ONLINE RESOURCES: ARTS & CULTURE Museum of the City of New York Dear Neighbor, New York, New York Website: https://www.mcny.org We have all been dealing with the isolation caused by the COVID-19 Virtual experience: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/museum-of-the-city- pandemic, and trying to find new ways to connect. Fortunately, for those of of-new-york us who have access to the internet, there are a host of resources available that can allow us all to remain connected. In October, my office hosted Founded in 1923 as a private, nonprofit corporation, the Museum of the City an online forum that explored arts and cultural resources available online. of New York celebrates and interprets the city, educating the public about its Staff and interns also compiled a selection of those resources, and I distinctive character, especially its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual wanted to use this newsletter to share them with you. Below you will find transformation. The Museum connects the past, present, and future of New York a collection of virtual experiences from around the world. Experiences City, and serves the people of the city as well as visitors from around the world on this list are not endorsements from our office. Some experiences are through exhibitions, school and public programs, publications, and collections. Or free, while others are ticketed. Please check the host’s website as events join the Museum of the City of New York’s interactive, virtual workshops to see continue to evolve. and discuss visuals from the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibitions and collections. I hope you will find these resources useful. The Jewish Museum New York, New York Website: https://thejewishmuseum.org Virtual experience: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-jewish-museum- new-york Plan a unique experience for your group with a virtual tour of the Jewish Museum led by a Museum staff member. Tours will be set up by the Museum via Zoom. Tambaran Gallery ART New York, New York Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Website: http://www.tambaran2.com New York, New York Virtual experience: http://www.tambaran2.com/home Website: https://www.cooperhewitt.org Tambaran, one of New York City’s most respected Tribal Art galleries, Virtual experience: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/cooper-hewitt- specializing in exceptionally beautiful museum quality pieces, has now expanded national-design-museum into contemporary art. Tambaran 2, founded only several years ago by Maureen Cooper Hewitt is America’s design museum. Inclusive, innovative and Zarember, is a dynamic art space that specializes in showcasing exciting experimental, the museum’s dynamic exhibitions, education programs, master’s contemporary artists. Many of the collections are available to view online. program, publications and online resources inspire, educate and empower people The Frick Collection through design. An integral part of the Smithsonian Institution—the world’s New York, New York largest museum and research complex—Cooper Hewitt is located on New York Website: https://www.frick.org City’s Museum Mile in the historic, landmark Carnegie Mansion. Steward of one Virtual experience: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-frick-collection of the world’s most diverse and comprehensive design collections—over 210,000 objects that range from an ancient Egyptian faience cup dating to about 1100 BC The Frick Collection includes superb examples of Italian paintings and bronzes, to contemporary 3-D-printed objects and digital code. Dutch seventeenth-century works of art, Limoges enamels, English eighteenth- century portraits, French eighteenth-century paintings and furniture, nineteenth- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum century paintings and Chinese porcelains. Artists represented in the Collection New York, New York include Rembrandt van Rijn, Giovanni Bellini, El Greco, Frans Hals, Johannes Website: guggenheim.org Vermeer, François Boucher, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Virtual experience: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/solomon-r- Mallord William Turner, James McNeill Whistler, Francesco Laurana, Jean- guggenheim-museum Antoine Houdon, and Severo Calzetta da Ravenna. Founded in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is dedicated to MoMA The Museum of Modern Art promoting the understanding and appreciation of art, primarily of the modern New York, New York and contemporary periods, through exhibitions, education programs, research Website: www.moma.org initiatives, and publications. Virtual experience: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/moma-the-museum- Neue Galerie New York of-modern-art New York, New York Explore past exhibitions from 1929 to the present: mo.ma/history. Founded Website: https://www.neuegalerie.org in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in midtown Manhattan was Virtual experience: https://www.neuegalerie.org/collection the first museum devoted to the modern era. Today MoMA’s rich and varied The collection of Neue Galerie New York covers a range of media, including collection offers a panoramic overview of modern and contemporary art, from painting, sculpture, works on paper, decorative arts, and photographs created in the innovative European painting and sculpture of the 1880s to today’s film, Austria and Germany between 1890 and 1940. design, and performance art. From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, the collection has grown to include over 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects; New York, New York approximately 22,000 films and four million film stills; and, in its Library and Website: https://www.metmuseum.org Archives, over 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and extensive Virtual experience: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-metropolitan- individual files on more than 70,000 artists. Collection highlights include Claude museum-of-art Monet’s Water Lilies, Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night, and Pablo Picasso’s The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, along with more recent works by Andy Warhol, experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in three iconic sites in New York City— Elizabeth Murray, Cindy Sherman, and many others. The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people The Morgan Library & Museum also take part in The Met experience online. New York, New York Google Arts & Culture Website: https://www.themorgan.org Website: https://artsandculture.google.com Virtual experience: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-morgan-library- museum Offers access to over 500 institutions, to explore some of the world’s greatest museums. Google Arts & Culture is a non-profit initiative. They work with A complex of buildings in the heart of New York City, The Morgan Library & cultural institutions and artists around the world. Together, their mission is to Museum began as the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it is accessible to anyone, one of the preeminent collectors and cultural benefactors in the United States. anywhere. The National Arts Club In addition, Google has a platform called Open Heritage which offers virtual New York, New York tours of ancient heritage sites including Machu Picchu, Stonehenge, the Pyramids Website: https://www.nationalartsclub.org of Giza, or discover a wealth of lesser-known but equally fascinating wonders. Virtual experience: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-national-arts- club Website: https://artsandculture.google.com/project/openheritage The mission of The National Arts Club is to stimulate, foster, and promote public The National Gallery of Art interest in the arts and to educate the American people in the fine arts. The Club’s Washington, DC permanent collection includes over 600 works including paintings, sculptures, Website: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/nationalgallery-of-art- photographs, and works on paper. washington-dc Children’s Museum of the Arts The National Gallery of Art – the nation’s museum – preserves, collects, exhibits, New York, New York and fosters an understanding of works of art. Website: https://cmany.org/ El Museo del Barrio, BomPlenazo 2020 | Concert and Convos Virtual experience: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/childrens-museum- New York, New York of-the-arts Website: https://www.elmuseo.org Founded in Lower Manhattan in 1988, Children’s Museum of the Arts’ unique Virtual experience: https://www.elmuseo.org/event/plena-combativa/ curatorial program introduces children and families to world-class contemporary New York’s leading Latino cultural institution, welcomes visitors of all art exhibitions and art-making workshops taught by professional artists. The backgrounds to discover the artistic landscape of Latino, Caribbean, and Latin central Cynthia C. Wainwright Gallery displays a rotating series of contemporary American cultures. Their richness is represented in El Museo’s wide-ranging artwork by emerging and established artists from New York City and around the collections and exhibitions, complemented by film, literary, visual and performing world. In addition, CMA’s dual-level Bridge hosts a rotating series of interactive arts series, cultural celebrations, and educational programs. site-specific installations that are thematically linked to the main exhibition