"Whispering-gallery wave Whispering-gallery waves, or whispering-gallery modes, are a type of wave that can travel around a concave surface. Originally discovered for sound waves in the whispering gallery of St Paul’s Cathedral, they can exist for light and for other waves, with important applications in nondestructive testing, lasing, cooling and sensing, as well as in astronomy. Whispering-gallery waves were first explained for the case of St Paul's Cathedral circa 1878 by Lord Rayleigh, who revised a previous misconception that whispers could be heard across the dome but not at any intermediate position. He explained the phenomenon of travelling whispers with"
"Whispering gallery A whispering gallery is usually a circular, hemispherical, elliptical or ellipsoidal enclosure, often beneath a dome or a vault, in which whispers can be heard clearly in other parts of the gallery. Such galleries can also be set up using two parabolic dishes. Sometimes the phenomenon is detected in caves. A whispering gallery is most simply constructed in the form of a circular wall, and allows whispered communication from any part of the internal side of the circumference to any other part. The sound is carried by waves, known as whispering-gallery waves, that travel around the circumference clinging"
"visitor writes: There are many whispering galleries around the world, such as in St Paul's Cathedral in London, or the Echo Wall in Beijing's Temple of Heaven. However, the Mapparium is different in that speaking in any direction, since it is a full sphere, will result in the same effect. Furthermore, standing in the middle of the sphere and speaking produces the unnerving effect of hearing yourself in surround sound with startling clarity. Mapparium The Mapparium is a three-story-tall globe made of stained glass that is viewed from a bridge through its interior. It is an exhibit at The Mary"
"Hayward Gallery The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the Royal Festival Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall/Purcell Room) and also the National Theatre and BFI Southbank repertory cinema. Following a rebranding of the South Bank Centre to Southbank Centre in early 2007, the Hayward Gallery was known as the Hayward until early 2011. The Hayward Gallery was built by Higgs and Hill and opened"
"Bankside Gallery Bankside Gallery is a public art gallery in Bankside, London, England. Opened by Her Majesty the Queen in 1980, Bankside is an educational charity, situated on the Thames Path just along from Tate Modern. The Gallery is home to the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. The members of these societies follow a 200-year-old tradition of being elected by their peers. The gallery houses changing exhibitions of contemporary watercolours and prints, which are accompanied by special events including artists' talks and tours. A full education programme covering the theory and practice of art is"
"Whitechapel Gallery The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery in Whitechapel on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the East End of London and Central London. Designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, it was opened in 1901 as one of the first publicly funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London, and it has a long track record for education and outreach projects, focused on local people. It exhibits the work of contemporary artists, as well as organising retrospective exhibitions and shows that are of interest to the local community. The Whitechapel"
"organised every year. Bankside Gallery is open daily during exhibitions from 11am - 6pm. Bankside Gallery Bankside Gallery is a public art gallery in Bankside, London, England. Opened by Her Majesty the Queen in 1980, Bankside is an educational charity, situated on the Thames Path just along from Tate Modern. The Gallery is home to the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers. The members of these societies follow a 200-year-old tradition of being elected by their peers. The gallery houses changing exhibitions of contemporary watercolours and prints, which are accompanied by special events including artists' talks"
"and wide, runs a cornice which supports the ""Whispering Gallery"" so called because of its acoustic properties: a whisper or low murmur against its wall at any point is audible to a listener with an ear held to the wall at any other point around the gallery. It is reached by 259 steps from ground level. The dome is raised on a tall drum surrounded by pilasters and pierced with windows in groups of three, separated by eight gilded niches containing statues, and repeating the pattern of the peristyle on the exterior. the dome rises above a gilded cornice at"
"Chisenhale Gallery Chisenhale Gallery is a non-profit contemporary art gallery based in London's East End. The organisation focuses on a programme of commissioned exhibitions, offsite projects and events, performances, film screenings and talks. Chisenhale Gallery produces up to five major exhibitions each year. The gallery occupies the ground level of a 1930s veneer factory on Chisenhale Road situated in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, near Victoria Park. The gallery is one of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations. Chisenhale Gallery promotes emerging and under-represented artists while contributing to the pursuit of new directions in their practice. The curatorial remit"
"the expansion, a new Archive Gallery, a reading room and an archive repository (where the Whitechapel’s historic records are held) have been created to support the Whitechapel's standing as an educational charity. The archives catalogue the very conception of the gallery, as well as the complete directors' files of correspondence which reveal the reasons behind key decisions in the Gallery's history. Whitechapel Gallery The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery in Whitechapel on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in the East End of London and Central London. Designed by Charles"
"in the form of caves, such as the Ear of Dionysius in Syracuse, also exist. Gol gumbaz Bijapur India The term 'whispering gallery' has been borrowed in the physical sciences to describe other forms of whispering-gallery waves such as light or matter waves. Whispering gallery A whispering gallery is usually a circular, hemispherical, elliptical or ellipsoidal enclosure, often beneath a dome or a vault, in which whispers can be heard clearly in other parts of the gallery. Such galleries can also be set up using two parabolic dishes. Sometimes the phenomenon is detected in caves. A whispering gallery is most"
"Beaconsfield (gallery) Beaconsfield is an artist-run gallery situated in Vauxhall, south London, England. It occupies a Victorian building consisting of the southern wing of the former original Lambeth ragged school. The gallery was founded in 1994 by Naomi Siderfin, David Crawforth and Angus Neill. Siderfin and Crawforth continue to direct and curate the gallery, working collaboratively with commissioned artists. Prior to establishing Beaconsfield, Siderfin and Crawforth started Nosepaint, an organization that presented interdisciplinary art events involving artists, writers, film makers and musicians between 1991 and 1994. Beaconsfield occupies a Victorian building consisting of the southern wing of the former original"
"Queen's Gallery The Queen's Gallery is a public art gallery at Buckingham Palace, home of the British monarch, in London. It exhibits works of art from the Royal Collection (those works owned by the King or Queen ""in trust for the nation"" rather than privately) on a rotating basis; about 450 works are on display at any one time. The gallery is at the west front of the Palace, on the site of a chapel bombed during the Second World War, and first opened in 1962. Over the following 37 years it received 5 million visitors, until it was closed"
"New Gallery became a Grade II Listed building in 1992. New Gallery (London) The New Gallery is a Crown Estate-owned Grade II Listed building at 121 Regent Street, London, which originally was an art gallery from 1888 to 1910, The New Gallery Restaurant from 1910 to 1913, The New Gallery Cinema from 1913 to 1953, and a Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1953 to 1992. After having been empty for more than ten years, the building was a Habitat furniture store from 2006 to 2011, and since September 2012 it is a flagship store for Burberry. The New Gallery was founded"
"to fashion shows, photo shoots, launches and wedding receptions over three floors. On the lower level is the Ragged Canteen, a daytime vegetarian café. Beaconsfield (gallery) Beaconsfield is an artist-run gallery situated in Vauxhall, south London, England. It occupies a Victorian building consisting of the southern wing of the former original Lambeth ragged school. The gallery was founded in 1994 by Naomi Siderfin, David Crawforth and Angus Neill. Siderfin and Crawforth continue to direct and curate the gallery, working collaboratively with commissioned artists. Prior to establishing Beaconsfield, Siderfin and Crawforth started Nosepaint, an organization that presented interdisciplinary art events involving"
"The press has been controversial, and was fire-bombed in 2013, but quickly reopened. The Whitechapel Art Gallery on Whitechapel High Street opened in 1899. It was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in 1895 and was the first major art gallery in East London. It has shown works of Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg and David Hockney. It continues to be the centre of the arts scene in the area. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry, a principal supplier of church bells in Britain, was, until its closure in 2017, based at 32–34 Whitechapel Road. The buildings date from 1670 and are Grade II"
"New Gallery (London) The New Gallery is a Crown Estate-owned Grade II Listed building at 121 Regent Street, London, which originally was an art gallery from 1888 to 1910, The New Gallery Restaurant from 1910 to 1913, The New Gallery Cinema from 1913 to 1953, and a Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1953 to 1992. After having been empty for more than ten years, the building was a Habitat furniture store from 2006 to 2011, and since September 2012 it is a flagship store for Burberry. The New Gallery was founded in 1888 by J. Comyns Carr and Charles Edward Hallé."
