Sentences with phrase «being a curator really»

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Phil Pearlman at Yahoo Finance Contributors write «Tadas Viskanta is the preeminent curator of the financial web and really invented the smart link-fest that most every financial media outlet attempts to imitate.»

The curators try and create a rather lofty narrative that the protestors were «responding to aesthetics», when really their motives are basic, political and angry — rather like the suffragettes and anti-papists of history were, part spurred on by the zeitgeist, part by gut belief.

«This idea of having a museum — and it was his vision, at that time, that it be a contemporary - art venue — as part of public education at a higher institution is really a pretty amazing and significant contribution, and has been a lasting contribution to this campus, certainly,» said Corinna Ripps Schaming, curator and interim director.

«She really wasn't much of a scientist — which is good,» says Horner, curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies.

«It's really cool we found it now,» said Janet Monge, curator for the museum's physical anthropology section.

«Their power of observation was very acute, and they were really well educated,» says Susan Rossi - Wilcox, former curator of Harvard University's Blaschka glass flower collection (a later body of work for which the Blaschkas are now most renowned).

«We took on a lot of debt, more than we could sustain, to do some really exciting things, but now we're paying for it,» says Mark Westneat, a Field Museum curator and chair of zoology.

Libby Thompson, curator of the exhibit, tells PEOPLE, «Diana, Princess of Wales is still a really great draw for our visitors here,» adding that about 80 percent of the people who come want to feel that Diana «is a presence here.»

«If you're being a nerd, leopards don't really have spots,» Craig Saffoe, the curator of Great Cats at the National Zoo in Washington says.

«It's not the curator's job,» Harkins explains with mock gravity, or perhaps actual gravity, since he doesn't really know how to explicate the cross-stitch.

Valve is really trying to tackle this problem head on with some interesting experiments like the Steam Curators and online forums, but it is pretty evident that they haven't solved it yet.

It was really critically acclaimed when it opened, and it's one that faculty and students and artists and colleagues and curators come to me all the time to make comments on or engage in a discussion about, and it's one that I'm particularly proud of.

«It was really a happy accident,» says Connie Butler, curator of the Hammer Museum's Opie show.

A comfortable and opening forcefield surrounded his studio, not to mention, Statler and his curator, Corinne Dove are incredible kind individuals and are really good at stealing your attention in the best possible way.

We're already thinking about this idea of protest and activism in the collection, and wouldn't it be amazing if we could find a way to really celebrate this exciting new acquisition and get a lot of these posters up on the wall,» says Jennie Goldstein, an assistant curator at the Whitney who curated the show with David Breslin and Rujeko Hockley.

Plus, she said, «these sculptures are just really fascinating, beautiful, hard — all those things that intrigue me as a curator.»

It was the same with Carol Bove — I did a solo booth of her work at Art Basel in 2002, and that's what really broke her as an artist, because European curators and collectors warmed to her work before Americans did.

Michael Rooks, the Curator of Contemporary Art at the High Museum, has really reshaped the contemporary vision at the Museum which has traditionally been so conservative.

ArtsATL: Michael Rooks, the Curator of Contemporary Art at the High Museum, has really reshaped the contemporary vision at the Museum which has traditionally been so conservative.

But the thing that really astonished me is that if you're a museum director and, increasingly, a museum curator, the majority of your time is spent fundraising.

«The curators started to get really worried,» said Mr. Ward, whose studio was stacked nearly floor to ceiling with the baby carriers by the end of his residency.

«The purpose really is to show how dolls empowered African Americans throughout history as a way to see yourself, to empower yourself,» said Jennifer Evans, the assistant curator at the Wright Museum.

And I realized pretty quickly that in my new role as a director - slash - fundraiser - slash - janitor of Participant, when curating solo exhibitions, most people don't even really see the curator, if you're doing a good job.

If MoMA's curators want this show to function like a real biennial, though — and signs are that they do — then they need to really go for it, to relax not just their material definition of the photograph but also some of the curatorial conceits that have governed photography at MoMA since Szarkowski's tenure.

The really big news, of course, is that the widely respected Paul Schimmel — chief curator at MOCA until he was unceremoniously ousted by Deitch and Broad in 2012 — will himself be partnering with Zürich - based gallery Hauser & Wirth in 2015.

