In 2009 it spent $400m on a state-of-the-art container terminal, the only one in the region.
In the past decade, the city and the state have invested more than a hundred million dollars in a state-of-the-art container terminal, but the only place to put it was on a sliver of land at the edge of a residential neighborhood that is too small for a major distribution center.
The Asian Art Museum has borrowed two dolls with their tansu for storing tea implements and kimonos and Art Deco containers for face-whitening powder and toothpaste.
And in August 2011, it was noticed that Ho's personal collection of antiques, vintage fashion and art – five containers' worth, including a wall-mounted stag deer, a gilt Chanel chain bag and a rare Fendi bag – went under the hammer.
PORT CHESTER Clay Art Center "Bryan Hopkins: Containers for the Intangible".
Prior to Crown Fountain, Plensa's dominant theme had been dualism, which he had expanded to artworks in which the viewers are outside, and the visible subjects of the art are inside containers and hollow spaces.
"Art is a great container to hold your memory, knowledge, philosophy, wishes or whatever your have experienced," she said.
To others, it suggests a rose or a vast Constructivist artichoke, or is seen as simply an abstract play on Bilbao's industrialized heritage... Gehry's challenge was nearly overwhelming--to design something that would match Frank Lloyd Wright's building in aesthetic power while functioning much better as a container for art.
In an indirect way, she taught me that art could be a container for my relationship with myself.
Even if that turns out to be the case, there is still the matter of a clash at both sites between the collection and its container, between art and architecture.
The inaugural event in 2012 had events ranging from surf film premiers to pop-up art galleries in shipping containers to beach parties and street theatre.
