This is another small museum only in the perspective of being on the NYC Museum Mile by Central Park.
The current exhibit (Jan 2010) is of Man Ray, best known as a photographer, is a key member of the Dada and Modernist Movements.
Why the exhibit is here was a surprise to us, it turns out he is a Russian-Jewish immigrant to NYC. The range of his work presented is excellent, esp since we have seen him being represented in exhibits worldwide, usually a few pieces along aside with Duchamp, Dali and Picasso.
The permanent exhibit ranges over Jewish history dating back over 5,000 years.
It has an excellent presentation of the early tribal period, through the various kingdoms up to the post-roman 70 CE period. From there it covers the wide range of Jewish communities, including WWII, the development of Israel and current period.
The Jewish Museum of New Yourk City
1109 5th Ave
at 92nd St
NY, NY 10128
Current Exhibit:
Illustrating the Imagination: Celebrating Children’s Illustrators From the Cornish Colony and Today
(through March 28th
The Cornish Colony was a community of artists and creative individuals founded in 1885 by a lawyer from New York named Charles Cotesworth Beaman. He soon convinced his friend Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of the premier sculptors of the day, to rent a second home in Cornish, New Hampshire. After Saint-Gaudens made Cornish his summer residence, many of his friends and colleagues followed him to Cornish, and informally created the Cornish Colony. Despite its name, the Colony quickly overflowed the boundaries of Cornish and went on to also include the towns of Windsor, Vermont and Plainfield, New Hampshire.
A wide variety of individuals, from artists to poets to politicians, called Cornish home for at least part of the year, one of the more well known and well represented in the museum is Maxfield Parrish.
Note after seeing the Exhibit
The new curator of the museum has done a bang up job in organizing
3/4 of the museum with some of the top names in children’s book illustrators.
Cornish Colony Museum
147 Main St., Windsor, VT.
(802) 674-6008
New Britain Museum of American Art.
has a great exhibit showing the wide variety of Shaker innovation.
Exhibit Review
Made even more interesting for us because the exhibit arranger is a friend of our from the world of Shaker Studies – Steven Miller.
More coming when we go to the exhibit in March
Clocks encased in silver- or gold-colored metal, likely designed to sit on the counters of pharmacies.
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