Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine at The MET
Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine at The MET through March 4, 2012.
The MET is located at 1000 5th Avenue at 82nd Street.
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Sanja Ivekovi?: Sweet Violence at MoMA through March 26, 2012
The Museum of Modern Art is located at 11 West 53rd Street, west of 5th Avenue. For more information,…
The Musuem of Modern Art is open Mondays.
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The Game of Kings Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis at The MET through April 22, 2012.
The MET is located at 1000 5th Avenue at 82nd Street.
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Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art through 2011–May 14, 2012
MoMA is located at 11 West 53rd Street, west of 5th Avenue. Any visit to MoMA should include a stop at their wonderful book shop, and gift shop.
The Museum of Modern Art is open Mondays.
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The American Museum of Natural History is located at Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024-5192
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Ocean’s Kingdom at NYCB
Ocean’s Kingdom (2011), commissioned score by Paul McCartney; arranged by John Wilson and Paul McCartney and orchestrated by Andrew Cottee at The New York City Ballet. For more information,…
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The American Museum of Natural History is located at Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024-5192
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Maurice Sendak Remembers at The Jewish Museum
For the annual Hanukkah exhibition, the renowned artist and illustrator Maurice Sendak chose a group of Hanukkah lamps from The Jewish Museum’s preeminent collection. Sendak’s work is characterized by a push and pull between beauty and sorrow, light and darkness. His art is triggered by memories and is also their repository.
When going through the collection, the sheer number and variety of lamps struck a nerve, underscoring Sendak’s deep, lifelong sense of loss at the destruction of the prewar world of his Eastern European Jewish parents. Having movingly evoked that world in his drawings, he surprised himself by mostly avoiding its rich visual language when choosing lamps. “I stayed away from everything elaborate. I kept looking for very plain, square ones, very severe looking,” he explained. “Their very simplicity reminded me of the Holocaust.” The lamps Sendak finds most compelling and poignant are those that “go right to the heart,” whose “beauty is contained.”
The Jewish Museum is located at 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street.
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