Gallery

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Art Museum, which is shortly called as The Met is famous art Museum situated in eastern land of Central Park along with the Museum Mile in City of New York. The museum has permanent collection of more than 2 million art works, which is separated into 19 curatorial departments. The main building which is called simply as “the Met” is the largest art gallery in the world and there is also 2^nd location which is much smaller situated in Upper Manhattan that features only medieval art.

The museum of art has permanent collection of art work from traditional antiquity and from Ancient Egypt, sculptures and painting from many European master and very good collection of modern art from America. The Metropolitan Museum of Art also contains holdings of Asian, Africa, and Oceanic, Islamic and Byzantine art. The museum contains many encyclopedic collections of costumes, accessories, musical instruments, armor and antique weapons from around the world. There are many notable interiors which range from first century Rome through recent American Design and is permanently installed in galleries of Met. Read the rest of this entry »

The Museum of Contemporary Art

The Museum of Contemporary Art located in Los Angeles, California is a contemporary art museum and has three branches in California. The main branch is located in Downtown Los Angeles in Grand Avenue near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The original space of MOCA which was actually intended as temporary space for exhibit and main facility was built and is now called as Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo, famous district in Los Angeles.

Since the inception of museum, the programs of MOCA has been defined by a multi-disciplinary approach towards contemporary art. With many popular events and exhibitions, MOCA is one of the finest museums which display modern art. During the 1^st Sunday of each month, family workshops are organized which includes discussion-based and interactive spotlight tour that highlights the selected works of present exhibition. The families will work collaboratively for creating artwork in response to work which they observed.

Designed by various artists, process-oriented and innovative workshops extend the experience of gallery and include frequent special activities like musical movement and performance and various other disciplinary approaches in the view. These programs are offered in Spanish and English. Read the rest of this entry »