Boston Bombings, Hunger Strikes at Gitmo, George W. Bush Library
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View ArticleA Sneak Peak of the George W. Bush Library
Aside from reports that he's taken up painting, we haven’t heard much from George W. Bush over the last four years. This absence from the limelight was largely at the wishes of the former president.But...
View ArticleMantegna to Matisse at the Frick Collection
Colin Bailey, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Frick Collection, discusses the exhibition Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery. It features 58 drawings from the...
View ArticleDown and Dirty at the Museum of Math?
For a long time, just about the only serious math museum in America was in New Hyde Park, New York — a Long Island suburban town you’ve probably never heard of. Then it closed in 2006, leaving no...
View Article"Matisse: In Search of True Painting" at the Met
Curator Rebecca Rabinow talks about the exhibition “Matisse: In Search of True Painting,” on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through March 17. Henri Matisse was one of the most acclaimed artists...
View ArticleMusic’s Moneyball; The Sound Of Museums; Blind Date With Isabel Leonard
In This Episode: If you’ve been keeping an eye on the art scene in New York, you may have noticed that there’s a lot of music in the city’s museums. We look at how institutions from The Whitney to the...
View ArticleArt Talk - Museum Lines: Popular or Painful?
Call it the most popular rain in town.The Rain Room at the Museum of Modern Art is the art sensation of the summer, with people standing on line up to eight hours to enter the installation. And at the...
View ArticleOpen Phones: What Are You Waiting On Line For?
From the line for Cronuts to the line for MoMA's Rain Room, there's a lot of waiting going on this summer. What's the longest you've waited on a line (or in a line), and what's your limit? Call in to...
View ArticleDueling Dinosaurs
Matthew Carrano, Curator of Dinosauria at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, discusses the dueling dinosaur fossils that were discovered in Montana in 2006, by commercial...
View Article“Punk: Chaos to Couture” at the Metropolitan Museum
Andrew Bolton, curator in the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, talks about the exhibition “Punk: Chaos to Couture,” on view at the Metropolitan through August 14. The show examines punk’s...
View ArticleTrying Out Micro-Apartments at the Museum of the City of New York
Some New Yorkers may soon be living in apartments roughly half the size of a city subway car. So the Museum of the City of New York decided to install one and have some New Yorkers try them out.Over a...
View ArticleMeasuring and Mapping Space
Dr. Roberta Casagrande-Kim, guest curator, and Dr. Jennifer Chi, exhibitions director and chief curator,talk about the exhibitionMeasuring and Mapping Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman...
View ArticleGaultier's Corsets for Madonna, Now in a Brooklyn Museum
Pop star Madonna's pointy corsets are now museum material. They are part of French designer Jean Paul Gaultier's new show at the Brooklyn Museum.The exhibit includes 130 outfits and 32 animated...
View ArticleNYC Art Tours
Uptown, downtown, museums and galleries figure in New York Magazine senior art criticJerry Saltz's picks for his pull-out art tours in the current New York Magazine. He mapped out his 44 must-sees...
View ArticleDegenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany
The term "degenerate" was adopted by the Nazis as part of its campaign against modern art. Many works branded as such were seized from museums and private collections,and a three-year traveling...
View ArticleMoMA Director Glenn Lowry on Expanding the Collection, Audience, and Building
Glenn D. Lowry, director of The Museum of Modern Art, talks about the museum’s transformation over the past two decades and its place in the cultural landscape of New York and the world.Lowry said that...
View Article'Charles James: Beyond Fashion' at the Metropolitan Museum
Although Charles James had no formal training, he is regarded as one of the greatest designers in America to have worked in the tradition of the Haute Couture. "Charles James: Beyond Fashion," on view...
View ArticleAn Alternative Guide to Art in NYC
There is a lot of art and culture to see in New York beyond the museums of the Upper East Side and the galleries of Chelsea. WNYC is exploring several neighborhoods this summer to find some local gems....
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Spiders Move Back into the Museum of Natural History
Arachnids. A comforting term for a cringe-inducing group of critters that includes goliath bird-eaters, desert hairy scorpions, giant vinegaroons and metallic tarantulas.They are also the subject of...
View ArticleWhat Would a Tenement Museum Look Like in 2064?
If a tenement museum were to open in 50 years in New York City, what would it look like and what it would say about the politics of housing for immigrants? Annie Polland, the Senior Vice President for...
View ArticleHas Art Become Too Popular?
All over the country this month, 50,000 billboards and bus shelters and video screens will display images of famous American works of art. The project is called Art Everywhere, a push by an outdoor...
View ArticleItalian Futurism at the Guggenheim Museum
Curator Vivien Greene discusses the exhibition “Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe,” on view at the Guggenheim Museum through September 1. It’s the first comprehensive overview in...
View ArticleTo see life's oddities, you have to vist an odd place — a museum in an...
Mmuseumm, the smallest museum in New York, could probably fit in your bathroom — and its contents might not look much different from the stuff in your cabinets. That's because this museum is all about...
View ArticleThe New Museum Showcases Art from the Arab World
The New Museum show “Here and Elsewhere” is the first museum-wide exhibition in New York City to feature contemporary art from and about the Arab world. It brings together more than 45 artists from...
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Color and Form: Henri Matisse's Cut-Outs at MoMA
In the late 1940s, Henri Matisse introduced a radically new form of art that came to be called a cut-out. The culmination of Matisse’s long career, his cut-outs reflect his deep engagement with form...
