Sentences with phrase «presents ancient objects»

Sean Kelly announces From Pre-History to Post-Everything, a group exhibition that presents ancient objects alongside contemporary paintings, providing the opportunity for a visual dialogue between the forms found in ancient cultures and the forms being investigated by today's youngest generation of painters working with abstraction.

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Furthermore, recent studies suggest that this network is already involved in identifying numbers by young children who are not yet at school, and that it is very ancient in evolution, as it is present when macaque monkeys recognise physical objects.

Uranium dating is one of the ways of determining the age of ancient objects, even one million years old, by measuring how much of the following are present in them: the amount of radioactive isotopes of uranium, and the amount of other materials into which the radioactive isotopes would decompose.

Grade Level: n / a The Ancient China Website utilizes objects from the British Museum's collection to present this online resource for teachers and students.

1907: Hartford native J. Pierpont Morgan offered to build the Morgan Memorial, and in 1917 J.P. Morgan, Jr., presented the museum with his father's collection of ancient bronzes, Renaissance majolica, 17th century ivories and silver gilt objects, and Meissen and Sevres porcelains.

For the first edition of Amsterdam Art Fair Dürst Britt & Mayhew presents a solo presentation by Dutch artist Pieter Paul Pothoven, whose artistic practice concerns itself with the historic and social connotations of various valuable objects, ranging from lapis lazuli to ancient Egyptian mirrors.

Three years after the Belgian artist's first U.S. retrospective stopped in Dallas, he mounts a Raid the Icebox - style that presents a (mostly) career - spanning selection of his portraits with portraits, masks, funerary objects and more from the Menil Collection's ancient, African, Native American and modern - and - contemporary collections.

Nevet Yitzhak presents a collection of ancient and forgotten objects in The Cultural Question.

Facilities include works on paper with more than 3,000 prints and drawings; painting storage with works from the Renaissance to the present; and object storage with Greek and Roman pottery and glass, Ancient American ceramics and African and European Medieval and Renaissance sculpture and artifacts.

From ancient times to the present day, theological traditions have reflected on idolatry and questioned the transcendence, significance, and power of objects.

Highlighting the inherent energy of the work, the details also reveal contradictory social imageries juxtaposed: traditional and modern objects, Chinese and Western characters, and scenes from present — day and ancient times.

Underlining and highlighting the transition from the past to the present, the complex identity of which it is important to conserve, it has been decided to graft the exhibition in its totality — walls, floors, installations and art objects, including their relative positions — onto the historical architectural and environmental structure of Ca» Corner della Regina, thereby inserting — on a full - size scale — the modern rooms of the Kunsthalle, delimited by white wall surfaces, into the ancient frescoed and decorated halls of the Venetian palazzo.

Transcircle, a modern day Stonehenge, presents a series of nine totemic objects, arranged in a circle to resemble an ancient structure or site, and symbolises the solar system's planetary movements, with each colour representing one planet.

Next came Colby, whose 8,000 - object collection spans art in America from colonial days to the present, spiced by small holdings of European, Asian, pre-Columbian and ancient art.