"Let's face it: we're all pressed for time. One way we economize on our use of that precious resource is acronyms, those handy abbreviations that use the first letters of a multi-word name or phrase. In everyday conversation, for example, when your car breaks down and you need a tow, you call AAA (pronounced triple A), not the American Automobile Association, and it's NASA, not the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, that sends astronauts into space."
"AAMFounded in the nation's capital in 1906, the American Alliance of Museums represents art and history museums as well as institutions you might not think of as museums, like science centers and zoos. It has about 4,000 institutional members, as well as more than 25,000 individual professionals and volunteers. A more specialized group than AAM, the New York-based Association of Art Museum Directors represents around 200 such institutions, from the Ackland Art Museum at UNC Chapel Hill to the Yale University Art Gallery in Connecticut."
"Art Basel Miami Beach's 2024 edition.Courtesy Art Basel ABMBYou may be there as you're reading this! This one, of course, stands for Art Basel Miami Beach, one of the world's biggest art fairs, with some 285 exhibitors this time around. (It's related to ABHK, Art Basel Hong Kong, and Art Basel in Basel, but no one really says ABB, so you can skip that one.)"
Acronyms economize time by using initial letters to abbreviate multi-word names and phrases. The art world commonly uses such acronyms for museums, fairs, associations, and individuals. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) was founded in Washington, D.C., in 1906 and represents roughly 4,000 institutional members plus over 25,000 professionals and volunteers, including nontraditional museums. The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) is a New York–based, more specialized group representing about 200 art museum institutions. Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB) is one of the largest global art fairs, hosting roughly 285 exhibitors and relating to ABHK and Basel editions.
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