Sentences with phrase «collecting works by living artists»

«I only collect works by living artists, that's my maxim.

Mera Rubell and her husband, Don, have been collecting work by living artists since the 1960s.

Not exact matches

Today the collection exceeds 50,000 works of art — the result of active acquisitions by patrons, directors, and curators who continue Wadsworth's dedication to collecting and supporting the work of living artists.

While works by living artists have always been collected by the MFA — Winslow Homer, Claude Monet, and John Singer Sargent were contemporary artists when some of their paintings were acquired — the Department of Contemporary Art was only established formally in the Museum's centennial year, 1971.

1993 Les Amis des Musées de Verviers: Aspects de la mouvance construite internationale, Fondation Pro Mesures Art International, Verviers, Belgium (catalogue) Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Skowhegan 93, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (booklet) Building a Collection: The Department of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Artists» Photographs: A Private View, Blum Helman Gallery, New York Live in Your Head, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst and Galerie Metropol, Vienna (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) The Tradition of Geometric Abstraction in American Art 1930 — 1990, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 15th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Drawing the Line Against AIDS, AmFAR Art Against AIDS, Venice Biennale, Venice Looking at Collecting Today, Chateau de Tanlay, Burgundy, France Legend In My Living Room, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York I Love You More than My Own Death, Venice Biennale, Venice Italia - America, L'Astrazione Ridefinita, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, San Marino, Italy (curated by Demetrio Paparoni, catalogue) New York Painters, Sammlung Goetz, Munich (catalogue) Legend in My Living Room, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, New York Wall Works, Edition Schellmann, Cologne, Germany Works on Paper, Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles Twenty Years, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Peter Halley, Todd Levin, Thread Waxing Space, New York (video project) Living with Art: The Collection of Ellyn & Saul Dennison, The Morris Museum, Morris, NJ (catalogue) Color, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York New York on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

«As one of the first commissioned works by a living female artist to be installed at the entrance of an American museum, Pas de Deux (Plaza Monument) will serve as a beacon for the DMA's intent to broaden its collecting and exhibition habits.»

In a press statement, High Museum director Michael Shapiro says: «Photography is our fastest growing area of collecting, research and programming, and these gifts will ensure that the High can continue our commitment to new scholarship and commissioning new works by living artists.

Its other prongs include an artist residency at her home in Sonoma, California, for living artists in her collection, as well as scholars and curators whose work extends the canon and relates to the artists in her collection; sitting on the boards of museums like the Art Institute of Chicago; publishing critical scholarship, beginning with the 2016 book Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art; and collecting and gifting major works by black artists to institutions.

Maine Collected features selected works by living artists connected to Maine from the Bates Museum of Art's permanent collection.

Organized from the Smart Museum's permanent collection and selected loans, this exhibition included works in a variety of media by Chicago self - taught artists Henry Darger, Bonnie Harris, Aldobrando Piacenza, Pauline Simon, and Joseph Yoakum, as well as Jesse Howard, Martin Ramirez and others who did not live in Chicago but were influential and collected here.

Guided by a passion for the cutting edge and collecting works exclusively by living artists, Bob and Nancy have worked with young artists and dealers over the past 40 years to build their unique and celebrated collection.

According to the museum's charter, The purpose of the Morris Museum of Art shall be: to enhance the quality of life in the Central Savannah River Area and to broaden the knowledge and understanding of the visual arts in the Southeastern United States by collecting, preserving and displaying works of art focused upon, but not limited to, the art and artists of the American South; by creating and hosting quality traveling exhibitions; and by developing and maintaining a library and research center focusing on Southern American painting; and to contribute to the general appreciation of art through lecture programs, symposia, publications, and other educational programs.

The purpose of the Fund is two-fold: to support living, practicing artists by acquiring their work through the Fund's Acquisition Program, and to encourage museums and other public collecting institutions across the globe to accept the acquired works as gifts through the Fund's Museum Gift Program.

