The Broad Museum Of Downtown Los Angeles

The Carnegie Museum of Art was a museum created to focus on the art of tomorrow rather than already popular art and artists of today. A necessary part for that dream of Andrew Carnegie to become a reality is having a place to house these art pieces. While of course he could have just found an empty warehouse and placed all the art there that would neither have given the pieces of art justice nor would anyone want there personal collection to be placed on display there. Instead, in order to have a successful art museum you have to house the art in a place that does it justice. Museums heavily rely on their architecture to accurately portray and supplement the showpieces within the museum. Carnegie’s art museum

Countless art has been sought-after throughout history. Explorers, scientists, art collectors, politicians, and entrepreneurs from Western nations have sought out and removed art from the lands of great civilizations, often with the assistance and participation of local people and governments. Even as cultural property faces immediate danger today in conflict zones like Syria and Mali, there is circumstantial evidence that some nations are awakening to the political and foreign policy benefits that can flow from the repatriation of cultural patrimony. While on a different scale from World War II, historic structures, religious monuments, and other priceless ancient times continue to suffer collateral damage and manipulation in armed conflict. Relics have been stolen, smuggled and sold in what is a reported multibillion dollar underground market. They have become the illicit prizes of private collectors and the subject of legal claims against museums. Of the countless museums subject to legal claims, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City happens to be one of them. “The Metropolitan Museum has acquired thousands of works and objects of art from the antiquities”. “For the past several years, the government of Turkey has warned U.S. and foreign museums (including The Metropolitan Museum of Art), that unless ancient objects from Turkish soil are given up on demand, Turkey will stop lending artworks” (The Committee for Cultural Policy, 2015). Turkey continues to up the

Deep in the heart of Texas sits the city of San Antonio.Ruth Medellin manages the Museo Alameda."It's the Latino experience in art, culture, and history," Medellin said.The museum is part of the famous Smithsonian Institution.Pilar O'Leary manages the Smithsonian Latino Center.Latinos are the nation's largest minority group, O'Leary said.The museum opened in April of last year. The first exhibit can be seen even before entering the museum.Once inside, visitors can view an exhibit designed like a botanica.When Museo Alameda opened, it featured a painting titled "Somos" ("We are").Other early exhibits included items on loan from the Smithsonian.Beginning in November 2008, the museum will feature an exhibit examining African contributions to Mexican

The Polk Museum of Art is a fairly small but unique collection of galleries near downtown Lakeland. It has several permanent exhibitions containing over 2,500 works of art (“Mission and History”) and also features new collections and works of art that it rotates out. PolkMuseumofArt.org explains which exhibitions are currently displayed and is updated to include upcoming events, descriptions of collections, and artists’ bios and statements on their works, as well as classes, camps, and speakers that will be held or featured at the museum (“Upcoming Events”). The website is an extremely useful tool to learn about the art that can be found at the local attraction, and it lends insight for visitors who want to know background

Los Angeles is a beautiful city filled with many classy shops, modern houses and many diverse restaurants base from China, Korea, America as well as many other different countries. However, there is a museum that located right in the heart of Los Angeles where 6th street and Wilshire Boulevard parallel with each other. This is a very interesting place with many tourists and people visiting each day. The museum is a familiar attraction for many LA locals, and it is also the largest art museum in the Western United States named Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Aside from the Brooklyn Museum, the only museum I had been to in the last four years would be the Met Breuer. As I was instructed to visit the Diane Arbus exhibit at the Met Breuer, I imagined the same type of scenery any museum would look like; high ceiling, large frames, and a collection of detailed and colorful work. It occurred to my surprise when instead I saw an identical collection of same sized frames, of just people, in what seemed to be black and white. As I took a deeper glance, I noticed almost none of the people photographed were smiling. It appeared that they were candid photos, yet they all looked directly at the camera. Arbus’ photos were drawn to unusual public places and scenery in black and white with some surreal contrast portraits. I noticed the raw images of peculiar people often brought focus on those who may be the outliers of their society; transgender, dwarfs, nudists, circus clowns, and even children. There were various particular themes that struck a chord with me, however, among the many images I came across during my search, I found Arbus’ portraits on transgender people provoke the most emotion and intrigue. The wide variety of each portrait as well as the ways she chose to portray them told a story of both lives and culture within her lifetime. Being particularly interested on transgender people, I was captivated with the complexities of her work and the way that she transcended so many boundaries which constantly had me question the theme she

The Los Angeles Natural History Museum houses over 35 million specimens, some of which date back 4.5 billion years.

