Sentences with phrase «controversial exhibition»

The modernist masterpieces of Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov were nationalized by the Bolsheviks and are now on view in a celebrated and controversial exhibition at London's Royal Academy.

Even before she became the director of the Studio Museum in Harlem nearly 20 years ago, Golden was known for putting together groundbreaking, controversial exhibitions about race and American identity politics.

But increasingly they have been forced to defend and — in two recent cases, at the Guggenheim and the Louvre — remove controversial exhibitions.

A 1971 photograph by Jan van Raay shows artist Cliff Joseph leading a group of artist - activists — members of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC)-- in the dead of winter protesting the Whitney Museum's controversial exhibition Contemporary Black Artists in America (months before its opening on April 7, 1971).

Controversial exhibitions like the 1993 Whitney Biennial in New York and Sensation (1997) in London put questions of race, gender, politics and sexuality front and centre of art - historical debate.

Seldis, Henry J., «Controversial Exhibition Explores New Abstract Trend,» Los Angeles Times, May 3, 1964, Calendar Section, p. 9, ill., Asijatija, 1963.

This provocative and controversial exhibition became an event occurring once a decade, and it's now intrinsic to Münster's identity.

The present facility opened with the controversial exhibition Ten, which featured several artists working in non-traditional media.

Although his work was well - known within the Harlem community for decades, his photographs reached a wider audience in 1969, when his work was included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's controversial exhibition, Harlem on My Mind.

Selected works from Francisco de Goya's etching series «Disasters of War» will be shown within the exhibition, illustrating the controversial exhibition of the prints at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1938.

Germany's refugee situation in the autumn of 2015 was the starting point for the controversial exhibition Making Heimat: Germany, Arrival Country, curated for the German Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture.

His directness was unsettling, even amongst his fellow artists, who preferred to work with more subtle linguistic codes and who strongly criticised Fonseca (as they did Jaar), after his controversial exhibition of the same title at Gallery Sur in 1982.

Following up on his controversial exhibition in Berlin last year that saw the Chinese artist attaching 4,000 life jackets, Ai Weiwei Read More

This procession responded to a controversial exhibition by an artist whose work about the death of Michael Brown was presented at a gallery in Bronzeville.

June: documenta 6: Two of Richters «Soft Abstracts» [CR: 421 and 422] are selected for this controversial exhibition.

The show reunites three artists featured in the controversial exhibition and book Vier Meister der Erotischen Fotografie (Four Masters of Erotic Photography), which debuted at Cologne's Photokina in 1970.

The controversial exhibition «Street Art — Banksy & Co» in Bologna triggered an harsh debate on the opportunity to move works of street art into museums

The shows will also offer the first comprehensive look at the artist's painting in this country since a controversial exhibition at the Tate gallery in 1994 dramatically changed the course of the rest of Kitaj's life, and his art.

In January, the New Museum mounts the controversial exhibition ««Bad» Painting,» curated by Marcia Tucker, which questions the concept of taste.

The controversial exhibition garnered the young curator international recognition — and also led to his resignation from the Kunsthalle.

After a controversial exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery their partnership disintegrated and neither had major shows for several years.

The controversial exhibition «Like a Virgin» (2009), featuring work by Nigerian artist Lucy Azubike and South African artist Zanele Muholi, broached issues surrounding gender, sexuality and lesbianism in ways previously unexplored locally, eliciting heated debate in the city's often - conservative art community.

In the wake of the New Museum's announcement of a controversial exhibition drawn solely from the extensive collection of billionaire Dakis Joannou, one of their trustees and founder of the Deste Foundation in Athens, and slated to be curated by artist Jeff Koons, who is heavily represented...

New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani also famously took offense at the controversial exhibition, calling it «sick stuff,» and even tried to withhold city funding from the museum until it shut down the show.

Currently, there are two works by Cortor on view in «Conversations,» the controversial exhibition featuring the Cosby art collection at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.. Two still life paintings executed in the 1980s depict rare subjects in Cortor's oeuvre — a wall of mailboxes in a vestibule and a boxing robe draped on a hook.