But for every viewer who can separate the art and the artist, there will be another who can't.
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New York City-based fashion label Public School, for example, designed the staff's uniforms, and Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art worked with the hotel and artist Jorge Pantoja to craft a five-piece collection of paintings displayed in the lobby.
Philosopher Mark Sheehan, of Oxford University's James Martin 21st Century School, says moral complexities do arise because of the relationship between the artist and the art in the mind of the audience.
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He sees this period as a turning point in the work of each artist and in the history of art, and he chronicles every day, sometimes every hour, of their life together.
But art does reveal the artist, and it does influence action, however unpredictably.
All the work in the exhibition comes from the Yale University Art Gallery, which owns the artist's complete archive, and his output is thoroughly represented, from the early photos of his hometown of Longmont, Colorado, to selections from his famous series "The New West" and "Summer Nights, " to his more recent pictures of the Pacific Northwest coast.
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The frustrated art lover spent long afternoons visiting museums, galleries and artist's studios, dealing in the odd painting by Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
In an interview two years before Purifoy's death, The Tavis Smiley Show producer Roy Hurst talked with the artist about his legacy of "protest art" and the legitimacy of the assemblage art movement.
The haunting effect of Ensor's sea of masked figures, who cascade toward us on a surging, endless tide, is due in part, as the art historian Patricia Berman has described, to the collapsing perspectives and multiple viewpoints the artist employed to create a sense of chaos.
From a gallery in The Post Family, a collaborative art space, Moving Designers heard from internationally renowned architect Gordon Gill and artist Matthew Hoffman (creator of the You are Beautiful project) to energy efficiency expert Tim Heppner and Ryan Wilson, the stormwater program manager at the Center for Neighborhood Technology.
What his analysis of this archival material gives us is a rewarding and long-overdue reappraisal of an extraordinary architect, humanist and artist who did much to redefine the art of building for the 21st century.
But in addition to the intensity of the artist's involvement with his art, he sincerely believed that he had developed a universal structural and aesthetic language suitable for all the building needs of our time.
Artist Maggi Hambling, who studied at the art school and created The Scallop on Aldeburgh beach, is said to be supporting the proposal.
Bailey is an artist whose work endures even as works of 'status art' by the 'it' artist of the moment come and go.
Those conditions came happily together in Chagall's wonder years of 1911-17: new idioms in art, the persistence of Hasidic life in the shtetl, and an artist who found distance enough to reconfigure that life in the universal medium of paint.
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Nowadays, as Gates rolls out his ever-expanding ideas for Dorchester, he's also ping-ponging to museum shows, art fairs and collector dinners the world over as befits an emerging artist on the cusp of superstardom.
The artist recently spoke with the Journal about collecting Coogis, performance art and being Hennessy.
And now that the hotel is adding an art museum, designed by American artist James Turrell, more travelers will likely make the trek.
And in one of the coolest art projects we came across this week, Chinese artist Wang Yuyang used thousands of compact fluorescent light bulbs to create a replica of the Moon.
In the same vein, Trama art gallery features outstanding artists such as contemporary landscape painter Eduard Resbier and artist Javier Campano, who is renowned for his monochrome photography of Madrid.
And we marveled at the work of artist Bernard Pras, who recreates classic works of art using only recycled materials.
The result a grid of cubbyholes filled with art books and collectibles, like a polka dot paperweight by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.
When evaluating a potential purchase, an entrepreneur like Courtauld was looking for an assessment finely balanced between market value (a good price), quality as a work of art (a question of informed taste and a good eye), and stature of the artist (now and in the future).
All of the reissued music is a testament to an artist who lived, and possibly even died, for her art.
There will also be exhibitions across the Tate dedicated to the work of abstract artist Kazimir Malevich, Germany's Sigmar Polke and a survey of British Folk Art.
But on the course, when he hits a shot like his chip on number 16 at Augusta in 2006, I see art, and I can separate the off-the-course man and the on-the-course artist.
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Perhaps his savviest find was Orozco, the Mexican conceptual artist who, through the patronage of Lopez and others, went from virtual unknown to art-world hotshot mainly through the popularity of his Cibachromes, which are photographic prints saturated with colors.
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The landscape artist and sculptor, who won the prize in 1989, has been honoured for his services to art.
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And the Migros Museum, which has a renowned collection of cutting-edge art, will open with hip Icelandic performing artist and painter Ragnar Kjartansson.
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