Museums and Art Archives
Lots going on at the New York Transit Museum
August 18 and 19, 2007, Saturday & Sunday at 1:30 pm. "On The Town"The classic musical "On The Town," shot on location in New York City, was one of the first films to depict the New York City subway in living color. Gene Kelly stars alongside Frank Sinatra as a love struck sailor on leave in the Big Apple who falls head over heels for "Miss Turnstiles," a "typical rider" whose picture appears in many different poses on advertising placards. Among the songs: "New York, New York" and "Come Up To My Place." Also stars Jules Munshin, Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen and Betty Garrett.
August, Saturdays & Sundays, 3:00 pm. "American Experience: Transcontinental Railroad"
Go behind-the-scenes of one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century--the transcontinental railroad. Meet the engineers, entrepreneurs, and legions of workers who made it possible.Saturday, September 8, 2007, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, “IND Anniversary September Special: A Day on the A.” Only 400 seats available -- get your tickets now while there is space available!
Highlighting the 75th Anniversary of the opening of the first section of the IND, vintage R 1/9 trains will travel from mid-town to the Transit Museum’s very own Court Street station. After a brief layover we’ll re-board and head out to
enjoy the sun and surf at Rockaway Park. Then, we'll go the distance along the remainder of the longest route in the system, closing the day boroughs away at 207th Street in the Bronx.This a a one-of-a kind opportunity to experience subway travel onboard the vintage rail fleet, usually on static display in the Transit Museum. Not to be missed are the bouncy wicker seating of yesteryear, sharing your experiences with fellow passengers, the Nostalgia Train ‘wave’ to bemused people on subway platforms as the vintage trains rolls by and the mid-trip destination activities. Nostalgia Train tickets are $30, Museum members $25, children 3-17 $10. For reservations please call 718-694-1867.
New York Transit Museum. Complete calendar of events. Corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn Heights, T-F 10 am to 4 pm, Sat and Sun 12 Noon to 5 pm, closed Mondays and major holidays, 718-694-1600 ($ admission fee).
New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex & Store at Grand Central Terminal, located just off the main concourse in the Shuttle Passage, adjacent to the Station Masters' Office, M-F 8 am to 8 pm, Sat and Sun 10 am to 6 pm, closed major holidays and for special events, 212-878-0106 (free).
Design for the Other 90%
On view in the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden, this exhibition highlights the growing trend among designers to create affordable and socially responsible objects for the vast majority of the world's population (90 percent) not traditionally serviced by professional designers. Organized by exhibition curator Cynthia E. Smith, along with an eight-member advisory council, the exhibition is divided into sections focusing on water, shelter, health and sanitation, education, energy and transportation and highlights objects developed to empower global populations surviving under the poverty level or recovering from a natural disaster.
Design for the Other 90% is an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
"The real stars of the show, though, are the stories behind the designs." microscopiq, May 17, 2007
They don't need a handout. What they need is an opportunity.
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A poor person actually only cares about one thing: making more money. If they have more money, they can get ahead, take their family out of poverty.
-- Martin Fischer, Kickstart International
The introductory video also provided an opportunity to explore an additional range of themes that may not be as apparent, running through the exhibition and this area of design: open source options, leapfrog technology, economic impacts, community building, testing and end-user research, low-cost innovations, social enterprise, humanitarian entrepreneurship, improved democracies and multiple calls to action.
"In Their Own Words," Design for the Other 90% blog, May 14, 2007
Design for the Other 90% (web site), an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum through September 23, 2007. Cooper-Hewitt, web site, 2 East 91st Street, New York, NY, M-Th 10 am - 5 pm, F 10 am - 9 pm, Sat 10 am - 6 pm, Sun Noon - 6 pm. $ Admission fee.
More
- "Design for the other 90%: A review of the Cooper-Hewitt exhibition," by Natalia Allen, Core77, May 2007
- Design for the Other 90%, FastCompany, May 10, 2007
- "Alice Rawsthorn on design for the unwealthiest 90 percent," The International Herald Tribune, April 29, 2007
Great exhibition at the Guggenheim
I saw this show on Friday evening, pay as you wish...
