Sentences with phrase «hang on museum walls»

Framed raw canvases stained with dripped enamel and oil paintings hang on museum walls, reviving remarkable works of art from one of America's most prominent artists of the past.
Vibrant paintings hang on museum walls and display textured masterpieces created by unforgettable artists remembe...
, an image of the artist struggling to pull up his sagging pants, one can not imagine this hanging on a museum wall 50 years ago.
As we look at Fahamu Pecou's Phoenix, an image of the artist struggling to pull up his sagging pants, one can not imagine this hanging on a museum wall 50 years ago.

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With all the MoMA - worthy art hanging on restaurant walls right now, you might wonder if you're eating in a museum.
A museum collection of paintings and portraits hung on the walls.
Original pieces of museum quality art are hung on the walls of this room.
I think not — there are many different images that I have been compelled to visit in the different museums in Manhattan that I am perfectly happy leaving there on the walls of the museums and that I thoroughly enjoy seeing over and over and over again when I visit them — along with new exhibits that are put on periodically but that I would never even consider purchasing let alone live with hanging on my own walls for any length of time if at all --
I have a history of constructing vivid but sometimes revealed to be false memories of favorite paintings by artists I love: a painting will be a lodestar in my mind, and I will remember not just it, but the wall of the museum or gallery that it hung on, and perhaps at the core of my memory is my memory of myself at the instant of seeing it.
and hung them on walls throughout the museum.
Few mentioned quality, on the grounds that Frieze is committed to presenting edgy work and young artists, and that the mandate of contemporary art fairs is to present work that grabs attention, not timeless expressions that will hang on tomorrow's museum walls.
And in Peyton's case, the celebration would extend into a more lasting artistic statement; the painter's oil study Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008, which on Tuesday night hung on the upstairs wall, just south of the chili table, was appended to her current show at the New Museum the following day.
Laura Owens's hare - brainy clock paintings that hang high on the wall at her outstanding retrospective at the Whitney Museum sound no tick - tocks as the hands spin at their own pace, keeping no time except their very own.
Pieces by Japanese artist Kaiichi Tanaami hang on the wall at the International Pop exhibit preview at the Dallas Museum of Art on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015.
It makes sense that an art enthusiast would have a strong desire to have a famous, original, museum, master painting hanging on the wall in their own home.
Continuing the theme of collectors» apartments, a tapestry showing the living room of a museum trustee hung on a dividing wall, behind which a video work and drawings were displayed.
«Black Block» Is Newest Brooklyn Buy — So taken is the Brooklyn Museum with their current exhibition of large - scale sculptures by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, that the institution has decided to purchase «Black Block,» an unusually monochromatic wall hanging comprised of everyday materials, which is currently on display in the institutions's current show, «Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui» and will be traveling to museums in Des Moines, Miami Beach San Diego once the exhibition ends in August.
Like Matisse, he's become the type of artist we expect to see hanging on the walls of museums.
The American... doesn't just hold his own: he actually upstages Matisse... Like Matisse, he's become the type of artist we expect to see hanging on the walls of museums.
The subdued one, with portraits of The Poet and The Lover hanging on the wall by the double bed, from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam?
[12] The following listing indicates by curator the group and solo exhibitions in which Cai participated that were curated or cocurated by the leading émigré Chinese critics and curators — Fei Dawei: Art Chinois 1990: Chine demain pour hier, Pourrières, Aix - en Provence, 1990, and Cai Guo - Qiang, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, 2000; Hou Hanru: Cities on the Move, which opened at Secession, Exhibition Hall for Contemporary Art, Vienna, 1997 - 98, and traveled to Bordeaux, New York, Helsinki, Humlebaek, and London; Gao Minglu: Inside Out: New Chinese Art, which opened at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and Asia Society, 1998 - 99, and traveled to San Francisco, Monterrey, Tacoma, Seattle, and Canberra, and The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, which opened at the Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing, 2005, and traveled to Buffalo; and Wu Hung: The First Guangzhou Triennial.
On your next visit to the Hammer Museum, don't be surprised to find more people fiddling with their iPhones than actually looking at the art hanging on the wallOn your next visit to the Hammer Museum, don't be surprised to find more people fiddling with their iPhones than actually looking at the art hanging on the wallon the walls.
An Alexander Calder mobile hangs in front of the living wall sculpture terrace at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on April, 28, 2016 in San Francisco, Calif..
The artist notoriously had himself shot in the arm by a rifle - wielding friend; crawled through broken glass; spent an entire day hung on a museum gallery wall, bound into a canvas sling.
The art that will eventually hang on the Brooklyn Museum's venerable walls will be curated by us — anyone who registers on the GO website by Sept. 9 to visit studios on the weekend of Sept. 8 - 9 in order to view the art and nominate their favorite registered artists.
Whether they're on view in their private museums or hanging from the walls of their luxurious mansions, some of the world's most famous artworks are in possession of these very collectors.
You might not notice walls like these as much in a museum because they typically are built close to ceiling height, but Capitain Petzel's space is two stories high with a mezzanine, which meant that I couldn't just hang a painting on one of those walls without it looking like a sculpture.
Marshall's 2016 painting, Untitled (Gallery), a work of a matte black female figure, hangs on the white museum wall, challenging America, vis - á - vis the museum, to be more inclusive.
«I've always had this intimate relationship with drawing,» Mr. Ofili said in an interview at the Studio Museum, surveying dozens of watercolors that were about to be hung on the gallery walls.
On the more intimate first floor of the gallery, a group of seven small square abstract oil paintings by McDowell hang at museum height around the four walls of the room.
Cheap aluminum kettles and tiffin boxes, decorative wall tapestry and textiles, mostly collected from markets in Cirebon, are either hung on the walls or are placed on wooden plinths as if in a museum, transforming every day objects into precious items.
Seven of them in DayGlo orange and blue hang on the walls of the museum show's best room, a black - light lounge with leather furniture and a small TV screen that plays a loop of the promotional videos Flood makes for his shows.
And however difficult it is to stage a successful temporary exhibition, it is infinitely harder to hang a stable collection in such a way that the pictures themselves tell the story the museum wants to tell without overreliance on captions, wall labels or guide books.
Sometimes we in the prep department at the Hammer Museum find ourselves far away from hanging a framed work on the wall.
In 1963, Novros took a formative trip to Europe, visiting Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, the Paleolithic cave paintings of Northern Spain, and the Alhambra in Granada — which, he has said, «taught me that a painting could be something other than a rectangle hanging on a wall in a museum or gallery.»
Michael Chavez, left, and Chris Perez move a painting into place Tuesday before it is hung on a wall at the new Clyfford Still Museum, just west of the Denver Art Museum's Hamilton Building.
Museums frequently buy artworks that have hung on their walls as part of loan exhibits.
Give a random collection of art pieces museum - worthy treatment by hanging them together on a single wall.
Atlanta designer Susan Ferrier tiled a collection of circa - 1860s archeological lithographs on one wall of the master bedroom; on the wall directly opposite, the effect is balanced by the vintage ammonite museum banner hung like a tapestry.
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