Art and Design

New York is one of the most filmed cities on earth. Generations of moviegoers have seen New York depicted and distorted, celebrated and denigrated, idealized and mocked, built up and demolished over and over again on the big screen. Over the past 100 years, legions of filmmakers have drawn attention to New Yorkers’ joys and struggles, shaping our ideas of what the city is—or could become.

YOU ARE HERE draws on this rich archive of movies set in New York, combining thousands of cinematic moments across 16 screens. Sources include Hollywood blockbusters, independent films, documentaries, and experimental works. By juxtaposing these multiple visions, the dazzling montages of YOU ARE HERE make connections and contrasts that allow movies to comment on each other across time and space. Together, they shed new light on the varied New Yorks of our collective imagination.

Sometimes New York stars in these movies; sometimes, a studio set or even another city stands in. In the introductory room, Scenes from the City explores the city as a film set, showing how movies have been captured on location throughout the five boroughs. From there, we invite you to enter the immersive central space, where you can explore a narrative tapestry woven from hundreds of films—one impressionistic storyline that strives to represent the multifaceted realities of our countless New York stories.

Watch the Official Trailer below:

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You Are Here Install.

Start Date

Fri, 05/26/2023 - 12:00

End Date

Sun, 10/05/2025 - 12:00

Exhibition Category

Art and Design

Summary

“You Are Here” draws on the rich archive of movies set in New York, combining thousands of cinematic moments across 16 screens.

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Featured Image Credit

Photo by Brad Farwell

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Four Seasons of Central Park

tdawson — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 19:46:43 +0000

Four Seasons of Central Park tdawson Tue, 12/19/2023 - 14:46

Watercolors by Frederick Brosen

New Yorker Frederick Brosen is well known as a meticulous visual chronicler of New York City’s streets, capturing through his astonishing watercolor brushwork the complex layers of the urban landscape. For this installation, he has turned his eye upon the great bucolic heart of the city—Manhattan’s Central Park. Through a quartet of carefully observed scenes, he chronicles a landscape that is both changing and seemingly timeless. Cycling through Central Park across Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring—from the widest to the most intimate of vantages—these four quietly iconic paintings capture a year in some of the most historic places in this verdant urban masterpiece.

About the Artist:
A native New Yorker, Frederick Brosen studied at the City College of New York, the Art Students League, and Pratt Institute. His work is included in museum collections across the country, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New-York Historical Society, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Frye Museum in Seattle, and the Museum of the City of New York, and in many private collections. He has taught at several prominent art schools, including Pratt Institute, the National Academy of Design, Lehman College and currently at the Art Students League of New York.

Start Date

Fri, 02/09/2024 - 12:00

End Date

Sun, 06/16/2024 - 12:00

Exhibition Category

Art and Design

Sponsor(s)

Supporters

Four Seasons of Central Park: Watercolors by Frederick Brosen is made possible in part by a collective of generous individuals in celebration of Frederick Brosen’s work. Special thanks to Bruno A. Quinson.

Summary

These four quietly iconic watercolors by Frederick Brosen capture a year in some of the most historic places in this verdant urban masterpiece.

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Frederick Brosen Summer, Belvedere Castle, 2023. Courtesy the artist.

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Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off

mmclaughlin — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:23:09 +0000

Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off mmclaughlin Wed, 08/23/2023 - 14:23

Watch Last Year's Gingerbread NYC: Great Borough Bake-Off Trailer

2023 JUDGES:

Bobbie Lloyd, CEO and Chief Baking Officer, Magnolia Bakery

Jonah Nigh, Senior Vice President for Development and Alumni Engagement, The New School; Semi-finalist, NBC/Peacock’s Baking It (Season 1)

Nadine Orenstein, Drue Heinz Curator in Charge, Department of Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Former Judge, National Gingerbread House Competition in Asheville, NC

Amy Scherber, Owner and Founder, Amy's Bread; Member, Bread Bakers Guild of America

