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2D: Graphics
"Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[5][1]- at Neue Galerie
- in the Upper East Side area
“Selections from the Permanent Collection” features highlights from the Neue Galerie’s superb holdings of German and Austrian fine and decorative arts from the first half of the twentieth century. It incorporates...More »
"Spotlight on the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- at The Museum of Sex
- in the Flatiron, Gramercy area
Spotlight on the Permanent Collection is the first exhibition featuring a sampling of objects and ephemera drawn from over nine thousand objects that comprise the permanent collection of the Museum of...More »
"Voces y Visiones" Exhibition
[6][1]- at El Museo del Barrio
- in the Upper East Side area
The premiere exhibition in our new Carmen Ana Unanue Permanent Collection Galleries celebrates El Museo's 40th anniversary. Over 100 works created by a cross-section of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American...More »
Hank Willis Thomas "Unbranded"
[2][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
In the series Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America, Hank Willis Thomas appropriates print advertisements from 1968 to the present that targeted a black audience or featured black subjects....More »
2D: Illustration
Hank Willis Thomas "Unbranded"
[2][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
In the series Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America, Hank Willis Thomas appropriates print advertisements from 1968 to the present that targeted a black audience or featured black subjects....More »
2D: Painting
"A Portrait of the City" Exhibition
[4][0]- at The New-York Historical Society
- in the Upper East Side area
A group of 22 paintings and 2 small sculptures will offer visitors a chronological journey through highlights of the N-YHS's rich collection of New York views, including historical images of the metropolis...More »
"American Identities: A New Look" Exhibition
[2][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts (silver, furniture, ceramics,...More »
"Early Gothic Hall" Exhibition
[6][0]- at The Cloisters
- in the Harlem, Bronx area
The Early Gothic Hall at The Cloisters reopened in the Spring of 2006 after a five-year renovation. Completely refurbished 13th-century limestone windows and two dozen panels of newly conserved and reinstalled...More »
"European Paintings" Exhibition
[8][1]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
Although the collection of European paintings has often been presented in a chronological arrangement by school or style, this installation exploits the architecture of the soaring Beaux-Arts Court by...More »
"Folk Art Revealed" Exhibition
[3][0]- at American Folk Art Museum
- in the Midtown area
"Folk Art Revealed," opened on November 16, 2004. The exhibition explores the nature of folk art through four themes applied to a diverse range of artwork from the museum's rich and extensive holdings,...More »
"Gallery Selections"
[0][0]- at Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC
- in the Upper East Side area
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts is pleased to present a selection of its finest and newest acquisitions. The current installation of works in the gallery highlights the modernist landscapes of John Marin and...More »
"It Happened In Brooklyn" Exhibition
[5][0]- at The Brooklyn Historical Society
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This exhibit highlights key moments in our nation's history and how they played out in Brooklyn. Through artifacts from the Brooklyn Historical Society's permanent collection such as photographs, artworks,...More »
"Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[5][1]- at Neue Galerie
- in the Upper East Side area
“Selections from the Permanent Collection” features highlights from the Neue Galerie’s superb holdings of German and Austrian fine and decorative arts from the first half of the twentieth century. It incorporates...More »
"Small Wonders from the American Collections" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ▪ Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the...More »
"Thannhauser Collection" Exhibition
[2][2]- at Guggenheim Museum
- in the Upper East Side area
Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976) was the son of art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser (1859–1935), who founded the Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1909. From an early age, Thannhauser worked alongside his father...More »
"That Place: Selections from the Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
Our home, our street, our city, our country—these are familiar locations, places that define our lives. Yet places can be more than physical. Some of the works on view in these galleries evoke a literal...More »
"The Campin Room" Exhibition
[2][2]- at The Cloisters
- in the Harlem, Bronx area
The Campin Room at The Cloisters, the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, recently reopened to the public following an extensive renovation. The gallery...More »
"The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture & Slavery in New York" Exhibition
[1][0]- at The New-York Historical Society
- in the Upper East Side area
In November 2000, with a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Historical Society opened a state-of-the-art facility for its renowned fine and decorative arts collection. The Luce Center is...More »
"Visible Storage ▪ Study Center" Exhibition
[5][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The last phase in the creation of the Luce Center for American Art concludes with the opening of the 5,000 square-foot Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. The dense display of objects in the Visible Storage...More »
Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture, including the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries
[2][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
The New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture are reopening with renovated rooms and 8,000 square feet of additional gallery space—the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries—to...More »
Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art and the Medieval Europe Gallery
[3][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
Portions of the Medieval Galleries have been renovated, thanks to the generous support of Mary and Michael Jaharis. The apse beneath the Great Hall Stairs has become part of the Mary and Michael Jaharis...More »
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
[2][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
More than one thousand works from the preeminent collection of the Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings of this material in the world—will return to view this fall...More »
The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
[3][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing—including The Charles Engelhard Court and the American period rooms—reopened on May 19, 2009. After more than two years of construction and renovation, the...More »
Vasily Kandinsky "Kandinsky at the Bauhaus, 1922–1933"
[8][7]- at Guggenheim Museum
- in the Upper East Side area
In 1922 Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) accepted a teaching position at the Bauhaus, the state-sponsored Weimar school of art and applied design founded in 1919 by...More »
2D: Drawing
"Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager" Exhibiton
[1][0]- at 92YTribeca Art
- in the Soho area
92YTribeca presents the works of Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager – both formerly shown at Like the Spice gallery in Brooklyn – in an opening reception for this semi-permanent exhibit. Brooklyn-dwelling,...More »
"Small Wonders from the American Collections" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ▪ Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the...More »
American Landscapes in the Robert Lehman Wing
[1][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
Nine large and superb American landscape paintings from the Metropolitan Museum’s collection are currently displayed in the newly renovated Robert Lehman Wing, enabling visitors to view selected highlights...More »
2D: Photography
"Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey" Exhibition
[1][1]- at The Jewish Museum
- in the Upper East Side area
At the heart of The Jewish Museum is its permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, representing one of the world's great opportunities to explore Jewish culture and history through...More »
"It Happened In Brooklyn" Exhibition
[5][0]- at The Brooklyn Historical Society
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This exhibit highlights key moments in our nation's history and how they played out in Brooklyn. Through artifacts from the Brooklyn Historical Society's permanent collection such as photographs, artworks,...More »
"Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager" Exhibiton
[1][0]- at 92YTribeca Art
- in the Soho area
92YTribeca presents the works of Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager – both formerly shown at Like the Spice gallery in Brooklyn – in an opening reception for this semi-permanent exhibit. Brooklyn-dwelling,...More »
"That Place: Selections from the Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
Our home, our street, our city, our country—these are familiar locations, places that define our lives. Yet places can be more than physical. Some of the works on view in these galleries evoke a literal...More »
"Voces y Visiones" Exhibition
[6][1]- at El Museo del Barrio
- in the Upper East Side area
The premiere exhibition in our new Carmen Ana Unanue Permanent Collection Galleries celebrates El Museo's 40th anniversary. Over 100 works created by a cross-section of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American...More »
"With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America" Exhibition
[6][0]- at The Museum of Chinese in America
- in the Lower Manhattan area
With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America, MOCA’s new core exhibit, will bring to life the Museum’s unique historical content and birth a compelling art work by fusing itself with the architectural...More »
Walter de Maria "The New York Earth Room"
[8][4]- at Walter de Maria : The New York Earth Room
- in the Soho area
The New York Earth Room, 1977, is the third Earth Room sculpture executed by the artist, the first being in Munich, Germany in 1968. The second was installed at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt,...More »
2D: Prints
"Reading Room: 2000 books on contemporary art" Library
[2][2]- at e-flux
- in the Lower East Side area
The reading room is a rapidly growing collection of several thousand books on contemporary art exhibitions open to the public at 41 Essex Street. The books have been donated by numerous art institutions...More »
"Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980" Exhibition
[4][0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- in the Midtown area
The new installation of the Architecture and Design Galleries features a selection of visionary objects, graphics, architectural fragments, and textiles from the Museum’s collection that reveal the attempts...More »
"Small Wonders from the American Collections" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ▪ Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the...More »
2D: Other
"It Happened In Brooklyn" Exhibition
[5][0]- at The Brooklyn Historical Society
