Running until September 2, 2018: The exhibit “Multiply, Identify, Her” at The International Center of Photography (ICP) explores identity from the perspective of women artists from the 1990s and today, of various ages, using different types of media: “[T]hese artists reckon with the complex and changeable elements that inform who we are. These selves emerge […]
The New Museum (235 Bowery) has been a leading destination for new art and new ideas since 1977. The 7 current exhibitions include these particularly innovative ones which explore identity and humanity in unique ways: “The Spring 2018 R&D Season: ANIMATION” does the heavy lifting with this project which “explores contested definitions of personhood. Questions […]
New Museum celebrates the big 4-0! (We know the feeling – we just had ours last year!) And, as is fitting, the Museum is making big plans. For their 40th Anniversary weekend (Saturday, December 2nd and Sunday December 3rd), The Museum is offering free admission for all visitors and extended museum hours from 10 a.m. […]
It’s still summer, fortunately. Also, fortunately: Art is both hot – and very cool. Take a look at these two tour options for a dose of culture along with your summer fun. The Guggenheim has “Summer Saturday Tours” with their Gallery Educators. You can learn”how architect Frank Lloyd changed the viewer’s relationship to art”, “record […]
The Rubin Museum of Art celebrates the art of Himalayan Asia – and is a uniquely peaceful environment. Visit the museum and you’ll see astonishing art in their current exhibit “Masterworks of Himalayan Art” depicting important Buddhist figures: (All images from The Rubin Museum of Art’s Instagram: @rubinmuseum) Here at the MAAC, a number of our galleries […]
![First Edition "For Whom the Bell Tolls," Ernest Hemingway in original dust jacket; Charles Scribner’s, 1940. [Manhattan Rare Books: Gallery 90/212.326.8907]/Ernest Hemingway on crutches while recovering in Milan, Italy, September 1918. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Source: themorgan.org](https://the-maac.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ernest-hemingway.jpg)
All Hemingway stories are war stories, which is to say, they’re all stories that tussle with life. The Morgan Library & Museum’s Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars (through January 31, 2016) is the first major exhibition of Hemingway’s works from his earliest short stories to his best-known masterpieces. Featured here are our gallery Manhattan Rare Book […]
Perhaps the most highly anticipated exhibition of the year, Picasso Sculpture opened yesterday at the Museum of Modern Art to breathless critical acclaim. There’s a good reason for the hype–Picasso guarded his sculpture so closely that it wasn’t until 1966 at the age of 85 that he agreed to a major sculpture exhibition. There has […]
As today is International Museum Day, it seems like a good time to appreciate living in a city so filled with iconic art that you can’t walk several blocks without running into a masterpiece at one of our museums. With 100 galleries, The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center often feels like a museum of its […]
A highlight among the many gems recently opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is “Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700: Opulence and Fantasy” (April 20-July 26, 2015), a landmark exhibition of over 200 of the best artworks from private, public, and royal collections of classical Deccan, which was one of the most lavish cultural crossroads […]
As the year wanes in fits of rain, fog, and dramatic gray skies, an apropos exhibition to catch is the The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire” (October 21, 2014 – February 1, 2015). A slight but atmospheric show, this is the first fall exhibition in seven years at […]