The Frick Museum, 1 East 70th Street at Fifth Avenue is open Tuesday – Thursday and Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Friday 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. and Sunday 1:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. For additional information on the following exhibits, please call the museum at (212) 288-0700 or go to their web site, www.frick.org.

February 22 – May 14 - Goya’s Last Works will be the first exhibition in the United States to concentrate exclusively on the final phase of this artist’s career. The show focuses on the years from 1824 to 1828, which Goya spent in Bordeaux in a community of fellow Spanish exiles as well as on the years in Madrid shortly before the artist's departure. Though aged, in poor health, and long deaf, Goya produced a remarkable body of innovative work in his late seventies and early eighties. Goya’s Last Works brings to light this little-known final phase of the artist’s life to the attention of the American audience

June 13 – September 17 - Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789): Masterpieces from Genevan Collections offers the public a singular opportunity to become better acquainted with one of the most original and engaging artists of eighteenth-century This exhibit is a rare opportunity to view the works of an artist who is little known even among specialists today, and who’s works are rarely seen outside of collections in Geneva.

June 6 – October 1 - Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting reunites two diminutive, jewel-like panels by the early Italian Renaissance master Cimabue: The Virgin and Child and the Flagellation of Christ. Technical and stylistic studies reveal that these two paintings once formed part of the same ensemble featuring various scenes from the life of Christ.



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

October 18 – March 5 - Santiago Calatrava: Sculpture into Architecture. Santiago Calatrava (b. 1951), the author of some of the most beautiful structures of our epoch, spends much of his time drawing and conceiving sculptures. This exhibition will show how many of the forms of his celebrated buildings originated in independent works of art. It will include approximately 24 sculptures in marble and bronze, many drawings, and 12 architectural models, including work related to the Path Terminal at the World Trade Center site.

November 8 – January 29 - Clouet to Seurat: French Drawings from The British Museum. This exhibition culls nearly 100 masterpieces from the Renaissance to Postimpressionism, including works by Jean Clouet, Claude Lorrain, Antoine Watteau, Edgar Degas, and Georges Seurat. From the refined production of 16th-century court society to the café society of the 19th century, the elegance and innovation characteristic of French art will also be traced through outstanding examples of draftsmanship rarely exhibited due to their sensitivity to light.

December 13 – February 28 - Antonello da Messina: Sicily’s Renaissance Master. Antonello da Messina (ca. 1430–1479) trained in the brilliant artistic climate of Naples, traveled to Venice in 1475, where his art had a profound impact on Giovanni Bellini and other Venetian painters. His portraits marked a new stage in the evolution of that genre in Italy. In this exhibit three of his rarely seen masterpieces will be on view, including the compelling Virgin of the Annunciation—a work whose haunting beauty and enigmatic character can only be compared to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

December 20 – April 2 - Robert Rauschenberg: Combines - This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the highly inventive body of work that Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925) terms Combines. Among the approximately 65 works in the show are a number that have not been shown publicly before. With these mixed-media works of art, Rauschenberg reinvented collage.

March 7 – May 28 - Samuel Palmer (1805–1881): Vision and Landscape. Samuel Palmer ranks among the most important British landscape painters of the Romantic era. This exhibition, the first major retrospective of his work in nearly 80 years, will unite approximately 120 of Palmer’s finest watercolors, drawings, etchings, and oils.

March 21 – June 25 - Kara Walker at the Met - On view will be an installation of works by contemporary American artist Kara Walker (b. 1969), who is best known for her explorations of issues of race, gender, and sexuality through the 18th-century medium of cut-paper silhouettes.

April 4 – July 2 - Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet. This exhibition is the first comprehensive study of armor, weapons, and equestrian equipment from the Tibetan. Many rare or entirely unknown examples of helmets, body armor, swords, horse armor, saddles, and stirrups are exhibited. Dating from the 13th to the 19th century, these objects include some of the finest examples of Himalayan ironwork decorated with gold and silver and extremely rare leatherwork embellished with paint or lacquer.



