Example sentences of "see the art [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than five hundred items are in the exhibition — enthusiasts say it 's a chance to see the art form of the nineties . |
| 2 | The spectacular theft of eight sixteenth-century panel paintings , among them five Cranach portraits , from Weimar Castle on 12 October ( see The Art Newspaper No. 22 , November 1992 , p.4 ) is virtually solved . |
| 3 | Among them is the snuff box sold by Gloria Thurn und Taxis in the recent Sotheby 's sale in Geneva on 17 November for a record £1,155,2507 ( see The Art Newspaper No. 23 , December 1992 , p.6 ) . |
| 4 | On 3 June last the painting was badly slashed in five places when it fell from the wall and caught on the scaffolding used by the restorers ( see The Art Newspaper No.20 , July-September 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 5 | The Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has sentenced David James , former curator of Islamic manuscripts at the Chester Beatty Library , Dublin , to five years imprisonment on thirty-six charges of theft , carried out between 1983 and 1989 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 17 , April 1992 , p.2 ) . |
| 6 | One owner of former Chester Beatty material — although he has in the past denied this — now proving reluctant to return it , is David Nasser Khalili , the dealer/collector who is offering his collection on loan to the British nation ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 21 , October 1992. p.1 ) . |
| 7 | It is believed , although not confirmed , that the missing drawings from the Koenigs Collection which resurfaced last September in Russia were held in the same monastery ( see The Art Newspaper No. 22 , November 1992 , p.8 ) . |
| 8 | The Louvre will be awaiting critical reaction with some apprehension after the violent , largely ill-informed polemic which erupted in France over their recent cleaning of the huge ‘ Wedding at Cana ’ by Veronese ( see The Art Newspaper No. 24 , January 1993 , p. 11 ) . |
| 9 | A major installation of Beuys , ‘ Arena ( where I would have got if I had been intelligent ) ’ , created in 1970–72 ( see The Art Newspaper No.16 , March 1992 , p.6 ) , remains on exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts until mid-April , while the MoMA exhibition travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles ( 30 May-15 August ) , the Philadelphia Museum of Art ( 10 October-2 January 1994 ) and the Art Institute of Chicago ( 15 February-25 April 1994 ) . |
| 10 | The expanded American chronology now incorporates the recent bequest of early Twentieth-century art from the Lowenthal Collection ( see The Art Newspaper No.20 , July-Sept. 1992 , p.4 ) . |
| 11 | Dolors Miró , eighty-year old daughter of the artist , has announced that a large number of the 300 works belonging to the family currently on show at the Fondación ( recently re-opened with a major new extension ; see The Art Newspaper No. 21 , October 1992 , p.7 ) will probably remain with that institution . |
| 12 | The recent spate of such thefts ( see The Art Newspaper No. 21 , October 1992 , p.16 ) continued when one marble and sixteen classical terracotta figurines were taken from the Schimatari Museum in Boeotia , central Greece , on the night of 24 December . |
| 13 | The chief officers of the Florentine Soprintendenza , Antonio Paolucci and Paolo Mazzoni , together with Emma Micheletti and Angelo Calvani , Paolo Cappelletti and Paolo D'Elia , charged last February with causing criminal damage to the national heritage by laying new paving in the Piazza della Signoria , have now been cleared on appeal ( see The Art Newspaper no.17 , April 1992 , p.15 ) . |
| 14 | Last year the National Gallery of Scotland subjected the Duke of Buccleuch 's celebrated ‘ Madonna of the Yarnwinder ’ to close comparative scrutiny , using other versions of the picture as well as related drawings by Leonardo and other artists ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 13 , December 1991 , p.2 ) . |
| 15 | The Halifax portrait will be on temporary loan to the Grand Palais for the major exhibition of Venetian sixteenth-century painting ( ‘ The century of Titian : from Giorgione to Veronese ’ , 13 March 14 June ; see The Art Newspaper No. 25 , February 1993 , p.4 ) and will be on show in London after the exhibition closes . |
