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The document discusses who should benefit from art and how to preserve cultural heritage. It addresses California standards for justifying connections between art and history and provides links to resources about cultural heritage, endangered world heritage sites, rebuilding destroyed Buddhist statues in Afghanistan, the missions of art museums and institutes, human rights and the arts, the work of artist Ai Weiwei, the roles of curators, and how art is presented. The key topics covered are preserving cultural artifacts and sites, making art accessible to the public, and interpreting art within its historical and cultural contexts.

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Webercise

The document discusses who should benefit from art and how to preserve cultural heritage. It addresses California standards for justifying connections between art and history and provides links to resources about cultural heritage, endangered world heritage sites, rebuilding destroyed Buddhist statues in Afghanistan, the missions of art museums and institutes, human rights and the arts, the work of artist Ai Weiwei, the roles of curators, and how art is presented. The key topics covered are preserving cultural artifacts and sites, making art accessible to the public, and interpreting art within its historical and cultural contexts.

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Who should benefit from art?

California State Anchor Standard 6 (Presenting):

 Acc.VA.Pr.6: Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social,
cultural and political history

*Read through all questions, then follow the underlined links. (For ‘pc’ ctrl+click)
Follow any specific instructions for answering the questions.
*Answer in the provided boxes, and be sure to write in full and complete sentences.
*This assignment is worth 35 points

Directions: Follow the link and answer the questions below: (5pts)

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history-basics/beginners-art-history/a/what-is-cultural-
heritage

1. Define Cultural Heritage?

2. How might it benefit the public to have art displayed in public spaces?

3. Why is it important to safeguard people’s cultural heritage?

4. How does preserving art further the effort to protect cultural heritage?

Directions: Follow the link, click the red dots on the world map and select three archeological sites (art
sites, sculptures, and/or buildings). Click on the sites and toggle between the tabs for more information
on each site. Answer the following: (5pts)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/danger/

1. What threats are facing your sites (be specific to the type of threat e.g ‘environmental, political,
economical…’)?
Site Name: Describe the threat facing your site:
2. Why are these three sites culturally significant? Explain in 2-3 full and complete sentences.

Site Name: Explain cultural/historical significance:

3. Can we save all art and archeological sites? If so, how? If not, how should we choose what to
save?

Directions: Follow the link. Read the article and answer the questions: (5pts)

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-06-11/they-were-destroyed-taliban-now-giant-buddha-statues-
bamiyan-have-returned-3-d

1. How has the statue changed, both physically and culturally?

2. Do you think that the Afghani government should rebuild the statue? Explain.

3. What responsibility do you think that individuals and governments have to protect historical
sites around the world?

Directions: Follow the two links below. Read the Getty Research Institute Mission Statement and view
the 2min38sec video embedded on the page. Then Read the About page on the MOCA website. Answer
the following: (3pts)

http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/?hp-2nd-level-nav=1

https://www.moca.org/about/mission-and-history

1. How are these two Museums’ Missions and Goals similar?

2. How are these two Museums’ Missions and Goals different?


Directions: Follow the link. Answer the questions: (2pts)

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html

1. What does the Universal Declaration on Human Rights have to say on the topic of ‘expression’
and ‘opinion’?

2. What does the Universal Declaration on Human Rights have to say on the ‘arts’?

Directions: Follow the link. Answer the questions: (4pts)

https://www.theartstory.org/artist-ai-weiwei-artworks.htm

1. Do you think that “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” was an artistic statement or desecration and
why?

2. What questions would you have for this artist about his work?

3. Which of the works on this page do you think is most important, why?

Directions: Follow the link. Watch the video and answer the question: (4pts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMZVUtUhNwo

1. What is the role of a curator?

2. What is an independent curator, and how is it different from a museum curator?

Directions: Follow the link. Watch the video and answer the question: (2pts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDaY6KraDW0

1. Why is how you present art just as important as the artwork?


Directions: Follow the link. Look at the images on this page, select 3 artworks according to any criteria
of your choice (theme, style, artist… etc.) and answer the following: (5pts)

https://www.theartstory.org/artist-ai-weiwei-artworks.htm

1. What three artworks did you select? Explain how you selected them?

2. Who would you present these works to?

3. How would you present these works? For example: in a gallery, online exhibit, webcast….

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