What's the difference between auditorium and gallery?

Auditorium


Definition:

  • (n.) The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rui Faria and Silvino Louro, two of his coaches and closest allies, snuck in to the back of the auditorium to cast their eye over proceedings.
  • (2) Photograph: Warner Bros His first epiphany came during a high school version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel in the high school auditorium before 1,500 people.
  • (3) It is rather beautiful, in its ugliness, but it is primarily useful today for the existence of 1961-era microphones and cameras, an auditorium wholly available for conversion to a courtroom, several severely talented Vilnius craftsmen and a handful of local mensches doubling as Israeli guards and possibly wishing it was actually 1961 and, maybe, Jerusalem and actually warm.
  • (4) But it was derailed by a series of decisions by its board, which included going dark for the 2008-09 season while its auditorium at Lincoln Center was reconstructed; hiring Gerard Mortier as artistic director only to have him back out before starting; and leaving Lincoln Center after the 2010-11 season and playing at various venues throughout the city under general manager George Steel.
  • (5) I sat with the group in the darkened auditorium, wondering what their role in the video was.
  • (6) Juan Gabriel performed to packed auditoriums, including Madison Square Garden in New York and the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles.
  • (7) Looking around the room at the thousands who packed an auditorium at the Caesars Palace casino hotel, just down the Las Vegas strip from Trump’s eponymous tower, Clinton said “the metaphor of this election may be walls or bridges.” “Are we stronger together or stronger apart?” he asked the crowd, comprising mostly of voters representing the nation’s fastest-growing racial group.
  • (8) Dana Sondergaard who attended the event, wrote on her Facebook page: "After having been told the event would NOT be gender segregated, we arrived and were told that women were to sit in the back of the auditorium, while men and couples could file into the front.
  • (9) The Screen Machine, Britain's only mobile cinema, has parked up outside the Benbecula hotel where Miller is staying, and later that evening will expand into a 102-seat auditorium.
  • (10) The norteño band Los Tigres del Norte cancelled a planned appearance at an awards ceremony at a government-owned auditorium in October after organisers allegedly asked them not to perform a drug ballad.
  • (11) Ten minutes earlier, three gunmen had burst into a rock concert by the US group Eagles of Death Metal and begun shooting people in the main auditorium.
  • (12) Inside a dome-shaped auditorium in north London, they fashion British citizens.
  • (13) Tours must be booked in advance by calling Mon-Fri 9am-1pm, 2pm-6pm Auditorium Parco della Musica Auditorium Parco della Musica Photograph: Alamy Along with the Maxxi and Macro, the Auditorium is the tangible embodiment of Rome's recent cultural renaissance.
  • (14) Apparently it all relates back to some mythic incident in the festival's distant past when a viewer blundered late into the darkened auditorium and called for his friend Raoul.
  • (15) Police and commandos surrounded the national library, where the case is being heard in a chilly auditorium.
  • (16) And few theatres compare to the National, with 570 permanent staff, a £64m turnover, three auditoriums and assorted other spaces waiting to be filled.
  • (17) He pauses, looking at the assembled Kurds, Iraqis, Libyans, Bosnians, Serbs, Mexicans, Americans and others in front of him, gathered in the airy auditorium of the Peace Palace in The Hague.
  • (18) During an event at the Sydney writer’s festival last month, Israeli writer and author Ari Shavit told a packed auditorium that his country was “an oasis in the Middle East”.
  • (19) As I sat in a New York auditorium Tuesday afternoon, disappointed that my black president had checked out on racism (if he had ever checked in), it became increasingly obvious that Obama has now turned over his public confrontation of racism entirely to another black man: Eric Holder.
  • (20) The white policeman, Joe Martin, to whom he reported the theft, happened to be the organiser of a boys’ boxing club in the basement of the city’s Columbia auditorium.

Gallery


Definition:

  • (a.) A long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.
  • (a.) A room for the exhibition of works of art; as, a picture gallery; hence, also, a large or important collection of paintings, sculptures, etc.
  • (a.) A long and narrow platform attached to one or more sides of public hall or the interior of a church, and supported by brackets or columns; -- sometimes intended to be occupied by musicians or spectators, sometimes designed merely to increase the capacity of the hall.
  • (a.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850.
  • (a.) Any communication which is covered overhead as well as at the sides. When prepared for defense, it is a defensive gallery.
  • (a.) A working drift or level.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
  • (2) At its vanguard is the historic quarter of Barriera di Milano, which is being transformed by an influx of artists and galleries.
  • (3) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
  • (4) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
  • (5) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
  • (6) It was amusing: he's still working away and this picture of him is hanging in a gallery somewhere.
  • (7) When the vote came, she and the other gun law advocates who crowded into the public gallery had been told not to talk, stand or take notes.
  • (8) The National Heritage Memorial Fund found a further £10m and the National Galleries of Scotland £4.6m, with £2m from the Monument Trust and £1m from the Art Fund, while members of the public and private donors gave another £7.4m.
  • (9) Dr Bhambra sustained the most dreadful life-changing injuries during a sustained racist attack on an innocent man, a member of a caring profession.” There was applause from the public gallery as the verdict was returned.
  • (10) Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and countless donations from individuals and groups, this wonderful picture – a masterpiece by any standards – will be enjoyed, free of charge, in the National Portrait Gallery for many generations to come."
  • (11) Murray said through the gallery that he would have no comment on the ANC's response.
  • (12) He said ANC lawyers would go to court to force the Goodman gallery in Johannesburg to remove a painting of the president, Jacob Zuma, from the exhibition and from its website .
  • (13) Inside the building, the gallery spaces are curiously straightforward.
  • (14) In 1850 you could see Benjamin West’s ever popular vision of the apocalypse, Death on a Pale Horse , riding melodramatically back into view on Broadway for the fourth time in as many years; and a gallery of Rembrandts at Niblo’s theatre, where Charles Blondin once walked a tightrope.
  • (15) But in the Round Room of the Mansion House there must have been at least two thousand others in an improvised Strangers' Gallery.
  • (16) And what's to stop it happening to a national museum or gallery?
  • (17) As a nod to the me-centred world we live in, the exhibition will also feature the responses to an altogether more contemporary Mass Observation directive from 2012, intriguingly entitled Photography and You , which was specially commissioned for the Photographers' Gallery show.
  • (18) And those of us who will go on watching men play are happy that it now offers a gallery of negative role models – Evans, Mackay, Whelan and Terry among them – from which those who follow them into the game can learn behaviours to avoid.
  • (19) There are smart restaurants, art galleries and designer clothes shops, among them Moschino and Dolce & Gabbana.
  • (20) The Web Gallery of Art, a database of European fine art, said Flowers was the only Porpora work that is signed and was painted in about 1660.