Sentences with phrase «history in museum settings»

More recently, Carron has broadened his range of subjects, looking toward the presentation of culture and history in museum settings and taking on themes of power, politics, and classification.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on the set of his new talk show series «StarTalk» filmed with a live studio audience in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.

Museum officials told them «no ticket, no show,» setting the stage for, in the words of the Chicago Tribune, «the first science riot in history.»

The United Kingdom hasn't had an investment in science communication on that scale since proceeds from the Great Exhibition in 1851 were used to set up several major British institutions, including the precursors to London's Science and Natural History Museums, says John Beetlestone, founder of Techniquest, one of the few U.K. science centers started before the lottery bonanza.

Clues to the animals» extinction emerged during the 1990s, when Ross MacPhee of the American Museum of Natural History discovered a new set of bones — cranial specimens and a leg bone — in a cave on the southern coast of Jamaica.

The specimen, which is in private hands, is set to go on display at the Parisian Museum of the History of Medicine, Charlier said.

After analysing these crystals at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, they discovered that the crystal compositions were indistinguishable from the ancient set.

The world - famous Natural History Museum is the perfect location for an interesting date set amongst some of the most beautiful architecture in the city.

Sutton Hoo is the perfect setting for a date with anyone interested in the romance of ancient history and culture Explore the museum together and then take Online Dating in.

This episode is set in New York's American Museum Of Natural History, and it advances the plot well using the setting's magic acoustics.

Ben Stiller stars as a night watchman who works in the Museum of Natural History where all of the characters — including lions --- come to life as soon as the sun sets in Night at the Museum.

In a new exhibit in London's Science Museum, «Robots — The 500 - Year Question to Make Machines Human,» depicts the 500 - year history of humanoid robots as a way to understand what was expected of robots in five different periods and settingIn a new exhibit in London's Science Museum, «Robots — The 500 - Year Question to Make Machines Human,» depicts the 500 - year history of humanoid robots as a way to understand what was expected of robots in five different periods and settingin London's Science Museum, «Robots — The 500 - Year Question to Make Machines Human,» depicts the 500 - year history of humanoid robots as a way to understand what was expected of robots in five different periods and settingin five different periods and settings.

By visiting these famous houses and London landmarks, children will be walking into the places where history happened, rather than being in a museum setting and simply looking at artefacts, school groups will be standing in the environment where a significant person lived.

Set in the experiential Museum of Tolerance, this special workshop uses Red Scarf Girl, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Wonder, as well as other literary resources to examine ways to engage youth in thinking about identity, analyzing adolescent choices, and reflecting on the impact of history on individuals.

We prepare educators, including classroom teachers and educators who work in museums, non-profit organizations, and informal educational settings, in the disciplines of history, government / civics, geography, economics, and the other social sciences.

Programs in social studies education prepare educators in the disciplines of history, government / civics, geography, economics, and the other social sciences, including classroom teachers and educators who work in museums, nonprofit organizations, and informal educational settings.

Mary Anning, her subject in Remarkable Creatures, is a rock star to the natural history museum set, a feminist hero dangled before little girls to get them excited about science and to prove that paleontology is not just for boys... Chevalier takes a sensational figure (and Mary Anning was a real celebrity in her own day) and focuses on the quiet, unsensational part of the story.

Mary Anning, her subject in Remarkable Creatures, is a rock star to the natural history museum set, a feminist hero dangled before little girls to get them excited about science and to prove that paleontology is not just for boys.

After announcing Ace of the Diamond, All - Rounder Meguru, and Giant Killing at Emerald City Comic Con earlier this month, we've got more series making their Volume 1 digital - first debuts, keeping up our 2017 ramp - up of digital titles: Natsumi Eguchi's hellfire comedy Hozuki's Coolheadedness, Kotono Kato's alternate - history medieval war - drama Altair: A Record of Battles, Ryosuke Tomoe's disturbing serial - killer thriller Museum, and a surprising parody - sidestory set in the Read More»

You can also visit the outstanding Dubai Museum, set in an 18th - century fort, to discover more about the city's Bedouin heritage, pearl - diving trade and the history of the United Arab Emirates.

Other high - profile projects include the construction of three firsts: The Panamera, the first Waldorf Astoria hotel in Latin America (set to open in June 2012); the Trump Ocean Club, the region's tallest building, which opened last summer; and Frank Gehry's first Latin American design, the BioMuseo, a natural history museum scheduled to open in early 2013.

