Sentences with phrase «whose gifts of art»

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.

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.

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 materiaArt 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 materiaart 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.