On October 25, the class went to San Francisco to visit the San Francisco Modern Art Museum. In the museum, there were many interesting and fascinating art pieces. The SFMoma is a large and spacious museum. The exhibits are large and in each exhibit there is at least one famous art piece. My favorite floor would have been floors 5, 6,and 7 because of all the famous artworks such as Andy Warhol’s Triple Elvis and Nine Marilyns in them. The overall appearance of the museum was contemporary.

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.

The Broad Collection is a contemporary art museum being built in downtown Los Angeles. When completed, it will showcase Eli and Edythe Broad's art collection, consisting of nearly 2,000 prominent works of art. The building’s façade was designed to look honeycomb-like and include a glass curtain wall. Seele Inc., a Germany-based engineering company, was hired as a subcontractor to begin work on the facade in 2012, after spending three months consulting with the New York City architecture firm of Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, who created the original renderings. The Broad Collection is now suing Seele, alleging that the engineering firm put the project at least 15 months behind schedule. Additional claims against the engineering firm include breach of contract, specific performance, and fraud in the inducement.

The Guggenheim Museum was the first gallery to dare to declare itself a piece of art, as great as anything it would house. The Guggenheim Museum has become Wright’s signature building.

Frank Owen Gehry is a Canadian American architect that was born in 1928 and now resides in Los Angeles California He is known best for his post modern designs which includes the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles which is the new home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic which Gerhy designed to be one of the most acoustically complex concert halls throughout the globe. Gehry also has other well known architectural creations such as the Vontz Center for Molecular Studies at the University of Cincinnati, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto Canada and the MIT Ray and Maria Stata Center in Cambridge Massachusetts not to mention Gerhy’s own private resident in Santa Monica California that utilizes unconventional building materials such as corrugated aluminum sheets and chain link fencing that is clad to the exterior of his home in the deconstructivism style. Frank Gerhy has also been chosen to be the architect for the future Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.

“How do you make a building for contemporary art that stays contemporary in the future without stooping to a neutral language? And how do you attract a big public without compromising the selfish, private, exclusive time we all want to have in a museum?” These questions, put forward by Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, represent the urbanistic motivation supporting the construction of Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). In such a manner Boston’s ICA engages, not only with the urban citizen, but also the urban landscape in which the site is located. The ICA conveys the idea of architecture as art in itself. As a presenter of art to the urban citizen and because of its open design, the inside allows the citizens to not only appreciate the art within the building but also see the art of the building’s natural environment and setting.

Different architects have different styles because they are trying to get at different things. Architecture is not just about making something beautiful anymore, it is about trying to get across a set of ideas about how we inhabit space. Two of the most famous architects of the twentieth century, one from each side, the early part and the later part up until today each designed a museum with money donated by the Guggenheim foundation. One of these is in New York City, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The other is in bilbao, Spain, and it was designed by Frank Geary. My purpose of this paper is to interrogate each of these buildings, glorious for different reasons, to show how each architect was expressing their own style.

Great art will always be a transparent reflection of the society in which it was produced. The greatest artists are able to blend cultures and practices into a single work, creating an aesthetic dialogue that challenges viewers to look at the piece with multiple perspectives and creates the opportunity for continuous discovery upon subsequent visits. On the first floor of the new Broad Museum, in Downtown Los Angeles, there is a piece of art executed by the prolific Japanese artist, Takashi Murakami, which does just this. In a room that is solely dedicated to the work of Murakami, there is a piece that seems to stand out more than the rest.