Sentences with phrase «surrounding walls of the museum»

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Upon visiting the Kemper Museum and Kansas City, the artist found inspiration within the art upon the walls of the Museum and the architecture within the surrounding community.

The northern façade, in contrast, features a curtain wall of windows that bring natural light into the museum's galleries and allow visitors to take in views of the sculpture garden and the surrounding cityscape.

The auras which sometimes surround the color fields give them a luminous halo and a strange mix of stillness and drama, such as in the large «wall of light,» Untitled, from 1952 - 53, which is part of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection.

Curated by Director Dr. Karl E. Willers and the Museum's staff, highlights of «Kenny Scharf» include the expansive mural Pop Renaissance that surrounds the viewer, a version of the artist's Cosmic Cavern club - like environment, and a recreation of the artist's former Brooklyn studio complete with spattered walls, painted furniture and other workspace ephemera.

Engaging with the profusive geometries of the museum's mill architecture, Crowner's works variously mirror or create juxtapositions with the surrounding patterns of the brick walls, the hardwood floors, and the grid of the glass block windows.

Aptly titled «Why Pictures Now,» after a 1981 photograph by the artist, the exhibition features Lawler's photographic investigations into how pictures function: Charming images of Jasper Johns paintings adorning the walls of collectors» homes, Richters being moved from one museum to another, or an in - museum shot of a Thomas Struth photograph of museum crowds surrounding ruins within a museum (you'll get it once you see it).

Part of a network of art sites on island developed by Japanese businessman and art collector Soichiro Fukutake, the museum features polished concrete chambers housing the work of three artists: a selection of Claude Monet's water lily paintings (the skylight and glistening mosaic floor creates a shrine - like experience); an installation by Walter de Maria that consists of a central, polished granite sphere sitting on a staircase with surrounding gilded wall sculptures; and three James Turrell light works.

Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont will assemble The Aesthetics of Matter across a 2,600 - square - foot space in the heart of PIER 90, an array of freestanding museum - style walls that afford and en - courage dialogue between artists, as well as a specifc focus in contrast to the traditional booth architecture and solo projects surrounding it.

The museum's architect, Tadao Ando, essentially treats light as a material that is as necessary as the concrete of the walls, the steel supports, the granite floors, and the sheets of glass that connect the museum interior to the nature and city that surrounds it.