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Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum South Kensington, London, opened in 1852 as the Museum of Manufacturers at Marlborough House. It originally contained a nucleus of contemporary objects of applied art bought from the Great Exhibition of 1851 at the instigation of Prince Albert, and collections from the... Read more |
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Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney with a core group of 700 art objects, many from her own collection. The museum was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914-18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918-28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries... Read more |
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museums of science
museums of science institutions or buildings where collections relevant to science and technology are preserved and displayed to promote education and research. While the preponderance of these museums are in North America and Europe, the chief cities of Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and Latin... Read more |
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Museums
MUSEUMS MUSEUMS define relationships between life, community, the nation, and the world through the interpretation of objects, experience, and the environment. These institutions range from community-based museums, such as the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, and Chinatown... Read more |
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Thelma Golden
Thelma Golden1965– Curator Thelma Golden has become a driving force in the art world. Since disrupting the status quo with her 1994 exhibition, Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, Golden has continued to create challenging dialogues around art and artists,... Read more |
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Vatican Museums
Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani, Rome). Institutions housing the enormous collections of antiquities and works of art accumulated by the papacy since the beginning of the 15th century. As the leaders of the Christian Church the popes have always commanded the services of the best artists of the... Read more |
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The largest collection of 20th-century art in the USA apart from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The museum was founded in 1916 by the San Francisco Art Association and was originally called the San Francisco Museum of Art (the change to its present... Read more |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner
Isabella Stewart Gardner 1840-1924, American art collector, b. New York City. She lived in Boston following her marriage to the financier Jack Gardner. After the Civil War her home became known for brilliant social affairs and as a center for gatherings of painters, literary people, musicians, and... Read more |
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William Valentiner
Valentiner, William (b Karlsruhe, 2 May 1880; d New York, 6 Sept. 1958). German-American art historian, one of the foremost connoisseurs of Dutch painting, on which he published numerous books. From 1906 to 1908 he worked at the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Berlin, under Bode, then moved to the... Read more |
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Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution research and education center, at Washington, D.C.; founded 1846 under the terms of the will of James Smithson of London, who in 1829 bequeathed his fortune to the United States to create an establishment for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." The... Read more |
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FAIRBROTHER TO LEAVE MFA Contemporary-art curator takes Seattle post
...and a 1933 art moderne structure...The Seattle museum is smaller...East Coast museums. The Seattle museum also makes...historical and contemporary -- a priority...artists and art personalities...of Place: ... |
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WHAT WE LOOK AT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT ART In this MFA show, the label's the...
...us take art museum labels at face...their flaws. Museums that don't...point being the Museum of Modern Art...Latin American art last year...the heart of "The Label Show" at ... |