On the Cultural Plaza at the University of Florida, the museum houses several first-rate collections, but none more impressive than the rain forest.
Once inside, there is much to see: first-rate collections of African, Asian, Islamic and Pacific Island art; a distinguished photography collection that includes works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Walker Evans and Man Ray; the largest jade collection in the United States; and respectable holdings of Italian, Baroque and Dutch paintings.
Two first-rate collections, by Nicolas Ghesquiere of Balenciaga and Michael Kors, both showing yesterday as the New York fall 2002 collections passed the halfway mark, were steeped in what fashion needs at any moment: optimism and a lucid point of view that anyone can grasp.
"It's a first-rate collection," said William H. Truettner, a curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a consultant on the project.
The gallery has a first-rate collection of ceramics, but it also houses the Staffordshire Hoard – the largest and most valuable collection of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found.
The Addison Gallery in Andover owned a first-rate collection of American art, and the school had a studio-art program with a wonderful teacher named Patrick Morgan.
Helmut Lang cut fall-away panels into his first-rate collection, while Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton severed chic coats into horizontal segments.
Novelist Robert Stone published a first-rate collection of short stories, Fun with Problems, only his second in his long career as a writer.
Ms. Sander, who early on amassed a first-rate collection of contemporary art, has an easy way of adapting art's strategies to her own more utilitarian ends.
He had a passion for baseball statistics, a first-rate collection of baseball cards and a reputation as such a shrewd trader that boys were careful not to agree to a trade with George Bush without thinking it over very carefully.
