The group is made up of several organisations such as The Northamptonshire Ancient Egyptian Society, Art Fund Northamptonshire and The Friends of Northampton Museums and Art Gallery.
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Although Voom tried to differentiate itself with unique, high-definition content, its niche channels such as one devoted to old monster movies, and another featuring tours of museums and art galleries were never sufficiently compelling, says Craig Moffett, cable-industry analyst at Sanford Bernstein.
His predecessor, James Cuno, had previously headed the Courtauld Institute, the Harvard University Art Museums, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.
By the early 1920s, African art was not only coveted by individuals but had begun entering the collections of museums devoted to modern art, particularly the Barnes Foundation.
But there is much more to Philly than history, from cheesesteaks and fine dining to a truly stunning world class assortment of museums and the largest collection of impressionist French art outside of Paris.
"In Paris we happen to have the most important museums covering almost all of art history--from its earliest origins through the Modernist movement, " Pinault says grandly.
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New Haven also has a number of art galleries and museums, thanks to the presence and influence of nearby Yale University, the third oldest university in the country.
The gift will aid the museum in its efforts to catch up to the depth and scope of the African art collections in other encyclopedic museums around the world, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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In a town of some dozen art museums, it has never been able to project a clear sense of its own identity, of what it can offer the museum-going public that no other institution can.
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The city is home to dozens of archaeology institutes and museums, with academics studying the best of Hellenic art, culture and architecture.
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The two museums housed a collection of Islamic art--one of the world's best--put together by Kuwait's al Sabah family in the '70s and '80s.
Far less modest are the adjacent Vatican Museums, an exhausting feast of art, and home to the world's most famous frescoes in the legendary Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's astounding ceiling and wall frescoes that take the cake - picture terrified sinners and ravishing prophets bursting out in 3-D brilliance.
The Guggenheim Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago are among the museums that have written impassioned letters to the Senate Finance Committee begging for a change in the new law affecting "fractional" donations of art.
Other top museums include the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, prominently featuring a Louise Bourgeois spider sculpture out front, the American Jazz Museum, and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
Kirtsaeng has attracted a large number of amicus briefs, with the American Library Association, Costco, eBay, Goodwill Industries International, Google, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, and a group of leading American art museums backing Kirtsaeng.
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Scholarly in approach, sceptical in tone and polemical in intent, this is a forceful and entertaining survey of how blockbuster exhibitions are upstaging the traditional role of museums by a highly respected art historian who died earlier this year.
At best, the argument that this show "surveys various ways museums inspire the making of works of art" is evident in a few of the photographs on view most notably the large Cindy Sherman portrait that conjures up an Old Master painting (and wonderfully confuses you as to precisely which one it might be).
Other museums collect contemporary Latin American art, of course dating back at least to the 1930s, when the Museum of Modern Art, under its first director, Alfred H.
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One of the most popular museums in the world, the Louvre has a long history of collecting art from the Islamic world, from putting on the first exhibition in Paris dedicated to Islamic art in 1893 to creating a dedicated Islamic art department in 2003.
Ms. Steir's art now hangs in most major museums across the U.S., including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sadly, though, while the following list of the world's greatest post-war art thefts reveals that most of the work stolen from museums, galleries and private collections has been returned, many are still missing.
By 1990 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, followed by numerous other museums, had begun to label its frames as well as its paintings.
The centre has a 93-year-old artist in residence, curates exhibitions on the premises, and collaborates with one of the nation's oldest art museums, the Phillips Collection.
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The truth is that while I love museums and galleries (and I buy all of my art from great galleries in NYC and around the world and spot talents on the rise in museum shows), the whole concept of just seeing a piece of art hanging on a white wall seemed too out of touch from my reality.
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Aside from changing the face of a prospective docent, teaching museums make learning about art less formal and fussy.
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Pasto sent the drawings to mainstream museums, such as New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim, but was met with resistance.
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They said blocking the sale would have implications for the trade of indigenous art and could potentially force French museums to hand back collections they have bought.
But with the opening of the city's first contemporary art museums, the country's first W Hotel, and a growing restaurant scene, tourists are starting to get a taste of the vibrant cultural life that has been bubbling beneath the city's ornate veneer.
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