A gallery is an area of a building that's usually long, narrow, and has a specific function. You might visit an art gallery to check out a row of paintings hung on its walls.
A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
Noun
a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
Noun
narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
Noun
a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
Noun
a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose; "shooting gallery"
Noun
a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
Noun
a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
Noun
spectators at a golf or tennis match
a.
A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a
connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long
hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
a.
A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture
gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings,
sculptures, etc.
a.
A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides
of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets
or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or
spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the
hall.
a.
A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or
quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery,
-- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.
a.
Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at
the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
a.
A working drift or level.
Gallery
A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
Usage Examples
Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.
Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.
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Other Usage ExamplesBracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.
Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
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