B-Lifer and art enthusiast, Lesley, compiled this list to put us onto
5 New York City Museums I bet you haven't even thought of going to yet:
1) The Noguchi Museum - Long Island CityThe Noguchi Museum opened in 1985, presenting a comprehensive collection of
the artist's works in stone, metal, wood, and clay, as well as models for
public projects and gardens, dance sets, and Akari Light Sculptures. The
Museum--chartered as The Noguchi Museum--is housed in thirteen galleries
within a converted factory building and encircles a garden containing major
granite and basalt sculptures.
2) The Dahesh Museum of Art - Midtown East, ManhattanThe Dahesh Museum of Art is the only institution in the United States
devoted to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting works by Europe's
academically trained artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The
Dahesh serves a diverse audience by placing these artists in the broader
context of 19th-century visual culture, and by offering a fresh appraisal of
the role academies played in reinvigorating the classical ideals of beauty,
humanism, and skill.
3) The Rubin Museum of Art - Union Square Area, ManhattanThe Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) is home to a comprehensive collection of art
from the Himalayas and surrounding regions. The artistic heritage of this
vast and culturally varied area of the world remains relatively obscure.
Through changing exhibitions and an array of engaging public programs, RMA
offers opportunities to explore the artistic legacy of the Himalayan region
and to appreciate its place in the context of world cultures. The RMA
collection consists of paintings, sculptures, and textiles. Although works
of art range in date over two millennia, most reflect major periods and
schools of Himalayan art from the 12th century onward.
4) Weeksville - BrooklynThe landmark Hunterfly Road Houses are the last surviving residence of 19th
century Weeksville, one of the nation's earliest free African American
communities. The area was named after free African American James, who
acquired property in the area in 1838, only eleven years after slavery ended
in New York State. By the 1860s, Weeksville had become an intellectual,
cultural and economic center for free African Americans. A model of the
African American contribution to the development of Brooklyn, the region and
the nation, historic Weeksville is the premier example of the 19th century
African American experience in the North.
5) Morgan Library - Midtown, ManhattanThe Morgan Library & Museum, occupying a newly enlarged, midtown Manhattan
campus designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano, houses one of the world's
greatest collections of artistic, literary, musical, and historical works.
Included in its holdings are original scores of Mozart and Beethoven,
drawings by Rembrandt and Rubens, medieval and Renaissance works, three
Gutenberg Bibles, literary manuscripts of Dickens and Twain, and
five-thousand-year-old Near Eastern carvings.
