 In the art trade the term retains some currency for objects from before roughly 1900 and may be used to define the scope of auctions or auction house departments and the like.The term also remains in use in tertiary education, appearing in the names of colleges, faculties, and courses.In the English-speaking world this is mostly in North America, but the same is true of the equivalent terms in other European languages, such as "beaux-arts" in French or "bellas artes" in Spanish.