The New Museum of Contemporary Art/Chelsea, 556 West 22nd Street and is open Wednesday and Sunday, noon - 6:00pm and Thursday – Saturday, 12:00pm - 8:00pm. For additional information on the following exhibits, please call the museum at (212) 219-1222 or go to their web site, www.newmuseum.org.

January 26 - April 29 - Andrea Zittel: Critical Space is the first comprehensive solo exhibition of Zittel's work in the United States. One of the most influential American artists to emerge in the last fifteen years, Zittel investigates contemporary life in Western societies. Her three-dimensional work engages with architecture and design to explore the psychological, biological and economic aspects of domestic and urban existence.



The Museum of the City of New York, through varied cultural and artist exhibits, is dedicated to fostering an understanding of New York’s evolution from its origins as a settlement for Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans to its present status as one of the world’s largest and most important cities. The museum located at 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street is open Wednesday – Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Sunday 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. For information please call the museum at (212) 534-1672 or go to their web site, www.mcny.org.

October 20 - March 26 - New York Comes Back: The Mayoralty of Edward I. Koch examines, through photographs and film, the impact of Edward Koch during the years he served as Mayor of New York City.

November 1 – February 20 - The Mythic City: The Photographs of Samuel L. Gottscho takes viewers back to an evolving New York City during the periods between the great wars.

January 8 – Open-ended - Transformed by Light: The New York Night Transformed by Light will provide a nocturnal tour of New York City. As visitors proceed from dusk through dawn, they will discover key themes behind the construction of the night. By drawing on the public’s familiarity with lighting, the exhibition will present a series of visual, emotional, and intellectual surprises. The exhibition will reveal the hidden in the ordinary. It will portray the extraordinary people and products, and science and technology behind the lights.
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The Museum of Chinese in the Americas Dedicated to the Chinese-American experience, this museum offers extensive archives and occasional walking tours accompany historical and visual arts exhibitions. Through an ongoing and historical dialogue that shapes MoCA's collections, programs and exhibitions, people of all backgrounds are able to explore the diversity and complexity of the Chinese American history and culture, while gaining unique access to the images, papers, oral histories and artifacts which document their story. The museum is located on the second floor of an historic, century-old school building at 70 Mulberry Street at Bayard Street and is open Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.


The Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street is open Friday 10:00am – 8:00pm and Saturday through Wednesday 10:00am – 5:45pm. For information please call the museum at (212) 423-3500 or go to their web site, www.guggenheim.org.

February 3 – May 14 - David Smith: A Centennial celebrates the centenary of the artist’s birth in 1906 bringing together over 120 sculptures, as well as important examples of the artist's drawings and notebooks. The first retrospective of Smith’s work in New York City since the Guggenheim’s in 1969, this presentation explores the complexity of Smith’s aesthetic concerns as well as his impact on the course of twentieth-century sculpture.


The Whitney Museum, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street is open Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Friday 1:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. For information please call the museum at (212) 570-3600 or go to their web site, www.whitney.org.

October 7 – February 12 - Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color is a comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s work reestablishing him as one of the major figures of early-twentieth-century American art. Examining Bluemner’s evolution from a budding architect to a key innovator in the modernist shift to abstraction, the exhibition surveys the artist’s entire oeuvre. It examines his diversified body of work from the pictorial, architectural renderings and neo-Romantic scenes of his early years to the richly symbolic, color-infused landscapes that established his place among the leading artists of his day.

November 10 – February 5 - The Art of Richard Tuttle is the first full-scale museum retrospective spanning the nearly forty-year career of this leading American artist of the post-Minimalist generation. Respecting Mr. Tuttle’s practice of working in series, the exhibition covers some fifteen bodies of work from the mid-1960s to the present that both blur and highlight the categories of sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, printmaking, and artist books.

November 30 – February 12 - Standard Gauge: Film Works by Morgan Fisher, 1968-2003 presents the installation Color Balance (1980) and eight of Fisher’s films, providing a rare opportunity to survey his contribution to the kind of filmmaking that was being developed in Los Angeles in the early 1970s.