Sentences with phrase «luxury objects»

With topics such as luxury objects in the pre-Columbian Americas, 20th - century Afro - Brazilian art, alternative spaces in Mexico City, and boundary - crossing practices of Latino artists, exhibitions will range from monographic studies of individual artists to broad surveys that cut across numerous countries.

As you walk down the aisles of these fairs the feel is of giant supermarkets: supermarkets that happen to be selling luxury objects of unimaginable price.

Each ceases contemporary art that connects with the history of glasswork, from luxury objects such as chandeliers and mirrors to household items like drinking vessels and light bulbs.

Aquiles has also partnered with FACUNDO Rum Collection to create ten one - of - a-kind bar trays that toe the line between art and luxury object for the exhibition.

Looking at photographs of luxury objects presented for sale, as well as display cases for similar products, Kronberg finds the transformative power of presentation inspiring; she wants the empty box, not the necklace.

Suggesting mainly scenery of the privileged and pastoral, displayed in a neighborhood of Manhattan's elite, it's difficult not to view these paintings as also inapposite, luxury objects amid a recovering economy.

As for the purpose of the Antikythera instrument, Charette says it strikes him as a luxury object, given that numerical tables could have done the same job for less trouble.

You could tell the guy was very conscious of what he was doing, painting-wise — he wasn't trying to make a luxury object.

The delightful parallelism in placing an object of such overblown market value as Koons» balloon animals amongst these objects of natural wonder, themselves luxury objects in much the same way, is one of the best uses of the various contexts the Carnegie Museum has to offer.

By then reproducing these display devices in rubber, plaster and ceramic she renders the luxury object's container as an autonomous object imbued with its own aura; the measure of quality here rooted in the formal elements of the created abstract space, not necessarily material value.

I do not perceive it as a luxury object, I feel it is something integral to life, like inhaling and exhaling...»

«In New York, art has become a luxury object, almost about fashion, and we try to get away from that,» Servais said, standing beside Papadopoulos's sprawling sculpture installed in the bottom floor of The Loft.

This is navel - gazing worth doing, offering institutional critique in the language of art, not prose or political spin, plus the humor of their Marxism despite being, of course, luxury objects themselves.