New York, The museums of New York, USA
Created in 1929 by the “ladies”, three funny ladies who were amateurs of a modern art in its infancy, the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York is one of the most famous contemporary art museums in the world and houses many interesting collections and works. Some of the greatest artists’ works are also […]
New York, The museums of New York, USA
The collection of Ancient Egyptian art at The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET) consists of approximately 26,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural significance, dating from the Paleolithic to the Roman period (ca. 300,000 BCE – 4th century BCE). More than half of the collection comes from the Museum’s 35 years of […]
New York, The museums of New York, USA
Photos of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the other collections
When the Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870, it did not own a single work of art. Over the years, through the combined efforts of generations of curators and scholars, collectors, and patrons, the Met collection has grown artistically, geographically, and culturally to represent more than 5,000 years of art from around the […]
New York, The museums of New York, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s (MET) worldwide collection of European paintings encompasses works of art from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries, from Giotto to Gauguin. In addition to its many masterpieces by artists as diverse as Jan van Eyck, Caravaggio, and Seurat, the museum has the largest collection of 17th-century Dutch art in the […]
New York, The museums of New York, USA
Photos of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greek and Roman art
The collection of Greek and Roman art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) includes more than 17,000 works ranging from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine to Christianity in 312 A.D. It includes art from many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. […]
New York, The activities at New York, USA
John Scofield is one of the “big three” jazz guitarists of today (along with Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell). His influence developed in the 90’s and has continued into the 21st century. Possessing a very distinctive and often slightly distorted rock sound, Scofield is a masterful jazz improviser whose music generally falls somewhere between post-bop, […]
New York, The museums of New York, USA
With a surface area of 52,000 m2, 1.5 million objects to discover and more than 500,000 visitors each year, the Brooklyn Museum of Art offers a true cultural world tour. It is one of the oldest museums in the United States, having opened its doors in 1897. Located in Prospect Park, it is known for […]
New York, Streets and neighborhoods of New York, USA
In New York City, Times Square is the busiest square in Manhattan. Sometimes referred to as the Cross of the World, you’ll find many LED screens and costumed characters in Times Square. It’s a great place to take a selfie and one of New York’s must-see sites. It is only recently that Times Square has […]
New York, The monuments of New York, USA
Located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the Top of the Rock is the top of the Comcast Building, a 70-story tower built from 1931 to 1933. At the top, you have access to a spectacular observatory on the city of New York. You can see the Empire State Building of course, but you can also see […]
New York, The monuments of New York, USA
The New York Public Library is New York’s great library, located in the heart of the city on Fifth Avenue. The building, which covers 60,000 square meters, is built in a style now considered the height of the Beaux-Arts style. This central library contains more than 4 million books, some of which are very rare, […]