NEW YORK CITY
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th St. : 212 769 5100
Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future - This major new exhibition will explore the science, history, and impact of climate change, and illuminate ways in which individuals, communities and nations can reduce their carbon footprints. Opens October 18, 2008.
SonicVision - AMNH in collaboration with Moby, presents a groundbreaking digitally animated alternative music show.
Saturn: Images from the Cassinii-Huygens Mission- Dramatic photos of Saturn and its moons.
Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Ave. : 212 288 6400
Art and China's Revolution 9/5 – 1/11/09. A groundbreaking exhibition that considers the artistic achievement and legacy of one of the most tumultuous and catastrophic periods in recent Chinese history: the three decades following the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Bronx Zoo
Bronx River Pkwy. at Fordham Rd : 718 367 1010
Spring/summer operating schedule is in effect through November 2. Come celebrate the season with African lions, wild dogs, and other sun-worshippers
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
900 Washington Ave.Bklyn. : 718 623 7200
A tour through BBG, no matter what time of year, will be a rewarding experience, complete with an ever-changing natural palette of color, fragrance, beauty, and design.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, at Washington Ave. Bklyn. : 718 638 5000
21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum
More than 40 works from the Museum’s expanding collection of contemporary art goes on long-term view in 5,000 square feet of space newly renovated for this purpose. With contemporary works ranging from Andy Warhol’s Fragile Dress (1966) to Mickalene Thomas’s A Little Taste Outside of Love (2007), the exhibition focuses primarily on work produced since 2000, particularly from the richly diverse artistic community of Brooklyn.
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Av. & 112th St. : 212 932 7347
Explore the Cathedral's magnificently restored Nave. Climb 124 feet through spiral stone staircases to the top of the Cathedral.
The Cloisters – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fort Tryon Park. : 212 923 3700
5,000 medieval European artworks; gardens.
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street : 212 849 8400
House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection –thru 1/25/09
This exhibition showcases Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw’s collection of 19th c. watercolor drawings, which meticulously detail the era’s interior furnishings and document the social, cultural, and aesthetic development of European domestic life.
The Frick Collection
17 E. 70th St. : 212 288 0700
Andrea Riccio: Renaissance Master of Bronze Oct. 15 – Jan. 18
The Frick Collection presents the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Andrea Riccio (1470–1532), one of the most creative sculptors of the Renaissance.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Ave. (at 89th St): 212 423 350
0 Catherine Opie: American Photographer Sept. 26 – Jan. 7
Theanyspacewhatever Oct. 24 – Jan. 7
Using the museum as a springboard for work that reaches beyond the visual arts and commingles with other disciplines such as architecture, design, and theater.
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave. at 36th St. : 212 685 0008
www.themorgan.org
Liszt in Paris: Enduring Encounters
Aug. 29 - Nov 16
When the twelve-year-old Franz Liszt (1811–1886) arrived in Paris in 1823 with his parents, he had already astounded audiences with his extraordinary musical gifts in his native Hungary as well as, in Germany and, most notably, Vienna, where Beethoven anointed him with a kiss on the forehead. Not long after his arrival, he would have a similar effect on the sophisticated cultural community of the City of Light.
Drawing from the Morgan's collections, the exhibition documents the virtuoso pianist's encounters with Parisian society and its cultural milieu through his contact with fellow musicians (notably Chopin, Berlioz, and Paganini), writers (George Sand, Dumas, and Heine), and artists (Delacroix) and their interactions.
Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors
Sept 19 – Jan. 4
Drawing Babar brings to life one of the most treasured children's stories of all time—that of a baby elephant, cruelly orphaned, who has adventures in civilization and eventually returns to the forest to become king of all the elephants. On view are original illustrations and manuscript material from The Story of Babar the Little Elephant (1931), the first book by Jean de Brunhoff, and Babar's Cousin: That Rascal Arthur (1946), the first book written and illustrated entirely by Laurent de Brunhoff, Jean's son.
John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Oct. 7 – Jan. 4
John Milton's Paradise Lost celebrates the 400th anniversary of the poet's birth (1608–1674) with an exhibition drawn from the Morgan's collection of Milton's work, which includes the only surviving manuscript of Paradise Lost. This copy of the first book of Milton's epic, transcribed and corrected under the direction of the blind poet, was used to set the type for the first printing of the poem in 1667. Copies of the first and later editions of the poem, including the first edition of Milton's work printed in the United States, is also on view. The exhibition features Albrecht Dürer's (1471–1528) engraving of Adam and Eve (1504), Richard Westall's watercolor depiction of Satan, and a rarely-seen miniature portrait of John Milton.
