Sentences with phrase «encyclopedic museum collection»

«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.»

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At the vanguard of the major encyclopedic museums is the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which organized a Castle retrospective in 2008 and a show of work by untrained artists from the collection of Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz in 2013.

This is usually considered the task of museums that have encyclopedic collections.

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.

LACMA's Artists on Art videos offer insights into works in the museum's encyclopedic collection that have inspired and informed artists working today.

When museums first truly came to the United States, it was part of an American effort to claim a seat at the table of Western civilization by brandishing collections of antiquities and masterpieces (the Met, our first world - class institution, was meant to be encyclopedic like its cousins the Louvre and the British Museum).

The Museum also recognizes its responsibility to provide access to the images of its encyclopedic collection of material culture.

The development of the enhanced site is part of the Museum's ongoing digitization initiative to expand access to its encyclopedic collection.

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.

Materials & Meanings, the inaugural exhibition of eight works of art selected from the Museum's encyclopedic collection, focused on the materials from which a work of art is made and on the meanings associated with those materials to both the artist and the viewer.

We offer affordable exhibitions to museums and university art galleries, generated from Syracuse University's encyclopedic art collection and collaborating institutions.

One Basquiat is a prelude to an upcoming series of spotlight presentations, each of which will feature a single work of art from the Museum's encyclopedic collection.

is a prelude to an upcoming series of spotlight presentations, each of which will feature a single work of art from the Museum's encyclopedic collection.

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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.

This robust and dynamic roster reflects the Museum's commitment to engaging its audiences with a range of creative voices and leveraging its outstanding encyclopedic collection to incite dialogue and involve its community with topical issues of today.

Published by D Giles Limited in association with the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, our new handbook is a richly illustrated souvenir to an encyclopedic collection.

«NOMA 100 is about telling stories: the story of the museum's evolution from an eleven object collection to a wide - ranging encyclopedic collection of over 35,000 works today; that of Director Emeritus John Bullard's enthusiasm and tireless pursuit of extraordinary works; and the stories those works of art tell us about a culture, artist, and moment in time,» said Director Susan Taylor.

As a result of its encyclopedic collection, the museum ranks nationally among the top ten art museums in attendance.

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.

But there's no doubt that the Louvre was also looking at the example of Thomas Campbell, the current Met director who was pulled from its dusty tapestry department and has since ushered in innovation after innovation — from bringing the museum online in unprecedented fashion to acquiring the Whitney's Breuer building and hiring Sheena Wagstaff to overseeing the Alexander McQueen show — and all while remaining deeply attuned to the needs of the museum's historic, encyclopedic collection.

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.

Like many other American museums founded in the same period, the Nelson - Atkins is an encyclopedic art museum whose collections spans a period of over 4000 years, from ancient to contemporary art.

The association's first purchase, «September Moonrise,» an oil painting by Childe Hassam, is now part of the museum's encyclopedic collection of works from around the world.

Since LACMA's establishment, living artists have played an instrumental role in understanding the museum's encyclopedic collection through a contemporary lens.

Gilvin will conclude with proposals for developing encyclopedic art museums and the African collections that they hold.

History and Contemporaneity in the Encyclopedic Art Museum Amanda Gilvin, Assistant Curator of Collections at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College African art uniquely exposes paradoxes in the portrayal of time in the encyclopedic art museum, as can be demonstrated by this analysis of the African art collection of the Davis Museum at WellesEncyclopedic Art Museum Amanda Gilvin, Assistant Curator of Collections at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College African art uniquely exposes paradoxes in the portrayal of time in the encyclopedic art museum, as can be demonstrated by this analysis of the African art collection of the Davis Museum at Wellesley CoMuseum Amanda Gilvin, Assistant Curator of Collections at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College African art uniquely exposes paradoxes in the portrayal of time in the encyclopedic art museum, as can be demonstrated by this analysis of the African art collection of the Davis Museum at Wellesley CoMuseum at Wellesley College African art uniquely exposes paradoxes in the portrayal of time in the encyclopedic art museum, as can be demonstrated by this analysis of the African art collection of the Davis Museum at Wellesencyclopedic art museum, as can be demonstrated by this analysis of the African art collection of the Davis Museum at Wellesley Comuseum, as can be demonstrated by this analysis of the African art collection of the Davis Museum at Wellesley CoMuseum at Wellesley College.

