The Cincinnati Art Museum is located in a building built in the Romanesque style, and houses over 60,000 objects of art and artifacts. Periods represented in the museum collection covers the last 6000 years. Museum collections are divided into the following areas: American decorative arts, clothing and textiles, the art of Africa, the art of the Americas, prints, drawings and watercolors, paintings and sculptures of America, the European painting and classical sculpture and the Near East, the Far – East and Photography.

The photograph, the last of Fine Arts, one of the actions of the second half of the 19th century, some experimentation, the pioneering work of the late 20th century.

With many pieces of art from the Middle Ages and Renaissance painting and sculpture that a visitor a great overview of the different historical periods in the development of painting and sculpture in Europe. Italian Renaissance is represented by artists like Mantegna, English landscapes by John Constable, portraits of the Dutch painter Frans Hal, the work of the Impressionist period, German Expressionism, and an early Picasso, to name a few – uns.

Painting and sculpture in America does not cover a large number of years, but has many works by American artists, especially realistic. Among the Americans are realistic, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, Grant Wood, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt (an impressionist painter, born in America). Some of contemporary American art, is also in the Cincinnati Art Museum from the collection.

The classic art of the Middle East includes, among other things, an alabaster figure of around 2600 BC, a Greek crater Century 4th, 3rd and a portrait of the marble head of the century, with some parts of Egypt.

The Cincinnati Art Museum regularly presents special exhibitions that are open to the public. The site lists exhibitions in museums and meaning.

The collections are in this museum in New York, composed of more than two million works of amazing art. This offers great treasures of art spanning over 5000 years of history and culture that comes from all corners of the globe. The “Met” as it is called, especially by locals, was founded in 1870 and is located on the eastern edge of the City of New York Central Park, located on Fifth Avenue. Each year receives millions of visitors.

The great Metropolitan Museum of Art includes more than two million square feet and also has an extensive portfolio of holdings of art, which includes an extensive collection of art objects and the world. Each individual can be classified among the most remarkable in the world of art in its category.

For example, the Pavilion of the World Met broader American paintings, sculptures and decorative works of art. At the same time, the Met has more than 2,500 European paintings in its art exhibitions. These masterpieces of the art gallery range, famous artists like Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Manet, Renoir and many others, in total, including a vast and rich collection of Impressionist and Post-d ‘impressionist works.

The Met is also home to the largest collection of Egyptian art to be found outside of Cairo and the Islamic Art Collection is widely regarded as one of the best in the world. Other exhibitions in the main gallery is located in the walls of the Met weapons and armor, costumes, Asian art, European sculpture, decorative arts, medieval art, Renaissance art, modern art, photography, drawings, prints, musical instruments, antiques and a variety of other ancient cultures of the world.

Each year there are more than 30 special exhibitions gallery organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These exposures are representative of a broad and diverse range of artists, cultures and time periods, from ancient to modern. In addition, the museum is also actively seeking to serve the people of the City of New York, United States and the world, offering a wide range of teaching art history training, internships, scholarships and loan programs works art that the museum owns.

Educational programs offered by the Met are common each year by more than 300,000 museum visitors, teachers and students ranging from primary school to university. In addition, the credit institution with more than 5,000 works of art each year to other museums and cultural institutions in the world.

Many people from many backgrounds and regions of the world have declared that the Metropolitan Museum of Art should be considered a national treasure. It is also recognized as a strong and dynamic which helps to promote a better understanding of art history. On the other hand, also has launched an initiative to achieve greater diversity of audiences and broaden the scope of the museum further by bringing new innovations to its Web site.

Our visit starts with the origin of the earliest civilizations in the Thai
first section of the National Museum. There is evidence
civilizations from the beginning of the relics of the Stone Age
the discovery of Lampang and Mae Hong Son in northern
Thailand and Krabi to the south.

Civilizations exist around 3600 BC were discovered in
Ban Chiang, Udorn Thani in northern Thailand, and
And Chonburi Kanchanaburi. There are theories
when the first immigrants came. However,
sufficient evidence to show that there were civilizations in the
area of more than 1000 years.

The next section covers the National Museum in the 7th? 13
centuries when the Khmer empire, based on what is now
Cambodia was at the height of his power. The influence of
Khmer culture cover the northern region of Thailand
and extended to all Lopburi in central Thailand.

Historic sites in Buriram Phanom Rung and Phimai
Nakhon Ratchasima reflect that influence.

The 13th century saw the emergence of the Sukhothai
kingdom. The Kingdom is a child under the Apogee
reign of King Ram Khamhaeng 1279? 1298 AD.
Sukhothai, not only grown in stature and military policy is
known for its art, architecture and culture. Is king
Ram Khamhaeng who started the Thai alphabet.

Ayutthaya section at the National Museum is
more important. Founded by King U-Thong in 1351,
Ayutthaya was a city bounded by three rivers, the Chao
Phraya, Lopburi and Pasak. Which grew rapidly and soon eclipse
Sukhothai and other kingdoms.

At the height of its influence, Ayutthaya was a major
shopping center with the three main palace in a city
with its network of roads and canals and protected by 16 forces.
Trade with China, Portugal, Netherlands and Japan
Prosperous.

Ayutthaya was captured and sacked by Burma in 1569. The
It was relaunched in 1584 by King Naresuan. Unfortunately,
was again invaded and completely destroyed by the Burmese
in 1767. Built more than four centuries, with its 34 Ayutthaya
kings of five dynasties crashed to a sudden and tragic end.

Phraya Taksin is left to the son of a Chinese immigrant who
escaped the destruction of Ayutthaya to restore a new
capital of Thonburi. In a series of campaigns, we go
Burmese in Thailand and attended the various
kingdoms.

The grand finale of the visit of National Museum
Chakri dynasty started by King Rama I in 1782, when
Bangkok established the new capital to restore
former glory of Ayutthaya.

It is the dawn of a new era, Rattanakosin. After a great
Myanmar attack was repelled, which were never seriously
threat again. The prospect of a security unit in Thailand
borders has become a reality. Under the reign of the Chakri kings,
the next 200 years saw the gradual emergence of a modern
Thailand.

The Bangkok National Museum has more than one
millennium of the history of the early civilizations of Thailand, the increase
and fall of several kingdoms and dynasties to the present.
Covers the culture and soul of the ballast Thailand
nation.

The museum was officially opened in 1750, and much of the building was used as a platform to present the works of the artist. It has allowed everyone in France and abroad to see the gallery. Entry to the museum as a combined ticket (which gives access to all permanent collections and temporary exhibitions) is 13 euros.

The Louvre has more than 380,000 pieces of art in its collection. However, only 35,000 on public display. Famous works of art like the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo are two of the 11,900 parts that are publicly displayed at the Louvre. Other lesser known, but are famous songs of Madonna on the rocks and the Oath of the Horatii.

Art lovers can venture into the different sections of the museum to see how the mass of works of art. There are eight sections of the museum total: Islamic art, paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings, antiquities from the Near East, Egypt, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, and the decorative arts.

Among his collection, which have large collections of songs by famous artists like Rembrandt and David. Sculptures like the famous Venus de Milo is on display inside the museum. These famous pieces are some of the many works that visitors often ask about. During the Louvre has one of the largest collections of various artists and a large collection of Pictorials in the world.

While the Louvre is well known for its art collection, other collections in the museum that will surprise many people. Besides art, the museum of archeology, sculptures, objest and art from around the world. They also have a permanent exhibition illustrating the large holdings of furniture, including the Office of the King by Jean Henri Riesener. Some of these works are available in books that are sold at the museum. Temporary exhibitions are also held throughout the year on other elements of the various artistic movements, in other hidden parts of the collection will be presented to the public.

Although the Barnum & Bailey circus continues as a testament to his talent for promotion, was also a politician and journalist, and as an influence in the United States and Europe in the 19th century. Tomanipulate could push to spin doctors today “inept hacks.

PT Barnum, and was better known, was born in Bethel, Connecticut, July 5, 1810. After his father died in 1826, lost his life to his rural ideal, and was drawn to the lights of the city of Brooklyn, New York, where he worked for a short period as its store.

His own fascination with curiosities, strange and bizarre, convinced that his contemporaries of the era also seduce, began to collect and display data in his career. His reading of the feelings of the time had come, and people gathered in large numbers in different places, he built, including the American Museum in New York.

Early efforts involved Joice Heth, who advertised as “the greatest natural curiosity in the world and national levels.”

Interested persons fiction, African American women was 161 years, he convinced his audience that as a slave, tending to a young George Washington.

When a doctor cuts your actual age of 80 after her autopsy, Barnum insisted that his body was a fake and always performed elsewhere.

