New York City is one of the most beautiful cities in the world: it is lively, dynamic, inspiring, in constant ferment, but when the snow falls soft and icy on the huge tree of Rockefeller Center, Central Park and the wonderful Brooklyn Bridge maybe it is even more so. Christmas is upon us, a trip to the Big Apple could be a good gift to find under the tree, as the American – but also our local – film tradition teaches.
Now let's see what exhibitions some of the most famous museums in the city and in the world offer at this time of year.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Delacroix
Eugéne Delacroix crossed the Atlantic Ocean and landed in New York City to celebrate the 220th anniversary of his birth. The Delacroix exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art is organized in the joint collaboration of the Louvre with Sébastien Allard, Director of the Department of Painting, and Côme Fabre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Asher Miller, Associate Curator.
“Delacroix was one of the key figures in European painting”, says Max Hollein, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “and he influenced contemporary art. Ultimately, this exhibition has the opportunity to tell the story of his genius and to describe his creative and innovative scope ”.
The exhibition itinerary develops following a precise chronological order marked by one hundred and fifty paintings, drawings, prints and manuscripts, many of which have never been exhibited in the United States and come from the most important museums in the world. Among the many masterpieces on display will be: Greece on the ruins of Missolongi (1826), The Battle of Nancy (1831), Women of Algiers in their apartments (1834), Medea (1838) and The Lion Hunt (1855).
When and where: until January XNUMX at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, United States
Whitney Museum of American Art
Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again
Few American artists are as ever-present and instantly recognizable as Andy Warhol. Through his willingness to experiment with non-traditional art techniques, Warhol understood the growing power of images in contemporary life and helped expand the role of the artist within society. This exhibition, the first Warhol retrospective organized by an American institution since 1989, considers the work of one of America's most inventive, influential and important artists.
When and where: from November 12, 2018 to March 31, 2019 at the Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, United States
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future
When Hilma af Klint began creating radically abstract paintings in 1906, they were like little that had been seen before: bold, colorful, and detached from any recognizable references to the physical world. It was years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and others would make strides to rid their artwork of representational content. However, while many of her better-known contemporaries issued manifestos and exhibited extensively, af Klint kept her groundbreaking paintings largely private. She rarely exhibits them and, convinced that the world is not yet ready to understand her work, she stipulates that she not be exhibited for twenty years following her death. Ultimately, her work remained largely invisible until 1986, and it was not until the next three decades that her paintings and works on paper began to receive serious attention.
Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future is organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with the Hilma af Klint Foundation in Stockholm.
When and where: from 12 October 2018 to 23 April 2019 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128, United States
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
The National September 11 memorial & museum is a museum and memorial created in New York to document the attacks of September 11, 2001 and remember their victims. Spread over 1.000 square meters, mostly below ground level, the permanent exhibition, made up of an impressive set of exhibits, documents, photographs, videos and multimedia stations, is divided into three sections: the Historical Exhibition - dedicated to the events of the 'September 1993 and its historical consequences -, the Memory Exhibition - which commemorates the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 and 11, and a third section, entitled Foundation Hall, which exhibits two impressive artifacts recovered from the ruins of Ground Zero, a retaining wall and an XNUMX-metre long steel column, representing both a reminder of the tragedy of the Twin Towers and a symbol of survival and hope.
When and where: the museum is always open
180 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10007, United States
