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Art Centers, Alternative (332 words) |
 | In the parlance of the contemporary art world, an “alternative space” indicates a gallery or center that by circumstance or mission exists outside of, or in opposition to, mainstream art institutions, particularly museums and commercial galleries. |
| In 1948 the resistance of the curators of the Art Institute's “Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity” to the new vision of artists educated at the School of the Art Institute on the GI Bill spawned the important artists' group Exhibition Momentum. |
| Fed by a huge increase in art school graduates in the late 1960s and by grants from the newly established National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), N.A.M.E. Gallery (1973–1997) and feminist co-ops Artemisia Gallery (1973–2003) and ARC Gallery (1973) formed the core of an exciting alternative scene on Hubbard Street west of State. |
| ART_AND_MUSEUMS (2642 words) |
| Brooklyn Museum of Art - With one of the finest collections of Egyptian art in the world, this museum also has within its permanent collection classical and middle eastern art, art of Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, as well as decorative arts and textiles. |
| The Corcoran Museum of Art - Founded in 1869 by William Wilson Corcoran, The Corcoran Museum of Art is Washington, D.C.'s largest non-Federal museum, and one of the first fine art museums in the nation. |
| Museum of Art and Archaeology - at the University of Missouri. |
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