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a maze designed to make you walk slowly past expensive feelings
means A long room or building used to display art, or a raised balcony of seats overlooking a hall, church, or theater.
from From Medieval Latin galeria, by way of Old French galerie — a covered walkway or porch. The word's path is a bit murky; one common suggestion links it to Galilee, oddly enough, since a 'galilee' was a porch or chapel at the entrance of a church, possibly named for the biblical region as the 'outer' or marginal place. From a covered passage to walk along, the sense drifted to the long room where pictures were hung, and later to the cheap upper seats in a theater — giving us 'playing to the gallery.'
- silent rule
- whisper enforced by acoustics, not actual rules
- white walls
- the blank canvas trick borrowed from 1930s modernism
- peanut gallery
- named for cheap theater seats up top
- shooting gallery
- originally a carnival booth, not an art space
- the void
- empty wall space costs more than the painting
uffizi gallery — florence museum with 1,600+ artworks including botticelli's birth of venus
national gallery london — london museum with 2,300+ paintings from 13th century onward
guggenheim museum — frank lloyd wright building in new york with spiral rotunda design completed 1959
louvre museum — paris museum housing mona lisa and venus de milo, 9 million annual visitors