Teaching art appreciation at the fine arts museum

Since its official opening on the 7th May 1974, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta has been regarded as one of the best sources of cultural enrichment on the island. Its contribution to the education of adults and youngsters, especially those interested in the representational arts, should indeed be considerable and local art masters in the secondary schools and higher institutions may fully avail themselves of such a source.peer-reviewe

Projects:Louise Lawler

Taha Toros Arşivi, Dosya Adı: Taha Toros. Not: Projeler, 19 Eylül - 10 Kasım 1987 tarihleri arasında sergilenecekir.İstanbul Kalkınma Ajansı (TR10/14/YEN/0033) İstanbul Development Agency (TR10/14/YEN/0033

Culture Heritage Digital Repositories. Research Questions

This discussion is about innovative solutions for assembling multimedia digital repositories for collaborative use in specific contexts and communities and enhancing scholarly understanding and experiences of digital cultural heritage. Several aspects are stress such as the dynamic aggregation of cross-media resources across existing institutional digital libraries and repositories. Research questions about the scalability, interoperability and distributed architectures, aggregation, and semantic search tools are addressed

Raphael\u27s School of Athens: A Theorem in a Painting?

Raphael\u27s famous painting The School of Athens includes a geometer, presumably Euclid himself, demonstrating a construction to his fascinated students. But what theorem are they all studying? This article first introduces the painting, and describes Raphael\u27s lifelong friendship with the eminent mathematician Paulus of Middelburg. It then presents several conjectured explanations, notably a theorem about a hexagram (Fichtner), or alternatively that the construction may be architecturally symbolic (Valtieri). The author finally offers his own null hypothesis : that the scene does not show any actual mathematics, but simply the fascination, excitement, and joy of mathematicians at their work

UMArts, Fall 2012 Events Calendar

Calendar of arts events for fall 2012 at the University of Montana’s College of Visual and Performing Arts.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/artscalendar/1036/thumbnail.jp

National Museums and Other Cultures in Modern Japan

This article examines the representation of Japan at three national museums in Japan: the Tokyo National Museum, the National Museum of Japanese History and the National Museum of Ethnology. It explores the way in which the museums have displayed difference both within Japan and between Japan and the other countries to which it is compared. The essay examines how this has produced a claim of Japanese uniqueness in the museum, the difficulty museums therefore have in connecting the Japanese past to the present and a number of recent attempts to overcome these problems in the representation of Japan