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  Islamic Art and Architecture - Sloane Art Library - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The arts of Islam include the great works of architecture and the illustrated book, as well as decorative arts such as metalwork, textiles, pottery and glass, produced in Muslim lands (from Central Asia to Spain and Africa) from the 7th century A.D. to the 19th century.
This entry for Islamic Art is comprehensive, with extensive authoritative bibliographies and a chapter on historiography, the"history of Islamic art history".
The Art of India: Paintings and Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
www.lib.unc.edu /art/islamicart.html   (1177 words)

  
 Ackland Art Museum - The Ackland Art Museum's permanent collection of over 15,000 objects includes the art of Asia, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ackland Art Museum - The Ackland Art Museum's permanent collection of over 15,000 objects includes the art of Asia, Africa, Europe and America, with works ranging from ancient times to the 21st century.
Brooklyn Museum of Art - The Brooklyn Museum of Art is the second largest art museum in New York City and one of the largest in the United States.
Mobile Museum of Art - The newly expanded Mobile Museum of Art, gracing the lake of Langan Park, is a beautiful addition to Mobile's culture and architecture.
www.afrikation.com /AAMUSEUM1.htm   (1142 words)

  
 Famous Museum in the World
Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri,Columbia, Missouri
The Smithsonian Institution,Washington, D.C. Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame,South Bend, Indiana
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas,Lawrence, Kansas
www.artsoho.net /mus.htm   (829 words)

  
 DTH Online - Ackland exhibit features faculty works   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
According to Huber, the show has three objectives: to offer master of fine arts graduate students and undergraduates an opportunity to see faculty art, to maintain and solidify the relationship between the faculty and the museum, and to share faculty work with the community.
Her work on display at the museum is a product of that concern and shows intermittent and varying clips of two people strangling each other.
The Ackland Art Museum was founded through the bequest of William Hayes Ackland to the University, according to the museum's Web site.
www.dailytarheel.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2005/03/01/422468d05b5b3   (528 words)

  
 usa_body
Museum of Art and Archaeology at U.C.of Missouri, Columbia
Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis
Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville
www.tovedehn.dk /grafik/museum/usa_body.htm   (650 words)

  
 Art Museums Exhibiting and Collecting Fine Art Photography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Another resource for art museums and non-profit art organizations is art-collecting.com.
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art (WSU, Wichita)
University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor)
art-support.com /museums.htm   (318 words)

  
 European Drawings: From the Collection of the Ackland Art Museum
Color reproductions of 73 of the Ackland's most important Italian, Netherlandish, French, British, and German drawings are accompanied by 194 fl-and-white reproductions and 35 supplemental images.
Although the Ackland has not previously published its drawings, many of the works are already quite well known, including works by Luca Cambiaso, Pietro da Cortona, Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, William Blake, Guilio Romano, Henry Fuseli, and Egon Shiele.
Beginning with an overview of the history of the Ackland's drawings collection, the catalogue examines the most significant works with full-page reproductions and essays that detail the scholarly issues relevant to each drawing, including questions of attribution, date, subject matter, and relationship to other studies or to known projects.
thegreatlands.com /apf/item_id/0965380556/search_type/AsinSearch/locale/us   (262 words)

  
 Ackland Art Museum - Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-0001 - Citysearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One of the finest museums in the state, on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill.
William Hayes Ackland was a Tennessee lawyer whose dream was to have "the people of his native South to know and love the fine arts." These very words appear on Ackland's tomb; however, Chapel Hill was not the site that he originally intended for the legacy of his art museum.
Ackland had agreed to fund the construction of an art museum for Duke University, but amid odd circumstances following his death in 1840, the trustees at Duke refused the bequest and UNC found itself the beneficiary of Mr.
www.triangle.citysearch.com /E/V/RDUNC/0001/34/07   (255 words)

  
 Artcom Museums Tour: Ackland Art Museum - U of N C, Chapel Hill, NC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is the mission of the Ackland Art Museum to educate and delight using original works of art.
The Ackland Art Museum opened in 1958 to bring great works of art to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the education and enjoyment of students, faculty and the regional community.
Today, its well- rounded collection of over 14,000 objects includes ancient Greek and Roman art, Western painting and sculpture since the end of the Middle Ages, works on paper from the 15th to the 20th century, art of Asia and Africa, North Carolina folk art and contemporary art.
www.artcom.com /Museums/nv/af/27599.htm   (320 words)

  
 Current Exhibitions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This exhibition is a reinstallation of the National Museum of African Art's collection from the royal court of the capital of the kingdom of Benin as it existed before British colonial rule.
The museum is grateful to the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco.
The exhibition was organized and circulated by the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
www.nmafa.si.edu /exhibits/currexhb.htm   (2963 words)

