But her primary research focus these days is Hofmann, the German - born Abstract Expressionist
whose gift of art and money prompted the University of California to establish the museum in 1963.
We are extremely grateful to all the Hammer Museum supporters
whose gifts of art bolster our permanent collection, and we look forward to exhibiting these and other works in the near future.
Not exact matches
Such meticulous, fashionable naturalism belongs to many European
art films and not a few Sundance products (Carpignano,
gifted cinematographer Wyatt Garfield and editor Affonso Gonçalves all worked on «Beasts
of the Southern Wild,»
whose director, Benh Zeitlin, co-wrote the score
of «Mediterranea») and it's not always fortunate, resulting in films often destined to reach only elite audiences in festivals and
art houses.
The mission
of Art & Theology is to help the church rediscover its rich heritage in the visual, literary, and musical
arts and to open it up to the activity
of contemporary artists,
whose giftings can enable us to see God in new and different ways.
For Gorky this was no easy endeavor: critic Meyer Schapiro called him a «fervent scrutinizer»
of paintings, an ability corroborated by his close friend Willem de Kooning (
whose own painting owes much to Gorky): «for some mysterious reason, he knew lots more about painting, and
art... He had an extraordinary
gift for hitting the nail on the head.»
Its other prongs include an artist residency at her home in Sonoma, California, for living artists in her collection, as well as scholars and curators
whose work extends the canon and relates to the artists in her collection; sitting on the boards
of museums like the
Art Institute
of Chicago; publishing critical scholarship, beginning with the 2016 book Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection
of Abstract
Art; and collecting and
gifting major works by black artists to institutions.
Gathering together extensive documentation and rare archive material on the numerous exhibitions they organized together from 1995 on, the book is introduced by
art theorist and friend
of the artist Max Wechsler, who followed West's work closely for many years, and
whose illuminating foreword begins: «Without doubt, he was an odd bird, a
gifted idler, a Vienna man sui generis and eccentric par excellence.»
The Fine
Arts Work Center's Summer Awards Celebration is its largest and most widely attended fundraiser, an annual commemoration
of individuals
whose essential
gifts for writing,
art, and action have moved us toward a more progressive and humane society.
This exhibition has been made possible through the generosity
of Barbara and Eric Ottervik,
whose passion for collecting contemporary Japanese prints is reflected in multiple
gifts to the Lehigh University
Art Galleries / Teaching Museum collection.
Highlights
of Broad MSU exhibitions in 2015 include: Trevor Paglen: The Genres, the final installment
of the exhibition series The Genres: Portraiture, Still, Life, Landscape, featuring works by social scientist, researcher, and writer Trevor Paglen; The Broad
Gift, an exhibition
of 18 works generously given to the Broad MSU by founding patrons Eli and Edythe Broad; Moving Time: Video
Art at 50, 1965 — 2015, one of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development of video art from its earliest presentation to the present day; and Material Effects, bringing together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materia
Art at 50, 1965 — 2015, one
of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development
of video
art from its earliest presentation to the present day; and Material Effects, bringing together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and currency of objects and materia
art from its earliest presentation to the present day; and Material Effects, bringing together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora
whose work examines the circulation and currency
of objects and materials.
The acquisition
of Global Loft (Spread) was made possible by a
gift from an anonymous donor for the purchase
of American
art made after 1945 in memory
of Robert Shapazian (1943 ¬ — 2010),
whose estate gave The Huntington Andy Warhol's painting Small Crushed Campbell's Soup Can (Beef Noodle), 1962, and Brillo Box, 1964, as well as a group
of Brillo boxes by Pontus Hultén in 2010.
In addition to teaching, he is a
gifted lecturer with an extensive knowledge
of art history and a writer
whose articles on painting appear regularly in The Artist Magazine.
Neel remains a recurring figure
of intrigue for feminist
art historians because
of the contradictions and complexities she had to navigate as a
gifted but flawed person
whose talent and domestic responsibilities coincided with the first wave
of the feminist struggle for women's equality.
The Tate itself was founded on the generosity
of Henry Tate,
whose collection (which included Millais's Ophelia) was essentially a
gift to the National Gallery
of British
Art.
«Speaking for myself, it was only when I saw that big show
of Louise Bourgeois that I really understood her work and realised how important she was,» says the
art dealer and philanthropist Anthony d'Offay,
whose huge
gift of contemporary masterpieces to Britain is the basis
of the Artist Rooms collection, run by Tate and the National Galleries
of Scotland for the nation.
They require so little from contemporary
art, or so it seems to me, that they are prepared to help over the admittedly modest stile to victory one artist who produces lame conceptual objects, another
whose installation is like a solemn sixth - form project, a third
whose composition for six opera singers has startling characteristics purely as a piece
of music, and a collective
of 15 architects, all highly
gifted but themselves bemused by the shortlisting, given the existence
of (just for instance) the Stirling prize.
These are Rhyme (1956; Fractional and promised
gift of Agnes Gund in honor
of Richard E. Oldenberg to the Museum
of Modern
Art), which in an early state was paired with the famed taxidermy goat
of Monogram (1955 — 59; Moderna Museet, Stockholm), and Painting with Red Letter S (1957; Albright - Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo),
whose square format, isolated painterly daubs, and matter -
of - fact title mirror those
of Gloria.
Rosenberg lacked an eye for
art, but was a
gifted polemicist
whose phrase, «action painting,» popularized the
art of his generation.
Swiss architect Mario Botta delivered a classically proportioned red ziggurat
whose boldly striped oculus was telescoped to the future and would have taken it there, but for the
gift by the Fishers
of an
art collection that mandated twice the space.