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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

  • 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.

  • Stroller Tours: Christian Marclay: Festival and Off the Wall: Thirty Performative Actions

    Please check full listing for event date and times On select Fridays, Whitney Teaching Fellows—who are PhD candidates in art history—lead engaging tours of current exhibitions for new moms and dads when the museum is closed to the public.

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