March 16, 2013 For my cultural event, I chose to go to the Walters Museum, in Baltimore Md. I took my wife with me as she used to do an internship there years ago, and it is her favorite museum. I myself am not a typical museum enthusiast, as well I feel there is only one good place in Baltimore, and that is Johns Hopkins hospital. Nonetheless, I looked this as a nice way to spend a day with her, and did approach the museum with an open mind, as it was a new experience, and she was excited to
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include solo shows at the Greenville Museum of Art (Greenville, NC) in 1995, and the Midland Center for the Arts (Midland, MI) in 2010. His work has been part of group shows at several museums including Guild Hall in East Hampton, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga and the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York. Clifford Smith’s work is part of a number of public collections including the Yale University Art Gallery; the Greenville Museum of Art and the New Hampshire Historical Society
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City still ranks the top museum globally and nationally with more than two million works of art, probably with the oldest pre-historic pre-pottery neolithic, 11,000–6900 B.C. along with the beaded belt “umusha” work from the Zulu or Nguni people year 1900 to Present. The Art Institute of Chicago ranks the second top museum nationally with more than 300,000 works of art which also carries masterpieces of arts. Both museums have great educational programs
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make valuable additions to its collection. In its Annual Report for 1970, under the then directorship of Thomas Hoving, the Museum formally reviewed its collection policy, announcing its new-found interest in upgrading its collection. Under this policy, the Museum’s focus shifted to the acquisition of "rare masterpieces of the highest quality”. To fund such purchases the Museum began to sell mid to high value pieces from its collection. Though, as stated, the Met had always removed minor works to
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Free Annual Events In Worcester,Ma 1. Festival of Lights Friday, November 30, 2012, from 5 - 8 p.m Worcester Art Museum Admission Cost: $14 Adults Free for kids under 17 years old FREE FIRST Saturday Mornings (the first Saturday of each month) 10am-noon* Open Skate on Worcester Common Ova Admission $2, children 6 and under free. Skate rentals $3. Sundays, Saturdays, December 1, 2012 - February 24, 2013 1:00 PM-6:00 PM Sopranopalooza! Music/Singing-Fundraiser Cost:
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Interactive design and Experience The Smithsonian and Met Museum are both art museums that have an on-line presence. Both websites have art related agenda’s, pictures, and so on. While they both specialize in art they both have drastically different web appearances. The atmosphere of these two sites is in contrast. These two websites do not compete for the same viewers. Different art venues are posted, along with information and history of the art piece and pictures posted of the piece. The Smithsonian
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I have been in many places in short life like, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, but I have never been at nay museum before. My overall experience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, In a short answer, was awesome. In a long answer, it changed everything I thought about history and it gave me the idea of what would’ve been like to lived in that time period. It was life experience which I will try to repeat. It makes me kind of sad to think that would never be able to meet great people in history like
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Tiffany White Museum Assignment # 2 Anthro 111A 104; April 10, 2012 African Art Exhibit The St. Louis Art Museum is, in my opinion, one of the most fascinating art galleries in the Midwest. I have visited the Holocaust Museum and the Science Center and I cannot compare this art museum to any other. The museum has exhibits ranging from Native American, Islamic, Oceanic and European art dating back to the 1800s. On April 5, 2012, I visited the art museum for a one and a half hour tour to take
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was complex and multi-faceted. A storyteller at heart and self-described “people’s painter,” Andrews focused on figurative social commentary depicting the struggles, atrocities, and everyday occurrences in the world, but he was not satisfied to use art as a substitute for action. Benny Andrews was born on November 13, 1930, in Plainview, Georgia, a small farming community three miles from Madison. Andrews was one of 10 children in a family of sharecroppers; raised while it was still segregated in
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Explication of Sextons “The Starry Night”, a painting by Vincent van Gough. Sexton and Van Gough both seem to find deep meaning and respectability in the night sky. The Setting of is the night sky above a town with emphasis on the details of the moon, sky, stars and clouds. Below, the sleepy village rests lifeless in the dark of night and does not receive the same attention as the sky. Sexton uses three stanzas containing similes, repetition, metaphors and alliteration to express her views
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