If life is moved by art, which it most certainly is, then museums are very important in assuring that people of every class have access to inspiration and motivation.

Museums also record a peoples’ and an artist’s experience within a timeframe and a social setting that place context on the work and help viewers to understand a piece and how it reflects the situations in which it was created.

The following ten contemporary art museums are of paramount importance in both the context of their location and in the sharing of information and art worldwide.

 Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art: Copenhagen

Art in Copenhagen is a merge of uniqueness and sophistication. Built in 1891 by artists for artists, this unique museum started off strong with exhibits by Gaugin and Van Gogh within three years of opening.

The architecture is art in and of itself, and its exhibits are curated by artists. Exhibits work to challenge the architectural space they are shown in. There is a special focus on exhibiting works by communities or groups of artists, especially in the realm of the experimental. Solo exhibitions are occasionally shown to present promising artists, young artists, or historically important artists.

Major works: The Den Frie typically runs 8 exhibitions per year. For Summer 2015 they showed the works of Peter Land from 2005 to present, highlighting theatrical tableaux that take a humorous look at the human psyche. The exhibit was called PSYCHOSOMATIC.

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New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA): New York City

The MoMA – Museum of Modern Art in New York is considered one of the most influential art museums in the world and the institution most responsible for the development of modern art.

It includes one of the largest collections in the world and an additional library of nearly 350,000 pieces of books and ephemera related to the history of modern art. Started by New York socialites in the 1920s and funded by philanthropy and ticket sales, this museum was the first in America to exhibit some of the most renowned works of art in the world.

Major Works: Golden Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol; Self Portrait with Cropped Hair, Frida Kahlo; The Piano Lesson, Henri Matisse; Woman, Willem de Kooning; Broadway Boogie Woogie, Piet Mondrian; The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali, Les Demoiselles D’Avignon ,Pablo Piccaso.

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Tate Modern: London

The Tate in London houses Britain’s national art collection dating back as far as 1500. With over 70,000 items in the collection, visitors can view the works of greatest artists in history for free.

The Tate Modern begins its vast collection in the era of Fauvism and moves forward to the present day. The museum is especially proud of its Turbine Hall where visitors are exposed to the works of greats such as Cezanne, Pollack, and Matisse. Turbine Hall’s massive architecture allows the museum to commission special artworks created on a large scale once a year, with the exhibition of the commissioned art lasting from October to March.

The Tate Modern begins its vast collection in the era of Fauvism and moves forward to the present day. The museum is especially proud of its Turbine Hall where visitors are exposed to the works of greats such as Cezanne, Pollack, and Matisse. Turbine Hall’s massive architecture allows the museum to commission special artworks created on a large scale once a year, with the exhibition of the commissioned art lasting from October to March.

Major Works: Wham!, Roy Lichtenstein; Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, Pablo Picasso; Swinging, Wassily Kandinsky; Autumnal Cannibalism, Salvador Dali; Cadeau, Man Ray; Untitled, Donald Judd; Bottle and Fishes, Georges Braque; Mobile, Alexander Calder, A Bigger Splash, David Hockney.

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Bauhaus Archiv: Berlin

Berlin Is The Most Fascinating And Fun To Explore Art City In The World

The Bauhaus Archiv preserves the history of the Bauhaus School, its art, teaching, architecture, and design.

This place will educate you a lot with it’s exhibits and they have a very active volunteer set who can help explain each design artifacts reside in Bauhaus.

The Bauhaus school was an influential institution that shaped the focus of 20^th century architecture, interior design, furniture, advertising, and art for both private and commercial enjoyment.

The museum’s collection contains teaching materials, architecture and design plans, photographs, and models. There is also a library and every year, workshops and other educational events are held at the museum or in its sculpture garden. The viewable collection can at times be limited, but each piece is an influential spark in modern design.

Major Works: The Bauhaus collection extends over several locations with major works including: The Encounter, Johannes Itten; Woman with Infant, Gerhard Marcks; Sommerfeld House, Walter Gropius; Tactile Board, Otti Berger; Folding Chair, Alfred Ardnt; Group of Four Black and White, Kurt Kranz; Fire in the Evening, Paul Klee.

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Neue Nationalgalerie: Berlin

Many modern art museums are important for their design as well as for their collections, and the Neue is no exception. This one is our favourite, and a must visit to explore Berlin’s art experience

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was commissioned to design the space and its adjoining gardens and this is the only building in Germany by Rohe. It is a protected monument of the State of Berlin.

The museum houses a collection of modern art, mainly of the 20^th Century including Cubism, the Bauhaus, Surrealism, and Expressionism. The permanent collection is not seen in its entirety due to the limited space of the design of the building. The collection is displayed on rotation.

Major Works: Kopf in Messing, Rudolf Belling; Memoirs of Dr. Jur. Schulze III, Werner Tubke; Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV, Barnett Newman; Komposition Z VIII Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

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M.A.K.: Ghent, Belgium

Brussels is the hippest city when it comes to the art arena. It is considered as the mecca of fashion, art and design

The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art), better known as S.M.A.K., is a riotously colourful museum dedicated to eliciting thought and reaction. Visitors describe some exhibits as “shocking” or “weird”. Their permanent collection consists mostly of post-war art with a large focus on sculpture.

Major Works: The museum’s permanent collection includes works from Karel Appel, Francis Bacon, Panamarenko, and Andy Warhol.

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Museum of Contemporary Art: Shanghai

From exotic foods and creative art galleries to its mystical temples and art deco buildings, Shanghai has a lot to offer to every traveller out there

Housed in beautiful glass building with a rooftop café that extends the exhibition space, this museum focuses on “art for the people”, a diverse collection of art from all corners of the world and every medium from painting to textiles. Recent exhibitions  have included Art in America, Nostalgia: East Asia Contemporary Art, and exhibitions showcasing fashion, such as Chanel, and digital art from Pixar.

Major Works: The MOCA does not have a permanent collection, but exhibitions have included sculptures by Oliviero Rainaldi, paintings and poems by Li Lei, and installations by Kasama Yayoi.

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Inhotim: Brazil

This unique museum is a complex of gardens and galleries featuring the best in sculptural and other forms of contemporary art.

Its focus is on the spatial relationship between art and nature. Sculptures and outdoor installations are done in large scale on a backdrop of unique outdoor landscapes that give unique perspectives to each work.

Major Works: Piscina, Jorge Macchi; De Lama Lamina, Matthew Barney; Viewing Machine, Olafur Eliasson; Boxhead, Paul McCarthy

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M+: Hong Kong

“M+” stands for “Museum and More”. In addition to the usual mediums of modern art such as installation, sculpture, and painting, the M+ also exhibits video, gaming, animation, and film works.

The museum is administered by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, and its focus is to bring the art of architecture, design, and moving works to light. An interesting project is exhibiting via Google Cultural Institute, an online exhibition platform.

Major Works: Electric City, the Neons of Hong Kong; Mobile M+ Moving Images; TV Bed, Nam June Paik; West Look East, Aisha Khalid

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Dogancay Museum: Istanbul

The Dogancay collection is housed in a stately townhouse in Istanbul created as a self-made museum by the artist Burhan Dogancay. Dogancay is known worldwide as an artist recording the collage nature of urban walls. His art at first appears abstract, but it is rather zoomed portions of walls he has seen and then painted or photographed.

The museum focuses mainly on his work, with some contributions from his father’s portfolio.

Major Works: Stellaesque, RAF, Revolution the Only Way, Whispering Wall III

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The very first art museum, the Louvre in Paris, started a movement to educate the public about art and through art. The success of the world’s first museums has led to the establishment of art museums and galleries in nearly every town and city in the world.

Contemporary art can be confusing and even baffling, but its importance in understanding the world and its variant cultures is demonstrated in the reactions and understanding of each individual that views it.

Now if you’re a fan of art festivals and fairs, read 10 must visit art festivals and fairs around the world. From small community art exhibitions to Biennale events, it gathers all players in the art industry to get involved and introduce their agendas to the ever loyal art aficionados.

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Visiting Berlin has been a dream of mine for long, but an opportunity to visit this diverse city made me realize why Berlin is known as an art lover’s paradise.

Berlin has been around, in part, since 1237 AD, specifically the part known as Colln. Berlin itself is referenced in 1244. The city is home to three UNESCO World Heritage sites, being named “UNESCO City of Design”

Berlin also boasts nine castles, six manors, three active opera houses (the most in the world), and the longest open air gallery in the world. This gallery extends the length of 1,216 meters of a surviving piece of the Berlin Wall with 105 paintings from artists from 21 countries across the world.

A city nine times bigger than Paris, with more bridges than Venice, navigable by boat with over 180 km of waterways, four universities, four art schools, residents from over 184 nations, Berlin is one of the most fascinating and fun to explore cities in the world.

If you want to learn more about what’s written in the history books, you’ve got a city to conquer and explore, and that’s Berlin. Berlin’s rich history has spread all over the world, thanks to its legendary noble scientists, philosophers, and groundbreaking artists.

Many modern art movements owe a substantial nod to the art schools and artists of Germany.

Diverse in artistic expression

The Berlin Art Scene is very diverse from the authentic street art culture of East Berlin to the sophisticated contemporary art scene of West Berlin.