"the UK. Chisenhale Gallery was invited to join the network in 2015 and is one of 34 partners. Chisenhale Gallery Chisenhale Gallery is a non-profit contemporary art gallery based in London's East End. The organisation focuses on a programme of commissioned exhibitions, offsite projects and events, performances, film screenings and talks. Chisenhale Gallery produces up to five major exhibitions each year. The gallery occupies the ground level of a 1930s veneer factory on Chisenhale Road situated in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, near Victoria Park. The gallery is one of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations. Chisenhale Gallery promotes"
"video to the single the Killers featured Normansell's paintings. The A Gallery was located at 154 Merton Hall Road, Wimbledon, SW19 3PZ. A Gallery The A Gallery was a contemporary art gallery in Wimbledon, London run by Fraser Kee Scott. The A Gallery was founded by Fraser Kee Scott in 1997. The gallery's first exhibit was recent Chelsea graduate Alison Jackson's ""Crucifix"", priced at £1,500 and five years later valued at ten times that amount, after she had won a Bafta and written a best-selling book. Since 2015, A Gallery has worked with Raoof Haghighi. In 2004, the gallery exhibited"
"hires spaces and arranges occasional events, mostly to raise money for the upkeep of the venue), Twenteenth Century (disappeared), Primal Pictures, Stitches in Time, the University of Openness, Mute Magazine, Code Positive, Radiance,Equilibrium, Space Hijackers, SQUASH, School of Everything, and Creative Week amongst individual artists. Tower Hamlets Wheelers, the local borough group of London Cycling Campaign, hold monthly self-help bicycle maintenance workshops at the venue. The building is not generally open to the public, but participates in Open House London for guided tours of the building. The building is next to St Anne's Limehouse, a significant Hawksmoor church, and also"
"gallery relocated to a building in Marylebone, London, on Penfold Street, which was converted by Berlin-based architects ifau + Jesko Fezer. Solo shows at The Showroom in the former East End space included Mona Hatoum, Sam Taylor-Wood, Simon Starling, Christina Mackie, Jim Lambie, Claire Barclay, and Eva Rothschild. The Showroom receives fixed-term funding from Arts Council of England and other organisations and individuals. The Showroom The Showroom is a not-for-profit art gallery, located at 63 Penfold Street, London NW8, which puts on exhibitions by emerging artists. The current Director is Emily Pethick, who has worked at the gallery since May"
"the viewer and the work. Whispering Galleries was commissioned by Site Projects, a nonprofit that supports artistic works. The project was also supported by The New Haven Free Public Library and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven. Originally displayed at the New Haven Free Public Library on April 26, 2014, it later went on to be exhibited at The Institute Library in New Haven (2014), The International Symposium on Electronic Art at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (2015), and “You | I: Interfaces & Reader Experience” at the Paul Watkins Gallery, Winona State University (2016). It is available online. For"
"Two Temple Place Two Temple Place, known for many years as Astor House, is a building situated near Victoria Embankment in central London. It is known for its architecture, and contains notable works by the likes of William Silver Frith, Sir George Frampton RA, Nathaniel Hitch and Thomas Nicholls. On 28 October 2011, Two Temple Place opened as a public gallery. It is a London venue specifically to showcase publicly owned art from regional collections in the United Kingdom, and is only open to the public during exhibitions. The building was built on Temple Place by John Loughborough Pearson for"
"Hirst was among the unsuccessful bidders to take over the Magazine Building, a 19th-century structure in Kensington Gardens, which reopened in 2013 as the Serpentine Sackler Gallery after its conversion by Zaha Hadid. In March 2012, he outlined his plans to open a gallery in Vauxhall, London specifically designed to exhibit his personal collection, which includes five pieces by Francis Bacon. The Newport Street Gallery opened in October 2015. It is located in a former theater carpentry and scenery production workshops redesigned by Peter St John and Adam Caruso, and runs the length of Newport Street in Vauxhall. Hirst was"
"Elevator Gallery Elevator Gallery is a contemporary art venue in Balfron Tower. The gallery first opened in 2007 in Hackney Wick, London, and has since been on location at various venues around London. Besides regular exhibitions of contemporary art, the gallery has a varied programme of live art, cinema and musical events. The gallery opened on 20 October 2007, with its opening show 'Magical Thinking'. Since then it has mainly been curated by artists Simon Reuben White and Snoozie Hexagon. Subsequent exhibitions have been 'Interface', 'Dead Bodies and Cardboard', 'Relocating Absence' (co-curated with Elisa Tosoni) and 'The Tomorrow People', and"
