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Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.)
Abungu, George
Accademia (Venice, Italy)
acquisition: criteria for; provenance; quality in; as self-reflexive; through colonialism; universal humanist mission and. See also collections; looted art
Acropolis
Adam, T. R.
Address on the Practical Value of the American Museum (Cesnola)
admission charges: advent of; attendance and; at blockbusters; elitism and; free; Gilman's resistance to; increases in
advertising
Aegina Marbles
aestheticism
African Americans
African art: display philosophy regarding; increased interest in; museums; provenance of; restitution/repatriation issues; trafficking in
African Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Homme exhibition (MoMA; 1985)
African Negro Art exhibition (MoMA; 1935)
Africa: The Art of a Continent exhibition (London; 1995)
Albani collection
Albini, Franco
Albright Gallery (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Alexandre, Arsène
Alexandria (Egypt), mouseion at
Algarotti, Francesco
All Sorts and Conditions of Men (Besant)
Al-Saud. See Saud
Altarpiece of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist (Memling)
Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany)
Altes Museum (Berlin, Germany): architecture of; art/architecture synthesis at; collections of; Louvre influence on; mission of; opening of; popularity of
Altman, Benjamin
American Association of Museums; commercialism debated at; conference (Met; 1917); corporate sponsorship guidelines issued by; first post-WWII meeting of (1946); Hoving's address to
American Association of Museums (continued) (1968); indigenous museums and; Museums for a New Century; protest at meeting of; restitution/repatriation issues and
Anacostia Museum (Washington, D.C.)
Ando, Tadeo: art/architecture dichotomy and; light as treated by; museum construction boom and; museums designed by
Andreae, Johann Valentin
Angerstein, John Julius
antimaterialism
Antwerp (Belgium)
Apollo Belvedere
Appiah, Kwame Anthony
applied arts. See decorative arts
Arc du Carrousel (Paris, France)
Archipenko, Alexander
The Architect and the Industrial Arts exhibition (Met; 1929)
architecture, art museum; additions and; antimodernist backlash; art/architecture dichotomy; art/architecture synthesis; Beaux Arts!; civic/symbolic value of; classical temples; collections and; display and; expansion space allowed in; functionalism in; high attendance and (see Bilbao effect); historical origins of; internal flexibility of; modernist; monumentality in; multiculturalism reflected in; new, debate over; “nonarchitectural,” Pompidou era; traditional values in
architecture, commercial
Arch of Titus (Rome, Italy)
Argentina
Aristotle
Armani, Giorgio
Arnold, Matthew; on culture and education; on culture and social class; on culture as unifier; influence on museums; materialism feared by
art: African objects displayed as, commerce and; commodification of; in department stores; entertainment vs.; as global phenomenon; historicity of; non-European, L44; “politicization” of; postmodern; purpose of; restorative powers of; smuggling of
art academies
art appreciation: courses; public preferences for; as useful recreation
art collectors
art history; revisionist, H5; university courses in
Art in Our Time exhibition (MoMA; New York, N.Y.; 1939)
Art Institute of Chicago
“Art-in-Trade” expositions
artists, as museum public
Art Loss Register
Art Museum in America, The (Pach)
art museums: Cold War and democratization of; diversity in; functions of, i; mission statements of (see also universal humanist mission); popularity of; power structure within; as ritualized religious structures; as shopping malls; as sites for international dialogue; as sites for moral improvement; as theme parks; as tombs; as utopian spaces-ii; as Western invention; WWI and; WWII and
Art of the Middle Ages exhibition (Boston MFA; 1945)
Arts and Crafts movement
Art Treasures Exhibition (Manchester, England; 1857)
Art Union of London
Art Workers' Coalition (AWC)
Asian art: cultural diversity programs and; display philosophy regarding; museums; provenance of; trafficking in
Asia Society (New York, N.Y.)
Association of Art Museum Directors
Atlanta (Ga.)
attendance: admission charges and; at blockbusters; commercialism and; economic reasons for promoting; educational programming and; minority visitation targets; permanent collections and; social class and; temporary exhibitions and
Atwood, Charles B.
