Sentence examples for museum attention from inspiring English sources
Latin American art has had shamefully little museum attention in a county that is, statistically, nearly 40percentt Spanish-speaking.
It tackles a subject — an innovative and influential body of art produced between two major American economic booms — that has been begging for museum attention.
Way before Kehinde Wiley started painting portraits of the black entertainment aristocracy, there was Barkley L. Hendricks, a gifted painter whose hip and funky life-size portraits of African-Americans are finally getting the museum attention they deserve.
Some kind of local museum attention could be given to the realist painter Rackstraw Downes, the abstract painters Thomas Nozkowski, Larry Poons and Stanley Whitney, or to an artist like Dona Nelson, who refuses to commit to either camp and whose eccentricities are a good match for Joe Zucker's.
All the museum attention is a triumph for Turrell, who even after 50 years in the game flew slightly under the radar up until now -- but some of his best work to date too opened up, and neither are in a museum, gallery or typical art-viewing space.
The outside of the museum commands attention; the inside becomes a mechanism for framing views.
The Latin American shows curated by Ramírez have won the museum unaccustomed attention.
In this case, the Dada expert Francis Naumann brought the existence of the journals to the museum's attention (he is annotating excerpts for the exhibition and publication).
Mr. Vaccaro was brought to the museum's attention by Max Lewkowicz, a documentarian whose mother was a Holocaust survivor and whose fiancée, Elissa Schein, is the museum's director of public programs.
Until this year -- when a cliffhanger of an auction on eBay, brought to the museum's attention by a descendant of the author, ended with the museum's paying $13,750 for one of only 13 first editions known to exist.
Kieran Long, senior V&A curator in charge of the collection, has argued that "ugly and sinister objects demand the museum's attention just as much as beautiful and beneficial ones do".
