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Sept 2, 2010

NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

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Kid Fun in Grown-Up Museums

Art museums are smart. They know that in terms of creativity and imagination, kids have a lot in common with the artists featured on their walls. To acclimate kids to new ways of looking and discussing what they see, grown-up museums are tailoring programs to young people and their families. It's a great way to groom future museum-goers and artists. 

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Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield

Whitney Museum of American Art

ManhattanThurs, June 24, 2010 – Sun, Oct 17, 2010

Working almost exclusively in watercolor, Burchfield’s primary subject was landscape: his garden, the views from his windows, snow turning to slush, the sounds of insects and bells and vibrating telephone lines, deep ravines, sudden atmospheric changes, the experience of entering a forest at dusk, to name but a few.

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  • Artists Making Photographs: Smith, Raushenberg, Samaras, Ruscha, Warhol

    Whitney Museum of American Art

    ManhattanOngoing

    The ascension of photography to a high art form is the subject of this exhibition featuring works created between 1930 and 1970 by numerous artists.

  • The Whitney Collection

    Whitney Museum of American Art

    ManhattanOngoing

    Works from the permanent collection explore the fragmentation of abstraction in early modernism, realism as it focuses on people and society, and the convergence of the mind and the body.

  • Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield

    Whitney Museum of American Art

    ManhattanThurs, June 24, 2010 – Sun, Oct 17, 2010

    Working almost exclusively in watercolor, Burchfield’s primary subject was landscape: his garden, the views from his windows, snow turning to slush, the sounds of insects and bells and vibrating telephone lines, deep ravines, sudden atmospheric changes, the experience of entering a forest at dusk, to name but a few.

  • Christian Marclay: Festival

    Whitney Museum of American Art

    ManhattanThurs, July 1, 2010 – Sun, Sept 26, 2010

    Artist/composer Christian Marclay (b. 1955) is known for his distinctive fusion of image and sound. Celebrated as a pioneer of turntablism, Marclay transforms sound and music into visual and physical forms through performance, collage, sculpture, large-scale installations, photography and video.

  • Off the Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions

    Whitney Museum of American Art

    ManhattanThurs, July 1, 2010 – Sun, Sept 19, 2010

    The exhibition focuses on actions using the body in live performance, in front of the camera, or in relation to a photographic or printed surface, or drawing. It includes the re-performance of iconic works by artists including John Baldessari and Yoko Ono, as well as recent works by young artists.