Guggenheim Fellows

Architectural qualities of the Guggenheim Museum in New York have an expressional capability of conveying meaning onto its user. William Whyte suggests that this is able to be read as a language, related directly to its spatial features and geometries. This essay attempts to examine the Guggenheim’s meaning in a contextual framework of time, through the medium of photography. Discussing critical interpretation at the time of the Guggenheim’s completion, and how socio-cultural changes have translated

The National Gallery of art in Washington D.C. is pleased to announce that they will be hosting a restaging of pieces by Yves Klein along with a reenactment of Anthropometries, a performance piece that debuted in the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in 1947. The gallery is set to feature a wide range of Klein’s pieces including Monochrome Blue, various performance pieces, and select experimental pieces from the end of his career. The wide array of pieces showcased guarantees enjoyment

It's the year 1984. As you walk down a crowded New York street, you can't help but stop and stare at the world around you. There's one particular image that stands out to you through. It's a large, black and white poster of a woman looking into a broken mirror. The words "You are not yourself" are written across it in bold cut-out letters. You stop to think to yourself about the possible meanings of this poster. It shows the apparent work of a feminist sowing women's struggle with her own self-image

uncle’s farm. It was during this time that he developed his love for Nature, to be a part of it. His love for Nature is dominant in his earlier works dubbed the “Prairie Houses”, but can also been seen in his later works such as Johnson Wax and the Guggenheim Museum. When Frank Lloyd Wright was just sixty-eight years old, he was commissioned to design a house for Edgar Kaufmann. Wright and Kaufmann went to the property to survey the location for the house. Kaufmann liked to spend time at the water

1st Artwork- Unity Temple, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, completed in 1908 Frank Lloyd Wright’s career was just beginning to take off in Oak Park, Illinois. One of the most significant projects from his early career is Unity Temple near his home and studio in Oak Park. Unity Temple was a replacement church for Unitarian Universalist Church that had burned down in 1905. Unity Temple was not just an ordinary commission for Wright since he was a parishioner of the Unitarian Church in Oak Park.

In this essay, I would be demonstrating how the topic of contemporary art and the politics of art institutions reflects and relates to Rajni Perera’s 3 figures and VHT. With formal analysis of these artworks and readings from this topics, I would show the differences and similarities between these topics. Contemporary art represents what we see as individuals in society today, it does not follow the set rules of art. For instance, modern art looks and follows modernist theories, likewise

The most rewarding part of a Hero’s quest is the Ultimate Boon that the hero leaves behind. This is what the hero’s quest is all about it’s what the hero is after when he or she embarks on their quest. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ultimate Boon is the building he left behind. Noticeably “FallingWater” dubbed “The most famous house in the world today” by House and Home magazine in 1958 (Stungo 20) Located in Mills Run Pennsylvania is one of the most famous house designs that Wright created. It is here that

I’ve never been exposed to paintings, or sculpture, but my career has given me exposure to construction and architecture. My favorite work of art is the National Building Museum (Pension Building) in Washington DC. The building was designed by Montgomery C. Meigs. Construction began in 1881 and completed in 1887. Meigs based his design on Italian Renaissance precedents, notably Rome's Palazzo Farnese and the Palazzo della Cancelleria. The building is the largest frameless, freestanding brick building

The Kamloops Art Gallery was Incorporated in 1978. It serves not only residents and visitors in Kamloops but also the surrounding Thompson-Nicola Regional District as well as national and international audiences. Architects Peter cardew and Nigel Baldwin devised a purposed civic building which includes the Thompson-Nicola Regional District offices and and the Kamloops branch of the TNRD Library System, and the Kamloops Art Gallery changed dwelling place to this building in 1998. The gallery provides

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. The main Neoclassical architectural style building is located on the eastern edge of Central Park in New York City, New York. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986. It was founded in 1870 with a mission to collect, preserve, and display works of art. In 1866 a group of Americans gathered at a restaurant to celebrate the Fourth of July. After dinner, John Jay, a prominent lawyer gave a speech proposing