Introduction to Museum Studies, A403/A503
Larry Zimmerman & Elizabeth Kryder-Reid
IUPUI
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Posted on August 17, 2009 Welcome to the class! Do check out the OnCourse site for you class and also look through this web site.
Excellent exhibitions now or soon to be in Indianapolis:
The King Tut Exhibition is at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis until
October 25th. This may be the last time that the Kind Tut materials travel in
the United States. The exhibit has excellent academic content on Tut, but also
some interesting approaches to exhibition. Don't miss it!
Sacred
Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World
at the
Indianapolis Museum of Art, October 11, 2009–January 3, 2010, Clowes Gallery
in the Wood Pavilion
The first exhibition to examine the religious visual culture of 17th-century
Spain and Latin America will premiere at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in
October 2009. Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World brings to life
the challenges faced by visual artists such as El Greco, Francisco Zurbarán,
Alonso Cano, Franciso Ribalta, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Juan de Valdes Leal,
Juan Correa, Cristobal Villalpando and others, who were charged with the
creative task of making religious images that were useful, truthful and moving.
The exhibition will feature 70 works of art, including paintings, polychrome
sculpture, metalwork and books, many of which have never before been seen in the
United States.
Quest
for the West Art Show and Sale,
Eiteljorg Museum or American
Indians and Western Art, September 11, 2009
- October 11, 2009.
This popular invitation exhibition features 50 of the country’s outstanding
artists noted for landscapes, wildlife, historical narratives, portraits and
still life compositions celebrating the history and culture of the American
West.
Background Image: Garden at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Take at look at several exhibitions.
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