View ArticleStoryCorps 399: Death Becomes Her
Joanna Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, tells her father, Bob, about the childhood origins of her fascination with things that most people avoid, including black widow spiders.
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: David Brooks, Big Weed & the New Whitney Museum
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.David Brooks (First) | How to Sell (Legal) Pot (Starts at 49:12) | The New Whitney Museum (Starts at 1:20:37)If you don't subscribe...
View ArticleThe Invention of Seeing
When was the first time that humans perceived the world as it really was? Historian and author Laura Snyder says it was the in the 1600s, with the development of microscopes.
View ArticleThe Invention of Seeing
When was the first time that humans perceived the world as it really was? Historian and author Laura Snyder says it was the in the 1600s, with the development of microscopes.
View ArticleThe Museums of 2035
Picture yourself touching Rodin’s The Thinker with haptic gloves - which would allow you to feel the sculpture without actually laying a finger on it. That world may soon be a reality. Entrepreneur...
View ArticleThe Museums of 2035
Picture yourself touching Rodin’s The Thinker with haptic gloves - which would allow you to feel the sculpture without actually laying a finger on it. That world may soon be a reality. Entrepreneur...
View ArticleArt For All; Transportation Funding; School Openings
At the opening of the new Whitney Museum, Michelle Obama challenged museums to be more welcoming and inclusive. WNYC art critic Deborah Solomon looks at how our local cultural institutions are doing....
View ArticleWhen Art is For the 1%: Museums Struggle to Compete With The Super Rich
On Tuesday, at a huge sale at Christie's Auction House in New York City, Picasso's "Femm D'Algier" sold at auction for $160 million. If you add up the fees, the end total for this early Picasso comes...
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The Future Looks Shiny, Big and Expensive
The future of museums looks shiny and big. At least from the perspective of the new Whitney Museum of American Art.The museum opened its new home on May 1st at the south of the High Line park, and it’s...
View ArticleWhat Should a Museum Look Like?
Peter Schjeldahl talks with David Haglund and Amelia Lester about the new Whitney and how museum structures influence the art inside. Peter Schjeldahl talks with David Haglund and Amelia Lester about...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Lawrence Lessig, Fall Culture Picks; An EDM Summer Hit
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Lawrence Lessig (First) | Culture Critics' Top Fall Picks (Starts at 29:06) (And here's a handy list of each critic's...
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L.A.'s New Museum on the Block
Over the past couple of decades, the American art scene has been shifting from New York to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Los Angeles has been amassing an impressive collection of museums, turning the...
View ArticleA Journalist Disrupts Start-Up Culture, Artist Roz Chast on her Iconic 'New...
Dan Lyons takes us inside HubSpot, and the wild world of youth-centric, content driven start-up culture. New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast talks about her life, art and “Cartoon Memoirs,” an exhibit of...
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Electric Eels Bunking with Tigers: The Itinerant New York Aquarium
On October 1st, 1941 Castle Garden in Battery Park shut its doors as the New York Aquarium. It would take sixteen years for the aquarium to find a new home at Coney Island.Operating under the aliases...
View ArticleFall Arts Preview: A 24-Hour Performance and the Muppets Take Queens
Combing through all the city's exhibits, performances and arts events can seem daunting, so Christopher Bonanos, senior editor for New York Magazine, shared some his top picks for the fall.1. Taylor...
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Congressional commission proposes women’s history museum
One suggested site for the proposed women’s history museum was across the new National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Photo by Carlos...
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One painter on why understanding art is as simple as looking
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now: freeing yourself to appreciate art in all its forms and colors. That’s the focus of our latest addition to the “NewsHour” Bookshelf.And for that, we...
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Setting the Story of the Kurds in Stone
In recent months, Kurdish peshmerga soldiers have made headlines as critical players in the fight against ISIS. For the Kurds, an ethnic minority group without their own country, this is a familiar...
View ArticleWhat's in Store for Congressman Keith Ellison, Guerrilla Girl Donna Kaz, the...
New Yorker staff writer Vinson Cunningham joins us to discuss his latest article, “The Protest Candidate.” (Online: “Will Keith Ellison Move the Democrats Left?”), which profiles Keith Ellison, the...
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New museum pays homage to the best of communist-era kitsch
A gilded clock and plaster pig are among the items at the new Kitsch Museum in Bucharest, Romania. Photo by Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty ImagesSay what you will about the garish porcelain and misguided...
View ArticleBryan Stevenson on Memorializing Our Country's Shameful History
From New Orleans to Charlottesville to St. Louis, cities across the country are grappling with whether to take down Confederate monuments and symbols and asking what, if anything, should go up in their...
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Fall Culture Moment: Art
Deborah Solomon, WNYC art critic and the author of American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), looks ahead to some of the great museum and gallery shows to...
View ArticleThe Story Behind The British Museum
James Delbourgo, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, joins us to discuss his book Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum. He tells the story of Hans...
View ArticleA Shift in the Met's Admissions Policy
For the first time in 50 years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be charging out-of-state visitors a mandatory admissions fee of $25. Jerry Saltz, senior art critic at New York Magazine, explains...
View Article#MeToo in the Art World
Priscilla Frank, arts and culture reporter for The Huffington Post, discusses the #MeToo Movement and how women's stories are impacting the art world.thinking through those Balthus paintings was such...
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