Musuem of the City of New York Arts, Food and Nature Tour
TICKETS REGISTRATION TO BE PROVIDED SHORTLY.
– Organized by CUCNY member, Christine Keeley. Guided tour will be led by Efren Olivares. This is a Columbia Club of New York event.
Announcing a special Saturday of the Arts, Food and Nature on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Join the Columbia Club’s Arts Program on Saturday April 13 at 11:00 am for an exclusive tour at The Museum of The City of New York: This Is New York 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture Storytelling in New York.
After our one-hour private Museum tour, Guests are welcome to roam the Museum’s many treasures or gather in the Museum Cafe on the second floor. Plus a Saturday in April offers an opportunity to stroll a hidden gem: Central Park Conservatory Garden, located just across the street from the Museum. Enter through the gate belonging to the Cornelius Vanderbilt mansion, once the largest private residence in New York, where Bergdorf-Goodman now stands. https://www.centralpark.com/things-to-do/attractions/conservatory-garden/
About the Exhibition: “In honor of the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Museum of the City of New York as the city’s storyteller, This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture explores the many y ways that the city has inspired storytelling across art forms. It features famous and lesser-known depictions of New York in film and television, visual and performing arts, music, poetry and literature, and even fashion, painting a collective, moving, and sometimes funny version of a city that has captured the world’s imagination.
The full-floor exhibition is organized around the types of urban spaces where the stories of New York are told. “Tempo of the City” explores the ways in which artists have depicted life in the city’s streets and subways, and the emotions that the experience of joining the public crowd often evoke, whether joy or alienation, fear or pride. The gallery also features “Songs of New York,” an interactive installation that allows visitors to explore the richness and diversity of each borough through songs it has inspired. In the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Gallery, “At Home in New York” spotlights literature and art works that animate the unique challenges and opportunities of making a home in a city of eight million people. The third gallery, “Destination: NYC,” showcases work about the city’s spaces for gathering and spectacle, its dynamic unique nightlife spots, as well as its iconic parks and waterfronts.
A special gallery, “You Are Here,” dedicated to New York on film, provides an immersive 16-screen experience drawn from hundreds of movies about the city made over the past century. The film immersive also includes an introductory installation, “Scenes from the City” which explores how New York has been used as a movie set for the past century.”
You can check out more on the exhibition which run through July 21 here https://www.mcny.org/exhibition/new-york-100