audience research
audiovisual aids
Augustus III (king of Poland, elector of Saxony)
Aulenti, Gae
Australian Aboriginal materials, museums and
Austria
Bach, Richard
Bacon, Francis
Baczko, Bronislaw
Baltimore Museum of Art
Bamberger, Louis
Bann, Stephen
Barbier, Luc
Barcelona (Spain)
Bargrave, John
Barnes, Alfred
Barnes, Edward Larrabee
Barnett, Henrietta
Barnett, Samuel
Barr, Alfred: display philosophy of; exhibitions organized by; modern art flowchart devised by; modernist architecture and; on MoMA Native American exhibition (1941)
Barthes, Roland
Bataille, Georges
Baudrillard, Jean
Baule: African Art/Western Eyes exhibition (1997)
Bavarian Museum (Munich, Germany)
Bazin, Germain
Beach, Milo
Beaux Arts museum design
Beha, Ann
Bel Geddes, Norman
Belgium
Bellagio Resort (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Belvedere Palace (Vienna, Austria)
Benin Bronzes
Benjamin, Walter
Bennett, Tony
Benoist, Luc
Berkheim, Carl Christian
Berlin (Germany)
Berthault, Pierre-Gabriel, Triumphal Entry of the Monuments of the Arts and Sciences
Besant, Walter
Beyeler Foundation (Basel, Switzerland)
Bhaba, Homi
Bigelow, William
Bilbao effect: backlash against; defined; success of; urban planning and; worldwide imitation efforts
Birmingham (England)
The Birth of Impressionism exhibition (Glasgow, Scotland; 1997)
Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC)
Black Panthers
Blair, Tony
Blake, Peter
blockbuster exhibitions: admission fees at; advantages/disadvantages of; advertising for; corporate sponsorship of; costs of mounting; defined; era of; first; public taste and; restitution/repatriation issues at; rise of; shifting museum priorities regarding; shops accompanying; at small museums
Bloomingdale's (department store)
Bode, Wilhelm von
Boissy d'Anglas, François Antoine de
Bologna, Armistice of (1796)
Borel, Pierre
Borghese Warrior
Botta, Mario
Boullée, Etienne-Louis; influence of; museum plans of; postmodernism and
Bourdieu, Pierre
bourgeoisie
Boymans Museum (Rotterdam, Netherlands), !3°
branch museums. See also specific branch
Breck, Joseph
Brera (Milan, Italy)
Breuer, Marcel
Brigham, Charles
British Museum; alternative museums and; display philosophy at; Great Court; Louvre influence on; minority visitation targets at; mission statement of; as repository of global heritage; restitution/repatriation issues at; Rosetta Stone in; 250th anniversary of. See also Elgin Marbles
British Parliament
Brooklyn (N.Y.), Seminar on Neighborhood Museums
Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, N.Y.); commercial orientation of; corporate sponsorship at; display philosophy at; expansion space allowed in; populism at
Brown, J. Carter
Bryant, William Cullen
Buffalo Museum of Science
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de
Bunshaft, Gordon
Burke, Edmund
Burlington Magazine
Burtin, François-Xavier de
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
Cachin, Françoise
Calatrava, Santiago
Campanella, Tomasso
Campin, Robert
Canaday, John
Canaletto
Canova, Antonio
capitalism
Carnegie, Andrew
Carter, Holland
Cassatt, Mary
Centennial Exposition (Philadelphia, Pa.; 1876)
Center for African Art (New York, N.Y.)
Cesnola, Luigi di
Cézanne, Paul
Chalcographie Nationale
Chanel, House of
Chicago (Ill.): Century of Progress Fair (1933); Columbian Exposition (1893); public outreach programs in
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Byron)
China
Chinati Foundation (Marfa, Tex.)
Chirac, Jacques
Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie-Gabriel de, comte
Christianopolis (Andreae)
Church of Notre-Dame (Bruges, Belgium)
Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Circa 1492 exhibition (National Gallery; Washington, D.C.; 1992)
City Beautiful movement
City of the Sun (Campanella)
civil rights movement
Clark Art Institute
Clark, Kenneth
classification; artist/chronology; clarification of; early modern paradigms; floor plans and; modern methods; nonhierarchical; postmodern awareness of; public and M9; school/history; significance of
class, social: collecting/display patterns and; culture and; museum attendance and; museum critique and. See also elite; elitism; middle class; working class
Clerides, Glafcos
Cleveland Art Museum
Clifford, James
Clinton, William Jefferson
Cloisters, The (New York, N.Y.)
Clore Gallery (Tate Britain)
Cold War
Cole, Henry: influence of; on museums vs. fairs; as South Kensington Museum founder; Victorian ideals of. See also South Kensington Museum
Coleman, Laurence
Coles, Robert
Colisée (Paris, France)
collections; acquisition criteria, iii; arrangement of; attendance and; blockbuster exhibitions and; commercialism and; display decisions; as Eurocentric—15; imperial, management of; multiculturalism and; museum architecture and; museum democratization and; as museum priority; overcrowded; public education vs.; as recreation; significance of; traveling. See also acquisition; classification; display; non-European collections
Collector's Living Room (installation; Wilson)
colonialism: cultural treasures acquired through; display philosophy and; interest in world art traditions expanded through; restitution/repatriation issues and
Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.)
Columbian Exposition (Chicago, Ill.; 1893)
commercialism; advantages/disadvantages of; aestheticism vs.; controversy over; defined; department store/museum collaborations; design exhibitions; historical perspective; increases in; museum architecture and; museum democratization and; museum popularity and; press coverage of; public attitudes toward; utilitarianism and. See also blockbuster exhibitions; corporate sponsorship; shops/restaurants, museum
Commission on African and Asian Heritage (UK)
communist museology
comparative hangs
concerts
Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de
Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets (Washington, D.C.; 1998)
Conn, Steven
consumer society
Contemporary Voices exhibition (MoMA; 2005)
contextualization: at applied arts museum; confiscated art and!; of non-European art; suppression of; of Western art, See also period rooms/settings
Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (1970)
Coolidge, Charles
Coolidge, John
Coomaraswamy, Ananda
copyists
corporate sponsorship: benefits of; of blockbusters; censorship and; conflicts of interest in; increases in; of museums, controversy over; public attitudes toward
Correggio, Antonio da, St. Jerome
cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Appiah)
Cospi, Ferdinando
Courtauld Gallery (London, England)
Coypel, Charles-Antoine
Cram, Ralph Adams
Cret, Paul
Crimp, Douglas
Cross, Henri-Edmond
Crystal Palace (London)
culture: common, as replacement for religion; democratization of; urban renewal and
Culture and Anarchy (Arnold)
culture wars
Cummings, Carlos
Cuno, James
curators, museum: “art first” ideals of; collection improvement by, H3; commercialism and; diversity and; as elite; etymology of; in museum hierarchy; professional museum conferences and; professional, rise of; relationship with public; wall labels signed by
curiosity cabinets
Cuypers, P. J. H.
Cyprus
Dale, Chester
Dallas Art Museum (Dallas, Tex.)
D'Amico, Victor
Dana, John Cotton: on curators and public; on department stores and art; educational programming of; influence of; Low on; utilitarian ideals of. See also Newark Museum
Darbel, Alain
Daumier, Honoré
David, Jacques-Louis
Dayton Art Institute (Dayton, Ohio)
Deane, Thomas
“Declaration on the Importance and Value of Universal Museums” (2002); text
decorative arts: display philosophy regarding (see also period rooms/settings); exhibitions; “high” arts distinguished from; museums (see also South Kensington Museum)
Degas, Edgar
Degenerate Art exhibition (Munich, Germany; 1937)
democratization of museums; commercialism and; controversy over; during Enlightenment; postmodernism and; during Progressive era; shifting museum priorities regarding; Victorian ideals and. See also education programs, museum-based
Denmark
Denon, Dominique-Vivant
Denver (Colo.)
department stores: museum collaborations with; as museum rivals; origins of; as source of artistic inspiration
Descartes, René
Design Afoot exhibition (San Francisco MoMA; 1995–2000)
design exhibitions
design schools
Des Moines Art Center (Des Moines, Iowa)
Destrée, Jules
Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Mich.)
Deutsche Bank
De Young Museum (San Francisco, Calif.)
D'Harnoncourt, René
Dia: Beacon (New York, N.Y.)
Dillis, Georg von
display; alternative installations; architecture and; cultural criteria behind; debate over; early modern paradigms; functionalist emphasis on; of masterpieces; modern methods; museum fatigue and; as museum priority; of non-European art; non-European vs. European art; period rooms/settings; postmodern; public education programs and; showmanship and; significance of; simplification of; theme-oriented. See also contextualization; lighting; non-European collections; wall labels
diversity: in museum audiences; in museum collections; targets. See also multiculturalism
docent programs/tours
Dresden (Germany)
Drexler, Arthur
Dreyfuss, Henry
Duccio di Buoninsegna; Madonna and Child; Maestà
Duffus, R. L.
Dulwich College Picture Gallery
Duncan, Carol
Dunhuang (China)
Dürand, Jean-Nicolas-Louis
Dusseldorf (Germany)
Duveen, Joseph
École centrale d'architecture (Paris, France)
École Royale Gratuite de Dessin (Paris, France)
Ecomuseums
education programs, museum-based; architecture and; audiovisual aids; branch museums; classes; collection priorities vs.; conservative attitudes toward; criticism of; display improvements for; docent programs/tours; growth of; humanist mission behind; museum attendance and; public access and; public preferences for; shifting museum priorities regarding; social connection stressed in; staff profes-sionalization
educators
Egypt: blockbuster exhibitions and; restitution/repatriation issues in
Egyptian Museum (Berlin, Germany)
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Electoral Gallery (Dusseldorf, Germany)
Elgin Marbles: British acquisition of; in British Museum; critical reception of; defined; as European heritage; Louvre and; repatriation demanded for
Elgin, Thomas Bruce earl of
elite, as art public
elitism
Elliot Marbles
Elliot, Walter
Ellis, Adrian
Elsen, Albert
encyclopedic museums
England: display strategies in; minority visitation targets in; museum attendance in; postmodern installations in; repatriation of Napoleonic booty and
Enlightenment: classification methods; confiscated art and; Louvre and; museum architecture and; Napoleon and; public/art relationship during; utopianism during
entertainment
Entretiens (Félibien)
ethnic museumsm
ethnography museums
Euphronios Krater
Eustace, John
Excellence and Equity
exhibitions; conservative attitudes toward; corporate sponsorship and early; experimental; as interventions; Islamic art; museum democratization and; popularization of; provenance displayed at; public, advent of; restitution/ repatriation and; revenue from; shifting museum priorities regarding; socially oriented; theme-oriented; traveling; during WWII. See also blockbuster exhibitions
ExitCongoMuseum exhibition (Tervuren, Belgium; 2000)
Exposition Internationale (Paris; 1937)
Fabianski, Marcin
Fairbanks, Arthur
Fairbrother, Trevor
Falk, Peter
Family of Man exhibition (MoMA, N.Y.; 1955)
Félibien, André
Fenollosa, Ernest
Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Ill.)
Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Sculpture exhibition (Berlin; ca. 1904)
Findlen, Paula
Fine Arts Palace (Chicago Columbian Exposition; 1893)
Fisher, Philip
Flaubert, Gustave
Flavin, Dan
floor plans
Focillon, Henri
Fogg Museum (Harvard University)
Fort Worth (Tex.)
Foster, Norman
Foucault, Michel
French Revolution
Frick, Henry Clay
Friedrich III, Kaiser
“Friends of Steve” advertising campaign
Friésé, Charles
Fry, Roger
galleries: functionalism in; simplification of; single-artist; “white cube”
Gallery of Hôryûji Treasures (Tokyo, Japan)
Gardner, Isabella Stewart
Gates, Jay
“gazing museums”
Gehry, Frank. See also Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)
General Motors Pavilion (World's Fair; 1939)
Geneva Convention
German Art of the Twentieth Century exhibition (Royal Academy; London; 1985)
Germanic Museum (Nuremburg, Germany)
Germany: decorative arts museums in; museum autonomy in; museum reform in; museum traditions in; Napoleonic art confiscation from; Nazi-era loot in. See also Nazi Germany
Gesta Grayorum (Bacon)
Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.): architecture of; collections of; commercialism and; restitution/repatriation issues at
Gilman, Benjamin Ives: as aestheticist; Boston MFA democratization initiatives of; on democratization of museums; influence of; on labels vs. exhibits; on money and art; museum architecture and; on museum fatigue; on museums and humanitarianism; opposition to; skiascope of; South Kensington method criticized by. See also Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
Giotto, Saint Francis
Giuliani, Rudolph
Glasgow Museums (Glasgow, Scotland)
Glyptothek (Munich, Germany)
Goldberger, Paul
Gondoin, Jacques
Goode, George Brown
Goodwin & Stone
Goodwin, Philip
Goodyear, A. Conger
Gopnik, Adam
Gorham Corporation
Goudstikker collection (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Gould, Stephen Jay
Great Depression
Great Exhibition of 1851 (London, England)
Greece, Elgin Marbles repatriation and
Greeley, Horace
Green & Wicks
Greenberg, Clement
Greenblatt, Stephen
Greenwood, Thomas
Grégoire, Abbé
Grimm, Jacob
Gros, Antoine-Jean
Guarded View (mixed media display; Wilson)
Guatemala
Guerilla Girls
Guggenheim/Hermitage (Las Vegas, Nev.)
Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain): architecture of; art/architecture dichotomy at; backlash against; civic orientation of; museum construction boom and; popularity of. See also Bilbao effect
Guggenheim Museum (New York, N.Y.); architecture of; art/architecture dichotomy at; branch construction; commercialism at; corporate sponsorship at; Haacke exhibition canceled at; humanist mission of; opening of
Guggenheim, Solomon
Guild of St. George
Haacke, Hans
Hadid, Zaha
Hagedorn, C. L. von
Hague Convention
Hamburg (Germany)
Hamilton, George Heard
Hamilton, William Richard
Hanks, Nancy
Harlem on My Mind exhibition (Met; New York, N.Y.; 69)
Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (ed. Inala and Koolhas)
Harvard University: Fogg Museum; museum conference at (1988); Museum Course at; Sackler Museum
Harvey, Emily Dennis
Haskell, Francis
Hatshepsut statue, repatriation of
Hautecoeur, Louis
Hawas, Zahi
Hawkinson, Tim
Hawley, Anne
Haydon, Benjamin Robert
Hayward Gallery (London, England)
Hazlitt, William
Hearn, George
Herkomer, Hubert von
Hermitage (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Herzog & de Meuron
He Shuzhong
Hess, Dame Myra
Hess, John
Heyman, I. Michael
High Museum (Atlanta, Ga.)
Hip-Hop Nation exhibition (Brooklyn Museum; 2000)
Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, D.C.)
Hirt, Alois
history museums
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell
Hobhouse, John Cam
Hoffman, Frederick
Holl, Steven
Holocaust
Holocaust Museum (Washington, D.C.)
Hood, Raymond
Horniman Museum (London, England)
House, John
House of Chanel
Houston, Abigail
Hoving, Thomas: curatorial response to; as social activist; socially relevant blockbusters organized by
Howe, George
Howe, Thomas Carr
Hughes, Robert
Hulten, Pontus
humanism. See universal humanist mission
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
Huntington, Henry
Hutchinson, Charles
Huyghe, René
Huyssen, Andreas
Hyde, Sarah
Hyokeikan Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
IBM
Icelandic texts, repatriation of
Imperial Gallery (Vienna, Austria)
impressionism
Impressions of France exhibition (Boston MFA; 1995)
Impressions of Light exhibition (Boston MFA; 2002)
India
indigenous museums
International Council on Museums (ICOM)
International Museums Office
International Style
Introduction to Twentieth-Century Design exhibition (MoMA; 1959)
Iran Ministry of Culture
Iraq
Iraq War (2003–)
Irwin, Robert
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, Mass.)
Islamic art
Isozaki, Arato
Italy; classical antiquities looted from; Greek art copied in; museum privatization in; Napoleonic art confiscation in; Napoleon's campaign in. See also specific place
Ivins, William M.
James, Henry
Japan
Japan Society (New York, N.Y.)
Japonisme
Jessop, Thomas
Jeu de Paume (Paris, France)
Jevons, William Stanley
Jewish Museum (Berlin, Germany)
Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Johnson, Howard
Johnson, Philip
Judd, Donald
Julius II, Pope
Kahn, Louis
Kaiser-Friedrich Museum (Berlin, Germany)
Kant, Immanuel
Kassel (Germany)
Kaufmann, Edgar, Jr.
Kelly, Ellsworth
Kent, Henry Watson
Kersaint, Armand-Guy
Kiesler, Frederick
Kimball, Fiske
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, Tex.)
Kimmelman, Michael
Kinard, John
Kingsley, Charles
King Tut exhibition (1970s)
Klenze, Leo von
Knight, Christopher
Koolhas, Rem
Korte, Willi
Krahe, Lambert
Kramer, Hilton
Krens, Thomas
Kress, Samuel
Kröller-Müller Museum (otterlo, Netherlands)
Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Austria)
Kunst und Wunderkammer. See curiosity cabinets
labeling. See wall labels
The Label Show exhibition (Boston MFA; 1994)
Labeltalk 1996 exhibition (Williams College Museum of Art)
La Bruyère, Jean de
Landscapes of France exhibition (Hayward Gallery; London; 1995)
Lagerfeld, Karl
Lang, Jack
Las Vegas (Nev.)
