Museums
There are many museums in Tuscaloosa, but the one you have to visit is the Paul W. Bryant museum. This museum is a great one to visit for any Alabama football fans or just anyone who would like to know any background history of the Crimson Tide football team. It was dominated by Coach Bryant and it preserves the great history of the past all until today and the accomplishments of Nick Saban. There is also a Museum of Art that contains a collection of paintings and other models of unique buildings. It is free and it has some interesting paintings by known artists. Another museum is a mansion that is called the Jemison-Van de Graaf Mansion. It is a tour that shows you around the mansion and also tells about the history of the house along with the families that used to live in it. There is a lot of really interesting information on the mansion that makes you feel as if it almost takes you back into the past. There is a museum just for kids there that is very hands on. It’s great and interactive for little kids, but for older kids it will only be good for about an hour or so. Children can do many hands on activities such as going into soda shops, caves, dressing up into older period clothing, be a news anchor, and to be a doctor or nurse in a hospital. The museum is simply called
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The Amphitheatre has had some stars play there such as My Morning Jacket, The Lumineers, Kenny Chesney, and The Backstreet Boys. Another thing people enjoy is the big festival Tuscaloosa has. Every year on the third weekend of October there is a huge festival that has sculptors, painters, quilters, basket weavers, and many other art activities. Thousands of people go each year to see all of the arts and crafts. There is also a massive outdoor shop called Woods and Water. The store is on a ridge which gives a great view of the whole town and the store has endless amounts of outdoor
Battle of Mobile Bay was in Mobile, Alabama on August 5, 1864. Mobile became an important Confederate Port on the Gulf of Mexico during the fall of New Orleans, Louisiana in April 1862. Battle runners were carrying critical supplies from Havana, Cuba into Mobile, meanwhile Union General Ulysses S. Grant made the capture of the port a top priority.The Yankee feet quickly knocked out the smaller Confederate ships, but for the Tennessee, they fought a brutal battle against unsure odds.
There is no denying that the fast-paced life so that their monotonous life and no momentum. Art adds vivid colors to our dull and monotonous daily routines. It is not required that art is something static in motion but in thought. A single painting could mean millions of different things to different people. It is the value of possibility and of perception that is so important. Tampa Museum of Art which is a good platform to show the glamor of art. On October 28, 2016, I visited the Tampa Museum of Art in downtown Tampa. Located in the heart of downtown Tampa, the museum serves as the focal point of Tampa Bay’s lively creative art district. With three main exhibits set up, the Tampa Museum of Art highlights important pieces representing different time periods. Today, I want to talk about the Classical World section. There are many characteristics of art, including the ancient cultural relics, images, and sculpture from the ancient Rome, Greece, and other Mediterranean regions. Ancient objects from these areas such as pots, jewelry, and sculptures. Many of the pots had scenes and figures painted on them, many of which were significant historical events and mythological events.
Every year the Reid family has a reunion, and we get to see all the cousins, aunts, uncles, great aunts, second cousins and so on. I have lots of family members that are from the Carolinas, and I really enjoy getting to see them all once a year. When I thought about the prompt of how geography relates to my life, I kept coming back to my Southern roots and what being Southern meant to me in the context of geopolitics.
The issue of whether or not the Confederate statues is in huge debate. Some think that the monuments stand for a lost cause of racism and white pride while others believe the statues should continue to stand for history and reembrace purposes. But should the federal government do anything about the statues?
Is it appropriate for states to display monuments to the confederacy? In today’s society, some think that the monuments of the Confederates’ finest and the flags they stood for should be removed from public areas. In Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017, violence erupted between white supremacists and counter-protesters who were opposing them (Confederate Monuments 1).These people believe that they are only symbols of hate and racism. The situation is still currently being debated but many cities are removing them to avoid conflict, which may not be as effective as the people who commissioned these ideas thought. The Confederate flags and monuments should not be taken away because they aren't direct symbols of hate, it's part of american history, and its part of southern culture.