The Artist Initiative will be led by Jill Sterrett, director of collections and conservation at SFMOMA, and will build on SFMOMA's long - standing commitment to working closely with living artists to shape its programming and collecting activities.

When he started collecting in the 1980s, the city's major arts patrons had amassed tranches of post-war treasures, but didn't always acquire work by living artists, and the public never got a look at the work.

The couple, life partners who shared a passion for collecting and historic preservation, began staging exhibitions out of their SoHo loft in the late 1960s, with a special interest in homoerotic works by queer, mostly male artists.

The works he collects are driven by his passion and intuition, rather than monetary appreciation, and includes active patronage support to 20 living artists.

Working from a vast archive of photographs ---- shot and collected by the artist or sourced via the Internet ---- Wood reinterprets everyday views from his life.

«If you Lived Here You'd be Home,» Curated by Josiah McElheny, Tom Eccles and Lynne Cook, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale - on Hudson, NY, June 25 — Dec 11, 2011 «Black Swan: The Exhibition Regen Projects,» Los Angeles, CA, Feb 25 — April 16, 2011 «American Exuberance,» Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, Nov 30 2011 - July 27, 2012 «America: Now + Here,» a travelling exhibition in multiple expandable trucks, in many US Cities including Kansas City, Detroit, and Chicago, and Aspen, curated by Eric Fischl April 2010 — November 2011 «Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial),» September 17 — November 13, 2011 «We Will Live, We Will See,» Zabludowicz Collection, London, July 7 — August 14, 2011 «The Bearden Project,» The Studio Museum In Harlem, Bronx, NY, November 10, 2011 — September 2, 2012 «HIDE / SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,» Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, November 18, 2011 - February 12, 2012 «Nothing in the World But Youth,» Turner Contemporary, Kent, United Kingdom, September 17, 2011 - January 8, 2012 «The Bearden Project,» Studio Museum, New York, NY, November 10, 2011 — March 11, 2012 «Jean Genet,» Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 16 — October 2011 «The Last First Decade,» Ellipse Foundation, Portugal, April 30 — December 18, 2011 «Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection,» Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 13 — July 4, 2011 «Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories,» Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, May 2011; travels to the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, October 2011 «Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary Artists,» Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, April 10 — September 18, 2011 «ARTiculate: Links Between Visual and Verbal Expression,» Camden Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ, January 18 — February 26, 2011 «Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Works,» Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England, January 19 — March 19, 2011 «Collecting Biennial,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, January 16 — November 28, 2011 «Distant Star / Estrella Distante,» An exhibition around the writings of Roberto Bolaño, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, United States; kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico, 2011

Colloquially called The Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has been collecting and exhibiting work by living artists since its founding in 1870.

Eight works by Nauman, including his 1989 sculpture «Hanging Heads # 3 (Green Andrew with Tongue / Green Julie, Mouth Open)» and his «Good Boy Bad Boy» video from 1985, are included in the exhibition.Perlstein's devotion to collecting and connoisseurship endures: he maintains close relationships with the living artists whose work he continues to champion and is still building upon his holdings.

Known for its longtime commitment to collecting and supporting the work of living artists and acquiring works that speak to the events and innovations of the day, the BMA's contemporary holdings feature a significant collection of American art from the last six decades, including major late paintings by Andy Warhol, as well as works by Grace Hartigan, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Glenn Ligon, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, and Anne Truitt.

His work was included in Glenn Brown and Rebecca Warren: Collected Works, Rennie Collection, Wing Sang, Vancouver (2013), Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to Zurbaran, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (2013), Second Hand, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2010), 10,000 Lives, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Gwangju Biennale, Korea (2010), Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2009), Ecstasy: In & About Altered States, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2005) and the 50th Venice Biennale (2003).

The selection is mostly made up of works by the artists that he collects and with which he and his family live on a day - to - day basis.

His selection for this show is mostly made up of works by the artists that he collects and with which he and his family live on a day - to - day basis.

He began his collection in the 1930s, and by the end of the decade Roy Neuberger was collecting seriously and had acquired major works by living artists.