This exhibition at the Museum of Natural History explores explores every aspect of how nature’s most majestic creatures have shaped our world. The sound is unmistakable: the thundering hooves of a running horse. Horses have been racing across the landscape for more than 50 million years – much longer than our own species has existed. [...]

The Museum of Arts and Design’s Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary is the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Design for it’s opening in a new building at 2 Columbus Circle in September 2008. The exhibition features work by 50 international established and emerging artists from all five continents who create objects and [...]

This two-hour art program presents some of the most important American artists and art in the context of the cultural and social transformations that defined the identity and nature of America in the 20th century. Each section of the film examines one of three basic questions: How do American artists represent the world around us? [...]

One of the most recognizable works by the most important German painter of the 19th Century is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Two Men Contemplating the Moon” is the third version of one of Caspar David Friedrich’s most famous paintings; the first (1819) is in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, and the second (ca. 1824) is [...]

The new Museum of Arts and Design at 2 Columbus Circle opened to the public in September 2008. Located at the southwest corner of Central Park, the museum is a vibrant and engaging cultural center like no other institution in the city. Offering more than double the exhibition space of it’s previous location on 53rd [...]

To the contemporary world, it seems unimaginable that the beautiful, iconic paintings of the Impressionists could have caused Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, and Edgar Degas to become outcasts in the art world of their time – declaimed by the art world and the public alike. THE IMPRESSIONISTS is a unique mini-series [...]

In 2007, MoMA mounted a massive forty-year retrospective of Richard Serra’s sculpture – from his earliest creations in rubber and lead to his latest in steel. Once considered a bad boy in the art world, Serra is now one of its favorite sons. Rafael Pi Roman sat down with the world-renowned sculptor talks about his [...]

A complete and fully furnished Art Nouveau dining room designed by Lucien Levy-Dhurmer shortly before World War I – The Wisteria Dining Room – has been installed within The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renovated and expanded New Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture, opening to the public on December 4, 2007. [...]

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of baseball theme songs, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents a tribute to the sport and the musicians who love it, organized around the lyrics — beginning with a history of the song and its creators. “Take me out with the crowd” focuses on composers who [...]

Since the first five men elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936 — Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown has become one of the nation’s most recognizable and popular educational institutions. Baseball and America have grown up [...]