During our visit to the Blanton Museum on Thursday we analyzed Francisco de Goya’s series of prints including La tauromaquia (1815-1816)‚ Los desastres de la guerra (1810-1820)‚ Los disparates (1815-1823) and other paintings selected to be featured in the exhibit. The first room was headed by a self portrait of Goya in Traje de luces introducing the La tauromaquia series. I was taken aback when I walked into the first exhibit room and saw the amount of detail in each of Goya’s pieces. We can only
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Museum Assignment The two museums that were visited were the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)‚ and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). While the MOCA held artist that were fairly new‚ the LACMA held quite a few of well known artist such as Jackson Pollock‚ Maynard Dixon‚ or Thomas Hart Benton. When visiting MOCA the most interesting artwork that was appealing was "War Never Ends" by Mathew Monahan‚ and when visiting the LACMA the most interested artwork that was appealing to me was
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Curtis Hess Museum Experience The outside activity that I chose to do was to visit a museum. The museum in which I visited was the Brandywine River Museum. This museum is located in Chadds Ford PA‚ which is right outside of Philadelphia‚ and like the name says it sits right along the Brandywine River. I went to this fine art museum with my sister who lives in the area and we did not take a guided tour‚ instead we just walked around on our own time and were able to talk about the paintings with each
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our last hours in Memphis. We visited the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Hotel. For those that are not familiar‚ the Lorraine Hotel is where civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4‚ 1968. The hotel and the boarding house across the street have both been transformed into aspects of the museum and I believe that everyone needs to visit these sites. The kiddo was really looking forward to visiting the museums while I was a bit nervous. As a black woman
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A. Soldiers Bodies Sarah Wagner‚ “The Making and Unmaking of an Unknown Soldier‚” Social Studies of Science‚ 43(5): 631-656‚ 2013. The article describes the military identification technology in the 1990s and the decision to remove the remains from the Vietnam crypt of the Tomb of Unknowns and the subsequent work on the previously unidentified remains in previous wars. It argues that naming the dead soldiers and returning their remains personalize the ideals of sacrifice and honor embodied in the
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The Universal Museum – a valid model for the 21st century? Introduction In October 2002‚ the International Group of Organisers of Largescale Exhibitions‚ also known as the Bizot Group — a forum comprising directors of 40 of the world’s major museums and galleries — gathered in Munich for their annual informal discussion.1 The meeting was convened specifically to address the problem of how to confront the growing number of requests for repatriation of objects from ‘universal’ museums and in particular
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exactly forty-four years before I was born‚ makes me connect with it even more. Finally‚ after 9 years of looking up facts and watching documentaries‚ I visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Farmington Hills‚ Michigan. According to the Wall Street Journal‚ this museum in particular “may be the most provocative museum of them all” (“What They’re Saying‚” par. 1). Just driving past the building makes a strong statement due to the museum’s exterior wall which resembles the barbed wire fences from a
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First‚ Buffalo Bill was born on February 26‚ 1846 in Iowa. During his early childhood his family moved to Kansas. They did this because they were threatened by slavery and had to move to Kansas territory to stay safe. His dad was stabbed twice in his anti-slavery speech. At age eleven he was a wagon train rider to deliver messages. So Buffalo Bill was already working before he even was a teenager! Once he was fourteen he became part of the pony express to deliver mail. Soon Buffalo Bill became a
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of news about Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) drew my attention. It said that this nonprofit museum suffered decreasing investment and donation since the worldwide financial crisis in 2008; indeed‚ it lost about 18% money. It is no doubt that the great power of financial crisis damages the development of nonprofit museums‚ which rely on the endowments and donations from the individuals‚ institutions‚ government‚ etc. There may be some negative expectation on the future of nonprofit museums because of the
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Manila Museums Manila’s history has seen it exposed to a variety of international influences and this has certainly played a major role in contributing to the cultural venues and museums that it now has to offer. The National Museum of the Philippines is arguably the highlight of this cultural scene in Manila and the one place not to miss‚ especially if you are at all interested in the events of the past in the city itself and other parts of the country too. Also very popular in Manila is the
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