Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

From the museum: the art of thinking.

From the outset, our challenge is to elevate your ‘‘thinking about thinking’’ and to creatively engage with new thought as it both defined and was derivative of the human mind during key periods of European artistic and scientific development commencing with Renaissance awakenings, through the passions of the Romantic age, Enlightenment’s revelations and the powers of Symbolism, culminating in ...

Introducing Books/ Iranian Art: Collecting Iranian Art Pieces for Victoria and Albert Museum, Mohammad Javad Ahmadinia

Teamwork & the Museum Interactive: First Experience with the Hybrid Model at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modem Art moved into its new home a modernist palace designed by Swiss architect Mario Bottain July of 1994, and opened to the public in January of this year. The move represented far more than a change of venue: the entire perception and profile of the Museum on a local, national, and international scale were redefined. In the past, annual attendance was on the orde...

Museum laboratories: where art meets science.

A Few Examples of Electron Microanalysis of Art Objects at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Examples of a few objects are presented, where the electron microprobe has proved that it can provide the conservator and the curator with information that will help in evaluating the authenticity of a particular art object. They will also obtain a better understanding of how an object was fabricated and what materials it was made from. The results of the analysis of paint samples, samples from...