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Up one levelAmerican Folk Art Museum
One of the leading institutions dedicated to the exhibition and preservation of folk art with 4,000 artworks from three centuries of American folk artists. In New York City.
American Visionary Art Museum
"Visionary art as defined for the purposes of the American Visionary Art Museum refers to art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself." In short, visionary art begins by listening to the inner voices of the soul, and often may not even be thought of as 'art' by its creator. In Baltimore, MD.
Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum of Art is the second largest art museum in New York City and one of the largest in the United States. One of the premier art institutions in the world, its permanent collection includes more than one and a half million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represents almost every culture. It is housed in a 560,000 square foot, Beaux-Arts building that welcomes approximately half a million visitors each year. Located in Central Brooklyn, a half-hour from midtown Manhattan with its own subway stop, the Museum is set on Eastern Parkway and one block from Grand Army Plaza in a complex of 19th-century parks and gardens that also contains Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Wildlife Center.
Das MoMA in Berlin
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), and the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, are delighted to be able to present at the Neue Nationalgalerie some 200 artworks from the MoMA collection, which together offer a superb overview of modern art from 1880 to the present. As one of the most significant buildings of the twentieth century, the Neue Nationalgalerie provides the perfect venue for MoMA's illustrious collection of modern and contemporary art. The extensive renovation and expansion of the museum in New York have endowed us with the unique opportunity of showing a series of works which seldom travel abroad, and enjoy accordingly less international renown than they might otherwise, in an exhibition entitled „Das MoMA in Berlin“ (MoMA in Berlin).
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Comprised of the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, we are the largest public arts institution in the City of San Francisco and one of the largest art museums in the United States.
Frye Art Museum
Located in Seattle, WA, The Frye Art Museum acquires, preserves, exhibits, and interprets visual art of the highest quality, celebrating the grand tradition and contemporary practice of representational art, with an emphasis on painting and sculpture from the nineteenth century to the present. Recognizing that art is not limited by geographical boundaries, the museum will include works by regional, national , and international artists in its collections and present them in exhibitions. As a visual arts institution, the museum is committed to stimulate, challenge, and educate the community in all that it does. In the belief that art should be accessible to all who wish to enjoy it, admission to the museum shall be free to the public at all times.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the Smithsonian's museum of international modern and contemporary art. Located in Washington, DC.
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Ireland's leading institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art.
J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum is an operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust. The Museum's goal is to make the collection meaningful and attractive to a broad audience by presenting and interpreting the collection through educational programs, special exhibitions, publications, conservation, and research. The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs. The Getty Villa When the Getty Villa reopens to the public, it will occupy a unique place among American cultural institutions as the only one dedicated solely to the exhibition and study of Greek and Roman art.
Japanese National Museum of Modern Art
The Museum is a nationa1 institution devoted to the collection and preservation of art works and related reference materials of the 20th century in Japan and other parts of the world. In particular, emphasis is put on the artists or artistic movements in Kyoto and the Kansai(the western districts of Japan),for instance Japanese-style paintings of the Kyoto School, as well as overviewing the mainstreams of Japanese modern art and craft movements and works in the world covering every genre of the crafts. The Museum also regularly holds, in parallel, both permanent exhibits to display works mainly from the Museum's collection and special exhibitions of the art and the crafts of Japan and other parts of the world, basing each on a theme.
Kunstmuseum Basel
The Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel (Basel public art collection) consists of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Basel art museum), the Kupferstichkabinett (copper etchings gallery) and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst (museum of contemporary art).
LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Established as an independent institution in 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has assembled a permanent collection that includes approximately 100,000 works of art spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present, making it the premier encyclopedic visual arts museum in the western United States. Located in the heart of one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world, the museum uses its collection and resources to provide a variety of educational, aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural experiences for the people who live in, work in, and visit Los Angeles. LACMA offers an outstanding schedule of special exhibitions, as well as lectures, classes, family activities, film programs, and world-class musical events.
MASS MoCA
If conventional museums are boxes, MASS MoCA is an open platform – a welcoming place that encourages dynamic interchange between making and presenting art, between the visual and performing arts, and between our extraordinary historic factory campus and the patrons, workers and tenants who again inhabit it. We at MASS MoCA work hard to make the whole cloth of art-making, presentation and participation a seamless continuum. Performing arts residencies offer well-equipped and professionally staffed technical facilities and stages, and a sophisticated, diverse and sympathetic audience for new work – especially technically complex work that requires generous allocations of time and space impossible in conventional theatrical settings. Likewise, MASS MoCA's vast galleries and expert fabrication staff give visual artists the tools and time to create works of scale and duration impossible to realize in the time and space-cramped conditions of most museums. We endeavor to expose our audiences to all stages of art production; rehearsals, sculptural fabrication, and developmental workshops are frequently on view to the public, as are finished works of art. If MASS MoCA's mission is to foster and present exciting new work of the highest quality in all media – and in all phases of its production – we also work hard to position the arts as a vibrant catalyst for community revitalization: indeed, the creation of new markets, good jobs and the long-term enrichment of a region in economic need is one of MASS MoCA’s driving purposes. We at MASS MoCA are convinced that advancement of the arts, increased tourism and community participation, and regional economic redevelopment are mutually reinforcing and inextricably linked, and we act forcefully on that belief. The arts create and bestow community identity. Identity rallies hope, productivity, pride and economic vibrancy. These are the base conditions for a healthy community; they cannot be created, however, without risk, creativity, adventure, and the willingness to embrace the new. This is the heart and soul of MASS MoCA's mission.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
In formation since 1870, the Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. About 6,500 objects—fifty highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as the entire Department of European Paintings and the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture—can be searched by artist, period, style, or keyword in an online gallery.
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art seeks to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary art, while being accessible to a public that ranges from scholars to young children. The ultimate purpose of the Museum declared at its founding was to acquire the best modern works of art. While quality remains the primary criterion, the Museum acknowledges and pursues a broader educational purpose: to build a collection which is more than an assemblage of masterworks, which provides a uniquely comprehensive survey of the unfolding modern movement in all visual media. Located in NYC.
Musee dOrsay
Collection of French painting, drawing, sculpture and more. Heavy on Impressionism. The Musee d'Orsay is located in Paris.
The MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art
The MCA is a distinctive and vibrant centre for the promotion of contemporary art and visual culture. It seeks to engage audiences with recent ideas in art through imaginative programs of exhibitions, screenings, public forums, debates, education projects, events and the inventive use of new media technology.
Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago
One of the nation's largest facilities devoted to the art of our time, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) offers exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art created since 1945. The MCA documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance. Located in a new building near the historic Water Tower in the heart of downtown Chicago, the MCA boasts a gift store, bookstore, restaurant, 300-seat theater, and a terraced sculpture garden with a great view of Lake Michigan.
National Gallery of Canada
Featuring Contemporary, Modern, Canadian and Aboriginal, and Inuit Art, Photographs, Prints, and European Prints and Drawings. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada .
Neue Nationalgalerie - Berlin
The Neue Nationalgalerie, constructed according to plans designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was the first museum to be opened at the Kulturforum in 1968. It united the remaining holdings of the Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery) collection held in the West with the collection of the Gallery of the Twentieth Century. Upon the reunification of Germany in 1989, the reunited collection of the Nationalgalerie once again necessitated an overall reorganization. Nineteenth-century art, including a series of Impressionist works, was moved to the Alte Nationalgalerie on the Museum Island and to the Galerie der Romantik. Nineteenth-century sculpture was transferred in part to the Friedrichwerdersche Church in Berlin-Mitte. And in 1996, art dating from the 1960s through to the present day found its new domicile at the recently opened Hamburger Bahnhof. The Neue Nationalgalerie - the „light temple of glass“ - houses European painting and sculpture from classical Modernism to the 1960s, including works by artists such as Picasso, Munch, Feininger, Dix and Kokoschka. The collection of German Expressionists, comprising works by Kirchner, Heckel, and Nolde among others, is regarded as one of the most significant of its kind in Germany. Another central piece of the collection is a group of eleven paintings by Max Beckmann, produced between 1906 and 1942, which present an overview of his artistic trajectory. Surrealist painting is represented by artists such as Ernst, Dalí and Miró. Otto Dix and George Grosz document the Verism and New Objectivity movements with their paintings. The collection culminates with American painting of the sixties and seventies, with the abstract color field painting of Barnett Newman, Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly.
Oakland Museum of California
The Oakland Museum of California provides unique collections, exhibitions and educational opportunities designed to generate a broader and deeper understanding of and interest in California's environment, history, art and people. Museum programs are responsive, accessible and meaningful to the public, including school children, teachers, scholars, the immediate Oakland community, and an increasingly diverse California population.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. The collection of Asian art, with objects dating from the third millenium B.C. to the present, includes ceramics, sculpture, paintings, and decorative objects as well as a Japanese ceremonial teahouse, a Chinese palace hall, and a celebrated collection of Oriental carpets. The European collections include medieval sculpture, stained glass, and a 13th-century French cloister; masterpieces of Renaissance painting; a suite of 18th-century French interiors; and superb Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. The American collections include extensive holdings of Pennsylvania German art; refined furniture and silver by early Philadelphia craftsmen; and the most important collection in the world of works by Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins. The art of the 20th century can be traced from the early innovations of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, and Duchamp to great works of abstract expressionism, pop art, color field painting, and contemporary work in many media.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard Streets. San Francisco.
Seattle Art Museum
The collections of the Seattle Art Museum number approximately 23,000 objects, representing a wide range of art from ancient Egyptian reliefs to contemporary American installations using photography and video. The collections are particularly strong in five areas: Asian, African, Northwest Coast Native American, modern art, and European painting and decorative arts. Their range and depth are unmatched in the region.
