Richard Serra at The Met

June 29th, 2011

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street.

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Museum Mile — tonight, June 14

June 14th, 2011

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Tonight from 6 to 9 PMĀ  nine of the country’s finest museums, offer complimentary admission.

This traffic-free, music- and art-filled celebration fills the street and sidewalks of Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th street, the mile now officially designated as Museum Mile. Over 50,000 visitors attend the festival annually.

Neue Galerie New York kicks off the festival on the steps of its 1914 landmark building on 86th street at 5:45pm.

Museum Mile welcomes its newest member, the Museum for African Art, slated to open in September 2011. Be sure to stop by their table at Fifth Avenue and 105th Street.

German Expressionism at MoMA

June 6th, 2011

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German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse at The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street. The MoMA is open Mondays,

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The Highline

June 2nd, 2011

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Katrin Sigurdardottir at the Met

May 18th, 2011

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Katrin Sigurdardottir at the Met

Icelandic artist Katrin Sigurdardottir (b. 1967) has created two site-specific sculptural installations for the Museum’s series of solo exhibitions featuring the work of contemporary artists at mid-career.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street.
This exhibition runs through May 30, 2011.

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Society of Illustrators, Interview with an Animator, tonight

May 12th, 2011

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Interview With An Animator: Chris Wedge and Peter de Seve

Moderated by Joe Strike, tonight at The Society of Illustrators.

Hollywood may be home to the big animation studios, but there?s no shortage of cartoon creators in New York City, the city that gave birth to animation. Join Joe Strike for ?Interview with an Animator,? a multi-part series of live, in-person conversations with some of New York’s best known and most creative animation professionals

Join us on May 12th for a discussion with Chris Wedge, head of?Blue Sky Studios and director of Ice Age and Robots, and? artist/illustrator/character designer Peter de S?ve.

Joe Strike has written about animation for the?Daily News, Newsday, New York Press and is a regular contributor to the entertainment industry website?Animation World Network(awn.com). He has taught Mass Communications at St. John?s University in New York City, scripted for the Nickelodeon series?Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, adapted anime scripts into English and worked on the children?s TV series?The Great Space Coaster and?Pee-wee?s Playhouse. As Senior Producer of the Sci-Fi Channel?s promotion department, Joe created programming featuring celebrities like Stan Lee, animator Ralph Bakshi and the cast of Mystery ScienceTheater 3000.

Tickets
$15 non-members, $10 members, $7 students
RSVP@societyillustrators.org

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Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection

May 6th, 2011

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The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910 -1918

through June 1, 2011 Featuring more than 100 works from the museum’s holdings, this exhibition attests to the period of collaboration, interchange, synthesis, and innovation that characterized the years leading up to World War I.

The Guggenheim Museum, a work of art in itself, ?is located at 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)

The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City at The MET

May 4th, 2011

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The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street.
This exhibition runs through May 1, 2011.

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Pierpont Morgan Library

March 15th, 2011

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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 rare books and manuscripts. Adjacent to Morgan’s home, which stood on the corner of Madison Avenue and 36th Street, McKim created a majestic structure in a classical style based upon villas of the Italian Renaissance. The exterior is constructed of Tennessee pink marble, the blocks set with such precision that virtually no mortar was used. A simple recessed portico is flanked by a pair of stone lionesses. Completed in 1906, Mr. Morgan’s Library as it was called for many years?is the historic heart of today’s Morgan Library & Museum.

In 2010 the Morgan restored the interior of the 1906 library to its original grandeur.

The Morgan is located at 225 Madison Avenue at 37th Street.

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