New York

 

MOMA The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues - New York, USA
Museum Hours:
Saturday to Monday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m./ Tuesday closed
Wednesday to Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. / Friday 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Admission: Adults $20; Seniors 65 and over (with ID)$16;
Students  (full-time with current ID) $12
http://www.moma.org

Looking at Music: Media Art of the 1960s  |  Art, 08 13 2008 - 01 5 2009 This exhibition looks at the dynamic connections that occurred from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s with a display of early media works by Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Steve Reich, Joan Jonas, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, and David Bowie presented alongside related drawings, prints, and photographs by John Cage, Jack Smith, Ray Johnson, and others. MOMA The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues - New York, USA Museum Hours: Saturday to Monday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m./ Tuesday closed Wednesday to Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. / Friday 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Admission: Adults $20; Seniors 65 and over (with ID)$16; Students  (full-time with current ID) $12 http://www.moma.org
Provocative Visions: Race and Identity  |  Art, 08 19 2008 - 06 8 2009 Selections from the Permanent Collection. This installation features acquisitions made during the past sixteen years (1992–2007), many on view at the Museum for the first time. The thirteen sculptures, prints, and drawings by seven contemporary African-American artists (Chakaia Booker, Willie Cole, Glenn Ligon, Whitfield Lovell, Alison Saar, Lorna Simpson, and Kara Walker) confront issues of racial heritage and identity. The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street- New York, United States Hours: Sunday to Thursday 9 am-5.30 pm  Friday and Saturday 9:30 am–9 pm / Closed on Mondays ( except for the "MET Holiday Mondays") Admissions recommended:  $15 for  adults, $10 for senior citizens and for students http://www.metmuseum.org
Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632–1717)  |   Oriental Art, 09 9 2008 - 01 4 2009 The exhibition features 27 masterpieces by Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late 17th-century China,  from the Taipei and Beijing Palace Museums, the Shanghai Museum, and several North American collections, including five outstanding works from the Metropolitan's permanent collection. These 27 paintings are complemented by a selection of earlier landscapes from the Song (960–1279), Yuan (1279–1368), and Ming (1368–1644) dynasties, mostly drawn from the Museum's holdings. The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street- New York, United States Hours: Sunday to Thursday 9 am-5.30 pm  Friday and Saturday 9:30 am–9 pm / Closed on Mondays ( except for the "MET Holiday Mondays") Admissions recommended:  $15 for  adults, $10 for senior citizens and for students http://www.metmuseum.org
Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art  |   Contemporary Art, 09 10 2008 - 03 23 2009 MoMA's chronological overview of the artistic representations of recent cultural and political events features sculptures, photographs and other media. Among the approximately 100 works shown are those of Matthew Barney, Tony Conrad, Paul McCarthy and Bruce Nauman. MOMA The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues - New York, USA Museum Hours: Saturday to Monday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m./ Tuesday closed Wednesday to Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. / Friday 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Admission: Adults $20; Seniors 65 and over (with ID)$16; Students  (full-time with current ID) $12 http://www.moma.org
Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964  |  Art, September 16 - December 14, 2008 This is a comprehensive survey (the first in this country) of the career of Giorgio Morandi, one of the greatest 20th-century masters of still-life and landscape painting in the tradition of Chardin and Cézanne. The exhibition presents approximately 110 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings from his early "metaphysical" works to his late evanescent still lifes, culled mainly from Italian collections, including those formed with Morandi's help by his friends and by renowned scholars of his art. Accompanied by a catalogue. The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street- New York, United States Hours: Sunday to Thursday 9 am-5.30 pm  Friday and Saturday 9:30 am–9 pm / Closed on Mondays ( except for the "MET Holiday Mondays") Admissions recommended:  $15 for  adults, $10 for senior citizens and for students http://www.metmuseum.org