Museum of Modern Art
11 W. 53rd St. : 212 708 9400
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night
Sept 21 – Jan. 5
Presenting new insight into Van Gogh's depictions of night landscapes, interior scenes, and the effects of both gaslight and natural light on their surroundings.
The New York Botanical Garden
Bronx River Pkwy.(exit 7W) Fordham Rd. : 718 817 8700
Moore in America: Monumental Sculpture Thru Nov. 2
New York Historical Society
170 CPW at 77th St. : 212 873 3400
www.nyhistory.org
The New-York Historical Society houses a treasure trove of materials relating to the founding of our country, the history of art in America, and the history of New York and its people.
Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings at the N-YHS
Sept 19 – Jan. 7
The exhibition features highlights from the N-YHS collection—over 190 watercolors and drawings out of approximately 8,000 works, including rare sketchbooks and albums.
Among the jewels in the crown are spectacular watercolors of birds and mammals by John James Audubon for The Birds of America (1827-38) and The Quadrupeds (1845-48), portraits of Native Americans by Charles Balthazar Févret de Saint-Mémin, works by Hudson River School artists like Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand, together with important works by key luminaries such as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, William Glackens, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios, and John Singer Sargent. Grant and Lee in War and Peace
Oct 17- Mar 29
General Grant and General Lee. They became America's greatest generals yet used their talents in the war that tore the nation apart. Neither could be purely military men, in a time of crisis that mixed military matters with urgent national politics.
This thought-provoking historical exhibition and its catalog plunges visitors into the promises and disappointments that Grant, Lee and their fellow citizens faced as America expanded west and into Mexico, fought a bloody industrialized war and rebuilt itself as a unified capitalist behemoth in the Gilded Age. Grant and Lee in War and Peace offers a challenging interpretation of the nation's history at mid-century to every American who wonders how we became what we are today.
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave. at 46th Ave Long Island City : 718 784 2084.
Gino De Dominicis
Oct. 17 – Feb. 9
Gino De Dominicis’ first major American museum show focuses on his late paintings made from the 1980s until his death in 1998.
RMA (Rubin Museum of Art)
150 W. 17th St. : 212 620 5000
The Dragon's Gift Sept. 19 – Jan 5
A groundbreaking exhibition of rare religious Buddhist art with a special focus on ancient ritual
South Street Seaport Museum
17 Fulton St. : 212 748 8600
A Life in Whaling. Thru Oct. Visitors will be transported to the reality of 19th century whaling in America.
Staten Island Botanical Garden
1000 Richmond Terr. : 718 273 8200
83 acres of parkland, wetlands, woodland, and formal gardens.
Wave Hill
W. 249th St. & Independence Ave. Bronx : 718 549 3200
www.wavehill.org
Enjoy beekeeping, birding and garden walks and cooking demonstrations. Sign up for workshops on nature photography and pastel art. Enjoy Sunday brunches featuring organic produce.
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. at 75th St. : 1 800 WHITNEY
Corin Hewitt: Seed Stage
Oct. 3 – Jan. 4
Artist Corin Hewitt takes up occupancy in this ongoing installation that is part performance art, part live theater, and part meditation on ideas about still life.
The Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
135 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn : 718 486 7372
www.wahcenter.net
Celebrating John Milton’s 400th Birthday Bridging classic literature and contemporary fine art, performing arts and poetry reading
Art Exhibit - Sept 27 – Nov 2
The Grand Paradise Lost Costume Ball – Sept. 27th 8pm - midnite
Couched amid historical artifacts and contemporary art celebrating PARADISE LOST, the greatest poem in the English language. Perhaps the largest birthday party for Milton in the world, with poets, artists and composers. Tickets $40.
LONG ISLAND
Long Island Children’s Museum
11 Davis Avenue
Garden City 516 224 5800
The 40,000 square foot museum features 12 hands on exhibit galleries.
Nassau County Museum of Art
One Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor : 516 484 9338
Tiffany and the Gilded Age
Sept. 21 – Jan. 4
Featuring the cloistered glamorous world of the Gilded Age and how Tiffany shaped the décor, interiors and fashions of the rich and famous.