Melba Wilson, Owner, Melba’s Restaurant; Author, Melba’s American Comfort: 100 Recipes from My Heart to Your Kitchen (2016)

2023 BAKERS:

César Aldrete

JoAnn Baylor of Ma Smith's Dessert Café

Mario DiBiase of SottoVoce and Susan Caliendo of Something Sugared

Valerie Carrington

Karen Chin

Arlene Chua of Chua Cookie

Filiz Cihan Cemberci

Gautier and Ashley Coiffard of L'Appartement 4F

Sonia Dębek

Lorenzo Delgado

Camaxtli Gallegos

Sarina Harnett

Kathryn Irizarry and Kayla Wong

Sherry Kozlowski

Ida Kreutzer

Petroula Lambrou of Patty Pops

Loretta Lee

Holly Longworth

Maria Carmela Lucciola of Egidio Pastry Shop

Leonard Marino

Luquana McGriff of A Cake Baked in Brooklyn

Nishat Shahabuddin

Maria Sieber of Cray Cray for Cakes

Debbie Wee

MEET THE TEAM:

Jerry Gallagher, Chief Operating Officer
Maeve Montalvo, Director of FAO Schwarz Education Center
Tracy McFarlan, Associate Director of Curatorial Projects
Elizabeth Indek, Curatorial Projects Associate
Gabriela Senno, Curatorial Projects Administrative Assistant

Special thanks to John Kuehn and Maria Buitrago.

Design:
Marissa Martonyi, Design Director
Carmen Tan, Graphic Designer

Fabrication, and Installation:
Todd Ludlam, Director of Exhibitions Installation
Nancy Nicholson, Manager of Exhibition Installation
Julius Erwin Quito, Director of Information Technology
Jake LaMalfa, Manager of Information Technology

Video Production:
Madeline McLaughlin, Digital Producer

SUPPORTERS:

Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off is made possible in part by a collective of generous individuals in celebration of this year’s theme “Iconic New York.”

The Museum gratefully acknowledges the support of MOJOW Design.

2023

Welcome to a snowy wonderland, where famous landmarks and icons of New York City are lovingly recreated in gingerbread.

From ice skating in the parks across the five boroughs to department store windows and the tree at Rockefeller Center, nowhere is more iconic than the city in winter. Now, sweet details and tasty history combine in a miniature frosted cityscape for our second annual bake-off.

This year, the Museum invited 23 bakers from across the five boroughs to create gingerbread displays on the theme of “Iconic New York”—creating distinctive buildings, places, or things that represent their neighborhood, community, or borough.

A panel of prominent New York City-based bakers, curators, and restaurant owners awarded prizes in a variety of categories, and you’re invited to help select the final award by voting for the “People’s Choice.” There will also be a holiday-themed makerspace with crafts for kids.

#GingerbreadNYC

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Start Date

Fri, 11/10/2023 - 12:00

End Date

Mon, 01/15/2024 - 12:00

Exhibition Category

Art and Design

Summary

It's time for the annual Great Borough Bake-Off! We invited bakers from across the five boroughs to design New York City-inspired gingerbread creations.

Seasonal Opening Date

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Byzantine Bembé

mmclaughlin — Tue, 23 May 2023 20:32:18 +0000

Byzantine Bembé mmclaughlin Tue, 05/23/2023 - 16:32

New York by Manny Vega

The experience of walking El Barrio—the Museum of the City of New York’s own neighborhood—would be vastly different without the artworks of Manny Vega (b. Bronx, 1956). His mosaics and murals adorn street walls, subway stations, cultural centers, and business facades throughout East Harlem. Many of these works celebrate important figures—particularly women—in the history of the Puerto Rican and Latinx communities. Vega has proven himself deft at negotiating the sophisticated tastes and appetite for spectacle of an extremely diverse and fast-moving population. His style has been dubbed “Byzantine Hip-Hop” for his uncompromising technical command that encompasses ancient Mediterranean mosaic-making and the electrifying lines of hyper-detailed Sharpie pen-and-ink drawings. 

As part of the Museum’s centennial year celebration, Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega explores Vega's visual storytelling as it interweaves community stories with themes that range from African deities to urban mythologies, spanning the personal and the collective. Deeply rooted in an idiosyncratic understanding of the diaspora experience, which in his case includes communities in El Bronx, El Barrio, and Bahia, Brazil, Vega’s worldview is colorful, danceable, passionately spiritual, and complex-yet-accessible. The show marks the Museum’s commitment to its thriving neighborhood as it looks ahead to its next one hundred years. 

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Bomba Celestial

Start Date

Fri, 12/08/2023 - 12:00

End Date

Sun, 12/08/2024 - 12:00

Exhibition Category

Art and Design

Sponsor(s)

Supporters

Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega is made possible in part by the Mellon Foundation, Basha Rubin and Scott Grinsell, and Kathleen Benson Haskins. Additional support provided by a collective of generous individuals in celebration of Manny Vega's work.

Summary

Explore the visual storytelling of El Barrio’s own artist and mosaicist Manny Vega.

Acknowledgements

Meet the Team

Meet the Team:

Curatorial:
Monxo López, Curator
Tracy McFarlan, Associate Director of Curatorial Projects
Elizabeth Indek, Curatorial Projects Associate
Gabriela Senno, Curatorial Projects Administrative Assistant

Design:
Marvel
Hanz Li, Visual/Graphic Designer

Collections:
Leela Outcalt, Director of Collections
Sheryl McMahan, Registrar
Riley McBride, Assistant
Registrar Elizabeth Randolph, Collections Manager for Costume and Textiles
Christina Chavez, Associate Collections Manager
David Lurvey, Digital Imaging Specialist

Video Production:
Madeline McLaughlin, Digital Producer
Heather DiPietro, Associate Producer
Felix Panzarella, Director of Photography
Steve Franchek, 1st AC
Will Mustin, Video Editor

Fabrication by Maquette Fine Art Services

Gallery Preparation and Painting by Williams Brothers

Lighting Design and Installation by Technical Artistry

Graphics:
Full Point Graphics
Creative Graphic Services

Framing and Mounting:
Kate McKenzie
Object Mounts

Art Handling:
Kels Lyn
Mike Piergrossi

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Featured Image Credit

Manny Vega. Bomba Celestial. 2009–2010. Collection of Bobbito García a.k.a. Kool Bob Love. Courtesy of Manny Vega

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This Is New York

mmclaughlin — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:45:44 +0000

This Is New York mmclaughlin Fri, 12/16/2022 - 13:45

Programs for This Is New York

Series Tuesday, April 06, 2021 - Wednesday, May 29, 2024

New York on Film

Our series of monthly film screenings, complete with themed happy hours and special introductions!

Event Monday, June 5, 6:30pm

An Evening with John Turturro

Join actor and director John Turturro, creator of many unforgettable New York characters and stories, for an evening of conversation with WNYC's Alison Stewart.

Event Thursday, June 15, 6:30pm

Past Event: New York on Film: Manhandled (1924)

Join us for a screening of Manhandled (1924) starring Gloria Swanson, with a live score by DJ Misbehaviour.

Event Thursday, July 13, 7:30pm

Past Event: New York on Film: Gold Diggers of 1933

Join us for an outdoor screening of Gold Diggers of 1933, introduced by series programmer Jessica Green.

Event Thursday, August 10, 7:00pm

New York on Film: The Clock

Join us for a screening of The Clock (Vincente Minelli, 1945), introduced by Jourdain Searles

Event Thursday, September 21, 6:45pm

New York on Film: The World, the Flesh and the Devil

Join us for a screening of The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1959) introduced by activist Carmen Perez-Jordan

Curatorial Credits

This Is New York was curated by Sarah M. Henry, Monxo López, Frances A. Rosenfeld, and Lilly Tuttle, with support from Naomi Fischer, Centennial Research Fellow.

“You Are Here” was created by RadicalMedia. Curatorial committee: Bruce Goldstein, Jessica Green, Carlos Gutiérrez, Richard Koszarski, Melissa Lyde, Lucy J. Mukerjee, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Jacob Perlin, and JT Takagi.

“Scenes from the City” was curated by James Sanders Studio.

Learn more about the team behind the exhibition.

100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture

In honor of the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Museum of the City of New York as the city’s storyteller, This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture explores the many ways that the city has inspired storytelling across art forms. It features both famous and lesser-known depictions of New York in film and television, visual and performing arts, music, poetry and literature, and even fashion, painting a collective, moving, and sometimes funny version of a city that has captured the imagination of the world.

The full-floor exhibition is organized around the types of urban spaces where the stories of New York are told. “Tempo of the City” explores the ways in which artists have depicted life in the city’s streets and subways, and the emotions that the experience of joining the public crowd often evoke, whether joy or alienation, fear or pride. The gallery also features “Songs of New York,” an interactive installation that allows visitors to explore the richness and diversity of each borough through songs it has inspired. In the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Gallery, “At Home in New York” spotlights literature and art works that animate the unique challenges and opportunities of making a home in a city of eight million people. The third gallery, “Destination: NYC," showcases work about the city’s spaces for gathering and spectacle, its dynamic unique nightlife spots, as well as its iconic parks and waterfronts.

A special gallery, “You Are Here,” dedicated to New York on film, provides an immersive 16-screen experience drawn from hundreds of movies about the city made over the past century. The film immersive also includes an introductory installation, “Scenes from the City” which explores how New York has been used as a movie set for the past century.

More About "You Are Here"

“You Are Here” draws on the rich archive of movies set in New York, combining thousands of cinematic moments across 16 screens. Sources include Hollywood blockbusters, independent films, documentaries, and experimental works. By juxtaposing these multiple visions, the dazzling montages of “You Are Here” make connections and contrasts that allow movies to comment on each other across time and space. Together, they shed new light on the varied New Yorks of our collective imagination.

Watch the Official Trailer for 'You Are Here' Below:

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Richard Estes. M Train on Route to Manhattan Approaches the Williamsburg Bridge. 1995.

Start Date

Fri, 05/26/2023 - 12:00

End Date

Sun, 07/21/2024 - 12:00

Exhibition Category

Art and Design

History

Photography

Sponsor(s)

Exhibition Supporters

This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture is made possible with lead support from The Thompson Family Foundation, Charina Endowment Fund, Elizabeth R. Miller and James G. Dinan, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Heather and William Vrattos, Todd DeGarmo, Judith Smorto Revocable Trust, and Michael T. Sillerman Revocable Trust. Additional support provided by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Theodore W. Scull, The David Berg Foundation, New York Life, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, Nancy and James Buckman, David Guin and Kym McClain, Gurudatta and Margaret Nadkarni, and other generous donors.

This exhibition is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.

Summary

In honor of the Museum’s centennial, this exhibition, which spans a full city block, is organized around the types of urban spaces where the stories of New York are told.

Acknowledgements

Support of our Centennial year exhibitions, programs, and activities provided by:

$1,000,000 and Above:

An Anonymous Family Foundation
Charina Endowment Fund
Elizabeth R. Miller and James G. Dinan
Robert A. and Elizabeth Rohn Jeffe
Valerie and John W. Rowe
The Thompson Family Foundation
Heather and William Vrattos

$250,000 to $999,999:

Bloomberg Philanthropies
Todd DeGarmo
Diana King Memorial Fund
Leon Levy Foundation
Polly and Newton P.S. Merrill

$100,000 to $249,999:

MacMillan Family Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
New York Life
Tracey and Kenneth A. Pontarelli
The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.
Michael T. Sillerman Revocable Trust
Judith Smorto Revocable Trust
Daryl B. Uber

