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Hill Art Foundation

Art gallery in Manhattan, New York

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Hill Art Foundation is a public exhibition and education space located in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City. The foundation, founded by J. Tomilson and Janine Hill, opened to the public in February 2019. Located on 10th Avenue and West 24th Street in Peter Marino's Getty Building, the 650 m2 (7,000 sq ft) space exhibits works from the Hill Art Foundation collection as well as collaborative projects with leading artists, collections, and institutions. The Foundation is free and open to the public, and offers educational programming to both New York City high school students and the public at large.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Hill Art Foundation” as art gallery in Manhattan, New York. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hill, Foundation and gallery.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hill, Foundation and gallery providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Hill Art Foundation”, the useful work is to connect “art gallery in Manhattan, New York” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hill Art Foundation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.