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This is the first exhibition in an art museum to be devoted exclusively to Oceanic musical instruments. It explores the rich diversity of musical instruments created and used in the Pacific Islands. Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan’s collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea. On view through September 6th, 2010.Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 to Monday, September 6th, 2010 |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Contact | 212-535-7710 |
In this exhibition, acclaimed artist Kiki Smith presents a unique, site-specific installation exploring ideas of creative inspiration and the cycle of life in relation to women artists. Kiki Smith: Sojourn draws on a variety of universal experiences, from the milestones of birth and death to quotidian experiences such as the daily chores of domestic life. An important eighteenth-century silk needlework by a young woman named Prudence Punderson, The First, Second and Last Scene of Mortality (Collection of the Connecticut Historical Society), which provided original inspiration for Smith’s installation, is included in the exhibition. On view through September 12th, 2010.Friday, February 12th, 2010 to Sunday, September 12th, 2010 |
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Brooklyn Museum |
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| Contact | 718-638-5000 |
An exhibition exploring Pablo Picasso's creative process through the medium of printmaking, from March 28 to September 6, 2010. It features approximately 100 works from the Museum's superlative collection of the artist's prints. The exhibition is organized by Deborah Wye, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art.Sunday, March 28th, 2010 to Monday, September 6th, 2010 |
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Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) |
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| Contact | 212-708-9400 |
Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. The works included in the exhibition range from individual photographs and photographic series, to sculptures and paintings that incorporate photographic elements, and to videos, both on monitors and projected, as well as film, performance, and site-specific installations. Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 to Monday, September 6th, 2010 |
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
Themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography are explored in this exhibition of works from the collection. Perambulations and digressions in photographic works from the 1960s and 1970s by Vito Acconci, Ed Ruscha, Richard Long, and On Kawara, and a 1968 video by Bruce Nauman, show how a work of art—cut loose from any specific medium or physical requirements—could take the form of a walk, a 20–foot–long book, or a rigorously nonsensical pattern of movements.Friday, July 2nd, 2010 to Friday, February 11th, 2011 |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave./82nd St., Upper East Side, New York, , |
This exhibition will cover the period from 1215, the year of Khubilai's birth, to 1368, the year of the fall of the Yuan dynasty in China founded by Khubilai Khan, and will feature every art form, including paintings, sculpture, gold and silver, textiles, ceramics, lacquer, and other decorative arts, religious and secular. The exhibition will highlight new art forms and styles generated in China as a result of the unification of China under the Yuan dynasty and the massive influx of craftsmen from all over the vast Mongol empire - with reverberations in Italian art of the 14th century.Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 to Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 |
| Timings | 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. |
| Additional Event Timing | Tuesday-Thursday: 9.30am-5.30pm Friday-Saturday: 9.30pm-9.00pm Sunday: 9.30am-5.30pm |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave./82nd St., Upper East Side, New York, , |
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This is a small, scholarly focused exhibition of about 50 pieces of the distinctive "artistic furniture" and related objects produced by the workshop of Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936) in Buffalo, New York. His unusually inventive forms and imaginative carving combined many influences, from the abstract naturalism of Art Nouveau to the bold forms of the Arts and Crafts movement. The exhibition explores Rohlfs's work in the context of new research that reveals his success in Europe as well as in America, and traces his influence on other 20th-century furniture designers. The exhibition will draw from many public and private collections. Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 to Sunday, January 23rd, 2011 |
| Admission Details | Adults $20.00, seniors (65 and over) $15.00, students $10.00 Members and children under 12 accompanied by adult free |
| Timings | 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
| Additional Event Timing | Fri & Sat: 9:30am-9.00pm Sun, Tues & Thurs:9:30am-5.30pm |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave./82nd St., Upper East Side, New York, , |
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Charles Burchfield (1893–1967) chose to focus his nature-based art on the ground beneath his feet. Curated by artist Robert Gober, this exhibition features over one hundred major watercolors, drawings, oils on canvas, sketches, notebooks, journals, and doodles by this visionary American artist. Acclaimed by critics and known to a broad public audience during his lifetime, Burchfield is curiously under-appreciated today. Working almost exclusively in watercolor, Burchfield’s primary subject was landscape, often focusing on his immediate surroundings: his garden, the views from his windows, snow turning to slush, the sounds of insects and bells and vibrating telephone lines, deep ravines, sudden atmospheric changes, the experience of entering a forest at dusk, to name but a few. Thursday, June 24th, 2010 to Sunday, October 17th, 2010 |
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Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, Upper East Side, New York, , |