When they saw the other side of the wall for the first time, East Berliners were met with a riot of color and image done in ways they had never seen before. This sparked a street art movement in East Berlin that has evolved into a very deep and moving tradition.

A book store, Neurotitan located in House 39 hackescher markt is a must visit to see what Berlin has to offer in terms of creativity!

The artist BLU creates large scale pieces that have a puzzle like message that is poignant when you see it. The artist is creative and innovative in using street art to create wall painted animations on film.

The crew 1UP has gained popularity with their simple yet beautiful tags throughout the city in uncommon and hard to reach places. They have released a documentary called One United Power, the full name of their crew.

Roland Brukner, a.k.a. Linda’sEx, is a street artist in Berlin that gained media attention from the sad and mopey figures he painted that were pining for a girl named Linda. The city became so involved in the figure’s heartbreak that radio and television followed the story. Other street artists posted responses. Museums have since exhibited the story of Linda’sEx.

The artist Alias uses carefully drawn stencils to create work that is similar to that of Banksy. His work is usually a clever pun or message and is created to fit in with the environment.

Other areas of the city have artistic subcultures as well. West Berlin his home to the Neu West Berlin, a contemporary art space of nine stories that includes studios, ateliers, event spaces, show rooms, and exhibition rooms. There are over 80 artists that work in the space.

West Berlin artists regularly meet at Enzian, a bar that was founded as a refuge for punk and new age musicians but that has become a networking hub for artists of all types to work and inspire each other across mediums.

Hosts world-renowned museums and art spaces

The city hosts art with diversity in space as well. The Sammlung Boros collection is housed in a World War II bunker, featuring renowned contemporary artists with intimate tours of 12 visitors at a time.

The Haus am Waldsee is a fairytale like villa with an adjoining sculpture garden that not only shows the greatest contemporary art to date, but is also a platform for artists that currently live and create in the city. You can even view the private collection of German art collector Thomas Olbricht in his residential space. The collection contains works from the 16th century to contemporary pieces.

Museum Island on the Spree River is a UNESCO World Heritage site that is home to five museums housed within grand examples of exquisite architecture. A lot of street art can be seen all around Berlin that has an obvious, or sometimes very subtle, anti-establishment hint in it.

The Pergamon museum houses the Pergamon altar frieze from the Pergamon acropolis.

Built as an altar of Zeus, it dates to 165 B.C. Works housed in the other four museums on Museum Island include the Bust of Nefertiti, Byzantine art, Egyptian art, Biedermeier, and others.

The Neue Nationalgalerie is one of the most influential contemporary art museums in the world. It is a National Monument of Germany and includes 20th century contemporary art and sculpture gardens.

Art Fairs with international presence

The Berlin Art Week is annual celebration of art that takes place every September. During the month, the most important art fairs in Europe. Hundreds of galleries take place in this yearly event.

Preview Berlin, an art fair that takes place in various locations, often shows work from not only emerging artists, but art students in addition to the major players in the contemporary art scene.

Art Berlin Contemporary has recently changed from a curated show that was by invite only to a full-fledged art fair that brings in curators from the world’s leading museums such as the Tate and MoMA.

Berlin’s art week is a well-organized even that also includes performances, lectures, and social receptions for networking amongst gallerists, artists, curators, and collectors.

In addition to the obvious reasons that Berlin is a visual art lover’s paradise, visitors to Berlin will be exposed to all of the culture and diversity that influences art also influencing food, music, architecture, and the performing arts.

Have you visited Berlin, if so would love to hear your thoughts.

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As a diverse melting pot of culture and people, museums across New York have all sorts of specialties represented, from Chinese, Jewish, and Hispanic art, photography, natural history, and contemporary works; there is something of interest for almost everyone.

In this list of the top 20 museums in New York, there is no doubt that you, too, will find a specialty museum that draws your interest. 

1) MoMA PS1

While it may be a relative of the famous Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Museumhttps://www.moma.org/ps1, that doesn’t mean it is just a simple or ordinary art museum. This museum is housed within an impressive Renaissance Revival public school building in Queens, Long Island City.

The museum’s setting and location are just as interesting as its fascinating collection of pieces within its art collection.

Within this collection of over 200,000 pieces of art, there is all manner of contemporary creativity displayed by artists such as James Turrell and Ai Weiwei.

Watching the eccentric types from around the city who have come to find inspiration can sometimes be just as good as looking at art.

2) The Noguchi Museum

Another museum is positioned in Long Island City; this museum was conceived by the artist Isamu Noguchi himself to be an intimate, meditative place for those who come.

Within this museum, the artist displays his abstract sculptures of geometric or globular lamps made of paper and bamboo alongside copied paper lamps across the museum’s exhibition space and through a quiet, peaceful garden outside.

Even if you are a person who is not familiar with the work of Isamu Noguchi, you have likely seen one of the artist’s light sculptures before, and this museum would capture your mind regardless of this fact. 

3) The Cloisters

As a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), the Cloisters Is located on four acres of land at Fort Tryon Park in the north of Manhattan. It is the only museum in the United States of America that is dedicated exclusively to the incredible art and architectural designs that arose in the Middle Ages. The museum overlooks the Hudson River and has chosen to incorporate a total of five medieval-inspired cloisters, which are covered walkways, typically found in convents, monasteries, and colleges within its design. As a museum for the art of the Middle Ages, providing a medieval-type architecture for the museum allows you to view art amongst such a historical backdrop.

4) New Museum

The New Museum was founded in 1977, which doesn’t make it particularly new. However, it gained new attention in 2007 when it opened a new location at Bowery, its seven-story building designed to appear as if blocks were piled on top of one another, drawing many’s interests.

This museum contains many contemporary and modern things in various mediums and tends to champion newer and lesser-known artists. Several recent shows have included the Australian painter Helen Johnson, L.A.-based filmmaker Kahlil Joseph and Philadelphia installation artist Alex Da Corte.

Due to this, the reception of exhibits can vary, and their enjoyment is widely subjective.

Perhaps this focus on lesser-known artists makes it new and causes it to be such an exciting place.

5) The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)

Perhaps one of the most well-known museums worldwide, the Met has retained its title as the cultural center of New York City for nearly a century and a half of its life.

The museum has an extensive collection of works and exhibits in its permanent collection, and the building itself, with its Gothic style, tiered steps, and location at Central Park, is quite the sight to behold.

Once inside the Great Hall and you manage to wade through the ceaseless number of museum enthusiasts taking in all the sights, incredible discoveries are to be found – such as a 2000-year-old Egyptian Temple of Dendur. 

6) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

On the Upper East Side of New York, the Smithsonian Design Museum is located within a Georgian mansion from 1902, one of the most amazing Gilded Age residences that still exist today.

A visit to this museum is worth it for the building, let alone for the collection itself, which spans centuries of work related to all things design.

This museum houses more than 200,000 pieces of work, from furniture, metalwork, sculptures, musical instruments, and pottery.

If you are not a fan of crowds, this museum is less popular than the likes of the Guggenheim and the Met, but that doesn’t make it any less worth it.

7) Rubin Museum of Art

Rubin Museum of Art, located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, is one of the museums renowned for its international art collection. Its specialty stems entirely from the Indian subcontinent; the art collection it keeps from the Himalayas and India spans as many as 1500 years and 38,000 pieces of work.

Many of its works, such as sculptures, paintings, installations, and reproductions of famous murals from the Tibetan Lukhang Temple provide the viewer an incredibly comprehensive image of the culture and artistic richness of the peoples from the Indian subcontinent.

For example, an exhibit that showcases mid-century India or Nepal’s ceremonies, festivals, and the environment by photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has been displayed in the past.

8) National Museum of the American Indian New York

The National Museum of the American Indian can be found within a former customs house at the southern tip of Manhattan in New York.

This museum is wholly dedicated to the more than 1200 indigenous peoples of the Americas and ensures that their cultures and histories are preserved and shared with as many people as possible.

Their collection contains many beaded and feathered ceremonial items and amazing traditional art pieces made of carved wood and bone.

Alongside these things, they have many detailed types of clothes and a vast array of everyday items from baskets, pottery, and instruments to photographs and archival materials.

9) American Museum of Natural History

Often credited as one of the world’s greatest natural history museums, the American Museum of Natural History can be found across Central Park, its incredible size taking up four city blocks.

Represented within this museum are all aspects of the natural world, the animals, and the people who make it up.

This includes taxidermy animals, depictions of the life of Native American tribes, marine life, dinosaur fossils, and all kind of special and immersive exhibits and shows on subjects such as humanity or the ancient world mummies of the Egyptians and Peruvians.

From the incredible sights of a life-size blue whale to the full skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the American Museum of Natural History is not to be missed.

10) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The circular concrete structure of the Guggenheim is quite a unique design and represents a departure from both the typical museum layout and the rectangular steel and glass buildings that flank it.

Inside the museum is a central ramp spiraling upwards and outwards from one floor of the structure to the next, taking the viewers throughout the exhibits in a way many other museums would never dare.

This design provides an open interior, easily lit by daylight through the glass dome on top.

