Pictures at an Exhibition

In 1931, at the Smithsonian Institution, Adams put on his first unaccompanied museum exhibition where he presented sixty prints that he had taken of the High Sierra. The Washington Post gave him an exceptional review. In 1932, he had a display at the M.H. de Young Museum. This show was with Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston; together they made up Group f/64, which is an aperture setting. This group favored “pure or straight photography” instead of pictorialsm. In the fall of 1941, he began…

Another writer, Alice Rawsthorn, asks what the true definition of an artist is in this modern world, deciding that it can be anyone. Through her piece, “Can Anybody be a Designer?” Rawsthorn discusses “Unnamed,” an exhibition held in South Korea. This exhibition explores innovation in places that one would normally never look; the code involved in a computer virus can be just as majestic as a rainbow barcode where each color signifies one of the four nucleotides of DNA (adenine, thymine, guanine…

We started off Wednesday, knowing we would be covering a topic that was completely new to pretty much everyone attending. We were covering transposable elements. These were first discovered by Barbara McClintock in corn kernels. She noticed that the corn kernels were either colored, or plain- but once in a while they were spotted. Most scientists at the time assumed that the chromosome for color had been repressed or had broken off. However, Dr. McClintock felt that if the chromosome had been…

I had the chance to take one thing of the museum, I would like to take the ´´Cosmic Fiber´´, 2014, which consists of two leaflets that is made by six individual pictures placed next to each other. The whole work is72"X84". Something that caught my attention is that the tables are placed in a different order. For example, the first picture he painted is placed on the fifth position. The reason why I would like to take this work is because I noticed that the six paintings that form one art…

of fiction, horror, death and romance to paint a bright picture of the quirks of the era. The everlasting popularity of Gothic fiction feeds on our desire to indulge in innocent but hearty chunks of terror. Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”, typical of the late Victorian era, displays numerous characteristics of this “radical romanticism”, terrifying and engrossing at once. As a prominent feature of Gothic fiction is that it paints the word picture of the 18th and…

of the television and home video in Nigeria, cinema was one of the major means of entertainment and relaxation in the country. Lagosians, in particular, already had a vibrant cinema culture since the colonial era. Cinemas, seeing films or motion picture was a popular form of entertainment and relaxation in Nigeria before independence in 1960. Cinema is a means of information, education and cultural development of the masses (Enahora, 1989: 101). It is a means of communication and…

During the 19th century Sarah Baartmann—a Khoikhoi woman—was deprived from her liberty because of her distinct physical appearance. Her voluminous posterior and the abnormalities of her sexual organs were enough to indignantly use her as public exhibition for purposes of entertainment and later on for anatomical dissection. This bewildering act lead immense controversy and opened for discussion and investigations on race and sexuality. In present time, the hashtag #TeacherBae flooded social…

because the workers had already done that and MBW continued on with the interview. MBW did not properly instruct his crew how he wanted his showcase to be presented, so they had to prepare it themselves. MBW did not give his full attention to his exhibitions like he should have. A true artist cares about their works and how they want to display it because there is a message they wish to share. MBW did not care about his paintings, so he did not care if the public received his message. He was…

This trend was especially common in rich and influential people for they were more superstitious and concerned of their social ranks. Gourds and peonies in particular, represent auspiciousness and wealth in Chinese cultures. In Shanghai Museum’s exhibition, bottle-gourds and peonies appeared repetitively in numerous artworks across dynasties which demonstrated their incomparable importance to Chinese civilization. Because of their propitious significances, there were also…

continuously extends from there and intertwines through bright white pillars on the ground level. The almost mile-long rope snakes up the building through horizontal columns that separate each story. The installation leads me to the next story where the exhibitions are on display. I follow the rope to the second floor which exhibits Ida Applebroog’s series Catastrophe with its colors contrasting against blank plaster walls. Each individual piece is drawn on five by two-and-half feet mylar…