  
 Illuminations: Contemporary Film and Video Art
Their work suggests the complexity and layered nuances of compelling contemporary ideas that would otherwise be difficult to capture in more traditional media.
Contemporary film and video art lend themselves not only to self-exploration and the communication of contemporary issues, but also to the creation of hauntingly beautiful and moving images.
Illuminations is made possible by the William Hayes Ackland Trust and received support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts.
www.unc.edu /depts/ackland/art/exhibitions/illuminations   (237 words)

  
 Perseus Art and Archaeology Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the University of Michigan
Museum of Art and Archaeology, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
www.perseus.tufts.edu /hopper/browser.jsp?object=Vase&facet=collection   (84 words)

  
 Ackland Art Museum - January 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC, is presenting the exhibition, Young America: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which will be on view through Feb. 17, 2002.
The artworks reflect life in New England and the mid-Atlantic regions, where British influence was strong in early decades, then rivaled in art by Italian neoclassic styles.
"Young America's" showing at the Ackland is generously supported by the Ackland Art Museum Guild, the Frey American Art Fund and the William Hayes Ackland Trust.
www.carolinaarts.com /102acklandmus.html   (388 words)

  
 3rdTech Announces Ackland Art Museum Scan
The model – a joint project of 3rdTech, the Ackland Art Museum, and Dr. Bradley M. Hemminger of the School of Information and Library Science at UNC – was created by scanning the exhibit with 3rdTech’s DeltaSphere-3000 3D Laser Scene Digitizer.
The goal of this project was to explore the application of this same 3D, color scanning technology to a temporary museum exhibition.
The exhibition, “Plum, Pine, and Bamboo; Seasonal and Spiritual Paths in Japanese Art” was on display at the Ackland Art Museum in late 2003.
www.3rdtech.com /Ackland_Art_Museum_Scan.htm   (471 words)

  
 Eugene Delacroix Online
Eugene Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Eugene Delacroix at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/delacroix_eugene.html   (680 words)

  
 Seattle Art Museum: John Singer Sargent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sargent clearly enjoyed painting the unusual array of colors, textures, and forms: a thick fur rug; a gleaming wicker chair; the man’s long hands, rings, and cigarette; his flared gray trousers; and the almost mischievous gaze on Stevenson’s shadowed face.
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ackland Fund
Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Bequest of Charles Phelps and Anna Sinton Taft
www.seattleartmuseum.org /Sargent/trevor3.htm   (278 words)

  
 Krannert Art Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This exhibition encourages a dialogue in which viewers are asked to explore their impressions of the works by formulating personal opinions about abstraction through individual interpretation and interaction.
The exhibition is organized by the Indiana University Art Museum in collaboration with Keith Davis at the Hallmark Fine Arts Program.
The Krannert Art Museum Council sponsors a series of lectures by Marcel Franciscono, professor emeritus of art history.
www.art.uiuc.edu /galleries/kam/exhibitions/exhibitions.html   (1442 words)

  
 AMLISS - Art and Museum Library and Information Student Society
AMLISS aims to provide students at UNC Chapel Hill with the opportunity to explore art, museum and visual resources librarianship and records management.
Through lectures, workshops, special events and visits to museum and art libraries, AMLISS will promote these areas of specialization within the field of library and information science and records management to any interested students.
All those who are interested in collection management and museum work are cordially invited to attend.
ils.unc.edu /~amliss   (193 words)

  
 Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC : details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
-- The Ackland Art Museum's permanent collection of over 15,000 objects includes the art of Asia, Africa, Europe and America, with works ranging from ancient times to the 21st century.
The Museum holds the most significant collection of Asian art in the state and one of the largest collections of works on paper in the Southeast.
Long known for its strength in European painting and sculpture, the Ackland has more recently added additional emphasis to the building of its collection of twentieth-century and contemporary art.
www.museumstuff.com /rec/org_20020201_10051.html   (247 words)

  
 Raleigh/Durham | Visiting the City | Museums & Galleries | Other | Ackland Art Museum | Gohop.ie Destination Guide
Dedicated in 1958 and renovated in the early 90s, this museum features everything from European paintings by the Old Masters to contemporary American works.
Asian and African art that spans the ages is among the thousands of works on display.
The museum hosts four to six temporary exhibits annually which in the past have included famous artists the likes of Andy Warhol and Edvard Munch.
gohop.wcities.com /en/record/169,300753/634/index.html   (101 words)

