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Online Guide to the (over 300 galleries) you need to give yourself several hours to visit as many galleries as you can. At the New York Art Scene Chelsea galleries Web site, you can Craig Roland preview new shows in the district Art and create, save, and print out your own gallery walk to prepare for your f you’re planning to attend the visit the museum’s Web site and visit. National Art Education Asso- view floor plans of the museum, ciation conference in New York find out about special exhibitions, Subways ICity in March, be sure to set and even download audio guides to Once you’ve decided on the muse- time aside to check out the New listen to on your computer or MP3 ums and galleries you’d like to visit York art scene. Whether you prefer player. while in New York, you need to ancient art, contemporary art, or About seven blocks up from the determine how you’ll get to them. something in between, there is a Metropolitan The New York New York art museum or gallery to Museum on City subway is suit your taste. Here is a list of some 5th Avenue the fastest, easi- of New York’s most popular art you’ll find est, and least museums and galleries, along with the Guggen- expensive way a few other useful resources to help heim Museum to get around plan your trip to the Big Apple. and the Coo- the city. Before per-Hewitt leaving home, NYC Art Museums National I recommend Only a block away from the confer- Design printing your ence hotel, the Museum of Mod- Museum, each own map of the ern Art has over 150,000 art and of which are subway routes www.whitney.org design objects to find subway in its collec- directions for tion including possible to do in your trips around the city. See you such must-see an hour or two. If in the Big Apple! works as van you’re interested Gogh’s The in American Craig Roland is an associate professor of Starry Night, art don’t miss art education in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida in Picasso’s Les the Whitney Gainesville, Florida. He is the author of Desmoiselles Museum of The Art Teacher’s Guide to the Internet d’Avignon, American Art, (Davis, 2005). [email protected] Pollock’s Lav- which is seven ender Mist, and blocks down W e b L i n k s Warhol’s Soup from the Metro- Cans. Down politan and one www.moma.org the street from block over on www.frick.org American Folk Art Museum MoMA, is the Madison Avenue. www.folkartmuseum.org American Folk Lastly, for a Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Museum, where you can see unique viewing experience check www.metmuseum.org early American folk art as well out the , which works by contemporary self-taught includes a diverse range of Western Solomon R. Guggenhein Museum artists. painting, sculpture, and decorative www.guggenheim.org Venturing further away from the arts displayed in the 5th Avenue Cooper-Hewitt National Design conference hotel, the Metropolitan mansion of Henry Clay Frick. Museum ndm.si.edu Museum of Art is definitely worth Whitney Museum of American Art a visit. While it would take days to Chelsea Gallery District www.whitney.org see everything in the Metropolitan, If you’re interested in contemporary Frick Collection www.frick.org which spans four city blocks, give art, you should head for Chelsea’s yourself a full morning or afternoon gallery district located mostly Chelsea Gallery District to take in the exhibits you most between 10th and 11th avenues chelseaartgalleries.com want to see. To prepare for your with the greatest concentration of New York City Subways visit to the Metropolitan, you can galleries between 20th and 27th www.nycsubway.org/maps streets. Since the district is so large 30 SchoolArts March 2007