia.

Doug Wright's «I Am My Own Wife,» a piece about an East German man who lived as a woman behind the Iron Curtain, had a showing here earlier this year under the auspices of About Face at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Large steel piece from the Twin Towers to be used as screen in Sept. 11 museum [Post] 13.

The U.S. National Science Foundation — funded effort will tap extensive museum collections as much as possible, instead of freshly caught bird samples, and will sequence about 5000 short pieces of the DNA, focusing on regions that are very highly conserved among all birds.

Adolphe has often linked science and music, with pieces such as Tyrannosaurus Sue: A Cretaceous Concerto (for Chicago's Field Museum) and Oceanophony (for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography), but he says the landscape of the brain can provide almost limitless inspiration.

The Iris homage includes pieces available for sale as well as items from her own closet and from the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, which houses more than 900 pieces from her wardrobe as part of its permanent collection.

When it gets hot outside, you can go of indoor cultural options such as The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performing 230 days a year, the High Museum of Art with more than 10 000 pieces in its collection and for sure numerous exhibitions to enjoy and titillate your imagination and brain at The High.

Asian European Dating Sites Hundreds of Asian, European and Arab expatriates dressed in stylish attire... For its permanent collection, the museum has acquired hundreds of pieces, dating... Asia — bills itself as a «cross-continental» dating app.

A set piece featuring the penguins running amok at the Guggenheim Museum and a great gag where Popper's flooded bathroom becomes a temporary aquarium - as seen in the trailer below - also find their mark.

«Where we find him after The Winter Soldier, he's in a place where he's learning about himself and he's discovering, as as you saw in the last scene of The Winter Soldier at the museum, he's starting to put the pieces together, he's starting to learn about the past.

Some of the pieces in the Tonya Harding & Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Museum, like the illustration of Kerrigan and Harding as The Shining twins, skew a little toward that mean - spirited humor.

Sixty years young, Pinter's play — dismissed by critics on its premiere in 1958 — is revealed as no dusty museum piece in Ian Rickson's astute revival.

Russian Ark is a bracing tonic, a generous, and endlessly inventive adventure through a museum, with a cast of hundreds, where as Victoria almost feels like a cramped chamber piece by comparison.

This documentary follows Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a retired postal clerk and a librarian who amassed an impressive collection of contemporary art, as they endeavor to give a piece of art to one museum in all 50 states.

They can be donated to the museum, sold, or placed in the player's home as a piece of furniture.

First of all, just to clarify: F I F T Y (yes, it's spelled like that, with the spaces and everything) is a «museum» in the Museum Of Ice Cream sense, in that it's an elaborate installation piece designed specifically to serve as Instagram -museum» in the Museum Of Ice Cream sense, in that it's an elaborate installation piece designed specifically to serve as Instagram -Museum Of Ice Cream sense, in that it's an elaborate installation piece designed specifically to serve as Instagram - bait.

Langley demanded, for example, that the nuts and bolts of his models be polished as if they were museum pieces.

This museum will act as a permanent home for these art pieces as well as a reminder for Americans to come together to fix the situation.

Called the Museum of Compassion, the venue will house an installation of over 5,500 handpainted dog portraits created by Kentucky artist Mark Barone in what will be viewed as one sprawling, striking piece.

Both museums house some of the most important pieces of art in Australian history as well as works from international masters such as Van Gogh and Picasso.

The collection has since multiplied — as bunnies tend to do — and now, 16 years later, the museum boasts over 30,000 pieces of rabbit - related items.

You will explore museums, memorials, monuments, barracks, spectacular lookouts and lush tropical gardens as you piece together the stories of the people and events that have played an integral part in townsville's military history.

The trail continues at the must - see Dali Theater and Museum in Figueres, where you'll find a large, diverse selection of the artist's works, as well as pieces by other celebrated artists such as Marcel Duchamp and El Greco.

Set within an impressive building, which dates back to the 12th century, the museum is regarded as a true paradise for art lovers and boasting a collection of over 1 million pieces, Paris» incredible Louvre is an attraction definitely worthy of a visit whilst exploring this truly magnificent city.

Decorated in a modern Mexican style, Villa McFuego showcases an eclectic mix of local & Indonesian art, as well as some museum quality pieces of Mexican Folk Art.

Casa Rosal also functions as a museum, and is home to a permanent collection of pre-Columbian pieces, including antique furniture and colonial artwork.

Screening: A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture at Museum of Modern Art As part of its Louise Lawler survey, the Museum of Modern Art will screen — or rather, not screen — the artist's piece A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture.

Jesus as a Weapon and a Tool» winks at the New Museum exhibition «Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,» in which Bond features by way of an installation and an occasional performance piece for which the artist models in a museum window on open view from the sMuseum exhibition «Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon,» in which Bond features by way of an installation and an occasional performance piece for which the artist models in a museum window on open view from the smuseum window on open view from the street.

As it happens, the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts, provided one fine example in the fall of 2016 when it worked with the guest curator Chaédria LaBouvier to present a show and programming around another Basquiat, a modestly sized piece from a private collection titled The Death of Michael Stewart (1983), named for the artist who was killed by New York police officers the year it was made.

For many recent exhibitions, including Portrait of a Young Man at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, URANIBORG at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Canada and, most recently, Disasters and Miracles at the Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland, Grasso has acted as a co-curator in conjunction with the museums, altering the architecture of the exhibition spaces and merging his works with pieces in the permanent collections of the institutions in order to create a unique and dynamic viewing experience.

It joins more than 100 pieces on display at the museum as part of the «Gordon Matta - Clark: Anarchitect» exhibit.

In the late 1930s and early 1940s in pieces such as «PH - 313» (1942), the artist starts to move «closer to his abstract expressionist style,» says Dean Sobel, director of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver.

The long - term plan is to eventually get The Marfa Project displayed as a single show, as a single, monumental art piece, in a major museum or art institution.

According to ArtForum, Russian intrigue continues in Ghent: «A panel that was formed to investigate a number of allegedly fake Russian avant - garde works in the exhibition «From Bosch to Tuymans: A Vital Story» at the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent in Belgium — including pieces by artists such as Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky that were on loan from the Dieleghem Foundation, a nonprofit founded by the Brussels - based Russian businessman and art collector Igor Toporovski — was dissolved only hours after meeting, reports Simon Hewitt of the Art Newspaper.

On view in all are a selection of works by Contemporary Cuban artists donated to the museum by Jorge M. Pérez, the majority from a recent gift of over 170 pieces, as well as works previously gifted to PAMM in 2012, and several recent acquisitions.

Gee's Bend quilt lovers young and old, near and far, newly converted and veteran, take note: the Souls Grown Deep Foundation has given 15 of those abstract wonders — by key figures like Mary Lee Bendolph, Delia Bennett, and Annie E. Pettway — to the Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of a gift of 24 pieces that also includes works by Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, and Bessie Harvey.

He has been subject to numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries across the country as well as abroad lending to most of his works becoming key pieces in many prominent private and public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA and the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC.

As a board member of the National Gallery in the 1980s, she blocked Margaret Thatcher's plan to give an adjoining piece of property over to developers and thus helped ensure the eventual construction of the museum's Sainsbury Wing.

Atlanta's High Museum of Art, which organized the exhibition, recently acquired «Para III,» a hot - colored and loosely arranged 1959 work that doesn't fit into any of Louis's series, and is treating the painting as the show's signature piece.