In that apparently simple shift Porter opened the way to the sensitive use of the camera as an instrument of art as well as a mechanical recording device.

In 1893 Maillol opened a tapestry workshop in Banyuls, producing works whose high technical and aesthetic quality gained him recognition for renewing this art form in France.

However, the palace chapel was destroyed by a German bomb in World War II ; the Queen's Gallery was built on the site and opened to the public in 1962 to exhibit works of art from the Royal Collection.

In 1930 Schueg opened the art deco Bacardi building in Havana and the third generation of the Bacardí family was entering the business.

After architects Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti had won an international competition to create its new galleries for Islamic art, the new 3, 000 sq m pavilion eventually opened in 2012, consisting of ground-and lower-ground-level interior spaces topped by a golden, undulating roof ( fashioned from almost 9, 000 steel tubes that form an interior web ) that seems to float within the neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard in the middle of the Louvre ’ s south wing.

Museum officials predicted that the new building, capable of receiving about 600 works of art, would attract up to 500, 000 visitors a year when it opened in 2009.

The Malmö Konsthall is one of the largest exhibition halls in Europe for contemporary art, opened in 1975.

In a sense the innovations of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Motherwell, Peter Voulkos and others opened the floodgates to the diversity and scope of all the art that followed them.

Mariotto was a most restless person and carnal in the affairs of love and apt to the art of living, and, taking a dislike to the studies and brain-wracking necessary to painting, being also often stung by the tongues of other painters, as is their way, he resolved to give himself to a less laborious and more jovial profession, and so opened the most lovely hostelry outside the Porta San Gallo, and at the sign of the Dragon at the Ponte Vecchio a tavern and inn.

As the general recognition of managers as a class solidified during the 20th century and gave perceived practitioners of the art / science of management a certain amount of prestige, so the way opened for popularised systems of management ideas to peddle their wares.

The National Museum of Contemporary Art ( MNAC ), situated in a wing of the Palace of the Parliament, was opened in 2004 and contains a widespread collection of Romanian and international contemporary art, in a number of expressive forms.

* the Belvedere Palace of the Habsburg monarchs in Vienna opened with a collection of art in 1781

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford opened on 24 May 1683 as the world's first university art museum.

The Edo period was largely a period of calm that provided an ideal environment for the development of the art in a commercial form ; while the Meiji period is characterized by new influences as Japan opened up to the West.

By late 1966, the Diggers opened free stores which simply gave away their stock, provided free food, distributed free drugs, gave away money, organized free music concerts, and performed works of political art.

The San Francisco group known as the Diggers articulated an influential radical criticism of contemporary mass consumer society, and so they opened free stores which simply gave away their stock, provided free food, distributed free drugs, gave away money, organized free music concerts, and performed works of political art.

The Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, housed in a Victorian Gothic building and opened in 1874, presents artefacts, fine art, and decorative art associated with the local area.

The Tikal was the first art cater shop in Grenada and it was opened in December 1959.

In 2001, the first museum dedicated to contemporary art opened as MoCA Taipei or Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei ( 台北當代藝術館 ), located in the old building of the Taipei City government.

It was opened as a museum in 1974, as a repository of Malta's permanent national art collection.

Gorman opened " The Navajo Gallery " in 1968 on historic Ledoux Street, the first art gallery owned by a Native American in the United States.

He was one of the first to enroll when George McKinstry opened an art studio in Hudson.

In 1931, Pierre Matisse opened an art gallery in New York City.

Once artists began settling and working in Taos, others came, art galleries and museums were opened and the area became an artistic center — though not a formal, funded art colony providing artists with aid, as Yaddo and MacDowell do.

Last week it opened at the J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau gallery in Los Angeles.

Douglas took the appeal personally and responded in congress when the debate was opened on January 30 before a full house and packed gallery.

The gallery originally opened in 1882 and is the only permanent exhibition dedicated solely to the work of one woman in Great Britain.

When the gallery opened in 2000, the collections were not displayed in chronological order but were rather arranged thematically into four broad groups each allocated a wing on levels 3 and 5 ( now levels 2 and 4 ):

In 1954, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on members of Congress from the visitors ' gallery.

The gallery had been open to visitors by request since the sixteenth century, and in 1765 it was officially opened to the public.

The gallery had been open to visitors by request since the sixteenth century, and in 1765 it was officially opened to the public.

Lichtenstein had his first one-man show at the Castelli gallery in 1962 ; the entire collection was bought by influential collectors before the show even opened.

The gallery opened to the public in 1923.

It was restored and put on display at the entrance to the Apollo gallery when the National Air and Space Museum opened in 1976.

Roscommon has a leisure centre which opened early 2002 and has a 25 m ( 82 ft ) deck level pool with a learner swimming pool and spectator gallery and fully equipped gymnasium.

The next major expansions were designed by the same architect, these were the Turner and Vernon galleries built 1858-9 ( built to house the eponymous collections, which were later transferred to the Tate Gallery, now used as the picture galleries and tapestry gallery respectively ), then the North and South Courts, both of which opened by June 1862.

This involved flooring over Aston Webb's main hall to form the book stacks, with a new medieval gallery on the ground floor ( now the shop, opened in 2006 ).

In 2004, the V & A alongside Royal Institute of British Architects opened the first permanent gallery in the UK covering the history of architecture with displays using models, photographs, elements from buildings and original drawings.

The Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art, opened in 2006, houses a representative display of 400 objects with the highlight being the Ardabil Carpet, the centrepiece of the gallery.

The Nehru gallery of Indian art, opened in 1991, contains art from about 500 BC to the 19th century.

The Toshiba gallery of Japanese art opened in December 1986.

The main gallery was redesigned in 1994, the glass balustrade on the staircase and mezzanine are the work of Danny Lane, the gallery covering contemporary glass opened in 2004 and the sacred silver and stained glass gallery in 2005.

A new jewellery gallery, funded by William and Judith Bollinger, opened on May 24, 2008.

In 2007, the Alley Arts and Conference Centre opened to the general public, offering a 270-seat theatre, art gallery, tourist information centre and cafe-bar.

Her first solo exhibition, " What a Farm Wife Painted ", opened October 1940 at Otto Kallir's New York City gallery Galerie St. Etienne, followed by a meet-and-greet with the artist and an exhibition of 50 paintings at Gimbel's Department Store November 15, followed by a third solo show in as many months, at the Whyte Gallery, Washington, D. C. " Gimbels had supplemented Moses ' art display with a table beneath the paintings spread samples of Grandma's culinary talents — homebaked bread, rolls and cake, plus some of the preserves which won her prizes at the county fair.