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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now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Les Demoiselles d Avignon work represents a major milestone in the history of modern art. Picasso's controversial and powerful painting broke all traditional concepts and perspective of ideal beauty. It distinguished him from other artists and ushered in the new artistic movement of cubism. In the months leading up to the painting's creation, Picasso struggles with the subject -- five women in a brothel. In 19th century art, prostitutes played
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A Formal Analysis of Art Darlene Traci Kepner ART/101 February 17, 2013 Karen Witt A Formal Analysis of Art The visual literacy of line usage by both artists is extremely different from one another. Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" Sayre, H. M, (2010) (Fig.73) and LeWitt's "Wall Drawing No. 681” Sayre, H. M, (2010) (Fig.77) portray subject matter of different compositions. However, both depictions of art, also express, different qualities, styles, and eras. Van Gogh is from the eighteenth
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street. He received a Bachelor of Arts from University of Wisconsin in 1970, and a Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1973. From 1973 to 1977 he was Assistant Professor of Art at The University of Oklahoma in Tulsa. In 1979 he started working with his Museum of Modern Art installation Gathering Dust. Here he created thousands of tiny sculptures pinned to the walls. His work has been displayed in galleries and museums around the world. Donald Lipski is
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