In 1841, he founded and built the Barnum Museum of America in the heart of the old city of New York. It consists of an eclectic mix of loud and exciting attractions, including Tom Thumb and Mermaid Feejee, exhibits with natural history and taxidermy exhibit Menagerie, and art, and a wax room, reading and theater in which Shakespeare performed.

For many historians and social scientists, the Museum of America was the foundation of New York, urban evolution.

Remarkably perceptive of the changing demographics of the city and the confluence of different cultures, Barnum line exhibitions, and educational materials to reflect different cultures and tastes, and each of the layers of social classes of the time. There is literally something for everyone.

The public response has been almost as varied as the diversity of the museum. Some loved the theater and museum some were appalled by it.

The flames of the wrath that has been fueled by Barnum support of temperance, and July 13, 1865, the American Museum was burned to the ground. Never determined that the fire was set. Then he built a new museum Uptown, which also burned.

It is perhaps the best known, however, two notes: Tom Thumb and Jenny Lind.

In 1842 he discovered Charles Sherwood Stratton, who was called Tom Thumb, a man who was only 25 inches tall and weighs only 15 pounds at age 11.

Barnum study two years in the training of Tom sing, dance and mime, and then embarked on a world tour with her boyfriend who made the public fascination with national and European level, including royalties and Abraham Lincoln. Tom Thumb has become a “must” for the American Museum.

Jenny Lind, Barnum called “The Swedish Nightingale” was a musical prodigy. Could play the piano for four years and has developed an extraordinary voice, which has amply demonstrated the influence and politics, including President Millard Fillmore, General Winfield Scott, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Washington Irving and others .

The Barnum & Bailey Circus, which he called “the greatest show on Earth” is his most lasting legacy.

Mixing politics with their passion for the bizarre Barnum allowed to serve one year as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and has served two terms in the Legislature of Connecticut.

The Barnum Museum is an excellent chronicle of the life and times of Phineas Taylor Barnum and well worth a visit.

Visitors to the Museum of Buddhist art is usually recommended to start his tour in an annex to the main building that houses the Kuan Yin Palace and Museum which displays statues of Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy. The courtyard outside the museum features miniature wooden palaces housing Chinese deities six.

The main theme of the Museum of Buddhist art, however, is top-eight rooms in the main building displaying Buddha statues, sculptures and figurines of various kingdoms that have an impact on Thai art and culture.

The various schools of Buddhist art of each era mixed with the above and adds his distinctive touch. Detailed explanations are provided for the Buddha statues, their characteristics, different postures and subtle variations in the folds of clothing.

The museum is a source of knowledge for the researcher of Buddhist art and sculptures of Buddha. Visitors looking for an overview of an important aspect of Thai culture, this museum would be interesting too.

Buddhist art of the various kingdoms displayed at the Museum of Buddhist Art

Dvaravati art (6? 11 centuries)

Dvaravati basa art culture in the United Kingdom of Dvaravati Nakhon Phahom center in Thailand, set up by the Monday of Burma. The work of Buddhist art of this period is based in southern India and Sri Lanka models.

Srivijaya art (7? 14th Centuries)

The Srivijaya kingdom covered Sumatra, Java, peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand to Surat Thani and Nakhon Sri Thammarat. The art of this time to a rich mix of Indian, Khmer, Sri Lanka, Java and Sumatra cultures.

Khmer art (11th-19th centuries)

6? 14th centuries, the Khmer Empire in Cambodia, a kingdom in northeastern Thailand and Laos (Isarn). Khmer art was to have a lasting legacy in the work of Buddhist art for centuries to come.

Myanmar Arts (11-19 centuries)

Burmese art evolved from various ethnic groups in ancient Burmese kingdom of Bagan. The Burmese, Mon, Arakan, Tai Yai kingdoms developed Buddhist art during their respective reigns. All these groups have had an influence on Thai art.

Art of Sukhothai (13? 15th Centuries)

Art flourished in the Kingdom of Sukhothai during the reign of King Ramkhamhaeng. Sukhothai art classic Khmer influence and established its unique style.

Ayuthaya art (1350? 1767)

Ayuthaya on art exhibitions at the Museum of Buddhist Art represents the longest period in Thai art. Pre-Ayuthaya art was a combination of Khmer art of the Bayon period (the Bayon temple, Cambodia) and Dvaravati art, a mixture is known as U Thong Art.

