Sentences with phrase «great encyclopedic museums»

It is one of the world's great encyclopedic museums; its primary focus is the past.

- Some scrappy art e-commerce site has hooked up with the greatest encyclopedic museum in America — if not the world — and is now selling work by the museum's affiliated artists online.

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Massimiliano Gioni introduced the choice of theme evoking the Italo - American self - taught artist Marino Auriti who «on November 16, 1955 filed a design with the US Patent office depicting his Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), an imaginary museum that was meant to house all worldly knowledge, bringing together the greatest discoveries of the human race, from the wheel to the satellite.

Split between the old Giardini and the newer Arsenale site at the Venice Biennale, The Encyclopedic Palace is based on the concept of self - taught artist Marino Auriti, who dreamed of devising a museum with the potential to house all of mankind's greatest achievements in one cohesive space.

The title was chosen by curator Massimiliano Gioni, who presented this year's theme by evoking the Italo - American self - taught artist Marino Auriti who «on November 16, 1955 filed a design with the US Patent office depicting his Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), an imaginary museum that was meant to house all worldly knowledge, bringing together the greatest discoveries of the human race, from the wheel to the satellite.

But Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington and Philadelphia also have the kind of historically great museums with deep, often encyclopedic collections that, over time, create whole ecosystems of art around them.

2013 Alternative Guide to the Universe, Hayward Gallery, London, UK The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Great and Mighty Things: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Women's Studies, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY