Children were particularly intrigued by an elaborate labyrinth of mirrored walls that he constructed within his gallery as background for the antique pieces.
Often, as we are permitted access to a budget meeting or PR discussion, an art-history lecture, nude life study or some craftsman's minutely exacting restoration work, you will be intensely aware of the gallery's background silence, which is as an almost audible hum.
To provide you with an extra bit of inspiration, we've collaborated with several well-known artists, sculptors and photographers to create a gallery of background images you can use to personalize your Google homepage.
Mr. Kinmonth served as a consultant for the flamboyantly theatrical 2004 exhibition "Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century," which used the prerenovation Wrightsman Galleries as background for lavishly costumed mannequins posed in all kinds of erotic and scandalous ways.
With an exhibition design by the architects AOC, the show lights up the grey cave of the Barbican's gallery, with backgrounds in pistachio and pink, illuminated as highly as conservation requirements allow, calling to each other across a shadowy central void.
And you view other people's photos in a beautiful, black-background gallery, with comments off to the right.
To help answer these and many other questions, students visit the museum with computer tablets preloaded with information, assignments and videos of curators in their galleries, explaining the background to the exhibits.
With under 2% of chairs categorised as coming from black or minority ethnic backgrounds, Castlefield Gallery director Kwong Lee's comments in 2012 on diversity still hold true: "A lot of ethnic minorities still don't know it's an option for them to … be a leader within the cultural industries".
Because today's featured article from The New York Times discusses a documentary film on a growing Jewish-Arab school in northern Israel, the gallery will also provide the background information students need to contextualize this story.
Another focus in Sailfish is personalisation, with a feature called Ambience that lets users select a photo from their gallery to use as a background but which is also used to customises the UI's theme colours to corresponding shades – resetting the whole look and feel.
While viewers walk through "Disguise," a soundtrack plays in the background, turning the galleries into immersive environments with plenty of play between African masks and their contemporary counterparts.
