If you want an instant educational activity on o.k. art , any of these museums or galleries can get you up to speed in no prison term .

Uffizi, Italy

Opera has La Scala . Music has Carnegie Hall . And art ? It has the Uffizi . Although the Florentine museum is one of the big in the humanity , it still does n’t have enough space to hang everything on its walls . It ’s invariably switching in body of work by Caravaggio , Da Vinci , Raphael , and ship’s company — so each sojourn is sure to be unlike from the last .

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

The Barnes has the finest collection of impressionist and post - impressionist house painting anywhere , owning $ 25 billion Charles Frederick Worth of precious paintings . The solicitation of Renoir and Matisse masterpieces go to Philadelphia from the suburban area in 2012 .

In the 1970s , Paula Cooper raised eyebrow by opening a gallery in the humbled Manhattan neck of the woods of Soho . Critics called it a bonehead move . Who would want to see artistic production in SoHo ? Everybody , apparently ! Within 10 class , there were some 80 galleries in the neighbourhood . Today , Paula Cooper is the aureate touchstone for minimalist and contemporary prowess .

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

In early 2013 , the Met announced it was have 78 important Cubist paintings from the cosmetic behemoth Leonard Lauder . With its caisson stuff with modernist masterworks , the Met may be the respectable museum in the world .

White Cube, London

In the former nineties , a new art movement traverse Britain . The Young British Artists deluge warehouse and factories with disgraceful , subversive employment of graphics . The White Cube modern-day veranda was one of the first to launch the threshold , let them into the formal art world . It ’s still carrying on that legacy , usher in restive , raw talent .

Louvre-Lens, France

Lens , France is not your distinctive tourist town . surround by slag mountain and bog down in unemployment , the tiny village was an unlikely choice for the Louvre ’s newest museum . The main museum in Paris lends its nontextual matter to the gallery , giving the post - industrial town a boost and drawing tourists to the northern countryside .

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