Posts Tagged ‘museums’
How New York Works New York City Guide
An estimated 29 million Americans travel to New York each year. Maybe it’s just the lure of the big city. Or, it could be the museums, restaurants, clubs . . .
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In Our Time: The Museum of Modern Art
What do the superstars of modern art have in common with the Vincent Black Shadow motorcyle? They share the stage at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV.
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Trial By Fire: The New York City Fire Museum
Housed in a 1904 firehouse, this museum chronicles the history of firefighting from colonial times to the present. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV.
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Inside New York’s Art World: Tom Hoving
Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Video Archive in the Duke University Libraries: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/dsva/
Diamonstein interviews Thomas Hoving about his career and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(VC 2099)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters is part of the New York CityPass program along with the Empire State Building Observatory, Guggenheim Museum, American Museum of Natural History & Rose Center, The Museum of Modern Art, and Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises or Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island.
New York CityPass is a carefully selected collection of New Yorks most popular, most famous attractions, priced a whopping 44% less than the cost of tickets purchased separately. The CityPass youth price (ages 13-17) shaves 42% off individual ticket prices. New York CityPass is valid for nine days.
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Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe – Whitney Museum
Co-curators Dana Miller and Michael Hays discuss Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, an exhibition featuring one of the great American visionaries of the twentieth century. Utilizing his doing “more with less” credo, Fuller’s designs endeavored to benefit the largest portion of humanity while consuming the minimum amount of the earth’s resources. This video presents four examples of Fuller’s integrated approach to the design and technology of housing, transportation, and cartography–the Dymaxion House, ca. 1930, Dymaxion Transport Vehicle, ca.1933 , Wichita House, ca. 1945, and The Fuller Projection Map, ca. 1943.
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Excuse me, is this a work of art?
“Excuse me, is this a work of art?” is an intervention in contemporary art museums. The project is a commentary about the confusion and sometimes the absurdity of conceptual art. The first stage of the project was made at the MoMA in New York in April 2007.
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Doodle 4 Google 2009 – Museum Rental Exhibit
Learn more about how to rent the National Design Museum, Cooper-Hewitt Doodle 4 Google 2009 traveling exhibit.
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New York CityPass
New York CityPass is a carefully selected collection of New York’s most popular, most famous attractions, priced a whopping 44% less than the cost of tickets purchased separately. New York CityPass allows you to skip the ticket lines at Empire State Building Observatory, Statue Cruises or Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises, American Museum of Natural History, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The Metropolitan Museum, and Guggenheim Museum.
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