$50,000 to $99,999:

Altman Foundation
Lily Auchincloss Foundation
Con Edison
Leslie and Mark Godridge
Mark Scott
Theodore W. Scull
Martha and Alex Wallau

$25,000 to $49,999:

The David Berg Foundation
Mrs. William T. Comfort
John and Patricia Heller
Rosita Sarnoff and Beth Sapery

$10,000 to $24,999:

Nancy and James Buckman
Lorna and Edwin Goodman
David Guin and Kym McClain
The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation
Gurudatta and Margaret Nadkarni

$2,500 to $9,999:

O’Connell Family Fund

As of 05/01/2023

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Featured Image Credit

Richard Estes. M Train on Route to Manhattan Approaches the Williamsburg Bridge. 1995. Copyright Richard Estes, Courtesy of Louis K. Meisel Gallery

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Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off

tdawson — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 19:45:39 +0000

Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off tdawson Thu, 11/03/2022 - 15:45

Explore our confectionary city with a Scavenger Hunt!

Discover tasty treats and learn more about the five boroughs of New York City with this interactive scavenger hunt! Great for families with kids ages 3–8 to work on together. Pick up your copy from the front desk or download it in advance here.

About the Bakers and Designs:

Sherry Kozlowski, Astoria, Queens
@_1_sweetworld

WINNER — 'Best Overall'

Sherry is an amateur baker that enjoys building and creating edible art. She has traveled the country competing in baking and food competitions, including the PPG Gingerbread contest in Pittsburgh, PA and the World Food Championship in Orange Beach, AL. Sherry has also appeared on Food Network’s Bakers vs. Fakers (2017) and The Christmas Cookie Challenge (2018).

For this challenge, Sherry decided to represent her neighborhood block by featuring some of her favorite shops in Astoria. Her display of apartments and store fronts are all built in gingerbread with details made from fondant, gum paste, isomalt, and candies.

Sans Bakery, Long Island City, Queens
@sansbakery

WINNER — 'Good Enough to Eat'

After years working in fashion, Erica Fair, founder and owner of Sans Bakery, was tired of the long, grueling hours and started baking in her spare time to harness her creative spirit. “After converting cherished family recipes into gluten-free confections, Sans Bakery was born!” Sans Bakery’s display is a holiday gingerbread scene inspired by the iconic 7 train running through Long Island City, Queens. “The 7 train is the backbone of our transit lives through Queens. Our gingerbread creation celebrates iconic and undeniably elements of Queens’ unique skyline, while being playful about the scale of things we perceive in the urban landscape.”

Bruno's Bakery, Dongan Hills, Staten Island
@ brunosnyc

WINNER — 'Best Borough (Most Representative)'

WINNER — 'Devil’s in the Details (most intricate)'

Bruno’s Bakery is a family-owned bakery that has been in business for over 40 years. Run by the Settepani family, they “enjoy creating classics and like a good challenge when it comes to designing a specialty cake for our clients.”

Bruno’s Bakery takes you on a gingerbread journey through Staten Island, known as the “Borough of Parks.” Celebrating the beauty of the Island, the display includes important icons like the Staten Island Ferry.

Egidio Pastry Shop, Belmont, Bronx
@egidiopastryshop

WINNER — 'Sweetest'

Egidio Pastry Shop opened in 1912 and ever since has been on East 187th near Arthur Avenue. The recipes of original owner and founder Don Pasquale Egidio, a Southern Italian immigrant, are still in use today.

Maria Carmela Lucciola, current owner of Egidio Pastry Shop, decided to build a classic gingerbread house following the Italian tradition for the holiday season. “Jingle in Ginger! our gingerbread house, is Christmas themed.”