"purchased by the Gallery. Director Nicholas Penny termed the painting a new direction for the Gallery – a non-European painting in a European style. Its sale was controversial in the U.S. The Gallery was caught in controversy in 2018 over having some of the most expensive exhibition prices ever seen in London. National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The Gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public"
"the unbelievable, which was open from August 2008 until September 25th 2017. London Pavilion The London Pavilion is a building on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and Coventry Street on the north-east side of Piccadilly Circus in London. It is currently a shopping arcade and part of the Trocadero Centre. The first building bearing the name, a music hall formed from roofing the yard of the Black Horse Inn, was built in 1859 for Emil Loibl and Charles Sonnhammer. A gallery was constructed for the hall but it could not utilise the full width, because one part of the premises"
"Ikon Gallery The Ikon Gallery () is an English gallery of contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. It is housed in the Grade II listed, neo-gothic former Oozells Street Board School, designed by John Henry Chamberlain in 1877. The gallery's current director is Jonathan Watkins. Ikon was set up to encourage the public to engage in contemporary art. As a result, the gallery delivers an off-site Education and Interpretation scheme to educate audiences, and to promote artists and their work. The gallery is open every day of the week except Mondays, though it opens on bank holiday Mondays. Featured artworks"
"work was carried out in 2015-18 under plans developed by Feilden Clegg Bradley and included in this work were structural repairs such as the renewal of the 60 odd steel and glass pyramids which grace the roof of the gallery and removal of a false ceiling which obstructed natural light reaching the upper galleries. Hayward Gallery The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the Royal"
"they work and Charles Asprey about designing a permanent location for the gallery. Trevor Horne Architects in collaboration with Asprey, who financed the development, Cabinet’s directors and several of the gallery artists, conceived a twelve-sided detached brick building which neighbours Vauxhall City Farm to the south with westerly views across Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens to The Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Charles Asprey Tyers Street, a project space, is also housed inside the building. Its first show was a presentation of book designs and works on paper by Paul Nash. Asprey has been an active curator since 1994. He co-founded Ridinghouse Editions, a"
"Halcyon Gallery Halcyon Gallery is an art gallery in London. Founded in 1982, it displays work from established and emerging contemporary artists, particularly impressionism and pop art. The gallery is located in on New Bond Street in Mayfair, London. The gallery was founded in 1982. It represents a selection of renowned international artists. It hosts a programme of contemporary art, showing both established artists and new, emerging talent. It specialises in impressionism and pop art. The gallery supports a number of charities including The Royal Parks Foundation and The Duke of Edinburgh's Award World Fellowship. A public art programme was"
"Newport Street Gallery The Newport Street Gallery is an art gallery in London, England which displays works selected from the personal art collection of Damien Hirst. It runs the length of Newport Street in Vauxhall. Hirst announced plans for the gallery in March 2012, and it opened in October 2015. It includes a shop, a restaurant, and offices for Hirst's company. The building is a former theatre carpentry and scenery production workshop, redesigned by Caruso St John. The design was praised for its ""virtuosity"", and in October 2016 it won the RIBA Stirling Prize. The collection includes five pieces by"
"Matt's Gallery Matt's Gallery is a contemporary art space currently situated in a new temporary space at 92 Webster Road, London, SE16 4DF. Its director, Robin Klassnik OBE, opened the gallery in his studio in 1979 on Martello Street, before moving premises to Bow in 1993. The gallery is named after Klassnik’s dog, ""Matt E. Mulsion"". In 2019 Matt's Gallery will move to a new permanent space in Nine Elms, Battersea as part of Wandsworth Council's cultural strategy. Among the artists represented by Matt's Gallery are Willie Doherty, a 2003 Turner Prize nominee,Susan Hiller, Richard Grayson, Graham Fagen, Nathaniel Mellors,"