Divisionism - Neo-Impressionism: Arcadia and Anarchy, at the Guggenheim, April 27 - August 6, 2007. 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street), (on Friday evenings beginning at 5:45 pm the museum hosts Pay What You Wish, in which admission is by donation. The last tickets are issued at 7:15 pm), 212-423-3500
"The Pointillist ‘Contagion’ in Italy," by Roberta Smith, The New York Times, April 27, 2007
Architects of the NYC Subway, Heins & LaFarge: The Tradition of the Great Public Works, Part I - 3/19/2007 - 7/8/2007
We do not normally reproduce press releases on AGINY, but the subway is so integral to NYC, and the design impacts so many people every day, that we are reproducing this press release, and encouraging our friends and readers to stop by the Transit Museum’s Gallery Annex in Grand Central Station and see these exhibitions, opening March 19, 2007.
Chandelier from City Hall Station Station opened 1904. Material: Bronze. Image credit: New York Transit Museum
Architects of the NYC Subway, Heins & LaFarge: The Tradition of Great Public Works, Part I (3/19/2007 - 7/8/2007) and Architects of the NYC Subway, Squire Vickers and the Subway’s Modern Age, Part II, (7/30/2007 – 10/28/2007)
Be sure not to miss two new exciting - consecutive - free exhibits at the New York Transit Museum entitled, Architects of the NYC Subway, Heins & LaFarge: The Tradition of Great Public Works, Part I (3/19/2007 - 7/8/2007) and Architects of the NYC Subway, Squire Vickers and the Subway’s Modern Age, Part II, (7/30/2007 – 10/28/2007). Culled from the extensive collections of the New York Transit Museum, The New York Historical Society, the Episcopal Diocese of New York, The Bronx Zoo / Wildlife Conservancy Center, and private collectors, more than sixty historic artifacts, architectural drawings, and photographs will display, the vision of the subway’s first architects, John L. Heins and Christopher G. LaFarge and the subsequent work of Squire J. Vickers at the Transit Museum’s Gallery Annex in mid-town Manhattan.
From 1901 to 1908, John L. Heins and Christopher G. LaFarge not only designed the first subway stations, but also the control houses, power substations and ornamental kiosks, in the popular Beaux-Arts style, evoking classical architecture using ceramics, metal, and wood. Because Heins & LaFarge began working more than a year after subway construction began, their primary duty was to decorate and make beautiful the stark utilitarian spaces built by engineers achieved by using ceramics, terra cotta relief’s and unique station plaques to identify and adorn each station. Says Roxanne Robertson, Director of Special Projects,“The crown jewel of the subway is the old City Hall Station which was designed by Heins and LaFarge. Visitors are still inspired by the arched tile ceilings, skylights, and brass chandeliers. This station still has the feeling of entering a grand cathedral and remains the NYC subway’s most spectacular space.”
Elements adorning the subway also included ceramic tiles, mosaics, terra cotta reliefs, sconces, iron railings and circular air vent covers. Examples of brass ticket booth grilles and metal exit signs in the exhibition are graceful, with their function masked by the beauty of design and materials. Design drawings of Manhattan’s control houses for 72nd, 103rd Streets and Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue show three similar structures with decorative arches, glass, metal, and terra cotta. Architects of the NYC Subway… also presents a dozen pieces of these original station ceramics. Because an immense amount of ceramics had to be designed, fabricated, and installed in less than three years, numerous companies were hired to produce these pieces. The work of the noted ceramics firms Grueby Faience Company of Boston, Atlantic Terra Cotta of Staten Island and New Jersey, and Rookwood Pottery Company of Cincinnati, are also represented in the exhibition.
Architects John L. Heins, Christopher Grant LaFarge, and Squire J. Vickers determined the aesthetics of New York’s subway system. These men created the decorative motifs that adorned the subways, allowing each station to be unique while contributing to its overall style. In 1907, Heins died of meningitis. Though he would work as an architect until his death in 1938, LaFarge worked on the subway only until 1908. Architect, Squire J. Vickers, was then hired and become the architect responsible for New York’s subway station’s design elements for the next four decades.
