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The 30th Annual Museum Mile Festival Tuesday, June 3, 2008
| June 3, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
THE 30TH ANNUAL MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2008 FROM 6 PM TO 9 PM
FREE MUSEUM ADMISSIONS,
OUTDOOR ART ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN
New York, NY - Now celebrating its 30th year, the annual Museum Mile Festival (www.museummilefestival.org) will take place rain or shine on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Well over one million people have taken part in this annual celebration since its inception. Festival attendees can walk the Mile from 82nd Street to 105th Street and visit nine of New York City’s finest cultural institutions open free that evening to the public. In addition, several of the participating museums will offer outdoor art activities for children.
The Museum Mile Festival’s opening ceremony will take place at 5:45 pm at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (91st Street off Fifth Avenue). Traditionally, the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs and other city and state dignitaries have opened the Festival.
El Museo del Barrio; The Museum of the City of New York; The Jewish Museum; Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Neue Galerie New York; Goethe-Institut New York/German Cultural Center; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art are the nine institutions that participate in this highly successful collaboration.
Fifth Avenue will be closed to traffic and become a strollers’ haven. Special exhibitions and works from permanent collections will be on view inside the museums’ galleries and live music from jazz to Broadway tunes to string quartets will be featured in front of each museum. Additional street entertainers will perform along Fifth Avenue all evening. Exhibitions on view will include: Catholics in New York 1808-1846, a fascinating social history of one of the region’s largest Christian faiths, which tells the story of how this community made an indelible imprint on the city through hauntingly beautiful photographs, revealing documents, and other historic artifacts, at the Museum of the City of New York; Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, the first major U. S. exhibition in 20 years to rethink Abstract Expressionism, featuring fifty extraordinary works by 31 artists including Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko, and Frankenthaler, at The Jewish Museum; Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008, which fully explores the Rococo style and its continuing revivals up to the present day in multiple fields, including furniture, decorative arts, textiles, prints, and drawings, at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, featuring contemporary works by over 100 of the finest American artists from across the country, bringing together emerging and established painters, sculptors, printmakers, installation artists, and architects, including Maria Elena Gonzalez, Steven Holl, Sean Scully, and James Wines, at the National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts; A Year with Children 2008: Selected Works from Learning Through Art, an annual exhibition showcasing approximately 250 artworks by students from public schools throughout New York City that participated in the artist-led Learning Through Art (LTA) education program of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry, the first major museum exhibition devoted exclusively to Wiener Werkstätte jewelry, featuring more than 40 exquisite pieces designed by Josef Hoffmann, Kolomon Moser, and Dagobert Peche, among others, at the Neue Galerie New York; and Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, featuring movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear showing how fictional characters influence fashion, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Established in 1978 to increase public awareness of its member institutions and promote public support of the arts, the Museum Mile Festival has served as a model for similar events across the country. For further information, the public may call 212-606-2296 or visit the festival Web site at www.museummilefestival.org.
EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW:
El Museo del Barrio: The galleries at El Museo del Barrio will be closed while the museum undergoes a major renovation campaign. However, El Museo will continue to offer mural making and workshops with art educators on Fifth Avenue, and will present live music and dance performances in partnership with the Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts.
Museum of the City of New York: Catholics in New York 1808-1846 and Timescapes
The Jewish Museum: Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976; Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered; Art, Image and Warhol Connections; Oil/Water-Mother/Daughter: Video and Photography by Mor Arkadir; Pomegranate: A Video by Ori Gersht; Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey; and for children, Archaeology Zone: Discovering Treasures from Playgrounds to Palaces
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum: Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730 - 2008, Campana Brothers Select: Works From The Permanent Collection, and Multiple Choice: From Sample To Product
National Academy Museum: 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: The Thannhauser Collection and A Year with Children 2008: Selected Works from Learning Through Art
Neue Galerie New York: Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections and Wiener Werkstätte Jewelry
Goethe-Institut New York/German Cultural Center: To be determined
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy; New Greek and Roman Galleries; Galleries for 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Paintings and Sculpture; New Gallery for Art of Native North America, New Galleries for Oceanic Art
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