Frick Collection
Description:
A visit to The Frick Collection evokes the splendor and tranquillity of a time gone by and at the same time testifies to how great art collections can still inspire viewers today. Housed in the New York mansion built by Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), one of America?s most successful coke and steel industrialists, are masterpieces of Western painting, sculpture, and decorative art, displayed in a serene and intimate setting. Each of sixteen galleries offers a unique presentation of works of art arranged for the most part without regard to period or national origin, in the same spirit as Mr. Frick enjoyed the art he loved before he bequeathed it to the public.
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Phone: +1 (212) 288-0700
eMail: info@frick.org
Address: 1 East 70th Streetbetween Madison and Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10020
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Homepage: http://www.frick.org/information
Blue Note
Description:
Since its inception in 1981, Blue Note has become one of the premier jazz clubs in the world and a cultural institution in Greenwich Village. Owner and founder Danny Bensusan had a vision to create a jazz club in Greenwich Village that would treat deserving artists with respect, while allowing patrons to see the world's finest jazz musicians in a close, comfortable setting. Artists who had stopped playing in jazz clubs decades before, such as Sarah Vaughn, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Stanley Turrentine, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, and Tito Puente, soon called Blue Note home.
Jazz is undoubtedly America's music, and while Blue Note strives to preserve the history of jazz, the club is a place where progression and innovation - the foundations of jazz - are encouraged and practiced on a nightly basis. In addition to the main acts that feature the likes of Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, Joe Lovano, John Scofield, and Chris Botti, Blue Note has introduced the Monday Night Series and the bi-weekly Late Night Groove Series to showcase New York's up-and-coming jazz, soul, hip-hop, R&B and funk artists. Blue Note has been instrumental in encouraging the development of Greenwich Village's local musicians by giving them a chance to perform in one of the world's finest venues.
Over the years, Blue Note has been an economic engine for Greenwich Village, bringing in jazz fans from all over the world. The club receives rave reviews on a weekly basis in New York's daily newspapers such as The New York Times and in international travel guides and magazines. What makes Blue Note so special is that on a given night, anything can happen. It is not uncommon to see the likes of Stevie Wonder, Tony Bennett, Liza Minelli, and Quincy Jones get called up on stage from the audience to sit in. Blue Note gives artists the musical freedom they deserve, and jazz fans get a chance to see the most unlikely combination of stars night after night on the Blue Note stage.
After twenty-five years of success, Blue Note continues to carry the torch for jazz into the 21st century in the cultural heart of New York, Greenwich Village.
Hours: Blue Note offers music every night at 8pm and 10:30pm. On Friday and Saturday nights, Blue Note has a Late Night Groove Series at 12:30am
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Fax: +1 (212) 475-8592
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Address: 131 West 3rd Street (between 6th and McDougal St.), New York, NY 10012
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Homepage: http://www.bluenote.net/
Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Description:
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 five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.
Hours: Monday: Closed (Except Holiday Mondays); Tuesday–Thursday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday: 9:30 a.m.–9:00 p.m.; Sunday: 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Phone: +1 (212) 535-7710 (Information); +1 (212) 570-3828 (TTY)
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Address: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028
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Homepage: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Metropolitan Opera
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From its opening in 1883, the Metropolitan Opera has been one of the world's leading opera companies. Today, the Met's preeminent position rests on the elements that established its reputation: high quality performances with many of the world's most renowned artists, a superior company of orchestral and choral musicians, a large repertory of works, and the resources to make performances available to the public. Each season the Metropolitan stages more than two hundred performances of opera in New York. More than 800,000 people attend the performances in the opera house during the season. Millions more, throughout the world, experience the Metropolitan Opera on television, radio, on tour and recordings.
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Phone: +1 (212) 362-6000 (Tickets and Customer Care)
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Address: Lincoln Center, New York, NY 10023. Upper West Side of Manhattan, between West 62nd and 65th Streets and Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues.
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Homepage: http://www.metoperafamily.org/
Museum of Modern Art
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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.
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Phone: +1 (212) 708-9400
eMail: info@moma.org
Address: 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019
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Homepage: http://www.moma.com/
Neue Gallerie
Description:
Neue Galerie New York is a museum devoted to early twentieth-century German and Austrian art and design, displayed on two exhibition floors. The second-floor galleries are dedicated to art from Vienna circa 1900, exploring the special relationship that existed then between the fine arts (of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Gerstl, and Alfred Kubin) and the decorative arts (created at the Wiener Werkstätte by such well-known figures as Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Dagobert Peche, and by such celebrated architects as Adolf Loos, Joseph Urban, and Otto Wagner).
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Phone: +1 (212) 628-6200
eMail: museum@neuegalerie.org
Address: 1048 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028
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Homepage: http://www.neuegalerie.org/
New York City Ballet
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The New York City Ballet, one of the foremost dance companies in the world, is an organization unique in the artistic history of the United States. Solely responsible for training its own artists and creating its own works, the New York City Ballet was the first ballet institution in the world with two permanent homes, the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.
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Phone: +1 (212) 870-5570
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Address: New York State Theater, 20 Lincoln Center, New York, NY 10023
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Homepage: http://www.nycballet.com/
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
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The "Museum of Modern Arts" of Queens.
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Address: 46th Street and Jackson Avenue (Queens), New York
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Homepage: http://ps1.org/
Shakespeare in the Park
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Since 1962, The Public Theater has staged productions of Shakespeare in the Park at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park. These performances are offered free of charge and are seen by approximately 80,000 New Yorkers and visitors each summer. In fact, since its inception over 80 free productions have been presented and have been seen by more than 4 million people.
Many of today's most acclaimed actors have begun their careers or returned to perform in Shakespeare in the Park, including Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman, Marcia Gay Harden, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Patrick Stewart, Jeff Goldblum and Billy Crudup, as well as dozens of directors and designers.
Tickets to Shakespeare in the Park are free and distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis during designated hours on the day of the performance.
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Phone: +1 (212) 539-8500
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Address: 425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003
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Homepage: http://www.publictheater.org/
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Visitors walk up a spiral ramp to view the contemporary art exhibits in this daring structure designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Also great to see the "Annex Levels" with paintings, for example, of Jackson Pollock.
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Address: 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street), New York, NY 10128-0173
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Homepage: http://www.guggenheim.org/
