Visual arts Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/visual-arts Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:16:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden – Smithsonian Institution http://toursmaps.com/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-garden-smithsonian-institution.html http://toursmaps.com/hirshhorn-museum-and-sculpture-garden-smithsonian-institution.html#respond Sun, 18 Nov 2018 02:42:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=263486 Independence Ave. at 7th St, S.W. Washington, DC 20560 Tel: (202) 357-2700 Fax: (202) 786-2682 TDDY: (202) 633-8043 Internet Address: http;//www.si.edu/hirshhorn Director: Mr. James T. Demetrion Admission: free. Attendance: 784,221 Established: 1966 Membership: N ADA Compliant: Y Parking: limited free parking on mall and nearby commercial lots. Activities: Concerts; Education Programs (adults, graduate/undergraduate students and children); Films; Gallery Talks; Guided Tours (Mon-Fri,10:30am and noon; Sat-Sun, noon and 2pm; seasonal sculpture garden tours); Lectures; Permanent Exhibits; Temporary/Traveling Exhibitions (3 major and 6 smaller/year); Workshops (“Young at Art”, “Improv Art”, “Art Explores”’). Publications: calendar (seasonal); collection catalogue, “A Garden for Art”; collection

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/museums-and-cultural-centers-usa.html/feed 0 Santa Rosa Junior College – Jesse Peter Native American Art Museum http://toursmaps.com/santa-rosa-junior-college-jesse-peter-native-american-art-museum.html http://toursmaps.com/santa-rosa-junior-college-jesse-peter-native-american-art-museum.html#respond Fri, 16 Nov 2018 06:36:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=263229 Facilities: Exhibition Area. Activities: Guided Tours Lectures. The Museum presents exhibitions of traditional and contemporary Native American art and artifacts. Also of possible interest, the Art Gallery presents a schedule of exhibitions of work in diverse media with an emphasis on artists not generally exhibited locally. Located in the former museum building near the center of the campus, the Gallery is open Sunday and Tuesday through Friday, noon to 1pm. Stanford University – Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University Facilities: Auditorium: Food Services Cafe ( 725-4758); Library: Shop Activities: Concerts: Gallery Talks: Guided Tours

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/santa-rosa-junior-college-jesse-peter-native-american-art-museum.html/feed 0 University of Notre Dame – The Snite Museum of Art http://toursmaps.com/university-of-notre-dame-the-snite-museum-of-art.html http://toursmaps.com/university-of-notre-dame-the-snite-museum-of-art.html#respond Fri, 16 Nov 2018 04:30:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=264212 University of Notre Dame – The Snite Museum of Art, cont. temporary exhibitions on loan from other institutions and private collectors. The Museum schedules a dozen < viibitions annually on subjects as diverse as Old Master drawings, contemporary prints, and pre-Columbian sculptures, lhe OShaugljinessy Galleries host the annual student show and a biennial faculty show. On the lower level are the Museums ethnographic collections, the John T. Higgins Gallery of American Art, and the museum reference library. Entrance to the Courtyard is at the north end ot the atrium and leads to the outdoor sculpture display in the garden. Featured

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/university-of-notre-dame-the-snite-museum-of-art.html/feed 0 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://toursmaps.com/san-francisco-museum-of-modern-art.html http://toursmaps.com/san-francisco-museum-of-modern-art.html#respond Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:09:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=263128 Traveling Exhibitions. Publications: annual report: calendar (bi-monthly): exhibition catalogues. Located in the heart of the downtown South-of-Market district, SFMOMA presents modern and contemporary painting and sculpture, photography, architecture and design, and media arts in four floors of galleries. A large gallery on the third floor of the Museum is devoted to “Picturing Modernity: Photographs from the Permanent Collection”, a permanent exhibition that offers a synoptic history of the medium. Two thousand square feet of specially-designed gallery space Kxterior view of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Richard Barnes. Still Rooms & Excavation, 1997. SF Camerawork. Photograph courtesy of SF Camerawork,

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/illinois-the-art-institute-of-chicago.html/feed 0 The Appleton Museum of Art http://toursmaps.com/the-appleton-museum-of-art.html http://toursmaps.com/the-appleton-museum-of-art.html#respond Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:16:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=263619 Publications: calendar; collection catalogue, “The Appleton Collection”; newsletter, “Artifacts” (quarterly). Jointly owned by the Florida State University Foundation and the Central Florida Community College Foundation. The Appleton Museum is a fine arts museum housing permanent collections of European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; pre-Columbian, African, and Asian art; Islamic ceramics; and Antiquities. Beginning with classical antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome and Persia, the permanent collections lead the viewer on an historical and geographic survey of art history. The Asian galleries display objects from China, India, Japan, and Tibet. The pre-Columbian galleries show an extensive collection of South and Meso-American grave

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/the-appleton-museum-of-art.html/feed 0 The Museo Italo Americano http://toursmaps.com/the-museo-italo-americano.html http://toursmaps.com/the-museo-italo-americano.html#respond Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:08:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=263111 Activities: Concerts: Education Programs; ItaloAmericano. San Francisco, California. Films: Lectures. Publications: brochures; exhibition catalogues: newsletter (bi monthly). The Museo ItaloAmericano is dedicated to the exhibition of works by Italian and Italian-American artists and to the documentation of the Italian experience in this country through objects and photographs. It presents both thematic and solo temporary exhibitions. It also sponsors an annual “Mostra” competition, a group show demonstrating the talents of both local and national Italian-American artists. The Museo maintains a small permanent collection of paintings, sculptures, photographs. and works on paper by prominent Italian and Italian-American artists. Included are works by

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