Sentences with phrase «millions of pieces of art»

The heart has been a favorite shape for Dine, one that has inspired millions of pieces of art in all different mediums ranging from painting to printmaking to sculpture.

Millions of pieces of art had been evacuated but, as a pledge...

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Sotheby's has recently enjoyed success in such aforementioned high profile auctions, including the sale of more than 350 pieces of David Bowie's art collection in November, which brought in $ 41.1 million, more than double what was originally expected.

, but seeing a piece of art that can send your soul to a beautiful place for just a moment is worth millions!

«Some of the other key pieces of legislation in this budget is continuing the monitor in the East Ramapo School District as well as a fund, a dedicated fund, of $ 3 million to keep full - day kindergarten, programs like music and art, as well as an increase in foundation aid of about $ 1 million for East Ramapo as well.

As is oft - noted, cinema remains the art form most closely tied to industry, so the mere act of assembling $ 50 million in financing for a piece of this nature certainly represents no easy task — it's an art in itself.

Actor - turned - writer Sheridan crafted a modern western that is both an entertaining genre piece and a thoughtful art film that became the highest - grossing independent film of the year ($ 27 million).

Better still, Neerpasch came up with an equally hare - brained scheme of his own — to insure the race car as a piece of art with a $ 1 million policy from Lloyd's.

It's hard to imagine now, when collector cars are treated like prized pieces of fine art, but there used to be a time when most collectors couldn't have cared less about Ferraris, and millions of Americans lived their entire lives without ever once seeing one on TV, much less in person.

This half - million dollar piece of state - of - the - art machinery is the absolute best - in - class printer capable of vast innovative applications for industrial book printing and production.

The Met's 2 million - piece art collection includes a diverse assortment of pieces from every region of the world.

Regarded as a true paradise for art lovers and boasting a collection of over 1 million pieces, Paris» incredible Louvre is an attraction definitely worthy of a visit whilst exploring this truly magnificent city.

Set within an impressive building, which dates back to the 12th century, the museum is regarded as a true paradise for art lovers and boasting a collection of over 1 million pieces, Paris» incredible Louvre is an attraction definitely worthy of a visit whilst exploring this truly magnificent city.

[In other v.interesting indie news, elsewhere in the piece (and let's not forget the reach of this article - Game Informer has a rate base of 2.3 million readers nowadays), Hight reveals that 120,000 people have bought ThatGameCompany's art - game fl0w on PlayStation 3 so far - not bad for a title that's as abstract as anything sold on a console thus far.]

That same Entrepreneur.com article states that dA has more than 14 million users, over 150,000 pieces of art are uploaded per day and each day sees 1.5 million comments posted.

Earlier this year, the tiny nation paid the highest amount ever for a piece of art when it purchased Paul Cézanne's The Card Players for $ 250 million.

ML Private Finance, an affiliate of Bank of America's Merrill Lynch, has petitioned a New York federal court to allow the liquidation of a collection of contemporary art and design pieces through auctions in May and June by Christie's International, which valued the trove at more than $ 17 million.

As with other movements, the form of works is varied — collectors can choose from works on paper, editions, sculptures or flat art, starting from around # 5,000 and rising into the millions for the most important pieces.

Artist Statement on DEEPHORIZON: «The supreme discipline of art — oil painting — is back with a vengeance — in the form of an oil painting on a 80.000 square miles ocean canvas with 32 million litres of oil — a unique piece of art... It has been 13 days since a BP oil and gas exploration well blew out, setting fire to the drilling rig, which sank, killing 11 people.

He also has a history with the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has 216 Johns pieces, including «Three Flags,» which it bought for $ 1 million in 1980, then the highest price ever paid for the work of a living artist.

In the»80s, she emerged as conceptual artist in the feminist art movement of the time, and since then her artwork — typically black - and - white photographic images, some as large as a billboard, with stripes of provocatively worded type on top of them — has become highly prized, one piece selling for nearly $ 1 million at a recent auction.

Several artworks toppled records throughout the night — most dramatically Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud, 1969, which sold for $ 142.4 million to beat out Edvard Munch's The Scream as the most expensive piece of art ever to be sold at auction.

The most recent record for a Rothko painting was set in 2012 when Orange, red, yellow sold at Sotheby's for $ 86.9 million — to date the highest price ever fetched by a piece of contemporary art at auction.

Christie's auction house evaluated a selection of works between $ 454 million and $ 867 million in December, though creditors believe that the D.I.T.'s entire collection of 66,000 art pieces may be worth billions.

Take, for example, Hirst's 2007 sculpture For the Love of God (a.k.a. the «Crystal Skull»), a platinum cast of a human cranium encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds: the piece was interpreted by some as a commentary on wretched excess in an art world awed by glamour and swimming in cash, but, whatever Hirst's satiric intention may have been, it was hard to detect in the asking price of # 50 million.

New York artist Nathan Sawaya's The Art of The Brick exhibition, currently on show at London's Old Truman Brewery, is created using millions of LEGO building blocks and is unique in its scope which ranges from new conceptual pieces to replicas of iconic classical artwork.

