All students should be aware that although the Art Department is sponsoring this trip, we will not be providing direct supervision. However, if any student needs advice or assistance while in New York, we will be happy to make ourselves available.

Admission charges for all group visits are paid by the Art Department. Keep receipts for individual museum visits for reimbursement after the trip.

Please note that all museum and studio visits are required (unless otherwise indicated). Students are expected to arrive on time. We will not be able to wait for late arrivals. If you fail to show up for an activity you signed up for, you willbe considered absent. You will be severely penalized for repeated failure to attend required activities, to the point of being sent home.

Ruth Kolarik, Kate Leonard, Gale Murray, Carl Reed
 
 

October 18    Wednesday

4:15 a.m. Meet in front of Packard Hall,  C.C. bus  leaves for the Colorado Springs Airport at 4:30 a.m. sharp 6:00 a.m. Depart on United Airlines Flight 6992 for Chicago 11:00 a.m. Depart Chicago on United Flight 678 .  2:18 p.m. Arrive New York (LaGuardia).  Share a cab with two to three other students for trip to  Pickwick Arms Hotel, 230 E. 51st St.  Phone: (212) 355-0300. Check in. 4:30 p.m.  Meet in the Pickwick Lobby for a walking tour of neighborhood with Ruth Kolarik.  Purchase METRO cards.  Evening free.

Arrival at the exclusive Pickwick Arms Lobby of the Pickwick Arms

October 19    Thursday

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 9:15 a.m. Meet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,  81st St. & 5th Ave.,  (212) 879-5500 Directions: Walk (Allow 40 minutes!) take #2, #3 or #4 Madison Ave. bus to 82nd St., then walk one block west to 5th Ave or take the subway--walk to the 51st Station 6, (East 51st St. & Lexington Avenue) Uptown entrance Take Train #6 Pelham Bay Park and exit at the 77th Street Station, walk west three blocks to 5th avenue (towards Central Park) and north to the Metropolitan (82nd Street). 9:30 --11:00 a.m. Independent viewing, including your journal work 11:00 a.m. Everyone will meet back in main lobby as a group to tour various galleries with individual faculty members. Vollard Show – Gale Murray Egypt and/or Greece – Ruth Kolarik Old Master Paintings – Bogdan Swider Photography – Scott Johnson Sculpture/Roof Garden – Carl Reed   12:30 p.m. Booklyn Artists Alliance with Colin Frazer. Booklyn is an artist-run grassroots nonprofit in Brooklyn dedicated to promoting artist books as an art form and educational resource. Come check out a cool artist-driven collective. Meet on the front steps of the Met. 1:00 p.m. Lunch on your own or group picnic lunch in Central Park. Meet on the steps; bring your lunch (buy it in the morning near the hotel). 2:00 p.m. Free time in the museum, journal assignments. NOTE: Museum is also open Friday & Saturday evenings until 9:00 p.m., Sunday from 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. and closed on Mondays.

Some of the current shows at the Metropolitan

October 20      Friday

SMALL GROUP VISITS TO MUSEUMS, ARTIST'S SPACES Today will be devoted to a series of activities for small groups, led by individual instructors. You will have signed up for these activities prior to departure for New York. You must attend at least one. A.M.. ACTIVITIES  All a.m. groups will meet in the lobby of the Pickwick at the following times: 8:00 a.m. Guggenheim Museum--A behind-the-scenes tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's building before it's open to the public, with Scott Johnson and Ruth Kolarik. 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street (212) 423-3500 9:30 a.m. Book arts with Jean Gumpper, Kate Leonard and Miriam Schaer. The group will visit The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th St., 3rd Floor (212) 481-0295 and Printed Matter (195 10th Avenue (212) 925-0325 Socrates Sculpture Park, the Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Road (at Vernon Boulevard), Long Island City, and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, 22-25 Jackson Ave. at 46th Ave., Long Island City (718) 784-2084 with Carl Reed 10:00 a.m The Frick Collection with Rebecca Tucker and Bogdan Swider 1 East 70th Street (212) 288-0700 . The Neue Galerie featuring turn-of the-century art (Schiele and Klimt) including Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer, also a Bauhaus exhibit, with Gale Murray 1048 Fifth Avenue at 86th Street P.M. . ACTIVITIES--Meet at the site  2:00 p.m. The Frick Collection with Rebecca Tucker and Bogdan Swider 1 East 70th Street (212) 288-0700 Print and paper making with Miriam Schaer, meet at the Lower East Side Print Shop 306 West 37th St. 6th Floor (212) 673-5390. The group will also visit Dieu Donne Papermill at 433 Broome Street (212) 226-0573 3:00 p.m. Neue Galerie featuring turn-of the-century art (Schiele and Klimt) including Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer, also a Bauhaus exhibit, with Gale Murray 1048 Fifth Avenue at 86th Street 6:30 p.m. Dinner with C.C. alumni at Cascina Ristorante 647 Ninth Avenue Between 45 th & 46 th Streets (212) 245-4422 Take the E train from Lexington & 53 rd St Station (entrance near 3 rd Ave ) heading Downtown. Get off at 42 nd Street . Exit near intersection of W 42 nd St and 8 th Ave. Go West on W 42 nd St towards 9th Ave. Turn right onto 9th Ave and walk uptown.

