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herm, in Greek art

(Encyclopedia)herm hûrm [key], in 6th-century Greek art, vertical pillar surmounted by a bearded human head and often having a phallus below. These structures were considered sacred to Hermes. They were placed on ...

Corcoran Gallery of Art

(Encyclopedia)Corcoran Gallery of Art: see under Corcoran, William Wilson. ...

Chicago, Art Institute of

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

Pennsylvania Museum of Art

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

North American Native art

(Encyclopedia)North American Native art, diverse traditional arts of Native North Americans. In recent years Native American arts have become commodities collected and marketed by nonindigenous Americans and Europe...

Storm King Art Center

(Encyclopedia)Storm King Art Center, sculpture park and museum in Mountainville, N.Y., some 55 mi (89 km) north of New York City. Founded in 1960, it comprises 500 acres (202 hectares) of lawns, fields, hills, and ...

Brooklyn Museum of Art

(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...

Broad Contemporary Art Museum

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

Mitla

(Encyclopedia)Mitla mētˈlä [key] [Nahuatl,=abode of the dead], religious center of the Zapotec, near Oaxaca, SW Mexico. Probably built in the 13th cent., the buildings, unlike the pyramidal structures of most Mi...

Barnes Foundation

(Encyclopedia)Barnes Foundation, museum and arborteum in Merion and Philadelphia, Pa. Founded in 1922, it houses the impressive art collection amassed by Albert Coombs Barnes, 1872–1951, a wealthy Philadelphia ph...