The moviemakers» efforts to sell the piece have yet to come to fruition, but the film they made of their experiences serves as an intriguing commentary on the establishment that has sprung up around a decidedly anti-establishment figure, one whose art has raked in millions of dollars... despite having been put out on the street for free.

With its new $ 305 million Snohetta - designed building, SFMOMA has nearly tripled its exhibition space (to a capacious 170,000 square feet), grown its collection by some 3,000 pieces through an ambitious Campaign for Art program and opened with a 270 - object showcase of the blue - chip Fisher Collection of mid - to late - 20th century art by such seminal figures as Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein and Agnes MartArt program and opened with a 270 - object showcase of the blue - chip Fisher Collection of mid - to late - 20th century art by such seminal figures as Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein and Agnes Martart by such seminal figures as Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein and Agnes Martin.

«Turner Contemporary, since it opened nearly six years ago, has been such a force for good in Margate — bringing over two million visitors to the town, as well as working with community groups and school children, and putting iconic pieces of art on our doorstep.»

If one excludes the controversial claim that the 3 million year old Makapansgat Pebble (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) represents the world's oldest piece of junk art (in this case an objet trouve or «found object», chosen for its resemblance to a human skull), the first junk artist was Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968).

Illuminate the Arts, the non-profit behind the «Bay Lights,» a temporary LED artwork strung across San Francisco's Bay Bridge, raised $ 4 million for the reinstallation of the piece.

Auction houses played an increasingly important role as sellers of contemporary art after 1973, when the auction of 50 pieces from the Pop art collection of American taxicab magnate Robert Scull — some of which sold at prices 50 times greater than Scull had originally paid — garnered more than $ 2.2 million.

Indonesian artist I Nyoman Masriadi's sarcastic, comic - book style painting «Sorry Hero, I Forgot» of a Batman and a Superman fetched $ HK4.82 million ($ 620,382), a world auction record for the artist and world record for any piece of contemporary Southeast Asian contemporary art.

Geoffrey Farmer's piece «The Last Two Million Years» is pictured during a media preview of his upcoming exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, British Columbia on May 28, 2015.

The pieces tallied $ 47 million, three times the estimate, according to Brett Gorvy, Christie's global head of postwar and contemporary art.

In the past year, SFMOMA's collection - building shifted into high gear, topping off with the announcement a month ago that it had acquired some $ 40 million worth of contemporary and modern art, including significant pieces by Piet Mondrian, Robert Rauschenberg and Louise Bourgeois.

It fetched $ 106.5 million which makes it the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction.

From Warhol's silkscreened dollar signs to Damien Hirst's bejeweled 100 - million dollar skull, everyone wants a piece of the action; the borderline between art as commodity and commodity itself is officially blurred.

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The Atlanta City Council unanimously approved an ordinance authorizing the city to acquire nine new pieces of art for a total investment of nearly $ 4.4 million.

McEwen's booklet also reproduces a newspaper ad memorializing real estate developer Samuel J. Lefrak («The Vision to See / The Faith to Believe / The Courage to Do»), images of sidewalks dotted with discarded chewing gum, a view of a landscape pocked with bomb craters, and a news brief about a boy sticking a piece of gum onto a $ 1.5 million Helen Frankenthaler painting during a visit to the Detroit Institute of Arts — as well as a digression into the life of Hassel, a Danish writer of pulp combat fiction who drove a German Panzer tank during the war.

News: pieces by Japanese architect Junya Ishigami, British artist Tracey Emin and Australian artist Hany Armanious will be the first three artworks installed as part of Sydney's AUS$ 9 million City Centre Public Art Plan.

While collectors of Asian contemporary art are still not ready to «drop USD20 million» on a piece, and even USD5 million is a push, what was undoubtedly evident in the Asian Modern and Contemporary evening sale was overwhelming confidence by Asian buyers in the higher - end modern and contemporary Asian art market.

These artists dominated the art scene all throughout the 1990s and became quite noted for their unique artworks, on top of netting millions of dollars from their pieces.

A collection of 21 pieces of contemporary art, all depicting the U.S. dollar in some way, is expected to fetch as much as $ 93 million when it heads to a Sotheby's auction in London on July 1.

In June, 2007, Artemis and the Stag, a bronze sculpture, owned by the Albright - Knox Art Gallery, was auctioned at Sothebys in New York for $ 28.6 million - one of the highest ever prices paid for a piece of Greek sculpture.

He thought the $ 3 million to $ 4 million estimate was too low, that the piece was worth $ 10 million, given that it had once been owned by Alfred H. Barr, founding director of the Museum of Modern Art.

In a legal action filed in January against the Qatari family's agent, Mr. Gagosian said that he had bought the 1931 sculpture in May 2015 for about $ 106 million from Picasso's daughter Maya Widmaier - Picasso, and then sold it to Mr. Black, who expected to receive it after the closing of the Museum of Modern Art's acclaimed «Picasso Sculpture» show — in which the piece was featured — on Feb. 7.

Sotheby's $ 242 million evening sale of contemporary art in May in New York only had 44 pieces, but 95 % of them found takers.

Last September, thousands of people all over Seoul collected 1.7 million pieces of discarded plastic in order to create the «Happy Happy» Plastic Stadium, possibly the world's biggest plastic art installation.