Sentences with phrase «development by contemporary artists»

The visual arts include special commissions in development by contemporary artists as well as major exhibitions.

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The exhibition will be expanded by an artist panel discussion on April 24 at the Marfa Theatre Building, examining the role of optimism in contemporary culture: how it impacts politics, economics, democracy, and cultural development.

Pamela Topham's art was selected by Marla Prather, Curator for the Development of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Modern Art, as Top Winner of the 2015 Guild Hall Artists Members Exhibition.

Recognizing the Bronx's cultural contributions — including the birth of artistic movements such as hip hop, graffiti art and Latin Jazz, that served as inspiration to many contemporary artists — in 1999 the Museum expanded its collecting practice to include works by artists for whom the Bronx has been critical to their artistic practice and development.

Curated by Ro Lohin, who helped revitalize Carone's reputation at her former gallery in Chelsea, this show explores the artist's «place in the development of contemporary American art.»

Perhaps one of the most intriguing recent developments in the field is the espousal of print - based media by a number of contemporary artists who do not define themselves as printmakers, but feel that it is the most appropriate medium in which to express themselves in today's media - saturated environment — a context that renders the hand - produced object antiquated and quaint.

Commissioned by Qatar Museums, contemporary artist CAI Guo - Qiang has devoted three years to the curatorial research and development of the large - scale exhibition What About the Art?

2016 Nov. 18 — Wadsworth Atheneum Presents 43rd Annual Festival of Trees & Traditions Nov. 1 — John Trumbull Paintings Central to «Visualizing American Independence» at Wadsworth Atheneum Oct. 5 — First U.S. Exhibition by Artist Dulce Chacón Explores Human Feats and Failures in the Frontiers of Air and Space Sept. 23 — Grant S. Smith to Lead Development, Revitalize Fundraising Initiatives at Wadsworth Atheneum Sept. 9 — First Major Photography Survey in 27 Years to Open at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Aug. 16 — Francisco de Zurbarán's «Saint Serapion» Returns to Galleries at Wadsworth Atheneum May 23 — Exhibition to Highlight Diversity of Contemporary Artists, Artworks May 10 — Works by Salomon van Ruysdael and Kehinde Wiley Among Newest Acquisitions by Wadsworth Atheneum April 21 — «Vanessa German / MATRIX 174» to Confront Social Issues of Race and Violence Beginning June 9 March 25 — Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Names Anne Butler Rice New Director of Education

Although all of the artists have donated works to help to support the magazine and the development of the art school, this exhibition has been carefully considered to reflect that which is current, significant and critical in contemporary painting, including abstract works by Thomas Nozkowski, Mali Morris and Phil Allen, and painters who have championed a figurative approach such as Chantal Joffe, Neal Tait and Dinos Chapman.

Several contemporary approaches by young international artists dealing with the spatial development of sculptures are taken up in the exhibition.

A veritable institution recognized worldwide, the fair is an opportunity for art professionals and enthusiasts from all over the world to discover the latest developments in contemporary art, through works by some of the most famous artists in the world.

Curated by Sharjah Art Foundation President and Director Hoor Al Qasimi, I Am The Single Work Artist is the culmination of the artist's lifelong role as an advocate and pioneer for the development of contemporary art and thought in the United Arab Emirates and in Sharjah, where he first began staging interventions and exhibitions of contemporary art, and exhibited at the first Sharjah Biennial inArtist is the culmination of the artist's lifelong role as an advocate and pioneer for the development of contemporary art and thought in the United Arab Emirates and in Sharjah, where he first began staging interventions and exhibitions of contemporary art, and exhibited at the first Sharjah Biennial inartist's lifelong role as an advocate and pioneer for the development of contemporary art and thought in the United Arab Emirates and in Sharjah, where he first began staging interventions and exhibitions of contemporary art, and exhibited at the first Sharjah Biennial in 1993.

The University Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present The Annunciation, a new work by Eija - Liisa Ahtila, the internationally acclaimed artist from Finland who is a pioneer in the development of multi-media art.

By investing in the mobility of artists, curators and cultural workers, GPS advances cross cultural understanding and the development of the contemporary arts field at large.

Staring Back at the Sun: Video Art from Israel, 1970 - 2012, traces the development of contemporary video practice in Israel and highlights work by artists who take an incisive, critical perspective towards the cultural and political landscape in Israel and beyond.

«Each of the works entering our collection is produced by artists fundamental to the development of American modern and contemporary art, and many are in direct dialogue with the social and political conditions of their day,» said Christopher Bedford, BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director and Commissioner for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

As accessibility and understanding of electronic media grow, its use by artists has become both widespread and increasingly instrumental in the latest developments in contemporary art.

