Craft, compatible prettiness, is in the eye of the beholder, on the contrary you can a museum that has what you coextensive.
Craft is subjective, and getting persons to comply to what constitutes Craft isn't always clear. Some of the objects exhibited in museums nowadays wouldn't carry been considered artistic at all when they were produced. There are thousands of Craft museums in the USA, and all of them, if private or popular, preserve and indicate works created using skill and belief.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fashionable York's Metropolitan Museum of Craft had 5,240,000 visitors during the fiscal year that ended in The middle of summer 2010. Museum Employer Thomas Campbell told Craft Diurnal that such gigantic attendence during a withdrawal "sends a vocable approximately the enduring import of cultural institutions to the regular." Among the most habitual of the Met’s virgin exhibitions are the works of Vermeer and Picasso.
Metropolitan Museum of Craft
1000 Fifth Ave.
Current York, Latest York 10028-0198
212-535-7710
metmuseum.org
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The Museum of In fashion Craft Chicago establish an attendence register with 164,946 visitors in 2009. Its troop focuses on in fashion works from 1945 to the begun, and its strengths count paintings and sculptures done by surrealist and minimalist artists. Conceptual photography, video installations and profession by resident Chicago artists are very chip of the museum’s 2,500 collection aggregation.
The San Diego Museum of Art1450 El PradoBalboa ParkSan Diego, CA 92101
Chicago, IL 60611
312-280-2660
mcachicago.org
The High Museum of Art
The Aerial Museum of Craft in Atlanta, Georgia, has seen an burgeoning in admissions owing to a three-year Craft loan programme with the Louvre in Paris. Upcoming exhibitions carry 40 paintings by Salvador Dalí; Venetian Renaissance works by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese; and an display of posters and prints by Toulouse-Lautrec and other artists who worked in Paris in the late 19th century.
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree St., N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309
404-733-4400
high.org
The Heard Museum
Phoenix, Arizona's Heard Museum is the country's foremost museum dedicated to the culture and art of the American Indian. The Heard collection is still evolving as curators collect work art from 21st century Indian artists. The Heard’s signature exhibit is HOME: Native People in the Southwest, a collection of more than 500 kachina dolls; 2,000 pieces of native-made jewelry, fetishes, rugs, blankets, baskets, beadwork, and pottery; and life-sized exhibits depicting the interiors of a Navajo hogan, a Hopi piki room and a Yaqui ramada.
Heard Museum
2301 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85004
602-252-8848
heard.org
The San Diego Museum of Art
The San Diego Museum of Art at Balboa Park, Southern California’s oldest and largest art museum, has a permanent collection that spans the globe. Its collection includes old world European Renaissance and Baroque masters; 19th- and 20th-century American art by Georgia O’Keefe, Asher Durand and Mary Cassatt; and art from Latin America and Asia. The oldest piece in the collection is from 5,000 B.C., while the newest are contemporary works by artists in Africa and Oceania.
The Museum of Ongoing Craft Chicago220 E. Chicago Ave.
619-232-7931
sdmart.org
The Seattle Art Museum
The Seattle Art Museum is a world-class museum with acres of exhibition space. The art starts outside with a 3-story sculpture and moves inside with the museum's 23,000-piece permanent collection. Most of the collection is modern and contemporary, but SAM is also known for its large collection of Northwest Indian art. Other works are from Africa, Europe, Australia and the Middle East.
The Seattle Art Museum
1300 First Ave.
Seattle, WA 98101
206-654-3100
Seattleartmuseum.org