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This exhibit highlights key moments in our nation's history and how they played out in Brooklyn. Through artifacts from the Brooklyn Historical Society's permanent collection such as photographs, artworks,...More »
"Visionaire 53: Sound" Exhibition
[2][0]- at Visionaire Gallery
- in the Soho area
An interactive exhibition of images and tracks from Visionaire 53. SOUND is currently on view at the Gallery. Visionaire 53 consists of five 12-inch vinyl records, imprinted with images (picture discs),...More »
3D: Architecture
"Designing the Whitney of the Future" Exhibition
[1][0]- at The Whitney Museum of American Art
- in the Upper East Side area
On May 24, 2011, the Whitney Museum breaks ground on a new building designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano and located between the High Line and the Hudson River Park in the Meatpacking District. In...More »
"Early Gothic Hall" Exhibition
[6][0]- at The Cloisters
- in the Harlem, Bronx area
The Early Gothic Hall at The Cloisters reopened in the Spring of 2006 after a five-year renovation. Completely refurbished 13th-century limestone windows and two dozen panels of newly conserved and reinstalled...More »
"New York Interiors (1690-1906)" Exhibition
[1][0]- at The Museum of the City of New York
- in the Upper East Side area
New York Interiors (1690-1906) features elements of New York domestic environments from the late 17th through the early 20th centuries. On display are objects that illuminate aspects of daily life including...More »
"Pierpont Morgan's 1906 Library" Exhibition
[0][0]- at The Morgan Library & Museum
- in the Midtown area
In 1902 American financier Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) chose architect Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909) of the prominent firm McKim, Mead and White to design a library to house his growing collection of...More »
"The Campin Room" Exhibition
[2][2]- at The Cloisters
- in the Harlem, Bronx area
The Campin Room at The Cloisters, the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, recently reopened to the public following an extensive renovation. The gallery...More »
"The Morgan–Renzo Piano Building Workshop Project with a Brief History" Exhibition
[0][0]- at The Morgan Library & Museum
- in the Midtown area
The Morgan expansion project is the subject of a special exhibition that begins with a historical survey of the site from the 1850s through today. The expansion project is represented by drawings, models,...More »
"With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America" Exhibition
[6][0]- at The Museum of Chinese in America
- in the Lower Manhattan area
With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America, MOCA’s new core exhibit, will bring to life the Museum’s unique historical content and birth a compelling art work by fusing itself with the architectural...More »
3D: Sculpture
"A Portrait of the City" Exhibition
[4][0]- at The New-York Historical Society
- in the Upper East Side area
A group of 22 paintings and 2 small sculptures will offer visitors a chronological journey through highlights of the N-YHS's rich collection of New York views, including historical images of the metropolis...More »
"American Identities: A New Look" Exhibition
[2][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts (silver, furniture, ceramics,...More »
"Arts of Asia and the Islamic World" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The Asian and Islamic Art galleries provide a survey of the full range of Asian and Islamic art in the Brooklyn Museum, which houses one of America's foremost collections. It presents more than one hundred...More »
"Assyrian Reliefs" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
These twelve massive carved alabaster panels, on view together for the first time, dominate the walls of the Brooklyn Museum's Hagop Kevorkian Gallery of Ancient Middle Eastern Art. Originally brightly...More »
"Early Gothic Hall" Exhibition
[6][0]- at The Cloisters
- in the Harlem, Bronx area
The Early Gothic Hall at The Cloisters reopened in the Spring of 2006 after a five-year renovation. Completely refurbished 13th-century limestone windows and two dozen panels of newly conserved and reinstalled...More »
"Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity" Exhibition
[1][1]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
In April, 2003, the Brooklyn Museum completed the reinstallation of its world-famous Egyptian collection, a process that took ten years. Three new galleries joined the four existing ones that had been...More »
"Figure in the Garden" Exhibition
[0][0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- in the Midtown area
This summer’s Sculpture Garden installation brings together figurative works from the late 19th century to the present day. Making its debut in the Sculpture Garden is Figurengruppe/Group of Figures, by...More »
"Folk Art Revealed" Exhibition
[3][0]- at American Folk Art Museum
- in the Midtown area
"Folk Art Revealed," opened on November 16, 2004. The exhibition explores the nature of folk art through four themes applied to a diverse range of artwork from the museum's rich and extensive holdings,...More »
"Gallery Selections"
[0][0]- at Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC
- in the Upper East Side area
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts is pleased to present a selection of its finest and newest acquisitions. The current installation of works in the gallery highlights the modernist landscapes of John Marin and...More »
"Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager" Exhibiton
[1][0]- at 92YTribeca Art
- in the Soho area
92YTribeca presents the works of Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager – both formerly shown at Like the Spice gallery in Brooklyn – in an opening reception for this semi-permanent exhibit. Brooklyn-dwelling,...More »
"Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
