Permanent shows and collections
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"A Watershed Moment: Celebrating the Homecoming of The New York City Water Supply Model" Exhibition
In 1937, New York City was in preparation for the 1939's World's Fair, the first of two in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. To celebrate the immense and intricate inner-workings of the City, various agencies...More »
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"Action: Sex and the Moving Image" Exhibition
We live in a visual culture. Everywhere we look we are bombarded with images often to the point of sensory overload. Images shape our desires, the way we think and the manner in which we connect and interact...More »
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"Assyrian Reliefs" Exhibition
These twelve massive carved alabaster panels, on view together for the first time, dominate the walls of the Brooklyn Museum's Hagop Kevorkian Gallery of Ancient Middle Eastern Art. Originally brightly...More »
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"Behind the Screen" Exhibition
The Museum's core exhibition, Behind the Screen, illuminates the many processes involved in producing, marketing, and exhibiting the moving image, with more than a thousand film and television artifacts,...More »
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"Chinatown Film Project: How Do You See Chinatown?" Exhibition
The Chinatown Film Project (CFP), MOCA's inaugural film exhibition features ten original short films by ten of New York's most exciting filmmakers. The Guy with the Cigarette directed by Miguel Arteta;...More »
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"Compost-Modern" Discussion Forum
"CompostModern," a salon-style discussion forum, revolutionizing the way we present the work of poets and writers to the public. We have opened the floor to the community, bringing you in to participate...More »
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"Connecting Cultures: A World in Brooklyn"
- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Product - Ceramics
An innovative installation, featuring some of the most important objects in the Brooklyn Museum collection, has been developed to create new ways of looking at art and exploring the Museum by making connections...More »
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"Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey" Exhibition
- at The Jewish Museum
- in the Upper East Side area
- Media: Photography - Other - Video installation
At the heart of The Jewish Museum is its permanent exhibition, Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey, representing one of the world's great opportunities to explore Jewish culture and history through...More »
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"Decorative Arts Galleries and Period Rooms" Exhibition
The Brooklyn Museum's decorative arts collection occupies the fourth floor of the Museum. The focus of the collection is a group of American period rooms ranging in date from the 18th century to the 20th...More »
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"Early Gothic Hall" Exhibition
The Early Gothic Hall at The Cloisters reopened in the Spring of 2006 after a five-year renovation. Completely refurbished 13th-century limestone windows and two dozen panels of newly conserved and reinstalled...More »
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"Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity" Exhibition
In April, 2003, the Brooklyn Museum completed the reinstallation of its world-famous Egyptian collection, a process that took ten years. Three new galleries joined the four existing ones that had been...More »
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"European Paintings" Exhibition
Although the collection of European paintings has often been presented in a chronological arrangement by school or style, this installation exploits the architecture of the soaring Beaux-Arts Court by...More »
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"Gallery Selections"
- at Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC
- in the Upper East Side area
- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Furniture
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts is pleased to present a selection of its finest and newest acquisitions. The current installation of works in the gallery highlights the modernist landscapes of John Marin and...More »
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"Highlights from the Historical Society of Early American Decoration" Exhibition
The American Folk Art Museum is home to the collection assembled over many decades by the Historical Society of Early American Decoration. The Society was founded in memory of Esther Stevens Brazer (1898–1945),...More »
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"Infinity of Nations" Exhibition
- at The National Museum of the American Indian (George Gustav Heye Center)
- in the Lower Manhattan area
- Media: Sculpture
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) houses one of the world’s great cultural resources, with collections representing the Native peoples of the Americas from their earliest history to the...More »
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"It Happened In Brooklyn" Exhibition
- at The Brooklyn Historical Society
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
- Media: Painting - Photography - Other
This exhibit highlights key moments in our nation's history and how they played out in Brooklyn. Through artifacts from the Brooklyn Historical Society's permanent collection such as photographs, artworks,...More »
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"Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Art" Exhibition
Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933) was one of the foremost decorative artists of his time. His father, Charles Lewis Tiffany, was the co-founder of Tiffany & Company, the luxury retailer best...More »
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"Pierpont Morgan's 1906 Library" Exhibition
In 1902 American financier Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) chose architect Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909) of the prominent firm McKim, Mead and White to design a library to house his growing collection of...More »