As a home for Solomon R. Guggenheim’s modern art collection, including works by Picasso, Klee, Miro, Kandinsky, and many more, the Guggenheim is worth the time.

11) Whitney Museum of American Art

In 2015, the Whitney received a major upgrade following its relocation from the Upper East Side to its Meatpacking headquarters. The Whitney Museum of American Art contains a huge amount of space for indoor galleries, housing many works by artists such as Jean Michel Basquiat, Richard Avedon, and Alexander Calder, four outdoor exhibition spaces and a terrace, as well as space for a ground-floor restaurant and a top-floor bar. All the floors of the building are connected by slow-moving oft-crowded elevators designed by entire artists. Again, if crowds are an issue, stairs are always an option, where some of the upper floors and sculpture terraces have a series of staircases exterior to the building, with great views of the city skyline.

12) Tenement Museum

The Tenement Museum is a historical building, a tenement house or two on the Lower East Side.

When you have a tour of the tenements, many stories are shared of the personal histories of the people who lived there while they worked hard to build their new lives in the United States of America.

The museum can also be reached through a neighborhood walking tour, where tourists can learn how the Lower East Side of New York evolved and how the immigrant peoples who lived there caused it to be a densely populated area of the United States during the 1900s.

13) Museum of the City of New York

The Museum of the City of New York is a Colonial-era structure near the top of Central Park built entirely for the Museum of the City of New York in 1932. Today, the museum is relatively unknown, and many New Yorkers have no idea that the museum even exists.

The museum’s collection contains over 1.5 million pieces of work, incorporating all kinds and forms of pieces into its collection.

There are photographs, paintings, drawings, furniture, decoration, and manuscripts, all closely related to the history of New York City’s five boroughs.

Those who do visit do so with enthusiasm since it is a little more out of the way and specific than the interests of the average museum visitor.

14) The Morgan Library and Museum

The Morgan Library and Museum is quite a unique entry, having many different roles and purposes.

This museum is not only a museum and a library, as the name implies, but also a famous landmark, historical site, and musical venue. As you dive into the multimillionaire’s person library, which was expanded as a museum and cultural site, there are a variety of rare artifacts, paintings, and books, with some of them dating back to the earliest stages of civilization in 4000 B.C.

The museum contains one of the 23 copies of the original Declaration of Independence, Mozart’s handwritten score of the Haffner Symphony, the collected works of African American poet Phillis Wheatley, the only living manuscript of Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Charles Dicken’s manuscript of A Christmas Carol. Even one of these priceless artifacts is worth far more than your house.

15) 9/11 Memorial and Museum

Both Americans and non-Americans alike should visit the 9/11 Memorial and Museum at least once.

The Museum takes you down to the bedrock level where the foundations of the former World Trade Centre used to be.

Naturally, you are bound to be overcome by the sober and meditative sense of recalling where you were on September 11th, 2001, and how things have changed not only in America but worldwide.

The Museum itself strikes a masterful balance of the right feelings. The enormity of the loss of that day can be felt, physically and spiritually, in no small part due to the scale, construction, and execution of the site.

16) El Museo del Barrio

Another specialty museum, El Museo del Barrio was founded in the 1960s by the artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz and a group of other Puerto Rican artists who were frustrated by the lack of representation they were given in traditional kinds of museums.

These artists produced a space that sought to celebrate the works of art and the Latino culture’s impact on the United States of America. From the collection of 6500 objects, there are historic Taino artifacts and contemporary paintings, sculptures, and photography, all of which provide an amazingly comprehensive dive into the works by those of Latin American and Caribbean heritage. 

17) Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)

A modern space designed by Maya Lin on Centre Street on the fringe of New York City’s Chinatown, the collection here at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) seeks to document the long history of Chinese Americans from 19th century America to the present day.

Containing 65,000 works from photographs, textiles, and clothing, it’s an incredibly thorough and comprehensive look at an important group of American people that often go unconsidered.

Talks at the museum happen every Saturday afternoon, giving an interesting, free overview of how the Chinese people have experienced the United States of America since their arrival in the 19th century. Similarly, there’s a fascinating Chinatown walking tour on Saturdays for a small price of $35 dollars.

18) Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Alongside the Met and the Guggenheim, the Museum of Modern Art stands as one of the main museum attractions in New York City.

In the heart of midtown in Manhattan, the grandiose nature of the museum is often seen in the crowds that attend it. In 2019, the MoMA designed new galleries and performance spaces that provided the always-filled museum with some more space.

All the collection in their care was re-curated for a brand-new display to showcase its diversity and modernity, and a gift store is a huge place for those who like to spend money on keepsakes.

Ensure you spend some time with van Gogh’s The Starry Night and Monet’s Water Lillies in the fifth-floor collections when you go.

19) New York Transit Museum

The New York Transit Museum, as the name suggests, is in a former subway station, and to enter, you are required to descend from the sidewalk, as you might on your daily commute. You can find vintage subway trains and cars, a city bus, and a turnstile in the museum, covering more than a century of New York City’s mass transit history.

The place is perfect for kids and designed to draw in New Yorkers to a time when the subway was a much more loved aspect of the city than it is in our day and age.

As with any museum, there are many souvenirs to purchase and take home, from necklaces to mugs and caps, for yourself and your loved ones.

20) Merchant’s House Museum

A house built in 1832, the house is almost like a time capsule, capturing the lives of a family from the 19th century and how they lived.

The Merchant’s House Museum comes with all its original furniture and furnishings, clothing, books, and artwork. Back in the 1960s, this five-story Greek Revival building was the first in Manhattan to be designated as a landmark, and as you visit it today, you’ll almost feel as if you snuck into someone’s house while they’ve ducked elsewhere, stepped out of our time into an entirely different one.

Two generations of the Tredwell family, merchant-class people lived in the home for 100years and left more than 4000 possessions, from oil lamps, fine China, needlework, and dresses in place for us all to see today.

Conclusion

Throughout New York City, there are many incredible cultural centers.

While this list contains just twenty, there are undoubtedly hundreds more within the city’s bounds, all of them containing a vast and rich history to be seen.

There truly is something for everyone – from artworks to natural history, exploration of other cultures, indigenous peoples, and a glimpse into the often long-forgotten past of transit or life in the 19th century.

Indeed, museums are an important part of preserving and sharing the human history and the history of our world and are valuable places of inspiration and learning.

These top 20 museums in New York are on the must-see list, but don’t let that stop you from exploring many of the other wondrous places not on this list.

Also, check out our post  An Exhilarating Pursuit Through New York’s Art World, You Can’t-Miss These 7 Art Spots

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Today, Singapore has emerged as a center for arts and culture, boasting of year-round robust productions of theater and musical performing arts. Being a bustling metropolitan city that attracts a multi-racial society, Singapore is lauded for being the gateway to a wider range of international arts and culture. It is highly possible to not only experience the local arts in Singapore but also witness the other art styles of many countries.

During the last decade, a massive emergence in the field of performance arts has taken place in Singapore. Giant companies in Broadway, New York, and London have taken their signature brand of theater productions to hold a series of sold-out shows in Singapore.

The annual Singapore International Festival of Arts brings together local and international artists to perform a variety of performance arts, focusing on music, theater, and dance.

When it comes to visual arts, the scene doesn’t lag behind the performance arts, as evidenced by the many art-inspired streets and alleyways showing the emergence of young independent artists and designers.

The visually tantalizing and architecturally gifted Singapore National Museum houses many of the country’s impressive artworks. An afternoon spent here is enough to introduce you to the wonders of how big the art scene has exploded in the country, as well as inform you of its rich history dating back to the British rule.

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Since attaining independence from the British, the Singaporeans slowly got out of their former ruler’s shadow by creating their own identity in the field of art.

We now see young up and coming Singaporean artists making a name for themselves while at the same time, more talented and gifted individuals are being discovered in the many art fairs and exhibitions being held all year long in the country.

Even during the British rule, Singapore has been bracing for an art emergence with such luminaries like Cheong Soo Pieng and Chen Wen Hsi creating classical art that up to now continues to inspire the current generation of Singaporean artists, have catapulted the easy transition of Singapore’s art from under British rule to its total freedom of artistic expression upon gaining independence.

The end of World War II fashioned a noteworthy break for artistry in Singapore.

During the ’60s the new artists paved the way to refrain from the heavy Chinese influence and became more stand worthy of creating a new image. But it was during the 1970s when multiculturalism became the new mainstream. This period ushered the start of Singapore’s contemporary art movement.

Singapore always has an art enthusiast country boasting of many museums that are over 100 years old, but only after the Second World War that the first art gallery was established. Art historians contend that the factualness that the art style and development of the country is not a coincidence to the international art trend, instead, is the consequential of the thespian evolution itself and of Singapore’s history.

Singapore Art Jamming

Today, Singapore art has finally fulfilled the rightful representation of its history by shelving all influences of its previous rulers, the British and the Chinese. It is beaming with a rich tradition, innovation, and symbolism as it combines the tradition and influences not only of its four major cultures but the rest of the world as well.

As Singapore pushes towards becoming a key Asian artistic and societal hub, the art scenes continue to evolve successfully to accommodate its multi-racial and international audience, without sacrificing its own identity in order to retain the uniqueness of its contemporary art.