Dedicated in 1966, the Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden at the Brooklyn Museum is a preeminent collection of terracotta, stone, and metal architectural elements salvaged from now-demolished structures...More »
"That Place: Selections from the Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
Our home, our street, our city, our country—these are familiar locations, places that define our lives. Yet places can be more than physical. Some of the works on view in these galleries evoke a literal...More »
"The Arts of Africa" Exhibition
[0][1]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
Over 250 works spanning more than 2,500 years represent art from the African continent in the Museum's first-floor galleries. Additional related art from ancient Egypt and Islamic North Africa can be found...More »
"The Campin Room" Exhibition
[2][2]- at The Cloisters
- in the Harlem, Bronx area
The Campin Room at The Cloisters, the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, recently reopened to the public following an extensive renovation. The gallery...More »
"The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture & Slavery in New York" Exhibition
[1][0]- at The New-York Historical Society
- in the Upper East Side area
In November 2000, with a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Historical Society opened a state-of-the-art facility for its renowned fine and decorative arts collection. The Luce Center is...More »
"The Mummy Chamber" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This installation of more than 170 objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-famous holdings of ancient Egyptian material explores the complex rituals related to the practice of mummification and the Egyptian...More »
"The South Asia Galleries Gandhara, Mathura, Andhra and Gupta Sculpture" Exhibtion
[0][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
These galleries explore the South Asian emergence of Buddhist and Hindu sculptural traditions between the 2nd century B.C. and the 8th century A.D. More than 160 works from the permanent collections are...More »
"Visible Storage ▪ Study Center" Exhibition
[5][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The last phase in the creation of the Luce Center for American Art concludes with the opening of the 5,000 square-foot Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. The dense display of objects in the Visible Storage...More »
African Innovations Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The Brooklyn Museum presents a long-term installation of 200 of the finest objects from its renowned collection of African art in the recently renovated gallery space on the first floor. African Innovations,...More »
Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture, including the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries
[2][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
The New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture are reopening with renovated rooms and 8,000 square feet of additional gallery space—the Henry J. Heinz II Galleries—to...More »
Galleries for Oceanic Art
[2][1]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
The islands of the Pacific Ocean encompass nearly 1,800 distinct cultures and hundreds of artistic traditions in an area that covers about one-third of the earth’s surface. The Museum’s new permanent galleries...More »
Gallery for the Art of Native North America
[0][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
The Museum’s renovated gallery devoted to Native North American art display approximately 90 works made by numerous American peoples. Ranging from the beautifully shaped stone tools known as bannerstones...More »
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
[2][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
More than one thousand works from the preeminent collection of the Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings of this material in the world—will return to view this fall...More »
Rodin "The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum"
[1][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
Due to installations in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, twelve bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin have been installed in the Rubin Entrance Pavilion. This newly excerpted presentation of the Museum's...More »
Singular Visions
[1][2]- at The Whitney Museum of American Art
- in the Upper East Side area
At a time when images barrage us everywhere from our televisions to our mobile phones, the latest reinstallation of the Whitney’s permanent collection galleries invites visitors to slow down and experience...More »
The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
[3][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing—including The Charles Engelhard Court and the American period rooms—reopened on May 19, 2009. After more than two years of construction and renovation, the...More »
Walter De Maria "The Broken Kilometer"
[7][5]- at The Broken Kilometer
- in the Soho area
The Broken Kilometer, 1979, located at 393 West Broadway in New York City, is composed of 500 highly polished, round, solid brass rods, each measuring two meters in length and five centimeters (two inches)...More »
3D: Installation
"Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity" Exhibition
[1][1]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
In April, 2003, the Brooklyn Museum completed the reinstallation of its world-famous Egyptian collection, a process that took ten years. Three new galleries joined the four existing ones that had been...More »
"That Place: Selections from the Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
Our home, our street, our city, our country—these are familiar locations, places that define our lives. Yet places can be more than physical. Some of the works on view in these galleries evoke a literal...More »
