In the gallery's audio guide, chief curator John Somerville explains how the work was purchased from the artist by Ferdinand Philip, the sixth Prince Lobkowicz of Bohemia, while he was in London buying horses -- and carrying on a scandalous affair with the wife of the Venetian ambassador.
"African art is often treated as coming from before the colonial past, " said senior curator Julia Charlton.
The Stockholm-born 47-year-old is to return to direct the Moderna Museet where he was senior curator from 1986 to 1989.
Mr Lovatt, who has a diploma from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and is also a graduate of botany from London University, is a former assistant curator of the Eden Project in Cornwall.
Hired away from the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, where she was textile curator in its department of Eastern art, Ms. Barnes has researched how textile techniques and designs spread, often disseminated by merchants plying the sea-lanes.
Submissions of interest will be considered by a panel of judges comprising an artist or curator, a representative from Velocity's partner organisations and representatives from the local community.
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The American section of the show, at the Whitney, organized by Phyllis Lambert with K. Michael Hays, adjunct curator of architecture, deals with Mies's development of modular construction, from the long, low buildings of the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago campus, which he designed as head of its architecture department, to his high-rise apartments and offices and his ultimate vision, the resolution of structure and enclosure as monumental, universal space.
"I have seen everything from report cards to an Alabama football ticket stub, " said Roderick Gainer, a curator with the Center of Military History.
"Each meteorite is a time capsule and space probe recording the history of our solar system from 4.5 billion years ago, " said Caroline Smith, curator of meteorites at London's Natural History Museum.
"We don't look to stylize our lineup so much as we just stay away from pop garbage, " said Farrell, who in the past has said he sees himself as a music curator when arranging each festival lineup.
The style and design sensibility that emerged in the years that followed the 1948 Olympics is what curator Christopher Breward calls "a tempered Modernism" a movement distinct from its American and European counterparts mainly in its refusal to completely leave the past behind.
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