Sentences with phrase «public art institutions like»

Maintaining gestural painting's relevance in contemporary culture while also rooting its chief sources of inspiration from within the Western canon is a Herculean task, particularly as the very practice of painting as a discipline continues to erode within the art market, art schools, and public art institutions like museums.

Not exact matches

The 85 year old filmmaker is probably more well - known for his examinations of public institutions in films like Welfare (1975), Titicut Follies (1967), At Berkeley (2013) or High School (1968, followed by a sequel in 1994), but he's also one of cinema's great chroniclers of art as work.

The Broads work to create lasting positive change through institutions like high - quality public charter schools, genomics and stem cell research centers and contemporary art museums like The Broad in downtown Los Angeles.

Should institutions like the Whitney Museum be held accountable when they tailor art history by hiding entire movements from public view?

«As Franklin Furnace approaches its 40th anniversary in 2016, collaborating with a formidable educational institution like Pratt will make it possible for us to provide public and pedagogical access to emerging artists, and for Pratt and Franklin Furnace to undertake long - term preservation and documentation projects that will have cultural impact long into the future,» said artist Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace founding director and visiting associate professor of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute.

This list struck critics as an unwelcome shift toward running one of the city's rare public theaters like one of its many, many public art institutions.

While institutions like the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam have substantial holdings, the closing in 2014 of the Hallen für Neue Kunst, a contemporary museum in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, with the largest public display of Mr. Ryman's painting, leaves Dia as the only remaining site with an extensive permanent grouping, featuring works made as early as the late 1950s and continuing up to 2003.

Such is the expansion and the growth of both the London art market and parallel exhibition gallery activity that a smaller institution such as the Serpentine Gallery, offering many free - access public exhibitions (as a registered charity), has to rely, like major galleries, on the profit element in the provision of restaurant facilities of a high order.

'» Left out of the mainstream, Chicano / Latino artists had to invent their own institutions — like New York's El Museo, founded over forty - five years ago by artist and educator Raphael Montañez Ortiz to create a sense of identity for New York's Puerto Rican community, or LA's Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), which has been advocating for Latino / Chicano artists since 1976.

He criticizes the spinelessness of those who should actually be watching over institutions: «Lacking an interest in art and with no culture of discussion, they hide behind external aspects of the museum and withdraw to a position of delighting in the exercise of administrative control — to the point of calling in the public prosecutor's office when, to put it bluntly, something is not to their liking.»

The architect Peter St. John noted that unlike in a commercial gallery, where «the relationship with the art is, relatively speaking, quite abrupt,» Newport Street will operate «like a public building, like an institution» — with a foyer, a shop selling books, a restaurant and circulation spaces.