"Voces y Visiones" Exhibition
[6][1]- at El Museo del Barrio
- in the Upper East Side area
The premiere exhibition in our new Carmen Ana Unanue Permanent Collection Galleries celebrates El Museo's 40th anniversary. Over 100 works created by a cross-section of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American...More »
Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine Art and the Medieval Europe Gallery
[3][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
Portions of the Medieval Galleries have been renovated, thanks to the generous support of Mary and Michael Jaharis. The apse beneath the Great Hall Stairs has become part of the Mary and Michael Jaharis...More »
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
[2][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
More than one thousand works from the preeminent collection of the Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings of this material in the world—will return to view this fall...More »
Rodin "The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum"
[1][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
Due to installations in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, twelve bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin have been installed in the Rubin Entrance Pavilion. This newly excerpted presentation of the Museum's...More »
Singular Visions
[1][2]- at The Whitney Museum of American Art
- in the Upper East Side area
At a time when images barrage us everywhere from our televisions to our mobile phones, the latest reinstallation of the Whitney’s permanent collection galleries invites visitors to slow down and experience...More »
The Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms
[3][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing—including The Charles Engelhard Court and the American period rooms—reopened on May 19, 2009. After more than two years of construction and renovation, the...More »
Walter De Maria "The Broken Kilometer"
[7][5]- at The Broken Kilometer
- in the Soho area
The Broken Kilometer, 1979, located at 393 West Broadway in New York City, is composed of 500 highly polished, round, solid brass rods, each measuring two meters in length and five centimeters (two inches)...More »
3D: Furniture
"American Identities: A New Look" Exhibition
[2][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts (silver, furniture, ceramics,...More »
"Decorative Arts Galleries and Period Rooms" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The Brooklyn Museum's decorative arts collection occupies the fourth floor of the Museum. The focus of the collection is a group of American period rooms ranging in date from the 18th century to the 20th...More »
"Folk Art Revealed" Exhibition
[3][0]- at American Folk Art Museum
- in the Midtown area
"Folk Art Revealed," opened on November 16, 2004. The exhibition explores the nature of folk art through four themes applied to a diverse range of artwork from the museum's rich and extensive holdings,...More »
"Gallery Selections"
[0][0]- at Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC
- in the Upper East Side area
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts is pleased to present a selection of its finest and newest acquisitions. The current installation of works in the gallery highlights the modernist landscapes of John Marin and...More »
"Highlights from the Modern Design Collection, 1900 to the Present, Part II" Exhibition
[1][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
This installation of modern and contemporary design objects features new acquisitions and other important works from the past century to the present. Highlights include René Lalique's "Swan" necklace of...More »
"Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Art" Exhibition
[3][1]- at Queens Museum of Art
- in the Queens area
Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933) was one of the foremost decorative artists of his time. His father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, was the co-founder of Tiffany & Company, the luxury retailer best...More »
"New York Interiors (1690-1906)" Exhibition
[1][0]- at The Museum of the City of New York
- in the Upper East Side area
New York Interiors (1690-1906) features elements of New York domestic environments from the late 17th through the early 20th centuries. On display are objects that illuminate aspects of daily life including...More »
"Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980" Exhibition
[4][0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- in the Midtown area
The new installation of the Architecture and Design Galleries features a selection of visionary objects, graphics, architectural fragments, and textiles from the Museum’s collection that reveal the attempts...More »
"Small Wonders from the American Collections" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ▪ Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the...More »
"The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture & Slavery in New York" Exhibition
[1][0]- at The New-York Historical Society
- in the Upper East Side area
In November 2000, with a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Historical Society opened a state-of-the-art facility for its renowned fine and decorative arts collection. The Luce Center is...More »
"Tiffany: The Glass" Exhibition
[2][1]- at Queens Museum of Art
- in the Queens area
Tiffany: The Glass, an installation of two windows, eleven lamp shades, and more than two hundred examples of sheet glass, explores some of the remarkable patterns, textures, and colors of opalescent glass...More »
"Visible Storage ▪ Study Center" Exhibition
[5][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The last phase in the creation of the Luce Center for American Art concludes with the opening of the 5,000 square-foot Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. The dense display of objects in the Visible Storage...More »