The art is so huge in Singapore right now that left and right, various art-related events are being held. The most common is the Singapore Art Week – where further exposure of talented Singaporean artists are achieved while further expanding the reach of the art scene to young students and even travelers visiting the country. Art Stage Singapore organized by Art Stage founder Lorenzo Rudolf is another noteworthy art event that showcases Asian art and the many fusion of ‘East meets West’ art styles.

Beyond the two said art events, there are a plethora of other art-related events anybody can experience throughout Singapore.  From the glitz of the Prudential Eye Awards at the ArtScience Museum to the low profile rigor of the Signature Art Prize at the Singapore Art Museum to the pulsating event Art At Night which is held usually at the cultural hub of Gillman Barracks.

The contemporary Singapore art jamming scene is now lead by these distinguished artists; Jason Lim a young imaginative artist focusing on ceramics and performance art, Photographer Robert Zhao Renhui who documents the relationship of men and nature, Lee Wen a multidisciplinary artist whose ground-breaking performance art methods tackles the various themes of social identity.

In the alternative art scene, Vincent Leow dishes out an art form that borders on rebellion and anarchy.

The Artists Village founder Tang Da Wu introduced experimental art in the ’80s when nobody has heard about it. Other social issues-driven artists such as Amanda Heng remains relevant by tackling national identity, social relationships, and collective memory. She remains one of the leading female artists not only in Singapore but in the South East Asian region.

The list goes on and on and seems like an endless one as each day a new artist finds their true calling and incorporates important themes and creativity into their work. The fusion of various influences has helped Singapore art jamming scene reach a stature as becoming the hub of artistic inventiveness not only in Asia but the whole world.

To the upcoming generation of artists and the future Ho Tzu Nyen, Lim Tzay Chuen, Herman Chong, Ruben Pang, Melissa Tan, Eugene Soh, Geraldine Kang, Alecia Noh and many more, now is the perfect time to embrace the arts in Singapore just to make sure that future generations will enjoy the arts the same way as current generation are indulging in its wonders.

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Taking place from the 14th to the 17th centuries, the Renaissance was a period of humanity emerging from the Middle Ages and giving rise to early modernity.

The Renaissance saw forward leaps in the realms of politics, education, infrastructure, architecture, and most other vital aspects of society, but perhaps the most defining characteristic of the period was the outpouring of creativity in the realm of art.

Though the exact time and place that the Renaissance started is the subject of some debate, the early years of the movement are most strongly tied to Italy and it is generally agreed that it was born in Florence, as were both of the archetypical “Renaissance Men,” Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

Though Italy has changed much dramatically in the intervening centuries, having survived a bloody unification and two world wars, the remnants of the art created by the masters still exist alongside a modern culture that carries with it the same spirit that nurtured the Renaissance in the first place.

My visit to Florence was dedicated to exploring these two co-existing aspects of Florentine culture—the legendary works from the past as well as the contemporary pieces created in their light. Probably you may not get the chance to see the biennale, as it happens during a specific period of the year, but you cant document a feature on Art-Lover’s Guide to Florence without it’s mention

My first stop and the impetus for my visit was the Florence Biennale. Held every two years within the walls of Florence’s most massive historical arena, the Fortezza de Basso, Florence Biennale is a self-funded showcase of contemporary art, a striking presence in its historical setting.

Being funded by the artists themselves, Florence Biennale removes many of the traditional barriers of patronage that restrict emerging media and has, as a result, become a safe haven for digital art. Paintings, sculptures, photographs, and all other forms of media were represented at their finest in this astonishingly eclectic gathering of international artists.

Leaving the festival, I found myself ready to explore the more historical aspects of the city. Though I knew I needed to visit museums to see much of Florence’s art, I couldn’t help but think of the city itself as an open-air museum.

The heart of Renaissance creativity, Florence’s architecture, including the Cathedral, its churches, and its many palaces, were created by many of the same minds who made the most famous artwork from the period.

One can be overwhelmed by the beauty of Florence just by walking down its streets.

The Vasari Corridor was my next stop. Built-in the 14th century, the Vasari Corridor is a magnificent passageway connecting the Palazzo Vecchio and the Palazzo Pitti, two of Florence’s oldest structures.

Though much of the Corridor is closed to the public, some have been converted to a gallery known as the Uffizi Gallery which welcomes visitors to appreciate its beautiful architecture as well as an impressive collection of art from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Even among these beautiful pieces, the story of Italy’s more spotted recent history is inescapable—the massive windows which present a stunning view of the Arno River were installed ahead of a visit from Adolph Hitler, and a section of the gallery is dedicated to a mafia bombing in the 1990s which damaged parts of the gallery and destroyed several works of art.

The Accademia Gallery, home to many of the most famous Renaissance works, is another place that a visitor must-see.

One of the most universally recognized sculptures, Michelangelo’s David, calls the Accademia Gallery home.

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Originally placed outside Florence’s political center, the Palazzo della Signoria, the legendary sculpture has since been moved into the Gallery and replaced by a replica in its original spot.

The museum also features a handful of other works by Michelangelo, such as several unfinished statues including a Pietà, a traditional type of sculpture depicting the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Christ. Other works in the museum include pieces by Botticelli, del Sarto, Uccello, and several other pieces from various points in the Renaissance.

Perhaps the most breathtaking of all the sights was the Florence Cathedral, a pinnacle of gothic architecture.

The peaks and intricate design of the Cathedral and the nearby Baptistery of St. John and Giotto’s Campanile are truly among the most excellent representations of pre- and early Renaissance structures.

“And when I thought of Florence, it was like a miracle city embalmed and like a corolla, because it was called the city of lilies and its cathedral, St. Mary of the Flowers.” -Marcel Proust, writer

Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, an indicator of great cultural and historical significance, the Cathedral was first dreamt up in the late 11th century and is considered to have been finished by the 13th century. Its importance is compounded by its standing as a highly significant holy site, is dedicated to “Santa Maria del Fiore,” or Saint Mary of the Flowers, the mother of Jesus.

Its interior shows the interconnectedness of Renaissance innovation.

Not only is it an architectural marvel, but the preserved frescos and stained glass windows are among the most beautiful sights in the city. Largely an austere and awe-inspiringly hollow building, several works by Paolo Uccello, Andrea del Castagno, and others only boost the sacred air that fills the structure.

The artistry that is the dome on top of the Cathedral was engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi, whose burial site in the building can be viewed by the public, and stands next to Giotto’s Campanile, the other defining feature of the Cathedral’s magnificent silhouette.

In stark contrast to the permanence and historical weight of the many galleries and holy sites, I also took notice of the work of Clet Abraham, a famous street artist who has been active for over two decades.

Clet specializes in modifying traffic signs and his work ranges from the playful, such as a man carrying away a bar on a no-entry sign, to the provocative, as with his depiction of Christ hanging on a dead-end sign.

The commonality is that his pieces are very ephemeral stickers meant to be removed at a moment’s notice, a stark contrast to the city’s vitally important artistic heritage.

Stealing away from the spotlight of the Cathedral and all the city’s galleries, I found one final gem in a tiny church near the Ponte Vecchio. Located above the altar in the comparatively tiny Capponi Chapel is The Deposition from the Cross, the surviving masterpiece of the lesser-known Renaissance painter Jacopo Pontormo. With his love of bright colors, elongated, twisted figures, and a dream-like imaginative quality uncommon among Renaissance artists, Pontormo is considered by some to be a predecessor to surrealist painters.

A short walking distance from the Uffizi Gallery, the Capponi Chapel is a wonderful sight away from the crowds of the better-known collections.

“This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and the spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned on his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.”

-Mark Twain, writer

If you wish to explore the beauty of the Renaissance, there is perhaps no better way than to visit Florence.

Whether you’re admiring the works of Michelangelo at the Accademia Gallery or simply taking in the unparalleled architecture while strolling down the street, it is impossible not to be struck by the beauty of the city.

One would also be advised to consider the energetic art scene that still exists, inspired by constant exposure to the beauty of yore.

Florence is a captivating city from its art to the food, fashion, and design, and anyone with even a passing interest in the beauty of the arts would be well-advised to spend some time exploring its splendor.

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Some street artists might unapologetically say that street art is the greatest art movement of our time and others could care less what the art community thinks. It’s not for the gallery – it’s for the masses – to entertain, to move, to bring about thought and change.

Either way, it likely is the most provocative movement of our time. Whether the art is whimsical, or if it grounds itself in anger, images of the art go viral or are seen offline in person by thousands daily. Its messages of beauty or of truth reach people of all demographics.

The meanings and messages it leaves behind are thought bending.

Good things aren’t always beautiful. Beautiful things aren’t always good. Ugly can be made beautiful. Beautiful can be revealed as ugly.

Street Art sends strong messages from the sidewalk to the world at large

Using iconic imagery that is often recognizable regardless of language, the street artist is able to speak his opinions and solutions to a global audience, making this a rapidly advancing form of art the world over. Fans of particular artists have made a movement of uploading pictures of the artist’s work on social media as he trips around the world leaving his mark in several countries. In the case of mobile street art – such as on trains and vehicles – the art itself travels. Major print and television media outlets follow high profile or subversive street artists and broadcast their art to large audiences.

