Museums

Last week we happened onto the opening day of the new modern and contemporary wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Met Breuer, which is housed in what used to be the Whitney Museum. The Met Breuer opens with a fantastic exhibition of unfinished art through the centuries…

Last weekend, we went to the Whitney Museum for the first time since it moved to its new, much nicer digs downtown. The opening exhibition “America is Hard To See” is a fantastic crash course on the history of American modern art. It’s exhaustive, a bit exhausting and a lot of fun. These works are…

We are looking forward to exactly one week from now, May 1, when the museum opens its doors downtown, looking out to the Hudson River, abutting the despicably gentrified Meatpacking (where’s the beef?) district, and anchoring our…

Apparently, most of us spend an average of a measly 17 seconds looking at a painting in a museum. Fifteen seconds is all we think we need to…

A few years ago, I was lucky to find myself wandering around an attic at the National Gallery in Prague. I was attending a puppetry workshop by master puppet maker Miroslav Trejtnar and we were invited to visit the storage room where the museum keeps their extensive puppet collection…