Sentences with phrase «core of the museum»

At the core of the Museum's Permanent Collection is the Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, composed of gifts from the Museum's founders R. Crosby Kemper and Bebe Kemper, as well as several of the Kemper Foundations.
Besides, the case stands at the very core of the museum's mission.
His private collection of more than 2.000 works by important 20th century masters was the core of the Museum's permanent display.
Two galleries and a video darkroom exhibition space form the artistic core of the museum.
At the core of The Museum of Modern Art's new building in midtown Manhattan are dramatic and expansive new galleries designed to showcase the Museum's world - famous collection of international contemporary art.
Indeed, the Turbine Hall gigantic space will become the core of the museum, bordered on the north by the 6 - story Boiler House and on the south by the new 10 - story Switch House.
A new museum, designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft to house Hirshhorn's gift, opened in 1974, the first contemporary art museum in Washington, D.C. Hirshhorn's collection forms the core of the museum's renowned collection.
There I met Paula Wallace, the former elementary school teacher who cofounded SCAD and is still its president, and Dr. Walter Evans, whose donation of seventy works from their extensive holdings of African - American art formed the core of the museum's permanent collection.
-- San Francisco collector Albert Bender, patron of the Mexican modernists, donates 36 works, including Diego Rivera's famous «The Flower Carrier,» that form the core of the museum's permanent collection.
The Museum was established in 1904, when Judge Mayer Sulzberger donated 26 ceremonial objects to The Jewish Theological Seminary as the core of a museum collection.
In 1917, in accordance with his father's will, Jack Morgan dispersed more than 1,350 objects from Pierpont's collection to the Wadsworth Atheneum «for the instruction and pleasure» of the public, forming the core of the museum's European decorative arts collection.