WESTCHESTER AND UPSTATE NEW YORK
Blue Hill Art & Cultural Center
One Blue Hill Plaza, Pearl River : 845 359 1584
Scattered amongst skyscrapers at the Blue Hill office complex are sculptures, installations, fine art, and abstract pieces in the concourse, the atrium, adjacent to the pond, and in the lobbies of both buildings. The venues are open and accessible at no charge, thanks to Director and Curator Carolyn deLisser of Piermont, who has been endeavoring to bring art into everyday life since she first opened the exhibit in 1984.
The Corning Museum of Glass
1 Museum Way, Corning, NY : 800 732 6845
Masters of Studio Glass Joel Philip Myers & Steven I. Weinberg is the first in a series of focus exhibitions celebrating the diverse work of contemporary studio glass artists. Thru Oct. 19.
Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Gardens
28 Deveau Rd., North Salem : 914 669 5033
Earth – Fire – Alcemy Sept. 10 – Nov. 22
Ceramics by Jong Sook Kang, Tai Woog Kang, Elizabeth MacDonald, Michelle Martin, Mary Roehm.
Hudson River Museum
211 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers : 914 963 4550
Whitfield Lovell
Sept. 27 – May 10
Internationally recognized for his large-scale tableaux and room-sized installations that combine evocative found historical objects with exquisitely rendered life-sized charcoal portraits, frequently based on historic photographs.
Andrew Stevovich
Sept. 27 – Jan. 11
More than fifty paintings and drawings explore his relationship and inspiration drawn from 20th c. German Expressionism.
Eating on Arcadia
Oct. 4 – Jan. 11
Illustrating the middle-class craze for this scenic transferware, which began in the 1820s and continued for much of the Victorian era, numerous examples of plates, platters, tureens and pitchers featuring views up and down the Hudson River will be juxtaposed with the original prints that inspired them.
Katonah Museum of Art
Route 22 at JaySt., Katonah : 914 232 9555
Conversations in Clay
Oct. 19 – Jan. 11
Kykuit
Sleepy Hollow : 914 631 9491
This hilltop paradise was home to four generations of the Rockefeller family . Your tour will take you to the main rooms of the six-story stone house. Then you will move on through the expansive, terraced gardens containing Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller's exceptional collection of 20th-century sculpture. Artists represented include Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, and David Smith, among many others. The private, underground art galleries with Governor Rockefeller's collection of Picasso tapestries, and the cavernous Coach Barn, with its collections of classic automobiles and horse-drawn carriages, are also part of the experience. Order tickets on line www.hudsonvalley.org.
Lyndhurst
Route 9, Tarrytown : 914 631 4481
Scarecrow Invasion – Oct. 4 – 31
All Fired Up Oct. 6 – Nov. 16
Lyndhurst joins 60 other venues throughout Westchester participating in All Fired Up! A Celebration of Clay in Westchester.
Neuberger Museum of Art
Purchase College, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase : 914 251 6100
Outdoor Sculpture from the Permanent Collection
Storm King Art Center
Old Pleasant Hill Road Mountainville : 845 534 3115
Sol Lewitt – thru Nov. 15
A special exhibition of 11 sculptures by one of the most important and influential American artists of the last century.
CONNECTICUT
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
258 Main Street, Ridgefield : 203.438.4519
ABRACADABRA thru Nov. 30
Abracadabra translates from the ancient Aramaic language as “I Create as I Speak,” and represents artist Paul Ramírez Jonas’s desire to create work that will assert an interactive contract with the public, where one must give in order to receive.
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science
1 Museum Dr. Greenwich : 203 869 0376
Double Exposure: Aerial Photographs of Glaciers Then and Now documents one aspect of the warming climate through panoramas of glaciers once grand but now receding. Thru 10/26
Phenomenal Weather is a family-friendly exhibition that showcases the astounding variety of weather events through interactive displays, objects and images. Thru 11/30
Climate Change: From Snowball Earth to Global Warming Thru 11/9. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through Earth’s history of climatic changes.
The Maritime Aquarium
10 North Water St. Norwalk : 203 852 0700
Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular Oct. 23 – Nov. 2
Amazing transformation is scheduled for outdoor spaces of The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk toward the end of October. Daytime seals, otters, sharks, frogs and fish yield to nighttime dinosaurs, mermaids, comedians, celebrities, animals, pirates and politicians – all portrayed on pumpkins, “Jack-O’-Lantern Spectacular” is a circus for the senses offered at Halloween time. It is an incredible art show with glowing giant squash for canvasses. It is a walk-through movie of separate scenes educing memories, evoking laughter, eliciting tears. Appropriate for all ages, the “Spectacular” is more about being wowed, than scared.