Latin American art
Lawrence, Thomas
League of Nations
Leavitt, Thomas
Lebrun, Jean-Baptiste-Pierre
Le Clerc, Sébastien
Le Corbusier
Lee, Sherman
Legati, Lorenzo
Lenoir, Alexandre
Leonardo da Vinci, Ginevra de' Benci. See also Mona Lisa
Leopold Foundation (Vienna, Austria)
Lescaze, William
Letters to Miranda (Quatremère de Quincy)
Lever, Ashton
Lever Museum, Sir Ashton (London, England)
Libeskind, Daniel
Lichtwark, Alfred
lighting; alternative uses of; display philosophy and; electric/gas; museum architecture and; natural; for non-European art; public access and; Seager system; side; spot (“boutique”); top
Linnaeus, Carl
loans
Locke, John
Loewy, Raymond
loft museums
London (England): exhibitions in; Great Exhibition of 1851; museum construction in; museum investment in; public access in; terrorist attacks in; working class areas of; during WWII. See also British Museum; National Gallery; Tate entries; specific museum
London, Jack
Long, Richard, Red Slate Circle
looted art: from developing countries; in Napoleonic Louvre; Naziera; through treaty agreements; trafficking in. See also restitution/repatriation
Loring, Charles
Louis, Morris, Overhang
Louis XVI (king of France)
Louis Vuitton
Louvre Museum (Paris, France): acquisition policies at; admission charges at; artistic portrayals of; branch construction; collections of; commercialism at; decorative arts banished from; display philosophy at; Grand Gallery; inauguration of; influence of; Islamic wing; lighting at; Mona Lisa lent by; Napoleonic booty in; Napoleonic booty repatriated from; Napoleon married in; opening of; popularity of; as public museum; Pyramid; tourist market at; utopian ideals behind
Louvre II (Lens, France)
Love of Art, The (Bourdieu)
Lowry, Glenn
Low, Theodore
Luxembourg Museum (Paris, France)
Luxembourg Palace (Paris, France)
Lynes, Russell
MacGregor, Neil
Machine Art exhibition (MoMA; 1934)
Mackenzie, Frederick, The Original National Gallery at J. J. Angerstein's House, Pall Mall
Maclagen, Eric
MacLeish, Archibald
Macy's (department store)
Madrid (Spain); museum conference at (1934)
Magao Caves (Dunhuang, China)
Magiciens de la Terre exhibition (Pompidou Center; Paris, France; 1989)
Mali
Malraux, André
Manchester (England)
Mancini, Giulio
Manson, J. B.
Marie-Louise of Austria
Marron, Donald
Marshall Field's (department store)
Martin, Jean-Hubert
Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman exhibition (Boston MFA; 1998–99)
Maryland Historical Society
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
materialism
Mather, Frank Jewett
Ma, Yo-Yo
McAndrew, John
Mead, Margaret
Mechel, Chrétien de
medieval art
Meier-Graefe, Julius
Meier, Richard: on art/architecture balance; light as treated by; museum construction boom and; museums designed by
Mellon, Ailsa
Mellon, Paul
Melton, Arthur
memberships
Memling, Hans
Memling Museum (Bruges, Belgium)
Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)
Mercati, Michele
Merchandise Mart
Mercier, Louis-Sébastien
Mercouri, Melina
Merode Altarpiece (Campin)
Merryman, John Henry
Mesoamerican antiquities
Metallotheca (Mercati)
Metalwork (installation; Wilson)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); admission charges at; aestheticism vs. utilitarianism at; alternative museums and; attendance at; blockbuster exhibitions at; branch construction plans of; collections of; commercialism at; corporate-sponsored events at; department store collaborations with; department stores as rival to; display philosophy at; Guggenheim and; Harlem on My Mind exhibition (1969); integrated period settings at; mission of; museum democratization at; non-European collections/exhibitions at; public education programs at; restitution/repatriation issues at; technical school closed
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin
Michelangelo, Virgin and Child (Bruges)
middle class; art museums as preserves of; culture and
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
Mignard, Pierre, Marquise de Seignelay and Two of Her Sons
Milton, Henry
Milwaukee Art Museum
Mining the Museum exhibition (Maryland Historical Society; 1992)
Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, Minn.)
mission, of museums. See universal humanistmission
mission statements
Mitterand, François
Modena (Italy)
MoMA-Poll (Haacke)
Mona Lisa (painting; Leonardo da Vinci)
Moneo, Rafael
Monet, Claude; Water Lilies (1904); Water Lilies (ca. 1916)
Monet in the 90s exhibition (Boston MFA; 1990)
Monet in the 20th Century exhibition (Boston MFA; 1998)
Montebello, Philippe de: on acquisition goals; on art/architecture dichotomy; on commercialism; on corporate sponsorship; on museum priorities; on provenance research; on restitution/ repatriation; as traditionalist
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (section of the Allied armies in WWII)
Morey, Charles Rufus
Morgan, J. P.
Morris & O'Connor
Morris, Rudolph
Morris, William
multiculturalism
Mumford, Lewis
Mundaneum project
Munich (Germany)
Munro, Thomas
Muschamp, Herbert
Musée Arlatan (Arles, France)
Musée Carnavalet (Paris, France)
Musée de Cluny (Paris, France)
Musée du Quai Branly (Paris, France)
Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, France)
Musée des arts et métiers (Paris, France)
Musée des Beaux Arts (Caen, France) Musée d'Orsay (Paris, France)
Musée Lécuyer (Saint-Quentin, France)
Musée Mondial (Le Corbusier)
Musée Picasso (Paris, France)
Musée Royal de l'Afrique Central (Tervuren, Belgium)
Museo Correr (Venice, Italy)
Museo Cospiano (Legati)
Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.)
