LET'S ALL GO BACK TO THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
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Let's all go to the Museum of the City of New York on Saturday August 16th from 1pm - 4pm.
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.
TICKETS
The cost for tickets online are:
Adults (ages 19 - 64): $23
Seniors (ages 65+): $18
Students (ages 19+): $14
However, they do have Pay-What-You-Wish-Admission available at the ticket counters, so I highly recommend if you want to pay what you can, then go directly to the ticket counter when you arrive, and purchase your ticket. I will leave what to pay to each Member.
However, if you want to pay online, then here is the link:
As group members of the New York City Art, Film, Museum, Social Club, we are going to visit the following exhibitions at the Museum in the following order:
## Above Ground: Art from the Martin Wong Graffiti Collection
New York’s age of graffiti began on the city streets in the early 1970s. This new movement, often consciously artistic despite its unsanctioned origins, came of age over the next 20 years. Above Ground centers on the many artists who transitioned from illegally writing on subway cars to creating paintings on canvas and exhibiting in galleries and museums. Their works embody an important transitional moment for the movement’s evolution, as it permeated into broader consciousness and significantly influenced global culture. Called "an essential exhibition" by The New York Times, Above Ground provides a window into a vibrant subculture of young creators and highlights previously unseen treasures from the Museum’s major collection of graffiti-based art. The collection, which was donated by the artist Martin Wong 30 years ago, comprises more than 300 canvases and works on paper. Among the highlights on view in this exhibition are works in aerosol, ink, and other mediums by seminal figures in the street art movement, including Rammellzee, Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink, and Futura 2000. Together, they capture the passions and ambitions of artists transitioning from the street to the walls of prominent galleries in New York and around the world.
## You Are Here
"You Are Here" draws on the rich archive of movies set in New York, combining thousands of cinematic moments across 16 screens. Sources include Hollywood blockbusters, independent films, documentaries, and experimental works. By juxtaposing these multiple visions, the dazzling montages of You Are Here make connections and contrasts that allow movies to comment on each other across time and space. Together, they shed new light on the varied New York of our collective imagination.
## Songs of New York - 100 Years of Imagining the City Through Music
Playful, kinetic, and full of surprises, Songs of New York is an immersive interactive experience that introduces visitors to a full range of music from and about New York City, from the 1920s to the 2020s, showcasing everything from be-bop to K-pop, across genres, boroughs, and musical movements. Featuring music from 100 artists, programmed with both sound and visuals, Songs of New York reflects on topics like the subway, apartments, nightlife, and neighborhoods, toggling through acts as diverse as Susanne Vega, Tito Puente, Merle Haggard, LCD Soundsystem, Yoko Ono, Lil’ Kim, and many, many others. The interactive experience will be paired with original photography from the MCNY collection, including works by notable photographers including Allan Tannenbaum, Joe Conzo, Fred W. McDarrah, and Janette Beckman, who captured images of NYC icons such as Blondie, LL Cool J, and the Velvet Underground that celebrate the city’s longstanding role as a place for music making and a source of inspiration for artists across the five boroughs.
# Urban Stomp - Dreams & Defiance on the Dance Floor
Celebrating the creativity and joy of New York City dance cultures, Urban Stomp: Dreams & Defiance on the Dance Floor is a first-of-its-kind exhibition that explores over 200 years of social dance in the city, from the ballrooms and bars of the 19th century to the parks, living rooms, and clubs of today. The exhibition illuminates how New York’s dance cultures and their related dance floors create spaces of collective celebration and social possibilities that have an impact everywhere.
Urban Stomp guides visitors through a rich history of dance, featuring styles like the lindy hop, salsa, hip-hop, hustle, bhangra, vogue, and more—each one born, shaped, or popularized in New York. Through a captivating mix of film, fashion, ephemera, art installations, dance interactives, music, photography, and instruments, the exhibition immerses visitors in the vibrant dances that have shaped—and been shaped by—the city’s ever-changing cultural landscape.
Whether partnered, group, or dancing alone, dancers find spaces of connection that mirror the city’s boundless energy. Audiences will encounter practitioners of everything from the polka to the foxtrot through the Charleston and lindy hop; to styles of salsa dancing, merengue típico, and bachata; to traditions of collective celebration from breakin to litefeet. Other dance forms represented include globally influenced genres such as cumbia/cumbia sonidera, bhangra, contra, Jewish/Yiddish dances, Native/Indigenous American dances, and dabke. All of these dances have taken on new meanings when “remixed” in present-day New York City.
## New York At Its Core
What made New York New York? Follow the story of the city’s rise from a striving Dutch village to today’s “Capital of the World,” and consider its future in our changing world.
## Timescapes
Watch the history of New York City unfold in this 28-minute film narrated by Stanley Tucci. Depending on time, I want to go to the 3:00pm or 3:40pm showing of this film.
LET'S ALL GO BACK TO THE MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK