Sentences with phrase «many museumgoers»

The Museum Campus is the site of concerts, marathons, football games and other special events that can affect traffic, parking fees and even parking availability for museumgoers.

Museumgoers can also check out oddities like a boot used in lunar training exercises and a state - of - the - art fecal collection bag.

MythBusters, the Discovery Channel series that uses scientific method to deconstruct and debunk urban legends, is giving museumgoers the chance to join the program's hyperkinetic quest for truth.

In one of the most compelling interactive simulations, museumgoers adjust the size and speed of a 40 - foot tornado and then stand inside the vortex.

His bold spirit is captured in the exhibit's unusual displays: Museumgoers can browse through cases filled with Darwin's microscopes and handwritten letters as well as view live Galápagos tortoises, an iguana, and a clutch of ornate horned frogs — a sampling of the animals that the young naturalist sent back to England during his 1830s voyage on the Beagle.

For its cathartic image (see title), the movie revisits a childhood memory likely shared by any impressionable museumgoer of a certain age.

While working in London's Tate Gallery, Cumming learned that museumgoers want answers to three questions: «What should I look for?»

In the 1970s he pioneered the use of new video technology, which attracted artists because of its portability, low cost and instant feedback, and I think he would have enjoyed that museumgoers can now read his handwritten notebooks on an iPad.

And, not coincidentally, the sambistas were predominantly Afro - Brazilian and working class, in contrast to the wealthier, predominantly white Brazilian museumgoers inside.

These exhibitions were significant in that they demonstrated the role that art had during that time to a new generation of museumgoers and artists.

The new building, designed by Adjaye Associates, with Cooper Robertson as executive architects and program planning consultants, will enable the Studio Museum to better serve its growing and diverse audiences, provide additional educational opportunities to museumgoers from toddlers to seniors, expand its world - renowned exhibitions of art by artists of African descent and influenced and inspired by black culture, and effectively display its singular collection of artwork from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Other artists looking at economic matters include Irena Haiduk, who has created a digital apparatus for museumgoers to purchase public land in Serbia, after a privatization measure recently adopted in that country.

Museumgoers may be accustomed to these sorts of things made in shiny gold and silver.

Thanks to developments in conceptual art in the 1970s, wherein artists, in the lineage of Joseph Kosuth, attempted to distill the artwork into the presentation of words and ideas rather than crafted objects — not to mention the recent vogue for archival ephemera as exhibition material — artists, curators, and museumgoers are well - acclimated to seeing pieces of text on display in museum galleries.

The next year Tiravanija (a Thai - Argentine) serves Thai curry to gallery and museumgoers.

In addition to the more than 4,000 items in the Egyptian holdings, museumgoers can scope pieces by masters such as Cézanne, Monet and Degas, plus an entire center devoted to feminist art.

I am not sure he had great sums of money to spend, but he was an avid reader and museumgoer, especially focused on the painting and sculpture of the 19th to mid-20th centuries and enthusiast of art history, especially.

Artsy features the world's leading artists and galleries all on one platform and is used by art lovers, museumgoers, patrons, collectors, students, and educators to discover, learn about, and collect art.

When they began a quartet jumping section, the museumgoers around them surrendered to the compulsory modern - day ritual of capturing every minute of their performance — instantly generating a trove of documentary images of intimacies and gestures that, despite the performance's public nature, I wondered if anyone else would ever see.

A traveling exhibition of her work, «Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer,» gives museumgoers an opportunity to take that close look.

As museumgoers made their way through the exhibit, I couldn't help but think of it as a kind of improvisatory dance with nature, especially with you there.

The show runs concurrently with «Andrew Wyeth: Looking Beyond,» giving museumgoers a chance to compare Wyeth's work with Welling's interpretation of it.

Complaints by museumgoers that they get lost in museums raise another major concern for many institutions: flow.

Ordinarily, museumgoers gasp over paintings executed by this protean artist during his astonishing 80 - year career.

