Philip Haas

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Philip Haas is an American artist and filmmaker His exhibition of film installations at the Kimbell Art Museum Butchers Dragons Gods and Skeletons was listed by TIME magazine as one of the top ten museum shows of 2009 Retrospectives of his art films have been held at the Tate Gallery in London the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris Lincoln Center in New York the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for this body of work His feature film Angels and Insects set in Victorian England was nominated for an Academy Award Other feature films include the highly regarded The Music of Chance 1993 and Up at the Villa starring Sean Penn Anne Bancroft and Kristin Scott Thomas In 2008 and 2010 he had oneman shows of paintings and film installations at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York City Haass 15 feet 46 m fiberglass sculpture Winter after Arcimboldo was unveiled in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC in September 2010 Description above from the Wikipedia article Philip Haas licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia