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museums of art
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......Victoria and Albert Museum, the National...John Soane's Museum (all: London...and the Glasgow Art Galleries and Museum...major European museums and galleries include: Austria—Academy of Fine Arts, Art Historical Museum......
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art galleries
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...art galleries: see museums of art....
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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...Boston Museum of Fine Arts: see Museum of Fine Arts, at Boston, Mass....
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Museum of Fine Arts
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...Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, chartered...their collections of art objects and house them in adequate public galleries. The first building...Lowell, in 1909. The museum's West Wing, designed...opened in 2010. The museum is supported entirely......
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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......Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, established...Charles Willson Peale for an art institution; this led...1795 mounted the first art exhibition in the United...house the academy's art collection, which includes...2006, it incorporates galleries for modern and ......
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conceptual art
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...conceptual art, art movement that began in...out of minimalism, conceptual art turned the artist's thoughts...the overcommercialization of art objects in the moneyed world of art galleries and museums. At times in conceptual art......
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École des Beaux-Arts
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...École des Beaux-Arts (ākôl´ dā bōzär´)[Fr.,=school of fine arts], French national school of fine arts, on the Quai Malaquais, Paris, founded in 1648 by Charles Le Brun with the consent of Cardinal......
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British Museum
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......treasures in science and art. Located in the Bloomsbury...Long a part of the museum, the British Library...the courtyard.The museum's collection of prints...the Natural History Museum. One of the major exhibits of the Egyptian department......
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American Museum of Natural History
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......1936). In 2000 the museum opened the Rose Center...state-of-the-art Hayden Planetarium. The museum maintains exhibitions...service whereby the museum cooperates with city schools; circulating exhibits; habitat groups of......
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performance art
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...performance art, multimedia art form originating...of expression. Perfomance art may incorporate such elements...direct antecedent of performance art, however, can be found in...garde form, performance art is often emotional and topical...the early 21st cent., with museums and ......