Since 2005, the artist has collected the homemade submarines and cobbled - together flying machines of these amateur engineers, and, as the collector, curator, and ranking artist of «Peasant da Vincis,» he deployed their inventions throughout the newly
renovated spaces of the museum in his customarily expansive and spectacular manner.
Not exact matches
«What we've done is
renovate about 100 acres
of park
space, added 46,000 square feet
of museum space, a café and raised the riverfront about 30 inches to prevent flooding,» he explained to CNBC recently.
MOCA Located on Grand Avenue's bustling downtown art corridor, the
Museum of Contemporary Art, whose exhibition
spaces also include the nearby Frank Gehry —
renovated Geffen Contemporary and a branch at the Pacific Design Center, in West Hollywood, has weathered a fair amount
of controversy recently.
NGA to
Renovate — In (so far) unrelated news, the National Gallery has also announced a $ 30 million renovation to their East Building — which houses the
museum's Modern and contemporary art collection — with galleries to begin closing in July in preparation for the planned construction, which will add a rooftop sculpture garden and more than 12,000 square feet
of exhibition
space.
The Academy recently embarked on a project to
renovate the east wing
of the building to create an auditorium, café, and additional exhibition
space for the
museum.
To
renovate the building artist Robert Irwin collaborated with the architecture firm OpenOffice, working with the building's original design, emphasizing natural light, and essentially converting the
space into a white - walled, hardwood floored (I was wearing wooden heels and each step echoed through the spacious galleries) heaven
of a
museum.
The Delaware Art
Museum is pleased to unveil its
renovated and re-installed 18th - and 19th - century American Art galleries — Galleries 1, 2, and 3 — to the public on Friday, November 28 from 10:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m. Just in time for the holiday season, the beautifully redesigned
space will display over 50 works
of art, including many permanent collection objects that have not been on view for over 10 years.
Coney Island Visions
of an American Dreamland, 1861 — 2008 WNPR, Feb. 13, Coney Island and Bushnell Park's Carousel Artistry by Mallory O'Donoghue The Boston Globe, Feb. 12, Atheneum assembles a first - rate installation by Sebastian Smee WNPR, Feb. 12, Wadsworth Explores Coney Island, the «Microcosm
of the American Experience» by Ray Hardman The Modern Art Notes (MAN) Podcast, Feb. 12, No. 171: Dennis V. Geronimus, Robin Jaffee Frank by Tyler Green WNPR, Feb. 11, Where We Live, An Arts Wheelhouse Examines Connecticut
Museums The Boston Globe, Feb. 10, Coney Island comes to the Wadsworth Atheneum by Mark Feeney Apollo Magazine, Feb. 10, Five favourites from the Wadsworth Atheneum's new galleries The New Yorker, Feb. 9, Change Artist: The works
of Piero di Cosimo by Peter Schjeldahl The Art Newspaper, February 2015, Wadsworth Atheneum restores
spaces it very nearly lost by Julia Halperin The Hartford Courant, Feb. 2, «Coney Island On the Silver Screen» Series at Atheneum by Susan Dunne The New York Times, Feb. 1, Wadsworth Atheneum's New Spaces for Contemporary Art by Susan Hodara The Guardian, Jan. 30, Wadsworth Atheneum: oldest public museum in US comes back from brink by Martin Pengelly The Hartford Courant, Jan. 25, Three Satellite Shows Compliment Dynamic «Coney Island» Exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum The Hartford Courant, Jan. 18, Renovated Wadsworth Galleries Show Off Contemporary Collections by Susan Dunne The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 17, Coney Island Comes Alive in Art Show by Ellen Gamerman The Art Newspaper, January 2015, Return of Wadsworth's LeWitt Elle Decor, January / February 2015, Boardwalk Empire ARTnews, January 2015, Editors» Picks American Art Review, January 2015, Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland by Robin Jaffee Frank The Art Newspaper, The Year Ahead 2015, Museum Op
spaces it very nearly lost by Julia Halperin The Hartford Courant, Feb. 2, «Coney Island On the Silver Screen» Series at Atheneum by Susan Dunne The New York Times, Feb. 1, Wadsworth Atheneum's New
Spaces for Contemporary Art by Susan Hodara The Guardian, Jan. 30, Wadsworth Atheneum: oldest public museum in US comes back from brink by Martin Pengelly The Hartford Courant, Jan. 25, Three Satellite Shows Compliment Dynamic «Coney Island» Exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum The Hartford Courant, Jan. 18, Renovated Wadsworth Galleries Show Off Contemporary Collections by Susan Dunne The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 17, Coney Island Comes Alive in Art Show by Ellen Gamerman The Art Newspaper, January 2015, Return of Wadsworth's LeWitt Elle Decor, January / February 2015, Boardwalk Empire ARTnews, January 2015, Editors» Picks American Art Review, January 2015, Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland by Robin Jaffee Frank The Art Newspaper, The Year Ahead 2015, Museum Op
Spaces for Contemporary Art by Susan Hodara The Guardian, Jan. 30, Wadsworth Atheneum: oldest public
