Sentences with phrase «houses encyclopedic»

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.

Founded in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, houses an encyclopedic collection of more than 57,000 works, and embraces the art of antiquity to the present.

It houses encyclopedic collections in its Archaeology, Fine Arts and Jewish Art and Life wings.

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.

Not exact matches

In Roland Emmerich's White House Down, there's no adorable canine to miraculously emerge from the rubble once the dust settles, but there's a puppy - doggish tour guide (Nicolas Wright) who, while walking visitors through the sacred residence of which he's an encyclopedic fanboy, turns and says, «Now here's the room that got blown up in Independence Day.»

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.

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.

From the Gardner, Frick, and Barnes collections on the East Coast to the Rachofsky House in Preston Hollow, houses showcasing the tastes and interests of a single patron are invariably distinctive in a way that larger, encyclopedic collections can't be.

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 The Encyclopedic Palace (Il Palazzo Enciclopedico) refers to a project by Italo - American self - taught artist Marino Auriti who in 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.

About the Minneapolis Instiute of Arts The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), home to one of the finest encyclopedic art collections in the country, houses more than 80,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of world history.

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.

One of the finest art museums in the world, The Art Institute of Chicago is a world - renowned encyclopedic art museum that houses more than 300,000 works of art.