Sentences with phrase «as museums in»

The Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Detroit Institute of Arts, as well as museums in Portland and Seattle, purchased his work.

As museums in the age of the readymade increasingly resemble cabinets of curiosities (or sometimes of banalities), the separation of fine art from every other kind of object seems less and less tenable.

It's that, as museums in Texas keep hitting their stride, I feel less and less like I'm missing out by not getting to either place more often.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was established as a museum in 1961.

Levine, who was a fan of Wyeth's, tried to operate the Olson House as a museum in 1971 - 1973 but was met by local opposition and never could get the enterprise off the ground.

A must - see is the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, which began life in the 1960s as a private collection, and opened to the public as a museum in 1993.

Taking up a whole corner of the Piazza San Marco, the building was opened as a museum in 1923 and is today Venice's most visited attraction.

Magritte and his family moved in 1954, and the house passed through the hands of several tenants before it was purchased and restored as a museum in the 1990s.

For instance, the Sursock Museum, built in 1912 and opened as a museum in 1961, recently underwent a seven - year, $ 16 - million renovation by French architect Jean - Michel Wilmotte.

Tullie House in Carlisle was the furthest north, originally the grand townhouse home of the Tullie family, it was established as a museum in the late 19th century.

After more than 15 years of restoration work, 101 Spring Street, the cast - iron building in Soho where Minimalist artist Donald Judd lived off and on until his death in 1994, will reopen to the public as a museum in June.

The building opened as a museum in 1994, a haunting world of crumbling cellblocks, empty guard towers, and audio - tour - traveling visitors.

Not exact matches

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, as well as the iconic Grand Ole Opry, can also be found in «Music City.»

As stipulated in David Rockefeller's will, the proceeds from the Christie's auction will go to 12 charities — including Harvard, the Museum of Modern Art, the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Farmland Trust.

Dylan Lauren founded Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, a chain of boutique candy shops she describes as «a museum for candy.»

In 1971, its first full year as a public company, its stock rose more than any other, by 470 %, according to the company's museum.

Jing Daily looks at the intersection of luxury and culture in China: the ins and outs of business development there with an eye toward the upscale consumer market, as well as the business of culture — from auctions, museums, and contemporary art to performance, public events, and more.

With his schoolfriend - turned - business partner Harry Parr, he runs Bompas & Parr, a London studio best known for its wacky, food - centric installations, whether a cloud of gin and tonic known as Alcoholic Architecture, some megalith carving for Valentine's Day, or the Jump for Joy bouncy castle in New York's Museum of Sex.

As bad as things get, there's one place in Moscow that reminds Russians that things could be a whole lot worse: the city's Cold War Museum, which opened a few years ago in a converted bunkeAs bad as things get, there's one place in Moscow that reminds Russians that things could be a whole lot worse: the city's Cold War Museum, which opened a few years ago in a converted bunkeas things get, there's one place in Moscow that reminds Russians that things could be a whole lot worse: the city's Cold War Museum, which opened a few years ago in a converted bunker.

Danish toymaker Lego recently opened a new amusement park / museum / archive in Billund, Denmark, called Lego House, which pays homage to the iconic plastic brick in both function and form: the entire structure uses the same proportions as the toy version, making it appear to be something you could really snap together.

If you purchase one of Tino Sehgal's «constructed situations» — such as museum guards dancing and singing «This is so contemporary» — he sits down with you in the presence of a notary and describes the idea.

In 2014, Google chose GuidiGO as a partner company to help build similar museum apps for its Internet - connected smartglasses Google Glass.

Its work can be found in iconic buildings and projects such as the New York Stock Exchange, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and Montreal's Place d'Youville.

The bunker was decommissioned after 30 years, and in 2006, it was turned into a space that functions as a Cold War museum, karaoke bar, restaurant, wedding venue, and conference space under the same name.

Only the outliers, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, get more than 10 % of their earned revenue from admissions, he said.

Musée des beaux arts Located in the historic Place de Miremont square, the fine - arts and archeology museum houses a collection of artifacts from Vienne's Roman past, as well as paintings from the 16th to early 20th centuries.

Performers dressed as Santa Claus stand posed in a line during a photo call for the media for the Ministry of Fun Santa School outside the Ragged School Museum in east London on Nov. 16, 2017.

The site reopened as the Peterhead Prison Museum in 2016, and organises tours and exhibitions.

Though it's easy to miss it in the hubbub of rush hour, the subway system actually doubles as something of an underground contemporary art museum, thanks to the efforts of MTA Arts & Design, led by director Sandra Bloodworth.

In Toronto, some real estate listings have begun noting proximity to future Targets alongside schools and museums as locational selling points.

We've been described as a thought leader in the museum industry.

In addition to his work at Laricina, Schmidt is a trustee of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of Science and Technology, a director for Argent Energy Trust and Whitehorn Resources Inc., as well as past chairman and currently a director of the In Situ Oil Sands Alliance (IOSA).

Todd serves as Vice Chairman of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, and sits on the board of Opportunity Education Foundation.

Glass units up to 25 feet by 11 feet are used in high - end retail store fronts, multi-million dollar homes and specialty buildings such as museums and art galleries.

But three years later, as Museum Hack had grown multi-fold, and its guides began to work in locations across three major cities, they were in serious need of a catch - all productivity tool that would keep them connected and on schedule.

He formerly co-chaired the Business Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and was on the Board of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in Washington, D.C., serving as Chairman in 2006.

The list reviewed by the Journal also includes the Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Museum of Natural History in New York; internet celebrities like Logan Paul, Andrew Bachelor and Lele Pons; dance music DJs Armin Van Buuren and Hardwell; and sports teams such as FC Barcelona.

ST. PETERSBURG As in the landscape of the American Southwest, the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art in downtown St. Petersburg has a particular grandeur.This dream of philanthropists and collectors Tom and Mary James has a «soft» public openi...

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He has also made huge contributions to the community as a volunteer board chair of numerous organizations, including the Centre in the Square, the Food Bank of Waterloo Region, the Waterloo Regional Children's Museum, the Waterloo Public Library and the BarnRaisers Council, and was recently appointed to the board of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.

-- Jim Silye has been appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as chair of the board of the Museum of Science and Nature in Ottawa.

He discovers that church buildings are now regarded as museums and the Anglican Church in Britain a pale shadow of its former life, with the recent General Synod held in a back room of the Rose and Crown and Tooting.

The Hagia Sophia, for example, was a church that was converted to use as a mosque (it is now a museum) after Constantinople, now Istanbul, fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

As a matter of fact, if you go, I don't know, to a museum, you might find some of the proof of those other histories (outside of the tiny point christianity occupies in thousands of years of human history).

Would you look the other way if the muslim community put a symbol of their faith in the museum as well?

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.

Elie Wiesel claps as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the Holocaust Museum April 23, 2012 in Washington, DC.

They can understand how any claim to «God's word» is clothed in linguistic particularity and rhetoric requiring interpretation, and that every tradition requires a reinterpretation in order to transmit symbols from one generation to the next as living vehicles of meaning and not as museum artifacts.

«Historic cemeteries really function as outdoor museums,» says Steve Estroff, education manager at Green - Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

In some museum displays, he said, the birds - descended - from - dinosaurs evolutionary theory has been portrayed as a largely accepted fact, with an asterisk pointing out in small type that «some scientists disagree.&raquIn some museum displays, he said, the birds - descended - from - dinosaurs evolutionary theory has been portrayed as a largely accepted fact, with an asterisk pointing out in small type that «some scientists disagree.&raquin small type that «some scientists disagree.»