Stunts designed to set art-world sensibilities aquiver are practically a rite of career passage.
He just looked and drew, but the women he looked at and the ways he showed them set art alight.
The new wing "will set art of the United States in a broader context," said Elliot Bostwick Davis, chairman of the art of the Americas department.
Howells preferred novels he wrote after he encountered Tolstoy's writings and was persuaded by them, as he said, to "set art forever below humanity".
As the movement's foremost born-and-bred New Yorker, Newman took upon himself the drama of his generation's determination to eclipse Europe and to set art on a new course — and he made sure that everybody knew it.
"We're setting art history tonight".
And so this show sets art and life and craft, form and religion and politics, New York and the world aswirl, achieving an intoxicating, if sometimes bittersweet, vitality.
This visiting artist saw my painting, and with equal parts urgency and certainty informed me that "with each stroke, I was setting art history back 500 years".
Specializing in 3D paintings and not simply an exhibition hall for selfies, what sets Art in Island a part is how it encourages and facilitates viewers to interact with and take selfies with the museum's art.
Set the arts world the challenge of commissioning, for performance in 2012, new works in all its major fields.