In addition to being business partners, John L. Heins and Christopher Grant LaFarge were friends, classmates, and brothers-in-law. The two met as architecture students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying a curriculum based on the French school of Beaux-Arts classical approach to architecture, but also stressing logical planning and design. They graduated in 1882, and in 1886, formed their own New York City firm. Heins & LaFarge specialized in ecclesiastical and residential buildings.
Today they are best remembered as the original architects for the Cathedral of Saint John theDivine. They began the cathedral project in the 1890s and would continue with it for two decades. During this time, Heins would also be appointed the State Architect of New York, responsible foroverseeing the design and construction of all state buildings.
In the first years of the new century, Heins & LaFarge continued with the Cathedral, but also designed the New York City subway stations and the Astor Court Buildings of the Bronx Zoo. Though these important civic projects might seem, at first, to be disparate, Heins & LaFarge used similar architectural elements and fabricators for each project. The Guastivino Fireproof Construction Company fabricated magnificent arches for the grand City Hall subway station, the Belmont Chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, and the Elephant House of the Bronx Zoo. The Atlantic Terra Cotta Company produced ceramics for numerous subway stations and the Lion House at the Zoo. Pieces of these Zoo and subway ceramics, including examples taken from the 33rd Street, 110th Street, and 116th Street subway stations, are featured in the exhibitions. An architectural drawing for the Zoo’s Monkey House shows a frieze with classical design elements that can also be seen in subway station ceramics.
Architects of the NYC Subway, Heins & LaFarge: The Tradition of the Great Public Works, Part I, at the New York Transit Museum, 212-878-0106, March 19, 2007 - July 8, 2007, at the New York Transit Museum’s Gallery Annex at Grand Central, Monday-Friday, 8 am - 8 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10 am - 6 pm. Admission is Free. These exhibitions are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support: Major sponsors: ARUP, Daniel Frankfurt, P.C., and Parsons Brinkerhoff. Supporting Sponsor: STV. Sponsors: FXFOWLE ARCHITECTS, PC, and Domingo Gonzalez Associates.
More
- City Hall Station - 1986 visit and 2006 visit - from forgotten NY. Many photos
- City Hall Subway Station - photos on Flickr from Triborough
- City Hall (IRT East Side Line) - from nycsubway.org. Many photos
- City Hall Station - from MIT.
- New York Transit Museum - Wikipedia
- Exploring the old City Hall station: new tours on tap - from Newyorkology
- Roger Shepherd has some good photographs and discussion of the ceramic tiles used in the subway
- The New York Subway: Its Construction And Equipment
Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804): A New Testament
I saw the exhibiton of the New Testament watercolor drawings by Domenico Tiepolo at the Frick Museum, last Sunday. This is the last week to see the exhibition, which closes on January 7th, 2007. A "must-see" for all who read the Bible religiously ... the New Testament is drawn in such fine detail highlighting the story of Jesus, Peter, Paul, etc. ...
The Exaltation of the Sacrament
Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804): A New Testament, October 24, 2006, through January 7, 2007, The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, 212-288-0700
P/S: The Frick Museum is "pay-as-you-wish" on Sundays, 11 am - 1 pm ... I encourage all to go after the church service at the Redeemer Church at Hunter College ...
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- Domenico Tiepolo - from the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
- Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo - Wikipedia
- Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo - Artcyclopedia
Wonderful exhibitions in NYC
This 2006 Fall season I saw so many wonderful exhibitions, including many fine portrait paintings ...
Pablo Picasso, Seated Woman with Wristwatch, 1932
- Picasso and American artists at the Whitney - a must see exhibition for all New Yorkers - runs through January 28, 2007
- Americans in Paris at the Met - runs through January 28, 2007
- Vollard and his artists (Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde) at the Met - runs through January 7, 2007
- Spanish Paintings: El Greco to Picasso at the Guggenheim - runs through March 28, 2007
- Alex Katz at the Jewish Museum - runs through March 18, 2007
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Provenance
After retiring from truck driving in 1987, Teri Horton devoted much of her time to bargain hunting around the Los Angeles area. Sometimes the bargains were discovered on Salvation Army shelves and sometimes, she willingly admits, at the bottom of Dumpsters.
Even the most stubborn deal scrounger probably would have been satisfied with the rate of return recently offered to her for a curiosity she snagged for $5 in a San Bernardino thrift shop in the early 1990s. A buyer, said to be from Saudi Arabia, was willing to pay $9 million for it, just under an 180 million percent increase on her original investment. Ms. Horton, a sandpaper-voiced woman with a hard-shell perm who lives in a mobile home in Costa Mesa and depends on her Social Security checks, turned him down without a second thought.
Ms. Horton’s find is not exactly the kind that gets pulled from a steamer trunk on the “Antiques Roadshow.” It is a dinner-table-size painting, crosshatched in the unmistakable drippy, streaky, swirly style that made Jackson Pollock one of the most famous artists of the last century. Ms. Horton had never heard of Pollock before buying the painting, but when an art teacher saw it and told her that it might be his work (and that it could fetch untold millions if it were), she launched herself on a single-minded post-retirement career — enlisting, along the way, a forensic expert and a once-powerful art dealer — to have her painting acknowledged as authentic by scholars and the art market.
"Could Be a Pollock; Must Be a Yarn," by Randy Kennedy, The New York Times, November 9, 2006
Where is the provenance???
"Provenance" is a list of the previous owners of a work of art, tracing it from its present location and owner back to the hand of the artist. Provenance has many uses: It can help to determine the authenticity of a work, to establish the historical importance of a work by suggesting other artists who might have seen and been influenced by it, and to determine the legitimacy of current ownership.
Provenance Research, Harvard University Art Museums
More
- What is provenance research? - Association of Art Museum Directors
- Provenance Resources Online - The Museum of Modern Art
- Provenance Research - The Getty
- Metropolitan Museum's Provenance Research Project
- Provenance Research - Princeton University Art Museum
- Museum Provenance Research - Google
- Nazi Era Provenance - American Association of Museums
Must see exhibition for all New Yorkers
Pablo Picasso, Seated Woman with Wristwatch, 1932
Roy Lichtenstein, Girl with Beach Ball III, 1977
I strongly diasagrree with Michael Kimmelman's charcaterization of the Picasso exhibition at the Whitney Museum as
one of those dull affairs incubated in the world of academe: a walk-through textbook that goes to extraordinary lengths to state the obvious
What a horrible review by the chief art critic of the NYTimes ... Friday evening I went and enjoyed the exhibition very much ... I read the review after seeing the show ... there are so many paintings from faraway places that are shown for the first time in NY ... after the show at the Whitney, I went home and ate a simple supper of silky tofu with 2 Chinese fermented eggs, dressed with sesame oil and toasted sesame seeds ... the red wine was a south-east Australian 2004 Penfolds Koonunga Hill shiraz cabernet ... .
This exhibition is a must see for all New Yorkers ...
"Picasso and American Art," Whitney Museum of American Art, September 28, 2006 - January 28, 2007, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, Friday's from 6–9 pm is pay-what-you-wish admission, (press release - 5-page pdf)
"Beauty Surrounds Us"
New exhibition at the Diker Pavilion for Native Arts and Cultures ... "Beauty Surrounds Us," September 23, 2006 - September 23, 2008 ... A free event for the whole family ... take the subway to Bowling Green ...
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The Diker Pavilion for Native Arts and Cultures, which houses objects fashioned of bone, hide, clay, reeds, seeds, wood, metal and other stuff, opens Friday at the Smithsonian’s center in Lower Manhattan.
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The new 6,000-square foot pavilion, which includes a performance area that can seat 400, occupies former storage space under the grand oval rotunda on the main floor of the center’s home, the United States Custom House on Bowling Green. The marble floor has been replaced by one of sprung maple suitable for dance performances; the walls have been covered with handsome cherry paneling, sloped gently inward; and 10 vertical exhibit cases have been placed in the window niches, covering up a bleak view of an inner courtyard. Behind the performance space is a curving wall of jade-green translucent glass. (The pavilion is named for the New York collectors Valerie and Charles M. Diker, who contributed $1 million toward its realization.)
"Finding Beauty in Usefulness," by Grace Glueck, The New York Times, September 22, 2006
Diker Pavilion for Native Arts and Cultures at the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, Free admission, web site, 1 Bowling Green, open 10 am - 5 pm every day except December 25th, Thursdays until 8 pm, 212-514-3700
It pays to stroll through the flea market and avoid the TV shows
A very good eye for Fine Art ... $50 makes $284,000 ...
