Sentences with word «museumgoer»

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.

Earlier generations of museumgoers gazed on slouching, tail - dragging dinosaurs.

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

All Shook Up In a museum near the San Andreas Fault, Earthquake delves deep into the science and history of seismic upheavals, and gives museumgoers a jolt in its quake simulator.

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.

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

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.

Museumgoers find exhibitions so buttressed with text and technology these days that they easily lose sight of pleasure as the ultimate reason to see a show.

Every art lover, from the casual museumgoer to the serious student, teacher, critic, or curator, will be eager to collect these Modern Masters.

On Sunday March 6, my fellow student educator Audrey and I facilitated an Art in Conversation with museumgoers in Leap Before you Look: Black Mountain College 1933 - 1957.

Examining blindness as a physiological and cultural construct, the exhibition encourages museumgoers to consider the primacy of visual experience, and challenge conventions of visual representation, which has contributed to the marginalization of groups throughout American history.

Earlier this year, hungry museumgoers could queue up to sample untitled (free / still) at MoMA, where the curry was dished out for three hours per day.

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 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.

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

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.

Regular museumgoers quickly glance up, curious to figure out what the rumpus is all about.

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.

Today museumgoers can see the results from an observation platform above Pit 91, the deposit that the museum has been excavating since 1969.

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

In viewing the wide range of structures, both the architect and the everyday museumgoer can observe the way in which hundreds of isolated projects merge to create an overall design, be it a room, a building, a city, or the entire planet.

Leap Before you Look: Black Mountain College 1933 - 1957 is the first exhibit to offer US museumgoers a sweeping look at the diversity of artistic and pedagogical experiments that animated the college.

A dedicated museumgoer and largely self - taught artist, Holtzman has immersed himself in the history of painting.

«I call myself a professional museumgoer,» says Moran with a slight laugh.

We're excited to welcome museumgoers into our five gallery spaces, which comprise contemporary works by local, national, and international artists that range widely in subject and in medium.

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.

As the guards turned a corner, sounds streamed from a gallery and light flickered from a projector; they swung open the doors to reveal a space packed with transfixed museumgoers.

Claiming «a tender interchange» can be detected in Madame Cézanne's gaze, museumgoers searching for signs of affection in these portraits will be disappointed.

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

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.

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.

«Color Field» blankets most of the floor of the Theater Gallery, requiring museumgoers to walk around its periphery.

That situation — tiny checklist, lengthy run time — sums up the predicament of Texas museumgoers hungry for examples of the 20th - century art of their state.

The show was quickly followed and complemented by The Complaints Department, a workshop that invited museumgoers to voice their opinions and arguments face - to - face with the Girls during «office hours.»

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.

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.

In Sonic Blossom a singer wearing a custom - designed gown will approach museumgoers with the question «May I give you the gift of song?»

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

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

Fischer will manipulate museumgoers» sense of perception through his work, like small sculptures that show a wilted flower in a vase and a rat playing in a piano.

It has been admired by museumgoers and coveted by Egyptologists as a control for analyzing the physical conditions of ancient mummies.

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.

Removing powerful works by wonderful African American artists like Romare Bearden and Faith Ringgold does a disservice to museumgoers who want to see them.

Instead, museumgoers find children — and adults — riding the Coaster Roller (below), a small platform that offers a surprisingly smooth ride over acorn - shaped balls.

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.