The Akron Art Museum is considered one of the best art museums in all of Ohio, and with the new expansion and superb architecture , the museum has been placed on the list of nationally favored places to visit through out the year. There mission to bring the best in installations and exhibit by world class artist to enhance the life of all who attend the museum has been obtained and surpassed, so much so, many New Yorkers are coming down, making weekend bookings at great hotels Akron provides, just to check-out the Museum’s latest installments.
Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore is absolutely refreshing, thought provoking, impacting, jaw-dropping wonderful. Moore’s photography of Motor City is the subject of this exhibition, making it’s debut, before touring nationally. He manages to capture the atmosphere, tragedy, and hope of what was once America’s industrial glory and promises. Detroit is a fallen city, slowly dying from lack of innovation and creativity. Abandoned property, literally fills every street and 1/3 of the city is mostly empty land. Moore, with his photograph, seems to be the only one who cares about the fate of Detroit, and hopefully with his work, so will the rest of America.
Isaac Julien’s ‘True North’, is a sound and video installation, which take us on a journey into the Arctic. Isaac is an internationally acclaimed and award winning British artist and filmmaker, who immerses one in the frigid, barren landscape of the North Pole. This installations is also a debut of the 3-screen multi-media presentation, which is a ‘re-memorization’ of the story of Matthew Henson, an engineer who accompanied Robert Peary’s polar exploration in 1909.
The Akron Art Museum is note for the first museum to present a major museum exhibition: The Story of Rock n’ Roll – ‘Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present. The story is being told from the perspective of the men and women who chronicled the genre and defined it comprehensively – the photographers. This stunning exhibition features 175 photographs by 105 photographers like Annie Leibovitz, Anton Corbijn, Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus and many, many more. The exhibit is broken into sections from rare and revealing to tender snapshots of young musicians at their beginning days; from live performance displaying the passion, energy, sex appeal and style to powerful images of the crowds and fans; portraits revealing the soul and creativity of the musicians and their conceptual images and album covers.
This is only a few of the exhibit currently on display at the Akron Art Museum, there’s so much more; enough to fill a lifetime of excellence in art, and it’s all in Akron, Ohio; what a genuine treat for all.
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