Sentences with phrase «with encyclopedic collections»

The collection's whimsical porcelain figures, enchanting miniature portraits, and a dazzling array of historical glass have ranked among NOMA's visitor favorites for decades, and the collection display is now being updated with a new installation that carries forward NOMA's curatorial initiative to integrate collections across material and culture, to provide layered interpretation, and to present the best of our Gulf region's artistic expression in context with our encyclopedic collection covering ancient to contemporary arts.

With its encyclopedic collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photography, prints, drawings and new media, it is one of America's most respected art institutions.

An artist with a rising international reputation, his supercharged, colour - blasted paintings overflow with an encyclopedic collection of cultural references.

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Here he has all the arrogance as the brilliant neurosurgeon Stephen Strange, a man with an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music, a substantial collection of expensive watches, and goals that will bring him glory as well as healing those patients he deems worthy of his skill.

With more than 128,000 pieces of art in their encyclopedic collection including David Hockney and Vincent Van Gogh, it can be a task navigating a day at... Read More

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The Soundsuit in the contemporary art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum — an encyclopedic museum — bridges numerous collections with its direct connection to African art, Modern abstract painting, performance art, contemporary sculpture, and costumes and textiles.

With their obsessive nature and encyclopedic magnitude, Darboven's visualizations of time and recent history, as well as the collection, selection, and rearrangement of knowledge in form of handwritten excerpts, photographic, literary, and journalistic documents of cultural history, bear witness to the artist's attempt to counter the information flood and the alleged chaos of the (post --RRB- modern world by creating an autonomous classification system and by placing herself in an individual framework of meaning.

During his tenure, the Tang's encyclopedic collection has expanded greatly through key acquisitions and gifts with significant additions to historical photography and contemporary art holdings.

Materials & Meanings, the inaugural exhibition of eight works of art selected from the Museum's encyclopedic collection, focused on the materials from which a work of art is made and on the meanings associated with those materials to both the artist and the viewer.

This robust and dynamic roster reflects the Museum's commitment to engaging its audiences with a range of creative voices and leveraging its outstanding encyclopedic collection to incite dialogue and involve its community with topical issues of today.

Recognized for its modern and contemporary American and Latin American art, Italian Renaissance and baroque paintings, and encyclopedic collection of prints and drawings, the Blanton offers thought provoking, visually arresting, and personally moving encounters with art.

Published by D Giles Limited in association with the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, our new handbook is a richly illustrated souvenir to an encyclopedic collection.

Gilvin will conclude with proposals for developing encyclopedic art museums and the African collections that they hold.

The Dallas Museum of Art, established in 1903, has an encyclopedic collection of more than 26,000 works spanning 5,000 years of history and representing all media with renowned strengths in the arts of the ancient Americas, Africa, Indonesia, and South Asia; European and American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; and American and international contemporary art.

Established in 1974 with 108 pieces from the collection of Roy Neuberger, this encyclopedic museum has grown to over 6000 paintings and sculptures with a concentration on modern, contemporary and African Art.

During his tenure, the Tang's encyclopedic collection has expanded greatly through key acquisitions and gifts with recent significant additions to historical photography and contemporary art holdings.

«Mark brings tremendous experience in the conservation of paintings across a diverse range of historic periods, having previously worked with some of the most comprehensive encyclopedic collections in the nation, as well as internationally,» said Anderson.

As his photographs extend those rich traditions into the present, it is fitting that The Irving Penn Foundation would mark the centenary of the artist's birth with the extraordinary promised gift of most of the prints in this exhibition to the encyclopedic collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.»

Luminous watercolors by John Singer Sargent, a stunning retrospective of paintings and collages by Georges Braque (who invented Cubism and collage with Picasso but kept at them longer), exquisite permanent collections and James Turrell's mind - bending tunnel, «The Light Inside,» are among the riches at Houston's encyclopedic art museum.

«I admire the CMA's commitment to presenting innovative contemporary art in the context of its exceptional encyclopedic holdings and very much look forward to helping shape a contemporary program that resonates with collections spanning history and geography.

Now an encyclopedic museum with a collection of 50,000 items, the Atheneum has maintained its commitment to show and acquire contemporary art.

«The collection provides an encyclopedic survey of the major artists and movements of the last 50 years, with an emphasis on Conceptual Art and artists worldwide,» said Douglas Hyland, director of the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut and co-curator of a recent exhibition of works from the collection.

But Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington and Philadelphia also have the kind of historically great museums with deep, often encyclopedic collections that, over time, create whole ecosystems of art around them.

Wikis can be seen as constantly updated collections of useful information arranged in an encyclopedic or similarly organized way, with hyperlinks to related internal and external information.