The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts
[0][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
The Wrightsman Galleries have undergone extensive renovations to improve the presentation of the Museum's renowned collection of French furniture and related decorative arts pieces—many of which have a...More »
3D: Fashion
"From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith" Exhibition
[2][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
Inspired by surrealism, biomorphicism, and primitivism, Art Smith’s jewelry is dynamic in its size and form. Although sometimes massive in scale, his jewelry remains lightweight and wearable. The jewelry...More »
3D: Product
"Arts of Asia and the Islamic World" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The Asian and Islamic Art galleries provide a survey of the full range of Asian and Islamic art in the Brooklyn Museum, which houses one of America's foremost collections. It presents more than one hundred...More »
"Decorative Arts Galleries and Period Rooms" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The Brooklyn Museum's decorative arts collection occupies the fourth floor of the Museum. The focus of the collection is a group of American period rooms ranging in date from the 18th century to the 20th...More »
"Highlights from the Modern Design Collection, 1900 to the Present, Part II" Exhibition
[1][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
This installation of modern and contemporary design objects features new acquisitions and other important works from the past century to the present. Highlights include René Lalique's "Swan" necklace of...More »
"Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Art" Exhibition
[3][1]- at Queens Museum of Art
- in the Queens area
Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933) was one of the foremost decorative artists of his time. His father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, was the co-founder of Tiffany & Company, the luxury retailer best...More »
"On the Move: Transportation Toys from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- at The Museum of the City of New York
- in the Upper East Side area
On the Move is a special installation of toy and miniature vehicles from the Museum's Permanent Collection that not only suggest the lives of the children who played with them but also reveal how transportation...More »
"Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980" Exhibition
[4][0]- at The Museum of Modern Art
- in the Midtown area
The new installation of the Architecture and Design Galleries features a selection of visionary objects, graphics, architectural fragments, and textiles from the Museum’s collection that reveal the attempts...More »
"Small Wonders from the American Collections" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ▪ Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the...More »
"Spotlight on the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- at The Museum of Sex
- in the Flatiron, Gramercy area
Spotlight on the Permanent Collection is the first exhibition featuring a sampling of objects and ephemera drawn from over nine thousand objects that comprise the permanent collection of the Museum of...More »
"The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago" Exhibition
[3][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, is presented as the centerpiece around which the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is organized....More »
"Visible Storage ▪ Study Center" Exhibition
[5][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The last phase in the creation of the Luce Center for American Art concludes with the opening of the 5,000 square-foot Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. The dense display of objects in the Visible Storage...More »
The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments
[0][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
After an eight–month hiatus, the gallery devoted to Western musical instruments has reopened, showcasing more than two hundred works of art drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's extensive holdings, among...More »
Tibetan Arms and Armor from the Permanent Collection
[0][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
This installation presents approximately forty highlights from the Museum's extensive permanent collection of rare and exquisitely decorated armor, weapons, and equestrian equipment from Tibet and related...More »
3D: Crafts
"American Identities: A New Look" Exhibition
[2][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts (silver, furniture, ceramics,...More »
"Arts of Asia and the Islamic World" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The Asian and Islamic Art galleries provide a survey of the full range of Asian and Islamic art in the Brooklyn Museum, which houses one of America's foremost collections. It presents more than one hundred...More »
"Folk Art Revealed" Exhibition
[3][0]- at American Folk Art Museum
- in the Midtown area
"Folk Art Revealed," opened on November 16, 2004. The exhibition explores the nature of folk art through four themes applied to a diverse range of artwork from the museum's rich and extensive holdings,...More »
"From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith" Exhibition
[2][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
Inspired by surrealism, biomorphicism, and primitivism, Art Smith’s jewelry is dynamic in its size and form. Although sometimes massive in scale, his jewelry remains lightweight and wearable. The jewelry...More »
"Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[5][1]- at Neue Galerie
- in the Upper East Side area