A painting bought for less than $50 at a Manhattan flea market 23 years ago sold at auction in London this week for $284,000. The picture, an oil on canvas by the Indian artist Francis Newton Souza, is a portrait of a bald, frowning man in a black suit, his eyes obscured by wire-rimmed glasses, and is dated 1958.
"Bought for Less Than $50, Sold for $284,000," By Ben Shapiro, Arts, Briefly, The New York Times, September 16, 2006
Also, he enjoyed the painting for those many years ... It pays to stroll through the flea market and avoid the TV shows ...
Alexander Calder's wire puppet circus
boingboing has links to "Carlos Vilardebo's 1961 documentary of mobile-maker Alexander Calder's intricate, ingenious wire puppet circus. The flying trapeezes actually fly, the lion poops, and the belly dancer gyrates lasciviously in the mind-blowing film that shows that, had Calder not become famous as an artist, he might have been equally famous as a puppeteer. In four parts." On YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
More
- Alexander Calder's work
- Alexander Calder - wikipedia
- "The Engineer Behind Calder's Art," by Joan M. Marter, Mechanical Engineering Magazine, December 1998
- Alexander Calder at the Guggenheim
- Alexander Calder at MoMA
- Alexander Calder at the National Gallery of Art
- "Vertical Constellation with Bomb" - from the National Gallery of Art
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting - in DC
The National Gallery of Art in Washingtan, DC, has a not-to-be missed exhibition underway ... and the Chinatown bus only runs about $35 round-trip ...
Titian, Pastoral Concert ("Concert Champêtre"), c. 1510, oil on canvas
This show was 13 years in the making. Visually seductive and rich with exciting ideas, it is one that visitors will long savor.
"Show reveals relationships," by Sheila Wickouski, The (Fredericksburg) Free-Lance Star, July 27, 2006
A major new international exhibition, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, will present more than 50 masterpieces from the most exciting period of the Renaissance in Venice. Premiering June 18 through September 17 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the exhibition explores the relationships between these and other artists, emphasizes their innovative treatments of new pictorial themes such as the pastoral landscape, and reveals what modern conservation science has discovered about the Venetian painters’ techniques.
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The time span covered by the exhibition represents, visually and intellectually, the most exciting phase of the Renaissance in Venice, when the old Giovanni Bellini (d. 1516), Giorgione (d. 1510), and the young Titian, among others, were all working side by side. The exhibition will present approximately 60 paintings that best exemplify the new ideas and ideals: music, the pastoral landscape, the female nude, and the romantic portrait. It will include Bellini and Titian's Feast of the Gods (1514 and 1529), Giorgione's Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1500), Laura (1506), and Three Philosophers (c. 1506).
Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, June 18 - September 17, 2006, West Building, Main Floor. Mondays through Saturdays, 10 am - 5 pm, Sundays 11 am - 6 pm.
The National Gallery of Art is located on the National Mall between Third and Seventh Streets at Constitution Avenue, NW. The West Building is at 6th Street NW at Constitution Avenue NW , Washington, DC. The nearest Metro stops are Judiciary Square on the Red Line, Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Square on the Yellow and Green Lines, and Smithsonian on the Blue and Orange Lines.
Also see
- "Venetian art," The Economist, July 29, 2006 ($)
- "The Titian that Moved a Nation," CultureGrrl, July 7, 2006
- "When Venice Shook the World," by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, July 7, 2006
Jazzmobile - Frick Collection - The Jewish Museum
Wednesday nights in the summer time are reserved for the free Jazzmobile concerts held at Grant's Tomb ... 7 pm ... 122nd Street and Riverside Drive ... this coming Wednesday features the Wycliffe Gordon Quintet ... jazzmobile.org ...
