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Pros and Cons of a National Museum of Women in the Arts

CONSTITUENCY One can imagine that the primary audience or constituency will likely be female supporters. Indeed, there will also...

Analytical Reaction to a Visit to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art

'Street Light' by Giacomo and 'Departure' by Max Beckmann are the focus of this analytical reaction paper on a visit to the Metrop...

European Painters' Display Viewed on a Trip to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art I

fit the mold of others who painted during the Baroque period. Historically, Toledo was a center of inquisition activity and int...

Period Art Describes After a Trip to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art II

Japanese, African, Roman, and Greek works of art are discussed in this reaction paper to a trip taken to the Metropolitan Museum o...

Galleries and Wings of a Trip to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art Described V

An exhibit reaction paper of two pages considers the various African, Asian, Greek, and Roman wings and galleries of NYC's Metropo...

Istanbul, Turkey's Habia Sophia

In ten pages this research paper examines Turkey's Christian church turned Istanbul museum that features a mathematical design in ...

Museum Tour and the Social Class Theory of Karl Marx

In five pages this paper examines how Karl Marx's theory of social class can manifest itself in a museum tour. Five sources are c...

Peabody Museum Collection of Mineralogy

In five pages this paper examines the science of mineralogy and considers the important collection housed at Yale University's Pea...

Metropolitan Museum of Art Photographic Exhibit Review

In five pages this exhibit's contributions to the museum and vice versa as well as an analysis of several featured photographs are...

Reactions to a Museum on the Holocaust

In a paper consisting of five pages emotional responses to a Holocaust museum along with relevant relational versus institutional ...

Cultural Institutions and State Bias

In five pages this paper examines the bias with regards to the favoring of certain cultural institutions such as the Victoria and ...

Cultural Projects and the Importance of Political and Economic Considerations

In seven pages this paper discusses that for a UK museum exhibit to be successful that the gaps that exist between culture, politi...

Social Discrimination and Prejudice

on this subject will want to point out that prejudice is really a prejudgment or an idea about someone based on certain factors. I...

Art Collector Catharine Lorillard Wolfe

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Voluntarism, 'I Think Therefore I am,' and the Meditations of Rene Descartes

thus in doubting, he is thinking, and it must be true that he exists" (Anonymous Topic 2 - "Cogito, ergo sum", 2002; cogito.html)....

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...

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...

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 ...

'Am I Blue?' by Alice Walker

used to scrawl after our stories, marked, "the end." This is true in the "thinking piece," Am I Blue. It is important for the st...

Los Angeles' 'Museum of Tolerance'

and manipulate their emotions. Because it does use theatricality, video and film to display this range of human emotion - positiv...

The Art of Alice Neel

and the paintbrush she holds. Small touches of red in her face and in the shadows of her neck and legs, punch up the contrast of ...

Madonna of the Clouds by Donatello

In nine pages this Donatello piece as featured in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is considered in terms of this marble's relationshi...

Reality According to the Philosophy of Rene 'I Think, Therefore I Am' Descartes

In five pages this paper discusses how Descartes' philosophy of reality is presented in the 1641 publication of The Meditations. ...

Am I Thin Enough Yet?

become everything. Delia not only wants to look good for the attention that it gets her, but she is also determined that her sel...

Symbolic Speech and I Am an Impure Thinker by Eugen Rosenstock Huessy

In six pages various chapters of Rosenstock Huessy's text are examined in an examination of how symbolic speech is represented. T...