Sentence examples for art acquisition from inspiring English sources

The money is to be used to create an art acquisition fund, something Dia has never had.

At the Kimbell he wielded one of the nation's largest budgets for art acquisition, and landed many significant works, raising the museum's profile and his own.

And they are not limited to home-grown billionaires like the hedge-fund investor Steven A. Cohen, whose budget for art acquisition sometimes seems to rival the G.D.P. of certain small nations.

Quaid, who wore a fitted blazer over a T-shirt, recalled his first art acquisition, in 1982, a de Kooning drawing of "a man or a woman coming out of the ocean," which had been suggested to him by his former agent, Bob Gersh.

In the meantime, Rinder spotted his next outdoor art acquisition at the college's annual thesis fair: a shack on stilts that Jesse Schlesinger built out of the weathered old wood from a chicken barn and abandoned posts in a Berkeley lot.

Here is a firm prosperous enough not just to pay starting lawyers $85,000 a year, but to have its own art acquisition committee, which Mr. Fleischer heads; he is shown beside one of those predictably unpredictable modernist works that line the walls of even the stuffiest firms.

His mother is a consultant on corporate art acquisitions.

Money for new art acquisitions has shrunk to $11.1 million, from $26 million in 2009.

Other recent modern art acquisitions by Qatar include major works by Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and Richard Serra.

Major institutions such as Tate in Britain and MoMA in New York are also seeking Indian art acquisitions for their collections.

Yet, even that is a comparatively small problem, for art acquisitions represent a mere fraction of the Louvre outlay.