Kiran recently opened an art museum near Delhi that features paintings and sculptures from her private collection.
The foundation runs an art museum and historic mansion in downtown Orange, a port town 90 miles east of Houston.
The numbers for a hospital simply cannot be compared meaningfully with those of an art museum, or a foreign-aid charity.
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Amy Hennig, creative director for the game, said the question of whether video games belong in an art museum is irrelevant.
And now that the hotel is adding an art museum, designed by American artist James Turrell, more travelers will likely make the trek.
The developer offered to build a 100-acre park and donate it to the city--if it got permits to build an underground parking garage, a nature center and an art museum.
Go to an art museum, by contrast, and you may catch yourself wondering how many of the people in a gallery are genuinely interested in the paintings that hang there.
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Not since Frank Lloyd Wright completed the concrete spiral of the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1959 has an art museum so shocked and intrigued observers or received so much preopening publicity.
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That's a tough challenge for an art museum to master, as was evident at the recent Whitney Biennial, which introduced performances, inevitably time-limited, trying to demonstrate the importance of an artist not being limited to a specific medium.
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The most beautiful, subdued and quiet section is the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall, a low-lit space with blackened vitrines in which objects are brilliantly lighted, as in an art museum: case after case of minerals you have heard of (gold, quartz and tourmaline), and others, even more dazzling, that you probably have not (rhodochrosite).
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The trust lends the work to a charity that does have a related use for it--say an art school or obscure museum.
Veteran New York adviser Thea Westreich helped Richard and Pamela Kramlich assemble their cache of video art, recently featured in an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
An exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing labels Taiwan's entries with the flag of the People's Republic.
Mathaf, billed as an Arab museum of modern art, had Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang as the centerpiece of its first major solo show.
Relative newcomer Prada, on the other hand, is going public: The company's art arm, the Fondazione Prada, has enlisted architect Rem Koolhaas to design a new contemporary art museum on an industrial site south of Milan.
Glass walls that permit the museum's art to be viewed from as far away as Wilshire Boulevard are key elements of Zumthor's prototype, which would connect other buildings including a beloved Japanese pavilion and an Academy of Motion Pictures museum with an indoor-outdoor art park, where visitors can wander at will and preview exhibitions before entering.
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When he proposed to fully fund an annex to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, certain activists raised a ruckus.
The curator is to be Christopher Eamon of New York's Whitney Museum, who with an art consultant, Thea Westreich, helped build the Kramlich collection.
Along with the gallery, Saatchi runs an art Web site packed with reviews, museum and gallery listings, blogs, links to schools and grants, and a huge populist online marketplace where any artist can hawk his wares.
"If you've lost a piece of veneer on an Eames piece, take it to someone who knows the task of veneer, " said Don Menveg, an art conservator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, who worked on the installation of the "California Design, 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way" exhibit.
The National Museum of African Art contains an excellent, if West Africa-heavy, collection of both traditional and modern art from the continent.
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It takes up the entire cubic footage capacity of this art museum that started off as an exposition hall for world trade fairs early in the 20th century.
"He felt he was actually cutting into the color itself as he made these pictures, " says John Elderfield, an art historian, chief curator emeritus at the Museum of Modern Art and consultant to the Gagosian Gallery.
Augusta, who has represented collections for the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, bought it from a man who found it at an estate sale in Newark, N.
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Agnes Gund, an art patron who is the former president of the Museum of Modern Art, is a big donor to Democrats.
"No single event, before or since, has had such an influence on American art, " wrote the Whitney Museum director Lloyd Goodrich at the time of its 50th anniversary.
Sterling and Francine Clark turned down an offer from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1946 when they were looking for a home for their art collection, setting their sights instead on Williamstown.
He was an evangel for photography, insisting that it be recognized as an art, and so he crowed that "The Metropolitan Museum has opened its sacred halls to Photography" when the museum accepted his gift of 22 photographs in 1928.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Officials in charge of Bosnia's national monuments said Wednesday they rejected an offer by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to exhibit one of Bosnia's most prized relics, a 600-year-old Jewish manuscript that remains locked in a museum which closed because of a lack of money.
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York featured an exhibit of quilts a few years ago.
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