The Morse Museum The Morse Museum was founded by Jeanette Genius McKean in 1942 and named for her grandfather. The museum contains many of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s works. Some of these objects came from Tiffany’s New York mansion, including leaded glass windows, blown glass and pottery and historical photos and architectural plans. It also has a collection of American arts pottery and a collection of late 19th and early 20th century American painting and decorative arts. The Morse museum’s new wing features the recently restored Daffodil Terrace and approximately 250 objects from or relate to Tiffany’s mansion.
Prado Museum: The Prado museum is one of the world‘s great art museums Prado is presumed to have the greatest collection of paintings in Europe. There are over eight thousand five hundred paintings. Over a hundred of those paintings are from Goya the famous painter and they are the size of a small house. You can also find paintings from El Greco and Velazquez. Since there is so much to see the Prado has organized three routes for visitors that focus on masterpieces.
Museum Paper ‘San Antonio Museum of Art ‘ There are many kind of museum in San Antonio in Texas. Above of all, San Antonio Museum of Arts is one of big and famous museum in the city. The Museum of Art was opened to the public in March of 1981. It conducts more than 500 guided tours annually and provides approximately 200 educational programs each year. The museum exhibits Pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial and Latin American folk art.
Case 13-5 Occupy Mall Street Occupy Mall Street (“OMS” or “the Company”) is a leading real estate management firm that owns and manages over 100 shopping malls across the United States. The Company went public in 2009 and experienced a continued increase in stock price through 2011. With the sustained growth of the business and rising stock price, OMS developed a practice of granting annual stock option awards to its executives at the beginning of each year. On January 1, 2012, OMS granted 1,000 employee share options that cliff vest after a four-year service period, with an exercise price of $30 per share. Using the Black-Scholes pricing model, the Company determined that the grant-date fair-value-based measure of the awards was $15.
The ‘Thanks for the Memories’ exhibit is a memorabilia celebrating the last fifteen years, and fifty-three exhibits. ‘Thanks for the Memories’ begins with photos and illustrations of Maas Brothers and moves into the “blockbuster” exhibitions, and even the Cuban Missile Crisis. The most popular exhibit for the Florida International Museum was the Titanic exhibit in 1997 with an attendance of 830,019 people during its six-month existence at the museum. The Titanic exhibit wasn’t only the Florida International Museum’s most highly attended exhibit but it was the most highly attended exhibit in the United States for the proceeding three years. I remember taking a field trip to visit the Titanic exhibit while I was in elementary school.
Jasper Johns False Start Aaron Zavala Art 03 False Start by Jasper Johns False Start uses interlocking, varied patches of colors, the usage of the triad colors, and false labeling, all in one painting. 1988, False Start brought $17 million at the auction at Sotheby’s. In year 2006, the painting was sold to the Kenneth C. Griffin, for $80 million, making it the most expensive painting to be sold by a living artist. The False Start is one of the popular oil paintings of Jasper Johns and was made on a canvas 170.8 centimeters long and 137.2 centimeters wide. The colorful painting has always impressed the people since the time it was released.
In the book, he describes how he raised over $80 million of financial commitments from a ‘standing start’ to develop one of the fastest-growing nonprofits in history. The book was described by Publishers Weekly in a starred review as “an infectiously inspiring read.”[1] Translated into 20 languages, the book was selected by Amazon.com as one of the Top Ten Business Narratives of 2006 and voted by Hudson Booksellers as a Top Ten Nonfiction title of 2006. John's book was also featured during his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2007 and the resulting “Oprah’s Book Drive” with Room to Read raised over $1 million from viewers. Management
He was born in 1923 and is still living. His work can also be found at the Whitney Museum of modern art and the Museum of Modern Art. Another pop artist was James Rosenquist. He, too, was American. He was born in 1933 and has yet to die.
After the first decade the company had more cheers than naysayers; the company hit number 25 on Business Week´s Hot Growth list of fast-expanding small companies, and Maxine won Fast Company´s Customer-Centered Leader Award. Since 2005 annual revenues reached $359 million and kept growing 20% annually. The company’s stock came public on November 2004 and from that time the price has soared 56%. Since the opening of the first store, the company nowadays has over 400 stores worldwide in United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland etc. and over 120 million teddy bears and other stuffed animals.
“From rollers coasters to bumper cars and ferris wheels, amusement park rides attract massive crowds, with an estimated annual attendance of nearly 300 million at the more than 420 fixed-site theme parks in the United States, according to 2008 data from the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions website” (U. S. Rides, Article On Line www.IAAPA.org). According to Beth Robertson with the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, “Last year, there were one and a half billion rides. But there were less than 2,400 injuries that required an overnight hospital stay” (Ride Safety In The United States, Article On Line www.IAAPA.org ). "The likelihood of being seriously injured requiring overnight hospitalization on a permanently located amusement park ride in the United States is one in nine million, said IAAPA representative Colleen Mangone. You are much more likely to be killed by a bee sting, a snake bite, fireworks, tornadoes, electrocution and even dogs, than to be seriously hurt in one of these parks” (Injury Statistics, Article On Line, www.IAAPA.org).