Founded in 1971 by community leaders, the Bronx Museum of the Arts is a contemporary art museum that connects diverse audiences to the urban experience through its permanent collection, special exhibitions, and education programs. Reflecting the borough's dynamic communities, the Museum is the crossroad where artists, local residents, national and international visitors meet. The Museum offers free admission, supporting its mission to make the arts available to all audiences. Welcome to Jaffa January 30th - March 7th, 2020 "Welcome to Jaffa" brings together works by three artists who have been living and working in Jaffa for decades.
All working in sculpture, Uri Eliaz, Sophie Jungreis and Nachum Inbar recreate spirit out of matter, breathing life into statues made of wood and stone. With solid materials as their starting point, they create images that respond to matter, exploring and working with it to eventually bring out its true essence and story. It was following Artport's recent relocation some months ago that we have gotten to know these artists. The move into our new location, on Ha'amal Street, came with enthusiasm at this new neighborhood.
After five years of activity on Ben Zvi Road, on premises that were relatively cut off, we found ourselves at the very heart of the local art scene. Together with our proximity to the many contemporary art galleries and artist studios that have flourished in the area in the past decade, we were happy to discover senior artists who have been working in South Tel Aviv and Jaffa for decades. The exhibition was born in Eilat Street, behind blue iron doors that enclosed a treasure trove of hundreds of sculptures made of wood. As a residency program that targets young and mid-career artists, we are excited to welcome in artists who, of an older generation, have long been based in Jaffa and South Tel Aviv – long before we came along. Uri Eliaz presents over 60 wooden sculptures made of scraps and residue he has been collecting on the beach in Jaffa since the 1970s. Nachum Inbar presents "The Sculptor and His Sculpture", a series of stone sculptures chiseled directly in stone, by hand, together with drawings that accompany the series.
Sophie Jungreis presents softly-shaped sculptures made in stone, abundant in curves, body parts and unexpected superimpositions. Just two blocks from the Staten Island Ferry, the 1900-seat St. George Theatre is the premier performing arts center for Staten Island, hosting to live performances including dance, comedy, illusion, musical theater, children's events, and music concerts. New York City Center, now in its 70th year, has played a defining role in the cultural life of the city since 1943. It was Manhattan's first performing arts center, dedicated by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in 1943 with a mission to make the best in music, theater and dance accessible to all audiences. The sprawling 370,000-square-foot Dallas Museum of Art, designed by New York architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, houses one of the largest and most impressive art collections in the nation.
And not only can your family check out masterpieces by heavy hitters like Pollock, Rothko, Monet, Rodin and Picasso, but they also can enjoy a variety of excellent programs that the museum offers year-round. There's everything from special late-night experiences to thematic art-making activities, story times and gallery activities for kids and free bi-monthly art tours for teens. In addition to the galleries, the museum boasts a play space as well as an art-making area, a sculpture garden and a cafe featuring a window of Dale Chihuly's glass flowers. And except for certain exhibitions and events, general admission to the museum is always free.
The Drawing Center, a museum in Manhattan's SoHo district, explores the medium of drawing as primary, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture, the future of art, and creative thought. Its activities, which are both multidisciplinary and broadly historical, include exhibitions; Open Sessions, a curated artist program encouraging community and collaboration; the Drawing Papers publication series; and education and public programs. A visit to San Francisco would not be complete without a cultural experience. The city is home to internationally recognized symphony, opera and ballet companies. Many playwrights introduce their works in San Francisco and avant-garde theatre and dance companies dot the city.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Asian Art Museum, the de Young Museum, the Legion of Honor, the Contemporary Jewish Museum and other institutions and galleries are devoted to the finest of classical and contemporary arts. San Francisco is also home to the California Academy of Sciences, the only place on the planet with an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum, and a four-story rainforest all under one roof. There are four car museums in Northeast Indiana that attract visitors worldwide, including two located right next to each other with the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum and National Automotive & Truck Museum. Auburn Cord Duesenberg is one of Indiana's most unique museums, displaying over 120 cars featured on three floors.
Nine automotive-themed galleries let visitors experience automotive history from classic to racing cars. The original Auburn Automobile Company Showroom and offices are located inside the museum as well. The National Automotive & Truck Museum lets visitors enjoy two floors of amazing one of kind vehicles, prototypes, classic cars, and trucks. The pride and joy of the collection is the General Motors Futurliner #10, which was used by the company to tour the country and promote technology of the future.
The Museum is dedicated to making its current and future collections broadly accessible for educators, students, researchers and the general public by providing authentic experiences in the field and at the Museum. Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden is the result of more than three decades of restoration and development to convert the first home for retired sailors in the United States to a regional arts center. It is a place where history, architecture, visual arts, theater, dance, music and environmental science come together to provide a dynamic experience for all ages.
One of the largest, ongoing adaptive reuse projects in America Snug Harbor consists of 26 historic buildings, nine distinctive botanical gardens, a two-acre urban farm, and 10 acres of wetlands on a unique 83-acre, park-like campus. Highlights include a children's museum with a dinosaur dig, an earthquake simulator and a gallery of gems and minerals featuring a 5-foot geode. A good way to start is to take the external glass escalator up to the top and work your way down while enjoying the panoramic views of downtown Dallas.