The debate over whether to tear down the Confederate monuments or to let them stand has turned many peaceful protests into violent clashes, Jessica Suerth, a writer for CNN, reported that this debate started back when Dylann Roof intended to start a race war by killing nine African Americans at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. After that, in a recent white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a counter protester was killed amidst the clash between the two sides the two sides. Since these two incidents, many have begun to question the reason for the Confederate monuments, the meaning that they have, and their value in today's society. Some believe that the Confederate monuments are here to honor their heritage and remind
For many, the quaint town of Point Clear, Alabama represents the Old South rooted in tradition, charm, and grace. Halfway down the bay and nearly hidden among oaks adorned with Spanish moss, Point Clear was founded in the early 1800s. Today, the city continues to honor its role in the Civil War, perpetuates the memories of its residents, and evolves as a greater and better place.
A study conducted this year reported that at least 1,503 Confederate symbols can be found in public spaces in the United States. The Confederate symbols include anything from monuments to flags and all the way to schools named after Confederate generals. This means that for years the U.S. has been honoring men for doing bad things like rebelling against the U.S. and fighting to keep slavery. Although taking down Confederate monuments could be equivalent to trying to erase America’s history, leaving them up cause more problems because people believe that the monuments support the idea of white supremacy and encourages people to embrace violence toward other races.
Many performers and artists are attracted to the natural beauty of the panhandle. As such, there is always a great many opportunities to explore the artistic side of Tallahassee. At any given time, visitors to Tallahassee will be able to attend art gallery openings, concerts, theatre productions, and festivals. From ballets at the FSU's Ruby Diamond to festivals at Cascades Park, there is always something to do in Tallahassee.
Confederate statues have become a hot topic in today’s headlines. Whether it is a certain group sees the statues as a disgrace where others see them as a memorial to American history, it’s now a huge debate on who is on the correct side of the fence. This topic can be fairly difficult to understand the reasoning from either side, especially being that I am from Kentucky, a neutral state during the Civil War.
The Alabama Natural History Museum represents a unique aspect of Alabama’s history that is often overlooked. Alabama’s rich geological and archeological history has created the ecosystem we know today, yet is rarely explored by the common Alabama citizen. Regardless,
When I attend the Oklahoma Art Museum this morning, I was completely blown away by the different styles, technique, and artistic abilities that artist have. Art can come in many forms and can involve many different things. From paintings, sculptures, and abstract pieces of the modern world. Along with my visit, I got to experience a new collection of blown glass that was absolute remarkable. As I walked though the museum, it was as I walked though time and got to see how each period’s art changed throughout time. From the different shades of color to the different types of technique that filled the halls of the Oklahoma City Art Museum, each piece was genuine in its own way. I was starstruck as I witnessed Lowell Nesbitt’s Parrot Tulip, Richard Diebenkorn’s Albuquerque, and Dale Chihuly’s blown glass.
The exhibit that I viewed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was one about European Art between the years 1100-1500. This was a series of paintings, sculptures, architecture, and tapestry of the Medieval and Early Renaissance as well as objects from the Middle East. This exhibit was an important part of the history of the Philadelphia Museum of Art because for the first time, Italian, Spanish, and Northern European paintings from the John G. Johnson collection were shown. It gave me a good idea of what the paintings were like in these four centuries and reflected ideas of both the east and the west.
The Whitney Museum of American Art has often been referred to a citadel of American Art, partially due to the museums façade, a striking granite building (Figure 1), designed by Bauhaus trained architect Marcel Breuer. The museum perpetuates this reference through its biennial review of contemporary American Art, which the Whitney has become most famous for. The biennial has become since its inception a measure of the state of contemporary art in America today.
On the other hand, we will search for possibility of changes offered by the museum, both as a representation of space and a representational space. Foucault once suggested that the same heterotopia can function differently once the society changes. Does the heterotopia also function differently among different social groups in the same synchronic society? Are there certain stages at which the heterotopia is more open to changes than other stages? It is in these directions that we will seek the “leftovers”—the potentials of changes—in the hegemonic and omnipotent heterotopian museum.