| 16 | The boost from the province represents a complete about-face by the New Democratic Party , whose Culture and Communications Minister Karen Haslam had chided the gallery for its ‘ elitism ’ and imposed devastating cutbacks that forced the museum to lay off 244 employees and close for seven months last year ( see The Art Newspaper No.22 , November 1992 , p.7 and No.24 , January 1993 , p.8 ) . |
| 17 | Throughout the Eighties , museum-building spread like a fever from the centre to the provinces , not on the same scale as in Germany ( see The Art Newspaper survey No. 13 , Dec. 1991 , pp.6–7 ) but with schemes of similar grandeur . |
| 18 | A previous exhibition of younger British art , which is Saatchi 's current preoccupation , attracted enormous attention and over 40,000 visitors for a room of sculptures by Damien Hirst ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p.7 ) . |
| 19 | The conclusions of the Athens conference of 130 art historians , archaeologists , conservators and scientists will be a part of the display ( see The Art Newspaper No. 20 , July-September 1992 , p.14 ) , as will casts of two life-size ancient kouroi believed by most scholars to be closest in style to the Getty example : the Tenea Kouros from Munich and the Anavysos Kouros from Athens . |
| 20 | Over the past two years the debate has veered between consolidating the remains as a war memorial and reconstructing the church ( see The Art Newspaper No. 9 , June 1991 , p.14 ) . |
| 21 | Following the stylistic and archaeological debate over whether paintings in the prehistoric cave found by Henri Cosquer at Sormiou , near Marseilles , in September 1991 were fakes or not ( see The Art Newspaper No. 21 , October 1992 , p.17 ) , scientific analysis of pollen and carbon-14 remains have confirmed a palaeolithic date . |
| 22 | Jacques Walter , the former owner of van Gogh 's ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ , auctioned last year for only FFr55 million after being classified an historic monument ( see The Art Newspaper No.24 , January 1993 , p20 ) , has taken out four law suits against the French State for compensation . |
| 23 | The near bankrupt New York Historical Society ( see The Art Newspaper No. 26 , March 1993 , p. 4 ) has approved a financial plan intended to redefine the institution 's mission and provide an endowment for operating funds . |
| 24 | Roberta M. Olson Ottocento : romanticism and revolution in nineteenth-century Italian painting ( The American Federation of Arts and Centro Di , New York and Florence , 1992 ) 293pp. fully illustrated in b/w and col. $67.95 Catalogue of the first major exhibition on this topic to be seen by an American audience since 1949 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 22 , November 1992 , p.11 ) . |
| 25 | Whether the tour ( which overrides a ban on loans in Barnes 's will and was shepherded through the courts by the National Gallery 's director emeritus , J. Carter Brown , and the wealthy collector Walter Annenberg ; see The Art Newspaper No. 15 , February 1992 , p.1 ) should be taking place at all remains a matter of debate . |
| 26 | It has been French State policy over the last twelve years to foster its provincial museums , and in particular to increase the number of contemporary art museums outside Paris ( see The Art Newspaper No. 26 , March 1993 , pp. 8–9 ) . |
| 27 | If you are George Goldner , Curator of Paintings at the Getty Museum , what do you do for a follow-up after you buy a great Rubens ( ‘ Samson destroying the temple ’ , see The Art Newspaper No. 25 , January 1993 , p. 9 ) ? |
| 28 | His plan for weathering the current crisis ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 27 , April 1993 , p. 13 ) earned the support of the American Association of Museum Directors , which cited the urgency of the Society 's position . |
| 29 | This renewed emphasis on auctioneering rather than other activities may be a reflection of the swingeing drop in revenue from principal activities evident in the 1992 end of year results , down from $15.9 million to $1 million ( see The Art Newspaper , No 27 , April 1993 , p.21 ) . |
| 30 | A similar creolisation of Western painting , however , is also being attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat , the late graffiti writer turned painter now celebrated in a Whitney Museum retrospective , ( see The Art Newspaper No. 22 , November 1992 , p.10 ) . |