Sentences with phrase «presided over the art»

Highest of the Norse gods; he presided over art and wisdom, war, and death.

Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, and many more taught there at various times, but it was above all Albers — such a rigid purist that he gave classes wearing a white lab coat and gloves — who presided over the art teaching.

Not exact matches

Qianlong wasn't the last emperor of China, but he was the last great one, and he presided over an astonishing flourishing of the arts.

The man who will preside over the fate of the Un Certain Regard Jury is not only a film lover but a brilliant actor, entirely devoted to his art.

Lance Rutter has spent the last 30 + years of his career devoted to graphic design, working on projects in his Chicago design studio, teaching design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, serving on the national board of the AIGA, and presiding over the 2008 and 2010 Chicago International Poster Biennials, among other public design advocacy initiatives.

A whimsical concoction as pretty as a wedding cake, a multi-tiered tale, within a tale, within a tale, the GRAND and very PINK Hotel Budapest is presided over by one Gustave H., (Ralph Fiennes), the hotel's ultra-refined concierge, and involves a wide - eyed lobby boy named «Zero,» Tilda Swinton as a wealthy octogenarian who's «dynamite in the sack,» a family squabble over inheritance, a priceless and definitely kitschy piece of Renaissance art, a greedy evil son (Adrien Brody), a knucklebound henchman with a frightening underbite (Willem Dafoe), a lanky lawyer (Jeff Goldblum) and his soon to be airborn Persian cat, monks on skis, cliff - hanging climaxes, and plotting pastry chefs!

From the Rajasthan palace elephants guarding the lotus courtyard to the gilded throne from a Burmese temple presiding over the dining pavilion, the stunning interiors are a treasure trove of skillfully curated antiques, curios and paintings that reveal the owners» passion for Asian culture and contemporary art.

This past winter, Hendricks's triple - portrait masterpiece, all too rarely on view, presided over one of the most bracing permanent collection installations Washington has ever seen, one that filled two galleries behind Jackson Pollock's Mural (1943), a refugee wall - surfing through eleven museums around the world since it was left homeless in 2008 by extreme flooding at the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

Presided over by Willy Merz, the Fondazione makes use of the collaboration of a scientific committee comprising Frances Morris (Head of Collections, International Art, Tate Modern, London), Beatrice Merz (Director Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino), Richard Flood (Director of Special Projects & Curator at Large of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York) and Vicente Todolí (Artistic Advisor HangarBicocca, Milan).

An announcement for Saalburg's show there reproduced a painting titled Tobacco in Chromo, a burlesque of cigar - box art presided over by a stylized cigar - box Indian.

Nairne presided over period of rising visitor numbers and sell - out exhibitions, but is leaving to pursue his writing and arts work

In only two years as Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, he presided over crowd - drawing exhibitions like «Casanova: The Seduction of Europe» and «The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion and Rock & Roll,» while also reigning in the institution's unbalanced budget.

Helena Newman, the worldwide co-head of Impressionist and Modern Art for Sotheby's, had presided over the first sale of the spring season in London last week, bringing $ 63.7 million for Picasso's «Femme Assise» (1909), the most expensive Cubist painting ever sold at auction.

The artists included Ursula von Rydingsvard, checking out Lub Tez, her cedar sculpture at Collins Park; Tracey Emin, presiding over the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami opening of her first US solo show; and Hernan Bas, cruising the satellite fairs with a dude pack of four super-cool acolytes, whose new concern with taxes has returned him to Miami from Detroit «for six months and a day».

WASHINGTON, DC — Chuck Close's grandmother - in - law once presided over an entire wall in the National Gallery of Art «s contemporary wing.

Much of the fanfare will center on the museum's big anniversary present, which came early: an agreement in September with the family of Gap Inc. co-founders Doris and Donald Fisher that lets SFMOMA preside over their contemporary art collection, one of the world's most important in private hands.

Now, the hierarchies between art and ornament have dissolved, and Chaimowicz has emerged, in Buck's estimation, «as a presiding force over a growing group of artists who are unashamedly playing with décor and environments,» Karen Kilimnik and Lucy McKenzie among them.

At the Taschen offices, housed in a 19th - century mansion just north of Cologne's stylish Belgium district, the publisher presides over a staff of 75 (there are 150 more in branch offices worldwide), who work in airy, pale - colored rooms decorated with Taschen's collection of modern art.

Presiding over — and aggravating — the hodgepodge, A Wooded Landscape in Three Panels (c. 1905), a Louis Comfort Tiffany stained - glass window peered in from the adjacent decorative - arts alcove and was the first thing viewers saw as they approached the gallery.

Their Majesties King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia presided over the official inauguration of the 25th International Contemporary Art Fair ARCO on Thursday, 9th February.

The new kid on the block was the Argentinian entrepreneur Alan Faena, who presided over the grand opening dinner of the new Faena Arts District like an art world P.T. Barnum, dressed in a white suit and top hat.

(The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, over which the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will soon preside, includes three major Noguchi sculptures.)

Simply, there's just too much going on over the three floors of the Gagosian galleries that the sprawling exhibition presides over to identify a credible connection to the art and ideas of Malevich, let alone to establish a meaningful artistic genealogical line between most of these American artists to the Russian visionary.

Here were the raw materials of his imagination — the chunks of metal that, with the help of a team of assistants presided over by his trusty technician Patrick Cunningham, Caro would turn into art, as beneath a flurry of sparks they were dismantled and welded back together again into beautiful abstract forms.

And perhaps it was the quasi-domestic setting of an Upper East Side townhouse (with works by Bruce Nauman and Frank Stella hanging above the fireplace mantels, and the couple's double portrait, their forms encased in plaster by George Segal, presiding over the upstairs salon), but the atmosphere that afternoon reminded me of a shiva call, paid in honor of this dead couple and the art that once propelled them into the fishbowl of society, and later divided them.

The director of Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art was presiding over his second official gala, held outside the museum's Geffen Contemporary site on Saturday night.

From 2013 to 2016 he presided over the scientific committee of the PAC, an exhibition space for contemporary art belonging to the Municipality of Milan, and from 2014 to 2017 he was the artistic director of Art In The City Shanghai: a festival dedicated to the new creative scene in Chiart belonging to the Municipality of Milan, and from 2014 to 2017 he was the artistic director of Art In The City Shanghai: a festival dedicated to the new creative scene in ChiArt In The City Shanghai: a festival dedicated to the new creative scene in China.

That afternoon I visited the Aspen Art Museum (which was still being presided over by artist Dave McKenzie's giant, inflatable, bobble - headed Fourth of July float) to scope out the breathtaking show of cool, subdued canvases by Sergej Jensen.