Sentences with phrase «challenges in the major museums»

... And why, five decades later, do we find many of the same challenges in the major museums: a persistent belief that token inclusion is synonymous with institutional change?»

It shines a whole new light on the inner workings of New York's art museums at the height of the struggle for racial integration, and yet gives little insight on the racist operations that continue to plague our art system today — which perhaps is made most evident when Cahan solemnly asks, «Why five decades later, do we find many of the same challenges in the major museums?»

Not exact matches

As Victoria L. Valentine writes in an extended preview for Culture Type, «The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) is organizing a major exhibition of three critically recognized African American artists... The exhibition will explore how their distinct approaches to figuration and history painting have recast the Western canon and challenged perceptions of race and representation in a contemporary context.»

As a small, nervy group in 1936 — led by such figures as painter George L. K. Morris, muralists and WPA leaders Ilya Bolotowsky and Balcomb Greene, and sculptor Wilfred Zogbaum — they challenged Alfred Barr and The Museum of Modern Art to include Americans as well as Europeans in MoMA's first major survey of abstract art.

In 2009, «Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision» a major retrospective of her work, was organized by the Chicago Cultural Center, and opened at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, before traveling to other cities.

Two round - table talks to be held in early January will bring together directors of major international institutions to discuss new challenges being faced by modern and contemporary art museums.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

Rather than triggering exhaustion, however, the major work that Stockholder has installed (for nearly two years) in the functional lobby of the Smart Museum, called Rose's Inclination (2015), proves that given the space and the situation Stockholder will exceed the challenge and change the way we see.

Over the years, Les femmes d'Alger (Version «O») has been featured prominently in major Picasso retrospectives all over the world, including at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1957 and 1980, The National Gallery in London in 1960, the Grand Palais, Paris in 1966 - 1967, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1968, and more recently at the survey Picasso et les Maîtres at the Louvre in 2008 - 2009, as well as at Picasso: Challenging the Past, at London's National Gallery in 2009, and Picasso & Modern British Art at the Tate Britain in 2012.

The Bruce Museum in Greenwich showcases 45 masterpieces of modern sculpture in its major winter exhibition, «Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of Our Time,» illustrating how virtually every time - honored idea about sculpture has been challenged in the 20th and 21st centuries.