Through their contributions, they also support
the purchase of a contemporary artwork for the Museum.
Not exact matches
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.
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.