There are more than 100 visual galleries ranging from movies, books, and cars to products, animals, and sports teams.
That is what compelled the curators of the visual galleries at The National Museum of African American History and Culture, affectionately known as a "the Blacksonian," to hang Betye Saar's 1973 mixed-media work, Let Me Entertain You, above Walker's landscape, No World.
For more on Mandela's legacy in pictures, visit our audio-visual gallery of Krisanne Johnson's photographs.
In the 1980s, the Visual Dhamma gallery — owned by the Austrian Alfred Pawlin — was one of the first expat-run galleries to promote both Thai and international artists.
Those programs have expanded; a film series, readings and visual arts gallery are all new this fall.
There may also be ripple effects from the visual arts gallery that just opened in the lobby of the Metropolitan Opera House.
Home is several hundred metres up the road, an unassuming new glass-fronted building where Cornerhouse has merged with the old Library theatre to create a £25 million arts complex that includes two theatres, five cinemas and a visual arts gallery.
For her next three exhibitions, the 33-year-old artist will bind the façade of the Freud Museum with ropes of hair, fill the new All Visual Arts gallery with a giant, 4m-high cotton reel, wound with hair, and lead Latitude festival-goers deep into the woods with tangled hair trails on which they'll run across wax dolls, doppelgängers of their creator, sporting miniature versions of her fiery mane.
It has a new visual site gallery that allows the user to open existing sites on their local machines, or to remotely edit sites that are hosted in Windows Azure.
A retrospective of handmade miniature interiors by the Parisian artist Charles Matton is on exhibit in London's All Visual Arts gallery.
But while the performances attract more than 100,000 people a year, the visual arts galleries are drawing fewer than 50,000.
