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(Encyclopedia) Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, established and incorporated in 1929. It is privately supported. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., was its first director. Operating at first in rented galleries, the mu...

(Encyclopedia) Brooklyn Museum of Art, museum in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. Its predecessors were the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library (1823), the Brooklyn Institute (1843), and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sc...

(Encyclopedia) Pennsylvania Museum of Art: see Philadelphia Museum of Art. ...

(Encyclopedia) Mogul art and architecture: see Mughal art and architecture. ...

(Encyclopedia) Chicago, Art Institute of: see Art Institute of Chicago. ...

(Encyclopedia) Arabian art and architecture: see Islamic art and architecture. ...

(Encyclopedia) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, established by an act of Congress, 1937. Andrew W. Mellon donated funds for construction of the building as well...

(Encyclopedia) Siamese art and architecture: see Southeast Asian art and architecture. ...

(Encyclopedia) Broad Contemporary Art Museum: see under Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ...

(Encyclopedia) illumination, in art, decoration of manuscripts and books with colored, gilded pictures, often referred to as miniatures (see miniature painting); historiated and decorated initials; and ornamental bo...