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Matsukata Kōjirō
Matsukata Kōjirō (松方 幸次郎, 1866–1950) was a Japanese businessman and art collector who assembled about 10,000 Western and Japanese works; his collection became the founding core of Tokyo's National Museum of Western Art.
Medu Art Ensemble
Medu Art Ensemble, meaning "roots" in SePedi, was a collective of exiled South African cultural workers in Gaborone, Botswana, producing anti-apartheid posters, music, and theater until 1985.
Met Gala
The Met Gala (Costume Institute Benefit, Met Ball) is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual first-Monday-in-May fundraiser for its Costume Institute, founded by Eleanor Lambert in 1948, themed to the spring exhibition, co-chaired by Anna Wintour since 1995, and famous for its celebrity red carpet.
Movses Khorenatsi Medal
The Movses Khorenatsi Medal is a state medal of Armenia, established in 1993 and awarded by the President for achievements in culture, art, literature, education, and sports.
Museo del Galeón
Museo del Galeón is a maritime heritage museum at SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City, Philippines, opened 1 May 2026, centered on a full-scale replica of the galleon Espíritu Santo (Cavite, 1603) and the 1565–1815 Manila–Acapulco galleon trade.
Namikawa Yasuyuki workshop
The Namikawa Yasuyuki workshop, the Kyoto Higashiyama residence and studio where cloisonné artist Namikawa Yasuyuki ran his wired-cloisonné business, is now the Namikawa Cloisonné Museum of Kyoto.
National Institute of Design
National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad: India's national design school founded September 1961 from the Eames India Report, an Institution of National Importance under the NID Act 2014, with campuses in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, and Bengaluru.
National Museum of Ireland
National Museum of Ireland (Ard-Mhúsaem na hÉireann), Ireland's national museum established by the 1877 Dublin Science and Art Museum Act, with free sites at Kildare Street, Collins Barracks, Merrion Street, and Turlough Park, holding over two million archaeological objects.
New Bauhaus
The New Bauhaus was an American design school founded in Chicago in 1937 by former Bauhaus master László Moholy-Nagy to carry the Bauhaus program to the United States.
New Era Sculpture Park
New Era Sculpture Park (牛耳石雕公園, New Era Art Resort & Spa) is a 1987 sculpture park in Puli, Nantou County, Taiwan, founded by Huang Ping-sung for naive artist Lin Yuan, also showing Yuyu Yang and Zhu Ming; now a 6.6-hectare resort.
New York Fashion Week
New York Fashion Week (NYFW), begun as Eleanor Lambert's 1943 Press Week, is the semiannual February and September American runway event opening the Big Four fashion month, organized by the CFDA via the Fashion Calendar since 2014.
Nihon Bijutsuin
Nihon Bijutsuin (日本美術院, Japan Art Institute) is a Japanese nihonga art organization founded by Okakura Tenshin in 1898, best known for its annual Inten exhibition.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: founded 1860 on Parks Road, Oxford, the world's first purpose-built natural history museum; neo-Gothic Grade 1-listed building, about 7 million specimens, Megalosaurus bucklandii and the Oxford Dodo, free daily entry.
Papunya Tula
Papunya Tula is an artist company and painting movement founded at Papunya, Northern Territory, where Western Desert men began translating ceremonial designs into acrylic paintings in 1971.
Parsons School of Design
Parsons School of Design, known as Parsons, is a private art and design college in New York City, part of The New School. Founded in 1896 as the Chase School, renamed Parsons in 1941, it pioneered fashion, graphic, and interior design study and enrolls over 5,700 students.
Pima Air & Space Museum
Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona, operated by the Arizona Aerospace Foundation; one of the largest non-government-funded aviation museums, opened May 8, 1976, with about 400 aircraft on 80 acres.
Pitt Rivers Museum
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford's anthropology and world archaeology museum, founded 1884 from Augustus Pitt-Rivers' gift of about 22,830 objects; over 500,000 items today, displayed by type in dense Victorian galleries, now engaging with its colonial legacy.
Pixiv (ピクシブ)
Pixiv (ピクシブ) is a Japanese social networking service for posting illustrations, manga, and novels, launched September 10, 2007 by pixiv Inc.; 128 million users and 177 million works by 2026, with FANBOX, BOOTH, and VRoid sister services.
Pro Finlandia
Pro Finlandia (Pro Finlandia -mitali) is a gold-plated silver medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland, established in 1943 and awarded only to artists and authors.
Qing imperial painting academy
The Qing imperial painting academy was the Qing court's painting establishment, housed in the Ruyi Guan of the Imperial Workshops under the Kangxi through Qianlong emperors.
Racquel Chevremont
Racquel Chevremont, American art curator, collector, and consultant from Brooklyn and the Bronx, formerly an Elite model; Deux Femmes Noires co-founder with Mickalene Thomas, Real Housewives of New York cast member, and curator of This Too Shall Pass (2023).
Regina Zbarskaya
Regina Zbarskaya (née Kolesnikova, 1935–1987), Soviet fashion model at the All-Union House of Models, called 'the most beautiful weapon of the Kremlin' and 'Soviet Sophia Loren'; star of the 1961 Paris showing, wife of artist Lev Zbarsky, died by suicide at 52.
Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), private art and design college and museum in Providence, RI, founded 1877 by women led by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf; about 2,577 students, 40+ degree programs, president Crystal Williams since 2022.
Rongbaozhai
Rongbaozhai (荣宝斋) is a Beijing art and stationery institution on Liulichang West Street, founded in 1672 and best known for woodblock water printing that reproduces Chinese paintings.
Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA), founded in London in 1768 under George III with Joshua Reynolds as first president, is an independent artist-led gallery, art school, and members' institution at Burlington House, home of the annual Summer Exhibition held since 1769 and the free Royal Academy Schools.
Royal Air Force Museum London
The Royal Air Force Museum London, also known as RAF Museum Hendon, is a national aviation museum in Colindale, North London, on the former RAF Hendon airfield.
Rudolph Schindler (architect)
Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953), Vienna-born American architect of Southern California modernism; trained under Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, worked for Frank Lloyd Wright, built the 1922 Kings Road Schindler House and about 150 buildings, mostly Los Angeles houses.
Salon (Paris)
Salon (Paris): the official juried exhibition of living artists' work in Paris, named for the Louvre's Salon Carré, held from 1667 under the French Academy until state control ended in 1880, followed by the Société des Artistes Français and rival salons.
Salon d'Automne
Salon d'Automne, annual Paris juried art exhibition founded in 1903 by Frantz Jourdain at the Petit Palais; host of the 1905 Fauvism scandal, Cézanne's 1907 retrospective, and modern movements since.
Salon des Indépendants
The Salon des Indépendants (Salon des artistes indépendants) is an annual Paris art exhibition since 1884, open to any artist who pays the fee, with no jury and no prizes.