Sentences with phrase «few historic works»
One of the few historic works in his collection, Fountain is based on a urinal which Duchamp found, signed «R Mutt», and exhibited as a work of art in 1917.
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It is hard to believe that just a few years ago a national bipartisan fiscal commission was working on a plan to bring our growing and historic national debt back down to sustainable levels.
«While talks continue on a few outstanding issues, Senator Skelos is working extremely hard to forge an agreement with the governor and the Assembly on historic ethics reforms,» Skelos spokesman Scott Reif said.
In 1999, I was reading a nonfiction book on runaway slaves and came across a few lines and an endnote about an Antebellum divorce case from the Circuit Court in Talladega, Alabama (the city's lovely courthouse, built in 1836 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is still in use and is the oldest working courthouse in the U.S.).
Although the city itself is a grid pattern of high - rise office blocks, much pride and fine restoration work has been put into the few historic attractions — the Al - Bidyah Mosque and Fujairah Fort being two excellent sightseeing highlights of a visit here.
By juxtaposing new and recent paintings by the four artists with historic works ranging in date from the 1930s to early 1960s by artists such as Franz Kline, Irene Rice Pereira, John Graham, and Reginald Marsh, to name a few, Open Windows reveals sometimes surprising affinities, influences, and contrasts among and between the twenty - first - century works and mid-twentieth-century paintings, opening windows on new possibilities and fresh ways of seeing.
«This was an historic event in the auction world, with three major records set in the space of a few short hours: a record for any Post-War and Contemporary art sale at $ 388.5 million, a record for any private collection of Post-War and Contemporary Art at $ 174.9 million for the Pincus Collection, and a new record for the most expensive work of the period, with Rothko's Orange, Red, Yellow sold for $ 86.9 million,» said Brett Gorvy, Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art.
Recent U.S. exhibitions include Bronx Calling: AIM Biennale, The Bronx Museum, NY; Fresh Figurines: A New Look at a Historic Art Form, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA; New Work: Jessica Stoller, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA; and Reconstruct / Deconstruct History, Like the Spice Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, to name just a few.
The works in «Downtown Is A Construct,» Nate Lowman's third solo exhibition at Massimo De Carlo in London, derive from one of the few sections of his Tribeca loft studio (a weathered civic landmark building at the furthest mid-eastern border of the East Tribeca Historic District) not in perpetual use for painting, cleaning, storage, or planning: the ceiling.
Zilia Sánchez at Galerie Lelong, Art Basel, Kabinett Cuban - born, Puerto Rican - based artist Zilia Sánchez will raise a few eyebrows with this gallery's presentation of her recent and historic paintings and works on paper.
In addition, the gallery has made significant contributions in bringing to the forefront the work of historic African - American and women artists, who until recent years, as groups distinguished by race and gender, had few opportunities for recognition.
The great German painter Gerhard Richter is represented in this week's sales by a few of his collector - catnip Abstraktes Bilds, but his top lot is in fact an example of his historic photorealist works from earlier in his career, when he was upsetting the applecart of Modern European painting.