With a title as broad as «I Really Miss You Until You're Here» from White Conduit Projects» latest exhibition, it is easy to be intrigued about what might be included in the show, and what themes the artists, and indeed curator, might be addressing.

«It was during this period that Diebenkorn really became Diebenkorn,» says Timothy Anglin Burgard, the Ednah Root curator - in - charge of American art.

The curator wrote that this work is one of her «favorite paintings... soft and muted and really capturing the feel of the fog settled in over the fields.»

«It's the sort of moment that you really dream of as a curator, where something that you thought no longer existed suddenly pops up.»

But we're probably in a situation where curators and gallerists are looking for work that «goes together» whilst still «exploring a range of possibilities», and that you can make broader non committal statements about that don't really mean all that much.

«Simon Denny is relatively young, but he has been really booming over the past couple of years,» says Serpentine curator Amira Gad.

Rashid Johnson: It was really born from the relationship that I prior had with the chief curator Kate Fowle.

If you wanted to see older movies you had to go to 42nd Street, or to the MOMA, which was particularly strong in the mid -»70s — they had really good curators then.

Artist, curator and writer, Matthew Deleget has described Hill as being «on the leading edge of a group of contemporary artists who are working with new abstraction, issues of painting, and pushing those in really compelling and interesting new directions, particularly through the filter and through the lens of photography and digital media.»

Another answer, though, is lack of imagination and just plain pandering — and can we stop blaming the curators for their bad taste, when they are really, and sadly, just pandering to economics?

And the 80s was a time when I really came of age as a curator, so I was doing historical things, but also some contemporary things.

VILLAIN: A diabolical genius, Bruce Nauman has persuaded naïve curators and critics around the world that his habit of torturing clowns, tormenting viewers with claustrophobic tunnels, and filming strange nocturnal surveillance videos is a force for good — when really his endgame is infinitely more disturbing, resolving itself only at his viewer's point of death.

For the audio work «Down the River» — which was organized by the Whitney's chief curator, Scott Rothkopf, and the assistant curator Laura Phipps — Ms. Fraser daringly left the space empty but filled it — loaded it really — with often frightening sounds that could suggest some form of hell: loud male voices, clanking metal, rolling carts.

When I wrote a story about Jay De Feo for Art & Auction magazine, published March 2007, Whitney Museum of Art associate curator Dana Miller — who has a DeFeo retrospective in the future of the Whitney, date as yet unannounced — told me that the only 20th century artists to whom to potentially compare De Feo would be sculptors Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse — «and they arent really close at all,» said Miller.

«One of the main reasons we decided to act upon this extraordinary opportunity is because printmaking is really the foundation of Kiki's work and is something that informs her entire oeuvre,» High modern and contemporary art curator Michael Rooks added in an email to the AJC.

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«You think you know as a curator how it's going to look at the end, but until that last label is put up, that last light is focused, you don't really know until then,» Price said.

«He's really good at picking out the various oddities and uncanny moments of the everyday,» says the exhibition's curator, Cliff Lauson.

«I thought it was a really interesting engagement with a lot of issues around nature, the environment, landscape traditions, Romanticism, melancholia — some of Pierre's big subjects,» says Lynne Cooke, who organized a 2002 show of Huyghe's work at the Dia Art Foundation in New York and is now senior curator for special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

I wasn't really expecting that I guess,» said Philip Larratt - Smith, a New York - based curator, scanning the surprisingly familiar scene.

«It was that experience of coming to the museum by myself in high school when I really understood that there were curators in charge of putting these things together,» she says.

For the curators, who are pulling together many works never or rarely exhibited, «it's the kind of show where you feel like you're really adding something to the telling of art history,» says Berry.

As curator Ingrid Schaffner points out, each one of these works was once a museum show in its own right, «So this idea that Jason had of all the work being one work is really being put into motion here,» she says.

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«The exhibition, it has a focus, an emphasis, which is on the way throughout his mature career Hockney has really interrogated what it is to make pictures, why make pictures, how do you capture the real world of time and movement in something flat and static,» said Chris Stephens, curator of the exhibition.