This group exhibition features work by eight compelling local artists who participated in the The Contemporary Austin's Crit Group — a seven - month - long program that supports a strong artistic practice through monthly critiques and professional development workshops.

This exhibition reconsiders the state of contemporary art in Latin America, investigating the creative responses of artists to complex, shared realities that have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

A veritable institution recognized worldwide, the FIAC is an opportunity for the public to discover the latest developments in contemporary art, through works by some of the most famous artists in the world.

In this exhibition six contemporary abstract painters — Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool — were asked to select one or two of their recent paintings to be shown alongside works by other artists who have had a significant impact on their thinking and the development of their practice.

Staring Back at the Sun: Video Art from Israel, 1970 - 2012 is a two - night video exhibition that traces the development of contemporary video practice in Israel and highlights work by artists who take an incisive, critical perspective toward the cultural and political landscape in Israel and beyond.

But arts - led developments are deep - rooted along this stretch of coast: in Margate, where the kernel for the Turner Contemporary gallery can be traced right back to 1994; in Folkestone, where the Creative Foundation, led by entrepreneur Roger De Haan, was taking hold at the turn of the millennium; and across many smaller coastal towns and villages, from Broadstairs to Dungeness, where artists have settled because of the quality of the light, following the late Derek Jarman, who moved there in the mid-1980s.

A two - night program that traces the development of contemporary video practice in Israel and highlights work by artists who take an incisive, critical perspective towards the cultural and political landscape in Israel and beyond.

Select past exhibitions include Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie (2017), a city - wide exhibition featuring works by more than 50 artists in the Roberts Gallery, in street interventions throughout Philadelphia, and on the web; Nari Ward: Sun Splashed (2016), a mid-career survey of the artist's found - object assemblage art; Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change (2016), which examined the artist's stylistic development during the First World War; and Mark Dion, Judy Pfaff, Fred Wilson: The Order of Things (2015), for which the Barnes commissioned three large - scale artist installations in response to the unconventional way Dr. Barnes displayed his collection.

The excitement continues within, as the publication forms a compelling pictorial and literary timeline of the development of still life, consolidating over 400 years of the style and bringing together the provocative re-invigorations of the genre by over 180 international contemporary artists.

On its 4th year ARTANKARA International Contemporary Art Fair makes it possible for exhibitors to keep up with the latest developments in modern and contemporary art by providing an opportunity to see famous Turkish and foreign artists and Contemporary Art Fair makes it possible for exhibitors to keep up with the latest developments in modern and contemporary art by providing an opportunity to see famous Turkish and foreign artists and contemporary art by providing an opportunity to see famous Turkish and foreign artists and art - works.

Their foundation African Artists for Development (AAD) was started in 2009 in response to the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG), with the endowment fund African Artists for Development backs community development projects associated with works by contemporary African artists with a deep - seated conviction to secure a better future for the continent through development prArtists for Development (AAD) was started in 2009 in response to the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG), with the endowment fund African Artists for Development backs community development projects associated with works by contemporary African artists with a deep - seated conviction to secure a better future for the continent through developmenDevelopment (AAD) was started in 2009 in response to the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG), with the endowment fund African Artists for Development backs community development projects associated with works by contemporary African artists with a deep - seated conviction to secure a better future for the continent through developmenDevelopment Goals (MDG), with the endowment fund African Artists for Development backs community development projects associated with works by contemporary African artists with a deep - seated conviction to secure a better future for the continent through development prArtists for Development backs community development projects associated with works by contemporary African artists with a deep - seated conviction to secure a better future for the continent through developmenDevelopment backs community development projects associated with works by contemporary African artists with a deep - seated conviction to secure a better future for the continent through developmendevelopment projects associated with works by contemporary African artists with a deep - seated conviction to secure a better future for the continent through development prartists with a deep - seated conviction to secure a better future for the continent through developmentdevelopment projects.

This exhibit is sponsored, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and through the generous support of the following: The New York City Economic Development Corporation, The Greenwall Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the members of the Artists Alliance Incorporated.

KW has no collection of its own but instead views itself as a laboratory for communicating and advancing contemporary cultural developments in Germany and abroad by means of exhibitions, workshops and resident artists» studios, as well as by collaborating with artists or other institutions and by commissioning works.

Full of mystery and exuding some of the most sensitive surface qualities possible in the medium, Croissant's «House Party 6» series was one of the most outstanding discoveries of the year, by an artist known quite well in Denver's underground art - scene but new to the more mature contemporary market in which his latest developments so deserve to reside.