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As a prelude, counterpoint, and coda to the Biennial, the Museum’s fifth floor is devoted to artists in the Whitney’s collection whose works were shown in Biennials over the past eight decades. Collecting Biennials is installed as a kind of historical survey within the Biennial, underscoring the importance of previous Biennial exhibitions in the Museum’s history and the formation of its collection. Saturday, January 16th, 2010 to Sunday, November 28th, 2010 |
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Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, Upper East Side, New York, , |
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In the latest edition of MAD Projects, which explores emerging trends and innovations in the design world, the Museum of Arts and Design will present Patrick Jouin: From Kitchen to Table, the first solo exhibition at an American museum of the work of this prolific 42-year-old French designer. A protégé of Philippe Starck, Jouin established his own studio in 1999. Since then, the Paris-based designer's career ascent has been meteoric, with projects spanning quite literally from the spoon-Zermatt flatware for Puiforcat-to the city-street furniture for Paris, including a self-cleaning lavatory. His technical wizardry has made him a master of material transformation, as perhaps best exemplified by his revolutionary 2005 Solid polyurethane and resin chair series, produced through stereolithography (3-D rapid prototyping). Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 to Friday, February 11th, 2011 |
| Timings | 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. |
| Additional Event Timing | Tue - Sun: 11am to 6pm Thurs: 11am to 9pm |
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Museum of Arts and Design 40 W. 53rd St., Midtown, New York, , |
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First discovered in 1996 during construction on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway in Lod (formerly Lydda), Israel, this large and impressive mosaic floor has only recently been uncovered and was displayed briefly in situ to the public in Israel during the summer of 2009. Believed to belong to a large house owned by a wealthy Roman in about A.D. 300, the mosaic comprises a large square panel with a central medallion depicting various exotic animals and two rectangular end panels, one of which represents a marine scene of two merchant ships amid a sea of marine creatures. The floor, which adorned a richly appointed audience room, is extremely well preserved and highly colorful. It has now been removed from the ground and will be exhibited for the first time outside Israel at the Metropolitan Museum. The Lod Mosaic is on loan from the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Center. Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 to Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 |
| Admission Details | Adults $20.00, seniors (65 and over) $15.00, students $10.00 Members and children under 12 accompanied by adult free |
| Timings | 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. |
| Additional Event Timing | Fri & Sat: 9:30am-9.00pm Sun, Tues & Thurs:9:30am-5.30pm |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave./82nd St., Upper East Side, New York, , |
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A series of three early 20th-century avant-garde paintings by Barcelona-born Joan Miró (1893-1983) are juxtaposed with the two paintings from the Dutch Golden Age that inspired them, providing rare insight into the artist's creative process. Preparatory studies and a fourth related canvas complete the exhibition. Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 to Monday, January 17th, 2011 |
| Admission Details | Adults $20.00, seniors (65 and over) $15.00, students $10.00 Members and children under 12 accompanied by adult free |
| Timings | 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
| Additional Event Timing | Fri & Sat: 9:30am-9.00pm Sun, Tues & Thurs:9:30am-5.30pm |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave./82nd St., Upper East Side, New York, , |
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The first major exhibition in 45 years devoted to the Burgundian Netherlandish artist Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532), it will bring together Gossart's paintings, drawings, and prints, and place them in the context of the art and artists that influenced his transformation from Late Gothic Mannerism to the new Renaissance mode. Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and introduce historical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting. Most often credited with successfully assimilating Italian Renaissance style into northern European art of the early 16th century, he is the pivotal Old Master who changed the course of Flemish art from the Medieval craft tradition of its founder, Jan van Eyck, and charted new territory that eventually led to the great age of Rubens. Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 to Monday, January 17th, 2011 |
| Admission Details | Adults $20.00, seniors (65 and over) $15.00, students $10.00 Members and children under 12 accompanied by adult free |
| Timings | 9 a.m. |
| Additional Event Timing | Fri & Sat: 9:30am-9.00pm; Sun, Tues & Thurs:9:30am-5.30pm |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave./82nd St., Upper East Side, New York, , |
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Two new site-specific sculptural installations created by Katrin Sigurdardottir, an Icelandic artist (born 1967) who lives and works in New York City and Reykjavik, are the focus of this exhibition. Sigurdardottir is known for her highly detailed renditions of places, both real and fictional, that often incorporate an element of surprise. Entitled Boiseries, the installations are interpretations of 18th-century French rooms preserved at the Metropolitan, one from the Hôtel de Crillon (1777-1780) on the Place de la Concorde, Paris, and the other from the Hôtel de Cabris (ca. 1775) at Grasse in Provence. The exhibition is the seventh in the Metropolitan's series of solo exhibitions of the work of contemporary artists at mid-career. Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 to Sunday, March 6th, 2011 |