“Selections from the Permanent Collection” features highlights from the Neue Galerie’s superb holdings of German and Austrian fine and decorative arts from the first half of the twentieth century. It incorporates...More »
"Small Wonders from the American Collections" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ▪ Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the...More »
"The Arts of Africa" Exhibition
[0][1]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
Over 250 works spanning more than 2,500 years represent art from the African continent in the Museum's first-floor galleries. Additional related art from ancient Egypt and Islamic North Africa can be found...More »
"The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago" Exhibition
[3][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, is presented as the centerpiece around which the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is organized....More »
"The Mummy Chamber" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This installation of more than 170 objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-famous holdings of ancient Egyptian material explores the complex rituals related to the practice of mummification and the Egyptian...More »
"Visible Storage ▪ Study Center" Exhibition
[5][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The last phase in the creation of the Luce Center for American Art concludes with the opening of the 5,000 square-foot Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. The dense display of objects in the Visible Storage...More »
"Voces y Visiones" Exhibition
[6][1]- at El Museo del Barrio
- in the Upper East Side area
The premiere exhibition in our new Carmen Ana Unanue Permanent Collection Galleries celebrates El Museo's 40th anniversary. Over 100 works created by a cross-section of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin American...More »
Gallery for the Art of Native North America
[0][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
The Museum’s renovated gallery devoted to Native North American art display approximately 90 works made by numerous American peoples. Ranging from the beautifully shaped stone tools known as bannerstones...More »
Tibetan Arms and Armor from the Permanent Collection
[0][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
This installation presents approximately forty highlights from the Museum's extensive permanent collection of rare and exquisitely decorated armor, weapons, and equestrian equipment from Tibet and related...More »
3D: Ceramics
"American Identities: A New Look" Exhibition
[2][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts (silver, furniture, ceramics,...More »
"Arts of Asia and the Islamic World" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The Asian and Islamic Art galleries provide a survey of the full range of Asian and Islamic art in the Brooklyn Museum, which houses one of America's foremost collections. It presents more than one hundred...More »
"Decorative Arts Galleries and Period Rooms" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The Brooklyn Museum's decorative arts collection occupies the fourth floor of the Museum. The focus of the collection is a group of American period rooms ranging in date from the 18th century to the 20th...More »
"Highlights from the Modern Design Collection, 1900 to the Present, Part II" Exhibition
[1][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
This installation of modern and contemporary design objects features new acquisitions and other important works from the past century to the present. Highlights include René Lalique's "Swan" necklace of...More »
"Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Art" Exhibition
[3][1]- at Queens Museum of Art
- in the Queens area
Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933) was one of the foremost decorative artists of his time. His father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, was the co-founder of Tiffany & Company, the luxury retailer best...More »
"The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago" Exhibition
[3][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, is presented as the centerpiece around which the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is organized....More »
The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts
[0][0]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
The Wrightsman Galleries have undergone extensive renovations to improve the presentation of the Museum's renowned collection of French furniture and related decorative arts pieces—many of which have a...More »
3D: Other
"A Watershed Moment: Celebrating the Homecoming of The New York City Water Supply Model" Exhibition
[1][1]- at Queens Museum of Art
- in the Queens area
In 1937, New York City was in preparation for the 1939's World's Fair, the first of two in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. To celebrate the immense and intricate inner-workings of the City, various agencies...More »
"American Identities: A New Look" Exhibition
[2][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's premier collection of American art integrates a vast array of fine and decorative arts (silver, furniture, ceramics,...More »
"Arts of Asia and the Islamic World" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The Asian and Islamic Art galleries provide a survey of the full range of Asian and Islamic art in the Brooklyn Museum, which houses one of America's foremost collections. It presents more than one hundred...More »
"Behind the Screen" Exhibition
[0][0]- at The Museum of the Moving Image
- in the Queens area
The Museum's core exhibition, Behind the Screen, illuminates the many processes involved in producing, marketing, and exhibiting the moving image, with more than a thousand film and television artifacts,...More »
"Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey" Exhibition
[1][1]- at The Jewish Museum
- in the Upper East Side area
