Maybe just the advertising of that or maybe, for example, in the classic example we often use is the history of art survey where you go back and look at things, like some of the great pieces - works of art of over our history which probably sometimes do depict naked children.
Mountain View just added 20 US museums to its battery of 10, 000 indoor schematics, including the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cincinnati Museum Center, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, 17 Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo in DC.
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"The opportunity for a museum or a private collector to buy one of the great icons of art history is unlikely to be repeated any time soon, " said Shaw.
But it is the strategy of this turnaround that highlights the crucial difference between those who advocate for old buildings on the basis of art and history and those who deal in them as commercial commodities.
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In the early exhibitions there was no attempt to display paintings chronologically or even geographically, but with the growth of art history in Germany this gradually became more common, as did the idea of panoramic displays of the work of a single artist, which by 1900 had become a standard way of commemorating their anniversaries.
And with that he was off to his home for a nap, before returning to the museum that evening to escort the secretary of state and the cream of New York society through the history of American art.
The first five installments of the series are something of an art-history and philosophy course.
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.
So think of a highly-qualified software engineer (the vertical part of the T) who can talk knowledgeably about higher education and art history (the horizontal part of the T).
Prior to dinner, Paul Morris, the founding director of the show, gave guests a preview of the art that will be on display and a presented a brief history of its modest beginnings at the former Gramercy Hotel to its move to the 69th Street Regiment Armory and finally to its current home at Piers 92 and 94.
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The idea of abstraction is so central to the history of modern art that it left its mark on the work of nonvisual artists as well.
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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.
The cheat lives like a natural Chaplinesque aristocrat of humble origins who owes his fortune to his physical gifts and his poker face and whose exploits, like those of the famous stage actor Guitry, would have been lost to history without the art of recording.
"Unfortunately, the collectors, buyers and sellers of works of art have traditionally paid little, if any, attention to the provenance of a work of art in terms of its ownership history, " Korte told CNN.
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Mr. PAJAUD: It's the greatest drawing in the history of black art, as far as we're concerned.
Visit the Yale University Art Gallery, which houses more than 185, 000 pieces of international and American art, or the Peabody Museum of Natural History, which displays mounted apatosaurus and stegosaurus dinosaur bones in its great hall.
Turner's (1835) is bright, but you can actually see the individual brush marks with which Turner changed the history of art.
Fine Art is simply the art of the past that has survived this sieving by history.
This is no doubt a deliberate attempt to honor his memory by presenting his work undiluted, without the usual trappings of art history.
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The Berlin section, which has been directed by Terence Riley, chief curator of the department of architecture and design at MoMA, in collaboration with Barry Bergdoll, professor of art history at Columbia University, is rich in the pre-1920s houses later written out of Mies's official history of himself.
The evening auction of Impressionist and Modern Art made history by realizing the highest total for any auction ever held in Europe.
Born in Staniewicze, Poland in 1937, Johnson immigrated to the United States via Rome in 1968 after studying art history at the University of Wroclaw.
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Very much a work of art rather than of history, this beautifully written novel edges towards saying something profound about the relationships between art and life, men and women, the powerful and the disempowered, without ever becoming a simplistic parable.
The sheer amount of things to see is staggering, and like any big city art or natural history museum, the vast majority of the artifacts and memorabilia are in storage, not on display, enabling them to be rotated with enough frequency so that every time you visit it is new again.
"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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My interviews with people such as Warren Beatty, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Barbra Streisand, Mel Brooks, Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, James Caan, Robin Williams, Christian Slater, Lucille Ball, Meryl Streep, Sharon Stone, Julia Roberts, Sir Ian McKellen, Lynn Redgrave, Tom Cruise, Carrie Fisher, Whoopi Goldberg, Lauren Bacall, and Bruce Willis (just to name a few) have enlightened me about the art of acting and the history of Hollywood.
Born in Stockholm, the son of a botanist and a mathematician, he turned his back on family tradition by studying art history at the University of Stockholm.
In traditional Gundlach fashion, the manager spent most of his time referencing art and history in order to explain the current economic environment.
The latest instalment in this series concerns the archaeology, history, art and architecture of the province of Ghazni which we sincerely hope contributes to greater knowledge and understanding of the historic city of Ghazni and also sparks new interest among the Afghan youth to help safeguard heritage under threat from looting and destruction.
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