P.S. 1   Adele Bloch-Bauer   Alumni Dinner

October  25     Wednesday

FREE TIME UNTIL YOU LEAVE FOR THE AIRPORT Please be packed and check out prior to 1:00 p.m.  The Hotel will store baggage  until you leave.  1:00 p.m. Leave Pickwick Arms Hotel by cab (three or four students/cab) for airport.  4:05 p.m. Depart New York (LaGuardia) on United Airlines Flight #315 to Denver. 7:35 p.m. Depart Denver on United Flight #66912 8:12 p.m. Arrive Colorado Springs Airport 8:30 p.m. Return to campus on CC Bus

For students who are staying through block break, check your copy of the electronic ticket for departure and arrival times.
 

SENIOR SEMINARS IN ART FALL 2006

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT

We will provide a blank notebook for your journal. Fill the journal with planned activities, impressions, images, souvenirs and text that will be a record of your trip. In addition to your own observations and reflections please complete the following assignments. (Please do not use this journal for material of a personal nature.)

THE JOURNAL IS DUE MONDAY, November 6, 2006

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENTS BY DAY

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

Choose one of the following projects to work on while at the museum.  

Approaches to the Met.

The collections of the Met are comprehensive and can be overwhelming. Look carefully at a few art works, rather than trying to see everything. Look for art works that are already familiar to you, but also visit a gallery or two with art works you have never seen.

A. Choose at least 3 objects for close study--art works that relate in a way that is meaningful to you, the viewer. This relationship could include aesthetic qualities (such as a certain use of line, color, negative space, approaches to form, replication, or other), or could consider subject matter, material, historical relationship, style, or other. Explain the details of the connection you see, and how the objects do (or don't) fit in the museum environment. Your explanation may take the form of an essay or annotated sketches. Be sure to identity the art works completely, you might include postcards or photos.

B. Construct your own tour of the museum.  

Comprehensive museums have historically been arranged according to chronology and geography. Their exhibits are usually designed to educate the public about the art of particular historical periods and/or cultures. Sometimes galleries are arranged to highlight a recent acquisition or a “masterpiece”. As you walk around the museum, think about the layout of the galleries and the flow of visitors. Then write a description of how you would lead visitors through the spaces. What galleries would you visit, and in what order? What objects do you see that you would highlight, and why? For whom? Go to a gallery with few people in it and examine something unfamiliar to you – does it get you thinking in any new way?

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, SMALL GROUP ACTIVITIES

Write a thoughtful account of your small group activity. If it was not your first choice, did it turn out to be interesting? Why? If it was your first choice, did you experience things differently than expected?

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, GALLERY VISITS

Write about a gallery visit, in addition to using the Guidelines for Careful Looking (see below); make sure to cover the following questions that relate specifically to contemporary art: Identify the gallery and artist(s)

1. Describe the gallery space – what is communicated to you visually by the character of the environment?
2. What are the themes and ideas of the show?
3. Note a connection or contrast between work in the show and other work that you have seen so far on the trip.
4. Why do you think this work is on exhibit here?
5. What was the artist trying to do and how successful was he/she?

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 THE CLOISTERS OR DIA BEACON

BACKGROND INFORMATION

The Cloisters

As we travel to the Cloisters on the Number 4 Bus, we will pass through a number of New York 's diverse neighborhoods. Pay attention to the architecture, streetscape and public. Watch as the urban fabric changes. Try to assess the state of the various neighborhoods. The Upper East Side is one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the city. The neighborhood around Columbia University has quite a different feel. Look for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, a prominent landmark. The Harlem neighborhoods north of Central Park are quite mixed; there are signs of gentrification as well as poverty.