The Frick Museum is "pay-as-you-wish" on Sundays between 11 am to 1 pm. Parking is very easy so early in the morning ... the Jean-Étienne Liotard exhibition runs through September 17, 2006 ... 1 East 70th Street, 212-288-0700
The Jewish Museum is free on Saturdays ... 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, 212-423-3200
Jean-Étienne Liotard - at the Frick
Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789), Liotard Laughing, c. 1770, oil on canvas, 84 x 74 (33 1/16 x 29 1/8), Musée d’art et d’histoire, Département des Beaux-Arts
Whatever Liotard was paid for these pictures [of Austrian Empress Maria Theresa's 16 children], it was too little. He poured every ounce of his talent into them. Each seamlessly blends several mediums: black and red chalk, pencil, pastel and watercolor. Details are executed with a watchmaker's precision. To give the figures a naturalistic glow, Liotard colored the reverse side of each thin sheet of paper. Marie-Antoinette is bathed in a rosiness that you sense rather than actually see.
"Jean-Étienne Liotard, the Unrelenting Eye of the Enlightenment," by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, June 23, 2006
To his admirers, Liotard was the “painter of truth.” The artist was unsparing in his depiction of his sitters, including himself, avoiding the flattery and embellishment that characterized the art of his colleagues. He also avoided the painterly touches and visible brushstrokes favored by his contemporaries, railing in his Treatise on the Principles and Rules of Painting, published in 1781, that since one did not see such flourishes in nature, they had no place in art. Although the artist’s scrupulous realism put him at odds with the artistic establishment and did not please all of his sitters, it was the startling veracity of his likenesses that attracted the attention of noble and non-noble elites and secured his international reputation.
"Special Exhibition: Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789): Swiss Master," June 13 through September 17, 2006, at the Frick Collection
The Frick Museum is pay as you wish on Sundays, 11am to 1 pm. A great bargain, go early and enjoy...
The Frick Collection, web site, 1 East 70th Street, 212-288-0700
Unknown Wegee (Arthur Fellig)
Come visit New York City and see this wonderful exhibition of photographs by Weegee (Arthur Fellig)...
"Unknown Weegee," June 9 - August 27, 2006, at the International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, at 43rd Street, 212-857-0000, $ admission fee
"'Unknown Weegee,' on Photographer Who Made the Night Noir," by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, June 9, 2006
More
- Weegee Biography - from Profotos.com
- Weegee's World - from the ICP
- Weegee's Profile - from Temple University
- Wegee prints at Art.com
- Weegee - Wikipedia
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28th Annual Free Museum Mile - FREE
Mark your calendar for Tuesday, June 13, 2006, from 5:45 - 9:00 pm - the 28th Annual Museum Mile Festival ... FREE
all the museums along Fifth Avenue will throw open their doors to the public for free, the Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic, there will be world music every few blocks, crayon drawing for children on the avenue, etc.
I will head to the Cooper-Hewitt for their show of Hudson River School paintings and the National Academy for the American Art contemporary show.
Participating Museums along Fifth Avenue
- 82nd Street: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 83rd Street: Goethe-Institut New York/German Cultural Center
- 86th Street: Neue Galerie New York
- 89th Street: Guggenheim Museum
- 90th Street: National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts
- 91st Street: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- 92nd Street: The Jewish Museum
- 103rd Street: Museum of the City of New York
- 105th Street: El Museo del Barrio
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Samuel Palmer : Vision and Landscape - at the Met
I love the MET when they show small exhibitions amongst all the very important art works ... it is like strolling into a art gallery and ... wow!
Samuel Palmer (1805–1881): Vision and Landscape
- Samuel Palmer (1805–1881): Vision and Landscape
A major retrospective featuring watercolors, drawings, etchings, and oils by one of the most important British landscape painters of the Romantic era.
March 7 - May 29, 2006, Galleries for Drawings, Prints, and Photographs, and The Howard Gilman Gallery, 2nd floor, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue
Resources
- Samuel Palmer - The British Museum Exhibition, October 21, 2005 - January 22, 2006
- Samuel Palmer - Wikipedia
- Samuel Palmer - Handprint
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FREE First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum - Brasil Carnival
First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum, Brasil Carnival will be lots of fun for the whole family ...
At the Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment each month from 5–11 p.m. All evening long, the Museum Café serves a wide selection of sandwiches, salads, and beverages, and a cash bar offers wine and beer. Parking is a flat rate of $4 starting at 5 p.m.
