Sentences with phrase «of iconic institutions»

We have all heard of iconic institutions and big - name attractions such as Tate Britain, Tate Modern, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Barbican Centre and Whitechapel Gallery, but the city also abounds with numerous exceptional independent art spaces offering something for everyone.

Chrissie Iles provides her insight into the role of this iconic institution here on frieze.com.

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Known for its iconic Judy Istock Butterfly Haven and providing more hands - on science instruction than any other museum in Chicago, the Nature Museum has become one of the city's most attended institutions.

Or, the film could have just made Kristal a supporting player, instead concentrating on the overall life span of the club itself and the ups and downs of its existence, and the day - to - day operations as it became, quite inadvertently, an iconic institution.

Perri Irmer is President and CEO of the DuSable Museum of African American History, the iconic institution founded by Dr. Margaret Burroughs.

A riveting investigation of a beloved library caught in the crosshairs of real estate, power, and the people's interests — by the reporter who broke the story In a series of cover stories for The Nation magazine, journalist Scott Sherman uncovered the ways in which Wall Street logic almost took down one of New York City's most beloved and iconic institutions: the New York Public Library.

A popular pop - up goes permanent with a dim - sum menu at Beijing Opera; a well - regarded chef emerges from behind the kitchen of some Cape Town institutions to open his own eponymous restaurant, Seelan; and a pair of brothers who've worked their magic at iconic South African restaurants have done it again with a brand - new hit.

Another famed culinary institution is the Hotel Sacher, where you can sample some of its iconic chocolate cake, the Sachertorte, famous for its rich flavour and mirror - like ganache icing.

The World Video Game Hall of Fame's 2018 class is the fourth in the institution's history, and previous classes have included even more iconic games, including Doom, Grand Theft Auto III, Halo: Combat Evolved, The Legend of Zelda, Sonic the Hedgehog, and World of Warcraft.

Due to prestigious Californian - art programmes at universities and art schools, and the close relationship with these educational institutions enjoyed by the many iconic artists who've worked there as professors, the art scene in L.A. has been considered the most significant part of American contemporary art on an academic level.

Collectors and philanthropists Stefan Edis and Gael Neeson donated 44 iconic, contemporary works to the Art Institute of Chicago, making it the largest gift in the institution's 136 - year history.

Besides Indonesia, his work has been exhibited in Singapore, Malaysia, Hongkong, Turkey and in the U.A.E.. His iconic work has been in the collection of several major national and private institutions in Indonesia (MACAN Museum), Australia (National Gallery of Victoria), Germany (Tony Cragg Sculpture Park), China, Turkey, U.S.A., Sweden and India.

Presented in chronological order, it offers an overview of the ambitions and concerns of this iconic New York art institution.

In Rio de Janeiro, Wiley's inspirations did not rest in old master paintings hanging on the walls of powerful institutions, but allowed the work to be impacted by the iconic nationalistic sculptures found around the city, which he might argue are the cultural equivalent to the David or Velasquez paintings referenced in his earlier work.

Swiss director Jean - Stephane Bron's new documentary goes behind the scenes for a season at one of the world's most iconic art institutions.

Assembling many of the foundation's most iconic works along with treasures by artists less familiar, this celebratory exhibition explores avant - garde innovations of the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, as well as the groundbreaking activities of six pioneering arts patrons who brought to light some of the most significant artists of their day and established the Guggenheim Foundation's identity as a forward - looking institution.

Not an Ostrich represents a fraction of the Library's full collection as a way for visitors to rediscover one of America's most important cultural institutions — including iconic portraits of Harriett Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Cesar Chavez, Elizabeth Taylor, and more.

Founded in 1929, the Museum of Modern Art is an iconic museum of contemporary and modern art worldwide, an institution of reference for the history of the contemporary Western culture.

«Our partnership with the Whitney will give the people of New York a celebration of two of the city's iconic institutions.»

This ambitious exhibition spans two gallery spaces — in the Diego Rivera Gallery, Pereda has erected Change the world or go home (2009 - 2015), a 24 - foot tall fluorescent scaffolding structure in front of the iconic work The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City (1931), simultaneously illuminating and obscuring one of the institution's most - treasured and historically significant works.

Possibly his best known work, the Museum Photographs, capture spectators as they gaze upon various iconic works of art in institutions across the globe.

Trained under iconic German artists Gerhard Richter and Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Thomas Struth creates careful compositions that blur the line between painting and photography, addressing notions of institution, space and group dynamics.

This volume's broad sweep of material, all from a The Metropolitan Museum of Art, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world - renowned institution.

The exhibition includes twelve paintings documenting different locations throughout the city, some iconic institutions and others of the sadly, rapidly disappearing variety.

Since then, the Guerrilla Girls have become an iconic, ironic art institution, and museums like MoMA now consider them part of the same art history the Girls have spent three decades critiquing.

Some of these works will be featured at both institutions: Iconic at the Museum of Contemporary Art this spring and a summer exhibition of German Expressionism at The San Diego Museum of Art.

Touching down on her annual themes of Terrain, Reference, History, Identity, Form («a palate cleanser»), Alchemy, Flesh, Storage, etc., Schaffner offered up ICA shows both iconic (Andy Warhol, 1965; Agnes Martin, 1973; Robert Mapplethorpe, 1989) and lesser known (Allan McCollum, 1991; Pepon Osorio, 2004; Amish Quilts, 1976), illuminating the dynamic range of ICA's history and how deeply the institution has participated in shaping the landscape of art across the last half century.

Museum hop: Houston's Museum District includes more than a dozen institutions within a 1 1/2 - mile radius of the area's iconic Mecom Fountain.

Two years ago, Jens Hoffmann, the deputy director of the Jewish Museum, invited Brazilian multimedia artist Beatriz Milhazes to create a project for the institution's lobby that would coincide (and travel with) its just - opened retrospective on the iconic Brazilian modernist landscape architect Robert Burle Marx.

The Climate Group is encouraging businesses, governments, academic institutions, arts / music organizations, and NGOs to participate in the iconic week, through the official program of events affiliated to Climate Week NYC.

In addition to its direct operations, the American Safety Council works collaboratively to address the e-learning needs of reputed institutions of higher learning and iconic brands in industry.