National Gallery of Art

Starting from the year 1870s, the significant art museums in the United States had established. The representative museums are Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1870), Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (1876), and Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (1876; Philadelphia Museum of Art at present) (Latham & Simmons, 2014). The most important factor that brought into the changes and developments of the museum inside the United States was the change of the economic structure due to the…

3.2.1 Curatorial practices The National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) holds the national collection of European and Irish fine art. In addition to promoting the gallery and it’s collections through exhibitions, other major functions comprise conservation, preservation, provenance research, education and assistance with investigation of the collections. This study is being carried out in cooperation with art specialists at NGI, facilitating access to their essential expertise and knowledge of…

Theatre and Petersen Hours, the National Art Gallery, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon home. On your right, ladies and gentlemen, Ford’s Theatre! The first stop will kick off at Ford’s Theater (built in 1839, it’s 153 years old!) and the Petersen House (built is 1849,), because Abraham Lincoln is such an important man, and I think everyone should see the last few things he saw at the end of his life. Ford’s Theatre and the Petersen house were declared a national historical site in the 1970,…

Visual Artist Nestor Siré has set up an art gallery inside today's most popular Cuban media. El Paquete is a 1 Terabyte size changing database of digital content, mostly pirated, and transferred informally through USB external hard drives. El Paquete is nothing like television, any form of radio, or the Internet. It is a huge media phenomenon run through hand-to-hand distribution and outside of government control. There, Siré has managed to insert an Art Gallery. WHO IS NESTOR SIRÉ? Nestor…

world-famous beaches, year-round temperate weather and overflowing with history, nature, culture, art, fashion, design and cuisine, Sydney lives up to its reputation as one of the most liveable cities in the world. Inducing jealously in citizens of other metropolis,’ Sydney is truly unique due to its location next to miles of beautiful ocean coastline, sandy surf beaches yet just an hour away from large national parks and forests. The city itself is also renowned as one of the most culturally…

Recently I got to visit the mobile museum of art located in Mobile, Alabama. The visit was quite interesting and I got to experience the allure of detailed pieces of art that are so masterfully crafted, painted or drawn. The trip to the Mobile Museum of Art is one that I cannot forget. The Museum is a host permanent and temporary visiting collection of art. The collection available in the Museum spans the periods from the classical antiquity to the present day art. The museum is owned and…

Figge Art Museum Who would have thought that I, who had neither exposure to nor much interest in art, would have been so captivated by what I experienced during my visit to the Figge Museum. I grew up in Davenport and currently live outside the Quad Cities area and yet I was unaware of the impressive art museum that is in Davenport. I was excited to visit this museum and to see what I had been missing out on all of my life. When I approached the building, its contemporary architectural…

German Village: Take a walk back into the past by visiting the German Village in Columbus, Ohio. The area was settled in around the middle of the 19th century and much of it has been kept the same way, to retain its colonial flavor. Also on the National Register of Historic Places, the German Village is one of the largest restoration sites in the world. Old coloial buildings and monuments dot this region, where every structure is under three floors in height. There is an unmistakable sense of…

to be destroyed afterwards. Thomas Demand, born in 1964 in Munich, is among the most outstanding artists of our times, primarily a sculptor-slash-photographer, active also as a curator. Demand began his art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1987-90), but it was at the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf (1990-2) and Goldsmith's College in London (1993-4), where his artistic language has been finally shaped. Instead of the photography class of Bernd and Hilla Becher, an origin of the…

differences along with their similarities. They have vastly different histories, cultural aspects, and racial demographics, but they remain similar in their cost of living and socioeconomic disparity. First, Washington, Dc and Rome are rich in world and national history. The history in the two cities developed on very different time lines Rome, for example, has a history that dates back to the time of early 8th century BC. Rome was part of the Roman Empire and known by the Latin name called the…