The Museum Experience One of my favorite things to do when traveling in a new city is to visit the museums. I have never been to a city that did not offer the usual museum fare, usually in the form of the “Anytown Art Museum”, or the “Anytown Museum of Natural History”. While these types of museums house some incredible artifacts, and I do visit them often, I also like to seek out museums of a more unusual sort. Museums are mostly the same just about everywhere you go, both in the United
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Online Exhibitions: Five Factors for Dynamic Design M. Merritt Haine Museum Communications The University of the Arts December 2006 A thesis submitted to The University of the Arts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Museum Communication. 1 © December 2006 M. Merritt Haine All Rights Reserved No part of this document may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the author. All photographs and drawings produced by and are the property of
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Attending museums may be a fun and an educational experience if the museum is qualified and has all the things to make their facility exciting. Museums focus on purchasing new artifacts with regulations regarding their audience, historical relevancy, and the museums budget and profits. Money is well known as “the root of all evil”. When purchasing items, a budget can play a key role. Budgeting money can be an issue for some because they simply are unable to spend their money wisely and on appropriate
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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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Ard Hopper “Automat” was painted by Edward Hopper in 1927. The painting was displayed for the first time on valentines day, and was sold for $1200. The picture depicts a young woman sitting alone in some kind of cafeteria. She is drinking a cup of coffee, while she’s staring at her hot drink. She is dressed in a long warm winter coat, and a hat pulled down on her head. On her left hand she is wearing a glove, while holding the coffee cup in the right. The painting method is oil on canvas.
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“Ushpizin” is a movie based off of a couple, Moshe and Malli, who are part of an Orthodox Jewish group in Jerusalem. Moshe is a rabbi and his wife stays at home. At the beginning of the movie, Moshe and Malli are desperate for money and after hours of prayer, they received $1000.00 unexpectedly. The entire movie is focused around the Jewish Sukkot Festival. Throughout the movie, some viewers may find intriguing that a citron was worth 1000 shekels and that the Jewish people spend a lot of time setting
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diagnosed with mental illness and suffered with episodes of seizures and epilepsy. Theo continued to support him and believed his mental and physical health problems contributed to his lack of self-confidence. The van Gogh brothers worked together at the art firm Goupil & Cie. In 1869, Vincent was sent to The Hague; Theo was in Brussels by 1873. Their brotherly love and relationship was kept strong by letters informing each other about their now individual lives. Vincent soon left Goupil and sent a final
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Post-Impressionist art movement. Although, during his lifetime he remained mostly unknown and poor, van Gogh is regarded as the greatest of the Dutch painters. His use of vivid colors and use of emotions, such as introspection, combined with his unique brush strokes changed the way people paint and expanded what art was and is capable of. Van Gogh’s brilliant artistry made him the subject of content by Adolph Hitler during WWII. In the late 1930’s, Hitler ordered thousands of works of art that he deemed
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Paul Bogard in his article “Let There Be Dark” he illuminates the fact that today’s modern world becomes brighter and brighter every night with more artificial light. Bogard wrote this because he is trying to bring attention this this growing problem. He wrote this to capture the attention of people across the world in every region, country, and city. In this article his purpose is to motivate people to help find a solution to this problem and to educate everyone of how not having natural darkness
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after prints. This painting is related to Humanities because as we all know, the word “humanities” contains the word “human”. Thus, we could define humanities as the study of how humans have expressed themselves through the arts throughout history. Expressing oneself through the arts is one of the earliest and most basic human activities. It is one very important way that humans reveal their values, insights, and priorities. In addition, humanities encompass the stories, the ideas, and the words that
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