The creation of a product, a mixture of Ayuthaya and Sukhothai Khmer styles, evolving gradually into its own character in the 16th century.

Lanna art (ages 13-20)

The Lanna kingdom (Land of a Million Fields) was established by King Mengrai in northern Thailand in 1296. Pure Lanna art developed when the kingdom was independent. Lanna was Myanmar, and then under the rule of rule Thailand. The Buddha statues during these periods had their differences.

Lan Xang art (14? 18th centuries)

The Kingdom of Lan Xang (Land of a Million Elephants) was founded by King Fah Ngum in the 14th century after the fall of Sukhothai. The kingdom today covered parts of Laos and northern Thailand. King Fah Ngum made Buddhism the state religion and started an art form that has also left its mark on Buddhist art.

Thonburi art (1767? 1782)

Thonburi had a brief period as the kingdom Dur

The new Museum of the first edition of its new signature three-year “generation” features fifty artists from twenty-five countries, all under the age of thirty-three. The exhibition aims to examine the visual culture that Generation Y or Generation Me has created to date. The exhibition will be held in the central part, and includes painting, drawing, photography, film, animation, performance, installation, dance, Internet and video games. New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002, (212) 219-1222

The living and the dead, April 25 to September 27

With 90 works in a variety of media by 53 international artists, this exhibition explores the legacy and meaning of conceptual art. The show cleverly pushes conceptual art beyond its traditional boundaries. The living and the dead juxtaposing a set of works from the years 1960 and 1970, with more recent examples that may qualify Vaguement conceptual, including new works created for the exhibition and a number which has not been previously reported. Walker Art Center, 1750 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403 (612) 375-7600

Dan Graham: beyond, through May 25

Dan Graham’s art has become increasingly important in the development of contemporary art since the 1960 ’s – the rise of minimalism, conceptualism, and video and performance art to the exploration of architecture and culture rock and roll. This is the first major exhibition in North America, Graham and includes photographs, films and videos, architectural models, project design, prints and drawings, and writings of the 1960s to today. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012, (213) 621-1749

Dawoud Bey, Class Pictures: Photographs, April 16, 2009-July 12

High School is a critical time for children when they discover themselves and the society in which life. For this exhibition, the artist a box of forty students understand what it means in the secondary. The photographs are accompanied by texts written by and about students. Bey hoped to create an important and compelling portrait of contemporary American youth in its various social and human dimensions. ” Milwaukee Art Museum, the Museum of Art, 700 North Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53202, (414) 224-3200

The major European museums to house the most wonderful collections of masterpieces available to be seen. But people should not overlook the many collections of art museums which can also be found on American soil.

The fact is that many art museums in America also has impressive collections of art treasures and works of expression. While the reputation of the European museums that receive is certainly justified, should not obscure the fact that there are many collections of art works presented in art museums throughout the United States worth the time to visit, especially if a trip across the pond is out of question.

For the most part, the curator of a museum of art in cities across the United States is fully aware that they can not compete with major museums in Europe. But they know they can take advantage of assets they hold, which means that in most cases, are more technologically advanced in terms of commentary to art they have acquired is presented to their visitors.

In addition, there are many who argue that the best collections of the United States are in some of the best museums that are located anywhere. Rather than relying on centuries of masterpieces that can be picked up at the crowd around each other, as seen in some European museums, an art museum in the United States is able to create a better show for less, more tracks selected carefully so that the viewer does not overwhelm.

In addition, some experts say that people prefer to find new and interesting art exhibitions every time you visit an art museum. The smaller American museums are more likely to rotate his gallery exhibitions, providing divers and encourage people to come back often to see the attractions have been added. In many cases, the curators of art museums in Europe feel they must leave the famous masterpiece, so that those who can not visit the museum often have the opportunity to see the “Heart” of art works, such as Mona Lisa.

The art museums of American art museums also in terms of its commitment to being at the forefront of the worldwide community of contemporary art. Although not always the case, also the more traditional European art museums and galleries tend to feature more traditional, classical and artists well known and are generally slower to achieve the acquisition of works of art that are outside this type and style.

One aspect that is often a large number of visitors to the museum of art galleries in the United States is that in many cases the artwork is also admirateur boxes in buildings that are often independent architectural art too. In many cases, these buildings are known for their cutting-edge architectural design and innovation, which adds to the overall effectiveness of the exhibition gallery and the appreciation of art and architecture as well.