Street art isn’t limited to the street itself. It grows up and around walls, on the sides of buses and subway cars, the trunks of trees, and even on traffic signs and lights. Any kind of outdoor public medium can be morphed to express a message through the artist’s vision.

[quote_colored name=”” icon_quote=”no”]A lot of street art has an obvious, or sometimes very subtle, anti-establishment hint in it. The very mediums it uses, owned by states or corporations, are protected by law from the artist but are used without regard or in spite of it. That illegality is often a part of the message.[/quote_colored]

For millennia, people have been desecrating public buildings and spaces with their written or drawn opinions of authority figures, celebrities, and even their own friends and lovers. Archaeologists have found Roman inscriptions that mirror what’s written on the wall in our modern bathrooms.

In more recent ,mmtimes, the hobos of the early 20^th century made a language of images and symbols to communicate with each other. This language was most often found on trains, in rail yards, and on buildings near train tracks. It was from this that modern Graffiti was born.

Graffiti is, according to art historians, the direct predecessor of street art. In the 1950s and early 60s, subversive youth took the train car hobo’s medium and began to use it to relay their own messages, opinions, and to establish group territories. By the mid 60’s, an element arose that began to evolve a movement through it to speak about the current political and social turmoil of the time. Often the art spread anti-establishment messages through comic and satirical images.

Since the 1960s, street artists have grown in their passion and the resulting work has bloomed in its visual aesthetics. Early graffiti was limited to three or four basic colors of spray paint and had to be executed quickly to avoid the authorities. Modern street artists use an array of colors – or even gray scale – and don’t always limit themselves to spray paint.

Street Art Draws Culture to the City

Street art is so much a part of its environment that it not only becomes a part of the city landscape, but is born out of it symbolically and in its composition. The meaning of the work is often anchored in the place it is found in, as a commentary on the social balance of a neighbourhood or business district. The lines, angles, and brushstrokes form naturally around or in concert with the objects they are made on.

A crack in a wall becomes a river of division in a painting visualizing the separation of rich and poor, a crumbling wall is filled in with Lego bricks, or a natural vine or bush becomes the hair on a portrait painted on the wall beneath it.

[quote_colored name=”” icon_quote=”no”]Outside of the symbolic meaning of a piece, the art adds beauty or comic relief to areas of a city that are often either cold and characterless, or poor and unmaintained. By providing a visual break from the reality of depressed neighbourhoods or depressing industrial and business areas, street art gives its audience a moment of amusement, reflection, or validation.[/quote_colored]

The sudden appearance of some street art can even bring about change by spurring action in a society that has grown complacent, or by calling for a change of perspective from an establishment such as the government or a business that hasn’t recognised or acknowledged the needs of the people. Street art also inspires people to beautify the environment and draws in people that might not otherwise visit the area. This can lead to economic shift and cultural change.

Street Art offers mystery and exploration as reward

Inquisitive urban explorers are often the first to find new street art.

A subset of street artists like to hide their art in secret places. This could be as simple as painting a piece on a staircase that can only be seen from one angle to as difficult as gaining access to the basement of a long abandoned factory. The artist himself gets a taste of forbidden thrill and the subsequent explorer gets the ultimate reward of visual treasure.

Rather than falling back on the taste and judgement of a gallery or museum curator, the art explorer becomes a participant in the culture of street art, taking the active role of seeking and discovery upon herself.

Street art connects with everyone

Coming off the back of postmodernism, street artists have the ability to influence thought and restructure ideals without the limits of space and material. It lacks the desperate need to be heard and pretentious intellectual exclusivity of prior art movements. Street art can communicate ideas in an original piece that another artist may respond to or expand on with another nearby work or an addition to the one already existing. Public spaces grow and change and so then does the art on them. New artists respond to the change so that street art is ever evolving. A single piece of street art can grow in any endless direction, both metaphorically and physically.

This freedom allowed the artist and the viewer the mental space to think about the meaning of the work and the physical space for the artist to expound on the thought or for another to respond to it. A complete visual conversation can go on and on. Puzzles, trickery, satire, hidden humor, and other mind benders are often worked into the art, making it a delight to see over and over.

Street art’s former graffiti reputation as destructive vandalism has mostly disappeared. As the art form gains the notice of the art world elite, and more importantly, the masses, there is hope of success for the artist in his life and even the immediate future.

[quote_colored name=”” icon_quote=”no”]Artists are now recording the art as they execute it and play the performance on the web, thus generating cash flow. Some street art is only viewable by inserting a credit card in a structure in the wall that covers the art work. The audience pays to play and the artwork is revealed. Yes, technology has entered into art scene [/quote_colored]

There is an argument here that paying a cover charge to view what was subversive in its infancy takes something vital away from the experience. The opposing thought would be that the great artists of the past didn’t live to reap the millions of dollars their pieces are worth now, but rather scraped by penniless until their deaths and that it is only fair for the artist to receive something back for the gifts he has given to many.

Street Art is not vandalism anymore. Street Art is attitude

Street art has proven itself to be a true expressive art form. It is not an inferior form of political outcry nor is it the indifferent rebellion of a disaffected youth. Street art thinks, feels, and evokes thought and emotions in the people that view it with an open mind. Street art is executed with purpose and design with technique and intention. Street art heightens our experience of the visual landscape outside museum walls.

(Below is a short excerpt from This is Street Art Untitled III by Carpet Bombing Culture)

Street is cool.
Street is sharp. It’s being in control.
Attitude, individuality, EDGE.
Street is city blocks humming hip hop corner beats harmonizing defeat and victory.
Street is black, yellow, white, red and purple.
Worry, financial mishaps, and credit cards.
Street is struggling and juggling two jobs – rolling high, earning dirt.
Street is vampires sucking blood from the weak.
Clean, dirty – smelling of trash and posh cologne.
Street is frustration – living from one man’s hand to his neighbour’s mouth.
Expensive and dangerous. Soft drinks and hard liquor.
Warring for truth, uniting in adversity.

Street art is art.

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When we think of graffiti, the words slanderous, defiling and rubbish may come to mind.  A lot of street art has an obvious, or sometimes very subtle, anti-establishment hint in it. Street Art from the Islamic Republic of Iran is by no means different, it has become part of city’s landscape, delivering strong messages symbolically to everyone around.

The powerful messages of peace, love, and hope in a country torn apart by internal conflicts are represented by Iranian street artists through their art, and mostly these works grow in all endless direction, both metaphorically, conceptually and physically.

Filmmakers Zeinab Tabrizy and Paliz Khoshdel decided to start the initiative through their film Mutiny of Colours, to give the world the perspective from the Street Artists view.

Street Art in Iran is viewed very much the same way the rest of the world views Graffiti Artists.  The public and government believe that they are out to destroy property and make a nuisance of themselves, that their works reflect a Satanic and evil expression.

Iranians are not spinsters on expressing their feelings on all aspects of political, social and cultural aspects of their life.  The Iran Islamic Revolution in 1979, as well as the Iran Green Movement of 2009, saw many Iranians marching the streets, voicing their opinions and plastering the walls of Iran with their effectual messages.  This, according to the Street Artists, is similar to how they are communicating their thoughts and vision while maintaining their way less violent and more influential.

By using the medium of art they feel they can reach a greater audience and influence a wider band of people.

Through the movie, the Directors have approached various Street Artists, who has stronger reasoning behind their beautiful and powerful depiction of their messages.

Five artists were identified as the main contributors to the film and while they hide their faces behind masks, when being interviewed, in fear of being arrested, they are resolute in bringing their compelling messages alive through their skill. Each of these five artists has a very different message and a manner in which they express it on the walls and buildings of Iran.

One of the main contributors is CK1, who, by using Iranian literature shows his anti-war stance.  Omet draws on his childhood, stating that because he was born in the time of Iranian upheaval, he wants to reach out to the youth in the community.  Brothers, Icy and Sot, are all about peace and friendship.  And finally Lady Green reveals the synergy between government-sanctioned murals, over times of war and discord, to her graffiti-style work.

Many famous artists have supported the film’s passion and purposes, such as Faith47, Isaac Cordal and Blu, to name but a few.

The Mutiny of Colours documentary relies heavily on public contributions and while it is an on-going work, starting off in 2012, they are still looking for more funding.

Street art has proven itself to be a true expressive art form. It is not an inferior form of political outcry nor is it the indifferent rebellion of a disaffected youth. Street art thinks, feels, and evokes thought and emotions in the people that view it with an open mind.

Take a look at their compelling trailer and consider a small donation.  The cause and consequences could be huge for the Iranian population.

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If you’re an art enthusiast, you must consider art exhibitions and festivals as an active medium to understand emerging art practices and trends. Attending an art exhibition can be fun and deeply engaging. Such art events help you to meet distinguished artists and creative enthusiasts, and also about opportunities to get to know other like-minded folks in the art community.

In recent years, the credo “Love for Meaningful Art” is slowly being replaced by “Art that sells” – there has been a troubling pattern of artists being forced to produce artworks that have a better chance of selling than creating artwork with great quality. Fortunately, a lot of art events being held today are trying to correct this problem by holding art exhibitions and festivals that promote quality art over commercialized art.

