Sentences with phrase «stolen art objects»

The Guardian carried a story this weekend on Interpol's online database of stolen art objects.

Not exact matches

You wouldn't think that with all the collections of the Smithsonian to play with — and they stole famous works of art and historical objects from other museums around the world and pretended they're on exhibit in Washington DC, too — the filmmakers would have to strain themselves this hard to come up with something they deemed clever, but there we are.

Still, whether they took the pieces by mistake or stole them for a quick buck, they had to assume the objects are worth more as scrap metal than as art.

Past group shows and screenings include: Rêve du Pierre, curated by Alexandra Fau, Centre Pompidou, Paris (screening)(2016); Night Walk, with Erin Shirreff, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2015); A Night of Philosophy, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY (Screening)(2015); The Daily Show, Bureau, New York NY (2015); The Built Environment: Lower Side in Istanbul, Mixer, Istanbul, Turkey (2014); It Narratives: The Movement of Objects as Information, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT, USA (2014); A Tale of Two Islands: Beatrice Gibson with Alex Waterman, and Frank Heath, High Line Art, NY, NY (2014); Two Hours Two Minutes, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (2014); Kool - Aid Wino, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT, USA (2013); Matter Out of Place, Kitchen, NY, NY (2012); Somebody has stolen our tent, Simon Preston Gallery, NY, NY (2012); The Way Things Go (Part 3), Frutta, Rome, Italy (2012); Single Channel, Soho House, Miami, FL, USA (2011); Forcemeat, Wallspace, NY, NY (2011), and Suddenly: Where We Live Now, Cooley Gallery — Reed College, Portland, OR and Pomona College Museum of Art (2008, 2009).

Recent exhibitions include Statuesque, City Hall Park, New York; Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; At Home / Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale - on - Hudson; Two Face, The Ballroom, Marfa (2009); Beg, Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2009); KölnSkulptur 5, Cologne (2009); and Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2007).

An accompanying video animation called «Stealing Attention» (a collaboration with neuroscientist Michael E. Goldberg, Director of the Mahoney Center for Brain and Behavior, Columbia University) draws parallels between card tricks and the looting of precious art objects from the Iraq National Museum after the fall of Baghdad.