Probably of the most interesting exhibition at MoMA right now : take time to watch the video on Matisse creative process at the end of the gallery: amazing!
Amaze your out-of-towner pals with the famed whispering gallery! http://www.localoaf.org/2006/12/30/grand-central-stations-hidden-acoustic-wonder/
The best art gallery! There is a free entrance. Also you may to visit art auctions which are actually public and free.
The most expensive piece of artwork ever sold at auction, Pablo Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," went for $106.5 million to an anonymous bidder here. Read more.
After opening in 1950, the gallery amounted to a salon for the New York School of poets, publishing the first or second books of John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler and Barbara Guest. Read more.
I love museums and art galleries so obviously I would have loved my trip at MOMA. The quietness of the place and the details of the masterpieces. Everything is sophisticated and we'll illustrated.
Iconic photography gallery of midtown. In front of Fuller Building were another master photography space is located, Howard Greenberg Gallery. Always great exhibits. Be sure to check both!
Maya Lin's new show, "Here and There," is up until June 22, 2013. She says of it, “I really wanted people to understand more about literally what’s right under their feet." Read more.
Andy Warhol's "Men in Her Life" - his 1962 black-and-white Liz Taylor silkscreen - sold for $63,362,500 here on 11/08/2010, as part of the "Carte Blanche" contemporary sale that made $137 million. Read more.
The Forum hosts a series of fascinating shows throughout the year. Worth the trip for what may be the strangest building in Midtown: one of the few Raimund Abraham designs ever built.
Check out the "FÜNF RÄUME" Exhibition on view until September 5th, 2011.5 emerging artists have the opportunity to transform a space within the Austrian Cultural Forum. Read more.