Art Exhibitions, Fairs, and Biennales

For a common man wanting to learn more about art, and for an art connoisseur who is looking to attend a meaningful art exhibitions, here are 350+ art exhibitions, fairs, biennales and festivals around the world. Probably, you could add these into your itinerary while planning your trips to these wonderful destinations.

Argentina

• Arte BA – Buenos Aires , Argentina
• Buenos Aires Photo – Buenos Aires, Argentina

Australia

• Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art – Adelaide, Australia
• Adelaide Festival of Arts – Adelaide, Australia
• Art month Sydney – Sydney, Australia
• Darwin Aboriginal Art Exhibition – Darwin, Australia
• Melbourne Art Fair – , Australia
• Melbourne Festival – Melbourne, Australia
• Perth International Art Festival – Perth, Australia
• Stanthorpe Art Festival – Stanthorpe, Australia
• Supergraph – Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane , Australia
• Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art – Qagoma, Australia

Austria

• Art Austria – Vienna, Austria
• Art Bodensee 2016 – Dornbirn, Austria
• ART Innsbruck Exhibition 2016 – Innsbruck, Austria
• Central Europe Fine Art Biennale – Blindenmarket, Austria
• Vienna Contemporary – Vienna, Austria
• Vienna Fair – Vienna, Austria

Bangladesh

• Dhaka Art Summit – Dhaka, Bangladesh

Belgium

• Art Brussels – Brussels, Belgium
• Art Nocturne Knocke – Knokke-Heist, Belgium
• ARTour Biennial Art Festival – Namur, Belgium
• BRAFA Art Fair – Knokke-Heist, Belgium
• Libr’Art – Libramont, Belgium
• OFF COURSE – Brussels, Belgium
• POPPOSITIONS -Brussels, Belgium
• The Affordable Art Fair Brussels – Brussels, Belgium

Brazil

• Art Rio – Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
• SP-Arte – São Paulo, Brazil
• The Bienal de São Paulo – São Paulo, Brazil

Bulgaria

• Apollonia Festival of Arts – Sozopol, Bulgaria
• The International Arts and Crafts Fair – Varna, Bulgaria
• Water Tower Art Fest – Sofia, Bulgaria

Canada

• Art Vancouver – Vancouver, Canada
• Art Toronto – Toronto, Canada
• Artist Project – Toronto, Canada
• Feature: Contemporary Art Fair – Toronto, Canada
• Great Northern Arts Festival – Inuvik, Canada
• La Biennale de Montréal 2016 – Montréal, Canada
• Love Art – Toronto, Canada
• Papier Montréal – Montréal, Canada
• The Beaches Arts & Crafts Show – Toronto, Canada
• Toronto Comic Arts Festival – Toronto, Canada
• VanCAf – Vancouver, Canada

China

• 11th Shanghai Biennale – Shanghai, China
• Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong – Hong kong, China
• Art Basel Hong kong – Hong kong, China
• Art Beijing Art Fair – Beijing, China
• Art Central Hong Kong – Hong kong, China
• Art in The City Festival – Shanghai, China
• Asia Contemporary Art Show – Hong Kong, China
• Asia Hotel Art Fair – Hong kong, China
• Fine Art Asia – Hong kong, China
• Hong Kong Arts Festival – Hong kong, China
• Photo Shanghai – Shanghai, China
• Shanghai Art Fair – Shanghai, China
• West Bund Art – Shanghai, China

Columbia

• ARTBO – Bogotá, Columbia
• Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias – Cartagena, Columbia
• The International Art Encounter of Medellín – Medellín, Columbia

Czech Republic

• 4th Annual Art Fest – České Budějovice, Czech Republic
• Art Prague – Prague, Czech Republic
• Brno Biennial 2016 – Brno, Czech Republic

Denmark

• Art Copenhagen – Copenhagen, Denmark
• Art Herning 2016 – Herning, Denmark
• Chart Art Fair 2016 – Copenhagen, Denmark

Egypt

• D-CAF – Cairo, Egypt

Finland

• ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival – Kuopio, Finland
• Antiikki – Helsinki, Finland
• Art Fair Suomi – Helsinki, Finland
• ArtHelsinki Contemporary Art Fair – Helsinki, Finland
• Flow Festival Helsinki – Helsinki, Finland
• MÄNTTÄ Art Festival – Pekilo, Finland

France

• 61E SALON DE MONTROUGE – Montrouge, France
• Art Paris Art Exhibition – Paris, France
• Art UP – Lille, France
• DDESSIN
  Contemporary Drawing Fair – Paris, France
• Drawing Now Paris – Paris, France
• Fiac – Paris, France
• International Fine Art Biennale Cannes – Cannes , France
• LE YIA ART FAIR #05 – Paris, France
• Museum Connections – Paris, France
• Nemo 15 – Paris, France
• OFFICIELLE – Paris, France
• PAD Paris Art + Design – Paris, France
• Paris Photo Paris – Paris, France
• SIAC – Marseille, France
• Slick Art Fair – Paris, France

Germany

• Art Cologne – Cologne, Germany
• Art KARLSRUHE – Rheinstetten, Germany
• Art.Fair – Cologne, Germany
• Berlin Biennale – Berlin, Germany
• Berliner Liste – Berlin, Germany
• Eunique – Rheinstetten, Germany
• HanseArt – Lübeck, Germany
• KÖLNER LISTE – Cologne , Germany
• KUNST MESSE FRANKFURT – Frankfurt, Germany
• Miss Read: Berlin Art Book Fair – Berlin, Germany
• Unpainted Media Art Exhibition – Munich, Germany
• UTOPIEdocumenta – Kassel, Germany

Great Britan

• British Art Show 8 Norwich – Norwich, Great Britain
• British Art Show 8 Southampton – Southampton, Great Britain
• London Original Print Fair – London, Great Britain
• Masterpiece Londo – London, Great Britain
• The Chelsea Art Fair – Chelsea, Great Britain
• The Other Art Fair Bristol – Bristol, Great Britain
• The Other Art Fair London – London, Great Britain

Greece

• Aegean Arts festival – Crete, Greece
• Art Thessaloniki – Thessaloniki, Greece
• Art-Athina – Athens, Greece
• Athens Digital Arts Festival – Athens, Greece
• International Biennale of Santorini – Santorini, Greece

Ireland

• Reykjavik Arts Festival – Reykjavík, Iceland
• Carlow Arts Festival – Carlow, Irland
• EVA International and Art Exhibition
• Ireland’s Biennial – Limerick, Irland
• EVA INTERNATIONAL IRELAND’S BIENNIAL – Limerick, Irland
• Galway International Arts Festival – Galway, Irland
• Glasgow International – Glasgow, Irland
• Kilkenny Arts Festival – Kilkenny, Irland

India

• India Art Fair – New Delhi, India
• India Art Festival – New Delhi, India
• Kochi Muziris Biennelle – Kochi, India
• Kala Ghoda Art Festival – Mumbai, India

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is a must visit art exhibition, as it campaigns for the enrichment of cosmopolitan spirit of the modern metropolis of Kochi and its fabled history, the ancient seaport of Muziris. The aim is to create a platform that will present contemporary international visual art theory and practice to India, showcase and stir discussions about new Indian and international aesthetics and art experiences that will facilitate a dialogue among artists, curators, and the art enthusiasts.

Indonesia

• ART|JOG – Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• Bali Arts Festival 2016 – Bali, Indonesia
• Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale – Jakarta, Indonesia

Italy

• Arte Fiera Bologna – BOLOGNA , Italy
• Arte Genova – Genova, Italy
• ArteCremona – Cremona, Italy
• ArtVerona – Verona, Italy
• MIA Fair Milano – Milano, Italy
• MiArt – Milano, Italy
• Milan Image Art Fair – Milano, Italy
• Modenantiquaria – Modena, Italy
• SETUP Art fair – BOLOGNA, Italy
• The Affordable Art Fair Milan – Milan, Italy

Japan

• Art Fair Tokyo – Tokyo, Japan
• Art in Park Hotel Tokyo – Tokyo, Japan
• Art Nagoya – Nagoya, Japan
• Art Osaka – Osaka, Japan
• Japan Media Arts Festival – Tokyo, Japan
• Roppongi Art Night – Roppongi, Japan
• Sapporo International Art Fair – Sapporo, Japan
• Setouchi Triennale 2016 – Japan, Japan

Kenya

• Kenya Art fair – Nairobi, Kenya

Lebanon

• Beirut Art Fair – Beirut, Lebanon
• Beirut Art Week – Beirut, Lebanon

Malaysia

• Art Malaysia Art Tourism Fair – TBA, Malaysia
• Langkawi Art Biennale – Langkawi, Malaysia

Mauritius

• The Bridge – Tamarin Eco-Arts Festival – TAMARIN, Mauritius

Mexico

• Material Art Fair – Mexico City, Mexico
• Zona Maco Mexico Arte Contemporaneo – Mexico City, Mexico

Monaco

• Art Monaco – Monte Carlo, Monaco
• Art Montecarlo – Monte Carlo, Monaco
• La Biennale Monégasque de Cancérologie – Monaco, Monaco
• LE FESTIVAL PRINTEMPS DES ARTS DE MONTE-CARLO – Monte Carlo, Monaco
• Point Art Monaco – Monaco, Monaco

