The role of the museum in contemporary society is often difficult to explain. While some argue that museum serves an obvious educative function and that thinking regarding their role does not need to stretch past this, others argue that the museum should also be seen to represent dominant ideologies and...

For this cultural activity, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is located in New York City, New York. The date on which I visited the museum was June 4, 2018. I visited the museum alone, but the museum is open to the public, so there were other attendees,...

1. The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (1610) It is believed to be one of the last works by Caravaggio. The Italian artist made it for Marcantonio Doria from Genoa. He was an art collector, and besides Caravaggio’s works, he owned pieces by prominent Renaissance artists like Raphael and Leonardo. Caravaggio...

The permanent and traveling exhibits of Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) provide a thorough introduction to the history and tragedy of the Holocaust, thereby meeting the mission of the museum in a painstaking and meticulous manner. The mission statement itself is clear as well as succinct. It does not give any...

One cannot but encounter the fact that a variety of art directions comes to directly allude to all the complexity of human beings and that each art work emerges to be far from being uniform in terms of visual elements and the context itself. Contemplating upon the tendencies in art,...