«The Sons of God Saw the Daughters of Men That They Were Fair,» a 1923 marble sculpture by Daniel Chester French, greets museumgoers on the grand staircase of the Corcoran Gallery of Art building, on 17th Street NW in Washington.

In addition, the institution awarded artist Wesley Stringer the People's Choice award, which was determined by museumgoers votes.

Museumgoers look to it for direction and the art world looks to it for, well, all sorts of things.

Museumgoers who expect the 1995 biennial to be all of a piece will likely be as disappointed as those who came to the 1993 exhibition in search of abstract painting.

Here in Austin, Texas, under the direction of Louis Grachos, The Contemporary Austin has equipped staff to register museumgoers to vote over the course of an exhibition of work by Los - Angeles - based artist Rodney McMillian.

Museumgoers are encouraged to choose something from the rack and boogie on down (not that I did).

Let me say at the outset that shoes and socks were the only items of clothing that I removed or that any other museumgoer eager to explore certain aspects of the Whitney's just - opened Hélio Oiticica retrospective will be allowed to remove.

Jazz musician Cecil Taylor will perform in the gallery April 15 thru 24 while museumgoers view a retrospective of his career via photos, audio and more.

The Whitney Museum of American Art has had a few months to settle in to its brand new location in downtown Manhattan's Meatpacking District — it opened in the trendy locale in May — and museumgoers still have time to check out its inaugural exhibition in the sleek, new space.

Take «This Is New,» in which an attendant quotes a museumgoer a headline from that day's papers: only the visitor's response can trigger an interaction that concludes with the work's title being spoken.

Mr. Ofili's first one - man show in New York may surprise museumgoers who have not seen his work since 1999, when a painting of a black Madonna with a clump of elephant dung on one breast caused an uproar.

Here he casts museumgoers to move in a carefully staged gallery space.

Coetzee explained that his decision was influenced by two key factors: the fetish value of «selfies and the photographic image» among millennials, and the still - pressing need, in postapartheid South Africa, to offer black museumgoers work that they might identify with.

Museumgoers can watch as Carnegie Mellon University architecture students draw up their own remedy for an example of renewal that Mayor Bill Peduto of Pittsburgh called a «failed model of urbanism»: the 1965 Allegheny Center, a mixed - use superblock development separated from its neighborhood by a four - lane traffic circle.

And understanding what has happened is an urgent matter, not only for the painters whose work still dominates many of the contemporary galleries but also for the gallerygoers and museumgoers who still look to their work.

An exhibition of 30 of his 50 extant paintings, along with 10 sculptures, introduces this self - taught Jamaican artist, born in 1891, to American museumgoers.

This pretty much sums it up, Charlie Kaufman - style: A photograph of museumgoer taking a photograph of a painting that shows a painter making a painting.

But museumgoers and critics are so quick to embrace Piero's impassiveness as profundity that they risk losing track of how strange his work really is.

I doubt many museumgoers remember any of them very clearly, if indeed they remember them at all.

Throughout the performance, museumgoers will be invited to record all ancestral memories — «everything you have not forgotten but have forgotten how to remember» — and to re-establish the presence of magic in their lives at specific kiosks inside the Lobby.

For museumgoers or gallerygoers, who were more accustomed to keeping their distance from artworks and to observing sculptures on pedestals, the effect of walking on a work of art was challenging.

The Legion of Honor exhibition may be less revealing to regular museumgoers in that all the graphic works shown there will be drawn from the Andersons» 1996 gift of 655 objects.

The largest iteration of Fischer's «YES» project yet will see museumgoers create a landscape of clay sculptures that will metamorphose over the course of the show

But then there's a considerable array of non-Americans, many of whom will be new to casual museumgoers: among them, Karel Appel from Holland and Pierre Alechinsky from Belgium; the Frenchmen Pierre Soulages, Alfred Manessier, and Georges Mathieu; Antoni Tapies from Spain; and Japan's Kumi Sugai.

Such displays are more likely to encourage museumgoers with set belief systems to linger long enough to learn something new, she said.