John Kuehn, Lower East Side, Manhattan
@newbakecity

WINNER — 'Grandest'

John Kuehn was a professional architect and architectural designer before he decided to act on his passion for baking and cooking during the pandemic. "I decided to pursue a new career in the food blogging and food media industry. Both architecture and baking take into account structure, design, and aesthetic to complete a beautiful end product. Either as an architect or a cook, I'm obsessed with understanding the culture and history around both.” John’s display is a gingerbread recreation of Madison Square Park, nearby his home. His creation celebrates some of New York City's most iconic and historic skyscrapers, including the Flat Iron Building and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower in a holiday wintertime setting.

Ida Kreutzer, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
@madebyIda

WINNER — 'Only in New York'

Ida is a professional photographer and designer from Austria who first came to New York in 2016. Since a very early age, Ida has been baking and creating “intricately decorated cookies, sourdough breads, and birthday cakes for friends.” She notes, “I love to nurture and feed people, and baked goods tend to just do that, with a happy side of sugar high.” Ida replicated the building where she lived when she first arrived in Fort Greene for her display. Her gingerbread creation, a classic Brooklyn brownstone, includes an imitation of a public artwork by the contemporary artist Swoon, which was once on view in the building.

L'Appartement 4F, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn
@lappartement4f

WINNER — 'Most Resilient'

Gautier and Ashley began L’Appartement 4F Bakery in their Cobble Hill apartment, where they live with their dog Chip. When they aren't baking their signature mix of French staples—with an American touch—they enjoy “visiting local farmers’ markets, hiking, and drinking wine.”

About their entry: L'Appartement 4F knew that what best represents their neighborhood was the iconic brownstone structure. Their gingerbread creation incorporates unique details from their bakery, including their popular mini croissant cereal as décor for the interior.

About the Judges:

Bobbie Lloyd, CEO and Chief Baking Officer, Magnolia Bakery

Jonah Nigh, Semi-finalist, NBC/Peacock’s Baking It (Season 1); Senior Vice President for Development and Alumni Engagement, The New School

Nadine Orenstein, Drue Heinz Curator in Charge, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Judge, National Gingerbread House Competition in Asheville, NC

Colette Peters, Cake decorating author and teacher; Owner, Colette’s Cakes

Amy Scherber, Owner and Founder, Amy's Bread; Member, Bread Bakers Guild of America

Melba Wilson, Owner of Melba’s Restaurant; Author, Melba’s American Comfort: 100 Recipes from My Heart to Your Kitchen (2016)

Museum of the City of New York guests receive 20% off General Admission tickets to Top of the Rock Observation Deck now through January 8, 2023.

Use code MCNY20 online or at the box office.

The Museum of the City of New York invited top bakeries and amateur bakers from across the city to enter Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off —our first-ever holiday celebration of the communities in each of the five boroughs. Select bakers created a gingerbread display to represent their respective neighborhoods, inspired by the theme “Winter in New York.” A cohort of prominent New York City-based bakers, curators, and restaurant owners judged the final designs. Judges named an overall winner and awarded prizes in a variety of categories, such as: Best Borough (Most Representative, Sweetest, Good Enough to Eat, Grandest, and more.

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Fri, 11/11/2022 - 12:00

End Date

Mon, 01/16/2023 - 12:00

Exhibition Category

Art and Design

SOLD OUT: Movies for Minis | Elf (2003)

Summary

It's our first-ever Great Borough Bake-off! We invited bakeries and bakers from each borough to design New York City-inspired gingerbread creations.

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Raise Your Voice

cmiyajima — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 17:12:07 +0000

Raise Your Voice cmiyajima Wed, 12/22/2021 - 12:12

An Art Installation by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya

Raise Your Voice is an immersive installation by Brooklyn-based artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya. The project mixes selections from the public art campaign “We Are More,” which depicted the resiliency of New York’s Asian American and Pacific Islander community, with original artwork of activists and allies Yuri Kochiyama and Malcolm X. Installed adjacent to the ongoing exhibition Activist New York, Raise Your Voice poses a series of questions and invites audiences to engage their own powers of advocacy and activism.

About Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya:

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and activist. As artist-in-residence with the NYC Commission on Human Rights, Phingbodhipakkiya’s art series celebrating the resilience of the AAPI community, “I Still Believe in Our City,” reached millions in New York City and worldwide through her Atlantic Terminal billboard and subway and bus shelter posters. In the wake of the Atlanta shootings in March 2021, art from the series appeared on the cover of TIME magazine. Her work has also been shown at the Cooper Union, Times Square, Google, Lincoln Center, and recognized by The New York Times, Fast Company, and The Guardian. Through large-scale murals, augmented reality (AR) experiences, sculptures, and participatory installations, her art reveals the depth, beauty, and power of marginalized communities.

Image Credit:

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Raise Your Voice, 2022. Museum of the City of New York, photograph by Brad Farwell

Start Date

Fri, 03/18/2022 - 12:00

Exhibition Category

Art and Design

Sponsor(s)

Supporters

Activist New York and its associated programs are made possible by The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.

Summary

This immersive installation by Brooklyn-based artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is inspired by the resiliency of New York’s Asian American and Pacific Islander community.

Acknowledgements

Activist New York is the inaugural exhibition in The Puffin Foundation Gallery, which is dedicated to the ways in which ordinary New Yorkers have exercised their power to shape the city's and the nation's future.

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Collecting New York's Stories

tdawson — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:53:47 +0000

Collecting New York's Stories tdawson Mon, 11/29/2021 - 09:53

Collecting New York's Stories features highlights of the over 750,000 items in the Museum’s permanent collection, running the gamut from fine art to small tidbits of everyday life, from the colonial era to the recent past. The gallery presents original drawings by long-time New Yorker illustrator Saul Steinberg alongside garments, maps, decorative arts objects, and many other artifacts that capture the dynamic and eclectic lives led by some of the city’s inhabitants. Together, these beautiful, evocative, and poignant objects illuminate the compelling and layered identity of New York and its stories.

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Wed, 01/22/2020 - 12:00

End Date

Sun, 05/15/2022 - 12:00

Exhibition Category

Art and Design

Fashion

History

Sponsor(s)

Supporters

Collecting New York's Stories is made possible in part by the Charina Foundation, and the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.

Summary

How can objects tell the dynamic and eclectic stories of New Yorkers? Find out through select items from the Museum's collections.

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Featured Image Credit

Wendy Yothers, Gotham Tea Service, 2017. Museum Purchase, Partial Gift of John Emory Largen, Sylvia Pierce Largen. Museum of the City of New York, 2018.38.1.1-.5A-B.

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The Stettheimer Dollhouse

tdawson — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 20:52:39 +0000

The Stettheimer Dollhouse tdawson Wed, 10/28/2020 - 16:52

Pick up or download your copy of the Stettheimer Dollhouse Kids' Guide, now available when you visit the Museum. Use this guide to think deeply, look closely, and learn more about this treasure from the Museum's collections.

Join Sarah Henry, Robert A. and Elizabeth Rohn Jeffe Chief Curator and Deputy Director, as she sits down with Simon Doonan, writer, bon vivant, media personality, and famous window dresser, for a talk connected to our exhibition Stettheimer Dollhouse Up C

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On December 18, 1945, the Museum of the City of New York held an unusual event: a house-warming for a doll’s house. Among the invited guests were Georgia O’Keeffe and other artistic luminaries of the day. They gathered to celebrate the unveiling of a one-of-a-kind three-dimensional piece of art made by Carrie W. Stettheimer, who had passed away the year before.

