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This Saturday is Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day (read: free)! Museums are a great rainy-day activity, so rain or shine, you have no excuses! For the seventh year, Smithsonian is partnering with hundreds of museums throughout the country to grant free admission to those people who arrive with proper tickets. Search for participating museums near you [...]

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To whomever thinks fashion can’t be art– your mind is about to change. The long-awaited and immensely-successful Savage Beauty exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art is based on the career of late fashion designer Alexander McQueen. And it is: Breath. Taking. As a longtime fan, I hesitate saying simply “fashion designer Alexander McQueen” because for [...]

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Tomorrow, May 18th, 100+ museums throughout North America will offer free and reduced admission as well as specialized programming as part of their participation in Art Museum Day. This North American leg of the global International Museum Day project (created by International Council of Museums) is the chance for museums to open themselves to the [...]

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A Common Goal I recently attended a lecture which focused on Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse as part of a series at Katonah Museum of Art: “When Giants Collide: Rivalries in Western Art”.  Though competitors in the art world, the two were friends and, artistically, had the same goal in mind: to represent reality in [...]

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The most striking gallery exhibitions become possible when opportunities present themselves for music and art to collide.  This is currently demonstrated by several museums throughout New York and Connecticut that have special exhibits dedicated to guitars.  In the same way that fashion design and art collided several years ago for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s [...]

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Jeff Koons’ artwork has become synonymous with all of the contemporary greats–he certainly has the pieces of the formula working for him: visual interest, controversy, and the ability to pull in $25 million+ for one of his pieces. Though currently best known for his outdoor “balloon” figures, it’s the defining piece in Koons’ 1988 Banality [...]

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Everyone can easily note and admire the fruits of Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo Bounorrati’s labors, but it is much rarer that we examine what influenced, and thereafter fueled, those labors.  Turns out, it was each other. The Katonah Museum of Art partnered with art historian Marcy B. Freedman to present the series “When Giants [...]

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Introducing Google.com’s newest innovation: Art Project.  Launching today with 17 participating museums from around the world, Google presents over a thousand works of art for its viewers to examine in greater detail than ever before.  Not only that, but you can take a tour of these museums, zoom in to ungodly degrees of megapixels, create [...]

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art plans to launch a new component to their website tomorrow, called Connections. The concept of the interactive online video series is to introduce 4-minute weekly videos that invite individual staff members to speak about their personal perspectives on works within the museum. Joining the video will be 3 elemental structures [...]

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For The Whitney Museum in New York City, it’s out with the old and in with the new.  The building that has, until soon, housed the museum has been called an eyesore and it has been called an iconic NYC landmark; but, love it or hate it, this architectural work will soon have a new [...]

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