Sentences with phrase «purchase contemporary artworks»
As a charity, the money earned by Contemporary Art Society from curating Aspen's collection is thus invested in the organisation's mission, namely to purchase contemporary artworks for museums and galleries across the United Kingdom.
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Although Erling Kagge purchased his first artwork 32 years ago, it is mainly in the course of the past 15 years that his art collection has taken form, expanded and become one of Norway's most significant private collections of international contemporary art.
This groundbreaking program was dedicated to the purchase of contemporary art and, over the next fifteen years, enabled the Gallery to continue acquiring innovative artworks.
Hương Ngô, The Voice is an Archive, 2016, single - channel digital video, black - and - white, sound, 6 min., dimensions variable, edition 1 of 5 (artwork © Hương Ngô, image provided by Hương Ngô) Purchased with funds from the Contemporary Associates.
Together, Smith and Knox were known to make the rounds at contemporary artist studios in hopes of purchasing some truly cutting - edge artworks for the Gallery's collection.
Displayed as aesthetic objects, they highlight the commercial underpinnings of the contemporary art world, but also theoretically allow a collector who purchases one as an artwork to transform it back into a financial instrument by depositing it into his or her own bank account.
The Museum created the $ 1 million Fund in its Centennial year, 2014, with monies restricted to purchasing works of art and sought artworks that would make a significant impact on audiences, raise the Museum's profile in the realm of contemporary art, and complement its historical collections, thus setting the Museum on a rising trajectory at the start of a new century.
Through their contributions, they also support the purchase of a contemporary artwork for the Museum.
What he later did was collect over one - thousand artworks, by identifying the best quality contemporary works available, and then purchasing them, to donate en bloc to the nation.
While Christiansen advises on and sells mostly modern (1900 — 1950s) and contemporary masters (starting with abstract expressionists in the late 1940s through the present), he also deals with mid-career artists, and he works with interior designers to help facilitate purchases of off - market artworks they would not have access to otherwise.
A large - scale sculpture with an equally large - scale title — Nancy Rubins» 2001 work «Chas» Stainless Steel, Mark Thompson's Airplane Parts, About 1000 Pounds of Stainless Steel Wire and Gagosian's Beverly Hills Space,» fashioned from used airplane parts — is among the artworks acquired through gifts and purchases by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in 2001.