Virtual Art Exhibition Review
Chicago Manual Citation. consider the following. Choose a virtual exhibition from the past year from the list below and review it.
Follow the writing guidelines for the review reinforce what you saw and are describing. If circumstances prevent physical attendance, see the list of virtual exhibitions.
What was the title and theme of the exhibition (e.g. what was it trying to communicate)?
What were the material specifics: scope (number of works), media (painting, collage, photography, AR, etc.), and space utilization?
How was the exhibition arranged? How did one move through it and how did it engage audience participation?
Provide an analysis of the exhibition in whether or not you found it successful in what it set out to do.
How did it succeed and where could it have been improved? · Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum:
The works of Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Jeff Koons, and Franz Marc are just some of the 625 artists whose work are a part of the Guggenheim’s Collection Online (Links to an external site.) ·
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History:
Move at your own pace through the 360-degree room-by-room tour of every exhibit in the museum (Links to an external site.) · Van Gogh Museum:
You can get up close and personal with the impressionist painter’s most famous work thanks to Google Arts & Culture (Links to an external site.) ·
Getty Museum:
Los Angeles’s premiere gallery has two virtual tours, (Links to an external site.) including “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry,” which is a closer look at food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
The Vatican Museum:
The Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s Basilica, and Raphael’s Room, are just some of the sites you can see on the Vatican’s virtual tour (Links to an external site.) · Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum:
Madrid’s must-see art museum has the works of some of the continent’s most celebrated artists like Rembrandt and Dali available online (Links to an external site.) · Georgia O’Keeffe Museum: Six virtual exhibits (Links to an external site.) are available online from this museum named for the “Mother of American modernism.” · National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City:
Dive into the pre-Hispanic history of Mexico with 23 exhibit rooms (Links to an external site.)full of Mayan artifacts. · British Museum, London: The Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies are just a couple of things that you’re able to see on a virtual tour o (Links to an external site.)f the museum. ·
NASA:
Both Virginia’s Langley Research Center (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) and Ohio’s Glenn Research Center (Links to an external site.)offer online tours for free. Also, you can try some “augmented reality experiences” via The Space Center Houston’s app (Links to an external site.) · National Women’s History Museum:
Have a late International Women’s Day celebration with online exhibits (Links to an external site.)and oral histories (Links to an external site.) from the Virginia museum. (Links to an external site.) · Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Though the Met Gala was cancelled this year, you can still have a peak at the The Costume Institute Conversation Lab, which is one of the institution’s 26 online exhibits (Links to an external site.) · High Museum of Art, Atlanta:
This museum’s popular online exhibits include “Civil Rights Photography (Links to an external site.)” — photos that capture moments of social protest like the Freedom Rides and Rosa Park’s arrest. · Detroit Institute of Arts:
Mexican art icon Frida Kahlo is the focal point of two of the four available online exhibits (Links to an external site.) · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam:
The Golden Age of Dutch art is highlighted in this museum which includes the work of Vermeer and Rembrandt (Links to an external site.) · National Museum of the United States Air Force:
You can’t take a ride in Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidential airplane, but you can check it out, in addition to other military weapons and aircraft, online in the Air Force’s official museum (Links to an external site.) · MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art):
New York’s extensive collection is available for view online (Links to an external site.) · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The 16 virtual exhibits (Links to an external site.) include a special section on 21st Century Designer Fashion.
