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What is Are Art Galleries Houston

An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition and promotion of art, especially visual art, and mainly painting and sculpture.

 According to El Quatre, Sala d'Art: The usual client of the Gallery has experienced a substantial change in the last 15 years. If you used to receive the catalog of the exhibitions by postal mail and with that, you went to the Exhibition Hall to see the work of your favorite artists, now you tend not to move. He prefers to see the same exhibition on his computer and not embark on a pointless trip. The selection is therefore much easier and more comfortable for the client and is a handicap for the Gallery to reduce the number of visitors.

 Due to this, it is necessary to disseminate the exhibitions in a clear way through the computer media. In any case, current habits do not particularly favor the purchase of work. Several aspects affect it, in which we are not going to enter now, but it is true that the fact of acquiring Art for the ornamentation of houses does not have the importance that it had had before. The galleries should once again carry out a pedagogical task that truly enhances the fact of having Art in the homes without purely commercial interest. The fact, in short, of being able to have something unique and personal. Fleeing from the ease of acquiring series or copies.

 Nowadays, the promotional role of an exhibition of works of art is of great importance for the prestige of the exhibition space that proposes it and for the success of the exhibition itself. There are art galleries that take care of every detail in all the stages of the planning of an exhibition and, in synergy with the scientific environment, they hold exhibition events that attract a wide audience. These same galleries are in charge of the relations with the press offices and media that determine the promotion of the event.

Exhibitions have changed concepts and forms over time. The scenario changed when it was wanted to do not only places of storage and exhibition of works, for the study and research of professionals or for a few, but places of educational and cultural projects. The discussion about the function and the ultimate meaning of the expositions is not without controversy. Roberto Longhi, for example, affirms that "the work is never alone, it is always a relationship" and, therefore, the art exhibition is, in his opinion, the best tool to define this relationship: a means of spreading culture to a wider audience.

 According to others, the exhibition activity must be connected fundamentally with a didactic function, which privileges a type of staging that offers comments and useful information for the understanding of the works. The position of Carlo L. Ragghianti, however, insists on the insufficiency of presenting the public with works of art in their "extrinsic meaning", contributing therefore to a loss of identity of the work and emphasizes with emphasis the dangers of the dynamics of consumption.

These very different points of view, evidence the intensity of the debate on the critical assessment of exhibitions of works of art. Today, for the creation of exhibitions, professionals with specific training are needed and, for this reason, university courses and masters have been developed that prepare specific professional figures as operators, designers, cultural managers, cultural managers, etc. These events must be meticulously prepared and require skills to defeat the extensive competition. The project of an exhibition that wants to become a successful event and a true event or an initiative of special importance, must use a series of precautions.

In short, the galleries would be configured as mediating entities between the artist and the public. Nowadays, their role is more important than ten years ago: they have consolidated themselves in the artistic panorama as increasingly stable institutions that bet on an art for which museums do not bet today. It is the showcase of the artists. For all this, and for many more reasons, I encourage you to come to know the galleries.