Whether you're a science buff or just have a curious mind, this place is certain to fascinate visitors of any age. Museums give us the chance to gain an appreciation and understanding of art, culture, and history. Indiana holds a diverse set of museums, including the largest children's museum in the world, exhibits full of fine art, live historical re-enactments, and some of the best military collections in the United States. Thus, it is a must for all Hoosiers to check out these 20 incredible museums. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens – businessmen and financiers as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day – who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. Founded in 1926, China Institute is the nation's oldest, and most comprehensive educational and cultural center devoted to teaching the public about China and Chinese language, art, culture, and U.S.-China business. When I was a little boy growing up in Los Angeles, whenever I saw a German in the street, I looked at him to see if he was a Martian. I assumed that their eyes were different and that they somehow were weird people, because obviously they had done something very strange, very weird, very inhuman, and so they couldn't be human beings. In a German-Jewish dialogue we try to get over that because it's no good. It's not good to be mentally ill in this way, either through denying or demonizing the other.
However, our new-found humanity is based on the fact that we have incommensurable experiences of the past. In that incommensurability, there's a moment of silence that cannot be covered by any amount of words. I think for me, my contact with Germans, and I can only speak for myself, has been extremely important. These relationships have enabled me to understand the humanity of the other, and this is one of the most important lessons that we can learn in life, especially in a virtual world in which human beings seem to disappear into a computer. We must confront this concrete humanity of the other all of the time by confronting the humanity of the other in her or his otherness, and in letting them be someone else with a different experience of reality.
Wild SF Walking Tours offers a food crawl, a tour of the Castro and Mission District, and a Haunted San Francisco Ghost Tour. Go Behind the Scenes at Oracle Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants. You'll have access to the player's dugout, luxury suites, and more. Local Tastes of the City Tours lets you learn about the food history and culture in neighborhoods such as North Beach, Chinatown, and others. You'll make stops along the way to taste all of the unique foods originating from different cultures.
Billed as a brain-bending "edutainment" experience,Museum of Illusionsis ICON Park's newest attraction, with more than 50 incredible exhibits that you won't believe even after you see them! Dive into a wild collection of interactive, immersive and decidedly incomprehensible exhibits based on math, science and psychology, including countless illusions that will keep everyone in your group entertained. Museum programs are designed to nurture the curiosity and creative spirit of three- to eight-year-old children, building the language, literacy and critical thinking skills that lead to lifelong learning. For more than 150 years, BAM has been the home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas - engaging both global and local communities. With world-renowned programming in theater, dance, music, opera, film, and much more, BAM showcases the work of emerging artists and innovative modern masters. While plenty of area museums feature activities for children, the Play Street Museum is one of the only places that's purposefully designed for kids ages eight and under.
With everything from miniature playscapes to building blocks, science experiments and crafts galore, there's no way kids will get bored here. In addition to all the activities on offer, the museum regularly hosts special events, ranging from tea parties to painting and pottery making. Check the website for details on locations and event schedules. For families looking for an urban escape, this scenic wildlife sanctuary and natural science museum hits the mark. Set on 289-acres in McKinney Texas , the Heard boasts 6.5 miles of nature trails, a two-acre native plant garden, live animal exhibits and a replicated 1800s prairie settlement complete with eight playhouse scale buildings.
Not to mention, this place is a hotbed for spotting migrating birds (it's an Audubon Society designated birding area). After hiking through the wetland, bottomland forest, prairie and white rock escarpment be sure to stop in the education center to check out interactive exhibits featuring everything from venomous snakes to marine life and children's fossil dig. However, most visitors will only see the museum, which features 14,000-square-feet of exhibits and interactive displays, including a 22-foot tall ravaged steel beam from the World Trade Center and a full-scale walk-through replica of the Bush Oval Office. Also, on view are some of the gifts given to the President and First Lady from foreign Heads of State. Keep an eye out for special exhibits and events throughout the year.
The Museum of Illusions is one of the most fun museums around because it is fully interactive. Unlike a traditional museum experience, at the Museum of Illusions, you roam freely right through the creations so you can get up-close and personal with the gorgeously executed imagery. You will want to dive straight in to play and pose in our exhibits. It's rare for museums in San Francisco to give such uninhibited license to its patrons through its art. Because each person's interaction with the art is different, every experience is unique.
Of all the museums you can visit in San Francisco, nowhere else will you see so many two-dimensional artworks that fool the observer, who views the work from a particular perspective only to see it transform into a mind-bending 3D scene. The fantasy scenes in our fun museum are in the style of the 3D street art you see in metropolitan centers around the world, gathered here under one roof. This is what makes a visit to our fun museum enchanting for people old and young. Nazism, as it expressed itself in the Holocaust, advanced the suggestion that "we" create a different kind of civilization, in a way that Communism, despite its cruelty, did not.
