Sentences with phrase «work by a living artist»

Since 1910 the charity has donated thousands of works by living artists to museums.

There, he will concentrate on historic exhibitions, as well as artist estates and the secondary market — meaning art that has been for sale, not new work by living artists.

That thing about «national treasure» is changed, so works by living artists could be added to that list only if the artist himself gives a permission for that.

But while automobiles, for example, have vehicle identification numbers, works by living artists enter the market without dependable standards of identification.

Mr. Findlay expresses particular scorn for the fortunes paid for works by living artists with necessarily short track records.

Christie's rarely sold works by living artists at the end of the 20th century, but now the vast majority in terms of value at auction is the result of new artists.

As the preeminent institution devoted to the art of the United States, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth - century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists.

MECA's Institute of Contemporary Art serves a critical regional role in its commitment to presenting contemporary, provocative work by living artists from Maine and around the globe.

«Entangled Orbits demonstrates the museum's commitment to presenting work by living artists in public spaces and the idea that art should be the first thing you see when you enter the museum and the last thing as you leave,» said BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director Christopher Bedford.

In addition to Basquiat, whose original paintings are valued in the seven - and eight - figure range, several works by living artists sold for more than a million dollars.

Interestingly, once the Whitney finally opened as a museum, it briefly had a policy of not showing work by living artists so as not to wade into the messy territory of influencing the market.

Frieze New York is the center of the world this week in New York City with its contemporary art fair presenting work by living artists only.

Nearly a century of collecting works by living artists has enabled the Museum to build one of the nation's strongest collections of 19th century, modern, and contemporary art.

Also located in the Porteous Building, the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA serves a critical regional role in its commitment to presenting contemporary, provocative work by living artists from Maine and around the globe.

At the time, local industrialists and politicians were keen to help boost the city's collections with works by living artists.

was the largest, most colorful abstract painting in the museum's collection, a symbol of Phillips's embrace of innovative work by living artists.

The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman joins other exhibitions at the Broad MSU examining work by living artists from the U.S. and around the globe who are addressing a range of social and political issues through their practice — including recent exhibitions of South Asian artists Naiza Khan, Imran Qureshi, and Mithu Sen.

Jeff Koons made himself a household name with his gargantuan steel sculpture series Balloon Dog, which broke records in 2013 when one of his five supersized hounds became the most expensive work by a living artist sold at auction, going for a staggering $ 58.4 m.

The Lynden Sculpture Garden offers a program of temporary exhibitions — both in the gallery and on the grounds — featuring work by living artists, some of it created for Lynden.

When he started collecting in the 1980s, the city's major arts patrons had amassed tranches of post-war treasures, but didn't always acquire work by living artists, and the public never got a look at the work.

Mera Rubell and her husband, Don, have been collecting work by living artists since the 1960s.

Unlike its London rivals, FIAC shows 20th - century classics as well as works by living artists under the same cast - iron roof of the Grand Palais.

Thenceforth, the New Museum mainly, although not exclusively, displays works by living artists.

The increase in temporary exhibition space allows for a livelier rotation of shows and more work by living artists.

While works by living artists have always been collected by the MFA — Winslow Homer, Claude Monet, and John Singer Sargent were contemporary artists when some of their paintings were acquired — the Department of Contemporary Art was only established formally in the Museum's centennial year, 1971.

Some present recent work by living artists spanning several generations; others showcase fascinating historical material of varying vintages.

Maine Collected features selected works by living artists connected to Maine from the Bates Museum of Art's permanent collection.

This was an auction record for the artist, but it almost seemed disappointing given the predictions that he might beat the US pop artist Jeff Koons, whose Balloon Flower sold in June for # 12.9 m, to second place in the ranks of prices paid for a single work by a living artist.

According to Jason T. Busch, gallery director, «We will also showcase work by living artists Beth Cavener, Katsuyo Aoki, and Rick Owens, all of whom have been garnering increasingly significant international acclaim through the gallery's presentations.»

I spent the week on a quest to find work by the living artists using photography among the sudden flood of neo-figurative painting that permeated the pavilions.

The Phillips Collection has always contained current works by living artists, and it maintains this policy through selective purchases and gifts, including some from the artists themselves.

In direct contrast to his predecessors, Storck advised the administration to acquire few works by living artists from Baden and instead advocated the purchase of works by German Impressionists.

Meanwhile, the Legion of Honor enlivened the centennial of the death of Auguste Rodin by dramatically contrasting the museum's great sculpture collection with two exhibitions of cheeky works by living artists Sarah Lucas and Urs Fischer.

The Maine College of Art's ICA is a spare, modern series of galleries displaying contemporary work by living artists, in conjunction with public programs.

Colloquially called The Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has been collecting and exhibiting work by living artists since its founding in 1870.

Was the first work by a living artist to be acquired by the National Gallery of Ireland.

Under the directorship of Elizabeth MacGregor (1989 — 1999) Ikon developed its reputation as a venue primarily for new and innovative work by living artists involving a range of media: painting, sculpture, video, installation and photography.

P.P.O.W.'s thorough and absorbing show of older works by a living artist, Martha Wilson, should also be counted among the important historical exhibitions.

Works by living artists include two large colour photographs by Karin Bubaš, five text drawings in charcoal by Steven Shearer, a double - sided projection by Kevin Schmidt, two masks by Beau Dick, a small multiple by Rodney Graham, a mixed - media diptych by Mina Totino, a video by Euan Macdonald and a mechanical sculpture by Richard E. Prince.

He began his collection in the 1930s, and by the end of the decade Roy Neuberger was collecting seriously and had acquired major works by living artists.

Saara Pritchard, Head of Day Sale (Part I) declared: «With strong prices for works by living artists, The contemporary session I day sale demonstrated the growing depth in the market with new record prices set for Carolee Schneemann (lot 127) at $ 317,000 and Cheyney Thompson (lot 127) at $ 317,000.

Her gallery will present innovative historical exhibitions of such influential European and American figures as well as showcases of exceptional new work by living artists and special commissioned projects.

The Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth - century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists.

He opened an art gallery in Paris last year, the Espace Claude Berri, which showed works by living artists he owned and liked.

Gideon Mendel: Drowning World joins other exhibitions at the Broad MSU examining works by living artists from the U.S. and around the globe who are confronting a range of political, economic, and social issues.

In November 2013, the Post-War and Contemporary evening sale at Christie's totaled $ 691.6 million, setting a new record for the most expensive work by a living artist — $ 58.4 million for Jeff Koons's sculpture Balloon Dog.

«I only collect works by living artists, that's my maxim.

To share a large body of his work with the public is an exciting and rare opportunity, and it underscores our commitment to showing provocative work by living artists.»