| Guggenheim Museum http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, founded in 1937, is a modern art museum located on the Upper East Side in New York City. It is the best-known of several museums owned and/or operated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and is often called simply The Guggenheim. It is one of the best-known museums in New York City. The main part of the building is a very unusual shape, and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Originally called "The Museum of... |
| MoMA The Museum of Modern Art http://www.moma.org/ Throughout its history, The Museum of Modern Art has used architecture as a vehicle for self-renewal and regeneration. The recently completed building project represents MoMA's most extensive redefinition since its founding seventy-five years ago. The Museum combines new spaces with MoMA's original architecture to dramatically enhance its dynamic collection of modern and contemporary art. MoMA conducted an extensive worldwide search for an architect who... |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, founded in 1870. The Metropolitan Museum is the foremost repository of art in the United States. It opened in 1880 on its present site on Central Park facing Fifth Ave. The building was designed by Calvert Vaux and J. W. Mould and expanded by Richard Morris Hunt and by McKim, Mead, and White during the early 1900s. It is owned by the city, which contributes a certain sum yearly for upkeep, but otherwise the museum is supported by... |
| Exploring America's orchestras... with Henry Fogel (Arts Journal) - Nicholas D. Kristof, writing in The New York Times on December 21, 2008, gave further life to a canard of which I am getting really tired: that classical music organizations (along with other arts institutions) are, to put it bluntly, mostly for the rich folk. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:11:13 GMT |
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