On November 12‚ 2015 I visited the gallery Lyric Modern created by an exceptional artist named Hal Marcus at El Paso Museum of Art. My first thoughts of visiting a museum were “boring”‚ “unexcited” and I just imagined myself going one work of art to another and describing it as if it was the textbook. As soon as I stepped into the museum my whole perspective changed‚ and at the end of the visit I had a different mindset. Lyric Modern was an outstanding exhibition‚ I did not only describe each composition
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James Gleason ART 203: Art History I Instructor: Patricia McDonald April 5‚ 2017 ART 203 Museum Report Museum #1: Detroit Institute of Arts (www.dia.org‚ Detroit‚ Michigan) Museum #2: Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology – University of Oxford (www.ashmolean.org‚ Oxford‚ England) Museum #3: Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC) (http://muac.unam.mx/‚ Mexico City‚ Mexico) Artwork: The Detroit Institute of Arts contains over 60‚ 000 works of art including art from Africa‚ Oceana‚ the
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Axia College University of Phoenix WORLD CULTURE AND THE ARTS (AXIA) HUM/205 Jaynelle Nixon January 27‚ 2008 Museum Collection 2 Classical and Hellenistic Greece One of the most well known piece of this time‚ is the statue called Ludovisi Gaul killing himself and his wife‚ also known as The Galatian Suicide. The original was made by Greek sculptors commissioned by Attalus I after his victories over the Gauls of Galatia. This is a statue of A man about to drive a
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Pillars of ashoka The pillars of Ashoka are a series of columns dispersed throughout the northern Indian subcontinent‚ erected or at least inscribed with edicts by the Mauryan king Ashoka during his reign in the 3rd century BC. Originally‚ there must have been many pillars but only nineteen survive with inscriptions‚ and only six with animal capitals‚ which were a target for Muslim iconoclasm. Many are preserved in a fragmentary state. Averaging between 40 to 50 feet (12 to 15 m) in height‚ and weighing
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orange sky. The Scream of nature was sold for $119‚922‚600 at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art auction on 2 May 2012 to financier Leon Black which was the highest nominal price paid for a painting at auction. The painting is on display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York for six months from October 2012 to March 2013. This painting is not only famous but has been one of the most targeted object for thefts. Many theft attempts has happened such as one day on February 22nd 1994 during the opening
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Danielle Burbank Dr. Lee LC22 ANT201 23 February 2017 The Lightner Museum: A Window into the Gilded Age The Lightner Museum in St. Augustine contains several exhibits that accurately reflect American culture in its Gilded Age. From stained glass windows to rusted railroad tracks‚ this brilliant museum offers a window into late 19th to early 20th century American lifestyle. Museums and their artifacts are often used as resources to ethnographic research‚ which is what our classroom attempted
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The Clyfford Still Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in downtown Denver‚ Colorado. This museum operates like a normal 501(c)(3)‚ except for one aspect. The Clyfford Still Museum is supported in a large way by its own independent asset management organization‚ the Clyfford Still Museum Foundation. This foundation’s sole job is the management of the endowment of the museum in support of all museum objectives. The Clyfford Still Museum Foundation‚ which is also classified as a 501(c)(3)
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The Museum as a Racist Institute Racism‚ particularly against those of African descent‚ is a very dark past for the Western world‚ one that still prevalently haunts and invades the future. As racism is a part of societies’ history‚ cultural institutions that present said history‚ such as museums‚ deal with the idea of racism every day in the exhibits within their walls. Many efforts are made to show how terrible the racism of the past was and is‚ but the line between the racism of the past and
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The Egyptian Antiquities Museum is located in Cairo‚ Egypt and contains over 120‚000 relics. The British Museum is located in London‚ United Kingdom and houses the largest collection of Egyptian relics outside of the Egyptian Antiquities Museum in Cairo. Combined‚ both museums have over 200‚000 artifacts spanning more than 11‚000 years. There are several similarities in artifacts from both museums. A closer examination reveals such similarities. Among the many artifacts that both collections contain
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sacred space containing Athens’ most ancient and holy shrines such as the Parthenon and Temple of Nike Athena. Along with being a religious site where ceremonial traditions such as religious sacrifices took place‚ the Propylaea was also used as a museum. This gateway was used for protection as well even though that purpose was less significant in the overall design. This versatility was developed as a result of the gateway’s ability to adapt to various grades since the overall design of the column-filled
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