Such displays are more likely to encourage
museumgoers with set belief systems to linger long enough to learn something new, she said.
Not exact matches
His bold spirit is captured in the exhibit's unusual displays:
Museumgoers can browse through cases filled
with Darwin's microscopes and handwritten letters as well as view live Galápagos tortoises, an iguana, and a clutch of ornate horned frogs — a sampling of the animals that the young naturalist sent back to England during his 1830s voyage on the Beagle.
The new building, designed by Adjaye Associates,
with Cooper Robertson as executive architects and program planning consultants, will enable the Studio Museum to better serve its growing and diverse audiences, provide additional educational opportunities to
museumgoers from toddlers to seniors, expand its world - renowned exhibitions of art by artists of African descent and influenced and inspired by black culture, and effectively display its singular collection of artwork from the nineteenth century to the present day.
As
museumgoers made their way through the exhibit, I couldn't help but think of it as a kind of improvisatory dance
with nature, especially
with you there.
The show runs concurrently
with «Andrew Wyeth: Looking Beyond,» giving
museumgoers a chance to compare Wyeth's work
with Welling's interpretation of it.
Take «This Is New,» in which an attendant quotes a
museumgoer a headline from that day's papers: only the visitor's response can trigger an interaction that concludes
with the work's title being spoken.
Mr. Ofili's first one - man show in New York may surprise
museumgoers who have not seen his work since 1999, when a painting of a black Madonna
with a clump of elephant dung on one breast caused an uproar.
Coetzee explained that his decision was influenced by two key factors: the fetish value of «selfies and the photographic image» among millennials, and the still - pressing need, in postapartheid South Africa, to offer black
museumgoers work that they might identify
with.
An exhibition of 30 of his 50 extant paintings, along
with 10 sculptures, introduces this self - taught Jamaican artist, born in 1891, to American
museumgoers.