The Menorca Museum, which is set in an 18th - century monastery and has displays on the island's history, is also worth a visit.

Day or Night...... large or small, from informally fun to formally festive or somewhere in between, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and Sea Center offer the perfect settings for rehearsal dinners, weddings, receptions, board meetings, corporate events, client entertainment, and social celebrations.

Set in a spectacularly restored Art Nouveau building, the Musical Instruments Museum houses more than 1,200 instruments and offers a unique opportunity to see, hear, and learn about the history and construction of musical instruments from around the world.

Located in the main square of Kota Tua (literally Old City) of Jakarta and set in a former Dutch Colonial era city hall stately building that was built in 1710, Museum Sejarah Jakarta (Jakarta History Museum) is an attraction on its own.

Set back from a tree - lined garden square in exclusive Knightsbridge, with prime shopping nearby at Harrods or along the King's Road and the Natural History Museum

The best city centre hotels in Hanoi are set within the city's commercial hub of Hoan Kiem, where you can easily visit numerous landmarks such as Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi Opera House, National Museum of Vietnamese History, and Ngoc Son Temple on foot.

In addition, an interactive museum is included, showing Kirby's history, as well as set of challenge stages to test your skill.

The Museum of Art in History in Lancaster, California (MOAH Lancaster) is set to open a special exhibition, «The Forest For the Trees,» featuring a solo exhibition by Constance Mallinson and site sp

The Museum of Art in History in Lancaster, California (MOAH Lancaster) is set to open a special exhibition, «The Forest For the Trees,» featuring a solo exhibition by Constance Mallinson and site specific installations by artists Timothy R. Smith and High & Dry, a collaboration between Osceola Refetoff and Christopher Langley.

The biennial is presenting a range of installations set in churches, office buildings, museums and cultural history sites, including cloisters and an underground stone armory chamber of a former fortress.

While Spain and St. John the Divine set aside «Time to Hope» once more, the Toledo Museum shows art history's grappling with humanity and nature in such figures as El Greco, Piero di Cosimo, and Jacopo Bassano.

From Ohio, the Toledo Museum shows art history's grappling with humanity and nature in such figures as El Greco, Piero di Cosimo, and Jacopo Bassano, while Spain and St. John the Divine set aside «Time to Hope.»

I went to several other history museums and found displays that were set up in the same way.

The graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College provides practical training and experience in a museum setting and an intensive course of study in the history of the contemporary visual arts, the institutions and practices of exhibition making, and the theory and criticism of the visual arts in the modern period.

Marc Quinn says; «My new body of work explores the notion of the fragment and set in the extraordinary surroundings of Sir John Soane's Museum, their reflecting of history will be particularly apparent.

The mission of the Center's graduate program is to provide practical training and experience in a museum setting and an intensive course of study in the history of the contemporary visual arts, the institutions and practices of exhibition making, and the theory and criticism of the visual arts.

Previously unseen textile designs and finished garments from throughout the company's 60 - year history will be displayed alongside masterpieces drawn predominantly from the MA * GA Art Museum in Gallarate, Italy, where the company was first set up.

Now on permanent exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, the work features a massive 48 - foot triangular table with 39 individual place settings, each one honoring a specific woman in Western history.

Now on view at the Museum of Modern Art, this addicting and idiosyncratic 13 minute film explores various creations myths, through a dizzying display of modern and ancient artifacts and images which open and close in windows on the screen, set against a hip hop beat and spoken word poetry on the origins of life, in some ways taking aim at the history and science of anthropological collections.

The Baltimore Museum of Art announced Monday a set of initiatives to increase awareness of works by African - American artists, in honor of Black History Month.

And Susan Hiller's «From the Freud Museum» preserves valueless, meaningless little objects and texts, assembled into 50 separate boxes in juxtapositions that set off all sorts of bells concerning history, myth and memory.

The museum is contained within the forbidding 19th - century warehouses of the Albert Dock, which speaks more lucidly than any other British setting of the history of the slave trade, documented in detail at the International Slavery Museum nmuseum is contained within the forbidding 19th - century warehouses of the Albert Dock, which speaks more lucidly than any other British setting of the history of the slave trade, documented in detail at the International Slavery Museum nMuseum nearby.

