In the podcast “Museums as White Spaces‚” Arun Venugopal discusses how racial minorities can perceive museums and galleries as unwelcoming to them. Even the residents of a city like Baltimore feel unwelcome in museums in their neighborhoods like the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA). Many of the world’s greatest museums have existed for many years; they hold long standing traditions and have striven to maintain their status as keepers of collections and public educators‚
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craziness surrounding this past week‚ I decided to spend a day in London visiting a few museums. Everyone is stressed about writing papers‚ including myself‚ and I decided that spending a day looking at art and history would be a nice break. On Thursday‚ I visited the Holburne Museum‚ Bath’s art museum. The museum had a great collection of art and small objects from the height of the Georgian period in Bath. The museum was also the starting point for the Lantern Procession‚ an annual event that kicks
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3.3. The Museum of the Moving Image‚ New York‚ US Information for this section is taken from http://www.movingimage.us/ 3.3.1. Online Collections – Description and Analysis The collections database is found directly via the ‘collections’ button on the homepage of the museum’s website. The visitor is redirected to the online collections portal‚ which has the options ‘browse’ and ‘for researchers’ (see Image 16). This indicates that the potential user that the museum envisions may either come from
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.0 Introduction This chapter discusses on the background of the study which is the factors of stress among teachers. Chapter one consists of background of study‚ problem statement‚ research question and research objectives. The scope of study‚ significance of study and definition of key terms and concepts also focused in this chapter one. 1.1 Background of the Study Stress is a perception phenomenon which exists from a comparison between the command given and ability
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Every privately owned company’s goal is to minimize their costs as much as possible. Museums‚ which are operated similar to private companies‚ have the same goal. In order to decide where to allocate their capital a museum must asses some essential questions such as what attracts visitors to their museum‚ what is the opportunity cost to allocating capital to one resource over another and how the museum can maximize the use of the funds spent. These questions depend on many external‚ constantly changing
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Boula W Nakhla Mikhael Dr. E. G. Aksoy Econ 1 M&W 9:40-11:05 Most States See Better Jobs Summary: As of 5/17/2013 the job market is getting better in most of the U.S. it is not as fast as we think it could be or even as equal as we think it could happen. Forty sates saw their unemployment rates have fall in April‚ but it wasn’t statistically significant. The Labor Department said‚ “ an even better 43 states have seen their jobless rates
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In this paiting‚ Renoir painted Pere Fournaise‚ a restaurant owner and friend of the painter. The man is sitting and smoking a pipe. In front of hime are two vessels. One is his‚ the other for someone who’s not in the painting. Who knows? It may be an invitation to the viewer of Renoir. ALPHONSE Fournais was the owner of a restaurant where you could also rent boats located on an island in the Seine‚ Chatou around‚ ten miles west of Paris. Since the sixties customer Renoir became fixed to a restaurant
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Ringling Museum of Art and Cà d ’Zan Mansion As you turn into long the road leading to the Ringling Museum of Art‚ you can see the magnificent building just ahead at the end of the road. The Ringling Museum of Art has the look of many fabulous mansions and museums in Europe. The museum and mansion are located on approximately 66 acres of land next to the Sarasota Bay; the land was purchased by Mr. Ringling during the 1920s as part of the boom which took place during that time. The Ringling
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The Whitney Museum of American Art has often been referred to a citadel of American Art‚ partially due to the museums façade‚ a striking granite building (Figure 1)‚ designed by Bauhaus trained architect Marcel Breuer. The museum perpetuates this reference through its biennial review of contemporary American Art‚ which the Whitney has become most famous for. The biennial has become since its inception a measure of the state of contemporary art in America today. Since the Museum’s opening in 1931
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Museum Artifact 737 likely represents a bichrome‚ wheel-made kylix fired during the Cypro-Geometric III period of the Cypriot Iron Age. The kylix‚ a drinking vessel shaped like a stemmed bowl or cup and possessing a height of 5.5 cm‚ resembles a chalice with a disk base of 3 cm connected to a bowl measuring 8 cm across its widest point. Marked with two sets of concentric circles on the interior of the bowl‚ the kylix draws strong influence from greek design during the Late Bronze Age. Joanna Smith
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