Sentences with phrase «for encyclopedic museums»

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.

She created a dynamic and widely renowned contemporary art program that has become an influential model for encyclopedic museums as they engage with the art of our time.

She has created a dynamic and widely renowned contemporary art program that has become an influential model for encyclopedic museums as they engage the art of our time.

Not exact matches

, Whitechapel Gallery, London, (2013); The Encyclopedic Palace, the 55th Venice Biennale, (2013); The Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2012); 10000 Lives, Gwangju Biennale, Korea (2010); Skin Fruit, New Museum, New York (2010); Fare Mondi / Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, (2009); Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens (2007); Sequence 1, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy (2007); and Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2006).

Still, the DIA's African - American program has been stuck in neutral — despite the advantages of housing the General Motors Center for African American Art, a curator devoted to the discipline and being the only encyclopedic museum in America to have permanent collection galleries devoted to African - American art.

Since 2006, Michael Govan has been in charge of transforming the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from a Victorian - style encyclopedic museum into a powerhouse for contemporarMuseum of Art from a Victorian - style encyclopedic museum into a powerhouse for contemporarmuseum into a powerhouse for contemporary art.

Dozens more artists would fit in well, such as Cady Noland, Cordy Ryman, or Phoebe Washburn, but the New Museum does not aim for an encyclopedic group show.

Group exhibitions include Imagine Brazil, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway, Meanwhile... Suddenly And Then; 12th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France 2013 - 2014; Unstable Territory: Borders and Identity in Contemporary Art, Centre for Contemporary Culture at Palazzo Strozzi; CCC Strozzina, Florence, Italy; The Insides are on the Outside — O interior está no exterior, Casa de Vidro, São Paulo, Brazil; The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Museum as Hub: Walking Drifting Dragging, New Museum, New York, USA, 2013.

«We are thrilled for the opportunity to exhibit her mirror mosaics and drawings within the context of our glass galleries and as part of a more expansive, encyclopedic museum collection.»

As an encyclopedic museum, there are always a variety of exhibitions, but the current offerings are especially rich: The James Turrell retrospective on view through April 6 beats out last year's Guggenheim show for breadth of offerings and the survey «Calder and Abstraction» boasts exhibition design by Frank Gehry that includes curved walls that cast those mobiles and stabiles in a whole new light.

While not as extensive as the American art collections in other Texas encyclopedic museums, SAMA's American holdings are remarkably strong for a collection that, until now, has grown on an ad hoc basis.

«As an encyclopedic museum, we really need to be able to acquire, care for, and show these sorts of works of art.»

Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) The eighth largest and ninth oldest encyclopedic art museum in the United States, noted for its Chinese bronzes, Japanese Edo period art, JMW Turner watercolours and Neo-Impressionist painMuseum of Art (IMA) The eighth largest and ninth oldest encyclopedic art museum in the United States, noted for its Chinese bronzes, Japanese Edo period art, JMW Turner watercolours and Neo-Impressionist painmuseum in the United States, noted for its Chinese bronzes, Japanese Edo period art, JMW Turner watercolours and Neo-Impressionist paintings.

For all intents and purposes, this is a reason to celebrate, an affirmation of the traditional system, which was put to the test when Donald and Doris Fisher, longtime museum trustees and founders of the GAP, proposed a palatial edifice in the Presidio to house their encyclopedic amassing of post war and contemporary art.

Gilvin will conclude with proposals for developing encyclopedic art museums and the African collections that they hold.

I want it for all our encyclopedic museums, which, although large, are still small enough to model a gallery host program after the Chrysler's, with adjustments where needed.

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.

Heinrich also said DAM is committed to being an encyclopedic museum, and mentioned the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA Denver), as if to suggest the cutting - edge programming belongs at the smaller museum of Denver whose simpler building, by architect David Adjaye, has proven a galvanizing space for public gathemuseum, and mentioned the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA Denver), as if to suggest the cutting - edge programming belongs at the smaller museum of Denver whose simpler building, by architect David Adjaye, has proven a galvanizing space for public gatheMuseum of Contemporary Art (MCA Denver), as if to suggest the cutting - edge programming belongs at the smaller museum of Denver whose simpler building, by architect David Adjaye, has proven a galvanizing space for public gathemuseum of Denver whose simpler building, by architect David Adjaye, has proven a galvanizing space for public gatherings.

In addition, the Museum houses encyclopedic holdings of historic period clothing and textiles as well as prints, drawings, archival materials, and photographs that are displayed in rotation for reasons of preservation.

For many, the Dallas Museum's exciting encyclopedic ocean of art will be that threshold of no return, which brings people to a more sophisticated and well - rounded sense of the globe, since it is one of the 10th largest museums in the country and a viewing platform for over 700,000 visitors per yeFor many, the Dallas Museum's exciting encyclopedic ocean of art will be that threshold of no return, which brings people to a more sophisticated and well - rounded sense of the globe, since it is one of the 10th largest museums in the country and a viewing platform for over 700,000 visitors per yefor over 700,000 visitors per year.

So if you want to dip into the art - well of knowledge at their exciting encyclopedic museum you will definitely be all the better for it.

«Like all encyclopedic museums, the Brooklyn Museum has to divide its attention between balancing its costly obligation to care for, present and pay for artworks and experiences across 5,000 years of history and snagging the attention of price - and time - conscious smartphone users,» said Maxwell L. Anderson, who has served as director of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Ryan Trecartin just co-curated the New Museum Triennial, and increasingly curating can even be seen as a manifestation of artistic practice: Cindy Sherman's 2013 Venice Biennale contribution, for example, was a mini-show she curated within Massimiliano Gioni's sprawling Encyclopedic Palace.

His work has also been included in a number of important international group exhibitions, including: «The Encyclopedic Palace,» 55th Venice Biennale (2013); «10,000 Lives,» Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2010); «21 artists for the 21st century,» Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2010); «Making Worlds,» 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); «Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968 - 2008,» Palazzo Grassi, Venice, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2008 — 10); «After Nature,» New Museum, New York (2008); «Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection,» DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (2007); and «Of Mice and Men,» 4th Berlin Biennial (2006).