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night  |  Art, 09 21 2008 - 01 5 2009 A new major exhibition to explore the masterful colors of van Gogh and his love for painting the colors of the night. To gain new insight into one of the nineteenth century's most influential artists. MOMA The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues - New York, USA Museum Hours: Saturday to Monday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m./ Tuesday closed Wednesday to Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. / Friday 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Admission: Adults $20; Seniors 65 and over (with ID)$16; Students  (full-time with current ID) $12 http://www.moma.org
Catherine Opie  |  Photography, 09 26 2008 - 01 7 2009 The exhibition gathers works from Opie's most important series in a major mid-career survey, including the series Being and Having (1991), Portraits (1993–97), Domestic (1995–98), Freeways (1994–95), Mini-malls (1997–98), and the ongoing project American Cities (1997–present). Image: Catherine Opie, Justin Bond, 1993. Chromogenic print, edition of 8, 20 x 16 inches. Courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street) New York, USA Museum Hours: Saturday–Wednesday 10 AM–5:45 PM Friday 10 AM–7:45 PM Closed Thursdays and Christmas Day Admission and complimentary audio tour: Adults $18 Students and Seniors (65 years +) with valid ID $15 Children under 12 Free - Members Free http://www.guggenheim.org
The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End  |  Textiles, 09 30 2008 - 03 22 2009 Dazzling textile traditions have constituted an important form of aesthetic expression throughout Africa's history and cultural landscape. This exhibition illustrates the stunningly diverse classical textile genres created by artists in West Africa through some of their earliest documented and finest works. The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street- New York, United States Hours: Sunday to Thursday 9 am-5.30 pm  Friday and Saturday 9:30 am–9 pm / Closed on Mondays ( except for the "MET Holiday Mondays") Admissions recommended:  $15 for  adults, $10 for senior citizens and for students http://www.metmuseum.org
Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton  |   Contemporary Art, 10 8 2008 - 01 11 2009 Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton is the first survey of Elizabeth Peyton's work in an American institution. The survey will include more than 100 works made over the past fifteen years. The exhibition offers a visual biography of the artist, and at the same time create a snapshot of the popular culture of the past decade. Image: Earl's Court 1996 Oil on board 10 x 8 in  (25.4 x 20.3 cm) Collection Nina and Frank Moore, New York New Museum of Contemporary Art Currently closed but opening to the public at 235 Bowery, New York City, New York, 10002, USA on December 1, 2007. Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, from 12 pm to 6pm / Extended evening hours to the public on Thursdays and Fridays from 6 pm to 10 pm. Free Thursday Evenings at the New Museum. The Museum is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Admission: General $12 / Concessions seniors $8 and students $6 Photo: Design and Visualization: Sejima + Nishizawa / SANAA. Site Photography: Christopher Dawson http://www.newmuseum.org
MARY HEILMANN: TO BE SOMEONE  |   Contemporary Art, 10 22 2008 - 01 6 2009 The show includes more than sixty paintings, ceramic sculptures, and furniture made by the New York-based artist over the last forty years. Heilmann (b. 1940) is one of the preeminent artists of her generationa pioneering painter whose work injects abstraction with elements from popular culture and craft traditions. New Museum of Contemporary Art Currently closed but opening to the public at 235 Bowery, New York City, New York, 10002, USA on December 1, 2007. Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, from 12 pm to 6pm / Extended evening hours to the public on Thursdays and Fridays from 6 pm to 10 pm. Free Thursday Evenings at the New Museum. The Museum is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. Admission: General $12 / Concessions seniors $8 and students $6 Photo: Design and Visualization: Sejima + Nishizawa / SANAA. Site Photography: Christopher Dawson http://www.newmuseum.org
theanyspacewhatever  |   Contemporary Art, 10 24 2008 - 01 7 2009 The Guggenheim Museum has extended an invitation to a core group of these artists (such as Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller  and others) to collectively formulate a scenario for an exhibition, one that will reflect and articulate the unique nature of their practices. Organized by the museum's Chief Curator, Nancy Spector, in close collaboration with the artists, the exhibition will present a genealogy of their shared history through site-specific installations of new, often self-reflexive works created on the occasion of this project. Image: Liam Gillick, theanyspacewhatever signage system (prototype), 2008. Aluminum. Installation view, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2008. © Liam Gillick Courtesy Casey Kaplan, New York, and José Noé Suro, Guadalajara. Photo: David Heald Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street) New York, USA Museum Hours: Saturday–Wednesday 10 AM–5:45 PM Friday 10 AM–7:45 PM Closed Thursdays and Christmas Day Admission and complimentary audio tour: Adults $18 Students and Seniors (65 years +) with valid ID $15 Children under 12 Free - Members Free http://www.guggenheim.org