Morocco

• Marrakech Biennale – Marrakech, Morocco

Nepal

• Kathmandu International Art Festival (KIAF) – Maligaun, Nepal

Netherlands

• Paper Biennial Rijswijk – Rijswijk, Netherlands
• Amsterdam Art Fair  – Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Art Rotterdam – Rotterdam, Netherlands
• KunstRAI – Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Realisme – Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair – Rotterdam, Netherlands
• TEFAF – Maastricht,, Netherlands

New Zealand

• Auckland Art Fair – Auckland, New Zeland
• NZ Art Show – Wellington, New Zeland

Nigeria

• Life in My City Festival – Abuja, Nigeria

Norway

• Arts Festival of North Norway – Harstad, Norway
• BERGEN ASSEMBLY – Bergen, Norway

Oman

• IDF Oman – Muscat, Oman

Philippines

• Art Fair Philippines – Makati, Philippines
• Art in the Park – Makati, Philippines
• MaARTe – Makati, Philippines
• MANILART – Manila, Philippines

Poland

• Art Naif Festival – Katowice, Poland
• IAFwarsaw – Warsaw, Poland
• Slot Art Festival – TBA, Poland

Portugal

• BIENAL SELECTED WORKS IN PORTO/PORTUGAL – Porto, Portugal
• Boom Festival – Castelo Branco, Portugal
• ILUSTRARTE 2016 – Lisboa, Portugal

Romania

• Antique Market – Bucharest, Romania
• Art Safari – Bucharest, Romania
• BUCHAREST BIENNALE – Bucharest, Romania

Russia

• Cosmoscow – Moscow, Russia
• Moscow World Fine Art Fair – Moscow, Russia

Scotland

• Aberdeen Art Fair – ABERDEEN, Scotland
• British Art Show 8 Edinburgh – Edinburgh, Scotland
• Edinburgh Art Festival – Edinburgh, Scotland
• Scottish Borders Art Fair – Kelso, Scotland
• Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Scotland

Senegal

• AfricanBamba Human Rights Film Festival – Thiaroye, Senegal
• Dak’Art Biennial of Contemporary African Art – Dakar, Senegal

Singapore

• Art Apart Fair – Singapore, Singapore
• Art Stage Singapore – Singapore, Singapore
• MIA&D FAIR – Singapore, Singapore
• Singapore Biennale – Singapore, Singapore
• Singapore Contemporary – Singapore, Singapore
• The Affordable Art Fair Singapore – Singapore, Singapore

South Africa

• Cap Town Art Fair – Cap Town, South Africa
• FNB Joburg Art Fair – Johannesburg, South Africa
• THAT ART FAIR – Cape Town, South Africa
• The Turbine Art Fair – Johannesburg, South Africa

South Korea

• Affordable Art Fair Seoul – Seoul, South Korea
• Busan Biennale – Busan, South Korea
• Gwangju Biennale 2016 – Gwangju, South Korea
• Korea International Art Fair – Seoul, South Korea
• Pink Art Fair  – Seoul, South Korea
• SeMa Biennale – Seoul, South Korea

Spain

• Almondea – Madrid, Spain
• ARCOmadrid International Contemporary Art Fair – Madrid, Spain
• Art & Breakfast is an International Emerging Art Fair – Malaga, Spain
• Art Madrid – Madrid, Spain
• Feriarte – Madrid, Spain
• Just Mad 7 – Madrid, Spain
• Loop – The Video Art Fair – Barcelona, Spain
• Pop Arts Myths – Madrid, Spain

Sri Lanka

• Colombo Art Biennial – Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sweden

• Affordable Art Fair – Stockholm, Sweden
• Antik Massan – Stockholm, Sweden
• Foto Massan – Stockholm, Sweden
• Market Art Fair – Stockholm, Sweden
• Stockholm Art week – Stockholm, Sweden
• Supermarket 2016 – Stockholm, Sweden

Switzerland

• Art Basel – Basel, Switzerland
• Artgenève – Genève, Switzerland
• Design Miami – Basel, Switzerland
• LISTE – Basel, Switzerland
• MANIFESTA 11 – Zurich, Switzerland
• Rhy Art Fair – Basel, Switzerland
• VOLTA12 – Basel, Switzerland

Still retaining its innovation even after 40 years since its inception, Art Basel has been a driving force in the world of arts by supporting galleries that plays the role of nurturing artists and by developing and promoting visual arts. A must visit art exhibition for any art enthusiast

Taiwan

• Art Revolution Taipei – Taipei, Taiwan
• Taiwan Ceramics Biennale – Taipei, Taiwan
• Tapai Biennale – Taipei, Taiwan
• Young Art Taipei – Taipei, Taiwan

Turkey

• Contemporary Istanbul – Istanbul, Turkey
• Istanbul Biennale – Istanbul, Turkey

United Arab Emirates

• Art Dubai – Dubai, UAE
• Design days dubai – Dubai, UAE
• Sikka Art Fair – Dubai, UAE
• World Art Dubai – Dubai, UAE
• Sharjah Biennale – Sharjah, UAE
• Abu Dhabi Art Fair, Abu Dhabi, UAE

The United Arab Emirates’ colorful art scene today proves that this region in the Middle East does not only thrive in its usual stereotypes, but also encouraged talents who try to capture and express the culture, personal struggles, and the carousels of human experience. An art destination worth every bit of your time. Sharjah Biennale is a not-to-miss art exhibition and biennale

United Kingdom

• Affordable Art Fair Battersea – Battersea, London , UK
• ART 16 – London, UK
• Art Antiques London – London, UK
• Bristol Biennial – Bristol, UK
• Liverpool Biennial – Liverpool, UK
• London Art Fair – London, UK
• Oxford International Art Fair – Oxford, UK
• PAD London Art + Design – London, UK
• PHOTO 50 – London, UK
• The Affordable Art Fair Hampstead – Hampstead, London, UK
• The BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair – London, UK
• Works On Paper Art fair – London, UK

Uruguay

• ESTE ARTE – PUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY

United States of America

• (E)merge Art Fair – Washington, USA
• Art Aspen – Aspen, USA
• Art Boca Raton – Boca Raton, USA
• Art Los Angeles Contemporary – Santa Monica, USA
• Art Market San francisco – San Francisco, USA
• Art New York – New York, USA
• Art Now Fair – Miami, USA
• Art On paper – New York, USA
• ART SOUTHAMPTON – Bridgehampton, USA
• Art Wynwood – Miami, USA
• Art. In a Park – Columbia, USA
• ArtExpo New York – New York, USA
• ArtHamptons 2016 – Bridgehampton, USA
• ArtPalmBeach 2016 – Palm Beach, USA
• ArtScape – Baltimore, USA
• Asia Art Exhibition Fair New York New York, USA
• CONTEXT New York – New York, USA
• Dallas Art Fair – Dallas, USA
• Des Moines Arts festival – Des Moines, USA
• Echo Art Fair – New York, USA
• EXPO Chicago – Chicago, USA
• FOTOFEST – Houston, USA
• Frieze – New York, USA
• Houston Fine Art Fair – Houston, USA
• Independent 2016 New York – New York, USA
• LA art Show – Los Angeles, USA
• Main St. Fort Worth Arts Festival – Fort Worth, USA
• Market Art + Design – Bridgehampton, USA
• Miami International Art Fair – Miami, USA
• Moving Image – New York, USA
• Outsider Art Fair – New York, USA
• Palm Springs Fine Art Fair – Palm Springs, USA
• Paris Photo – Los Angeles, USA
• Pulse Miami Beach – New York, USA
• PULSE New York – New York, USA
• SCOPE – New York, USA
• Scottsdale Arts Festival – Scottsdale, USA
• Seattle Art Fair – Seattle, USA
• SITE Santa Fe – Santa Fe, USA
• Spring Masters New York – New York, USA
• The ADAA Art Show – New York, USA
• The Affordable Art Fair New York – New York , USA
• THE AIPAD PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW NEW YORK – New York, USA
• The Armory Show – New York, USA
• The Art Show – New York, USA
• The LA Art Book Fair – Los Angeles, USA
• VOLTA NY – New York, USA

Zimbawe

• HIFA – Harare, Zimbabwe

More than ever right now is the best time to be an art enthusiast as all year long art exhibitions and art fairs happens in many places around the globe. Here are 10 top emerging art destinations around the world that you wouldn’t want to miss!

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It is the American melting pot of the arts, the natural trendsetter for fashion and has the most breathtaking skyscrapers that fill out the city’s skylines.

One of the largest cities in the world, hosting the most famous spots such as Wall Street, Time Square, Broadway and Manhattan, navigable by 350 km of subway tracks, with over fifty theatres, hundred museums, twenty design houses and residents from over 200 nations, NY is one of the most fascinating and diverse to explore cities in the world.

A recent visit to this bustling city was certainly a very stimulating experience

Art in much more ingrained in Newyork’s culture – Sam Taylor Wood

Superior efforts by leading creative houses such as Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Metropolitan Art Museum, Whitney’s etc. have ensured that New York is consistently innovating on art, culture and design

7 Art Attractions You Can’t-Miss in New York

With an art scene as prominent and diverse as New York’s, you shouldn’t miss these seven unique things that only New York can offer.

