Sentences with phrase «establish a history museum»

Six years later, plans to establish a history museum became feasible when the museum united with the Abilene Preservation League to restore and remodel the Grace Hotel for use as a cultural center.

The museum board appointed a committee of trustees, staff, local historians, and university professors charged with the task of establishing a history museum.

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At 11 a.m., Rep. Carolyn Maloney and the Girls Scouts of Greater NY announce efforts to establish a Smithsonian Museum dedicated to American Women's history on DC's National Mall, Fearless Girl Statue, Wall Street, Manhattan.

In the current study, scientists aimed to better understand an evolutionary history that morphological analysis and the fossil record has fallen short of firmly establishing, said Jesse Breinholt, co-author and a postdoctoral researcher with the Florida Museum.

First in the queue will be the consortium of institutions, including the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and Edinburgh and the Natural History Museum in London, that helped to establish the initiative.

The museum, established in 1967, celebrates that pole conquest and Bowdoin's 140 - year history of Arctic studies.

The team, including researchers from the Natural History Museum in London, quantified the anatomical and genetic differences between living animals, and established a timeframe over which those differences accumulated with the help of the fossil record and intricate mathematical models.

The National Corvette Museum's Corvette Hall of Fame was established in 1998 to confer the highest honor and recognition upon the most influential individuals in the history of the Corvette.

The National Corvette Museum's Hall of Fame was established in 1998 to present the highest honor and recognition to the most influential individuals in the history of the Corvette.

Established with the aim to preserve the rich cultural heritage of Palawan, I was surprise at how well - spent our time were complete with a history told in a video, and a guided tour around the museum.

The Villa, established in 1872, is a coconut plantation and a hacienda — where visitors can visit a museum and learn about local history and culture.

He's the recipient of many awards, including the 2006 Winner of the David C. Driskell Prize, the first national award to honor and celebrate contributions to the field of African American art and art history, established by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.

The first national award to recognize contributions to African American art and art history was established in 2005 by the High Museum of Art.

Established in 1895 by Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh is a collection of four distinct museums: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy Warhol Museums of Pittsburgh is a collection of four distinct museums: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy Warhol museums: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum.

Exhibited at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1984, and published to acclaim the following year, Rich and Poor established Goldberg's reputation as a transformational figure in the history of documentary photography.

Art historian Rhea Anastas, media historian Nadja Millner - Larsen, and Light Industry cofounder and director Ed Halter, will discuss whether small - scale organizations establish a kind of instant art history, serving museums and culture - at - large as test sites for new artistic practice.

The works in this exhibition excavate two such histories: Martin Kippenberger's attempt to establish a modern art museum on a Greek island, and Daniel Buren's murals at a now - derelict resort hotel.

In donations news: Los Angeles's Hammer Museum has received the largest gift in its history, with a USD$ 30 million donation from philanthropists Lynda and Stewart Resnick going towards the museum's expansion plans; and the Miami - based collector Ella Fontanals - Cisneros has anounced plans to gift Latin American artworks to the Spanish state and will also establish a Contemporary Art Collection of the Americas in Madrid's Tabacalera building, to showcase the Museum has received the largest gift in its history, with a USD$ 30 million donation from philanthropists Lynda and Stewart Resnick going towards the museum's expansion plans; and the Miami - based collector Ella Fontanals - Cisneros has anounced plans to gift Latin American artworks to the Spanish state and will also establish a Contemporary Art Collection of the Americas in Madrid's Tabacalera building, to showcase the museum's expansion plans; and the Miami - based collector Ella Fontanals - Cisneros has anounced plans to gift Latin American artworks to the Spanish state and will also establish a Contemporary Art Collection of the Americas in Madrid's Tabacalera building, to showcase the works.

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The presence of the Morandi collection not only highlights the great influence of the artist on contemporary art, but also establishes a connection with Bologna artistic facts, with the museum history and with the reasons behind its creation, creating a strong link with the Permanent Collection.

It means you can look to unexpected places, can develop other narratives, and can mine other histories that maybe haven't been included in many established museum collections.

Today, the museum continues this rich history with new acquisitions, special exhibitions and permanent collection installations that offer dynamic new approaches to presentation and interpretation by placing these artists into conversation with some of the most iconic and established voices in modern and contemporary art.

A founder of the Young British Artists Movement, that presented to the art scene of 90 - es a new generation of world established artists, Damien Hirst has created a new page of the art history, showing his works in such institutions as Tate Gallery (London), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Fondazione Prada (Milan), Israel Museum (Jerusalem), The Broad (Los Angeles).

It is the combination of three already - established museums, the Dallas Museum of Natural History, Dallas Children's Museum and the The Science Place.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents the THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2012 winner Danh Vo in an exhibition on view March 15 — May 27, 2013, whose work illuminates the entwined strands of private experience and collective history that shape our sense of self, is the ninth artist to win the prestigious biennial award, established in 1996 by HUGO BOSS and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

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 Cos Cob School is now well established as an important part of the history of American painting, and it forms the nucleus of the Museum's holdings of painting, watercolors, sketchbooks, and notebooks by such artists as Leonard and Mina Ochtman, George Wharton Edwards, and Hobart Jacobs.

Established in 2000, this global practice has won a number of prestigious commissions, the biggest and most recent being the Moscow School of Management and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American Culture and History.

In recognition of the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, the exhibition «Jamestown, Establishing English America» is now open at The Lyceum, Alexandria's History Museum, 201 S. Washington St.. Many rare books are featured, including a copy of «Lucilentissima» by Johann Schöner.

This gift is the largest bequest received by the museum in its history, and will establish an endowment to expand and enhance the museum's collection of English and European works of art from the 18th century and earlier in memory of the late Schwartz, a former museum member.

EVENT May 17: Black Lunch Table, a collaborative art project established by Jina Valentine and Heather Hart, convenes at the Studio Museum in Harlem for a Wikipedia edit - a-thon to write black artists into art history.

While many of the images in Exposed were not created as artworks and would be at home in a history museum, their placement in SFMOMA shifts their context away from being purely pedagogical and toward establishing the cultural context for artistic practice.

In 1986, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) established the CIRRUS ARCHIVE to preserve its printmaking history to be maintained.

L.A. has enough of a history to have established great teaching institutions, museums and collections, supported by a sophisticated gallery system that facilitates critical dialogue and a sympathetic approach to art.

Established in 1739, the museum is a history and art m...

We have collaborated on visual artist program with the New Bedford Whaling Museum and marine biologists to create an installation reflecting the little - known whaling history of Hudson; worked with visiting galleries and arts organizations, including NADA, James Fuentes and Zach Feuer; and more recently with local galleries Jeff Bailey and September Galltery and local artists, from those with established reputations now living in the area like Marc Swanson and Jack Walls, to visiting luminaries like Marianne Vitale, Dan Colen and Sterling Ruby, to emerging local voices.

By mid-2003, following the criteria established by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the American Association of Museums (AAM), and the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets (PCHA), the museum completed an initial review of the history of 257 European painMuseum Directors (AAMD), the American Association of Museums (AAM), and the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets (PCHA), the museum completed an initial review of the history of 257 European painmuseum completed an initial review of the history of 257 European paintings.