The Cloisters Museum was assembled in the early 20th century from parts of various monastic churches that had been abandoned in France and Spain . They were purchased (with money from John D. Rockefeller) and shipped to New York . The building is an assemblage that gives a “period setting” for the medieval works of art exhibited there. Think of how the exhibits, the Merode Altar Room, for example, make a connection between religion and life at the time.

DIA Beacon

The DIA Foundation is located in Chelsea , and for years it has promoted experimental artists whose work could not easily be installed in conventional galleries. In addition to temporary shows, DIA also acquired a permanent collection, in some cases on a very large scale, which could not be shown in the Chelsea facility. To solve this problem, it purchased an enormous old Nabisco factory located in Beacon, a small city 60 miles north of New York City . This museum now attracts a worldwide audience and reflects a growing trend of exhibiting major collections of contemporary art outside metropolitan areas. Our visit is scheduled to begin before the museum officially opens so that we can view a site-specific work by Michael Heizer, which is roped off once the public enters.

JOURNAL QUESTIONS

Choose one

1. Discuss the Cloisters or DIA Beacon as a museum space. How does this setting affect your perception of the art works? Does their present setting enhance or detract from your experience of the art works?

2. Write a visual analysis of an object of your own choosing in either of these museums. Choose something unfamiliar to you.

3. Looking at the Lookers.

One of the basic tenets of reception theory in the history of art is that paying attention to how an audience views a work of art is central to how meaning is constructed. In this light, choose a room in the museum. Making yourself unobtrusive, observe over at least a 10-minute span how the museum visitors use the space of the room. As yourself the following questions:

How many people came in?
Which objects did they look at?
How did the wall labels function?
For how long did they look, on average, at each object?
How long did they stay in the room?
What did their physical bearing and gestures communicate about their state of mind?
What kind of people were they? Age, gender, ethnicity, place of origin are of interest?
Did they talk? If so, about what?
When you've finished your analysis, sum up your findings. Is the room a success?
What does the audience's reaction reveal about the strengths and weaknesses of the museum's environment?

MONDAY, OCTOBER 23 MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

Choose one gallery or space on the 4th or 5th floor, (or choose the Sculpture Garden ), that contains
works that particularly engage you. Then choose one of the assignments listed below:

•  Write about the works and/or how the space adds to or detracts from the impact of the art.

•  Make a series of visual studies, inspired by the art works.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, SMALL GROUP VISITS
Choose one

1. Write a thoughtful description of your visit today and your responses to it.

OR

2. If you looked at architecture, what you have learned about how an architectural firm functions. How are tasks assigned? What is the role of the design architect as compared to others in the firm?

3. Discuss a building we have visited. Sketch or describe it. Pay attention to overall concept, detail, and relationship to the urban fabric.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25 FREE TIME

Choose one

1. Write a thoughtful account of a museum environment you've visited. Think about the following questions:

a. in what ways does the space compare to other museums you've seen on this trip? Is it similar, or different, and in what way?

b. To what extent does the architecture of the museum add to or detract from the display and vidwing of art?

c. What is the rationale for the museum as it is set up?

 

2.. Conclude your journal with a description of an aspect of the visual environment of NYC. You may develop a topic using guidebooks before you leave for NY, but don’t write the essay until you’ve seen it. Some suggestions: The New York Public Library and/or nearby Bryant Park, the route of the No. 4 bus which traverses Manhattan Sorth/Nouth on the way to the Cloisters, Times Square, Grand Central Station, the Staten Island Ferry, Battery Park City, Wall Street at rush hour, Rockefeller Center, Bloomingdale’s, the campus of Columbia University, the Brooklyn Bridge Ground Zero, Top of the Empire State Building, The Apple Store, The Ralph Lauren Store, whatever you find interesting!!

GUIDELINES FOR CAREFUL LOOKING

The following suggestions for studying art in New York are aimed at encouraging you to take advantage of opportunities that are not possible when looking at slides and other reproductions 

• View the work from varying distances
• Examine such factors as texture, material, weight
• Study color relationships
• Scale
• How is the work presented (framed, mounted, matted, etc.)?
• What is the impact of these elements on the work itself?
• Lighting
• The work’s visual relationship to its neighbors.
• Consider the impact of written explanations, design effects such as wall treatments, architecture, and other educational or atmospheric elements.
• When a piece stimulates you strongly, be sure to schedule a return visit so that you can focus on it exclusively.
• If you are interested in a particular career, artist or medium, plan your own study project. Make an appointment for an interview, call a curator, ask a gallery worker to show you things in storage, contact the print and drawing department at the Metropolitan Museum, etc. It is likely that you will be able to carefully examine things not available to the general public, and to speak with experts in your area of interest.

