Museums excibits

MUSEUM EXHIBITS

El Museo del Barrio
Now through September 8, 2002
Twentieth Century Mexican Art: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
1230 Fifth Avenue (104th Street) Wednesday - Sunday 11:00am - 5:00pm. Along the north end of Central Park lies El Museo del Barrio, a small museum dedicated to the contributions to the arts and society by members of the Hispanic communities, which are represented in New York City with such proliferation. This exhibit of paintings by the worlds best know muralist, Diego Rivera and his wife, Frida Kahlo is accompanied by a historical time- line that clearly tracks their lives, their art and their political involvement in the early to mid twentieth century.

When visiting El Museo del Barrio take time to visit the Central Park Conservatory, a virtual oasis in New York City. Just across the street from the museum you will see large black iron gates (Vanderbilt Gates) that lead into the park. Enter the park through these gates to find English and French gardens. Free tours Sat at 11:00am April through October. No registration required. The area is small enough, however, to explore on your own.

Now - July 21, 2002 – The National Museum of the American Indian presents "Spirit Capture: Native Americans and the Photographic Image" an exhibition exploring the meaning of photographic images of and by Native Americans. The photographs chosen for this exhibit communicate Native perspectives on the cultural history and experiences of Native peoples during the past 150 years. Photographer, subject, and viewer are considered as the exhibition seeks to privilege the understandings of the people in the photographs, while examining the roles and motives of those who created the images. The National Museum of the American Indian is located at One Bowling Green. For information, please call the museum at (212) 514-3700 or go to their web site at www.conexus.si.edu.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents:

The Iris and Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. For a birds-eye view of Manhattan that spans north beyond Central Park and south through much of midtown, visit the Museums Roof Garden. This outdoor space serves sandwiches and refreshments from 10:0am to 8:00 pm Friday and Saturday, and from 10:00am to 4:30 pm Sunday and Tuesday-Thursday. On view in the garden, now through late fall (weather permitting) is an exhibit of four, brightly colored, large-scale works in metal and fiberglass by Oldenburg and van Bruggen dating from 1999 - 2001. To reach the Roof Garden, take the elevators off the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Galleries.

May 14 - August 18, 2002 - Adrian: American Glamour. Gilbert Adrian was one of Americas foremost designers and of paramount importance during Hollywoods glamour era. He is perhaps best known for the designs he created for such legends as Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Katherine Hepburn and Joan Crawford. This retrospective exhibit encompasses both his sketches and photographs, and examples of his fashion work.

May 1, 2002 – November 17, 2002 – "Oldenburg and van Bruggen on the Roof" is the summer exhibit presented in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Four brightly colored, large-scale recent works in metal and fiberglass by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, dating from 1999 to 2001, will be installed in the most dramatic outdoor space for sculpture in Manhattan. The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden offers a panoramic view of New York City. Beverage and sandwich service will be available from 10:00 a.m. until closing.

June 4, 2002 – September 8, 2002 – "Summer Selections: Scenes and Citizens of the Early Republic in Watercolor" features 50 watercolors which comprise genre scenes, landscapes, and portraits. Many of the paintings are by Pavel Petrovich Svinin and several others have recently been attributed to John Lewis Krimmel. The pictures represent early-19th-century street life in Philadelphia, where Svinin, a Russian diplomat, was headquartered for several years. Krimmel, a German immigrant, also lived in Philadelphia, producing some of the earliest genre paintings in American art.

June 18, 2002 – September 15, 2002 - "Thomas Eakins" is the first comprehensive survey since 1982 of this great artist’s achievement. Esteemed for his powers of characterization and mastery of technique, Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) is recognized as one of America’s foremost painters, a master draftsman and watercolorist, and an especially gifted photographer. The exhibition, which displays more than 150 works in all media from institutions nationwide, reveals recent scholarly discoveries about Eakins’s intentions and methods and introduces a new generation to the full range of his accomplishments.