The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions  |  Art, 10 24 2008 - 02 1 2009 To celebrate Philippe de Montebello's years as director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum's Forum of Curators, Conservators, and Scientists has organized an exhibition of approximately three hundred works of art from a total of more than eighty-four thousand, that were acquired during his tenure. Visit the official site Image: Philippe de Montebello holding the Madonna and Child, by Duccio di Buoninsegna, acquired in 2004. The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street- New York, United States Hours: Sunday to Thursday 9 am-5.30 pm  Friday and Saturday 9:30 am–9 pm / Closed on Mondays ( except for the "MET Holiday Mondays") Admissions recommended:  $15 for  adults, $10 for senior citizens and for students http://www.metmuseum.org
Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937  |  Art, 11 2 2008 - 01 12 2009 In 1927, Miró declared, "I want to assassinate painting." This tightly focused exhibition assembles twelve series of paintings, collages, objects, and pastels of the following decade to illuminate the individual and intensely innovative character of Miró's challenge to painting. Image: Joan Miró. Painting (The Magic of Color). 1930. Oil on canvas. The Menil Collection, Houston. Photo: Hickey-Robertson. © 2008 Successió Miró/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation  |  Art, 11 13 2008 - 02 7 2009 The exhibition "From Non-conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation" is a selection from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European art, and covers three generations of 20th century women artists. The show includes work in many media-painting, works on paper, photography, and video. The exhibition is a visual exploration of the development and accomplishments of women artists from Russia. Imagen: Natalia Kamenetskaia. Anna Belle, 1998. Mixed media on silk, 35 x 23-Ÿ in. St. Sebastian, 1997. Mixed media on silk, 34 x 24 in. Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, Kolodzei Art Foundation. Chelsea Art Museum 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011 USA Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11 to 6 pm / Thursday Noon to 8pm Closed Sunday and Monday Admission: adults $6 / concessions $3 http://www.chelseaartmuseum.org/
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy  |  Old Masters, 11 18 2008 - 02 16 2009 This exhibition explores the various exceptional objects created to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance. The approximately 150 objects, which date from about 1400 to the mid-16th century, range from exquisite examples of maiolica and jewelry given as gifts to the couple, to marriage portraits and paintings that extol sensual love and fecundity, such as the Metropolitan's Venus and Cupid by the great Venetian artist Lorenzo Lotto. The exhibition also includes some of the rarest and most significant pieces of Renaissance glassware, cassone panels, birth trays, and drawings and prints of amorous subjects. The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street- New York, United States Hours: Sunday to Thursday 9 am-5.30 pm  Friday and Saturday 9:30 am–9 pm / Closed on Mondays ( except for the "MET Holiday Mondays") Admissions recommended:  $15 for  adults, $10 for senior citizens and for students http://www.metmuseum.org
Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)  |  Installation, 11 19 2008 - 02 2 2009 Pipilotti Rist's lush multimedia installations playfully and provocatively merge fantasy and reality. MoMA commissioned the Swiss artist to create a monumental site-specific installation that immerses the Museum's Marron Atrium in twenty-five-foot-high moving images. Visitors will be able to experience the work while walking through the space or sitting upon a sculptural seating island designed by the artist. MOMA The Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues - New York, USA Museum Hours: Saturday to Monday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m./ Tuesday closed Wednesday to Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. / Friday 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Admission: Adults $20; Seniors 65 and over (with ID)$16; Students  (full-time with current ID) $12 http://www.moma.org
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