Welcome to Maritime City! The A.A. Thomson & Co building, outside and in, March 12, 2025. ( Brian Berger) South Street Seaport Museum Opens Stunning Maritime Exhibit Ship ahoy! Have ye see the Maritime City exhibition? Hotly anticipated since last autumn, when the A.A. Thomson & Co. warehouse... News 24 Mar 2025 | 01:39
Believe: Macy’s Herald Square by Evill Baker, a.k.a. Caroline Lim, a home baker in the East Village. Caroline has been creating cookies and cakes for over 10 years, working with clients to design perfect cakes for birthdays, weddings, and other celebrations. ( Photo: Brad Farwell/MCNY) Gingerbread and Doll Houses: Small Works Pack Big Holiday Delights at MCNY A highly aromatic show, “Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off,” is a sweet and spicy ode to “Iconic New York” buildings,... City Arts 05 Dec 2024 | 12:08
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
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
Julie Mehretu, Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation, 2001. Ink and acrylic on canvas, 101 ½ × 208 ½ inches (257.81 × 529.59 cm). Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas 2013.28. © Julie Mehretu Looking Forward to Spring Exhibitions We’re all looking forward to a season of renewal, and this spring, New York’s museum exhibitions offer interest, excitement... City Arts 09 Feb 2021 | 12:55
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, “The Progress of Love: The Pursuit,” 1771–72, oil on canvas, 125 1/8 x 84 7/8 inches, The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Michael Bodycomb Fragrances and Fragonard As the virus persists and puts a damper on travel and adventure, the curators at the Frick have been bringing snapshots of... City Arts 03 Sep 2020 | 11:04
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