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Antiques.(brief history of museums)
I do not believe in the end of man.... I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he, alone among creatures, has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit, capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William Faulkner, "Speech on Acceptance of the Nobel Prize," 1950
In Faulkner's fictional world it is memory that pulls pieces of the past into the present and resurrects the dead. A museum is in its own way a model of memory, for by preserving the past it ensures the future. Like any work of art within it, the museum is an act of faith in the power of the human imagination. Hillwood Museum and Gardens in northwest Washington, D.C., the subject of this issue, provides tangible evidence of the range of mankind's creativity in the fine and decorative arts.
In antiquity a museum was an academy or a library and even in the eighteenth century a museum could be a temple for the veneration of the muses. Most properly it was a building in which scholars lived, dined, and studied together. Museums dedicated to the arts and open to the public are relatively recent.
When the Ashmolean Museum was opened to Oxford students in 1683 the diarist John Evelyn called it the "first public institution for the reception of rarities in art or nature established ...
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- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) August 27, 2001 700+ words
...about the fate of our art museums--some of them...Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum franchise in...celebrated fame as an art museum, I don...down-market in its arts coverage to lower...shameless trashing of an art museum that used to play...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Eisen, David April 11, 2001 700+ words
...global audience for art and architecture is...exhibited in prestigious museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Cartier...have never designed a museum. Yet their direct...internal workings of great museums is perhaps an even...
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...The 187,508-square-foot museum, which displays 1,000 art objects, centers on a glass...advanced state-of-the-art museum in Japan, he says. The exhibit...of a "Shangri-La"-type museum - where art and nature would merge - is...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Bisbee, Dana June 16, 2003 700+ words
...with his wife, Betsy, a museum overseer. "It has history...always been chic," said museum supporter Gwenn Cohen...opening party at the Museum of Fine Arts. Trustees, sponsors...look-a-likes from the art world were led by director...
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- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International March 31, 2007 700+ words
...that the library, museum and fine arts gallery would be...history. He said that museums are also a mirror...history of nations, so museum also is a part of the library and the fine arts gallery would also...complex of books, art and history will...
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- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) November 4, 2002 700+ words
...Whitney Museum of American Art, alas, the focus...concerned with American art--was never so clearly...has come to serve as the museum's tutelary figure. At the oldest of all our museums of modern art--the Phillips Collection...
- Japanese tradition of bold design seen at Metropolitan Museum.(Arts &...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Shaw-Eagle, Joanna June 3, 2000 700+ words
...collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They are appropriate introductions...collection, described by the museum as the best and largest of Japanese art in private hands. The Taishakuten...conflicts inherent in the Japanese arts. They also sometimes view...
- Sluggish economy stalls ICA museum.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Palumbo, Mary Jo August 20, 2002 700+ words
...Institute of Contemporary Art has done everything in its...campaign to build a new museum on the waterfront. But...institution of contemporary art on the waterfront," said...vision of a contemporary art museum on the waterfront. And...
Source: HighBeam Research, Antiques.(brief history of museums)