Sentences with phrase «by numerous international collections»

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In recent decades, however, seed conservation and sharing efforts have been hampered at times by concerns about biopiracy, as nations have negotiated numerous international treaties and agreements that regulate the collection, movement, and equitable use of seeds and other genetic resources.

He is represented by Cheim & Read Gallery, New York and is in the public collections of numerous American and international museums.

In the course of over 20 years she has founded the Israel Museum's international contemporary art collection and curated numerous exhibitions including James Turrell: Two Spaces (1982), Anselm Kiefer (1984), Three British Sculptors: Richard Deacon, Julian Opie, Richard Wentworth (1985), New York Now (Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, Allan McCollum and others, 1987), Christian Boltanski: Lessons of Darkness (1989), Life Size: A Sense of the Real in Recent Art (1990), Hidden Reflections (Marylène Negro, Christian Marclay, Hiroshi Sugimoto and others, 1992), Kiki Smith (1994), Gerhard Richter (1995), Marks: Artists Work Throughout Jerusalem (David Hammons, Juan Muñoz, Sarkis and others, 1996) Skin - Deep: Surface Appearances in Contemporary Art (Zoe Leonard, Ana Mendieta, Khalil Rabah, Jana Sterbak and others, 1999), Yinka Shonibare: Double Dress (2002), Nedko Solakov: Alien Auras (2003), Vanishing Point: Hidden Beauty in Contemporary Art (2005), Green Line — A Project by Francis Alÿs (2005), News (2006), Made in China — The Estella Collection (2007), Bizarre Perfection (2008), First Show: Contemporary Art from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Through revisiting the contested histories of how Egyptian collections have been amassed by numerous museums from the 19th century onwards, it brings together antiquities, modernist works, archives, and 26 international contemporary artists and artist collectives to explore the mechanisms by which artworks come to acquire a range of meanings and functions that can embody a number of diverse, and at times conflicting narratives.

Through revisiting the contested histories of how Egyptian collections have been amassed by numerous museums from the 19th century onwards, this exhibition brings together antiquities, modernist works, archives and 26 international contemporary artists and artist collectives.