At the heart of The Jewish Museum is its permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, representing one of the world's great opportunities to explore Jewish culture and history through...More »
"Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Art" Exhibition
[3][1]- at Queens Museum of Art
- in the Queens area
Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933) was one of the foremost decorative artists of his time. His father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, was the co-founder of Tiffany & Company, the luxury retailer best...More »
"Spotlight on the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- at The Museum of Sex
- in the Flatiron, Gramercy area
Spotlight on the Permanent Collection is the first exhibition featuring a sampling of objects and ephemera drawn from over nine thousand objects that comprise the permanent collection of the Museum of...More »
"The Adventures of the Real Winnie-the-Pooh" Exhibition
[1][0]- at Humanities and Social Sciences Library
- in the Midtown area
The REAL Winnie-the-Pooh won't be found on a video, in a movie, on a T-shirt or a lunchbox. Since 1987, the REAL Pooh and four of his best friends--Eeyore, Piglet, Kanga, and Tigger--have been living at...More »
"The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago" Exhibition
[3][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, is presented as the centerpiece around which the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is organized....More »
"The Mummy Chamber" Exhibition
[0][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
This installation of more than 170 objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-famous holdings of ancient Egyptian material explores the complex rituals related to the practice of mummification and the Egyptian...More »
"Tiffany: The Glass" Exhibition
[2][1]- at Queens Museum of Art
- in the Queens area
Tiffany: The Glass, an installation of two windows, eleven lamp shades, and more than two hundred examples of sheet glass, explores some of the remarkable patterns, textures, and colors of opalescent glass...More »
"Visible Storage ▪ Study Center" Exhibition
[5][0]- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
The last phase in the creation of the Luce Center for American Art concludes with the opening of the 5,000 square-foot Visible Storage ▪ Study Center. The dense display of objects in the Visible Storage...More »
Galleries for Oceanic Art
[2][1]- at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- in the Upper East Side area
The islands of the Pacific Ocean encompass nearly 1,800 distinct cultures and hundreds of artistic traditions in an area that covers about one-third of the earth’s surface. The Museum’s new permanent galleries...More »
Screen: Film
"Action: Sex and the Moving Image" Exhibition
[7][2]- at The Museum of Sex
- in the Flatiron, Gramercy area
We live in a visual culture. Everywhere we look we are bombarded with images often to the point of sensory overload. Images shape our desires, the way we think and the manner in which we connect and interact...More »
"Chinatown Film Project: How Do You See Chinatown?" Exhibition
[6][1]- at The Museum of Chinese in America
- in the Lower Manhattan area
The Chinatown Film Project (CFP), MOCA's inaugural film exhibition features ten original short films by ten of New York's most exciting filmmakers. The Guy with the Cigarette directed by Miguel Arteta;...More »
Screen: Video installation
"Action: Sex and the Moving Image" Exhibition
[7][2]- at The Museum of Sex
- in the Flatiron, Gramercy area
We live in a visual culture. Everywhere we look we are bombarded with images often to the point of sensory overload. Images shape our desires, the way we think and the manner in which we connect and interact...More »
"Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey" Exhibition
[1][1]- at The Jewish Museum
- in the Upper East Side area
At the heart of The Jewish Museum is its permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, representing one of the world's great opportunities to explore Jewish culture and history through...More »
Screen: Digital
"Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York" Installation
[2][0]- at The Museum of the City of New York
- in the Upper East Side area
Timescapes, a 25-minute multimedia experience, traces the growth of New York City from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans to its present status as one of the world’s...More »
Screen: Other
"Visionaire 53: Sound" Exhibition
[2][0]- at Visionaire Gallery
- in the Soho area
An interactive exhibition of images and tracks from Visionaire 53. SOUND is currently on view at the Gallery. Visionaire 53 consists of five 12-inch vinyl records, imprinted with images (picture discs),...More »
Misc.: Media Arts
"Pierpont Morgan's 1906 Library" Exhibition
[0][0]- at The Morgan Library & Museum
- in the Midtown area
In 1902 American financier Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) chose architect Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909) of the prominent firm McKim, Mead and White to design a library to house his growing collection of...More »
Misc.: Art Talk
"Compost-Modern" Discussion Forum
[0][0]- at Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities
- in the Soho area
"CompostModern," a salon-style discussion forum, revolutionizing the way we present the work of poets and writers to the public. We have opened the floor to the community, bringing you in to participate...More »
Gallery Talks
[0][0]- at The Cloisters
- in the Harlem, Bronx area
Gallery Workshops for Families
[0][0]- at The Cloisters
- in the Harlem, Bronx area
Children ages 4 through 12 and their families are invited for an hour-long program at The Cloisters, the branch of the Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, located in upper Manhattan....More »
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