There’s also Invisible Worlds, an immersive experience that will have even skeptics of such installations (that have swept through cities the world over since Van Gogh’s swirls starred in an episode of Emily in Paris a few years back) darting around guiding water through root systems with their feet. Manhattan’s newest residents live in the Gilder Center’s vast and impressive insectarium and vivarium, which between them account for all sorts of butterflies and some 500,000 leafcutter ants, among others. The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation opened May 4 and, among many other things, brings all kinds of bugs to NYC. The American Museum of Natural HistoryĪcross Central Park on the Upper West Side, a whole new building at the American Museum of Natural History makes its debut. Be sure to say hello to Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Elmo, Big Bird, and all of their friends (47 puppets are included in a collection of some 300 total artifacts). ![]() A dedicated love letter to the career of the late Karl Lagerfeld-the creative director that made Chanel, Fendi, and Chloé the brands they are today- Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty collages some 150 pieces of clothing from the aforementioned houses (ranging from his first creative expressions in the 1950’s to his final 2019 Chanel collection) with the designer’s sketches and other juxtaposed multimedia footage.Įlsewhere at MoMI, The Jim Henson Exhibition is an ongoing tribute to its namesake’s work on shows like The Muppets, Sesame Street, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and more. The Metropolitan Museum of Artįollowing the Met Gala festivities, the Costume Institute’s 2023 exhibition opens to the public on May 5. In collaboration with Queens gallery Mrs., there’s also the new mural Vessels by Mark Mulroney, which is on display in the East Corridor through September 4. Artists are encouraged, at present and on a rolling basis, to submit self-designed flags to the Philip von Zweck project Temporary Allegiance-selected flags will fly for two weeks each from the 40-foot flagpole that greets visitors at Knockdown Center’s entrance. All the while, Knockdown’s sprawling industrial campus houses temporary art exhibitions that are worth checking out. ![]() Indeed, the multipurpose space will, per usual, host a bevy of exciting programming in the summer months- Wire Festival, an unofficial summer kick-off, is a celebration of international electronic music that runs from May 19-20 and brings DJs, art installations, panel discussions, and more to the Center’s enormous atrium. If you’ve heard of Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens, it’s probably in its context as a music venue. The good news: It's totally free, and you can just walk in off the street, zero wait, to the hangar-style space housing her massive flower sculptures." Knockdown Center Inside, it is pretty amazing-and a lot more colorful than most of her other infinity rooms. Senior editor Megan Spurrell checked it out: “You're going to wait in a long line to get into the infinity room-it was at least 50-75-people deep when I dropped by at lunchtime on a Tuesday-though you can subscribe to David Zwirner's email list for a chance to cut the queue. Installation view, Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers The exhibition is free and operates on a first-come, first-served basis, and each visitor’s time within the Infinity Mirrored Room is clocked to ensure that everyone who shows up will get a chance to see it for themselves.Īt David Zwirner, Yayoi Kusama's I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers includes three new sculptures featuring one of the artist's recurring motifs, pumpkins. ![]() It’s also all new-new sculptures next to new paintings next to a brand new infinity mirror installation. Spanning three of David Zwirner’s gallery spaces-located side-by-side at 519, 525, and 533 West 19th Street-and running from May 11-July 21, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers is one of the most ambitious gallery displays of the beloved Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s work to date. But aside from this, the Met and its peers are just as busy with a myriad of other exhibits to cater to every type of museum-goer-find our guide below. The first Monday in May heralds the start of the most anticipated of them all-a new installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, christened by the annual Met Gala extravaganza. Life in the Big Apple begins anew in springtime and arriving with it is a bounty of new exhibitions and goings-on at the city’s many museums and cultural institutions. ![]() Get thee to New York’s museums and get thee to them now.
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