SF Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard Streets, San Francisco, CA 94103-3159.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The metamorphosis from private collection to public museum is an extraordinary transition. For the Guggenheim, this occurred in 1937, when Solomon R. Guggenheim established a foundation empowered to operate a museum that would publicly exhibit and preserve his holdings of non-objective art. Today, the Guggenheim is a museum in multiple locations with access to shared collections, common constituencies, and joint programming. Nevertheless, it is the permanent collection that constitutes the very core of the institution, no matter how far-reaching its activities may be. The story of the Guggenheim Museum is essentially the story of six very different private collections—Solomon R. Guggenheim's collection of non-objective painting premised on a belief in the spiritual dimensions of pure abstraction; his niece Peggy Guggenheim's collection of Surrealist and abstract painting and sculpture; Justin K. Thannhauser's array of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early Modern masterpieces; Karl Nierendorf's holdings in German Expressionism; Katherine S. Dreier's paintings and sculptures of the historic avant-garde; and Dr. Giuseppe Panza di Biumo's vast holdings of European and American Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, Environmental, and Conceptual art—that have been augmented through the years by the museum's directors and curators to form one richly layered collection dating from the late 19th-century to the present. Unlike most institutions dedicated to the visual arts, the Guggenheim does not divide itself into departments devoted to specific mediums or eras. Rather, the collection is conceived as an integrated whole that may be continuously enhanced in response to emerging talent as well as a mandate to fill in critical historical gaps.
Tacoma Art Museum
Tacoma Art Museum serves the diverse communities of the Northwest through its collection, exhibitions and learning programs, emphasizing art and artists from the Northwest.
The Andy Warhol Museum
The Andy Warhol Museum is a vital forum in which diverse audiences of artists, scholars and the general public are galvanized through creative interaction with the art and life of Andy Warhol. The Warhol is ever-changing and constantly re-defining itself in relation to contemporary life, using its unique collections and dynamic, interactive programming as tools. Located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, The Warhol is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and is a collaborative project of the Carnegie Institute, Dia Center for the Arts, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Opened in 1994, the Museum features extensive permanent collections of art and archives on one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century. It is also a primary resource for anyone seeking insights into contemporary art and popular culture.
The Art Institute of Chicago
Home of the collection of Mary Reynolds, patron of Duchamp and the Surrealists. Plus Modern, Contemporary, Asian, Photography, Textiles, and Prints.
The Austin Museum of Art
Located in Austin, Texas, The Austin Museum of Art currently has a small collection of twentieth century paintings, sculpture, photographs, prints, and drawings. A number of monumental sculptures grace the grounds of the Austin Museum of Art-Laguna Gloria. In anticipation of the spacious Permanent Collection galleries in the new facility, the Museum is planning an expanded permanent collection in the next few years focusing on post-war art of the Americas, including Mexico and the Caribbean.
The Crocker Art Museum
As the leading arts institution in the Sacramento Valley, the Crocker serves as the primary regional resource for the study and appreciation of fine art, with an emphasis on the original Crocker family donation of California art and European drawings, contemporary northern California art and, more recently, of East Asian painting and international ceramics. Located in Sacramento, CA.
The Louvre
Divided into 7 departments, the Louvre collections incorporate works dating from the birth of the great antique civilisations right up to the first half of the XIXth century, thereby confirming its encyclopedic vocation.
The Museum of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles
Founded in 1979, MOCA is the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary art. It is committed to the collection, presentation, and interpretation of work produced since 1940 in all media, and to preserving that work for future generations. In a remarkably short time, MOCA has developed one of the nation's most renowned permanent collections. Now numbering over 5,000 works and steadily growing, this invaluable cultural resource provides extensive opportunities for education and enjoyment to thousands of national and international visitors. Today the museum is housed in three unique facilities: MOCA at California Plaza, at The Geffen Contemporary, and at the Pacific Design Center. Mission: MOCA's mission is to be the defining museum of contemporary art. MOCA engages artists and audiences through an ambitious program of exhibitions, collection, education, and publication. MOCA identifies and supports the most significant and challenging art of its time, places it in historical context, and links the range of the visual arts to contemporary culture. MOCA provides leadership by actively fostering and presenting new work, emerging media, and original scholarship.
The National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present.
The Neuberger Museum of Art
The Neuberger Museum of Art engages and inspires diverse audiences by actively fostering the study, appreciation, understanding and enjoyment of modern art, African art, and the art of our time. In Purchase, NY.
The Saint Louis Art Museum
The Saint Louis Art Museum features special exhibitions organized by SLAM and other institutions. The Museum also presents many one-gallery shows in special locations throughout the building.
The State Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage occupies six magnificent buildings situated along the embankment of the River Neva, right in the heart of St Petersburg. The leading role in this unique architectural ensemble is played by the Winter Palace, the residence of the Russian tsars that was built to the design of Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli in 1754-62. This ensemble, formed in the 18th and 19th centuries, is extended by the eastern wing of the General Staff building, the Menshikov Palace and the recently constructed Repository. Put together throughout two centuries and a half, the Hermitage collections of works of art (over 3,000,000 items) present the development of the world culture and art from the Stone Age to the 20th century. Today the Museum is creating its digital self-portrait to be displayed around the world. Computer technologies enable the State Hermitage Museum to provide people from all over the world with wider access to information about the Museum and its treasures.
The Tate
Tate holds the national collections of British Art and of international modern art. In London, UK.
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City is one of the leading arts institutions in the country focusing on twentieth- and twenty-first century American art.
