Sentences with phrase «factory complex»

A new contemporary art center launches in a previously abandoned factory complex.

Industrial Zone Peter MacCallum's solo exhibition Industrial Zone is a photographic installation about the now abandoned Massey - Harris - Ferguson factory complex in downtown Toronto.

The idea of using the empty factory complex for cultural purposes occurred to the mayor of North Adams, John Barrett III, in conversation with Thomas Krens, a former director of the Williams College Museum of Art, who was looking for space for long - term displays to show large artworks by major artists.

Taking another leap in its evolution from a disused 19th - century factory complex into a 21st - century center for visual and performing arts, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art is set to announce on Monday that it has forged six new 15 - to 25 - year partnerships with big names in contemporary art, including James Turrell; the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; the Easton Foundation, which controls the estate of the sculptor Louise Bourgeois; Laurie Anderson; and Jenny Holzer.

Inside was a $ 25.4 million earmark for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, which gave Mr. Thompson, the museum's director, funds to start the last phase of an effort he helped hatch nearly three decades ago: transforming an abandoned 19th - century factory complex into a destination arts center that could help revive the struggling economy of North Adams.

Peter MacCallum's solo exhibition Industrial Zone is a photographic installation about the now abandoned Massey - Harris - Ferguson factory complex in downtown Toronto.

There was the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh last April 24, the continuing labour unrest in nearby Cambodia, factory fires in Pakistan and a renewed focus on child labour in Uzbekistan's annual cotton harvest.

The company's unique culture is pervasive not only within its vast factory complex but also in the city of 125,000 across a barge canal.

Now, everything is made in China by people who are living 10 to a room in some huge factory complex.

Workshop manager Claudio Tomassini is here to meet us, though, and as he guides us over to the service centre, just to the left of the main factory complex, he confirms that both the recently repaired SG54 (my «old» orange Murciélago) and the new LP640 are brimmed and ready to go.

For each edition, the biennial also awards a Silver Lion to a promising young artist, which this year went to South Korean Im Heung - Soon for his documentary Factory Complex, which examines women's working conditions in Asia.

In the north east, MASS MoCA — the brilliantly conceived and executed arts institute housed in a converted factory complex in North Adams, MA — is reopening its restored Building 6 in May.

Staging the singularity of memory presents Factory Complex (2014 - 15) and Reincarnation (2015), by which he explores the impact of Korea's modernisation in its social fabric as well as the burden of grief left on women who have survived the trauma of war in recent history.

[ENG] àngels barcelona is pleased to present for the first time in a gallery the work of IM Heung - soon (b. 1969), the Korean artist who obtained the Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist during the last edition of the Venice Biennale with his work Factory Complex (2014 - 15).

He says that this is unlike the situation in China, where art spaces have been springing up organically in old factory complexes.

Not only is it the site for the spectacular quasi-permanent exhibitions of Sol LeWitt and Anselm Kiefer, but this former industrial factory complex is also that rare museum that provides major artists with the time and space necessary for truly ground - breaking exhibitions.

He knew that the Mass MoCA complex is located in the old Sprague Electronics factory complex, where paper capacitors were invented and radios and electronic components were made for three - quarters of a century.

On July 8th, Fundació Per Amor a L'Art will open a multipurpose art center in the transformed Bombas Gens factory complex located in Valencia, Spain.

Selldorf Architects is the design consultant for the renovation and expansion of Bombas Gens, a former hydraulic pump factory complex...

A total of 1.282 m2, Dada Post is located in the former König Smoked Fish Factory complex.

On June 12 another cultural institution was shut down by local authorities: the artist - run space Red Square, located in the Elektrozavod, a dismantled factory complex that has been taken over by artist studios and creative agencies over the last decade.

Housed in the historic Dashanzi factory complex, the space is being repurposed by Japanese architect Mitsunori Sano, with an inaugural show by Qui Shihua.

Cheney Brothers was the world's largest silk factory complex, which was how Manchester got the nickname, Silk City.

And Time Inc. is moving 300 back - office and technology jobs from Manhattan to Industry City, a repurposed factory complex in Brooklyn.

This factory complex was home to factories producing some of the world's most prominent fashion brands.

The Mazda CUV could go to TNGA, though Mazda is known for its ability to build a number of disparate models in one factory complex.

Dirty snow blankets the ground and largely goes un-shoveled along the walkways around GAZ's city within a city — a factory complex best described as Ford's Rouge on steroids.

Effectively editing seemingly incompatible sequences of archival footage with the poetics of art history, Factory Complex and Reincarnation are both focused on female experience, each work presenting historical information not usually discussed in the West.

At this year's Venice Biennale, Heung - soon was awarded the Silver Lion for Factory Complex, a work about the oppression of female factory workers.