National Museum of Western Art
The National Museum of Western Art is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition.
Its logo and National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo designed by Le Corbusier
Auguste Rodin's The Thinker near the entrance of the National Museum of Western Art.
Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1916, oil on canvas, 200.5 × 201 cm (78.9 × 79.1 in)
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. One of the examples of architecture by Le Corbusier
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The long gallery in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses served many purposes including the display of art. Historically, art is displayed as evidence of status and wealth, and for religious art as objects of ritual or the depiction of narratives. The first galleries were in the palaces of the aristocracy, or in churches. As art collections grew, buildings became dedicated to art, becoming the first art museums.
A museum gallery at the Asia Society in Manhattan
A commercial gallery (Foster/White) in Seattle, Washington
Gallery Opening, July 2015