MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
Online art gallery featuring contemporary Mayan oil paintings from the highlands of Guatemala. The Catalogue of Paintings includes paintings which are part of the Arte Maya Tz'utuhil Museum collection, paintings which are in private collections.
One of America's largest art museum sites, it offers broad exploration of the museum's permanent collection, current exhibitions and other facilities.
Since its founding in 1903, the DMA has worked to build a permanent collection of world scope and importance. With major holdings in ancient American, African, Indonesian, and contemporary art, as well as American decorative arts, the Museum serves as a cultural center for the Dallas/Fort Worth area of North Texas.
The Galerķa is an Austin based commercial art gallery that specializes in U.S. Latino art, and art created by other selected artists living in the U.S. and abroad. Established in 1986, we have proudly completed ten seasons of year-round exhibitions. The gallery presents paintings, prints, photography and sculpture on site, as well as other venues in the U.S., Mexico, and Europe.
In 1991, Basque officials approached the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to propose that it participate in Bilbao's redevelopment program. In December of that year, a preliminary agreement was reached leading to the establishment of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Foundation to manage the independent institution. The Building, a symbol of Bilbao is Frank Gehry's design for the 24,000 m2 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will serve as an architectural landmark recognizable worldwide. The museum evokes not only the industrial vitality of Bilbao but also the iconoclastic design of Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggeheim Museum in New York.
For more than 65 years, visitors from across the globe have made it a point to visit the Heard Museum and its world-class collection of Native American art, which includes the Fred Harvey Company collection of 19th and 20th century ceramics, baskets, jewelry and textiles as well as the 420-piece Goldwater Kachina Doll collection. The internationally
acclaimed Heard Museum is one of the best places to experience the cultures and art of Native Americans of the Southwest.
This art museum is the first public museum in Japan to declare contemporaneity in its specialty. In Hiroshima, "contemporary" means post-atomic bomb. For a city which has eradicated its pre-war history, the term "contemporary" has a particular depth of meaning, forging a link between art and peace which might be more difficult for any other city to establish. Cities everywhere, not only in Japan, are searching for their identity and wondering how to build an image for the future, and Hiroshima is no exception.
A medieval fortress, the palace of the kings of France, and a museum for the last two centuries, the architecture of the Louvre Palace bears witness to more than 800 years of history. Established in 1793 by the French Republic, the Louvre Museum, is one of the earliest European museums. Divided into 7 departments, the Louvre collections incorporate works dating from the birth of the great antique civilizations right up to the first half of the XIXth century, thereby confirming its encyclopedic vocation.
The Metropolitan is today a collection of museums -- a vast storehouse of knowledge where nearly three million works of art are held for study as well as for display. Indeed, the strength of the Met is that under one roof it provides an almost infinite number of options for many rewarding visits. These can take an infinite number of forms, from random wanderings to planned itineraries, from an in-depth study of a single gallery or exhibition to the exploration of several different cultures or periods.
A new look for the Museum online. Elevator Surfing, Encyclopedia of Superfictions, The Manhattan Archives, The Art Fair Murders, Book Reviews, International Portrait Gallery, The Changing Room , The Director's Office, Press Office, Museum Shop, Current Writing.
MOCA is home to one of the country's finest permanent collections of art since 1940, ranging from masterpieces of abstract expressionist and pop art to recent works by young artists. Both permanent and changing selections from this stellar collection are on view throughout the year.
The Museum of Modern Art's commitment to new media is part of our mission to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental. The MoMA site connects an ever-larger number of people from around the world to the rich variety of works of art, exhibitions, programs, and services available at the Museum. Here on the Web, as in the Museum, the past and the present coexist in an environment that is responsive to the issues of both modern and contemporary art.
A listing of museums and arts attractions in the city of New York. For those who will be visiting New York, this site will provide you with maps, fees and times of all the great museum venues in the big apple.
The News of "Officiel des Arts" provide the latest news at a single glance. One click on the Galleries and you get instant access to our database which contains all French galleries and can be searched by location, artists, subjects, periods and trends. If you prefer being guided, the virtual Itineraries will take you on a trip across France. Finally, before exiting "Officiel des Arts", using the Art Links where we've selected about 500 websites related to arts, look at the Exhibitions around the World.
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