Sentences with phrase «of arts impresario»

Initially he lived and worked in Edinburgh under the wing of arts impresario Richard Demarco, exhibiting in the Demarco Gallery, before settling in London and going on to show work nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions.

Two wax sculptures of art impresarios were ceremonially lit today in Florence's Piazza della Signoria

Not exact matches

Radio host and performance art impresario Curtis Sliwa took his «King Cuomo II» act to the corner of Mulberry and Canal Street at the border of Little Italy yesterday and offered passersby free tastes of Sandra Lee's cottage cheese / tomato soup lasagna.

Perhaps the most palpable presence at the ceremony was its most conspicuous absence: Harvey Weinstein, the impresario who made a career out of leveraging Oscar campaigns to earn awareness for his movies, and in the process helped make awards season a viable business model for art films and midbudget, adult - oriented dramas, was once again a force, even if invisible.

In Deborah Davis» impressive recounting of this adventure, The Trip, Warhol's experiences mark the turning point in his life between «Raggedy Andy» Warhola, a small - town kid from Pittsburgh, and Andy Warhol, filmmaker and pop art impresario.

Our reviewer writes, «In Deborah Davis» impressive recounting of this adventure, The Trip, Warhol's experiences mark the turning point in his life between «Raggedy Andy» Warhola, a small - town kid from Pittsburgh, and Andy Warhol, filmmaker and pop art impresario.»

Many years ago, Andrew Wilson, the new boss of Electronic Arts, met rap impresario Russell Simmons.

The Wein Prize, one of the most significant awards given to individual artists in the United States today, was established in 2006 by jazz impresario, musician and philanthropist George Wein to honor his late wife, a long - time Trustee of the Studio Museum and a woman whose life embodied a commitment to the power and possibilities of art and culture.

The nonprofit Artists Space was forced to close for several months this past year because of construction in its building, while Jeffrey Deitch, the gallery impresario and former director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, has announced he's returning to the SoHo space where he mounted some epic events, displacing the Swiss Institute at 18 Wooster Street at the end of the summer.

On view at New York University's Grey Art Gallery from September 8 to December 10, 2016, the show illuminates how Charlotte Moorman (1933 — 1991) metamorphosed from a classically trained cellist into a barrier - breaking figure in performance art and an impresario of the postwar avant - garArt Gallery from September 8 to December 10, 2016, the show illuminates how Charlotte Moorman (1933 — 1991) metamorphosed from a classically trained cellist into a barrier - breaking figure in performance art and an impresario of the postwar avant - garart and an impresario of the postwar avant - garde.

There is Staffan Ahrenberg, who revived the venerable Cahiers d'Art magazine and reissued the Zervos Picasso catalogue raisonneé; Shanghai nightclub impresario Qiao Zhibing; Zheng Huanxing, China's leading collector of Bhuddist art; and José Olympio and Andrea Pereira, whose collection has grown with along with the Brazilian market over the last four decades.

But Frieze's impresarios are also reflecting a broader trend in curatorship, an impetus to set new art against that of the recent and distant pasts.

As show organizer and MAM chief curator Gail Stavitsky points out, consciousness of Matisse entered the U.S. art world very early on, thanks to the prescient efforts of artist - impresarios Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Walter Pach and collectors and salonistes such as Claribel and Etta Cone of Baltimore and the Stein family.

Nonetheless, the Rosicrucian impresario and many of his artists continued the 19th - century experiment, which began with the Pre-Raphaelites, of looking forward by looking back, and in their quest for an «ideal» in art that would be independent of the senses and untethered from the mundane, they helped prepare the way for what was to come.

When he arrived, Tamayo spoke no English, but that didn't stop him from rapidly inserting himself into a number of creative communities — one of Mexican intellectuals who hung out at the midtown bookstore run by poet Juan José Tablada; one of American artists who lived near Tamayo's apartment in the Village, including Stuart Davis, Reginald Marsh, Raphael and Moses Soyer, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi; and a circle of art dealers and impresarios including Walter Pach (who had organized the 1913 Armory Show), Carl Zigrosser of Weyhe Gallery, and future gallerist and Surrealist promoter Julien Levy, then working as an assistant to Zigrosser.

With their multi-hyphenated addresses; habit of changing hats as artist, curator, and art impresario; and tendency to sample from across the style spectrum, the Iranian modernists might have more in common with today's global avant - garde than the fabled New York School did.

The tireless, fast - talking impresario is highly in demand, so we were lucky to meet him between gallery openings and speeches during the London Art Fair and to finally sit him down in the garden of the Zumthor Pavillion at Serpentine Gallery to get his view on the avant - garde: «I think it is very important that we find a way through curating to actually engage in a global dialogue.

Bushwick's great impresario, steeped in the histories of modernism, is now also the co-owner of Outlet Fine Art, a gallery that is pioneering the neighborhood's eastern limits.

Some of these boldfaced names range relatively far afield: Miley Cyrus has gone big into sculpture (and was compared by art impresario Jeffrey Deitch to Mike Kelley), and last year, Jay Z took a page from Marina Abramovic's performance act (full disclosure: I sort of fell for it).

California's newest art impresario, Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art director Jeffrey Deitch, is finally making waves in his new hoart impresario, Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art director Jeffrey Deitch, is finally making waves in his new hoArt director Jeffrey Deitch, is finally making waves in his new home.

Shonibare and Breitz have been invited to participate in the inaugural FRONT International Cleveland Triennial exhibition (14 July — 30 September 2018) planned by cultural impresario Fred Bidwell, a collector, Cleveland Museum of Art trustee and co-founder of the Transformer Station in Ohio City.

Holly Block, director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts and private dealer and impresario Jeffrey Deitch were also rumored names.

This three - week performance biennial, invented by impresario - scholar - gadfly RoseLee Goldberg in 2004, is back, bigger than ever, and intends to «write the next chapter of performance art.»

Stephens said visitors may be surprised by how much of an impresario Clark was in his efforts to make art accessible and understandable.

Derided in their day, in the 1970s they caught the attention of Pop Art impresario Lawrence Alloway.

WPA was founded in 1975 by the art impresario Alice Denney, organizer of the legendary NOW Festival in 1966.

This exhibition showcases the rise of American Modernism, a cause Stieglitz championed throughout his career as a fine - arts photographer, gallery owner and impresario.

Bas» work has previously caught the eye of Yvonne Force, the New York socialite and art impresario whose Art Production Fund hosted him at a summer residency program in Giverny, Franart impresario whose Art Production Fund hosted him at a summer residency program in Giverny, FranArt Production Fund hosted him at a summer residency program in Giverny, France.

A time of year witness to the widespread fleeing of the capital's resident art impresarios from its otherwise innocuous grip, the month sees many exhibitions at their tail end pulling in the final throngs of visitors.