And here we are once again, in 2010, trying to make a chronological chunk of art — 2000s art, or new millennium art, or art of the aughts — make sense.
It is also about trying to build an art scene that is viable and that has the scale and infrastructure that would allow it to stand alone and no longer rely on the generosity of foreign institutions such as the Alliance Française or the Goethe Institute, which fund a large chunk of art production in Kenya.
Employing modernist abstraction as a kind of bulletin board that also suggests a chunk of art-studio wall, each presents a spare but suggestive assortment of cheap and expendable items — photographs, trinkets, newspaper clippings, decals, small objects and the odd drawing or note — that, like the works in Ms. Hendeles's show, form a kind of rebus.
Simply put, a young artist makes the cut if his work breaks down into manageable chunks of art history.
NEW YORK — Since Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection in September, and Kathy Fuld, wife of its chief executive, signaled the changed fortunes of Wall Street's elite by announcing plans to sell off a chunk of her art collection, it has been a bumpy downhill ride for the once-hot contemporary art market.
The auction block Then the second blow came with word that a chunk of the art collection would be sold.
Hiscox itself sold a big chunk of its art collection in 1997, when it listed on the stockmarket.
As for tiresomely evoking Chekhov, so handy, so misunderstood, how many playwrights do not not owe a chunk of their art to the Russian master?
She has just sold a large chunk of her art collection for £2.4m because she was worried about burglars, and hankers after a flat where she doesn't have to fix the gutters, though it's not clear what will happen to the chickens.
This is why there are so many apparently incidental pocket-sized public spaces sporting heavy stone benches or chunks of public art in key positions: they would force a terrorist's vehicle travelling at high speed to slow down significantly at key approaches to important buildings.
The Political Aesthetic In 1949 the Chinese Nationalist Army, retreating from Communist forces, packed up vast chunks of the art holdings amassed by the late Qing emperors in the Forbidden City and shipped the material to Taiwan, where it remains today as the National Palace Museum.
