Sentences with phrase «encyclopedic museums»

Curatorial leaders at large, encyclopedic museums like the Brooklyn tend to come from within the ranks of such museums.

«Like all encyclopedic museums, the Brooklyn Museum has to divide its attention between balancing its costly obligation to care for, present and pay for artworks and experiences across 5,000 years of history and snagging the attention of price - and time - conscious smartphone users,» said Maxwell L. Anderson, who has served as director of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Her curatorial work focuses on artistic production from the neo avant - garde until today, particularly rooted in global art histories, the intersections of sound and performance with traditional media, and the function of contemporary art within encyclopedic museums.

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.

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.

The hero of Cuno's book is the Enlightenment - inspired «encyclopedic museum,» such as the Louvre or the British Museum.

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).

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.

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.

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

- 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.

«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.»

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.

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.

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?

Many have seen the Met Breuer as a way of bringing the Met up to date, making it an encyclopedic museum... Read More

«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.

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 exhibition spans three venues — an encyclopedic museum (LACMA), a school (Charles White Elementary School), and an artist residency complex (18th Street Arts Center)-- offering different perspectives, approaches, and scales in each location.

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.

«Jen Mergel will play a key role in enhancing the appreciation of contemporary art within the context of our encyclopedic Museum,» said Rogers.

Heinrich also said DAM is committed to being an encyclopedic museum, and mentioned the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA Denver), as if to suggest the cutting - edge programming belongs at the smaller museum of Denver whose simpler building, by architect David Adjaye, has proven a galvanizing space for public gatherings.

Thus far, the American museums of the future are the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, with its new paradigm of private / public collaboration, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, whose new facility, if it gets built, promises to rethink the behemoth of the encyclopedic museum.

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

The artist employs a constellation of everyday materials in her work, ranging from found objects and photographs to handmade sculptures and living plants, creating encyclopedic and accumulative landscapes that penetrate walls and stretch across museums.

2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA The Alternative Guide to the Universe, Hayward Gallery, London, UK The Encyclopedic Palace: The 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

The Internship Program is designed to introduce students interested in pursuing a career in the museum field to the inner workings of an encyclopedic art museum under the guidance of experience museum professionals.

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

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.

, Whitechapel Gallery, London, (2013); The Encyclopedic Palace, the 55th Venice Biennale, (2013); The Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2012); 10000 Lives, Gwangju Biennale, Korea (2010); Skin Fruit, New Museum, New York (2010); Fare Mondi / Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, (2009); Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens (2007); Sequence 1, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy (2007); and Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2006).

Shaw exhibited at the Encyclopedic Palace in the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and the Chalet Society, Paris, France.

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

Massimiliano Gioni introduced the choice of theme evoking the Italo - American self - taught artist Marino Auriti who «on November 16, 1955 filed a design with the US Patent office depicting his Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), an imaginary museum that was meant to house all worldly knowledge, bringing together the greatest discoveries of the human race, from the wheel to the satellite.

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.