Sentences with phrase «first encyclopedic museums»
Since 2012, she has worked to establish the MFA Boston as one of the first encyclopedic museums in the United States to fully integrate performance art into its exhibitions, programs, and permanent collection.
https://carpenter.center/ Not exact matches
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).
This show marked Simon's first solo exhibition in an encyclopedic museum.
Robert Rauschenberg, co-organised with The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and in close dialogue with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, is the first posthumous retrospective and the first comprehensive survey of Rauschenberg's protean work since the encyclopedic Guggenheim Museum exhibition in 1997.
Robert Rauschenberg, organized in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art and in close dialogue with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, will be the first posthumous retrospective and the first comprehensive survey of Rauschenberg's protean work since the encyclopedic Guggenheim Museum exhibition in 1997
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.
The association's first purchase, «September Moonrise,» an oil painting by Childe Hassam, is now part of the museum's encyclopedic collection of works from around the world.
Since opening its doors to the public in 1844, the Wadsworth Atheneum has paved the way for encyclopedic museums across the country, and has a rich legacy of Firsts.
Long known for her unflagging commitment to art, artists, and activism as the dynamic director since 1994 of Creative Time — the not - for - profit powerhouse that brought us Kara Walker's sugar sphinx last year, among many other spectacular projects — with this appointment Pasternak becomes the first woman to lead one of the very large encyclopedic New York art museums.