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New Museum's building is a home for contemporary art and an incubator for new ideas, as well as an architectural contribution to New York's urban landscape. 

The building was designed by Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA with Gensler, New York, serving as Executive Architect, is a seven-story, structure located at 235 Bowery between Stanton and Rivington Streets, at the origin of Prince Street in New York City.

Image: Elizabeth Peyton, Ben Drawing, 2001
Oil on board
10 1/8 x 8 1/4 in
(25.7 x 21 cm)
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; A.W. Mellon Acquisition Endowment, 2001

Website: http://newmuseum.org

The Guggenheim Museum is an internationally renowned art museum and one of the most significant architectural icons of the 20th century. It is a vital cultural center, an educational institution, and the heart of an international network of museums. Visitors can expect special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, lectures by artists and critics, performances and film screenings, classes for teens and adults, and daily tours of the galleries led by experienced docents. The museum was founded on a collection of early modern masterpieces, and is today an ever-growing institution devoted to the art of the 20th century and beyond.

Website: http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york

Known colloquially as The Met, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, can be found on the Eastern fringe of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City, USA. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works of art, divided into nineteen curatorial departments, from classical antiquity and Ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The museum also maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine and Islamic art.

The Met is also home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes and accessories, and antique weapons and armor from around the world. In addition, a number of notable interiors, ranging from 1st century Rome through modern American design, are permanently installed in the Met's galleries.

The Metropolitan Musuem was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens. These founders included businessmen and financiers, as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day, who wanted to open a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. It was opened on February 20, 1872, originally located at 681 Fifth Avenue.

In 2007, the Met measured almost a quarter mile long and occupied more than two million square feet.

Website: http://www.metmuseum.org

The Brooklyn Museum, housed in a 560,000-square-foot, Beaux-Arts building, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. Its world-renowned permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represent a wide range of cultures.

Only a 30-minute subway ride from midtown Manhattan, with its own newly renovated subway station, the Museum is part of a complex of nineteenth-century parks and gardens that also includes Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Prospect Park Zoo.

The mission of the Brooklyn Museum is to act as a bridge between the rich artistic heritage of world cultures, as embodied in its collections, and the unique experience of each visitor.

Dedicated to the primacy of the visitor experience, committed to excellence in every aspect of its collections and programs, and drawing on both new and traditional tools of communication, interpretation, and presentation, the Museum aims to serve its diverse public as a dynamic, innovative, and welcoming center for learning through the visual arts.

Website: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org

Whitney Museum houses one of the world's foremost collections of twentieth-century American art. The Permanent Collection of some 12,000 works encompasses paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations, drawings, prints, and photographs--and is still growing.

The Museum was founded in 1931 with a core group of 700 art objects, many of them from the personal collection of founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; others were purchased by Mrs. Whitney at the time of the opening to provide a more thorough overview of American art in the early decades of the century.

Mrs. Whitney favored the art of the revolutionary artists derisively called the Ashcan School, among them John Sloan, George Luks, and Everett Shinn, as well as realists such as Edward Hopper and American Scene painters John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton.

Her initial gift, however, also comprised many important works by early modernists--Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Max Weber, and others. Virtually all the works collected by the Museum for the next twenty years came through the generosity of Mrs. Whitney.

Despite its early emphasis on realist art, the Whitney Museum has long been dedicated to assembling a collection that offers a comprehensive picture of twentieth-century American art.

Although the collection is characterized by its breadth, it is equally recognized for its in-depth commitment to the work of a number of artists. In addition to the Hopper and Marsh collections, the Whitney has the largest body of work by Alexander Calder in any museum, ranging from the ever-popular Calder's Circus and Surrealist-inspired pieces of the 1940s to large-scale mobiles and stabiles.

Other in-depth concentrations include major holdings by Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Burchfield, Gaston Lachaise, Louise Nevelson, and Agnes Martin.

Artist Name: ALEX BAG
Website: http://www.whitney.org

Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world.

Central to The Museum of Modern Art's mission is the encouragement of an ever-deeper understanding and enjoyment of modern and contemporary art by the diverse local, national, and international audiences that it serves.

The Museum of Modern Art seeks to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary art, while being accessible to a public that ranges from scholars to young children.

Artist Name: Martin Kippenberger
Website: http://www.moma.org

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is one of the oldest and largest non-profit contemporary art institutions in the United States. An exhibition space rather than a collecting institution, P.S.1 devotes its energy and resources to displaying the most experimental art in the world.

A catalyst and an advocate for new ideas, discourses, and trends in contemporary art, P.S.1 actively pursues emerging artists, new genres, and adventurous new work by recognized artists in an effort to support innovation in contemporary art. P.S.1 achieves this mission by presenting its diverse program to a broad audience in a unique and welcoming environment in which visitors can discover and explore the work of contemporary artists.

P.S.1 presents over 50 exhibitions each year, including artists' retrospectives, site-specific installations, historical surveys, arts from across the United States and the world, and a full schedule of music and performance programming.

Artist Name: LEANDRO ERLICH
Website: http://www.ps1.org

The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is one of the nation's oldest public arts organizations. It has a clear and compelling mission to acquire, exhibit, and preserve both modern and contemporary art. The gallery focuses especially on contemporary art, with an active commitment to taking a global and multidisciplinary approach to the presentation, interpretation, and collection of the artistic expressions of our times.

Website: http://www.albrightknox.org

BRIC ARTS | MEDIA | BKLYN's contemporary art program presents exhibitions, public events, and an innovative arts education program at BRIC Rotunda Gallery with the aim of increasing the visibility and accessibility of contemporary art while bridging the gap between the art world and global culture in Brooklyn.

Website: http://www.bricartsmedia.org/contemporary-art

Whitney Museum houses one of the world's foremost collections of twentieth-century American art. The Permanent Collection of some 12,000 works encompasses paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations, drawings, prints, and photographs--and is still growing.

The Museum was founded in 1931 with a core group of 700 art objects, many of them from the personal collection of founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; others were purchased by Mrs. Whitney at the time of the opening to provide a more thorough overview of American art in the early decades of the century.  

 

Website: http://www.whitney.org

Located in the heart of New York City, the International Center of Photography (ICP) is a world-class museum and school dedicated to exploring the possibilities of the photographic medium through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs.

The ICP presents a wide range of historical and contemporary photographs in its acclaimed exhibitions, and houses a collection of more than 100,000 original prints that span the history of photography.

There is also a school at the ICP which offers full-time master's and certificate programs, as well as part-time and adult coursework, and its Community Programs Office, which organizes award-winning youth education initiatives, collaborates with local schools, community centers, and other cultural institutions to promote the communicative power of photography.

Image:

10  Thorsten Brinkmann

Drune Quoll, 2007

C-print

 

© Thorsten Brinkmann

Courtesy Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin

 

Website: http://www.icp.org

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is one of the oldest and largest non-profit contemporary art institutions in the United States. An exhibition space rather than a collecting institution, P.S.1 devotes its energy and resources to displaying the most experimental art in the world.

A catalyst and an advocate for new ideas, discourses, and trends in contemporary art, P.S.1 actively pursues emerging artists, new genres, and adventurous new work by recognized artists in an effort to support innovation in contemporary art. P.S.1 achieves this mission by presenting its diverse program to a broad audience in a unique and welcoming environment in which visitors can discover and explore the work of contemporary artists.

Website: http://ps1.org/