Sentences with phrase «encyclopedic museum»

Still, the DIA's African - American program has been stuck in neutral — despite the advantages of housing the General Motors Center for African American Art, a curator devoted to the discipline and being the only encyclopedic museum in America to have permanent collection galleries devoted to African - American art.

She has created a dynamic and widely renowned contemporary art program that has become an influential model for encyclopedic museums as they engage the art of our time.

The Brooklyn Museum may be the only encyclopedic museum in the world with a center dedicated to feminist art, but it comes with a caveat: each show it presents must connect thematically to Judy Chicago's ceramic behemoth, The Dinner Party (1974 - 79), which is a permanent fixture.

She created a dynamic and widely renowned contemporary art program that has become an influential model for encyclopedic museums as they engage with the art of our time.

A number of major encyclopedic museums, such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Seattle Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, also have female directors.

«The space will offer a level of immediacy and experimentation that is rare within encyclopedic museums today.»

Perhaps because the great encyclopedic museums of the day, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, were outgrowths of male - dominated business and political realms, women gravitated toward establishing new museums for new art.

The MFA is also one of the first encyclopedic museums in the United States to fully integrate performance art into its collections, exhibitions and programs.

But the Lam gift seems to dovetail especially nicely with SAMA's particular niche as perhaps the least Eurocentric of American encyclopedic museums while expanding both the quality and scope of its contemporary art collection.

As the San Antonio Museum of Art beefs up its curatorial staff, Devon Britt - Darby's Loose Ends column looks at how the state's — if not the country's — least Eurocentric encyclopedic museum is aiming to diversify its strengths.

«We are thrilled for the opportunity to exhibit her mirror mosaics and drawings within the context of our glass galleries and as part of a more expansive, encyclopedic museum collection.»

«The MFA is in a unique position to connect audiences to contemporary culture in the context of its world - class collections and scholarship as no other encyclopedic museum has before,» said Mergel.

Since 2006, Michael Govan has been in charge of transforming the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from a Victorian - style encyclopedic museum into a powerhouse for contemporary art.

And while Green's not wrong to advise museums to «follow your collection» — and while Parsons is fired up about studying and finding new ways to present SAMA's Irish silver — encyclopedic museums sometimes also need to look beyond their collection areas to fill gaps in their communities» exposure to art.

Anne Pasternak became the first woman to head one of New York's two encyclopedic museums when she was named director of the Brooklyn Museum in 2015, and Nancy Spector rejoined the Guggenheim in New York as chief curator and artistic director earlier this year.

While not as extensive as the American art collections in other Texas encyclopedic museums, SAMA's American holdings are remarkably strong for a collection that, until now, has grown on an ad hoc basis.

Encyclopedic museums exist to exhibit, study and care for the best art they can find from as many cultures and periods as they can responsibly and compellingly cover.

About Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art The IMA's robust contemporary art program is a model for how encyclopedic museums engage the art of our time.

Since opening its doors to the public in 1844, the Wadsworth Atheneum has paved the way for encyclopedic museums across the country, and has a rich legacy of Firsts.

So if you want to dip into the art - well of knowledge at their exciting encyclopedic museum you will definitely be all the better for it.

«I am very pleased to work at the wonderful DAM, one of the major encyclopedic museums in the U.S. with an ambitious program,» said Müller.

- Some scrappy art e-commerce site has hooked up with the greatest encyclopedic museum in America — if not the world — and is now selling work by the museum's affiliated artists online.

«There's also no rule that San Antonio's only encyclopedic museum has to — or should — do European modernism at all,» Green wrote, adding: «I am not arguing San Antonio's motivations and interests should be the same as Baltimore's.

Since 2012, she has worked to establish the MFA Boston as one of the first encyclopedic museums in the United States to fully integrate performance art into its exhibitions, programs, and permanent collection.

The DMA has one of the leading collections of contemporary art in an American encyclopedic museum.

Its fine antiquities collection notwithstanding, SAMA, which is rich in Latin American and Asian art, must be the least Eurocentric encyclopedic museum I've ever visited.

The Soundsuit in the contemporary art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum — an encyclopedic museum — bridges numerous collections with its direct connection to African art, Modern abstract painting, performance art, contemporary sculpture, and costumes and textiles.

The specific mission and environment differ at each venue, highlighting curatorial nodes of the overall exhibition project: strategies of display via an encyclopedic museum (LACMA), pedagogy — or methods of teaching — through a school (Charles White Elementary School), and artist research at an artist residency complex (18th Street Arts Center).

Titled A Universal History of Infamy, the exhibition spans three venues — Charles White Elementary School, an artist residency complex at the 18th Street Arts Center, and an encyclopedic museum, LACMA — offering different perspectives, approaches, and scales in each location.

This show marked Simon's first solo exhibition in an encyclopedic museum.

It is one of the world's great encyclopedic museums; its primary focus is the past.

As an encyclopedic museum, there are always a variety of exhibitions, but the current offerings are especially rich: The James Turrell retrospective on view through April 6 beats out last year's Guggenheim show for breadth of offerings and the survey «Calder and Abstraction» boasts exhibition design by Frank Gehry that includes curved walls that cast those mobiles and stabiles in a whole new light.

On Friday, a discussion on «The Encyclopedic Museum» features the Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas P. Campbell and the CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Michael Govan.

Wouldn't his logic preclude virtually any kind of European modernism exhibition San Antonio's only encyclopedic museum could realistically get?

The Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester in New York is an encyclopedic museum, with everything from 5,000 - year - old Egyptian ceramics to a 20th - century George Condo painting in its collection.

«As an encyclopedic museum, we really need to be able to acquire, care for, and show these sorts of works of art.»

Although the provisions of Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy technically shield the city from being forced to sell any asset, a mixture of alarmism and rational fear of a populist campaign — to find revenue wherever possible to pay pensioners and other creditors — has led a wide array of observers to wonder how much money, exactly, could be squeezed out of the encyclopedic museum's vast holdings.

Situated among the extended art history of an encyclopedic museum filled with so - called old masters, Mastry's installation in New York...

I really like the way this title appropriates the language of the encyclopedic museum (more specifically, the language that this type of museum would use to introduce its gallery exemplifying Abstraction in art), but here it's used to frame a solo show by an emerging artist.

This group exhibition, which runs until 10 January 2016, is the first of its kind within an encyclopedic museum to explore the broad possibilities of...

Dallas now can count itself as one of the nation's top five encyclopedic museums for art from the mid-20th century forward, says DMA director John R. Lane.

LACMA CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director Michael Govan talks to Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, about the future of the encyclopedic museum including the growth of collections, new construction, the engagement of contemporary artists, and community outreach.

The State of Things: Contemporary African Art in the Museum Ugochukwu - Smooth Nzewi, Curator of African Art at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College Nzewi's presentation discusses the place of contemporary African art in encyclopedic museums.

This year they have given 15 major works of contemporary art by 11 different artists, continuing their significant commitment to promoting the work of contemporary artists within the context of a global, encyclopedic museum.

I want it for all our encyclopedic museums, which, although large, are still small enough to model a gallery host program after the Chrysler's, with adjustments where needed.