Museo Poldi Pezzoli (Milan, Italy)
museum construction; additions; cultural dialogue as trope in; increases in; museum democratization and; reasons for
Museum Course (Harvard)
museum critique; architecture; culture of; diversity and; goals of; social class and museum attendance; tropes of; as utopian
museum fatigue
Museum for a Small City (Mies van der Rohe)
The Museum: Mixed Metaphors exhibition (Seattle Art Museum; 1993)
Museum of Contemporary Art (Barcelona, Spain)
Museum of Contemporary Art (Naoshima, Japan)
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.): admission charges at; advertising campaigns of; aestheticism vs. utilitarianism at; annual report of; architecture of; art/architecture debate at; attendance at; blockbuster exhibitions at; collections of; commercialism at; corporate sponsorship at; experimental exhibitions at; local government support of rejected; non-European collections at; partnerships; post attendance at; public education programs at; restitution/repatriation issues at; West Wing addition
Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, Tex.)
Museum of French Monuments (Paris, France)
Museum of Modern Art (Fort Worth, Tex.)
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA; New York, N.Y.): admission charges at; aestheticism of; alternative museums and; architect hired for; architecture of; Art in Our Time exhibition (1939); blockbuster exhibitions at; city views at; collections of; commercialism at; corporate sponsorship at; crowds at; design exhibitions at; display philosophy at; Family of Man exhibition (1955); Information show (1970); Internet partnership; lighting at; mission of; as museological model; museum democratization at; new building (2004); non-European exhibitions at; opening of; “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art exhibition (1984–85); thematic displays at; Timeless Aspects of Modern Art exhibition (1948–49)
Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, Calif.)
Museum of Primitive Art (New York, N.Y.)
Museums for a New Century (1984 report)
Museum Store Association
museum tours
museum trustees
Museum without Walls (Malraux)
Nagoya Museum (Nagoya, Japan)
Al-Nahyan, Mohammed Bin Zayed
Napoleon; art confiscated by; reasoning of
National Association of Dealers in Ancient, Oriental and Primitive Art
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
National Gallery (London, England); advertisements of; aesthetic idealism of; collections of; commercialism at; display philosophy at; educational initiatives at; exhibitions at; influence of; Louvre influence on; original mission of; working class visits to; during WWII
National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.): aestheticism of; architecture of; Circa 1492 exhibition (1992); collections of; East Wing addition; floor plan for; mission statement of; Mona Lisa exhibition (1963); museum democratization at
nationalism; Elgin Marbles repatriation and
National Museum of Iraq
National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, D.C.)
National Palace Museum (Taiwan)
National Portrait Gallery (London, England)
Native American art
Native American Graves Protection Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)
Native American museums
Natural History Museum (London, England)
natural history museums
Naumann, Friedrich
Nazi Germany: art looted by; Napoleonic loot detailed by; provenance concerns and; Soviet looting in; textual interpretation in
Nefertiti bust, repatriation of
Neickel, Caspar
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount
Netherlands
Neuberger Museum (Purchase, N.Y.)
New Acropolis Museum (Athens, Greece)
Newark Museum (Newark, N.J.); commercial orientation of; education programs at; Inexpensive Objects exhibitions at; mission of; thematic displays at
New Atlantis (Bacon)
New Haven (Conn.)
New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.)
New National Gallery (Berlin, Germany)
Newport Harbor Museum (Newport Beach, Calif.)
Newton, Isaac
New York (N.Y.): alternative museums in; anti-museum protests in; museum construction boom in; World's Fair (1853); World's Fair (1939). See also Guggenheim Museum (New York, N.Y.); Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA; New York, N.Y.); specific museum
New York Historical Society
Nigeria
Nile, Battle of the (1798)
Nishizawa, Ryue
Nixon, Richard M.
non-European collections: contextualization suppressed; contextual settings for; criticism of; European displays contrasted with. See also African art; Asian art; Native American art; specific regional art
Nouvel, Jean
Nuremburg (Germany)
O'Doherty, Brian
Ofili, Chris, The Holy Virgin Mary
O'Keefe, Georgia
Old Masters: copying of; display of; minority populations and; modern interest in; Napoleonic confiscation of; prices of; in private/princely collections; public taste and; repatriation of
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Schiller)
On the Museum's Ruins (Crimp)
Order of Things, The (Foucault)
Organic Design in Home Furnishings exhibition (MoMA; 1940)
Osthaus, Karl
Ottoman Empire
Oxford Museum (Oxford, England)
Pach, Walter
Paine Webber
Pakistan, development of museum in
Palais Mazarin (Paris, France)
Palazzo Bianco (Genoa, Italy)
Palazzo Publico (Bologna, Italy)
Pantheon
Paris (France): exhibition of war-damaged works of art (1916); Exposition Internationale (1937); museum fires in; museum investment in; public access in; riots (1968). See also Louvre Museum
Parker, DeWitt
Parker, Harry S., III
Parma (Italy)
Parthenon
Parthenon Marbles. See Elgin Marbles
Paul, John Dean
Paxton, Joseph
Peel, Robert
Pei, I. M., museum additions designed by; Boston MFA West Wing; commercialism and; Louvre Pyramid; rejuvenating effect of; Washington National Gallery East Wing
period rooms/settings; decline/negation of; in German WWI reinstallations; integrated settings; personal collection museums and. See also contextualization
Perl, Jed
personal collection museums
Petropoulos, Jonathan
Phidias
Philadelphia (Pa.), Centennial Exposition (1876)
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pa.): blockbuster shops at; display philosophy at; educational initiatives at; marketing initiatives at; Sixty-ninth Street Branch Museum
philanthropy
Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.)
