Exhibition

With all the museums and galleries to choose from, I chose, The Art Gallery of Ontario and the Museum of Modern Art. They have totally different designs in the way of navigation. The Art Gallery of Ontario has a navigation bar at the top which is quite standard these days for website design. The museum of Modern Art has a unique way of designing their website homepage as it has a navigation at the bottom of the website. With that said, The Art Gallery of Ontario has their main navigation easy…

history of humanity» Those words from Irving Penn end the striking exhibition, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of his birth. This exhibition, which takes place at the Grand Palais in Paris, pays tribute to both the impressive photographer and the man he was. I personally knew his work as being the fashion photographer who had collaborated with Vogue for more than sixty years. But the grey walls and the airy rooms of this exhibition showed me all the elegance and wisdom that would…

I didn’t make it. Disappointment surged through my body, but determination quickly squashed that feeling. Looking at the roster in the courts, I couldn’t find my name. I don’t know why I had such high hopes that I'd make the team, seeing how I was new to both high school and the sport. However, I knew I shouldn’t give up, and that I will eventually make the team. Over the summer before my freshman year in high school, I was determined to be on a sports team. I never played a sport before, and…

Throughout this exhibition, I have created one specific theme—to take you through the technique of gilding and the material of gilt bronze. Gilding or Ormolu is a “decorative technique for applying fine gold leaf or powder to a solid surface such as wood, stone, or metal to give a thin coating of gold.” In this case, the exhibition will revolve around gilt bronze Asian artwork. Let us take a tour through multiple pieces and learn about the gilding technique, and how the material has held up…

within seven. There was talk of earlier independent exhibition, but the war interrupted the thought. This was due to the fact Frederic Bazille, who was the one leading the efforts on this, was killed within the war. Therefore, exhibitions were then lead by different artists at the time. Because of the different exhibition leaders, many debates arouse, which lead to the change in the contributions to the exhibitions. The last of the exhibitions, 1886, was the one that showed the ideas of…

Henry Murray’s Theory of Needs (Achievement, Affiliation, Power and Exhibition) applies to this type of personality disorder because…

United States, the Hudson River School finally gets celebrated, a century and a quarter later. Two exhibitions were used to celebrate McEntees’s efforts. His specific contributions to the movement included his personal journals, which have become treasures for scholars who study the early days of the Hudson River School. The two exhibitions that were used to celebrate McEntee were: Kingston exhibitions - an exploration…

For this assignment, I visited the Hickory Museum of Art (HMA) in Hickory, North Carolina. Their major exhibition was “Unexpected Beauty,” a collection of photographs by photojournalist Steve McCurry. I observed several ways in which the HMA replicated historic museums practices, especially in regards to the museum effect, princely galleries, and above all, reinforcing an emphasis on the visual. By visiting the HMA I gained a firsthand experience of what these practices look like and the…

The American Explorer Samuel Phillips Verner went to Africa in 1904 under contract pay row a selection of Pygmies to be part of the "Exposition of St. Louis. OTA Benga was one of the men caught. When they arrived at the exhibition, the Ota took great success because everyone wanted to look at his teeth. His teeth were filed down a sharp edge when he was young pour a decoration of Vangelis. Journal of the United Nations said that the Ota Benga was "the only genuine African Cannibal in America",…

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has arranged its largest exhibition on ancient Egyptian mummies and artifacts in the history, “Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt”. The expanded exhibition include an additional eight cases focusing on the science behind studying mummies. In exhibition, a combination of rare artifacts and cutting-edge research tools illuminate how Smithsonian scientists have pieced together the lives of ancient Egyptians through their burial practices and rituals…