Sentences with phrase «existing contemporary collection»

Barilleaux says each body of work presented to the membership has been chosen with the purpose of strengthening the existing contemporary collection in some way, but also enhancing dialogue with other McNay holdings.

Not exact matches

Building on its existing art tours programme, a special feature of the new collection is meeting with locals who bring the contemporary culture to life: designers, chefs, wine - producers, gardeners, artisans, perfumers, and even nuns.

Through The Contemporary's Museum Without Walls program, Grachos has arranged the long - term loan of outdoor sculpture from the museum's existing collection for display at various parks throughout Austin, including the monumental installation of Ai Weiwei's Forever Bicycles at Waller Creek.

Defined by the vibrancy of its host city, Sydney Contemporary provides commercial galleries with a dynamic platform to showcase the work of emerging and established artists, enabling local and visiting audiences to build on their existing knowledge, and develop their international art collections.

On the contrary, ever since Jean Dubuffet established his collection of Art Brut in the 1940s and, later, Roger Cardinal coined the more inclusive category of Outsider Art in 1972, there has been a thriving market for — and discourse around — work by untrained artists which has existed more or less separately from the parallel milieu of contemporary, academic art.

His work exists in many prominent international collections, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Portrait Gallery, London; and Tate, London.

To illustrate their ongoing relevance in contemporary dialogues, MOCA Jacksonville invited a handful of artists to engage with the collection and participate by either the creation a new work of art or presenting an existing piece for inclusion in the exhibition.

Shown amongst Soane's existing collection, the distinction between past and present, classical and contemporary, art and artefact will be blurred.

Displays of new acquisitions will be complemented by existing collection displays of contemporary art at Tate Britain which explore narrative and found objects including Mike Nelson's labyrinthine The Coral Reef 2000 and recent work by Cerith Wyn Evans, from which the title Has the film already started?

The special $ 10 million gift allowed the curators to build on the collection's existing strengths — primarily its broad holding of American daguerreotypes and paper photographs — and to enhance its representation of 19th - and 20th - century European and contemporary international works.

Fortunately for its staff, Rompel goes on to laud the re-thinking of the museum's pre-modern collection, paying heed to its new chronological ordering and variations within that order; to the marrying of existing architectural precedents with contemporary details; and to the rehang of the collection, in which the concentration of works builds with the historical expanse of the empire.

Glavovic Studio converted the existing warehouse via the use of layered materials, light and movement to create a unique, art - oriented environment for the collection of contemporary art of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz.

The Sackler CPD Programme offers access to the only UK wide programme that generates new ideas and shares existing knowledge relating to the institution of the museum and the development of public collections of contemporary art.

The Bluhm Family Endowment Fund supports exhibitions of modern and contemporary sculpture, which may consist of existing works drawn from the Art Institute's permanent collection or borrowed from other collections private and public, or new works commissioned specifically for this site.

In their role as generative archives of contemporary art production, museums can and must comprehend themselves not merely as venues for the collection and presentation of art that already exists, the elements of which might be arbitrarily arranged in line with alternating themes, but also as institutions that play an active role in the production process.

The National Network offers access to the only UK wide programme that generates new ideas and shares existing knowledge relating to the institution of the museum and the development of public collections of contemporary art.

Collaboratively, participants considered the points of convergence between museums and contemporary performance, in search of answers to the question, «What if an art collection were treated like a musical or choreographic score — existing both as a historical document and as the material for an interpretive performance that could be played at any moment?»

The gallery's outstanding collection of historic works on paper has significantly steered its acquisitions policy and curators have sought to develop a collection of contemporary drawing and sculpture that exists at the boundaries of both practices.

Inspired and influenced by these opposing collections, Hancock has created a new set of dolls, commissioned by Temple Contemporary, in which he has reimagined the racial divide presented by the existing dolls.

The work makes a very strong addition to the existing collection and builds consistently on the group of works that the Contemporary Art Society have gifted to the Museum over the years.

At the Musée Guimet, fifth in a series of «Carte Blanche» initiatives, designed to invite contemporary artists to make site - specific work to sit beside the Museum's existing collection, is a solo presentation by the artist Jayashree Chakravarthy.

In addition to the development of the existing collection areas, the formation of Live at LICA has refocused contemporary collecting and is a key development area for the future.

It is interesting how the diversity and multiplicity that has existed in Kallat's own practice, from materials and media to ideas and meanings, is also evident in both the Museum's centuries - old exhibits as well as the artist's works on display — thereby making «Earth Families» a befitting stage to showcase the oeuvre of one of India's most significant contemporary artists, whose work is part of several public and private collections across the world.