Art Gallery
An art gallery or art museum is
a space for the exhibition of visual art. Sculpture, illustrations,
and objects from the applied arts may also be shown. The
term is used both for both public galleries, which are museums
for the display of a permanent collection of art, and private
galleries, which are commercial enterprises for the sale
of art. However both types of gallery may host temporary
exhibitions including art borrowed from elsewhere.
Although the rooms in museums where art is displayed
for the public are often referred to as galleries as well,
with a room dedicated to Ancient Egyptian art often being
called the Egypt Gallery, for example.
The term contemporary
art gallery refers to a usually a privately-owned for-profit
commercial gallery. These galleries are often found clustered
together in urban centres such
as the Chelsea district of New York, widely considered to
be the centre of the contemporary
art world.
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