Worth a visit to the Metropolitan Museum, the exhibition – www.metmuseum.org/deathbecomesher – explores the aesthetic development and cultural implications of mourning fashions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Approximately 30 ensembles, many of which are being exhibited for the first time, reveal the impact of high-fashion standards on the dictates of bereavement rituals as they evolved…
The Metropolian Museum is always a must-visit around the holidays.
Visiting the MET museum today…and wondering what that little critter crawling on his arm is.
This summer The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are presenting PUNK: Chaos to Couture. The exhibition will examine punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the 1970s through its continuing influence today. “Punk’s signature mixing of references was fueled by artistic developments such as Dada and postmodernism,” said Thomas P….
More than two hundred of the finest and most poignant photographs of the American Civil War have been brought together for this landmark exhibition. Through examples drawn from the Metropolitan’s celebrated holdings of this material, complemented by important loans from public and private collections, the exhibition will examine the evolving role of the camera during…
On exhibit now at the Japan Society, Edo Pop – The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints. Edo Pop playfully juxtaposes classic ukiyo-e prints from masters like Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige with contemporary works inspired by these artists and their works. Delve into worlds created by the power of Edo period and contemporary popular culture. On May…
This is going to be a “must attend” for our family… On Saturday, October 27, the American Museum of Natural History is re-opening one of its greatest treasures: the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial. The recently restored two-story Memorial — which includes the iconic Central Park West façade, Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, and Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall —…
Ponder the sights and sounds of nature—bugs, insects, flowers, water, and trees—in the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art. Join a gallery conversation, discover how a Japanese screen is made, and create your own Rinpa-inspired artwork. Materials are provided. Teen Programs (Ages 11–18)Saturday, October 20, 2:00–5:00 p.m.Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center…
The urge to modify camera images is as old as photography itself—only the methods have changed. Nearly every type of manipulation we now associate with digital photography was also part of the medium’s pre-digital repertoire: smoothing away wrinkles, slimming waistlines, adding people to a scene (or removing them)—even fabricating events that never took place. The…
Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” one of the most well-known and expensive paintings in the world, is coming to the Museum of Modern Art this fall. You can see the artwork from October 24 through April 29. Bought by a private collector in May this year NY financier Leon Black paid $119.9 million for the art work,…