A gallery is a room or building where artworks, such as paintings and sculptures, are displayed. It can also mean a long, narrow passage or balcony in a theater or building.
“Gallery” comes from Old French “galerie,” from Italian “galleria,” meaning “covered walk” or “arcade,” likely from a word related to “throat” or “tunnel.” It shifted from meaning a passageway to a place where art is shown along the walls.
An art gallery is like a curated brain: someone has carefully chosen and arranged images to guide how you think and feel as you walk through. Online “galleries” keep the idea but swap walls for screens, turning scrolling into a kind of digital wandering.
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