Sentences with phrase «as gallery attendant»

However, in 1961 he began to paint full - time following seven years first hand «art training» as a gallery attendant at the Museum of Modern Art.

Students can volunteer or intern as gallery attendants.

For example, artists and curators are expected to keep the pavilion open through November, the duration of the Biennale, that means guards have to be paid for, along with cleaning crews, insurance and Guggenheim interns who act as gallery attendants.

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The narrators are a member of a doomsday cult who releases poison gas in a subway in Tokyo, and details his retreat to Okinawa and a small nearby island, Kume - jima; a jazz aficionado who works as a sales clerk in a Tokyo music store; a lawyer in a financial institution in Hong Kong who has been moving large sums of money from a certain account; a woman who owns a Tea Shack on China's Holy Mountain and speaks to a tree; a non-corporeal sentient entity which is searching for who or what it is; a gallery attendant in Petersburg who is involved in an art theft scam; a ghostwriter / drummer living in London who saves a woman from being run over by a taxi; an Irish nuclear physicist who quits her job when she finds her research is being used for military purposes; and a late night radio talkback DJ who finds himself fielding calls from an intriguing caller referring to himself as the zookeeper.

The answer is long and complex, and has much to do with the radical shifts in culture that have occurred over the past 25 years or so, both in Britain and the world: the unstoppable rise of art as commodity and the successful artist as a brand; the ascendancy of a post-Thatcher generation of Young British Artists (YBAs) who set out, unapologetically, to make shock - art that also made money; the attendant rise of uber - dealers such as Jay Jopling in London and Larry Gagosian in New York; and the birth of a new kind of gallery culture, in which the blockbuster show rules and merchandising is a lucrative sideline.

Unfortunately, you can bet that just as you're on the cusp of achieving zen, a gallery attendant will politely request that you make way for the next group.

Each year, several undergraduate and graduate NYU students who are eligible for work - study funding serve as the face of the Grey Art Gallery by working as gallery desk atteGallery by working as gallery desk attegallery desk attendants.

We had to have an attendant in the gallery after hours and on weekends as they worked.

Gallery attendants responded, as they were instructed, by laying out aluminum pans to catch the water seeping through the concrete floor above.

TP: As I was standing on Imperial Texture and watching children interact with it, I overheard a gallery attendant speak about your relationship to Columbine.

The Malaysian - born, London - based artist uses the overly precious setting of the gallery space to pull objects — cooking utensils, kitchen fittings, plastic tubs, sheets of jute, etc — out of their utilitarian context in such a way as to force viewers to think about them as discrete objects, or things in and of themselves, while in the process challenging the assumptions we make about their functionality and attendant concerns such as, for example, the social status of the person who might own such an object, its role in their lives and that relation in respect to one's own style of living.

«Seven Billion Light Years» encompasses a broad range of mediums: there's the brochure - favored, gently babbling This is not a fountain (h / t Magritte), painted bronze mangoes and potatoes, video art, found objects, paintings, mixed media, a floor installation made with real Indian dirt («30,000 pounds of soil,» a gallery attendant whispered to an enraptured visitor, who murmured, «Wild, wild») and what could best be described as a trio of giant steel / copper / plastic pom - poms.

While I felt lucky to be «in» on this special information, I was upset that I was not invited to be part of this informational tour as I had introduced myself to the gallery attendants and staff as press not five minutes earlier, looking for images and more information about the show.

Kimbell Art Museum, Franklin, OH 1/2013 — Present Gallery Attendant • Greet visitors as they arrive at the gallery and provide them with an overview of the exhibits • Ascertain that visitors are acquainted with the rules and regulations of the gallery • Direct visitors or escort them to the right rooms so that they can view their choice of exhibits • Provide visitors with information on each art piece or exhibit, to ensure a better understanding of origin and background • Monitor flow of visitors, gauge unsavory situations and ensure that appropriate action is taken • Ascertain that the security of the gallery is properly placed, by coordinating efforts with assigned security personnel • Assist in receiving art shipments by ensuring that all paperwork is in order and making sure that art pieces are safely store • Set up art exhibit boxes according to specified instructions, ensuring art pieces are safely placed Gallery Attendant • Greet visitors as they arrive at the gallery and provide them with an overview of the exhibits • Ascertain that visitors are acquainted with the rules and regulations of the gallery • Direct visitors or escort them to the right rooms so that they can view their choice of exhibits • Provide visitors with information on each art piece or exhibit, to ensure a better understanding of origin and background • Monitor flow of visitors, gauge unsavory situations and ensure that appropriate action is taken • Ascertain that the security of the gallery is properly placed, by coordinating efforts with assigned security personnel • Assist in receiving art shipments by ensuring that all paperwork is in order and making sure that art pieces are safely store • Set up art exhibit boxes according to specified instructions, ensuring art pieces are safely placed gallery and provide them with an overview of the exhibits • Ascertain that visitors are acquainted with the rules and regulations of the gallery • Direct visitors or escort them to the right rooms so that they can view their choice of exhibits • Provide visitors with information on each art piece or exhibit, to ensure a better understanding of origin and background • Monitor flow of visitors, gauge unsavory situations and ensure that appropriate action is taken • Ascertain that the security of the gallery is properly placed, by coordinating efforts with assigned security personnel • Assist in receiving art shipments by ensuring that all paperwork is in order and making sure that art pieces are safely store • Set up art exhibit boxes according to specified instructions, ensuring art pieces are safely placed gallery • Direct visitors or escort them to the right rooms so that they can view their choice of exhibits • Provide visitors with information on each art piece or exhibit, to ensure a better understanding of origin and background • Monitor flow of visitors, gauge unsavory situations and ensure that appropriate action is taken • Ascertain that the security of the gallery is properly placed, by coordinating efforts with assigned security personnel • Assist in receiving art shipments by ensuring that all paperwork is in order and making sure that art pieces are safely store • Set up art exhibit boxes according to specified instructions, ensuring art pieces are safely placed gallery is properly placed, by coordinating efforts with assigned security personnel • Assist in receiving art shipments by ensuring that all paperwork is in order and making sure that art pieces are safely store • Set up art exhibit boxes according to specified instructions, ensuring art pieces are safely placed in them