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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Sabrina D’Amato Art 03100 Section 01 Professor Ackerman Museum Paper 5/12/13 When I visited the Brooklyn Museum‚ I got to see many different works of art. While looking around on the 3rd floor‚ there was one specific piece that caught my attention‚ “King Senwosret III”. King Senwosret III was a 12th Dynasty King that ruled from c. 1836-1818 BCE. King Senwosret III was considered to be one of the most powerful rulers during the middle kingdom. This small‚ black granite sculpture that caught
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Museum I’m going to tell about one of the oldest museum in Kazakhstan. West Kazakhstan Regional History Museum was founded in 1832. In his organization were directly involved well-known scholars of the time Karelin and Berg. Now the museum is located in the historical and architectural building built in 1879 in the eastern style of Russian-Kazakh school. The museum has its own branches: House-Museum of Hero of the Soviet Union Mametova‚ House Museum of E. Pugacheva‚ The House-Museum
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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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Nancy Smith ARTH 101 Professor Judy Callaway My museum visit took place at the Michael Carlos Museum in Atlanta on the Emory University campus. The building in which the art was kept was quite special in detail and character. The art on exhibit there that of Southeast’s most distinguished collection of art and artifacts from ancient Egypt‚ Nubia‚ Greece‚ Rome‚ the Near East‚ Asia‚ Africa‚ and the Americas. The art on display had a way of allowing me to take a moment to reflect on the time in a world
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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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` Judge‚ Stephanie Art 100 Museum Essay and Online Museum Essay Bibliography: "William-Adolphe Bouguereau Biography." Bouguereau Biography. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2012. <http://www.bouguereau.org/biography.html>. "MFAH | Top 100 Highlights | #1 - The Elder Sister." MFAH | Top 100 Highlights | #1 - The Elder Sister. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 22 Sept. 2012. <http://www.mfah.org/art/100-highlights/Elder-Sister-Bouguereau/>. Online Museum Essay William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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Event Paper One – PAINTING ARTS 1301.002 David Tran October 6‚ 2014 On September 8‚ 2014 I visited the Dallas Art Museum to see a painting titled Mountain Landscape with an Approaching Storm by Claude–Joseph Vernet. This oil on canvas painting was created to show the terror that was associated with the destructive power of nature. The painting is incredibly successful in depicting the fierceness of nature and humanity’s insignificance through the showing of the smallness of the humans against
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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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When taking a trip to the Norton Museum of Art I chose a one dimensioned painting called Adam that was located on the first floor. The artist is Nicholas Carone and was painted in 1956. To the left of the painting‚ Adam‚ was another painting named Personage which was painted by Robert Mothewell in 1943. Personage is an abstract oil painting on canvas with multiple different colors. To the right of Adam was a sculpture called Sea Quarry and was created by Theodore Roszak. The sculpture was not an
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