March 02, 2006
Most popular museum show in NYC '05: van Gogh
The van Gogh exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cezanne and Pissarro show at the Museum of Modern Art were the most popular museum exhibits in New York and rank among the world's most popular museum shows of 2005 (in pdf format) according to data compiled by The Art Newspaper.
"Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings" drew 6,571 people a day, a total of 459,972; "Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro 1865-85" hosted 6,387 daily, or 433,397 total. The Art Newspaper list is ranked by average daily attendance and only covers shows that ended in 2005. More than a quarter of the top 100 were in New York City:
No. 4 "Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings" at the Met
No. 5 "Cezanne and Pissarro 1865-85" at MoMA
No. 8 "Thomas Demand" at MoMA
No. 13 "Chanel" at the Met
No. 14 "Friedlander" at MoMA
No. 15 "Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection" at MoMA
No. 16 "Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape" at MoMA
No. 17 "Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams, His Art and His Textiles" at the Met
No. 23 "New Work/New Acquisitions" at MoMA
No. 31 "The Aztec Empire" at the Guggenheim
No. 32 "Diane Arbus Revelations" at the Met
No. 33 Robert Mapplethorpe and the Classical Tradition; and Oteiza: Myth and Modernism at the Guggenheim
No. 38 "Basquiat" at the Brooklyn Museum
No. 40 "China: Dawn of a Golden Age 200 - 750 AD" at the Met
No. 44 "The Eye of the Storm: Daniel Buren" at the Guggenheim
No. 63 "Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor" at the Whitney
No. 64 "The Art of Romare Bearden" at the Whitney
No. 65 "Max Ernst: A Retrospective" at the Met
No. 67 "Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium" at the Whitney
No. 71 "Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim" at the Guggenheim
No. 76 "Jennifer Pastor: The Perfect Ride" at the Whitney
No. 84 "Photography of the Occult" at the Met
No. 85 "Tim Hawkinson" at the Whitney
No. 86 "Sol LeWitt on the Roof: Splotches, Whirls and Twirls" at the Met
No. 87 "Cy Twombly: 50 Years of Works on Paper" at the Whitney
No. 88 "Wild: Fashion Untamed" at the Met
No. 89 "Ellen Gallagher Deluxe" at the Whitney
(Link found via ArtsJournal.com.)
March 2, 2006 01:12 PM in Museums
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