  
 ArtLex on the Harlem Renaissance
Archibald J. Motley (American, 1891-1981), Mending Socks, 1924, oil on canvas, Ackland Art Museum, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Aaron Douglas's paintings show that he was particularly influenced by ancient Egyptian sculpture and the modern Art Deco style.
William H. Johnson, Chain Gang, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Loïs Mailou Jones (American, 1905-1998), Negro Shack I, Sedalia, North Carolina, 1930, watercolor on paper, 15 x 20 inches.
www.artlex.com /ArtLex/h/harlemrenaissance.html   (631 words)

  
 unc-ch classics: ackland art museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Ackland Art Museum, with over 14,000 works of art, is an integral component of the art history and studio art facilities of the university, containing a sizable collection of ancient, classical, and Medieval art.
The museum is physically connected to the Hanes Art Center which houses the Department of Art, studios, classrooms, faculty offices, and the Sloane Art Library, the Art History and Classics slide libraries.
Current ancient acquisitions (Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Aegean Bronze Age, Greek and Roman) in the Ackland collection number about 200, a size that makes a useful and convenient venue for study and teaching in areas of ancient art and Classical archaeology.
www.classics.unc.edu /facilities/acklandartmuseum/index.html   (146 words)

  
 Books on Ackland Art Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art in and Out of Africa offers the opportunity to discover an exciting cultural dialogue at the crossroads where the influences of Western and African art traditions intersect.
Despite diversity of media, technique, and form, these African and African American artworks and the artists who created them are united by a rich network of connections, exchanges, and associations generated from both shores of the Middle Passage.
Paintings, mixed media, sculptures, and ceramics reflect issues of identity while expressing beauty, pulsating rhythms, and a sense of improvisation among bursts of color and quieter, more co...
books.bankhacker.com /Ackland+Art+Museum   (403 words)

  
 UNC Virtual Tour - Ackland Art Museum
About 32,000 people per year visit the Ackland Art Museum, which is located on Columbia Street.
William Hayes Ackland was actually unknown the University at the time of his death.
One catch to the donation was that he had to be buried inside the museum.
www.ibiblio.org /unctour/tour/tb-ackl.html   (128 words)

  
 Chinese and Japanese Art History Virtual Library
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Assistant Curator for Indian, Southeast Asian and Himalayan art
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Ackland Curatorial Fellowship in Asian Art
Chazen Museum of Art (formerly Elvehjem Museum of Art), University of Wisconsin
www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/fineart/html/chinese/index.html   (833 words)

  
 Art Museums - United States
Comprehensive listing of fine art museums in the United States.
These museums feature modern and contemporary art, fine art photography, traditional art, and present major traveling exhibitions.
Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn) Corning Museum of Glass (Corning)
www.art-collecting.com /museums.htm   (269 words)

  
 Ackland Art Museum - Criticadelibros.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle: An Exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Susan Ehrlich UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Oakland Museum Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art
Drawings by Michelangelo in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, the Ashmolean Museum, the British Museum and other English coll...
www.criticadelibros.org /Ackland-Art-Museum/2   (323 words)

  
 Chapel Hill NC museums, Durham, Raleigh Museums, North Carolina,
CHAPEL HILL MUSEUM, 523 E. Franklin St. 967-1400.
DUKE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART, East Campus, Durham.
MUSEUM OF LIFE AND SCIENCE, 433 Murray Ave., Durham.
www.lynnhayes.com /neighbors/museums.htm   (34 words)

  
 ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Part 14 21st-Century Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Chinati Foundation (a contemporary art museum near Marfa, Texas, based upon the ideas of its founder, Donald Judd)
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield (Connecticut)
Museet for Samtidskunst (Museum of Contemporary Art), Roskilde (Denmark)
www.conmeg.com /sub/artpage/ART/ARTH21stcentury.html   (563 words)

  
 :: Ackland E-News ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Join Ackland E-News to find out about gallery openings, upcoming exhibitions, visiting artists, concerts, lectures and much more.
You'll receive no more than 4 announcements per month.
* The Ackland Art Museum will not share your personal information with other organizations.
www.unc.edu /gform-links/ackland/enews/subscribe.html   (41 words)

  
 Humbul full record view for -- Screens and scrolls : Japanese painting from the Ackland art museum
Screens and Scrolls : Japanese Painting from the Ackland Art Museum is a Web site created as a teaching tool to accompany an exhibition held at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire in 2000.
The Gallery section provides a virtual tour of the exhibition, which is divided into: albums; folding screens; hand scrolls; and hanging scrolls.
The Humbul Humanities Hub is a service of the Resource Discovery Network funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is hosted by the University of Oxford.
www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=14061&sub=japanese&ref=subout   (234 words)

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