Mr. Kitaj's widely allusive work, recently seen in New York in a show at the Marlborough Gallery, touches on history, philosophy and literature as well as art, and it doesn't stint on autobiography.
This sense of easy circulation goes along with the philosophy of the gallery director, Janis Mink, that a wide range of art ideas should get an airing.
You can already see this philosophy expressed in galleries for the Latin American collection in the Art of the Americas building.
And then it is onward to where the most ambitious of those ideas led: out of the gallery, and into the realms of philosophy, science and history as embodied in nature.
Asendorf is known in many circles as the co-founder of the Fach & Asendorf Gallery, one of the very first web-only art galleries, whose shows are dedicated to the philosophy of 'electricity, bits, brains, glitch and curiosity'.
Honthorst then inspires an entire gallery of candlelit scenes – singsongs, soirees, hugger-mugger philosophy debates and a most mysterious dice game by La Tour.
Poised to be a spectacular landmark, the museum's five imposing steel feathers will each house galleries reflecting the guiding philosophies of the United Arab Emirates' founder and first president, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, including displays on his life and on conservation, heritage, history and society, science and learning, and faith and Islam.
Mr. King's priceless lineup began with a rabbi who testified to Mr. Rich's devotion to "philosophy and theology," and continued with a bipartisan Clinton-era rogues' gallery as it might have been imagined by Hieronymus Bosch: Arlen Specter, Bob Barr, Susan McDougal and Barbara Olson.
Ms. Rosenberg and her partner in the project, Ken Marsh, both painters from North Salem, share a common philosophy: art should not languish for want of interest from a gallery or museum.
The galleries showcase photographers whose subject matter is in line with the organization's philosophy.
