The phrase "art turf" is not a standard expression in written English, and its meaning may not be clear without context.
It could potentially be used in discussions about the intersection of art and public spaces, or in debates about art ownership and territory.
Example: "The city council's decision to allocate the park as art turf has sparked a lively debate among local artists and residents."
Alternatives: "art space" or "creative zone".
There's no more stimulating patch of art turf in Manhattan than the Islamic wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Cindy Sherman, most famously, conquered this profitable art turf, beginning with her "Untitled Film Stills," a series of black-and-white self-portraits created between 1977 and 1980.
Upper East Side On the more densely populated art turf of the Upper East Side, look for Nancy Ellison's large-scale photographs at the Mary Boone Gallery that elegantly tweak fashion and celebrity, and at the Goethe Institute, the moody, painterly work of the young New York artist Sharon Harper, who catches the world streaking by from a train window.
More than anything, McKillop wanted to introduce scientific standards to a business that had long trafficked more in the so-called dark arts, turf management heavy on expertise and feel.
The exhibition "Paths to Impressionism: French and American Landscape Paintings From the Worcester Art Museum" at the Newark Museum covers familiar art history turf: the evolution of landscape painting in France and the United States in the 19th century.
An enormous green welcome mat is being installed at Memorial Stadium — 100,000 square feet of state-of-the-art synthetic turf.
Christian Zimmerman, the plan's architect, said it called for the football and soccer fields to be fitted with state-of-the-art artificial turf, which, he said, plays like grass.
The show cuts across continents and cultures and -- this is rare, but important -- across the carefully maintained boundaries that divide up New York's art world power turf.
Photography outdoes art on its own turf.
The form occupies odd turf where art shades into craft.
As always, Wambaugh populates his world with vivid characters: Flotsam and Jetsam, cops who'd rather surf than patrol turf; Nigel Wickland, Beverly Hills art dealer and consummate phony; and Leona Brueger, a seductress supported by the estate of her late husband and the skill of her plastic surgeons.