Visionary Africa — Art at Work is an itinerant urban exhibition of contemporary African artistic practices organised jointly by the European Commission and the Palais des Beaux - Arts (Centre for Fine Arts) in Brussels, including artist residencies, showcases of local artists, and workshops on art and development in modern urban centers in Africa.

The exhibition, curated by Daniel Belasco, the curator of exhibitions and programs at The Dorsky Museum, reveals how Polich has impacted the development of contemporary art by opening up the industrial process of metal casting and fabrication to accommodate the creative choices of artists.

The exhibition celebrates artists who are engaged in a creative revolution — one shaped as much by developments in science and technology as by style or medium — and explores the pervasive interdependence between technology and contemporary culture.

ELY — The Bureau of Land Management has accepted the donation of a 1,316 - acre conservation easement on private lands that contains «City,» a remarkable piece of earth art under development by internationally renowned contemporary artist Michael Heizer.

The first project to explore the visual art, poetry and music of one of America's most inventive yet under - recognized contemporary Native American artists, this exhibition will survey Cannon's highly productive but short career; his development of a unique and hybrid visual vocabulary; and his combination of irony and wit with a reverence for community and tradition to interrogate American history and popular culture; as well as the issues wrought by colonialism, hegemony, and historical amnesia — all through his Native lens.

One of the products of the almost universal dismissal of modernism by contemporary artists has been the development of a new historicism, ironic and detached, which has spawned a number of artistic «neoisms.»

Bisi Silva will present at ICI's The Curator's Perspecitve, an itinerant public discussion series, featuring an international curator who distills current happenings in contemporary art including the artists they are excited by, exhibitions that have made them think, and their views on recent developments in the art world.

Highlights of recent Broad MSU exhibitions include: Trevor Paglen: The Genres; the final installment of the exhibition series The Genres: Portraiture, Still, Life, Landscape, featuring works by social scientist, researcher, and writer Trevor Paglen; Moving Time: Video Art at 50, 1965 - 2015, one of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development of video art from its earliest presentation, currently on view at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Material Effects, which brought together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materials; and The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman, the first major museum exhibition to bring together a comprehensive body of work by two of Bangladeshi's foremost contemporary artists.

Para Site Art Space is a non-profit art space run by independent artists with the aim of promoting the development of contemporary visual art in Hong Kong.

Since its inception, one of the primary aims of the DESTE Foundation has been to develop a wider audience for contemporary art in Greece and to enhance opportunities for emerging Greek artists by promoting their artistic developments.

In one of the most exciting developments of 2016, Plus Gallery artist Xi Zhang has been invited by prominent contemporary art collector and gallerist Marc Straus, to spend three months in New York City as an artist in residence starting in May.

With prices ranging from # 1 to # 40,000, House of Voltaire enables established collectors as well as art and design enthusiasts to collect works by leading contemporary artists and designers, all whilst supporting the future and development of one of London's leading not — for — profit art galleries.

Today's funding trends such as Creative Place - making, made possible through partnership enterprises among foundation, governmental, and financial - sector support, such as ArtPlace America, are concentrated on giving art and artists opportunities in diverse communities yet also require artists and arts organizations to think through an entrepreneurial frame by integrating their initiatives into their community's economic development and community revitalization strategies and having the potential to attract additional private and public support of the community.3 Is this a worthy challenge of contemporary arts insularity or does it discount subversive and against - the - grain art production, made by and for art communities, including that which is made within and by these same diverse communities that are being targeted by new funding initiatives as in need of help in the form of artistic interventions?

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The two - part, joint exhibition project in Bielefeld and Nuremberg is dedicated to developments in «transparent society, «and asks how these are reflected in current work by contemporary artists.

These textual explorations are complemented by extensive documentation of related projects, both historical and contemporary, by artists, architects, and performance artists, including Coughing Piece, a never - before released 1961 audio work by Yoko Ono; an obscure audio work by Nauman from 1969; projects by Suzanne Lacy, a leading figure in the development of conceptual practice and public art; and an experimental text by Jane Rendell on psychic architectures.

The two - part, joint exhibition project in Bielefeld and Nuremberg was dedicated to developments in» transparent society ``, asking how these are reflected in the current work by contemporary artists.

The Austrian curator and gallerist Peter Pakesch developed an international exhibition program hallmarked less by mainstream artists than by a close observation of developments in contemporary painting.

The 2014 New City Art Prize, funded by MK Community Foundation, recognises an outstanding and innovative UK artist, and aims to connect emerging visual artists in and around Milton Keynes to national developments in contemporary art.