photomontage exhibitions
Piano, Renzo: art/architecture dichotomy and; career of; light as treated by; Menil Collection buildings designed by; museum construction boom and; Pompidou Center designed by. See also Pompidou Center
Picasso, Pablo
Piles, Roger de
Pinakothek (Munich, Germany)
Place de la Concorde, obelisk at (Paris, France)
Plans for a Contemporary Museum (Howe and Lescaze
Plato
Pollock, Jackson; Number 1 (Lavender Mist)
Polshek, James
Pompidou Center (Paris, France): admission charges at; anti-museum protests and; architecture of; city views at; civic orientation of; popularity of; postmodern influence on
Pompidou, Georges
Pope, John Russell
Portland Art Museum
postcolonialism
postmodernism; architecture; art; collection displays and; conundrums of; museum debate and; museum democratization and
Prado (Madrid, Spain)
Prague (Czech Republic), international popular arts congress in (1926)
Prendergast, Maurice
Prenner, Anton Joseph von
Preston (England)
Prichard, Matthew
Primitivism: High and Low exhibition (1991)
“Primitivism” in 20th Century Art exhibition (MoMA; 1984–85)
private/princely collections; Jewish, WWII looting of; Old Masters in; opening of, to public
Progressive era, museum democratization during
provenance
P.S. I (New York, N.Y.)
Ptolemy
public, museum-going; artists as; audience surveys of; bourgeois; classification and; commercialism as viewed by; elite as; ridicule of; teenagers as; tourists as. See also diversity
public museums: admission charges at; advent of; personal collection museums vs.; privatization of; restitution/repatriation issues at
public outreach programs; branch museums; financial support for; minority populations and; shifting museum priorities regarding
public schools, art programs in
Pulitzer Foundation of the Arts (St. Louis, Mo.)
Punch (satirical magazine)
Quadracci Pavilion (Milwaukee Art Museum)
Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine Chrysostome
Quicchelberg, Samuel
Raphael: displays of; educational programming and; in private collections; works: Madonna of the Pinks; School of Athens; Sistine Madonna; Spozalizio; Transfiguration
Rathbone, Perry
Reagan, Ronald
Rea, Paul
Rebay, Hilla
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn; Nightwatch
Rembrandt Self-Portraits exhibition (National Gallery; London; 1999)
Renaissance: Italian; exhibition (1930); museum architecture and; patronage system during
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
Rensselaer, Mariana van
repatriation. See restitution/repatriation
reproductions
respite, museums as
restaurants. See commercialism; shops/restaurants, museum
restitution/repatriation; challenges of; developing world and; domino effect in; of Elgin Marbles; ethical vs. legal issues in; of Napoleonic booty; of Nazi loot; philosophical conundrums involving; public opinion and; universal humanist mission and; utopianism and
revenues: admission charges and; blockbuster exhibitions and; corporate sponsorship and; insufficiency of; public funding
Reynolds, Joshua
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Rice, Danielle
Richards, Charles
Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Rings, Five Passions in World Art (exhibition; 1996)
Ripley, S. Dillon
Rivière, Georges-Henri
Robert, Hubert; Grand Gallery of the Louvre between 1794–96; Project for the Grand Gallery of the Louvre
Robertson, Andrew
Robertson, Bryan
Robinson, Edward
Rockefeller, David
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rockwell, Norman
Rogers, Malcolm
Rogers, Richard
Rome (Italy)
Root, John Wellborn
Rorimer, James
Rosenberg, Jakob
Rosenberg, Paul
Rosetta Stone
Ross, Denman Waldo
Rothstein, Edward
Royal Academy (London, England)
Royal Academy (Paris, France)
Royal Academy of Architecture (Paris, France)
Royal Society of the Arts (London, England)
Rubens, Peter Paul: paintings of, as Napoleonic loot; paintings of, repatriation of; Rubens Room (Electoral Museum, Düsseldorf); works: Adoration of the Magi; Descent from the Cross; Martyrdom of St. Peter; Saint Gregory
Rubin, William
Rumohr, Carl-Friedrich von
Ruskin, John: museum founded by; Victorian ideals of
Saarinen, Eliel
Saarinen Museum (Milwaukee, Wisc.)
Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi Collection
Sachs, Paul
Sackler Museum (Harvard University)
Sainsbury, Stephen, III
Salon (Paris, France)
Sanaa (architectural firm)
Sanchi, Great Stupa of
San Francisco (Calif.)
Sargent, John Singer
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Saud, Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al-
Saumarez-Smith, Charles
Scarpa, Carlo
Schapiro, Meyer
Schiele, Egon
Schiller, Friedrich von
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich; Altes Museum designed by; architectural philosophy of; influence of. See also Altes Museum
Schjeldahl, Peter
Schlegel, August Wilhelm
Schmidt-Degener, F.
Schoener, Allon
Schuster, Peter-Klaus
Scott, John
Seager lighting system
Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, Wash.)
Sejima, Kazuyo
Seligman, Thomas K.
Seminar on Neighborhood Museums (Brooklyn, N.Y.; 1969)
Sensation exhibition (Brooklyn Museum; 1999)
September 11 (2001) attacks
Serota, Nicholas
Sèvres Museum (Paris, France)
Shaw, Thurston
Sheffield (England)
Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge
shops/restaurants, museum: for blockbusters; commercialism and; controversy over; educational benefits of; growth of; museum architecture and; museum democratization and; permanent collections and; profits from; public expectation of
showmanship
Sickert, Walter
Simonetti, Michelangelo
Simonson, Lee
Singapore
Skansen (Stockholm, Sweden)
skiascope
Smith, Roberta
Smith, Sidney
Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.)
smuggling
Soane, John
social activism; AAM and; conservative attitudes toward; restitution/repatriation and; universal humanist mission and
social engagement
Soulages, Pierre
South Kensington Museum (London, England): architecture of; artistic portrayals of; attendance at; commercial orientation of; criticism of; establishment of; evening hours at; free admission at; influence of; lighting at; museum democratization at; populist goals of; programmatic incoherence at
Soviet Trophy Brigade
Soviet Union
Spain
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart, Germany)
staff, museum; diversity in; educational; increases in; PR; vocational training for. See also curators, museum
Stampart, Frans van
Stanton, Edith
Star Wars: The Magic of Myth exhibition (Houston MFA; 2001)
Steichen, Edward
Stein, Clarence
Stern, Raffaelo
St. George's Museum (Sheffield, England)
Stieglitz, Alfred
Stirling, James
Stix, Alfred
St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, Mo.)
