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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Simon Birch Simon Birch an underdeveloped child has become best friends with a kid named Joe. Simon was sometimes picked on by the other kids because of his condition‚ but he ignored them and kept to himself. Simon has strong faith in God and wasn’t afraid to show it‚ if he didn’t think something was right about the church or about someone’s actions towards the Bible‚ he wasn’t afraid to tell you. Simon kept telling people that he was made the way he was because God has a plan for him and that
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date was March 21‚ 2017. Mike introduced me to the museum due to the connection and significance that it has for him and his family. His family‚ being partially Jewish‚ was persecuted during the Holocaust by the German Nazi army. Going around the museum gave me insight on what his family endured in the concentration camps which most of the time‚ these places exceeded the carrying capacity. While we were going through the right side of the museum‚ there is a history wall of the rise and fall of fascism
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Art Museum as a Ritual Duncan begins her article‚ “The Art Museum as Ritual‚” by comparing art museums to religious/ceremonial spaces‚ not only in architectural design but also in their purpose. She states‚ however‚ that unlike churches or temples‚ museums are secular places where “the secular truth became the authoritative truth.” Thus‚ a separation of church and state came to be an‚ as Duncan states‚ “religion…kept its authority only for voluntary believers.” She then goes on to the differences
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In 1996‚ the Neon Museum was established in order to bring more attention to the signs. “…the Neon Museum is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization dedicated to collecting‚ preserving‚ studying and exhibiting iconic Las Vegas signs for educational‚ historic‚ arts and cultural enrichment.” In this contextual analysis‚ I will reaffirm the importance of the Neon Museum’s
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The Museum of Natural History Museums are essential for sustaining the world’s biological and cultural diversity. Yet they can do more without undermining their commitment to thorough and rigorous science. For example‚ they can increase the accessibility of their collections. The advent of new information technologies allows natural history museums to digitize collections and to make associated scientific data accessible to wide audiences. These technologies enable the sharing of data with countries
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My trip to Dallas Museum of Art On the 18th of June 2013‚ I decided to visit one of the greatest museums in Dallas. I was very excited to visit the museum because I have never been to any of the museums before in Dallas since I came to the United States of America. Therefore‚ when the professor said it is the part of a grade so I got more excited. I reached the downtown by noon‚ and parked our car outside the Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas Museum of Art significantly improved
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HUMA 1315 Prof. Chaplin 08/03/2013 Asian Art Museum Are ancient arts impressive for current generation? I had experience to visit museum when I was in back home Ethiopia. Until by any coincidence‚ visiting museum is one of my experiences in my free time. In the first August this year‚ I visited The Collection of Asian Arts Museum which located in Downtown Dallas. When I visited the museum‚ it made me a nice impression. Afterward‚ I asked myself‚ do this generation have appreciation for ancient
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I was 15 when I heard Carly Simon for the first time‚ I had listened to music on the radio of course‚ even been to a couple of concerts. Heck I had went to see Three Dog Night the summer before‚ but that summer I was staying with my sister here in Sedalia‚ I thought I was a long way from home being I was all the way from Kansas City‚ Kansas. Until that summer I had never really stopped and really listened to the words. I was killing time waiting for my sister to get home from work and set down
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