What: Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty When: March 26 – July 24, 2016 Where: MoMA Admission: Free with CUNY ID Edgar Degas is best known for his paintings and pastels of ballet dancers, polo ponies, and bathing women. Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty, currently on view at MoMA, shows a less familiar side of […]
What: Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible When: March 18 – September 4, 2016 Where: The Met Breuer Admission: Pay what you wish. The grand opening of the Met Breuer was one of the most highly anticipated and most talked-about events of the New York art world this spring. Formerly home to the Whitney Museum of American Art, […]
What: Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better When: February 5 – April 27, 2016 Where: The Guggenheim Museum Admission: Free for Macaulay students with the Cultural Passport Students and seniors: $18; Adults $25 Are museums always solemn, austere places of reverence? Or can exhibitions make us smile? The Guggenheim Museum’s current exhibition Peter Fischli […]
What: Sculpture in the Age of Donatello: Renaissance Masterpieces from Florence Cathedral When: Through June 14th, 2015 Where: Museum of Biblical Art Admission: General, $12; Students and Seniors, $9 In the middle of a rough semester, many would like nothing more than to get away. Some seek refuge in memories of a magical summer, and […]
What: The Chinese Photobook When: Through April 2, 2015 Where: Aperture Foundation (547 W. 27th St., fourth floor) Admission: FREE Whether on a Facebook profile or in a family photo album, we use photographs to tell the stories of our lives. In a similar way, photographs also tell the grand narratives of peoples and nations, […]
What: Witness at a Crossroads: Photographer Marc Riboud in Asia When: Through March 23rd, 2015 Where: The Rubin Museum of Art (W17th St.) Admission: Students: $10 General Admission: $15 FREE on Friday evenings from 6 p.m.–10 p.m. After climbing three flights up the Rubin Museum’s central spiral staircase and passing two floors of Himalayan scroll paintings […]
What: Beyond the Classical: Imagining the Ideal Across Time When: through January 11th, 2015 Where: National Academy Museum (Upper East Side) Admission: Pay What You Wish (In partnership with Macaulay’s Cultural Passport Program) The Bounty KillArt (artist), L’Histoire et la Paix (History and Peace), 2004. The National Academy Museum, a tiny gem among the giants of […]
What: Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis When: through January 11th, 2015 Where: the International Center of Photography (Midtown) Admission: FREE for Macaulay students with a Cultural Passport General Admission: $14 Students: $10 Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis fills both floors of the International Center of Photography with more than 200 breathtaking black-and-white photographs of the most pristine, untouched places […]
