A view of Manhattan in 1855, looking southward from the Latting Observatory on 42nd Street, between 5th and 6th avenues, with the Crystal Palace and the original Croton Reservoir in the foreground. Photo: Untitled View of Manhattan looking south from the Latting Observatory); New-York Historical Society, Gift of Cooley LLP. Image © Richard Haas Lost New York Exhibit Reaches Back in Time to Illuminate the Present Time travel back to a New York just recently past—or to a long-ago past, when the horse-drawn omnibus served as public transport... News 20 Jun 2024 | 04:12
The museum has shut its doors for now. ( Taken by India Brown) NYC Fire Museum Closes Due to Reports of Building Shaking The New York City Fire Museum closed indefinitely on Saturday, May 11th after an emergency evacuation due to reports of the... News 21 May 2024 | 12:40
The current exhibition features 130 artworks including paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, textiles and works by American artists in Paris. ( Photo: Tehsin Pala) Explore The Works of American Artists in Post WW II Paris at The Grey Art Museum During the COVID-19 pandemic, many museums in the city suffered financially. The galleries remained empty, with pieces on... City Arts 09 Apr 2024 | 06:24
Michael Lee, the newly-appointed museum president, was previously Managing Director of Corporate Development at the New York Institute of Finance for six years. He sits on the boards of several Asian-centered nonprofits and teaches martial arts and lion dances. ( Credit: Karen Zhou) New President Appointed to Lead the Museum of Chinese in America After several years rocked by protests, resignations, and a 2020 fire that destroyed a part of its collection, the Museum... News 25 Mar 2024 | 12:25
Rubin Museum announces the closing of physical space with its last exhibition ending on Oct 6. 2024. ( Photo: Ajay Suresh/Wikimedia commons) Rubin to Close and Become “A Museum Without Walls” This Fall The Rubin Museum, a Chelsea mainstay for 20 years, is set to close its doors and put the building up for sale, transitioning... News 16 Feb 2024 | 01:46
Stephanie Hill Wilchfort is jumping to the Museum of the City of New York. as its new president from the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, where she was its president & CEO for eight years. Photo: ( Joseph Sinnott) Master Fundraiser Tapped as New Head of the Museum of the City of New York Congratulations on the job! What would you like to see the Museum of the City of New York doing that it isn’t doing right... News 03 Aug 2023 | 04:31
Gego installing “Reticulárea,” Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, 1969. Photo: Juan Santana © Fundación Gego Five Must See Shows This Spring Gego: Measuring Infinity” and Sarah Sze “Timelapse What’s a Gego? If you know, you know. And if you go to the Guggenheim’s... News 04 Apr 2023 | 03:07
Alex Katz, “Blue Umbrella 2,” 1972. Oil on linen. Private collection, New York. © 2022 Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Courtesy private collection. Let’s Gather with Alex Katz Look up, look down, look sideways from the spiraling ramps at the Guggenheim, where the new show, “Alex Katz: Gathering,”... City Arts 01 Nov 2022 | 12:18
Installation view of “Pentachrome” by Michael Lin, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by Paul Lachenauer, courtesy of The Met New Art in Old Places at The Met What’s an institution to do when it only has two million square feet and countless ideas? The Metropolitan Museum of Art... City Arts 27 Sep 2022 | 12:42
Terese Agnew, “Portrait of a Textile Worker,” 2005. Museum of Arts and Design, New York; purchased with funds provided by private donors, 2006. Photo: Jenna Bascom. Courtesy Museum of Arts and Design ( Jenna Bascom) The Art of Craft A special treasure in the New York cultural landscape is the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) at Columbus Circle, a showcase... City Arts 27 Oct 2021 | 12:11
The Stonewall 50 time capsule on display at the New-York Historical Society. Photo: Glenn Castellano, New-York Historical Society A Stonewall 50 Time Capsule For the next nearly five decades, a collection of memorabilia documenting LGBTQ+ life in the city won’t see the light of... City Arts 24 Jun 2021 | 03:34
Woman of the Year in Economy and Business: Katharine Graham, 1973. Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images Katharine Graham’s New York Story In the middle of the Reagan administration, in the social whirl of a Washington, D.C., now long vanished, Ben Bradlee and... News 13 May 2021 | 08:23
Lillian Bassman, “Blowing Kiss,” 1958 Gelatin silver print. Collection of Eric and Lizzie Himmel, New York © Estate of Lillian Bassman. Photo courtesy of The Jewish Museum The Golden Age of Magazines Magazine racks will never seem the same after viewing “Modern Look: Photography and the American Magazine,” at The Jewish... City Arts 28 Apr 2021 | 11:47
“The Sleeve Should Be Illegal” book jacket. Photo: Val Castronovo Falling into Art at the Frick On March 18, The Frick Collection will officially open to the public in new, temporary quarters at the Breuer building on... City Arts 23 Feb 2021 | 09:38
Yoko Ono (b. 1933, Japan), DREAM TOGETHER, 2020, installed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art © Yoko Ono. Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen NYC Museums Begin to Reopen DREAM TOGETHER Those are the larger than life words emblazoned on the front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Yoko Ono... City Arts 29 Aug 2020 | 05:31