1) Taste the royal flavor of Rajasthan paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art has been present in India for millennia and has evolved through religious, cultural, and political change. The period between 16^th and 19^th centuries in India displayed extraordinary creative outputs by many artists through paintings, literature, music and other art forms. Artists during this period were highly skilled and ambitious and produced many masterpieces such as Gita Govinda, Rajasthan royal court paintings, Surdas poems, etc.

MET museum features a significant collection of Rajastan royal paintings, named them as KRONOS Collections, many of which can only be found in MET, characterized by their charming colors and powerful portrayal of scenes from Hindu epics such as Bhagavad Gita and Ramayana, mystical legends and courtly life.

KRONOS collections celebrate the diverse styles and traditions of Indian painting and culture, which is not very common to find in any other art houses in the world.

2) Heighten your visual landscape outside museum walls through New York Street Art

Street art has proven itself to be a true expressive art form. It is not an inferior form of political outcry nor is it the indifferent rebellion of disaffected youth, rather one of the most expressive forms of art NY Street art thinks, feels, and evokes thought and emotions in the people that view it with an open mind. Here’s top five worth considering

• The Bushwick Collective in St. Nicholas Ave, Bushwick, Brooklyn
• The Audubon Mural Project (Map)
• Johnson Avenue in Bogart Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn
• Tuff City in 650 Fordham Road at Belmont Ave, Bronx
• South Bronx Block in E 173rd Street at West Farms Road, Bronx

3) Trace the course of Islamic Civilization at Metropolitan Museum of Art

While Arab world has been evolving as a modern and cosmopolitan hub, it seems there is an inherent inability to research, collect, curate and educate the enormous cultural and historical aspects of Islamic Culture

At MET, you will be amazed by the galleries of  “The art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and later South Asia” section, where you will experience some of the finest masterpieces from the Islamic world.

The works primarily hosting works of art from the earliest periods of Muslim rule in the Arabian Peninsula, the Eastern Mediterranean, Iran, and Iraq. On display, there are magnificent examples of calligraphy, objects featuring arabesque décor in a wide range of media, manuscripts, paintings, carpets, etc.

These collections tell great stories of Islamic civilization from its roots in the Sasanian, Byzantine and south Arabian past through its early development in the Arab lands and Iran and subsequent spread into Turkey, Central Asia and India.

MET has created a huge canvas of Islamic tradition, showcasing the indigenous creativity this region has possessed, through its spaces, are all apparent that you can’t miss this one

4) Explore the Secret Art Max Neuhaus Times Square

A little-known sound installation located between 45^th and 46^th Street in 7^th Ave, created by well-known sound sculptor Max Neuhaus, aptly resonates with the vibe and flow of Time Square.

The amazing fact is that hardly anyone notices it’s there. There are no curated directional signs, artist’s statement or signboards. It is simply a machine that amplifies the resonance of Time Square’s vibe, producing a sound similar to the mechanical humming

In his 2009 obituary, the New York Times ran this quote from him: “Traditionally, composers have located the elements of composition in time. One idea which I am interested in is locating them, instead, in space and letting the listener place them in his own time.”

So, the next time you’re in Times Square, find this place and become engulfed in the cacophony of Neuhaus’s installation

5) See Modern Masterpieces at MoMA

At first glance, MOMA is just another museum. But if you go deeper, MOMA is a very sophisticated institution representing many of the most challenging and creative art of our times. An art laboratory, situated in the heart of Manhattan, that truly represents the aesthetic and intellectual interests across various mediums such as painting, film, sculpture, photography, media, architecture and design, prints and illustrated books, drawings etc.

Many of the most world-renowned masterpieces are in the collection—including Pablo Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon, Henri Matisse’s Blue Window, Paul Gaugin’s The Seed of the Areoi, Frida Kahlo’s The Self Portrait, Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, Henri Rousseau’s The Sleeping Gypsy etc.

Be a moral force for your art – This is one key message that you consistently see in every work at MoMA

Two most attracted works – Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night and Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory. It’s worth a visit to see these two great works of our time. Any understanding of MoMA must begin with the fact that this institution is forever willing to absorb risks, criticisms, and controversies

One unique trait MOMA reflects – It’s openness to study, curate, collect and organize a vast array of art forms across various mediums and borders. This is a courageous act indeed

6) Freedom Tunnel

It is surprising that none of the city tours and NY-To-Do lists have Freedom Tunnel as a recommended destination. Probably, the dark allies of this place could be a threat to usual tourists and urban explorers

The Amtrak tunnel under Riverside Park in Manhattan is known as Freedom Tunnel. Famous graffiti artist Chris Freedom used the tunnel walls to create some of his notable artworks, hence it is known as Freedom Tunnel

(Video Courtesy – Gritty NYC)

A lot of works have an obvious, or sometimes very subtle, anti-establishment hint in it. But if you’re one with an adventurous mindset and love for street art, this place is worth a try

7) Shop at Whitney’s Design Store

New York is no short of design stores and creative shops promoting local artisans and their works.

A bookstore located at the ground level of Whitney’s Museum is a must-visit to see what New York has to offer in terms of creativity. A small shop that features exciting and creative collections of apparel, books, prints, and accessories which will definitely stimulate your creative muscles.

New York – A Melting Pot of Creativity and Energy

Everything in New York is love. From the streets to the high-rises, foods, and nightlife, the New York Art and history, you’d leave the place with fun-filled experiences and overwhelming memories.

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Sharjah, the third largest UAE’s district, exudes passion and excitement, especially in the art scene.

As a visitor, the beauty within the walls of Sharjah will amaze you and keep you coming back for more.  Your soul will be touched by the charisma and charm of all that is Sharjah, the now Cultural Capital of the Arab world.

Whether you’re an enthusiastic art lover or merely a quiet appreciating bystander, you will not be able to resist the richness of all that Sharjah has to offer.  With over twenty museums, you’re spoilt for choice, but don’t let the walls of a museum stop your cultural experience.

The Sharjah Biennial introduces one of the finest collections of contemporary art, where all the beauty this event can enchant every art lover from across the world.  Allow Sharjah, one of the first emirate’s to celebrate art biennale, to bedazzle you.

Maraya Art Centre has become one of the most talked art organizations.  A non-profit art entity that has given birth to many projects, but one that stands out is their newest project called Jedariya.  Jedariya is meant to incentivize community through powerful art movements. Jedariya promotes the youth to get involved in art in any form and on other levels require them to raise awareness for vital causes by actively participating.

Under Jedariya’s leadership, the MYNEANDYOURS (Mine and yours) project was born, which is all about beautifying the city with magnificent street art. Street artists are commissioned to decorate, with their own personal style, the streets of Sharjah.

Adventurous and bright colors adorn the very walls and buildings of most of Sharjah, bringing the city to life in a most majestic manner.  The artists, through their mediums, hope to mimic life in UAE, so that all the residents and visitors can savor the taste

Marwan Shakarchi was one of the first artists behind the Myneandyours project.  Many, from around the world, have viewed his famous marshmallowy clouds with crosses for eyes

The playful and colourful array of clouds splashed across a field of wide diagonal stripes has become a mural of positive thinking for all the public.  Shakarchi wanted to inspire the viewer to look up to the skies, brighten their day with strong colors and believe they can dream big.

And who wouldn’t?

The playful nature of the childlike clouds would inspire anyone to dream big dreams.

His choice of medium was huge-scale stencils and rainbow colored spray paint.  High up on a secured platform, he took 10 days, working for 12-hour stints to finally complete the magnificent masterpiece.  The masterpiece scales in at 78ft x 91ft and cannot be missed on the building wall.

Art has always transcended the bridges of language and the message of the street art of Myneandyours hits home no matter where you come from in the world.

Stepping out onto the sidewalk of life, powerful messages of hope, love, and faith are displayed.  Unlike the confines of an art museum, catering to a select few who are privileged enough to view the history, street art caters to the masses, allowing all that can afford a trip to the United Arab Emirates, a view of this modern and perhaps a significant step in art practice in the Middle East

Street Art is Powerful. The meanings and messages it leaves behind are thought bending.

No matter your religion, your beliefs or your upbringing, to view such raw and viral expressions on such open surfaces, is truly a blessing.   What better way to bring the world goodwill messages than through the fearless, gallant and personal language of art.

It is hoped that Sharjah will continue to honour the beauty of street art and in turn allow our youth to bring their messages to the world.

After all, it is the youth that should be leading our world forward.  Often overlooked, most times dismissed, graffiti or street artists, don’t get their pound of flesh in the art arena.  Via Maraya Art Centre, the Jedariya project and Myneandyours initiative, they can express freely without offending.

Often overlooked, most times dismissed, graffiti or street artists, don’t get their pound of flesh in the art arena.  Via Maraya Art Centre, the Jedariya project and Myneandyours initiative, they can express freely without offending.

This is only the beginning and we look forward to new artistic voices to come forth into Sharjah and UAE, to send strong messages from the sidewalk to the world at large

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