Sentences with phrase «pieces by major artists»

The gift features paintings, sculptures, photography, and works on paper spanning more than 500 years, including pieces by major artists such as Jasper Johns, Ai Weiwei, and Vincent Van Gogh.

Several of the featured works from the collection will be exhibited for the first time, including pieces by major artists like Robert Barry, Mel Bochner, Lutz Mommartz, Bruce Nauman, and John Wesley.

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Today's interview is with Christy Klug, an up and coming jewelry artist who had her first major sale by super-gluing her pieces together for her show because she hadn't yet figured out how to attach the metal pieces together!

In the first major institutional survey of his artistic career, the display will showcase pieces by the Chinese artist and political activist made since his return to China in 1993, as well as new site - specific installations.

From a major piece by one of the year's best - reviewed young artists to a head - turning historical prank by America's most famous living sculptor, these are works that could add major oomph to any collection.

On the other hand the raucous humor of the various projects depicted by Barcelona based artist and activist Leonidas Martin was quite wonderful and contagiously funny although one of the best pieces was video of a bank occupation, when in a kind of flash mob event, people closed their accounts at a branch of a major bank and a huge crowd of revelers suddenly materialized, eventually even making an initially stunned woman banker burst out laughing.

As a leading venue in the country, the gallery has presented pieces by major international artists such as Damien Hirst, Eva Hesse, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer, Candida Hofer, Bill Viola, Anish Kapoor, etc..

At Hauser & Wirth, the first few hours brought several major sales, said co-owner Iwan Wirth, including works by Mark Bradford, the Los Angeles artist whose work filled the U.S. pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale; a recently discovered work by Piero Manzoni, and piece by Bruce Naumann.

As experienced commissioners of large - scale contemporary art the Lisson Gallery brought together a range of major pieces by 19 artists, both inside and outside the historic Venetian Palazzo Franchetti.

Curated by Scott Rothkopf, the museum's associate director of programs, the brand - new show marks the artist's first major retrospective in New York and includes more than a hundred pieces that Koons created over a 35 - year period (1979 to the present).

It is architecturally generic, like countless other homes scattered across this part of Michigan, and yet it also happens to be a work of art, the last major piece by the artist Mike Kelley.

Mr. Sellman is on the board of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta, which last year donated a major collection of 57 pieces by African - American artists from the South to the Metropolitan Museum, a gift Thomas P. Campbell, the Met's director, called «a landmark moment» in the museum's evolution.

Most recently, she led a major collaboration with a local Indianapolis developer to curate the art program for The Alexander art hotel that opened in downtown Indianapolis in 2013, featuring work by 25 artists, including 14 newly commissioned pieces.

Donated through the Contemporary Art Society's Great Work scheme, which aims to address the lack of major works by leading British artists in regional museum collections, this piece was produced specifically for the gallery.

Major pieces by artists whose careers Ms. Bryant helped start and sustained — Maren Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady, Howardena Pindell — appear in galleries devoted to the late 1970s and»80s, when an unprecedented amount of mixing was in progress.

From a conceptual piece by a photographer with a major upcoming MoMA survey to an enigmatic sculpture by one of today's most closely watched young artists, these are works collectors should pounce on fast.

The Auction is an amazing opportunity to purchase work by major artists and also through the Silent Auction to walk away with a piece of work by Turner Prize nominees of the future.»

While these influences are clearly seen in his use of light boxes and highly controlled set - pieces — both techniques used by other Vancouver artists — this openness is a major part of Graham's practice as it relates to his collaboration with other artists, writers and musicians.

A unique blend of illustration, essays, interviews, and artist's pages, it accompanies a major retrospective organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art, and includes a new piece created specifically for the exhibition.

The piece, in my view, felt like a slap in the face: white artist gets lauded by a major career - making institution for dealing with race; everyone else, not so much.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that it had received a major gift of 20th - century works by African - American artists from the South, including 10 pieces by Thornton Dial and 20 important quilts made by the Gee's Bend quilters of Alabama.

New artworks by Kusama and Phyllida Barlow, alongside major pieces by Ai Weiwei, Louise Bourgeois, Chapman Bros, and Paul McCarthy, to populate first Kiev international biennale ARSENALE 2012, the first international Kiev international Biennale, has today announced the list of artists and highlights of works to be included in the main programme.

For her first major show in Miami, Friedman created four brightly hued sheets of rubber — which she made by pouring 1,000 pounds of material onto the Locust Projects» floor — along with metal sculpture and an accompanying performance piece by artist Silas Reiner.

While these influences are clearly seen in his use of lightboxes and highly controlled set - pieces — both techniques used by other Vancouver artists — this openness is a major part of Graham's practice as it relates to his collaboration with other artists, writers and musicians.

Inspired by their great affinity for the exhibition theme and for the PinchukArtCentre as a leading institution in contemporary art, all of the artists decided to create some special pieces, partly in the form of new productions such as those by, amongst others, Anish Kapoor, AES+F, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney and Elmgreen & Dragset; of a special reappraisal of existing works by Paul McCarthy, Richard Prince, Boris Mikhailov and Takashi Murakami; or the selection of rare or recent work groups that have never been displayed as part of a major international exhibition before.

He helped the university acquire major pieces and installations by renowned international artists, including Dale Chihuly, Richard Hunt, El Anatsui and Charles Ray.

As experienced commissioners of large - scale contemporary art, curators from the Lisson Gallery, in association with Berengo Studio, are displaying a range of major pieces by 19 artists, both inside and outside the historic Venetian Palazzo Franchetti.

The buzz of the major art exhibition, the collective launched American Medium Network, illustrating the growing engagement with popular culture and mass media by emerging artists and Evans» video piece is no different.

It will showcase more than 3,000 pieces held in the artist's personal collection, including major works by, Giacometti, Picasso, Bacon, Koons, Prince, Warhol, and the work of several YBAs.

The outsized pieces represent the first major sculpture acquisitions to MOCA's collection by the three artists, all of whom have had exhibitions at the museum.

Several other pieces by celebrated contemporary artists were due for sale in New York this week, with 12 of them predicted beforehand to go for more than $ 20m: the highest - ever concentration of such major works.

The sale also featured Abstract Expressionist artists, including nine pieces by Willem de Kooning, who is the subject of a major survey at MoMA this autumn.

Essentially these programs, in addition to the multiple talks offered daily, make up the fair experience for the rest of us: those seeking to stay informed on the contemporary art world or looking for inspiration without the ability to shell out major money for a piece by a prolific or up - and - coming artist.

By exclusively featuring pieces derived from the human form, this major presentation of the artist's work not only highlights the latent, representational aspects of his particular visual idiom but also foregrounds his processes of transmutation.