The Carnegie Museum Of Art

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

Amongst my visit, I was a little confused on what I was doing, but I decided to get out of the car and proceed walking to the building. When I entered the building there was a tall guy who greeted me, he wore an outfit similar to a boys scout leader. He then asked me if it was my first time attending and I said yes. There was a couple coming through the door, so he greeted them both and then told us a little about the exhibit. He then instructed us on how to see all of the exhibit and gave us a map/brochure. I then walked away and started to look around on my own. At first what caught my attention is the models and some of the things written on the walls. I then noticed that even though I was reading it, I was not retaining the information, so then I started to

Mounted sculptures sat as still as stone atop the shiny wooden floors, while self-portraits and clay figures decorated the tall, white walls of the gallery. Walk around for a bit and you would catch a mother’s stern warning to her child to absolutely not touch anything (though the large, partitioned room did resemble a modern-day cave of wonders). And among

At first glance, Doug Wheeler’s DW 68 VEN MCASD 11 appears as something that is plain and mildly out of place. Its general emptiness contrasts the the numerous paintings and photographs that precede it throughout the text; aside from the presence of light, no subject matter is obviously clear, and the title lends no further information from the perspective of a layperson. The textbook, however, lends valuable context: it is the purpose of the work to give the impression of emptiness - “The wall is there. And then it is not” - thus illustrating nothingness. The room that the work is located in is designed to be flawless, allowing viewers to concentrate on the very space and light of their environment. The usage of light as a subject (rather

The museums I chose were the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, National Museum of Art of Romania, and National Art Museum of China. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is located in Buffalo, New York and focuses on contemporary and modern art. In addition to having a large gallery of art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery also has over fourteen programs designed to education the public in the culture of art and each program may be different but incorporates all age groups. The National Museum of Art of Romania is located in Calea Victoriei, Romania (former royal palace revolution square and displays Romanian, European, and Oriental art, but focuses heavily on Romanian medieval and modern art. Furthermore, it also provides their website in multiple languages

I went to the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum for my art experience project. I was impressed with the amount of statues I was able to see in one place. A majority of them seem to have been created and donated by the Fredericks family themselves. As I said before the amount of statues in this little space is impressive, however my first impression is the feeling of claustrophobia.

When visiting an exhibit space one of the first things a viewer sees is the area that the works are exhibited in. There is more to exhibiting a work in a space than just putting in the room and expecting that to be satisfactory. Lighting, walls, art placement, viewer interaction and many more are an important park of how successful an exhibit can be.

Everything was white. Kind of like a hospital, but hospitals made me feel glumly. This room though, unlike a hospital did not. It made me feel at peace, the way the closed curtains slowly swayed forwards from the wind and the light shining through them making them look like they were glowing is peaceful. The silence that wandered through the air is peaceful. The way the light bounces off the walls is peaceful. It was just a peaceful room. Just like all the other rooms in the apartment. All white with the windows open, but the curtains closed and the rooms clean. No dirt to be seen or dust to be

The Metropolitan Museum of Art,otherwise known as 'The Met' is very well known for it's wide variety art, it being the largest art museum in the United States and one of the most popular art museums in the world. Since 1870, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been acquiring numerous forms of art for the world to see. It currently holds more than a million works throughout it's seventeen departments, but it all started with a Roman marble sarcophagus-the first ever object acquired. Throughout the museum's history, it has been through renovations in order to include more things from past; several galleries have been opened overtime devoted to certain cultures. In the museum visitors can expect to see pieces of history from all around the world.

The spaces that served more as a museum were the Cubist space, the Surrealist space, and the Kinetic space; and each room had on display artworks by artists that fitted in the corresponding art movement. Each of these rooms was designed to correlate the artworks that were on display. In the Cubist space, the walls of the room were made of stretched canvas in an ultramarine color and the floor was painted turquoise. Picassos, Metzingers, and Delaunays were on display. The Surrealist space was often times described as the fun room. The floor and the ceiling were black; the walls were concave gum wood. The paintings displayed in the room were on gimbal mounts, permitting the viewer to “not only touch these paintings but even move them around, tilt them, handle them” (Weld, 290). The lighting of the room was magical the first few seasons, the light would switch on and off every few seconds, brightening each painting at a time. Meanwhile, the uniqueness of the Kinetic space was the revolving wheel viewed through a hole, which revealed seven works by Paul Klee. Visitors who entered these rooms, were “challenged to think differently about the way they saw the new art, at a time when the art

I am writing to you to express my interest in the job opportunity “Terrace Research Associate in Egyptian Art” in the Department of Art of the Ancient World, one of open staff positions in Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston next Summer.

Turrell considers themes explored by artist, and is focusing on his perception, color, light, as well as space and the important role of site specificity in his practice.” It features works, drawn from the museum’s Panza Collection. In his exhibition at the Guggenheim, Turrell has created a new work entitled Aten Reign (2013), changing the museum from the tradition of one of his most amazing, larger-scaled projects, the Frank Lloyd Wright as shown below has a bigger volume of space floating overhead and less transparency to be looked across. (LACMA 50)There is not anything occupying the rotunda, with the exception of the structures the artist has required to amplify and reveal the nature of space. “He offers a new vision with the building, taking attention away from the boundaries of the built environment and drawing more attention to the interior and promoting what he has described as architecture of space created with light.” Daylight coming from the museum shines down to light the furthest layer of the large assembly shown from the

An inventory of initial personal reactions to the museum includes sensations like eccentric, abstract, and exotic. The building is nice to look at. It has a good sense of movement caused by its wide openings throughout the bottom and cervices at the top and middle of the building. The bottom is wider and it gets smaller in different areas depending on where the domes are located. All the different angles and stunning designs sculpted on each section of the building seems edgy and innovative. The building does seem inviting, impressive, and influential.

I felt as though it was just a completely different setup, the mahogany wood did not fit well with the plain white stonewalls of the rest of the exhibits. It was also set up as if it was a house with couches and tables but they were not for sitting on and so it just takes up space. It can be distracting from actual paintings displayed there. However, other then the distractions the mahogany wood was beautiful. It almost transported the viewers into a different time period. It was a weird choice when compared to the rest of the museum, but if you were to examine just those two rooms by their selves then you can appreciate the effort took in designing the setup. The last thing that has not been addressed with the critique is the setup of the gift shop, however, I personally did not get the opportunity to look into the gift shop so I can not comment on its setup, but if the gift shop is anything like the rest of the museum then I am sure that it is a nice store with great products for sale.

The museum is a work of art in itself, gorgeous barrel vaults, ceiling scattered with skylights, and three sunny courtyards dotting the interior. But for me, the architecture was trivial, what truly captured my heart was the paintings. From Bernini to Velázquez and everything in between, the museum’s collection alone is enough to inspire art in even the most banal onlooker. However, fortunately for me, the permanent