| Admission Details | Adults $20.00, seniors (65 and over) $15.00, students $10.00 Members and children under 12 accompanied by adult free |
| Timings | 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
| Additional Event Timing | Fri & Sat: 9:30am-9.00pm; Sun, Tues & Thurs:9:30am-5.30pm |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave./82nd St., Upper East Side, New York, , |
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This is the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to survey the work of legendary American artist John Baldessari, widely renowned as a pioneer of conceptual art. Baldessari (b. 1931, National City, California) turned from an early career in painting toward photographic images that he combined with text, challenging historically accepted rules of how to make art. In his groundbreaking work of the late 1960s, he transferred snapshots of banal Southern Californian locales onto photo-sensitized canvases and hired a sign painter to label them with their locations or excerpts from how-to books on photography. Throughout the whole of his career, Baldessari's sharp insights into the conventions of art production, the nature of perception, and the relationship of language to mass-media imagery are tempered by a keen sense of humor. The exhibition brings together a full range of the artist's innovative work over five decades, from his early paintings and phototext works, his combined photographs, and the irregularly shaped and over-painted works of the 1990s to his most recent production. A selection of his videos and artist's books will also be included. Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 to Sunday, January 9th, 2011 |
| Admission Details | Adults $20.00, seniors (65 and over) $15.00, students $10.00 Members and children under 12 accompanied by adult free |
| Timings | 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
| Additional Event Timing | Fri & Sat: 9:30am-9.00pm; Sun, Tues & Thurs:9:30am-5.30pm |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave./82nd St., Upper East Side, New York, , |
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This exhibition features three giants of photography—Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), Edward Steichen (1879-1973), and Paul Strand (1890-1976)—whose works are some of the Metropolitan's greatest photographic treasures. Featured in the exhibition are portraits, city views, cloud studies by Stieglitz, as well as numerous images from his composite portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe, part of a group selected for the collection by O'Keeffe herself. Stieglitz's protégé and gallery collaborator, Edward Steichen, was the most talented exemplar of the Photo-Secession, with works such as his three large variant prints of The Flatiron and his moonlit photographs of Rodin's Balzac purposely rivaling the scale, color, and individuality of painting. By contrast, the final double issue of Camera Work (1917) was devoted to the young Paul Strand, whose photographs from 1915-1917 treated three principal themes—movement in the city, abstractions, and street portraits—and pioneered a shift from the soft-focus and painterly aesthetic of Pictorialism to the straight approach and graphic power of an emerging modernism. Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 to Sunday, April 10th, 2011 |
| Admission Details | Adults $20.00, seniors (65 and over) $15.00, students $10.00 Members and children under 12 accompanied by adult free |
| Timings | 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
| Additional Event Timing | Fri & Sat: 9:30am-9.00pm; Sun, Tues & Thurs:9:30am-5.30pm |
| Venue |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave./82nd St., Upper East Side, New York, , |
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The exhibition examines the Metropolitan's well-known statue of Haremhab as a Scribe, focusing on the historical and art-historical significance of the statue and of its subject: a royal scribe, and general of the army under Tutankhamun, who eventually became king (18th Dynasty, ca.1323-1309 B.C.). Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 to Monday, July 4th, 2011 |
| Admission Details | Adults $20.00, seniors (65 and over) $15.00, students $10.00 Members and children under 12 accompanied by adult free |
| Timings | 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
| Additional Event Timing | Fri & Sat: 9:30am-9.00pm Sun, Tues & Thurs:9:30am-5.30pm |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave./82nd St., Upper East Side, New York, , |
Driving across most of the country’s 50 states in an ordinary rental car, master photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, windshield, and the side windows as picture frames within which to record reflections of this country’s eccentricities and obsessions at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The images in America by Car are among Friedlander’s finest, full of freshness and clarity, while also revisiting themes from older bodies of work. On view through Nov. 28. Saturday, September 4th, 2010 to Sunday, November 28th, 2010 |
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Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, Upper East Side, New York, , |
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| Contact | 800-WHITNEY |
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In the time between Henri Matisse's return from Morocco in 1913 and his departure for Nice in 1917, the artist produced some of the most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works of his career—paintings that are abstracted and rigorously purged of descriptive detail, geometric and sharply composed, and dominated by shades of black and gray. The exhibition includes approximately 120 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints, in the first sustained examination devoted to the work of this important period. On view through Oct. 11. Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 to Monday, October 11th, 2010 |
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Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) 11 W. 53rd St. 5th/6th Ave., Midtown, New York, , |
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| Contact | 212-708-9400 |