Jack-o’-lanterns are arranged into “skits,” each with a unique theme built around one or more “intricates.” Music, lighting, props and special effects complete the effect. Visitors walk from scene to scene, enjoying wonder after wonder, as they wander the show, he explained.Skits planned for The Maritime Aquarium include: Hollywood stars with a tribute to Paul Newman, pirates of the Caribbean, The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, a “laughing tree” tribute to George Carlin and shifting tides of the election. Tickets are available on the Aquarium’s web site, www.MaritimeAquarium.org,
Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel St. New Haven : 203 432 2800
Benjamin West – Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes 1804
Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret
18 SEPT. — 4 JAN.
This fall the Yale Center for British Art is the first and only venue for a small but fascinating exhibition about a late eighteenth-century hoax that fooled several prominent British artists. Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret brings together paintings and documents pertaining to the hoax from several institutions at Yale and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
In 1796 Benjamin West, the American-born President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, fell victim to a remarkable fraud. A shadowy figure, Thomas Provis, and his artist daughter, Ann Jemima Provis, persuaded West that they possessed a copy of an old manuscript containing descriptions of materials and techniques used by the Venetian painters of the High Renaissance. West used these materials and techniques to execute the painting Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes (1796-97). In truth the manuscript was fake and the story an absurd invention. West had believed it, and, through him, a number of other key artist-Academicians.
Sun, Wind, and Rain: The Art of David Cox
16 OCT. — 4 JAN.
The Yale Center for British Art will be the first and only U.S. venue for a major retrospective of David Cox (1783-1859). Marking the 150th anniversary of the artists death, Sun, Wind, and Rain: The Art of David Cox examines the work of this important figure in the development of British landscape and watercolor painting.
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel St. New Haven : 203 432 0600
Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian
Sept 9–Nov. 30
This exhibition showcases mural-size prints from the late fifteenth century to 1630, when ambitions—to rival painted images, to assert and justify political rule, or simply to adorn wall surfaces—prompted printed imagery to expand. Surviving in far fewer numbers than smaller prints, mural-size print ensembles sometimes reached over ten feet in height and stretched to sixteen feet in length.
Grand Scale displays approximately fifty oversize prints from the German, Italian, and Netherlandish schools, including compositions by Sandro Botticelli, Albrecht Dürer, Titian, Jacopo Tintoretto, Bartholomaeus Spranger, and Peter Paul Rubens.
NEW JERSEY
Hunterdon Museum of Art
7 Lower Center St., Clinton : 908 735 8415
The Hunterdon Museum of Art presents changing exhibitions of contemporary art and design in a nineteenth century stone mill that is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Liberty Science Center
222 Jersey City Blvd. Jersey City : 201 200 1000
Liberty Science Center is an innovative learning resource for lifelong exploration of nature, humanity and technology, strengthening communities and inspiring global stewardship.
The Montclair Art Museum
35 Mountain Ave., Montclair : 973 746 5555
American Abstraction: Dialogue With the Cosmos thru Feb. 2009
Kay WalkingStick, a trustee of the Montclair Art Museum and the first Native American female artist to be included in H.W. Janson’s History of Art, will create a sight-specific mural, American Abstraction: Dialogue With the Cosmos, to reflect her Native American heritage.
Morris Museum
6 Normandy Hts. Rd. Morristown : 973 971 3700
Timeless: An Exhibition of Drawings
Sept. 30 – Dec. 21
The Newark Museum
49 Washington St. Newark : 973 596 6550
Paths to Impressionism: French and American Landscape Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum
Sept. 17 – Jan. 4
Escape into the 19th c. French and American landscape paintings that include masterworks by Claude Monet, George Inness and Childe Hassam. Poetic views of the countryside, mysterious forest interiors and dazzling investigations of light and color highlight the diverse subject matter and the varied ways that artists interpreted nature.
Princeton University Art Museum
Nassau St., Princeton : 609 258 3788
Strangers in a Strange Land: Chinese Art From the Imperial Palaces Sept. 27 – Dec. 14
Frank Gehry: On Line Oct. 4 – Jan. 4
Jasper Johns: Light Bulb Oct. 4 – Jan 4
Felix Candela: Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist Oct. 10 – Feb. 22
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
71 Hamilton St. New Brunswick : 732 932 7237
Pop Art & After: Prints and Popular Culture Sept. 2 – Dec. 14 Dark Dreams: The Prints of Francisco Goya
Sept. 2 – Nov. 16 Painting for the Grave: The Early Work of Boris Sveshnikov thru Oct. 12
