Sentences with phrase «history of the museum»

We spoke with its author, Mary Anne Staniszewski, about the institutional history of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) heralded by Alfred Barr, Jr., its canon, ideology and display that set the tone both for today's modern museum and contemporary art spaces.

The NCM Motorsports Park embarked on one of the most exciting and significant expansion projects in the nearly 20 - year history of the Museum when on June 28, 2013 it broke ground on a 184 acre Motorsports Park.

«A new series of outdoor paintings by Julian Schnabel that will transform the Legion of Honor's courtyard into a temporary gallery, a major film production by DIS commissioned for the de Young's atrium and a new media installation by Lynn Hershman Leeson that reflects the particular history of the museums, put us at the center of artistic production and institutional reflection.»

Each of the topics raised by these questions — globalization, colonial collections, and the critical history of the museum among -LSB-.....]

A brief history of the Museum can be found on this site.Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: A Biography (1978), written by B.H. Friedman, Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art (1990), by Avis Berman, and The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made: A Family Memoir (1999), by Flora Miller Biddle, are important books that document her life and family.

Whitney curator Barbara Haskell, author Avis Berman, and senior curatorial assistant Sasha Nicholas will discuss the early history of the Museum, including the early careers of its founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and first director, Juliana Force.

In this issue, Fraser considers artist Michael Asher's recent installation at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, a conceptual history of the museum's past decade of exhibitions

Commissioned to enter Amgueddfa Cymru's collection, the work creates an interface with the architecture of the gallery and the wider history of the Museum and its collections.

Two exhibitions of work by Season 4 artist Mark Dion, The Natural History of the Museum and Systema Metropolis, are running concurrently in Sweden, Switzerland, and London, respectively, this summer...

The Upper East Side townhouse that's home to this show, the Mnuchin gallery at 45 East 78th Street, is a savvy bijou of a place, with a long history of museum - quality exhibitions carefully focused on high points in modern or contemporary art — Warhol's colored soup cans, Donald Judd's stacks, Damien Hirst's medicine cabinets.

«The Virginia Museum's Picasso exhibition is the most ambitious show in the 75 - year history of our museum,» VMFA Director Alex Nyerges said.

Relive the history of the Museum's 25 - metre blue whale skeleton in the interactive online experience.

Interested in the history of the Museum?

Museum Curator Dr. James Cornelius joins us to talk about the history of the museum, along with the similarities of today's politics with the politics of Lincoln's time.

This year we will be viewing the premier of Vision Becomes Reality, the new documentary on the history of the Museum at Campbell River, after the AGM, and a reception celebrating our 60th Anniversary!

This year we will be viewing the premier of Vision Becomes Reality, the new documentary on the history of the Museum at Campbell River, after the AGM, and a reception...

In Het Anne Frank Huis, een biografie (The Anne Frank House — A Biography) parallels are drawn between the history of the museum and the AFH organisation against the social developments in the Netherlands during those years.

This year we will be viewing the premier of Vision Becomes Reality, the new documentary on the history of the Museum at Campbell River, after the AGM, and a...

The book chronicles the history of the museum, starting with its quiet beginnings in 1969 in a former classroom building on Duke's East Campus as the Duke University Museum of Art.

The source material itself, Mar's Gesamtkunstwerk, considers exhibition practices throughout the history of museums and the ways artifacts and other cultural products are displayed and interpreted.

In addition to working on upcoming exhibitions of works by Lawren Harris and Marisa Merz, she is also working on special projects related to the history of the museum's collection of works on paper.

Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings now on view at The National Gallery of Art in Washington (USA) is the first exhibition to encompass the full range of work by a woman photographer in the history of the Museum.

3 years later, he held a solo exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art at the youngest age in the history of the museum.

No other artist epitomizes the character of the Guggenheim Museum quite like Vasily Kandinsky, who is closely linked to the history of the museum and has been collected in depth in the permanent collection since its founding.

The restoration tradition at the Hermitage is closely linked to the history of the museum itself.

This course surveys the history of museums, galleries, and other exhibition spaces and explores how social and cultural conditions, institutional requirements, and aesthetic conceptions have shaped past and current exhibition practices.

Suspended from the ceiling at a skewed angle and developed with reference to the architecture and history of the museum, the work imposes a foreshortened perspective, evoking unfamiliar registers of perception and creating a rupture in the visual field.

«I think the first fifteen years of the museum is only the beginning, we think there is a lot of potential of people we can reach and bring to art, of collaborations with artists we can do, and one of the things that have marked the history of the museum and that we would like to do more in the future is to have public art projects.

A selection of rarely shown documentary material from MoMA's Archives will be incorporated in the galleries, tracing the history of the Museum and contextualizing the works.

The book includes a Foreword by Barbara Knowles Debs, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Museum, and Chair of the Collections Committee; a Preface by Museum Director Arnold L. Lehman; and an Introduction outlining the history of the Museum's collection, by Chief Curator and project director Kevin Stayton.

A well illustrated book, it offers detailed descriptions of the collection, the history of the museum, and its collecting policies.

«For the first time in the history of this museum, we actually have galleries dedicated to the permanent collection,» Ms. Sultan said.

For the Renaissance Society exhibition, the artist has been researching the history of the museum from the 1970s and»80s, a time when the museum's director, Susanne Ghez, was presenting important early exhibitions of conceptual art, at the beginning of what would come to be her internationally influential career.

The Anniversary Show brings together more than four hundred works from the collection, highlighting moments when the history of the museum has intersected meaningfully with the history of art.

In honor of this extraordinary gift — one of the most important in the history of the museum — the Morgan presents Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection.

Discuss artwork in the current exhibitions and learn about the history of the Museum.

A visible legacy from this long involvement is the remarkable group of photographs that Jackson curated from the archives for the cafe of that Museum after his retirement in 1998 illustrating the history of the Museum and its» associated artists.

At the same time, it has robbed the prize of its natural setting at Tate Britain, where the history of the museum sets off the sensations and shocks of contemporary art so well.

Is it possible, some academics and art experts ask, to create an «oasis of culture» in a place that has no history of museums, no community of artists to speak of, no collectors, no donors, and where the local passions run to falcons and racehorses rather than to Pablo Picasso and Jeff Koons?

In many ways the struggle between elitism and populism has defined the history of museums in the United States, from P. T. Barnum's museum to the Museum of Fine Arts founded by Boston Brahmins to John Cotton Dana's workingman - focused Newark Museum.

A selection of rarely shown documentary material from MoMA's archives will be incorporated in the galleries, tracing the history of the Museum and contextualizing the works.

Among his many books on landscape painting and Ming and Qing art, he has a new series on the history of the museum; the first volume, published in 2012, is entitled, Art Museum as Knowledge Production.

One side focuses on the history of the museum and includes artwork by faculty and past artists in residence.

A selection of rarely shown materials from MoMA's archives, retracing the history of the Museum, will also be incorporated into the galleries.

She rattled off specific stats and included her own experience — noting that «Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video,» her 2014 mid-career retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York, was the first - ever solo exhibition for an African American in the history of the museum — as an example of what is possible and the hurdles that remain.

1:1» at Schaulager, Basel, in 2008; and «Untitled» for K21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein - Westfalen, Düsseldorf, a de Chirico-esque response to the extraordinary architecture and history of the museum, on display until 15 April 2012.