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Uptown houses the internationally renowned Craft+ Design collection, as well as outstanding collections of American, contemporary, and European art, in Charlotte NC (Villarreal, 2018). I am not sure where to visit the museum in Charlotte, NC, but I found the greatest Mint Museum Uptown, which is the cultural institute of art in this city. When…

The Korean War Veterans Memorial is located near the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC. It was dedicated on July 27, 1995. The Memorial commemorates the sacrifices of the 5.8 million American who served in the U.S. Armed Services during the three-year period of the Korean War. Set on 2.2 acres directly…

The story centers around Dee Johnson, her sister, Maggie, and their mother, Mrs. Johnson. Although each possesses the same culture and live in the same environment, Dee chooses to live differently from them. Maggie and Mrs. Johnson are content with living a simple life, through which their heritage signifies pride and usefulness. Not only are…

Because time changes the condition of all things, including works of art, much of the world’s great art on display today have been preserved and improved. Museums displaying such delicate artworks aim to safeguard artworks by preventing, slowing down, remedying or reversing decay and damage. These methods are practiced my conservators and restorers. Even though…

Ever wonder what inspires some authors to write these amazing stories filled with all sorts of emotion and have you wanting more? Well, an author’s personal life is the reason for all this inspiration, Edgar Allan Poe is one of those authors. He uses the death of his loved ones and the fact that he…

Diodoumenos’ marble statue is about 73 inches tall, made by Greek sculptor Polykleitos. This is a contrapposto, representing a youth in an athletic contest that is adorning his head with a fillet (band) after a victory. Contrapposto is the pose taken by the human body when relaxed and in a standing position. It was the…

Alison Bechdel’s autobiography of Fun Home creates a space for critical controversies about what it means to be a family member and what they do for each other. The readers of this comic book debate about whether they identify with the author or not. They also argue as to what social changes imply about sexual…

Since its publication in 1932, Brave New World has been considered by many to be Aldous Huxleys greatest work. Most people think it is his only work but it is not. In that time this novel has been praised and condemned, dismissed and welcomed, a source of controversy, a subject for sermons, and required reading…

“Rip Van Winkle” is about a man named Rip Van Winkle, who lived in a little Dutch town in the Hudson Valley. Everyone in the town was very fond of him because he would help anyone who needed help and he would play with the children. The thing he couldn’t do was tend to his…

The creativity that produces art is, as stated by American writer Gary Snyder in A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds, “.. That consciousness, mind, imagination, and language are fundamentally wild […] richly interconnected, interdependent, and incredibly complex. […] The ‘art of the wild’ is to see art in the context of the process…