Last Days...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's

Rugs and Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism

Ends on March 27, 2011

click on title for details before running there!

Daimonds and Other Jewels Are A Girl's Best Friend..

If you believe this you may want to check out the

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels

February 18–June 5, 2011

at

The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum

click on title for details

Did You Know...

That The International Center of Photography (NY) has Pay As You Wish Fridays?

(click on title to go to site for details)

A world of Dolls..

can be yours for the day or for the renting .

The Toy Museum of New York is located in  Brooklyn Heights and houses an extremely large collections of toys that can be enjoyed by all ages. The non-profit museum offers tours, classes, lectures and special event rental of up to a 100 dolls to display and teach others about the cultures and traditions they come from.

click on the title for rental and visit details

American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection

The Brooklyn Museum and the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents an exhibition of some of the most renowned objects from its costume collection.
 American High Style, will highlight approximately eighty-five dressed mannequins, a selection of hats, shoes, sketches, and other fashion-related material that have been too long in storage.

May 7–August 1, 2010

Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th Floor
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Picasso Returns

Two weeks ago Picasso's "The Actor" was returned to the walls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in time for the April 27th opening of

"Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art"

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American Women: Fashioning a National Identity

at

the Metropolitan Museum of Art

May 5, 2010 - August 15, 2010,

Featuring pieces from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection this exhibition takes a closer look at American women and how they have influenced concepts of the modern woman. The exhibition will include clothing from 1890 through 1940 and will include pieces not seen in public for the past 30 years.

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Paper Cuts Not Included

From October 7, 2009 - April 4, 2010

The Museum of Arts and Design is hosting

SLASH: Paper Under the Knife.

The exhibition explores cut paper in contemporary art and will showcase 50 artists that explore this medium.  In conjunction with the exhibition the  museum is organizing demonstrations, workshops and lectures for children and families as well as video screenings of the arts at work.

For More information check

http://collections.madmuseum.org/html/exhibitions/485.html

(Mis Pearlman - EDDY, 2008)

For Yoni Lover's

Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction

at the Whitney Museum of American Art

The exhibition includes more than 130 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures

September 17, 2009-January 17, 2010

http://whitney.org/www/exhibition/okeeffe.jsp

Bauhaus Moment At The MOMA

Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity

November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010

The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/303

Celebrate Halloween & Day of the Dead

On Saturday, October 31st

the National Museum of the American Indian

 (One Bowling Green - George Gustav Heye Center)

The New York museum will be celebrating the indigenous cultures of Mexico's pratice of honoring the memory of ancesters, family and friends.  From 1-5pm there will be dancers (Danza Mexica Cetiliztli Nauchcampa), story tellers (Elvira and Hortensia Colorado), art installations (Tlisza Jaurique and Marcus Zilliox) and hands-on works shops (papel picado, paper flowers and plaster skull figures) to share the Day of the Dead traditions with all.

Check the site for further details -

http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=events&second=ny

The Crowds May Have Thinned

out enough for you to get an up close and personal look at Vermeer's The Milkmaid.

In honor of the 400th Anniversary of Henry Hudson's Voyage to Manhattan from Amsterdam, that city’s Rijksmuseum has allowed one of Vermeer's most famous paintings to travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where it and a number of other Dutch paintings from the museum's collection will be on display from September 10, 2009–November 29, 2009

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={EC38F2E1-BA19-4D5F-845F-A5C44CB90A9E}

A New Heaven Is Begun

Is the name of the William Blake exhibition now showing at the Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue @ 26th Street ( themorgan.org). The show runs through January 3rd, 2009, but of you can't make it have a look at a New York Times' slide show highlighting some of his art http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/09/11/arts/20090911-BLAKE_index.html

Happy 400th Birthday New York!

All year long the city will be celebrating it's 400th Anniversary.

From April 4th through September 27th the exhibition Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The World of Henry Hudson at the Museum of the City of New York will share documents, images and objects that remind us of the Dutch influence on the city's history.

For more celebrations check out NYC Gov's website for a list of the year long celebrations- http://www.nycgo.com/?event=view.article&id=140890 -

I Will Not Do It..I Will Not Do It....

I will not use Holy Toledo as a title to this blog post though I may be mumbling those exact words after seeing the show at the museum at F.I.T. honoring her and her husband's work.

"Isabel Toledo: Fashion From the Inside Out" runs from June 17th through Sept 26th. For information -
http://www.fitnyc.edu/aspx/Content.aspx?menu=FutureGlobal:Museum:Exhibitions:UpcomingExhibitions#toledo

Fashioned by Avedon

Fom May 15th through September 6th

New York's International Center of Photography

http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.5079531/k.8ECA/Richard_Avedon.htm

presents

"Avedon Fashion"

A retrospect of his career and the amazing images he created and shared while at Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, The New Yorker, and beyond.

Model as Muse

From May 6th through August 9th

the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

will host

"Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion"

"The exhibition, organized by historical period from 1947 to 1997, will feature haute couture and ready-to-wear masterworks accompanied by fashion photography and video footage of models who epitomized their epochs."

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={EB2C67EF-1CCB-4EB2-9329-A955A7EDFBC2}

Before April 5th...

Get your self to the Brooklyn Museum to see the current exhibition
Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection

The show consists of nearly fifty works of art by self-declared feminists and artists of later generations working within the historic framework of feminist art. Sooooo worth the trip...

Hurry, it closes on April 5th!

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/

A Needle, Thread & Lots of Time!

Currently showing at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, located at 18 West 86th Street, is the English Embroidery from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700:'Twixt Art and Nature.

Have a look at the New York Time's interactive slide show for just a peak at the amazing pieces on display.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/19/arts/20090319-trove-pano.html

The exhibition runs until April 12th.

The Bard Graduate Center Gallery is located at 18 West 86th Street and is open to the public six days a week , Tuesday through Sunday, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Thursday, 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

A part of my family has lived in Brooklyn for centuries. This is something I am extremely proud of and grow extremely tired of defending everytime someone asks me what country I am from. This post isn't about defending being an American but about being a Brooklynite and supporting an institute that records and honors all things Brooklyn.

The Brooklyn Historical Society at 128 Pierrepont Street at Clinton Street offers those of us that have been here and those of us newly arrived to the borough the opportunity to share some of the history of the area. Located in a landmark building the society, which was established in 1863, honors Brooklyn's past while welcoming in it's future through art exhibitions, talks and workshops. They maintain an extensively researched and archived library of all things Brooklyn and a staff that is beyond helpful in supporting your research efforts.

http://www.brooklynhistory.org/default/index.html

Worth the visit and the membership fee!