Sentences with phrase «encyclopedic museums when»

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.

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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).

For all intents and purposes, this is a reason to celebrate, an affirmation of the traditional system, which was put to the test when Donald and Doris Fisher, longtime museum trustees and founders of the GAP, proposed a palatial edifice in the Presidio to house their encyclopedic amassing of post war and contemporary art.