New York 's Jewish Museum

I visited the Beth Samuel Jewish Center, in Ambridge Pa. While I was there I meet up with Barbara Wilson, who is a Congregational Administrator at the synagogue. Before taking the tour she let me know some of the background information about the synagogue. First she explained to me that the Beth Samuel Jewish Center was the only synagogue on Beaver County, where it is located. She then went on the explain that they have families from all over the county coming to their religious services. I then asked if the synagogue was more conservative or reformed. This is when Barb explained that since Beth Samuel is the last synagogue left in the area they have to cater to both sides of the spectrum. Barb explained, “On different days of the week we have

Ukeles is most often studied as a feminist and environmental artist, and rarely is her Jewishness studied in relation to her art practice. To fully understand her art requires an understanding of her Jewish upbringing and her Jewish ideas—in particular, those ideas around ritual, cleansing, and repair.

The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the 16th century--among the first was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian who sailed up and down the Atlantic coast in search of a route to Asia--but none settled there until 1624. That year, the Dutch West India Company sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement on “Nutten Island” (today’s Governors Island) that they called New Amsterdam. In 1626, the settlement’s governor general, Peter Minuit, purchased the much larger Manhattan Island from the natives for 60 guilders in trade goods such as tools,

People always criticize about my artwork and denominate it shit, well I am fine with that, I make art shit. However, if my work is in an art gallery, I’m pleased. The controversy produced by some of my artwork is what establishes me on top and make me one of the richest artists of all history. I see more revolution on people when they are limited to make decisions by themselves, so this exhibition is one more opportunity to allow audience about their opinion, more in a city than requires defending its reputation of metropolis, diversity and openness. I am more than satisfied receiving a response full of emotions by the audience. My work always challenges death and life because of the dualism it provokes. I was taught to confront things you

Exhibitions housed here are hands-on installations and experiences. The museum is dedicated to the ideas and risk-taking that fuel contemporary cultures and serves as a gateway museum, reaching multigenerational audiences through collections, exhibitions, and educational programming, using interactive technologies to engage and empower visitors. EMP provides a space for artists, audiences and ideas to converge, bringing understanding,

The “What makes Art Valuable?” video took the viewer through a journey of the top 10 most expensive paintings purchased. Oftentimes, these high tag prices were being sold in an art auction. Alastair Sooke took us on a journey through the art world, so that we could better understand the true value and key as to what makes art so valuable. Through this journey, we learned the political side of the art world in which the value of a painting was connected with the buyers based on love, prestige, investment, an ultimate luxury item, or approval of one's peers. Alastair Sooke started out with the number ten art piece that sold for a total of $$$$, then he ended with the most expensive art piece ever purchased called “Nude, Green leaves and Bust”

Positioned alongside Central Park within the heart of New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and most influential art museums in the world. The Met houses an extensive collection of curated works that spans throughout various time periods and different cultures. The context of museums, especially one as influential as the Met, inherently predisposes its visitors to a set of understandings that subtly influence how they interpret and ultimately construct meanings about each individual object within a museum. By analyzing two separate works on exhibit at the Met, I will pose the argument that museums offer a unique expression of a world view that is dictated through every element of its construction.

To determine whether the Armani exhibition is considered a sell-out, the relationship between the objectives of the Armani exhibition and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's mission statement plays a central role. Since the mission statement allows for interpretation of what is considered art in the modern and contemporary periods, the Armani exhibition does fit into this mission. Additionally, since the Foundation strives to put on "exceptional exhibitions" for an "increasingly diverse international audience," the Armani exhibition fulfills this part of the mission because it attracted a high level of attention—from celebrities to experts in the fashion industry to businesspeople—who came from different parts of the world to see the famous works of Armani. Thus, this exhibition does appear to fulfill the mission of the Foundation.

time to visit museums. When public art is funded by the government, the artist’s imagination is

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City is the world’s leading modern art. Its exhibits have been a major influence in creating and stimulating popular awareness of modern art and its accompanying diversity of its styles and movements. The museum’s outstanding collections of modern painting, sculpture, drawings, and prints range from Impressionisms to current movements. Moreover, there are exhibits of modern architecture, industrial design, sculpture, photography, prints and electronic media. The museum presently has a modern art library of 300,000 books and impressive collections of films that are shown regularly. The Museum is said to be the complementary of the Metropolitan Museum

“Kickstarter is changing how millions of people around the world connect with dance, design, fashion, film, video, food, games, journalism, music, photography, publishing, technology, theatre, art, comics, and crafts.” Kickstarter, is unlike any other breeding ground for funding and showing the world the many projects that can be born through unique minds. Launching in 2009, they have nearly help fully fund over 77,000 projects, projects that wouldn’t have happened without support loving support from over 7.7 million backers. Unfortunately, there are some downfalls. Nearly 200,727 have been created on this website and less than half have been made from a dream, into a reality. There is no universal way of getting everyone to like your

With this project, we wanted to pose the question ‘Are museums today presenting a diverse history of contemporary art or the history of money and power?’ We focus on the understory, the subtext, the overlooked and the downright unfair. Art can’t be reduced to the small number of artists who have won a popularity contest among bigtime dealers, curators and collectors. Unless museums and Kunsthallen show as diverse as the cultures they claim to represent, they’re just preserving the history of wealth and power. (“Whitechapel gallery – Guerrilla Girls” web).

September 16, 2016, Take me (I?m Yours)[4] took place at the Jewish Museum in New York, as

After getting over my initial reluctance, I got butterflies in my stomach. This was only the 2nd time I’d been to an art museum, so I wanted to make the most of it. When we first arrived, we looked around at some paintings. I visited an exclusive temporary exhibit of Edvard Munch which included a surprising amount of paintings of naked women. Nothing caught my eye in the first few galleries, but then I stumbled on an exhibit called “In Character” by Nam June Paik. As soon as I walked in, I got embarrassingly excited. I constantly had to stop myself from running around the museum like a madman. All the TV sculptures and simple, childlike drawings had been just so incredible to me. The piece that I really enjoyed the most was a sculpture called “Self-Portrait.”

Given the fact that the city’s downtown district and main point of attraction is marketed as “The Arts District,” the community’s appreciation and support for artistic creativity is to be expected. The unexpected element that specifically Carmel provides is that this support is directed towards all local proponents in the area. In analyzing the recent advertisement for a community art fair (see Appendix B), this concept is more than clear. The poster, marketing the Carmel International Arts Festival, advertises the twentieth running of the event that showcases local artists of all backgrounds, mediums, and interests. At this event, artists (regardless of their skills or expertise) are able to generate self-exposure, sell their work, and introduce more of the community to their cultures and talents. These opportunities for local artists can serve as a means for many of them to use their artwork to earn their