Introducing Books/ Iranian Art: Collecting Iranian Art Pieces for Victoria and Albert Museum, Mohammad Javad Ahmadinia

Participatory Art Museum: Collecting and Modeling Crowd Opinions

We collect public opinions on museum artworks using online crowdsourcing techniques. We ask two research questions. First, do crowd opinions on artworks differ from expert interpretations? Second, how can museum manage large amount of crowd opinions, such that users can efficiently retrieve useful information? We address these questions through opinion modeling via semantic embedding and dimens...

Modernism in Iranian Art: A Review of Investigating the Contemporary Iranian Art, Masoomeh Babajani and Seyyed Saeed Ahmadi Zavieh

Modernism in Iranian Art: A Review of Investigating the Contemporary Iranian Art Masoumeh Babajani  Master of Science in Arts Research [email protected]   Seyyed Saeed Ahmadizavieh  Faculty Member of the University of Art [email protected]   Abstract   Investigating the Contemporary Iranian Art is an attempt for a systematic analysis of Iranian art, culture and society, which h...

democratization of art or accumulation of artistic behaviors; case study of iranian contemporary art museum

the goal of this research is to study the policy of democratization of culture and is trying to find out whether democratization of museums leads to democratization of art or its only result is accumulation of artistic behaviors. deploying pierre bourdieu’s theory who believes that “the love of art” is the result of cultural capital and utilizing surveys with the method of quantity evaluation a...

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ The Art Economics of Art: A Look at Contemporary Art Economics; Markets, Strategies, and the Star-making Systems, Marzieh Eftekhari

Critique of Research Books (Art) / Voices to See: A Review of Sound and Music in Documentaries, Mohammad Nasr Ahadi

BOOKS: PALEONTOLOGY Science, Art, and Dinosaurs

ll science involves what we might call "art" in the sense of requiring intuition, creativity, and inspiration (whether to grasp the underlying causal connection between seemingly unrelated observations or to construct an elegant experimental design). But in a few disciplines, science also closely intermingles with the fine arts, such as painting and sculpture. Dinosaur study is one such discipl...