Since 1993 he has been financing acquisitions by contemporary and emerging artists and commissioning new works, most recently Nam June Paik's laser-based, site-specific works "Jacob's Ladder" and "Sublime" for the museum's Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda, as part of last year's exhibition "The Worlds of Nam June Paik".
As an insight into the strangeness and paranoia that has pervaded Burmese society for decades – and that still linger today despite the country's abrupt turn towards democracy and capitalism – the museum is sublime.
NEWARK MUSEUM "Capturing the Sublime: The Enamels of Mary Druin" and "Quilt Masterpieces From Folk Art to Fine Art".
The first floor of the museum features the sublime landscapes and maritime paintings of Fitz Hugh Lane.
Relax and enjoy the sublime Cariocas beach and revitalized museums and parks--the music scene isn't bad either!
The Bankside museum has just opened a sublime new space called, for God's sake, The Tanks.
As a young girl, she used to go to galleries and museums with her father; this early experience of the sublime — that is, looking and thinking in a presumably protective presence — no doubt accounts for the internal feel of her criticism, its circularity.
The occasion was a symposium, "Far Out: The Sublime Photographic Legacy of the Interplanetary Space Probes," held on Monday at the American Museum of Natural History and organized by the museum's Hayden Planetarium and the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.
Egyptian-style university and museum buildings recalled Egypt's reputation for wisdom; in America, Egyptianizing prisons evoked the law's sublime nature to inspire reform.
The sublime and witty Wang Keping sculptures are historic pieces that created a furor in post-Maoist China and museums are already bidding for Xu Bing's monumental 15-foot scroll entitled "Book From The Sky".
"People have this almost sublime experience of coming into the old building and seeing those iconic stairs," said Hendrik Folkerts, a curator at the museum.