«Ernest C Withers and Glenn Ligon: I Am A Man Teaching Galleries One and Two,» Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, MO, January 20 — March 28, 2006 «Down by Law, curated by The Wrong Gallery,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, January 21 — May 15, 2006 «Collective Histories / Collective Memories: California Modern,» Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, February 6 — September 24, 2006 «Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards,» American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, May 19 — June 12, 2006 «Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery,» New - York Historical Society, New York, NY, June 16, 2006 — January 7, 2007; catalogue «The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory,» Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, September 2, 2006 — January 15, 2007 «Group Dynamic: Portfolios, Series, and Sets,» Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, September 15 — December 29, 2006 «black alphabet: conTEXTS of contemporary african - american art,» Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, September 22 — November 19, 2006 «Interstellar Low Ways,» Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, October 15, 2006 — January 14, 2007 «Process and Collaboration: Celebrating Twelve Years at 1315 Cherry Street,» The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, December 2, 2006 — January 6, 2007 «Defamation of Character,» organized by Neville Wakefield, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, October 29, 2006 — January 8, 2007 «Voodoo Macbeth,» curated by David A Bailey, De La Warr Pavilion, East Sussex, UK, October 7, 2006 — January 22, 2007 «Yes Bruce Nauman,» Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY, July 7 — September 9, 2006 «Gifts go in one direction,» curated by Alexander Nagel, apexart, New York, NY, July 5 — August 12, 2006 «SUBJECT,» Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, May 13 — August 14, 2006 «Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,» American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, March 7 — April 9, 2006 «Dark Places,» Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA, January 21 — April 22, 2006 «Skin Is a Language,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, January 12 — May 21, 2006 «Portraits of Artists: A selection of photographic works from the collection,» Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, January 7 — February 11, 2006

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the National Museum of African American History and Culture this show presents a set of unique and highly informative posters designed to celebrate the historic opening of African American museum in Washington, D.C., and reflect its objects and prograMuseum of African American History and Culture this show presents a set of unique and highly informative posters designed to celebrate the historic opening of African American museum in Washington, D.C., and reflect its objects and programuseum in Washington, D.C., and reflect its objects and programming.

Including: «A Pictorial Encyclopedia of The Oriental Arts» 2 vols in slipcase, edited by Shoten, publ by Crown; «Oriental Cloisonne and Other Enamels» by Chu; «Japanese and Oriental Ceramics» by Gorham; «Half the World», edited by Toynbee; «Chinese Jade of Five Centuries» by Hartman; «Chinese Export Porcelain» by Lunsingh - Scheurler; «Treasures of Chinese Glass Work Shops» by Asiantiques; «A History of Far Eastern Art» by Lee; «The Art of Japan» by Kidder; «Japan: A History in Art» by Smith; «China: A History in Art» by Smith & Weng; «Jade of the East» by Wills; «Wolf Kahn, Paintings & Pastels», 2 vols in slipcase, Ameringer - Yohe Fine Art; «Near Eastern Mythology» by Hamlyn; «Vasarely» by Diehl; «The Drawings of Milton Avery» by Taplinger; «Milton Avery» by Haskell; «Wolf Kahn, Landscape Painter» by Sawin; «Wolf Kahn, The City as Landscape» by Ameringer / McEnery / Yohe; «Hans Hofmann», ibid; «Picasso at Work at Home» by Schiff; «Wondrous Strange, The Wyeth Tradition»; «Fletcher Martin» by Cooke; PLUS (14 vols set) Cooper - Hewitt Museum Art & Antique Guidebooks; PLUS several gallery exhibition catalogs.Read more

«Roots of The Dinner Party: History in the Making» Through 3/4 at the Brooklyn Museum A deep dive into the research and fabrication that went into Judy Chicago's foundational 1979 work, which presents the highlights of Western women's history through elaborate table settings, including the vaginal dinner plates she's famoHistory in the Making» Through 3/4 at the Brooklyn Museum A deep dive into the research and fabrication that went into Judy Chicago's foundational 1979 work, which presents the highlights of Western women's history through elaborate table settings, including the vaginal dinner plates she's famohistory through elaborate table settings, including the vaginal dinner plates she's famous for.

Outside the EPA building on Constitution Avenue across the street from the Smithsonian American History Museum, the crowd gathered, listened to a few speakers using bullhorns, then set up a loud chant, «EPA, do your job... EPA, do your job...» The chant went on for a long time as we continued down Constitution toward 15th Street, in the direction of PNC Bank and the White House.