GENERAL INFORMATION

HEADQUARTERS

Pickwick Arms Hotel  230 E. 51^st St.  (212) 355-0300
 
 

EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS

Police and Medical 911
Colorado College Switchboard (719) 389-6000

For faculty cell phone numbers consult your printed itinerary
 
 

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Most of Manhattan is laid out on a grid: numbered streets run east and west, numbers increasing as you go uptown (north). Avenues run north and south, and 5th Avenue divides east and west addresses. Numbers of avenues increase as you go west (8th Avenue is west of 7th).
20 street blocks (north-south) = 1 mile. Distance between avenues is greater than streets.
Avenue of the Americas = 6th Ave.

Buses go uptown (north) on Madison and 3rd Avenues, downtown (south) on 2nd, Lexington and 5th Avenues. Buses take EXACT change in coins or tokens only & Metro Cards, no bills (Fare is $1.50). You can also obtain free transfers between buses and subway. Free maps of Manhattan for bus routes and subways are available in subway stations.

Buy a "7 DAY UNLIMITED RIDE" Metro Card for $24.00 (as many local bus and subway rides you want to take in a 7-day period, including transfers). The Metro Card can be purchased at subway stations. Remember the pass is good only for 7 days from the time of its first use, if you use it the first day, it will not work past Tuesday the 24th.

Subways are marked EXPRESS and LOCAL EXPRESS trains stop only at express stops. LOCAL trains stop at all stations. The nearest subway station to the Pickwick is at 51st St. and Lexington Avenue. It is a LOCAL station only.

Have your student ID at all times. Many discounts are available.

Keep your map, itinerary, journal and Gallery Guide with you at all times.

NY CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU is located at 2 Columbus Circle at W. 59th St., SW corner of Central Park. Street maps, bus and subway maps, show tickets, activities, etc. Hours: 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. weekdays, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. weekends.

GALLERY NEIGHBORHOODS

SOHO

From Pickwick Arms Hotel, take a "6" train at Lexington Ave. and 51st St. downtown to Spring St. Use the SOHO maps in the Gallery Guide for reference. A few of the galleries open at 10:00 a.m., but most will not open until 11:00 a.m. Check the Gallery Guide for times and exact dates of shows. Some galleries are not well marked, or take a little hunting to find the right floor, elevator, etc., so allow plenty of time. As SOHO is close to Chinatown, take advantage of the opportunity to see that, if only to have a good, cheap lunch. To see a lot of shows quickly in SOHO, go to the Broadway gallery buildings (594, 578, 568 and 560 Broadway). Some of these buildings have up to 20 galleries apiece.

SOHO is a neighborhood in lower Manhattan (SO)uth of (HO)uston St. It was formerly a manufacturing area and has a distinctive character. During the 1960's artists moved into vacated factory lofts where they could live and work very economically. In time, galleries began opening, and these galleries were noted for showing younger artists, in contrast to the established galleries on 57th St. This market blossomed in the 1970's, and has subsequently attracted a large number of commercial enterprises related to art and artists. The area is now a popular destination for tourists, and Saturday is the busiest day. SOHO went through a boom and bust period in the 1980's, and while a number of stable galleries remain, others go in and out of business on a regular basis. Property values are now very high, and some of the newer galleries are surprisingly small. There are many interesting shops and restaurants in SOHO.

CHELSEA

A more recently established gallery district can be found in the Chelsea neighborhood, between 20th and 26th Sts. and 10th and 11th Aves. Well-known galleries have moved here in recent years, and you will also find emerging galleries and artists. The DIA Center for the Arts often has very interesting exhibits, and it is located at 548 W. 22nd St.

57TH  STREET

This is the oldest gallery area, located between 6th Ave. and Lexington Ave. Many world-famous artists are represented, including those of historical interest. Its location makes it convenient to the Pickwick Arms Hotel.

SPECIAL NEIGHBORHOODS

Interior Design Showrooms, 3rd Ave., between 50th & 60th Sts.

Little Italy, Mulberry St., north of Hester St., Lower Manhattan (see map)

Chinatown, south of Canal St., north of Worth St., west of Bowery (see map)

St. Mark’s Place, fun neighborhood to hang out in the East Village.

