Sentences with phrase «museumgoers on»
«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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Museumgoers are encouraged to choose something from the rack and boogie on down (not that I did).
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.
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.