Mark di Suvero at the Morgan
Mark di Suvero’s sculpture is on view at The Morgan.
The Morgan Library & Museum is located at 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Filed under Art, Children in New York City, Museums, Navigating New York | Comment (0)Masterpieces from the Oberlin Collection at the MET
The Fountain of Life (Fuente de la Vida), Spanish, early 16th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street.
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An exhibition of 60 squamates from around the world awaits at AMNH.
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Filed under Children in New York City, Enjoying New York City, Museums, Navigating New York, New York City | Comment (0)MoMA Contemporary Art from the Collection opens today
Contemporary Art from the Collection
The works selected for this installation highlight the debates around economics, politics, gender, and ethnicity that have permeated artistic practices since the late 1960s. Including approximately 130 works drawn from all of the Museum’s curatorial departments, the installation features a variety of approaches to art-making and follows a chronological path. The exhibition begins with works such as a haunting “body print” by David Hammons (1969), which depicts the artist in an act of prayer, and Pino Pascali’s Machine Gun (1966), a sculpture he made out of parts from a Fiat 500 during a period of intense social unrest in Italy. Concluding the show are two projects that explore larger themes of humanity and loss through current events: Huma Bhabha’s expansive print series Reconstructions (2007), in which the artist memorializes lost civilizations in her native Pakistan, and Paul Chan’s Waiting for Godot (2007), a project based on the artist’s restaging of Samuel Beckett’s play in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Opening today, continuing through September 12, 2011
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Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey features thirty-one original Palladio drawings from the Royal Institute of British Architects. These exquisite drawings, which were exhibited only once before in America and never in New York, will be on view to the public for the first time in over thirty years. They are presented with rare architectural texts to illustrate the journey from Italy to North America of Palladio’s design principles of proportion, harmony, and beauty.
Palladio’s work has significantly influenced American architecture from colonial times to the present day. Focusing on the artist’s original drawings and following the trajectory of his ideas, the show also traces the story of American Palladianism. The drawings are supported by numerous architectural models. Three large examples—the Pantheon, Villa Rotunda, and Jefferson’s unrealized design for the White House—programmatically illustrate the journey from Rome to America. Smaller models, along with rare architectural texts and pattern books through which Palladio’s ideas were primarily transmitted, reinforce the themes of the exhibition.
The Morgan Library & Museum is located at 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016
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Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design at The Morgan
Scenic vistas, winding paths, bucolic meadows, and rustic retreats suitable for solitary contemplation are just a few of the alluring naturalistic features of gardens created in the Romantic spirit. Landscape designers of the Romantic era sought to express the inherent beauty of nature in opposition to the strictly symmetrical, formal gardens favored by aristocrats of the old regime.
This exhibition features approximately ninety highly influential texts and outstanding works of art, providing a compelling overview of ideas championed by the Romantics and also implemented by them in private estates and public parks in Europe and the United States, notably New York’s Central Park.
Drawn from the Morgan’s holdings of manuscripts, drawings, and rare books, as well as lavishly illustrated landscape albums from private and other public collections, the exhibition attests to the artistic creativity and intellectual ferment of the era, a time when technological advances in book production greatly enhanced the transmission of ideas.
The Morgan Library & Museum is located at 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
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Gagosian Gallery is located at
555 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011-1104
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Palladio at The Morgan
Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey features thirty-one original Palladio drawings from the Royal Institute of British Architects. These exquisite drawings, which were exhibited only once before in America and never in New York, will be on view to the public for the first time in over thirty years. They are being presented with rare architectural texts to illustrate the journey from Italy to North America of Palladio’s design principles of proportion, harmony, and beauty.
The Morgan Library & Museum is located at 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s (1908–2004) inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography. MoMA’s retrospective surveys Cartier-Bresson’s entire career, with a presentation of three hundred photographs.
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What Was Good Design? MoMA’s Message 1944–56
What Was Good Design at mid-century is still good design.
From 1944 to 1956 the Museum of Modern Art played a leading role in defining taste. This installation presents selections from MoMA’s design collection that embody the primary values of Good Design as promoted (and disputed) by museums, design councils, and department stores. Iconic pieces by designers like Charles and Ray Eames and Hans Wegner are shown alongside more unexpected items, such as a hunting bow and a plumb bob, as well as everyday objects including an iron, a hamper, a rake, a cheese slicer, and Tupperware.
The Museum of Modern Art is located at 11 West 53rd Street.
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