Not exact matches

(Apparently its core collection, The Potato Museum, is the «world's largest on the history and importance of the potato.»
Among Chicago Children's Museum's core beliefs is that play is the right of every child, regardless of ability, background or income.
After Lord Smith presented his proposals, representatives of the five parties at the core of the commission gave their responses in Edinburgh's National Museum of Scotland.
Peter Hochuli and Susanne Feist - Burkhardt from Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, studied two drilling cores from Weiach and Leuggern, northern Switzerland, and found pollen grains that resemble fossil pollen from the earliest known flowering plants.
Mackie suspects an untold number of stemmed points and discoidal cores are already sitting in museum collections, just waiting to be recognized as part of the same coastal tradition.
A woman and her daughter touch a structural model of the earth's core at Nanjing Geological Museum in Nanjing, Jiangsu province April 22, 2011.
Space Science is one of their core competencies, and through partnership with 100 Year Starship, the Museum sees an innovative way to enrich the educational experience of their visitors.
Luxuriously gentile and hauntingly lucid in it's blending and reconstruction of the history held securely within the Hermitage Museum, the film is at its core a lavishly privileged tour of the magnificent palace.
In Segal's museum studies class — where her students are turning an old ticket office at the front of their auditorium into a museum — these are some of the Common Core standards that she addresses:
«Core» focus entails teaching and research in and across the major disciplinary areas, use of library facilities, museums and scientific laboratories.
We began thinking about the task with a museum metaphor: a relatively large number of works would be collected and stored in the basement, with a small subset of them selected for public exhibit in various galleries, by various curators, organized by grade level, core content, media type, etc..
Our schools have a longer school day and year, helping us keep our kids safe and engaged, ensure their success in core subject areas, and give them an immersive, well - balanced education that includes exposure to the arts, daily physical activity, and field trips to museums, performances, sporting events and, of course, college campuses.
«The Japanese American National Museum opened to the public 25 years ago and while the World War II experience has always been at the core of our mission and work, making sure that younger generations connect with what happened and understand the ramifications of certain actions, or lack of action, seems especially vital right now.
Among the first museums in the world to try the e-label was the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, with some twenty displays installed as part of the 2016 CORE Exhibition.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston was among the first museums in the world to try the e-label, with some twenty displays recently installed as part of the 2016 CORE Exhibition.
On arrival make a short stop and visit the revitalized downtown core of Nanaimo with its delightful harbourfront promenade, new museum, affordable art galleries and a wealth of shopping and dining alternatives.
In the museum, in our publications and online we give concrete form to one of our two core tasks: providing information to the public.
In the museum, in our publications and in our online and physical exhibitions we give concrete form to one of our two core tasks: providing information to the public.
Boasting a unique location right on the city's main square and steps from the central station, in the core of the historic centre of Valencia, the upscale Hotel Meliá Plaza offers a strategic setting for those willing to explore on foot most of the attractions of Valencia, including innumerable museums, parks and hip shopping venues.
I have a history of constructing vivid but sometimes revealed to be false memories of favorite paintings by artists I love: a painting will be a lodestar in my mind, and I will remember not just it, but the wall of the museum or gallery that it hung on, and perhaps at the core of my memory is my memory of myself at the instant of seeing it.
Is it meaningful to me to have a core group of works in the major museum in my hometown?»
Beatrix Ruf is the Director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and, since 2010, a member of the think tank core group of the LUMA Foundation.
The Museum's core is now restored to its original 1920s grandeur and three new galleries have been unveiled, while beautifully designed, interactive displays and new visitor facilities have been created, including a state - of - the - art education room.
It amounts to many a postmodern critique of art institutions and arts funding — starting well before Jeffrey Deitch took over LA MOCA, the New Museum sold out to the Joannou collection, or the New York Public Library unloaded a great American landscape to Wal - Mart as, in time, the core of a new mMuseum sold out to the Joannou collection, or the New York Public Library unloaded a great American landscape to Wal - Mart as, in time, the core of a new museummuseum.
«It is fitting that this immersive exhibition takes place in a museum architecturally designed to blur the distinction between inside and out, where carefully placed windows allow for views of Biscayne Bay and Miami's urban core to filter into the galleries.
Originally from Brazil, a Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Program fellowship brought Clarissa Tossin to Houston in 2010.
In January, addresses the Massachusetts Board of Education at the statehouse to request increased support for arts in the public school system and to propose several approaches to arts in the core curriculum; during summer, collaborates with Townsend and guest artists Richard Rosenblum, Richard Baker, Paul Bowen, James Balla, George Marsh, and Varujan Baghosian at the New Provincetown Print Project; solo exhibition: Monotypes by Michael Mazur for the Inferno, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City (travels through 1997 with Mazur and Pinsky giving lectures on their collaboration at eight venues).
Olivier was an artist in residence at the Core Program (MFAH), Studio Museum in Harlem and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
However, the choice at the Frick would form the core of any major museum.
Perry holds an MFA from Columbia University, New York City's 12th largest employer and the number one cause of gentrification in the neighbourhood of Harlem, New York, a BFA from Alfred University, and is currently based in Houston, Texas as part of the artist - in - residence program CORE at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The additional gallery space enables Skarstedt to expand on its core program of museum - quality, historically researched exhibitions from modern and contemporary masters.
Back then, Tossin was a recent CalArts MFA graduate and was beginning her tenure as a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The film at the core of VertiGhost features the re-creation of select scenes from Vertigo, documentation of a painting by Amedeo Modigliani in the Museums» collection that was enshrouded by questions of authenticity, as well as interviews about the construction of realities in life and art.
At the core of the group exhibition «Mirror Cells», curated by Christopher Y. Lew and Jane Panetta at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, are two primary concepts.
1965 Figuration, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY Portraits in the American Art World, The New School, New York, NY Second 1965 Show, Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA A Survey of Contemporary Art, J.B. Speed Museum Louisville, KY Collector's Choice, South Bend Art Center, South Bend, IL Sixth Annual Festival, Temple Emanuel, Yonkers, NY CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) Show, New York, NY
He has participated in residencies at the Triangle Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Kala Art Institute, the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Project Row Houses, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and Lower East Side Printshop.
He is featured in Frequency, an exhibition currently on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and is a Core Artist in Residence at The Glassell School of Art / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Recognized for his interdisciplinary activities and collaborations as a sound artist, as well as his music project Burning Star Core, Yeh's work has recently been presented at the Liverpool Biennial, MoMA, Performa 13, the ICA Philadelphia, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Pérez Art Museum, Electronic Arts Intermix, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and Roulette.
In addition to this major exhibition, in January 2018 her work will be included in an exhibition, The Feminine Sublime, at the Pasadena Museum of California Art and a solo exhibition follows in September 2018 at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, curated by Howard Fox, which will feature a core sample of her work over the past 10 years.
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