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Exhibition vs Artgoing - What's the difference?

exhibition | artgoing |

As a noun exhibition

is an instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.

As an adjective artgoing is

attending art exhibitions.

exhibition

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
  • A large scale public showing of objects or products.
  • There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.
    a boat exhibition
  • (UK) A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 352:
  • He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.

    Derived terms

    * exhibitionism * make an exhibition of oneself

    artgoing

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Attending art exhibitions.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 28, author=Randy Kennedy, title=A Round Peg, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Among his conceptual peers, those who set out to wrest art from the realm of objects and move it more fully into one of ideas, Mr. Graham, 67, is someone whose work does not come easily to mind even for an informed artgoing public. }}