June 13, 2006
Culture for free: Museum Mile Festival is tonight
Just before 6 p.m. this evening, 23 blocks of 5th Avenue will close to traffic and nine museums will open their doors for free as part of the the 28th annual Museum Mile Festival.
The pedestrian-only stretch from 82nd to 105th streets will be packed with bands, activities for kids and other entertainment. See the block-by-block guide for details. The event ends at 9 p.m.
The museums and some of their current highlights:
Guggenheim - Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper
Met Museum - AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion
Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
Girodet: Romantic Rebel
Museum of the City of New York - The High Style of Dorothy Draper
On the Couch: Cartoons from the New Yorker
We Skate Hardcore
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum - Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500–2005
Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape
Jewish Museum - Eva Hesse: Sculpture
Max Liebermann: From Realism to Impressionism
Goethe-Institute/German Cultural Center - Brüder, Zur Sonne, Zur Freiheit/The Beat
international short films to celebrate the 2006 World Cup
free 15-minute crash course in German
El Museo del Barrio - Héctor Méndez Caratini: The Eye of Memory -- Three Decades, 1974-2003
National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts - The 181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Neue Galerie - selections from the permanent collection
June 13, 2006 09:38 AM in Cheap Stuff, Kids, Museums, Sightsology, Upper East Side
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