In his will he stipulated that the remainder of his estate, which constituted more than 2,000 works at his death, would be available to the public in any American city that devoted a museum exclusively to his art.
Two years later he went further, announcing plans to devote a new museum to early art from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
In 1960, the Phillips was the only museum to devote a room to Rothko paintings.
Saturday, a day devoted to a museum retrospective of his life, featuring material from his personal archives, and to screenings of films about him.
September 28 2013 In a singular event in its history, the museum will devote an entire day to contemporary music — John Zorn's, with a ten-and-a-half-hour marathon that doubles as a tour of the museum itself.
The museum devotes a whole room to the Syracusan Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) and his Mission oak furniture.
The museum devotes an entire room to the making of David Wojnarowicz's video "A Fire in My Belly," which was pulled from the show at the National Portrait Gallery last year, after congressional Republicans protested a scene of ants on a crucifix.
A terrorist planning to commit an atrocity at a museum devoted to the horrors of terrorist atrocities might seem unduly biddable to his enemy's purpose, but then perhaps the security apparatus is itself a museum installation.
Berlin's first Museum of Photography will eventually occupy the third floor of the building, but a museum devoted to Newton will soon open on the ground floor.
But a museum devoted to math?
