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The gallery was founded by architect Trevor Green in 1965. [3] With funding from the Arts Council of Great Britain, the gallery survived as a venue for temporary exhibitions. It was widely known as MoMA Oxford, similar to other international modern art spaces such as MoMA in New York. [4] It was renamed "Modern Art Oxford" in 2002. [3]
The following museums and art galleries are located in the city of Oxford, England (with locations), many run by the University of Oxford: [1] [2] Ashmolean Museum * (Beaumont Street) Bate Collection of Musical Instruments * (St Aldate's) Christ Church Picture Gallery * (Christ Church) Modern Art Oxford (Pembroke Street)
Christ Church Picture Gallery is an art gallery located inside Christ Church, a college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. The gallery holds an important collection of about 300 Old Master paintings and nearly 2,000 drawings. The gallery consists largely of Italian art from the 14th to 18th centuries. including paintings by famous ...
He has also had a position at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and was director of Dundee Contemporary Arts. His current role is director of Kettle's Yard in Cambridge. Nairne is the former director of Modern Art Oxford, [3] a contemporary art gallery in Oxford. He joined in 2001, when he renamed the gallery from the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
In 2009 Oxford City Council considered closing the Museum of Oxford to save money, as the upkeep of the museum was costing £200,000 annually. However the closure of the museum was opposed by the Oxford Civic Society, who campaigned for its continuation and helped the museum organise a rota of volunteers to keep the museum running on a reduced ...
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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76107 San Antonio Museum of Art , 200 W. Jones Ave., San Antonio , Texas 78215 Grey Art Gallery , New York University , 100 Washington Square East, NYC 10003
The Museum of Modern Art (Museo de Arte Moderno or M.A.M.) was the Spanish national museum dedicated to 19th- and 20th-century painting.It was set up in 1894. It closed in 1971, when its 19th-century collections were merged into those of the Museo del Prado, but housed at the Casón del Buen Retiro, and its 20th-century collections formed into the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art (Museo ...