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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. 

The Whitney Collection

Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue
(at 75th Street)
New York, NY  10021
Tel: (212) 570-3600
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Free for children, members, $12.00 seniors, $18.00 adults.
Ages 19-25: $12

Dates

Ongoing

Hours

Wed, Thurs, Sat, Sun: 11 am – 6 pm
Fri: 1 pm – 9 pm
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.
  • Directions: Subway: 6 to 77th Street

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Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney maintains one of the world's foremost collections of 20th-century American art. With some 12,000 works, virtually every American artist of significance is represented.
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Whitney Museum of American Art Listings

  • Off the Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions

    Thurs, 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.

  • Christian Marclay: Festival

    Thurs, 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.

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

    Thurs, 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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