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 outMuseum, about the future of the encyclopedic museum including the growth of collections, new construction, the engagement of contemporary artists, and community outmuseum including the growth of collections, new construction, the engagement of contemporary artists, and community outreach.

The DMA contributed images from the Museum's encyclopedic collection, which spans 5,000 years of human creativity.

The Dallas Museum of Art, established in 1903, has an encyclopedic collection of more than 26,000 works spanning 5,000 years of history and representing all media with renowned strengths in the arts of the ancient Americas, Africa, Indonesia, and South Asia; European and American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; and American and international contemporary art.

The Arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas at the Dallas Museum of Art is the second in a series of catalogues documenting the magnificent works in the DMA's encyclopedic collection, following the 2009 publication of The Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art.

The guide features over 400 stunning color photographs of pieces from the Museum's outstanding encyclopedic collection.

Established in 1974 with 108 pieces from the collection of Roy Neuberger, this encyclopedic museum has grown to over 6000 paintings and sculptures with a concentration on modern, contemporary and African Art.

As his photographs extend those rich traditions into the present, it is fitting that The Irving Penn Foundation would mark the centenary of the artist's birth with the extraordinary promised gift of most of the prints in this exhibition to the encyclopedic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.»

Generously donated by Chicago collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson, these 44 paintings, sculptures, and photographs transform the museum's presentation of contemporary art, bringing new depth and perspective to the Art Institute's already strong holdings and making this collection the strongest of any encyclopedic art museum in the world.

Under her leadership, the museum's encyclopedic collection has acquired 3,500 pieces, now totaling over 24,000 works.

Luminous watercolors by John Singer Sargent, a stunning retrospective of paintings and collages by Georges Braque (who invented Cubism and collage with Picasso but kept at them longer), exquisite permanent collections and James Turrell's mind - bending tunnel, «The Light Inside,» are among the riches at Houston's encyclopedic art museum.

The Dallas Museum of Art's Art Ball Saturday supports free admission to the DMA's encyclopedic collection plus exhibitions and other programming.

Founded in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, houses an encyclopedic collection of more than 57,000 works, and embraces the art of antiquity to the present.

«NOMA 100 is about telling stories: the story of the museum's evolution from an eleven object collection to a wide ‐ ranging encyclopedic collection of over 35,000 works today; that of Director Emeritus John Bullard's enthusiasm and tireless pursuit of extraordinary works; and the stories those works of art tell us about a culture, artist, and moment in time,» said Director Susan Taylor.

An homage to Thek, Marti's inspiration derives from the 19th century Keats Death Mask, which Marti discovered while perusing through the museum's encyclopedic collection.

Now an encyclopedic museum with a collection of 50,000 items, the Atheneum has maintained its commitment to show and acquire contemporary art.

«The collection provides an encyclopedic survey of the major artists and movements of the last 50 years, with an emphasis on Conceptual Art and artists worldwide,» said Douglas Hyland, director of the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut and co-curator of a recent exhibition of works from the collection.

The non-circulating collection numbers 100,000 volumes and supports research on all areas of the Museum's encyclopedic collection.

One of the most comprehensive contemporary art collections in any encyclopedic museum, it comprises over 1,000 works, encompassing painting, sculpture, installation, and new media.

But Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington and Philadelphia also have the kind of historically great museums with deep, often encyclopedic collections that, over time, create whole ecosystems of art around them.

The Artist Project is an online series produced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York which gives artists the opportunity to respond to the museum's encyclopedic colleMuseum of Art in New York which gives artists the opportunity to respond to the museum's encyclopedic collemuseum's encyclopedic collection.

The Artist Project is an online video series in which The Metropolitan Museum of Art gives artists an opportunity to respond to our encyclopedic collection.