Dahesh Museum of Art
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- A distant muse, 2000:t.p. (Dahesh Museum of Art)
- Dahesh Museum of Art WWW Home page, Jan. 11, 2001:(Dahesh Museum of Art; located in NYC; dedicated to collecting and exhibiting 19th- and early 20th-cent. European academic art; basis is an extensive art collection acquired by writer and philosopher Dr. Dahesh (1901-1984); chartered in 1987; opened to the public in Jan. 1995; New York State Board of Regents approved Dahesh Museum's petition to change its name to Dahesh Museum of Art in June 2000)
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The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only museum in the United States devoted to the collection and exhibition of European academic art of the 19th and 20th century. The collection, located in Manhattan, New York City, originated with Lebanese writer and philosopher Salim Moussa Achi (1909–1984), whose pen name was Dr. Dahesh. The core of the museum's holdings consists of Dahesh's collection of more than 2,000 academic paintings, which includes many notable Orientalist paintings. The museum's regular exhibition space closed in 2008, leaving the museum temporarily available only online and in traveling exhibitions. In early 2012, the museum reopened an office and gift shop in Manhattan's Hudson Square neighborhood, near SoHo. Renovations began in 2015 on the museum's new permanent home at 178 East 64th Street. According to the museum's website, the opening is anticipated in winter 2019–2020.
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