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Designing Entertainment Venues

gambling establishments has served to completely transform otherwise impoverished communities and even afford them the ability to ...

U.S. Museums Changes

of visitors, there has been a 50% increase in visitation from a decade ago, with numbers now totaling "865 million visits per year...

An Analysis of the Films, Bowling for Columbine and, The Decay of Fiction

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

Historical Functions of Museums

way in which museums present information historically and this is perhaps the most exciting point of all. That is, museums are abl...

Jewish Museum Berlin and its Architectural Importance

the world, but it is also a way for people to express themselves. Frank Lloyd Wrights Falling Water House is something spectacular...

Three Modern Art Works

the paintings. To further narrow the field, Ive looked at each of the works in turn, picked out those that draw me most strongly....

Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum Architecture

was inspired "by such artists as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Piet Mondrian" (Guggenheim Museum, 2005). As would be expecte...

Hypothetical Children's Discovery Museum

as video games, they are reacting to a preconceived scenario that requires little more than manual dexterity, as these games gener...

Landmark Buildings of NYC

of the pyramidal spire. As Flagg did, Gilbert has a tower shaft that rises from a supporting block base, but to maximize the expr...

Art Collector Catharine Lorillard Wolfe

Museum of Art (History). In 1887, Wolfe personally began the Mets European painting department by leaving her extensive collection...

Questions on Art History

narratives can take on many themes for many different reasons. Perhaps there is a very exciting artwork around which one wants to...

Kwakiutl Indians' Man Eating Bird 'Hokhokw' Mask

wings of the bird and during the ceremony, the dancers snap the beak closed with a loud clap (Kwakiutl Ceremonial Dance Mask, 2002...

Displays Featured in Washington D.C.'s Museum of Natural History

that it was the Vikings who actually first discovered America it became of special interest and as such ahs always intrigued this ...

Significance of the Magdeburg Ivory

the Great Exhibition, 2002). The Magdeburg Ivory is considered to be among the most famous of ivory carvings to emerge...

Houston's Museum of Fine Arts

white and black color scheme of the bird (white feathers, black accent on the tips of its wings, black legs) stand out in sharp co...

Ideal Museum and Old and New World Systems

are opposed by the church. In comparing this time period--the old world system of the early Italian Renaissance--with a new world ...

Historical Tour to Vladivostok, Russia

drills and their equipment. The ecotour organizer states that "East Russia is also the last place on earth, where we have a...

Analysis of Six Museum Works of Art

accounts, it is possible for art historians to state that some of the copies of the statue are inaccurate. Grout notes that those ...

Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater

gowns for one clients wife" (Strickland 147). Falling water was designed by Wright both inside and out and this was part of the pr...

1937's Weeping Woman with Handkerchief Painting by Pablo Picasso

man very much at war with himself, constantly battling inner demons that prolifically poured onto his canvases. He literally had ...

Different Types and Regional Museum Pieces

liked to envision men, the primary subject of sculpture, as regal and noble and strong characters. There was nothing more powerful...

Museum and Community Arts Center Governance and Effectiveness Enhancement

effectiveness is based on its understanding and approval of managements theories and the plans for the implementation of those ide...

Two Paintings from the Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art

rich with character. Apparently Courbet was from a very wealthy family and yet this picture presents him very much as a common man...

Yinka Shonibare/A Flying Machine for Every Man, etc.

of Shonibares characters via their clothing. While Victorian in style, the design for the wax fabrics originated in the Dutch colo...

The “Sensation” Art Show, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999

stuff "winning rather than off-putting," noting that he is an "equal-opportunity elephant-dung employer," using it to make support...

The Nixon Library and Museum

is a living memory. The chaos, confusion, and shock that ran through the nation when Nixon resigned (the only President in history...

Comparing "Maus" And The National Holocaust Museum

will come to the minds of all who visit the museum after being painfully immersed into the experience is how do people begin to fo...

Two Art Figures from the Ancient World

This research contrasts and compares two art figures from ancient civilizations, which are part of the collection at the Metropoli...

Detailed Analysis/Retrospective Exhibit on Orozco

Orozco, biographical information and his art philosophy Orozco was born in 1962 in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and studied art at th...

National Women’s History Museum

2011). However it is also noted that there were also very brave and courageous Chinese women who came to the United States for the...