NEW YORK, NY.- The National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts today announced plans to renovate its exhibition galleries and create a new visitor center and a School studio gallery. The renovations will modernize the existing galleries, provide visitors with more meaningful and educational experiences, and institute a new, dynamic environment for student and faculty review, discussion and exhibition. The renovated galleries will for the first time in over 100 years provide space dedicated to the semi-permanent exhibition of notable works from the Academy’s collection of over 7,000 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures by American artists and architects. Additional galleries will present rotating thematic and single artist exhibitions of works from the 19th through 21st centuries. The Academy will continue to hold its Annual and Invitational survey exhibitions following the renovations. The renovatio