Midwestern: Contemporary Art Case Study Negotiations March 20‚ 2012 Abstract Background The present paper reviews a case study as written by Lewicky‚ Saunders and Barry in the text Negotiations titled Midwestern::Contemporary Art‚ case number 6. Its focus is on a financial crisis that the museum is facing due to a donors failure to pay a five million dollar pledge. The donor was the museums previous president of the board of directors who had a falling out with the museum director over financial
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COLEMAN ART MUSEUM Kristine Massey Joy Dukes Calvin Smith Objectives 1. Company History 2. Problem Statement 3. The Organizational Structure 4. Proposal Considerations 5. Pro-forma Income Statement 6. Plan of Action Company History ◦ Not-for-profit corporation located in Universal City (Western US) ◦ Founded in 1925 as Fannel County Museum of Fine Arts ◦ 1997 company benefited from the $28 million county bond election and relocated ◦ $25 million endowment was provided to the museum ◦ In
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Joslyn Art Museum I recently took a trip to the Joslyn Art Museum and was very impressed with the art‚ mainly the paintings. I had never really been to an art museum just to look around but I found that a lot of the paintings used the techniques that we discussed in class. I will be analyzing three paintings Fallen Angels by Francois Cibot‚ Saint Francis in Prayer by El Greco and Sacred Conversation- Madonna‚ Child‚ Saints and Donor by Giovani di Niccolo Mansueti. One of the most interesting
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University Art Museum: Case study: The problem with this organization is quite simply that the campus does not know what thegoals of the museum and its associated faculty are or should be. This is a fundamental flaw in therunning of any organization‚ be it bureaucratic of collectivist. The museums goals had rested with thecurator‚ Miss Kirkhoff‚ who has been the most influential individual in the museums history. Now thatshe has retired‚ and her successor was found to have very different goals
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VA Art Museums Painting: Jimmie O’ Donnell Artist: Robert Henri Museum: Tuabman Date: 1924 Medium: Oil on canvas In this painting‚ I can clearly see a little boy sitting down. The boy is staring right at the painter‚ Robert Henri. The boy has a brown hat on‚ and a suit like appearance with a blazer‚ and a nice dress shirt. The boy seems to be worried at something. The background is a dark blue‚ indicating to me‚ something scary‚ and there are no forms of light. The art element that is the
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Q. Study one louis kahn building and express is principles Kimbell Art Museum Kimbell art museum at fort worth‚ texas‚ is considered the crown jewel of Louis Kahn. The brief demanded for a modern building where natural light should play a vital role and the form to be a work of art of modest scale – not overwhelming the viewer and the artwork. The museum is composed of 16 parallel vaults that are each 100 feet (30.5 m) long‚ 20 feet (6 m) high and 23 feet (7 m) wide (internal measurements)
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Derain’s Turning Road and Benton’s Haystack After visiting the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston for the first time‚ I observed many interesting works of art representing various time periods. Of all the paintings that I saw last week‚ two landscaped pieces seemed to stick out in my mind; Andre Derain’s The Turning Road and Thomas Hart Benton’s Haystack. Though these two art works are similar in subject matter‚ they clearly reflect the different styles and time periods of their artists; the abstract
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the finest Asian art collections that has enlightened and strengthened my understanding in my personal art experience. The Museum itself is an artistic architectural structure that graces the entire block on 82nd Street in Manhattan. Entering inside‚ I sensed myself going back into an era‚ into a past where people traded ideas and learned from each other. It is a past‚ where I still find their works of yesteryears vividly within my grasp‚ to be remembered
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institution‚ the Dallas Museum of Art significantly improved its standing within the art world when it received the undeniably world-class modern and contemporary art collections of three prominent local collectors (the Hoffmans‚ the Rachofskys‚ and the Roses); the collections‚ gifted together in an unprecedented deal‚ totaled more than 900 works and with subsequent acquisitions has grown since the announcement to more than 1‚200. The Edward Larrabee Barnes-designed museum also contains impressive
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The exhibit that I viewed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was one about European Art between the years 1100-1500. This was a series of paintings‚ sculptures‚ architecture‚ and tapestry of the Medieval and Early Renaissance as well as objects from the Middle East. This exhibit was an important part of the history of the Philadelphia Museum of Art because for the first time‚ Italian‚ Spanish‚ and Northern European paintings from the John G. Johnson collection were shown. It gave me a good idea
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