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The New Art Gallery Walsall is a modern and contemporary art gallery sited in the centre of the West Midlands town of Walsall, England. It was built with £21 million of public funding, including £15.75 million from the UK National Lottery and additional money from the European Regional Development Fund and City Challenge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Art Gallery Walsall – Design process )〕 The Gallery is funded by Walsall Council and Arts Council England;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Art Gallery Walsall )〕 this funding is further supplemented by its own income generation. Admission is free.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The New Art Gallery Walsall )〕 Its first Director was Peter Jenkinson. In May 2005, former BALTIC director Stephen Snoddy was appointed as Director. ==Architecture== Designed by the architects Caruso St John after winning an international design competition, it opened in January 2000, replacing the town's old gallery and an arts centre that had been closed by the Council almost a decade earlier. It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 5 May 2000, during her visit to the West Midlands. The New Art Gallery's stark building won several architectural awards and attracted over 237,000 visitors in its opening year. In 2000, the gallery was shortlisted for the prestigious Sterling Architecture Prize.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stirling Prize Awards – Past Winners )〕 The five-storey building is clad in pale terracotta and has a floor area of . The interior of the Gallery features a heavy use of concrete and 75mm thick douglas fir wooden cladding.〔 〕 The public square surrounding the building was designed by Richard Wentworth and Catherine Yass.〔 The Gallery has been seen as an attempt to encourage regeneration in the local area. The architecture has been both praised and criticised, described as "almost flawless"〔 by the RIBA and "extraordinarily good" by Hugh Pearman〔 but also castigated by John Stewart-Young as an "architectural indulgence", an impressive building that lacks consideration of how the wider public will use it.〔 Cited in 〕 There have been a number of minor alterations to the building since its opening, including changing of the ground floor retail area into a cafe, and addition of more windows around its entrance. In 2006, Floor 4 of the gallery was transformed from a restaurant area into a new gallery space. The gallery space with 8m high ceiling has enabled the Gallery to present a further programme of exhibitions, in addition to its main temporary exhibition galleries. This has included exhibitions by regional and internationally renowned artists including David Batchelor,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Disco Mécanique, The New Art Gallery, Walsall 28/02/2010 )〕 Richard Billingham〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Billingham comes home )〕 and Leo Fitzmaurice.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leo Fitzmaurice: You Try to Tell Me But I Never Listen )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leo Fitzmaurice New Art Gallery Walsall )〕 In 2012, artist Sarah Staton was commissioned to design a new sculpture terrace for the Gallery, opening to the public later that same year the space converted a previously underused area of patio on floor 4. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The New Art Gallery Walsall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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