Weekend, July 13-14, 2024 – GREAT EXHIBITS TO SEE THIS SUMMER
ART AND ENTERTAINMENT
FOR A SULTRY SUMMER
IN NEW YORK
SECRET NEW YORK
ISSUE # 1271
Open through September 29, 2024
Light Line recreates Jenny Holzer’s iconic landmark 1989 installation at the Guggenheim, filling the famous rotunda with scrolling texts, featuring selections from her iconic series, such as “Truisms” and “Inflammatory Essays.” Plus, there’s plenty more of Holzer’s works from the 1970s to the present day, including paintings, stone pieces, and more. Learn more about the exhibit here!
Price: Museum admission
Where: The Guggenheim (1071 5th Ave)
Open through October 27, 2024
Appropriately ranging from Edward Hopper to Paul Revere, this exhibit showcases more than 140 prints, drawings, and watercolors depicting America’s long history. It offers a glance at all aspects of “the American experience” including early 18th-century portraits of Indigenous leaders, picturesque views of towns and cities, inspiring landscapes, and dramatic images of historic events. Learn more about the exhibit here!
Prices: $24
Where: New-York Historical Society (170 Central Park W)
Open through September 8, 2024
Step into a wonderland full of posters, yes posters, that all promote the greatest city on Earth…New York City! Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters is a collection of over 80 posters curated by the internationally recognized authority on vintage posters Nicholas D. Lowry paying homage to the Big Apple. The 19th and 20th century travel posters used to market NYC depict the thriving metropolis, the hustle and the bustle, the bright lights and the imposing structures that still shine through all these years later. It’s a love letter to the city…through the eyes of vintage travel posters. Learn more about the exhibit here!
Prices: Free – $12 depending on day
Where: Poster House (119 W 23rd St)
Open through August 11, 2024
This retrospective exhibit on pioneering artist, curator, and theorist Amalia Mesa-Bains is currently ongoing at El Museo del Barrio. It features over 40 works, touching on intersectional feminist themes, environmentally centered spirituality, and cultural diversity to counter the racist and gendered erasures of colonial repression. The Chicanx artist’s 3 decades of work (much of it anyway) are on display together for the first time. Learn more about the exhibit here.
Price: Pay as you wish
Where: El Museo del Barrio
Open now
Explore 60 million years of elephant history at this upcoming exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History! The Secret World of Elephants is set to include life-size models, fossils, and casts of these beloved creatures to illustrate elephants’ size, as well as videos and interactive exhibits to introduce visitors to these massive mammals’ incredible abilities!
Price: $28
Where: American Museum of Natural History (200 Central Park Ave)
Open through October 31, 2024
This climate change-focused exhibit on Governors Island is the brainchild of Jenny Kendler, whose new activation features intimate, delicate works—all displayed in the cavernous, subterranean magazine of historic Fort Jay, a star-shaped fortification built on Governors Island between 1775 and 1776. Visitors can get up close and personal with pearl sculptures grown inside oysters, bells rung by fossilized whale ear bones, a crystalline whale eye cast of sea salt and human tears, glass vials filled with oil from long dead whales, and a human nervous system meticulously strung from thousands of tiny pearls.
It’s meant to serve as commentary on oysters and whales as central players in an ecological entanglement between human and nonhuman beings, waterways, and flows of capital. Learn more about the exhibit here!
Prices: Free
Where: Governors Island National Monument
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