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Dalí: Painting and Film, MoMA’s newest exhibition, examines how Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí’s relationship with film and cinema affected his art. In the first exhibition of its kind, over 130 of Dalí’s paintings, drawings, and letters are on display showing how cinema was, in his early years, an inspiration that evolved into an outlet […]
The face of the Bowery changed forever on December 1, 2007 when the New Museum of Contemporary Art reopened its doors to the public after a massive relocation to the Bowery. Since its conception in 1977, the museum has become the most relevant institution with regards to contemporary art, hosting a rotation of temporary […]
Danish artist Olafur Eliasson’s massive public art project New York City Waterfalls is now on display. For more information on these waterfalls (and how you can take a free boat tour) check out last week’s post.
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“Guardians of the Forest: Photographs by Rodrigo Petrella” | National Museum of the American Indian Part of the Amazônia Brasil exhibition, these photographs introduce some of the Amazon region’s indigenous people. Free. Through July 13.
“Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008″ | Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Exploring rococo style and its continuing revivals up to the […]
If you head out to Coney Island this weekend you may think that Hollywood is recreating the classic Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah film Splash. Alas, they are not. The mermaids swimming ashore and marching down the street are part of the annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
Celebrate the sand, the sea, and the mythological […]
Man-made waterfalls will grace New York Harbor this summer as New York City embarks on the largest, and most ambitious, public art project that the city has seen in years.
Artist Olafur Eliasson, in conjunction with Public Art Fund, has created four 90- to 120-foot man-made waterfalls at locations across New York: Governors Island, between […]
Fashion has never appealed to the masses more since Project Runway came to television. New York City is a fashion mecca from its Madison Avenue boutiques to Fashion Week twice a year. It’s only right that New York City also have a museum dedicated to fashion: The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT).
The […]
Located in the beaux-arts Alexander Hamilton Customs House on the Battery, the National Museum of the American Indian houses some of the Smithsonian’s collection of Native American art and artifacts.
The permanent collection spans more than 10,000 years of native history, a significant portion of which is dedicated to the natives of North America […]
An unnamed Keith Haring mural that enjoyed a brief life on the Lower East Side in the 1980s has returned in all of its DayGlo glory. The mural was recreated by using photographs of the original mural that Haring, a New York artist, painted, then shortly thereafter painted over. Haring died of AIDS at the […]
The Whitney is so much more than just a biennial. The Whitney Museum of American Art is the leading collection of 20th-century American contemporary art located right in the heart of Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
The Whitney was founded in 1931 with the donation of 700 objects from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Whitney, […]
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