Sentence examples for portable works from inspiring English sources
A private fund-raising effort, ArtCare, was set up in 2010 to beef up preservation in San Francisco, but it focuses on large stationary pieces, not portable works.
Although the number is always in flux, the commission estimates that 1,057 portable works are now decorating city offices and other public spaces.
Upon request by The Bay Citizen, the city sent a partial list of its inventory, with 2,673 items of stationary and portable works.
By contrast, Seattle, whose city art collection also contains thousands of portable works, has five full-time and four part-time employees in charge of public art.
The San Francisco Arts Commission, the city agency responsible for the collection, is especially poor at tracking its unusually large collection of around 2,500 portable works — paintings and other pieces that are supposed to decorate public spaces and buildings.
These are the main testimonials to the prehistoric art of the Aborigines; the only portable works from early periods that have been discovered are some elaborate items used for personal decoration.
Few worthy immigrants would be willing to enter the country with their families on a promise of portable work permission that could be yanked whenever the economy dipped.
That painting is still in its original place in North Korea, but more portable work by Mr. Hong has been assembled for this exhibition organized by Jang Kyung-hwa, chief curator of the Gwangju Art Museum in South Korea, and Tom Finkelpearl, executive director of the Queens Museum.
"You would think that if you made it on the floor of a museum and it wasn't a portable work and it was built in situ that it would be viewable," he said.
A hierarchical organization of all elements of a portable work of art, paralleled by certain ritual practices, is relevant for the understanding of the early religious symbolism.
The only plausible way to eliminate immigrant deaths at the border, as well as reduce illegal immigration in the long term, is to institute a new program of temporary visas or portable work permits for foreign workers, potentially in conjunction with a bilateral agreement on enforcement with Mexico and Central American countries.