Stockholm (Sweden)
Stone, Edward
St. Petersburg (Russia)
Strauss, Jesse
streamlining
Studio Museum of Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Sturgis, John
Stuttgart (Germany)
subsidies
Swan, Henry
Sweeney, James Johnson
Swiss National Museum (Zurich)
Sylvester, David
Taniguchi, Yoshio
Tate Britain (London, England)
Tate Gallery (London, England)
Tate Modern (London, England)
Taylor, Francis Henry
Teague, Walter
Temple of Apollo
Temple of Solomon
Temple of the Muses
Temporary contemporary (Los Angeles)
Tenniel, John
Theory of the Leisure Class (Veblen)
Timeless Aspects of Modern Art exhibition (MoMA; 1948–49)
Tintoretto, Paradise
Titian, Christ Crowned with Thorns
Toledo Art Museum (Toledo, Ohio): admission charges at; aestheticism vs. social activism at; display philosophy at; education programs at; expansion space allowed in; museum democratization at
tourism
Trinity College Museum (Dublin, Ireland)
True, Marion
Tschudi, Hugo von
Tucker, Marcia
Tuilleries Palace (Paris, France)
Turkey
Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs exhibition (2005)
Überorgan (sculpture; Hawkinson)
UBS
Uffizi Gallery (Florence, Italy)
UNESCO
United Arab Emirates
United States: art trafficking cases in; decorative arts museums in; historical sites as museums in; museum construction in; museum traditions in; restitution/repatriation issues in
universal humanist mission: aestheticism and; during Cold War during Enlightenment; mainstream claim to; multiculturalism and; post-9/11; restitution/ repatriation issues and; shifting visions of; social activism and; utilitarianism and; utopianism and; during WWI; during WWII
universal museums. See also encyclopedic museums
utilitarianism: aestheticist resistance to; commercialism and; focus changed; museum democratization and; museum mission and
utopianism
Valentiner, William
Valéry, Paul
The Value of Art exhibition (Courtauld Gallery; London; 1999)
Van der Steur, A. J.
Van de Velde, Henry
Van Dyck, Anthony
Van Gogh: Face to Face exhibition (Detroit Institute of Arts; 2000)
Van Gogh, Vincent
Varnedoe, Kirk
Vatican: Braccio Nuovo at; Louvre influence at; minerals collection in; Napoleonic art confiscation from; Napoleonic booty repatriated to; Pinacotheca; Pio-Clementino Museum; Raphael School of Athens in
Veblen, Thorstein
Velazquez, Diego, Las Meninas
Venturi, Robert
Venus de Medici
Venus de Milo
Verne, Henri
Veronese, Marriage at Cana
Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England). See also South Kensington Museum
Victorian era: cluttered displays during; museum democratization during
Vienna (Austria): Imperial Gallery; museum fires in; public access in
Vietnam War
Visconti, E. Q.
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)
Vitry, Paul
Vogel, Susan
volunteers: in museum hierarchy; women as
Waagen, Gustav
Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, Conn.)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Walker, John
Wallace Collection (London, England)
Wallach, Alan
wall labels: curatorial signing of; didactic, in communist museums; early educational initiatives and; minimization of; for non-European art; provenance neglected in; public access and
walls: adjustable; fixed; lightening of
Walsh, John
Washington (D.C.). See also National Gallery of Art
Waterloo, Battle of (1815)
Webb, Aston
Weil, Stephen
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st duke of
Wells, H. G.
“white cube” gallery
Whitney Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Widener, Joseph
Wiesbaden Manifesto
Williams College Museum of Art
Wilson, Fred; display philosophy of; Mining the Museum exhibition of (1992); as museum critic; museum experimentation and; The Museum: Mixed Metaphors exhibition of (1993); Primitivism: High and Low exhibition of (1991)
“Wittmann, Otto
women: museum democratization and; as museum volunteers
Women Artists in Revolution (WAR)
Wood, James
Woodward, Benjamin
Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, Mass.)
working class; museum classification schemes and; museum-going as palliative for
World Jewish Congress
“World Museum” (Le Corbusier)
World's Fair (New York, N.Y.; 1853)
World's Fair (New York, N.Y.; 1939)
World's Fair (Philadelphia, Pa.; 1876)
world's fairs
World War I
World War II; Nazi art looting during; Soviet looting during
Wright, Frank Lloyd. See also Guggenheim Museum (New York, N.Y.)
Wunderkammer. See curiosity cabinets
Wyeth, Andrew
Wynn, Steve
Xerox Corporation
Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, Conn.)
Yenawine, Philip
Youtz, Philip: marketing strategies employed by; museum architecture and; museum democratization and; on temporary exhibitions; utilitarian ideals of
Zimbabwe
Zix, Benjamin, The Marriage Procession of Napoleon and Marie-Louise
Zolberg, Vera
Zurich (Switzerland)