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"Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager" Exhibiton
92YTribeca presents the works of Rachel Beach and Nicole Stager – both formerly shown at Like the Spice gallery in Brooklyn – in an opening reception for this semi-permanent exhibit. Brooklyn-dwelling,...More »
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"Reading Room: 2000 books on contemporary art" Library
The reading room is a rapidly growing collection of several thousand books on contemporary art exhibitions open to the public at 41 Essex Street. The books have been donated by numerous art institutions...More »
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"Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
“Selections from the Permanent Collection” features highlights from the Neue Galerie’s superb holdings of German and Austrian fine and decorative arts from the first half of the twentieth century. It incorporates...More »
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"Small Wonders from the American Collections" Exhibition
- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints - Furniture - Product - Crafts
This special exhibition celebrates a major new installation in the Luce Center for American Art: Visible Storage ▪ Study Center that gives the public access to more than 350 additional objects from the...More »
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"Spotlight on the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
Spotlight on the Permanent Collection is the first exhibition featuring a sampling of objects and ephemera drawn from over nine thousand objects that comprise the permanent collection of the Museum of...More »
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"Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden" Exhibition
Dedicated in 1966, the Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden at the Brooklyn Museum is a preeminent collection of terracotta, stone, and metal architectural elements salvaged from now-demolished structures...More »
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"Thannhauser Collection" Exhibition
Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976) was the son of art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser (1859–1935), who founded the Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1909. From an early age, Thannhauser worked alongside his father...More »
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"The Campin Room" Exhibition
The Campin Room at The Cloisters, the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, recently reopened to the public following an extensive renovation. The gallery...More »
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"The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago" Exhibition
- at Brooklyn Museum
- in the DUMBO, other Brooklyn area
- Media: Product - Crafts - Ceramics - Other
The Dinner Party, an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art, is presented as the centerpiece around which the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is organized....More »
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"The Mummy Chamber" Exhibition
This installation of more than 170 objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-famous holdings of ancient Egyptian material explores the complex rituals related to the practice of mummification and the Egyptian...More »
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"Tiffany: The Glass" Exhibition
Tiffany: The Glass, an installation of two windows, eleven lamp shades, and more than two hundred examples of sheet glass, explores some of the remarkable patterns, textures, and colors of opalescent glass...More »
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"Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York" Installation
Timescapes, a 25-minute multimedia experience, traces the growth of New York City from a settlement of a few hundred Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans to its present status as one of the world’s...More »
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"Visionaire 53: Sound" Exhibition
An interactive exhibition of images and tracks from Visionaire 53. SOUND is currently on view at the Gallery. Visionaire 53 consists of five 12-inch vinyl records, imprinted with images (picture discs),...More »
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"With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America" Exhibition
- at The Museum of Chinese in America
- in the Lower Manhattan area
- Media: Photography - Architecture
With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America, MOCA’s new core exhibit, will bring to life the Museum’s unique historical content and birth a compelling art work by fusing itself with the architectural...More »
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Gallery Workshops for Families
Children ages 4 through 12 and their families are invited for an hour-long program at The Cloisters, the branch of the Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe, located in upper Manhattan....More »
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Rodin "The Cantor Gift to the Brooklyn Museum"
Due to installations in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, twelve bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin have been installed in the Rubin Entrance Pavilion. This newly excerpted presentation of the Museum's...More »
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Walter De Maria "The Broken Kilometer"
The Broken Kilometer, 1979, located at 393 West Broadway in New York City, is composed of 500 highly polished, round, solid brass rods, each measuring two meters in length and five centimeters (two inches)...More »
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Walter de Maria “The New York Earth Room”
The New York Earth Room, 1977, is the third Earth Room sculpture executed by the artist, the first being in Munich, Germany in 1968. The second was installed at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt,...More »
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“Life, Death, and Transformation in the Americas” Exhibition
Life, Death and Transformation in the Americas will present one hundred-two masterpieces from the Arts of the Americas permanent collection that exemplify the concept of transformation as part of the religious...More »