on view

Idioms  

1. So as to be seen, as in They will put the antiques on view an hour before the auction begins. [Mid-1800s]

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Example Sentences

The last of these was his first “negative sculpture,” in which the work of art is itself an absence; his newest creations under this concept are currently on view at Gagosian.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Every decade has its ups and downs with Frida, but she’s the girl who refuses to go away,” said Mari Carmen Ramírez, a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston who organized a sweeping survey of Kahlo’s art and role as a global cultural icon on view through May 17.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Madre,” which was recently on view at the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin, looks obdurate and unyielding from 10 feet away, but a closer view reveals pillowy soil mixed with buckwheat, hay, cinnamon, cloves, honey and chia seeds: the fecund stuff of life.

From The Wall Street Journal

The newborns are currently being monitored by the zoo's veterinary team and, while spending much of their time in their nesting area, are expected to be on view to the public in the coming weeks.

From BBC

Instead, this edition seems to give up any such aspirations from the get-go, saying that “this Biennial is less a definitive answer” to those questions “than an invitation to tune in to the moods offered by” the artists on view.

From The Wall Street Journal

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