EVENTS

Look at listings in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The New York Press and others. Time Out New York is conveniently divided into sections very easy to understand, such as entertainment, food, etc. Also, you can pick up the Gallery Guide at most galleries. Most of these publications have extensive web sites. For a weekly on-line schedule of "hip" art and performance events. Sign up for the weekly calendar at FlavorPill.
 

FILM

The Film Forum, 209 W. Houston, 627-2035

Bleeker St. Cinema, 144 Bleeker St., 674-2560

Angelika Film Center 18 west Houston St. (between Broadway and Mercer) shows independent films.

Also: MOMA, Whitney, Japan Society
 

FASHION

Metropolitan Museum, costume collection
 
 

PERFORMANCE ART

Performance Space, 150 1st Ave. at 9th St., 477-5288

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art, Long Island City, 4 23rd St. & Ely Ave., Th.-Sun., Noon -6:00
 
 

ARCHITECTURE

IBM Building, Edward Larrabee Barnes (Architect of Packard Hall, 590 Madison at 57th St.

Grand Central Terminal, Park Ave. at 42nd St. There is a free architecture tour at 12:30 p.m. on Wed.

The Urban Center, 457 Madison Ave., between 50th & 51st Sts., 935-3960. Architecture and design.
Excellent architecture bookstore.

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, W. 112th St. & Amsterdam Ave.

St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 50th St. & 5th Ave.

Rockefeller Center, 47th-50th Sts., between 5th & 6th Aves. Take a look at the Radio City Music Hall lobby and the underground concourse. Compare to Trump Tower, 5th Ave. between 56th & 57th Sts.

A great web site from NYU on the History of New York Architecture
 
 
 

MISCELLANY

Pearl Paints, world’s largest art supply discount store, 308 Canal St., Mon.-Sat., 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sun., 11:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m.

Books, art and otherwise:

Barnes & Noble Sale Annex, 5th Ave. between 17th & 18th Sts., Mon.-Fri. 9:30 a.m.-9:00 p.m., Sat. until 7:00 p.m. and Sun. 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Also at 600 5th Ave. at 48th St. (not as big).

Strand Bookstore 18 Miles of Books at 828 Broadway (the corner of 12th Street and Broadway) 212-473-1452 Monday-Saturday 9:30 AM-10:30 PM Rare Book Room Closes Daily at 6:20 PM Sunday 11:00 AM-10:30 PM
Take the N R Q W 4 5 6 or L train to Union Square. Walk two blocks South to 12th street.

Compleat Sculptor, 90 Vandam St., 243--6074

Utrecht Art Supplies - 111 4th Ave. (between 11th & 12th Sts.), 777-5353
 
 
 

WORTHWHILE SCENES

Sunset view from River Café (Brooklyn Heights, right off Brooklyn Bridge).

Rush hour (5:00 p.m.), 3rd Ave. & 42nd St. Watch the crowds of people going home. Also check out Wall St. and Grand Central Station.

Empire State Building, 5th Ave. between 33rd & 34th Sts. Elevators from 9:30 a.m.-12:00 Midnight.

Staten Island Ferry (IRT Lexington Ave. Express to Bowling Green), FREE & runs every ½ hour from 9:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m.

The New York Public Library, 5th Ave. at 42nd St.

Early morning walk across Brooklyn Bridge.
 

MUSEUM DIRECTORY

American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St.
Ph. (212)-769-5100
Hours: Daily, 10:00 a.m.-5:45 p.m. and Fri.-Sat. until 8:45 p.m.
Admission: $10.50/student.

Asia Society, 725 Park Ave. at 70th St.
Ph. (212) 288-6400
Hours: Tues.-Sun. 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Friday free from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Admission: $5.00/student

Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway at Prospect Park. Ph. (212) 638-5000
Hours: Wed.-Fri. 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Sat. 11:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. and Sun. 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Admission: $4.00 student

The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park. Take the Madison Ave. #4 bus marked Cloisters.
Ph. (212) 535-7710
Hours: Tues.- Sun. 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m.
Admission: $10.00 student (also includes admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art).

Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 2 East 91st at 5th Ave.
Ph. (212) 849-8400
Hours: Hours: Mon-Thurs 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Fri. 10:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m., Sat. 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
& Sun 12:00 Noon-6:00 p.m. Admission: $7.00/student

Dahesh Museum, , 580 Madison Ave (between 56 th & 57 th Sts) Ph. (212) 759-0606
Hours: Tue – Sun 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Admission: $6.00/Student

The Frick Collection, 1 East 70 th St
Phone: 212-288-0700
Hours: Tues – Sat 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Sun 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Closed Mondays and Holidays
Admission: $5.00 Student, $15.00 Adults

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5 th Ave at 89th Street
Phone: 212-423-3500
Hours: Sat – Wed 10:00 am – 5:45 p.m., Fri 10:00 – 7:45 p.m. Closed Thursdays
Admission: $15.00 Students, $18.00 Adults

International Center of Photography, 1133 5th Ave. at 43rd St.
Ph. 857-0000
Hours: Tues.-Thurs. 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Fri. 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m., Sat.-Sun. 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Admission: $7.00/student

Japan Society of New York - Gallery, 333 East 47th St .
Ph. (212) 832-1155
Hours: Tue-Thur 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Friday 11:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m., Sat & Sun 11:00 a.m.-5:00p.m.
Admission: $3.00/student

Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Ave. at 92nd St.,
Ph. (212) 423-3200
Hours: Sun–Wed 11:00 a.m.-5:45 p.m., Thurs., 11:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. and Fri. 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Admission: $7.50/student

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5 th Ave at 82nd St.
Phone: 212-535-7710
Hours: Fri – Sat 9:30 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Sun, Tues – Thurs 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Closed Mondays
Admission: $10.00 Students, $20.00 Adults

The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave at 36th St.
Phone: 212-685-0008
Hours: Tues – Thur 10:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Friday 10:30 – 9:00 p.m., Sat 10:00 p.m., Sun 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays
Admissions: $8.00 Students, $12.00 Adults

The Museum for African Art, 36-01 43rd Ave. (2nd floor), Long Island City
Ph. 718-784-7700
Hours: Mon., Thurs. & Fri., 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Sat. & Sun., 11:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Admission: $5.00/Adult; $2.50/student

Museum of Arts & Design , 40 W. 53rd St., between 5th & 7th Aves. 
Recently remodeled by the architectural firm of Williams and Tsien.  Take a careful look at the facade.
Ph. (212) 956-3535
Hours: Mon.-Sun., 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., with extended evening hours to 8:00 p.m. on Thurs.
Admission: $7.00/student

The Museum of Modern Art. 11 West 53 rd St .
Phone: 212-708-9400
Hours: Sat – Mon, Wed - Thur 10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Fri 10:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Closed Tuesdays
Admission: $12.00 Students, $20.00 Adults

National Museum of the American Indian, Alexander Hamilton U. S. Custom House, One Bowling Green
Ph. (212) 668-6624 Hours: Mon-Sun 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Thurs. 10:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
Admission: Free

Neue Gallerie , 1048 5th Ave at 86th St.
Phone: 212-994-9493
Hours: Sat – Mon, Thurs 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Fri 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Admission: $10.00 Students, $15.00 Adults

The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 556 W. 22nd Street (at 11th Ave ) Ph. (212) 219-1222
Hours: Tues-Sat 12:00 Noon-6:00 p.m., Thurs., 12:00 Noon-8:00 p.m.
Admission: $6.00/Individual  

New York Historical Society , 170 Central Park West, Between 76th and 77th St.
Phone: 212-873-3400
Hours: Tue – Sun 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.Closed Mondays
Admission: $5.00 Students, $10.00 Adults

New York Public Library, 5 th Ave and 42 nd Street
Phone: 212-930-0800
Hours: Humanities collection Tue – Wed 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Thur – Fri 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Sat 1:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays & Sundays
Admission: Free

Pierpont Morgan Library, 29 East 36th St. at Madison Ave.
Ph. 212-685-0610.
Take 5th Ave. bus downtown, walk one block to Madison Ave.
Hours: Tues-Thurs. 10:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Fri. 10:30 a.m.-8:00 p.m., Sat. 10:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. & Sun. 12:00 Noon-6:00 p.m.
Admission: $6.00/student

The Studio Museum in Harlem, , 144 West 125 th St . Ph. (212) 864-4500.
Hours: Wed.-Fri., 12:00 Noon-6:00 p.m., Sat 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. & Sun. 12 Noon-6:00 p.m.
Admission: $3.00/Student

Whitney Museum of American Art , 945 Madison Ave at 75th St.
Phone: 1-800-Whitney
Hours: Wed, Thur, Sat, Sun 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Fri 1:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
Admission: $10.00 Students, $15.00 Adults

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