Exhibition

“If Andy Warhol had Instagram, it would boom” says Karol Carstensen, TIFF exhibition expert. Much like our social media crazed generation today, Warhol was obsessed with the idea of 24/7 recording. “I think he really anticipated our surveillance society with its reality TV and social media culture,” says Jon Davies, curator of TIFF’s flagship exhibition Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen. Different than Andy Warhol Revisited’s exhibit of his well-known pop art collection, Stars of the Silver Screen invites exhibition goers to walk through the muses and memorabilia that fuelled Warhol’s fascination with celebrities. Like flipping through the endless pages of a scrapbook, watching home videos on repeat, taking photos of everything in sight,…

stars of the museum. From a humongous blue topaz that weighs more than 2,000 carats to a cluster of crystallized gold that is one of the most sought after in the kingdom of minerals, the amazing specimen displayed at the museum are truly masterpieces. Find more than 450 exotic minerals in the exhibit. The exhibit includes a few of the most rare and astonishing examples in the world in the exhibit. Look at the exquisite minerals up-close from every angle with walk-around cases that are…

notice the great deal of history behind every piece of architecture that lies in New York, as well as the reason for its placement and standing. Including known buildings such as the infamous Trump Tower, each edifice obtains a purpose and has somehow effected many people, that being in either positive or negative aspects. As one enters into museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, thousands of people on a daily get the chance to witness thousands of pieces of artworks which not only are…

From education to exhibitions the study and care of works ensure further scholarship of a culture or time period. At the Cleveland Museum of Art, the conservation department works in a recently opened 18,000-square-foot suite of state-of-the-art laboratories, and is described as one of the finest spaces in the country for analysis, study, and conservation of museum collections . The department is actively working on eight works. In 2012 an endowment was given to the conservation department to…

The Royal Exhibition Building, located at 9 Nicholson Street, Melbourne, was initially built to hold a 19th-century international exhibition in 1880 and then witnessed several other landmark events in Melbourne, such as the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition in 1888 and Opening of Federal Parliament on 1 May 1901. It continues to be used as a general exhibition hall today as well as an exam hall for several high schools and universities. This essay will explore the spectacular exhibition…

The AGO exhibition for the Super Real: Pop Art from the AGO collection presented a variety of artwork from large silkscreen image to a cardboard burger sculpture sitting in the middle of the space. The exhibition has a small collection but has iconic pieces that are central to the story of the pop art movement of the 1960s. The works that stood out the most is the Andy Warhol’s 1963 Elvis I and II silkscreen painting. It showed 2 Elvis’ on one side with colour, then another 2 Elvis’ on one side…

When I entered high school and educated of Exhibition prerequisite, I about blacked out on the spot. As I said before, oral presentations and I were never good with one another. I had nightmares for a long time about showing my project to teachers and grown-ups. Be that as it may, I must say, the Exhibition procedure was the best learning knowledge of my school career and I take the most pride in its fulfillment. On the whole, my Exhibition project is a showcase, in itself of a wide range of…

The Centennial Exhibition was an exhibition in Philadelphia of many inventions, including revolutionary ones like the telephone, the typewriter, the Corliss steam engine, the mechanical calculator, Popcorn, a piece of the statue of liberty, and the banana was brought to America. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 was created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the United States of America. “The International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine, more simply…

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Both exhibitions we were encouraged to see, the “1966” exhibit and the 9/11 gallery, were striking. Each exhibit offered a variety of historical artifacts, documents and viewpoints. However, the most important and notable difference was contrast between events that occurred 15 and 50 years ago. It is interesting to note how each exhibition is staged based on the perceived temporal difference we have with these two distinct events. I felt as though the “Civil Rights at 50” exhibition was…