The China Art Gallery--a Sinified socialist-style building managed by the Chinese Artists Association and, at the time, only a few steps from the Ministry of Culture--functions as China's national museum of modern art.

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Munch painted four versions of his famous painting between 1893 and 1910, and there are two of the originals on view at the Munch Museum, one at the National Gallery of Norway and one at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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The National Museum of African Art contains an excellent, if West Africa-heavy, collection of both traditional and modern art from the continent.

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Villareal, who has works the Museum of Modern Art in New York CIty and the National Gallery in D.

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