Introduction
The career I chose is an art curator. I chose to do an art curator because I’ve always loved museums. Some of my favorite places are aquariums, zoos, and art museums. I also have always had an appreciation for art, and I recently decided to pursue a career in art. However I have never been good at fine arts, like drawing, painting, and sculpting. I have always had an appreciation for the arts, so I decided to study art history in college because I am interested in what makes art so appealing. It makes sense that I would work in an art museum, to combine my interest in art history and my love for museums. One day I hope to work in a museum and curate a gallery of my own for other people to see and get inspired.
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If a piece is damaged or cannot be brought into the museum, it can be digitally replicated or a copy of the piece can be made to help museums convey the message it is trying to get across. For example, the Getty Museum had an exhibit called "Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China's Silk Road”, which featured exact replicas of Buddhist murals in a cave. Since the murals could not be transported, they were painted with every exact and precise detail they were painted with over a thousand years ago.
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If a museum does not know how to approach the public judgement of using art containing sensitive subjects, the National Coalition Against Censorship released a guide titled “Museum Best Practices for Managing Controversy”, detailing the steps and repercussions of releasing a controversial exhibit. The purpose of the article is “to transform controversy into a learning moment about the nature of diverse opinions and an institution’s ability to address them”. The guide recommends to provide many educational resources on the artist or the backstory of the piece, to make guests of the museum and others who may observe the art understand the true meaning of the art or how the artist
The Museum Effect turns things of lesser value or artistic appeal to the source culture than was originally intended and gives them a perhaps inflated level of importance as art in our estimation. It is described in the article as a way of seeing, or lens through which something is viewed (ex: art historically, culturally, socially, etc.). Alpers describes TME as such because nearly all items in museums were meant to be seen or used in some other manner and thus much of the original context has been removed and cannot be recreated. The inflation of importance of objects derived from the lack of contextual information and the museum’s tendency to present all things aesthetically are the driving forces causing TME. Alpers suggests that by acknowledging that TME exists, the museum community and visitors can help negate its harmful
“Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship.” in Exhibiting Cultures. Eds. Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. Print.
One of the most recognizable sources of the fueling of a homogenous subjective thought is the media. Academic institutions are often overlooked as there is the assumption that they plant only righteous thoughts and pure information; however, with the growing privatization of museums society should grow wary of lower censors...
What made the final decision for the career you chose for yourself? Is it something you are passionate about doing? Was it the money? Well what if you could take an assessment test of your skills and see what career would be best for you? You don’t want to be stuck doing a job that you do not enjoy because you thought it paid well. After exploring two very different careers, it was interesting to see what I found. A Business Executive and an art therapist have very little in common.
It is challenging to decide which is of greater importance when finding art pieces or artifacts for a museum: the historical import or the profit margin. For some, cost-effectiveness or revenue produced in future by marketing replicas will be a priority, but for others historical importance and representativeness of the real historical article will be more important. The discernment between buying the work of a young artist with great promise at the expense of a classic art piece being put away or sold, in reference to which decision would be more worthwhile for future generations, is extremely difficult. There are many different priorities, but they should be historical significance, historical representativeness, common sense and, finally, the marketability of the product.
Many of my friends pick their careers based on money and trade skills that they have. I am proficient in art and design, but didn’t feel like that was what I wanted to do for my career. Your career shapes a huge portion of your life. It is what you do every day, for a large portion of your life. It is what I have prepared for the past 12 or so years of my life. It is way more than just money or a skill. I wanted to do something unique, something interesting, something that would inspire me to be a better human, something that would make me feel, something that is challenging, something that helped others, and above all, something that was rewarding and made me feel fulfilled.
There are museum professionals who believe that “restitution of iconic objects may impact a museum’s core collection, undermining its educational mission, and may potentially damage relations with supporters who assisted key acquisitions. Another argument is that repatriated objects may be put at risk or become inaccessible for research purposes.” Museum’s public reputation is important, but museums can repatriate objects and keep their community standing by being creative and making compromises. Green also believed
I feel like the job position of a museum curator is the right one for me because it’s focused overall proficient organization skills and a strong sense of responsibility. I have the ability to be persuasive and willing to compromise. I like the idea of having this job because it’s exciting and provides new challenges everyday. When working as a curator, someone has the opportunity to get up close and personal with historical documents, items, and works of art. Visitors and other workers simply don’t have the ability and privilege to do so.
Combined with the idea of the aura – the “mark” that distinguishes an original creation from its reproduction – technological reproduction has no authentic value compared to the original. My photo of the Mona Lisa was not created in the same manner, by the same person, and has not existed for 500 years as has the original piece. This authenticity is also degraded by every reproduction of the artwork. For example, if I have seen
Smith, Roberta. "Should Art Museums Always Be Free? There’s Room for Debate." New York Times. 22 Jul 2006. Web. 20 Feb. 2014.
Museums educate us with objects of art and culture from all over the world. Some pieces may have dramatically more meaning to people than others, but museums can’t be too conscientious about this or there would be very few pieces. Yet, if pieces aren’t displayed with enough emphasis of their importance, visitors may not even glance at them , and are even less likely to read the information about them. One piece at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the “Head of a Buddha image” (Figures 1 & 2), is displayed in such a way that is very out of balance between Michael Baxandall’s “cultural terms” (1) of where the object is derived and (2) that of the viewer’s when considering everything for exhibiting an object (1991). It is proposed that the
Personal Statement I have really enjoyed art my whole life the look, the emotion, the story. I would sit on my grandma's lap and watch her draw for hours on end. She drew her favorite disney characters, trees, or whatever popped into her mind. She would sometimes let me hold the pencil as she would draw, I feel in love with that movement. I would come to do a lot of art in my future.
The subject of art conservation and restoration has long been debated in the art world. Experts and historians have never agreed that all art must be salvaged at any cost. This paper will examine what art conservation and restoration is, what is involved in these endeavors, and what has been done over the centuries to many of history’s cherished art pieces.
‘Savage Beauty’ was an exhibition that pushed the boundaries of museology, in its artistic, social and critical undertakings. The questions brought to bear by the exhibition of contemporary art and culture in various situations is something I am interested in researching further with a degree in curating.
inaccurate citation Censorship can be dated back to ancient Greek and Roman times. Some of the works of art and literature that were considered taboo a long time ago are widely available in modern day life. William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, John Lennon, Diego Rivera, and the Venus de Milo, were all thought to be morally wrong or offensive at one time or another. In the 20th twentieth century, censorship has gone to more extreme measures by involving the government and legal system. AMA what is this?says, “Art censorship has disrupted the relationship between us and the art that has been made. Tracey Emin or Marina Abramovic might suggest we are in a daring era of uncompromised free speech, artists continue to face censorship by political and religious authorities, protestors, and – occasionally – gallerists themselves” ("The Naked Truth: A History of Art Censorship”). It has been a constant battle between society and the artist because it is hard to find a balance and making sure that they are both equally happy with it all. Michael Lebron from