Sculptor Andy Goldsworthy creates works using natural settings and materials, including leaves, rocks, sticks and ice as well as the natural forces of time and weather. He recently completed a new work in San Francisco — his tallest ever in North America — a 100-foot cypress spire in Presidio National Park. Read more and listen to an interviewhere.
Meet the much loved green suited elephant named Babar on a visit to the Morgan Library. In ‘Drawing Babar’ we see how a father and son created a series which has been enchanting children around the world since 1931. Watch video.
Chast published her first cartoon on the pages of the New Yorker when she was 23, and since then, more than 1,000 of her mini-epics of everyday angst have appeared in the magazine. Learn about Chast’s inspirations for her comic stories: her life as an artist, philosopher, and suburban mom.
A long-missing modern masterpiece, “Tres Personajes,” by Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo, was found among trash on a Manhattan street in 2003. Watch the segment from Antiques Roadshow FYI that helped clinch the discovery.
The Met is showcasing one of the most recognizable works by the most important German painter of the 19th Century– “Two Men Contemplating the Moon”– the third version of one of Caspar David Friedrich’s most famous paintings. Watch a video about the exhibition.
The MoMa was founded in 1929, and moved into, and out of, temporary locations, but in 1939 finally opened the doors of the building it still occupies in midtown Manhattan. The most stunning reinvention of the museum — the ‘New MoMa’ — opened to the public on November 20, 2004. Read more about the building’s state-of-the-art architecture and design…
Remixing the Ordinary is the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Design, opening in the new building at 2 Columbus Circle. The exhibition features work by 50 artists who create artwork and installations comprised of ordinary objects. Watch video…
The 4th Annual ‘Art In Odd Places’ Fest continues this weekend (Oct. 25) along all of 14th St. in Manhattan. The art festival has ephemeral, unexpected artworks cropping up/and/or moving along 14th for the day. Read more about the fest on the Art21 blog, or see the Art In Odd Places site to see which artworks will be occurring.
The New York Historical Society showcases more than 100 famous paintings by artists of the Hudson River School, including Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John F. Kensett, Jasper F. Cropsey and Albert Bierstadt. Watch a video about the exhibitions.