museum in US comes back from brink by Martin Pengelly The Hartford Courant, Jan. 25, Three Satellite Shows Compliment Dynamic «Coney Island» Exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum The Hartford Courant, Jan. 18, Renovated Wadsworth Galleries Show Off Contemporary Collections by Susan Dunne The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 17, Coney Island Comes Alive in Art Show by Ellen Gamerman The Art Newspaper, January 2015, Return of Wadsworth's LeWitt Elle Decor, January / February 2015, Boardwalk Empire ARTnews, January 2015, Editors» Picks American Art Review, January 2015, Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland by Robin Jaffee Frank The Art Newspaper, The Year Ahead 2015, Museum Op
museum in US comes back from brink by Martin Pengelly The Hartford Courant, Jan. 25, Three Satellite Shows Compliment Dynamic «Coney Island» Exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum The Hartford Courant, Jan. 18,
Renovated Wadsworth Galleries Show Off Contemporary Collections by Susan Dunne The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 17, Coney Island Comes Alive in Art Show by Ellen Gamerman The Art Newspaper, January 2015, Return
of Wadsworth's LeWitt Elle Decor, January / February 2015, Boardwalk Empire ARTnews, January 2015, Editors» Picks American Art Review, January 2015, Coney Island: Visions
of an American Dreamland by Robin Jaffee Frank The Art Newspaper, The Year Ahead 2015,
Museum Op
Museum Openings
Part
of a wider «masterplan'to
renovate the
museum, the # 3.3 m project will see dedicated
spaces created for the institution's collections
of Egyptian and East Asian artefacts.
The video will form a centre - piece
of a major collections redisplay at Leeds Gallery in autumn 2017, which will encourage new audiences to visit and explore the new displays in the
museum's
renovated spaces.
He was incredulous but amused, and told me that he liked the part
of the show he had seen, at the National
Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), a huge, pristinely
renovated new
space that was once a Fix brewery.
Architectural projects and non-specific
spaces have included
renovating a house in Merida, Mexico, 2009; re-designing display cases for the Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington DC, 2007; creating a restaurant, Untitled (Café - Restaurant), 2002, for the K21
Museum in Düsseldorf; and 4166 Sea View Lane, 1998, a house built as an artwork for the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in which he now resides.
Artur Zmijewski Them is presented as part
of the three year National Gallery
of Canada at the
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art program that will see the two institutions co-organize and co-present a series
of exclusive exhibitions in MOCCA's newly -
renovated project
space, drawn from the NGC's extensive contemporary art collection.
Opening: «Beauty — Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial» at Cooper Hewitt Exploring the notion
of beauty through seven lenses — extravagant, intricate, ethereal, transgressive, emergent, elemental and transformative — the fifth installment
of the Cooper Hewitt's sensational overview
of contemporary design features 63 international designers exhibiting some 250 works, which nearly fill two full floors
of the
museum's recently
renovated Upper East Side
space.
NORTH ADAMS — When the Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art opens its newly renovated Building 6 on May 28, the expansion will give this 16 - acre campus in the Berkshires more gallery space than any other contemporary art museum in the co
Museum of Contemporary Art opens its newly
renovated Building 6 on May 28, the expansion will give this 16 - acre campus in the Berkshires more gallery
space than any other contemporary art
museum in the co
museum in the country.
Entering into a somewhat unusual contract with the Fisher family (their works are on loan to the institution for 100 years, and every decade an exhibition from the collection must be mounted), and the closure
of the
museum for three years, while the Snøhetta - designed expansion
renovated the original Mario Botta building that opened in 1995, adding 170,000 square feet
of new gallery
space, only expanded the cacophony
of opinion surrounding the new structure.
Occupying a 13 - acre site composed
of historic buildings in the town
of North Adams, the
Museum currently boasts 220,000 square feet
of renovated space for galleries, theaters, rehearsal studios, art fabrication
spaces, and commercial tenancies in six
of the site's 27 buildings.
Mike Kelly Filling the entire rotating exhibition
space of the newly
renovated Stedelijk
Museum, this large - scale Mike Kelley retrospective brought together over 200 works from across the artist's career, from the «Birdhouse» series dating from his student days at theView More >
Filling the entire rotating exhibition
space of the newly
renovated Stedelijk
Museum, this large - scale Mike Kelley retrospective brought together over 200 works from across the artist's career, from the «Birdhouse» series dating from his student days at the California Institute
of the Arts in the 1970s to one
of his final installations, Mechanical Toy Guts (1991/2012).
The news comes at a time when the longtime art map
of San Francisco is undergoing significant changes, with this month's opening
of the Minnesota Street Project gallery
space in the Dogpatch neighborhood and the May reopening
of the expanded and
renovated San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art.
The
museum will open the
renovated space with an exhibition titled «Expanded Visions: Fifty Years
of Collecting,» which will look at the evolution
of the
museum, founded in 1987 amid changing attitudes toward queer identities since the 1950s.