March 4, 2006
(these are just some of the events on March 4 - see web site for more)
6 p.m.–8 p.m.: World Music
Hall of the Americas, 1st Floor
Jeff Newell's New-Trad Octet of Brooklyn plays New Orleans Mardi Gras music with a twist.
6:30 p.m.: Performance
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Drama of Works and 2 Punks Puppet Theatre combine overhead projection and traditional shadow puppetry to tell a Cajun fairytale in which the hero goes in search of that one special ingredient for a Mardi Gras gumbo. Free tickets available at the Visitor Center beginning at 5:30 p.m.
8 p.m.: Free Dance Lessons
Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor
Get ready to move those dancing feet to the rhythms of samba music led by Stepping Out Dance Studio instructors.
9 p.m.–11 p.m.: Dance Party
Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor
Twice voted the best Brazilian band in the U.S. by the Brazilian International Press Association, Grupo Saveiro will perform high-energy Brazilian music—just like at Carnival in Rio!
Brooklyn Museum, web site, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, 718-638-5000
previous post: "Brooklyn Museum of Art - free first Saturdays," February 14, 2006
Brooklyn Museum of Art - free first Saturdays
the Brooklyn Museum of Art on the first Saturday of the month is free and provides so much entertainment for the whole community with films, musical concerts, DJ"s playing dance music, and art history lectures.
A rainbow of the whole world can be seen on that evening ... the museum has succeeded to bring into their halls the whole community of Brooklynites with all their children in tow ... what a wonderful sight. A free, safe and peaceful enviroment for everyone to enjoy the evening.
The last time I was there I concentrated on the archeological artifacts of the Egyptians during 3,000 B.C. - 1,000 B.C. ... the Brooklyn Museum has one of the finest collections of Egyptian art in the world ...
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, 718-638-5000 (directions)
Buyer beware ... the Art Market is hot and crazy
Buyer beware ... the Art Market is hot and crazy ... Happy Winter and Good Tidings ...
Artprice.com, a French company that tracks world auction results, figures overall prices in New York and London topped their mid-1990 peak for the first time this year -- by 33% and 19%, respectively. Meanwhile, Chinese art often soared to four or five times pre-auction estimates at recent Sotheby's and Christie's Hong Kong sales. Indian and Russian works are seeing similar gains.
"The Art Of Buying Art: Today's market looks awfully inflated. Tread carefully," Business Week, December 26, 2005
More
- "Why Collectors Are Crazy For Chinese Art: It's not only dynastic porcelain vases. Art mavens are buying contemporary works as well," Business Week, December 27, 2004
- "Time to sell in a hot market," by Souren Melikian, International Herald Tribune, February 7, 2004
- "Positively Sizzling," by Missy Sullivan, Forbes, December 26, 2005
- "Auction packed," by Murray Whyte, The Toronto Starr, December 17, 2005
- "Deaccession roulette," by Hilton Kramer, The New Criterion, December 2005
- "'Art Funds' Starved for Investors" - WSJ, A Guy In New York, August 22, 2005
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Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 1347–1437 - at the Met
Charles IV sought to make his capital city - Prague - the cultural rival of Paris and Rome. The remarkable flowering of art that resulted is being celebrated in an exhibition that draws together some 200 stunning examples including panel paintings, goldsmiths' work, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, silk embroideries, and stained glass. These little-known masterpieces attest to the wide-ranging achievements of the hundreds of artists affiliated with Prague and the Bohemian crown during the reign of Charles IV and his two sons, Wenceslas IV and Sigismund. The exhibition draws on numerous collections in the Czech Republic as well as other European and American collections.
Attributed to Master Theodoric
Prague
Paint and gold on panel; 45 1/4 x 37 in. (115 x 94 cm)
Národní Památkovy Ustav, Uzemni Odborné Pracoviště Střednich Čech, Prague
We saw this very enlighting exhibition of art history last Sunday ... this is a "must see" for every visitor to NY ...
"Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 1347–1437," September 20, 2005 – January 3, 2006, Special Exhibition Galleries, The Tisch Galleries, 2nd floor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street
- "Bohemian rhapsody in NYC," by Deanna MacDonald, The Globe and Mail, October 1, 2005
- " A Special Exhibition Review," by Stan Parchin, Art History, about.com
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Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings - at the Met
The first major American retrospective devoted to Van Gogh's decadelong achievement as a draftsman, featuring more than 100 of his finest works in pen and ink, graphite, chalk, charcoal, and watercolor.These graphic images, lent by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and from 50 other public and private collections, brilliantly illustrate Vincent's own dictum: "Drawing is the root of everything."
Cypresses, 1889
Oil on canvas; 93.4 x 74 cm (36 3/4 x 29 1/8 in.)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, 1949 (49.30)
I went to see this exhibition last Thursday and I was so happy ... what a great artist ... we are so fortunate to see such a retrospective in one place! ... I went back with Angela on Friday ...
"Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings," October 18, 2005 – December 31, 2005, Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street
- "Van Gogh: Expressive With a Brush, or a Pen," by Carol Vogel, The New York Times, October 11, 2005
- "Scribble Scribble: How Van Gogh rendered his flickery world in the hard lines of pen and ink," by Mark Stevens, New York, October 24, 2005
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SAFE: Design Takes On Risk - at MoMA
Just in time for the wave of catastrophes plaguing our fragile planet, some top designers unveil a series of aesthetically pleasing objects that could be handy in dangerous situations, from the banal to the apocalyptic. . . . Directly inside the entrance to the exhibit stands a paper home that could withstand the huffing and puffing of the breathiest big bad wolf. Two people can assemble the fire-resistant Global Village Shelter in 15 minutes, unfolding it like a giant work of origami.
"Designer Gear for the Apocalypse," by Aaron Dalton, Wired News, October 17, 2005
From MoMA:
SAFE: Design Takes On Risk, the first major design exhibition at MoMA since its reopening in November 2004, presents more than 300 contemporary products and prototypes designed to protect body and mind from dangerous or stressful circumstances, respond to emergencies, ensure clarity of information, and provide a sense of comfort and security. These objects address the spectrum of human fears and worries, from the most mundane to the most exceptional, from the dread of darkness and loneliness to the threat of earthquakes and terrorist attacks.
SAFE: Design Takes On Risk, MoMA, October 16, 2005 - January 2, 2006, 11 West 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, 212-708-9400
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New York Changing - at the City Museum of New York through November 13, 2005
New York Changing: Douglas Levere Revisits Berenice Abbott’s New York presents 50 pairs of photographs by contemporary photographer Douglas Levere and world-renown photographer Berenice Abbott. Abbott’s iconic photographs, drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, were taken in the 1930s and first published in her landmark book, Changing New York (1939). More than six decades later, Levere used the same camera Abbott had used and returned to the same locations at the same time of day and the same time of year. Indeed, he took on the role of detective as he successfully sought to understand and replicate every aspect of Abbott’s process. When seen side by side, these two remarkable bodies of work reveal much about the city and the nature of urban transformation. Perhaps more than anything else, these carefully crafted images powerfully suggest that in New York, the only constant is change.
Many of the photographs are shown side-by-side on the project's web site at NEW YORK CHANGING | image list here
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, 212-534-1672
More fun things for summer visitors to enjoy - with a three-course lunch for $20.12
"Summer Restaurant Week" isn't over yet ... extended through Labor Day, some of New York's finest restaurants will continue to offer three-course lunches for just $20.12 (beverages, tax and tip are extra).
For example:
On the Upper East Side, before or after visiting the Whitney Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, enjoy the fine French cuisine at Cafe Boulud, 20 East 76th Street, 212-772-2600 or at Dumonet at The Carlyle, 35 East 76th Street, 212-570-7192 ... classic French and delicious
On the Upper West Side, a visit to the New York Historical Society and the American Museum of Natural History must be combined with a lunch at Cafe des Artistes, 1 West 67 Street, 212-877-3500 ... Austrian-Hungarian and very cozy ...
On Columbus Circle, visit and shop at our own "Las Vegas" mall ... the new Time-Warner Center ... and lunch at Asiate in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, 80 Columbus Circle at 60th Street, 212-805-8881 ... a very spectacular view of Central Park from the 35th floor!
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