Today, the Stettheimer “doll’s house” – an artistic model made over the course of nearly two decades between 1916 and 1935 – is one of the great treasures of the Museum of the City of New York. Carrie, along with her sisters Ettie and Florine, hosted a famous artistic salon in the early 20th century, which influential art historian and critic Arthur Danto later called the “American Bloomsbury.” Ettie was a philosopher and novelist; Florine was a painter; Carrie was an aspiring theatrical designer whose artistic goals were derailed by her obligations to run the household. Her creative energies were channeled instead into the crafting of a miniature world whose interior reflected the Stettheimers’ life in their fashionable apartment and reflected the avant-garde artistic circles of New York in the 1920s

For 19 years, Carrie Stettheimer worked on this three-dimensional work of art, reflecting and reinterpreting the artistic, aesthetic, and cultural milieu in which she and her sisters moved. Among its most outstanding features is the ballroom, which features miniature works gifted to Carrie by some of the leading names of modern art in New York in the 1910s and 1920s, including Louis Bouché, Gaston Lachaise, Marguerite and William Zorach, and many others. A particular highlight is Marcel Duchamp’s miniature version of his famous Nude Descending a Staircase, which had created a sensation at the 1913 Armory Show in New York City.

Seventy-five years later, the Museum celebrates the anniversary of this extraordinary gift with a reinstallation of the famous Stettheimer dollhouse. A new, dedicated gallery will provide greater access to this extraordinary object during this time of social distancing, as well as biographical information about the Stettheimer sisters and the members of their circle, including influential artists who made miniature artworks for the house. Visitors will be able to view the house, learn about its features, view enlarged images of the tiny details, and discover rarely seen additional miniature works by some of the leading lights of early 20th-century modernism, among them a miniature George Bellows.

As Carrie’s sister Ettie wrote about the gift of the dollhouse to the Museum of the City of New York, “I feel certain that no repository would have been more satisfactory to her than the museum of her own city.”

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Fri, 11/20/2020 - 12:00

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Mon, 10/03/2022 - 12:00

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Art and Design

History

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The Museum gratefully acknowledges the support of the Lachaise Foundation.

Summary

Discover rarely seen miniature works from the Stettheimer Dollhouse created by some of the leading lights of early 20th-century modernism.

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Carrie Stettheimer (1869 - 1944) Stettheimer Dollhouse Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Miss Ettie Stettheimer, 1945, 45.125.1. Photograph copyright the Museum of the City of New York, by Ali Elai of Camerarts, Inc.

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Rising Tide

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This exhibition also marks the U.S. launch of van Lohuizen's new book, After Us The Deluge: The Human Consequences of Rising Sea Levels. Learn more about the book and purchase a copy here.

Visualizing the Human Costs of the Climate Crisis

Rising sea levels affect us all. In Rising Tide: Visualizing the Human Costs of the Climate Crisis, Dutch documentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen illustrates the dramatic consequences of climate change across the world through photographs, video, drone images, and sound. Experience the effects of rising sea levels in Greenland, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, Fiji, Amsterdam, Panama, Miami, and our own neighborhoods here in New York City.

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RisingTideNY

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Fri, 04/16/2021 - 12:00

End Date

Sun, 05/01/2022 - 12:00

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Art and Design

Photography

Urban Issues

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Rising Tide is made possible in part by Suellyn and Ted Scull, Elizabeth R. Miller and James G. Dinan, the Mondriaan Fund, the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, Gurudatta and Margaret Nadkarni, Polly and Newton P.S. Merrill, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP, and the Netherland-America Foundation.

Summary

Documentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen illustrates the dramatic consequences of rising sea levels worldwide.

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This presentation is based on the exhibition of the same title that opened in October 2019 at Het Scheepvaartmuseum, the Dutch National Maritime Museum.

This exhibition is a collaboration between the Museum of the City of New York, The National Maritime Museum in the Netherlands, and NOOR.

Rising Tide is co-presented by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Special thanks to The Climate Museum; the New York City Mayor’s Office of Resiliency; the New York City Mayor’s Office of Sustainability; and Kevin Hsu, the Centre for Liveable Cities.

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Featured Image Credit

Kadir van Lohuizen. [New York from the marshes around the Hackensack River in New Jersey], 2018. © Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR.

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