Nazism was based on the idea that there is no universal conception of humanity, that we do not belong to a common human species, that nobody does. After the Nazis were defeated at the end of the Second World War, that civilizational plan was destroyed. And because of that, because that civilization was really destroyed, that meant that we suddenly are separated by the looming specter of "Nazi Civilization" from whatever preNazi civilization was all about.
Now the emblem of that for our culture is the Holocaust because for us this event is the antithesis of what that civilization was like. We never read about Nazis, let alone about Germans, without thinking about the Holocaust. In other words, it means that I am a post-Holocaust, post-war person, a postwar post-Holocaust person, and so is everybody else. What was a former military base is now a national park and a National Historic Landmark District, widely known for its natural beauty, art and culture, and much more. If you're visiting with kids, don't pass on a visit to The Walt Disney Family Museum, which is full of interactive exhibits and Disney artifacts. Go for a run and replentish your electrolytes with a beer during this series of 5K walks and runs, that take place at breweries throughout Chicago .
All of the Illinois Brewery Running Series events are untimed fun runs, more focused on camaraderie than competition. Participants at each event recieve a free beer, glassware or seasonal swag item, plus access to post-run events that feature live music, food, goodies from sponsors and giveaways. Check out the complete schedule of events on the Illinois Brewery Running Series website. It's time for another block party outside of the Empty Bottle, where you'll be able to catch some free performances and enjoy food from Chef's Special and Taqueria Chingon while shopping the wares of pop-up vendors.
Singer-songwriter Ryley Walker and versatile rocker Liam Kazar headline the day of music, which also included sets from honky tonk act the Hoyle Brothers, cosmic country explorers Tobacco City and electro-pop duo Valebol. Plus, local businesses along Western Avenue will get in on the fun by offerng special deals and you might be able to drench some prominent local figures in a dunk tank. Features long-form digital projects and online exhibitions showcasing acclaimed and emerging authors, artists and performers from Spain. Mascots liven up the game across all collegiate and professional sports, which is why one of the newest Indiana museums is so exciting.
The Mascot Hall of Fame in Whiting features 20 of your favorite furry friends, including Mr. Met from the New York Mets, The Coyote from the San Antonio Spurs, and Brutus from the Ohio State Buckeyes. All kinds of fun occur at the plethora of interactive exhibits in the museum. Visitors can show off their skills in the Department of Phuzzical Education that features a T-Shirt Shooter Stadium or explore the world of mascots at the Science of Silliness. There is even a Build-A-Bear® kiosk where kids can Build-A-Mascot! The Indiana State Museum, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, and the NCAA Hall of Champions all call White River State Park home. TheIndiana State Museumfeatures exhibits and artifacts about the Hoosier State, with Indiana's complete history and culture on full display throughout the museum.
The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art inspires appreciation and understanding of the art and culture of the American West and Indigenous peoples of North America. The NCAA Hall of Champions allows visitors to get hands-on with 24 NCAA sports and learn what it takes to be an NCAA student-athlete. The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art is the first museum dedicated solely to Tibetan art in the United States. Designed to resemble a Himalayan mountain monastery, the Museum is comprised of two fieldstone buildings and a garden. The exhibits include a permanent installation and rotating exhibitions.
Public programs include lecture, films, meditation, tai chi, concerts and family programs. SculptureCenter leads the conversation on contemporary art by supporting artistic innovation and independent thought highlighting sculpture's specific potential to change the way we engage with the world. Positioning artists' work in larger cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts, SculptureCenter discerns and interprets emerging ideas. Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter provides an international forum that connects artists and audiences by presenting exhibitions, commissioning new work, and generating scholarship. The Shed commissions original works of art, across all disciplines, for all audiences.
We bring together established and emerging artists in fields ranging from hip hop to classical music, painting to digital media, theater to literature, and sculpture to dance. Driven by the belief that access to art is a right and not a privilege, The Shed strives to present exciting, engaging experiences. The Museum of the City of New York celebrates and interprets the city, educating the public about its distinctive character, especially its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation. Founded in 1923 as a private, nonprofit corporation, the Museum connects the past, present, and future of New York City.
It serves the people of New York and visitors from around the world through exhibitions, school and public programs, publications, and collections. The Museum at Eldridge Street is housed in the 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue, a magnificent National Historic Landmark that has been meticulously restored. The Eldridge Street Synagogue is the first great house of worship built in America by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Explore the building's history, architecture and culture while discovering its vibrant Lower East Side/Chinatown neighborhood.
Highlights include awe-inspiring architecture, a new stained-glass window by artist Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans, and award-winning digital displays. The Museum of Modern Art is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration. With extraordinary exhibitions and the world's finest collection of modern and contemporary art, MoMA is dedicated to the conversation between the past and the present, the established and the experimental.
Our mission is helping you understand and enjoy the art of our time. This is one museum parents won't have to convince the kids to go to. Situated inside the Frisco Discovery Center, the National Videogame Museum is a veritable retro gamer's nirvana, dedicated solely to the history of the videogame industry. The brainchild of three longtime gamers, the museum features a mind-blowing collection of videogame memorabilia, including the largest working Pong game in the world. And not only can visitors see all the great games from the past, but they can also play them.