June 18, 2002 – October 20, 2002 - "Gauguin in New York Collections: The Lure of the Exotic" is the first major exhibition in more than 40 years in New York City that features the work of Gauguin. Approximately 120 works drawn from New York public and private collections. On view in the exhibition are paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from every important stage of the artist's career.

June 18, 2002 – September 8, 2002 – "The Age of Impressionism: European Painting from the Ordrupgaard Collection, Copenhagen" is an exhibition of 80 superb paintings including works by Degas, Gauguin, Monet, Pissarro, and Sisley, as well as several important Danish artists. The exhibit comes from the renowned Ordrupgaard Collection, located just outside of Copenhagen, and now closed for renovation.
Impressionism, one of the most beloved styles of painting among todays admirers is represented in this illustrious ensemble by such favorites as Degas, Monet, Pissarro Sisley and Gaugan.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is open Tuesday – Thursday and Sunday 9:30am – 5:30pm and Friday and Saturday 9:30am – 9:00pm. The museum is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue and 82^nd Street. For information, please call (212) 570-3756 or go to their web site at www.metmuseum.org.

The Museum of Modern Art presents:

Much to the dismay of Manhattan Museum goers. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) closed its well known doors on Tuesday, May 21 for the start of a massive reconstruction process. The extensive project is scheduled to take three years and, once complete, will result in a much larger complex better capable of housing the Museum's extensive permanent collection. A large portion of the museums collection, too important to remain hidden for three years, has found a temporary home. On June 29, MoMAQNS opens in Long Island City, Queens (just minutes from midtown by subway or bus).

To reach MoMAQNS from The Manhattan Club take:
1. The "N" or "W" train to Queensboro Plaza. Change there to the # 7 local train to 33rd Street.
2. The Q32 bus from Madison Avenue.
3. The "Artlink", a shuttle bus from 53rd Street between 5th & 6th Avenues.

All buses require an MTA token, exact fair in coins ($1.50) or a MetroCard.
MoMAs web site will remain active. It contains much information regarding the Queens location and can be found at www.moma.org.

Now – August 18, 2002 – The American Museum of Natural History presents "Baseball As America" the first major exhibition to examine the relationship between baseball and American Culture. This unprecedented exhibition marks the first time that these treasures will leave their legendary home at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. Through the exploration of a broad range of themes, including immigration, nationalism, integration, technology and popular culture, Baseball As America will reveal how baseball has served as both a reflection and a shaper of American society. In addition to the museum admission fee this exhibit requires a fee of $15.00 for adults, $11.00 for students and seniors and $9.00 for children. Advance tickets may be purchased for this exhibit by calling (212) 769-5200 or through their online ticketing system (a service charge applies.) The museum is open Sunday - Thursday 10:00am - 5:45pm, Friday and Saturday 10:00am - 8:45pm and is located Central Park West at 79^th Street. For information call (212) 769-5100 or go to their web site at www.amnh.org.

May 14, 2002 – August 4, 2002 - The Frick Museum presents "Greuze: The Draftsman" the first exhibition devoted exclusively to the drawings of Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725 - 1805), the remarkable French eighteenth-century painter and draftsman. This exhibition brings together approximately thirty works on paper culled from international collections. Selected for inclusion in the exhibition are twenty drawings, which have seldom left St. Petersburg, Russia. The Frick Museum also boast an internationally celebrated collection of old master paintings, sculptures, and decorative artworks housed in the elegant "Gilded Age" residence of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919.) Artists represented in the Frick’s permanent collection include Vermeer, Remebrandt, Titian, Renoir, Manet, Fragonard, Goya, El Greco, and Holbein. The Frick Museum is located at 1 East 70^th Street at Fifth Avenue and open Tuesday – Saturday 10:00am – 6:00pm and Sunday 1:00pm – 6:00pm. For information, please call the museum at (212) 288-0700 or go to their web site www.Frick.org.