MoMA free on Friday evening
MoMA has the finest and largest holding of 20th and 21st century modern art in the world. To save $20 admission go after 4pm (up to 8pm) on Fridays when it's free - although it gets busy, it's a great...
View ArticleWhitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum was designed by Marcel Breuer and contains a large collection of American art from the nineteenth century to the present day. Sometimes however it shows special exhibitions and that...
View ArticleNeue Galerie
The Neue Galerie shows early twentieth century German and Austrian art and design, including first-rate examples of paintings by Kokoschka, Schiele, Klimt (Adele Bloch-Bauer), and many other artists...
View ArticleMOMA on Friday nights
The Target Free Friday Night, sponsored by clothing giant Target is a great experience. The free admission begins at 4:00pm and ends at 8:00pm giving plenty of time to take in the best this gallery...
View ArticleWilliamsburg, Brooklyn
If you want to be down with the kids, Williamsburg in Brooklyn is where it's at.Bedford Avenue, the epicenter, is accessible from Manhattan on the L subway line, or the ‘Hipster Line’ as it’s sometimes...
View ArticleNew York Studio School Drawing Marathon
A two week intensive in drawing, painting or sculpture led by artists of renown. The Drawing Marathon transformed my studio practice and brought art back to the center of my life. I went deeper and...
View ArticleDIA:BEACON
Art for art's space. Dia Art Foundation's gallery at Beacon exemplifies what New York does best - converting disused industrial space into space for art. At over 240,000 square feet this ex-box...
View ArticleRoses on Park Avenue
New York's coming out of a brutal, blizzard-ravaged winter. Around Valentine's Day, sculptor Will Ryman installed 38 huge rose sculptures, along with the occasional beetle and ladybug, on Park Avenue...
View ArticleThe Gagosian Gallery
New Yorkers love their museums - and have plenty of them - but it's nice to visit a smaller gallery for some art education. The Gagosian Gallery highlights lesser-known pieces by big artists. Fewer...
View ArticleJaume Plensa's "Echo" at Madison Square Park
New York City loves its public art and commissions interesting works from all over the world. My favorite piece this summer is Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa's "Echo" on Madison Square Park Oval Lawn....
View ArticleLaurel Nakadate's "365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears"
If you're the kind of person who tears up when someone else does, you might need to bring some tissues to Laurel Nakadate's "365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears." For a year, the artist took a photograph of...
View ArticleLaurel Nakadate's "Only the Lonely"
Last week, I mentioned a closing exhibition of Laurel Nakadate's "365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears." If you didn't get to play voyeur to a year's worth of pictures of the artist crying, you're in luck....
View Article"Talk to Me" at MoMA
I went to the MoMA (pronounced Moe-ma) website to try to figure out how to describe its latest exhibition, "Talk to Me," and I can't really figure it out. It's about design and where utility meets...
View ArticleMeeting Bowls in Times Square
imes Square isn't the easiest place to meet up with your friends, what with it being the "Crossroads of the World" and all. Until September 16, those quick on their feet can grab a spot in one of the...
View ArticleRide 1920s 2/3 Subway Trains
To promote the new season of Boardwalk Empire, HBO is running a restored 1920s subway train on the 2/3 lines each weekend in September. You can catch the vintage train at the 96th, 72nd, and 42nd...
View ArticleThe Neue Gallery
This museum of early twentieth-century German and Austrian art and design has a fabulous collection of art including many pieces by Egon Schiele and Klimt.It also has two delightful cafes serving...
View ArticleSingle Fare 3 at RH Gallery
Single Fare just might be the most New York art exhibition of all. For starters, it's an open-call exhibition. And there's only one requirement: All art must be made on a MetroCard, the same plastic...
View ArticleWolfgang Laib's "Pollen From Hazelnut" at MoMA
Since the 1970s, the sculptor and conceptual artist Wolfgang Laib has been collecting pollen, pouring it in museums and galleries, and calling it art. Not that I'm skeptical — NYC's been so dreary that...
View ArticleOlek at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
Olek is a Polish crochet artist (don't call her a "yarn bomber"!) who's crocheted the Wall Street bull statue and various other items around NYC. She hasn't had an NYC exhibition since getting arrested...
View ArticleThe Maybe at MoMA
Is public napping performance art? It is if you're kooky, androgynous actress Tilda Swinton! She did just that in London's Serpentine Gallery in 1995, in collaboration with the artist Cornelia Parker,...
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