Sentences with phrase «museum at ground level»
It fills most of a large wall over the museum's central circulation area, through which everyone entering the museum at ground level will pass.
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Guests will enjoy touring the museum next door at the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale Sanctuary Visitor Center, swimming in the huge ancient Hawaiian fish pond right in front of the property, or enjoying an oceanfront dinner at Monsoon's Indian Restaurant on the ground floor level.
In 1932, when most important art exhibitions in America were conservative affairs administered by academic judges, the one - year - old Whitney Museum unveiled an alternative aimed at leveling the ground to survey the more unruly range of the day's visual expression.
Taniguchi's expansion of New York's Museum of Modern Art will begin a chronological survey of the institution's collection at the top, allowing it to foreground contemporary art on the ground level.
The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.