#Museum City New York

[fashionbooksmilano]

Mod New York

Fashion Takes a Trip

Edited by Phyllis Magidson and Donald Albrecht, Foreword by Whitney W.Donhauser

Museum of the City of New York / Monacelli Press, New York 2017, 160 pages, 22,6 x 30,2 cm, ISBN  978-1580934985

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Mod New York traces the fashion arc of the 1960s and 1970s, a tumultuous and innovative era that continues to inspire how we dress today. During this period, demure silhouettes and pastels favored by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy exploded into bold prints and tie-dyed psychedelic chaos and ultimately resolved into a personal style dubbed by Vogue the “New Nonchalance.” Accompanying a major exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, this book is beautifully illustrated by two hundred groundbreaking and historically significant designs by Halston, Geoffrey Beene, Rudi Gernreich, Yves Saint Laurent, André Courrèges, Norman Norell, and Bill Blass, among many others, all drawn from the renowned costume collection at MCNY. By the mid-1960s, clothing assumed communicative powers, reflecting the momentous societal changes of the day: the emergence of a counterculture, the women’s liberation movement, the rise of African-American consciousness, and the radicalism arising from the protests of the Vietnam War. New York City, as the nation’s fashion and creative capital, became the critical flashpoint for these debates. Authoritative essays by well-known fashion historians Phyllis Magidson, Hazel Clark, Sarah Gordon, and Caroline Rennolds Milbank explore the ways in which these radical movements were expressed in fashion. 

24/07/22

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#Mod New York #1960s & 1970s #tie-dyed psychedelic #New Nonchalance #fashion exhibition catalogue #Museum City New York #Halston #Rudi gernreich #Bill Blass #Yves saint Laurent #Courrèges #Norman Norell #Geoffrey Beene #Givenchy #Chanel #fashion books #fashionbooksmilano

[amnhnyc]

Today’s Exhibit of the Day? The Museum’s giant amethyst geode. Standing 9 ft (2.7 m) tall and weighing around 11,000 lbs (5,000 kg), it’s one of the largest specimens in our halls. How did this dazzling geode come to be? About 135 million years ago, the continental plates carrying South America and Africa began to separate. Magma poured out from fractures in Earth’s crust and large gas bubbles escaped from within the magma—becoming trapped in the rock as it solidified, forming cavities. Groundwater flowing into these spaces brought dissolved silica, which crystallized into quartz. Over millennia, most of these quartz crystals turned into rich purple amethyst. Spot this and other amazing specimens in the Museum’s Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals!

Photo: D. Finnin/ © AMNH 

#science #amnh #museum #nature #natural history #gems #minera #geology #fact of the day #cool facts #rocks #geode #amethyst #purple #things to do in new york city #nyc museums

[brooklynmuseum]

“My work is timeless because it’s based on the beauty of the human body and the fascinating world we live in,” said Thierry Mugler.

Never one to shy away from daring endeavors, Mugler staged photoshoots in some of the world’s most breathtaking settings including: icebergs in Greenland, the White Sand of New Mexico, and the Tlalpan Chapel in Mexico City to name a few. 

Here, Claude Heidemeyer poses on the edge of the Chrysler Building for an aptly-named photograph, “Vertigo,” in 1988. Mugler’s keen eye as a director resulted in photographs and campaigns that helped to convey his exhilarating point of view.

See more of Mugler’s photography as part of Thierry Mugler: Couturissime on view now.

📷 Thierry Mugler (French, 1948–2022). Chrysler Building, New York, 1988. Claude Heidemeyer in “Vertigo” by Mugler, 1988. Photographic print, 35 11/16 × 23 7/8 in. (90.6 × 60.6 cm). Courtesy of Mugler Archives. © Thierry Mugler

#Brooklyn Museum #brooklyn #museum #art #exhibition #fashion #photography #Thierry Mugler #ThierryMuglerBkM #Couturissime #chrysler building #New York City #nyc

[bossymarmalade]

The parlor, or living room, of the Rogarshevsky family, who immigrated to New York from Russia in 1901

The kitchen of the Gumpertzes, a German-American family that came to New York in the 1870s

Harris and Jennie Levine ran a garment shop in their tenement apartment at the height of the Jewish Lower East Side.

The Levine family’s kitchen

A view of the 97 Orchard staircase

Founded in 1988 by historian Ruth Abram and social activist Anita Jacobson, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum explores the uniquely American story of immigration and the rich, diverse landscape it continues to create. The Museum took root when Abram and Jacobson discovered 97 Orchard Street — a dilapidated tenement building that had been shuttered for more than 50 years.

#tenement museum #97 orchard street #new york city #immigration history #usermarmalade

[lionofchaeronea]

Bleecker Street, Saturday Night, John French Sloan, 1918

#art #art history #John Sloan #John French Sloan #genre painting #genre art #cityscape #street scene #night scene #Bleecker Street #New York City #Ashcan School #Realism #Realist art #American Realism #American art #20th century art #oil on canvas #Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

[msterpicasso]

@ceeouncess/@cee0z

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #1049

As part of the "This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture" exhibit in The Museum of the City of New York, a Sesame Street lamppost is on display.

The label reads as such:

[Lamppost from Sesame Street] Sesame Workshop, 2015

Painted metal and glass Courtesy of Sesame Workshop. © 2023 Sesame Workshop. All Rights Reserved.

An embodiment of the joy of city streets, Sesame Street first aired in 1969. By design, it is both somewhere and nowhere in New York City: the street has characteristics of every borough and many neighborhoods. This sign would be equally at home in Harlem, Park Slope, Morris Heights, Kew Gardens, or St. George.

Source:

Sesame Workshop. "Lamppost from Sesame Street." In "This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture." New York: The Museum of the City of New York. 2023.

#muppet facts oc #jim henson #the muppets #muppets #muppet facts #fun facts #sesame street #childrens tv #behind the scenes #This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture #The Museum of the City of New York

[oncanvas]

Christopher Street, Greenwich Village, Beulah Bettersworth, 1934

Oil on canvas 30 ⅛ x 24 ¼ in. (76.5 x 61.5 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

#art #painting #beulah bettersworth #20th century #1930s #greenwich village #new york #new york city #snow #winter #street scene #women artists #female artists #smithsonian american art museum #american

[rootlessly]

the wrightsman galleries ⋇ 16 nov

#the met #museum #french interior design #nyc #photographers on tumblr #original photography #new york city #2023 #canon R6

[cheongsaam]

Maria Tallchief and Francisco Moncion in the New York City Ballet production of The Firebird

Source

#maria tallchief #francisco moncion #new york city ballet #museum #u

[henk-heijmans]

Le Bistro or The Wine Shop, 1909, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City - by Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967), American

#Edward Hopper #New York City #Whitney Museum of American Art #Le Bistro or The Wine Shop

[federer7]

Guggenheim Museum. New York City. 1981

Photo: Raymond Depardon

#Raymond Depardon #1981 #guggenheim museum #guggenheim #new york city #new york

[amnhnyc]

🧬DNA sequencing has revealed that elephants belong in a superorder called Afrotheria—meet their closest relatives!

🐘Learn more at the Museum’s new exhibition The Secret World of Elephants. Discover new science about both ancient and modern elephants, see full-scale models of proboscideans, and more.

🦃Visiting the Museum this Thanksgiving? Best availability is on Monday and Tuesday of that week. Here are a few tips!

#science #amnh #museum #natural history #nature #animals #elephants #proboscideans #did you know #fact of the day #hyrax #manatee #dugong #sea cow #afrotheria #things to do in new york city #animal kingdom #stem

[brooklynmuseum]

Get ready to double down on your love for Brooklyn and the people who give this borough its heart. 

Beginning on June 2, the work of Brooklyn-born photographer, Jamel Shabazz, will line our outdoor plaza just in time for summer. The installation includes hundreds of Shabazz’s portraits from the last 40 years showcasing the vibrant people and places of our beloved Brooklyn and beyond. 

Meet us on the stoop and learn more about this installation: https://bit.ly/JamelShabazzBkM

📷 Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). The Art of Love, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1988. © Jamel Shabazz → Jamel Shabazz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1960). Pages from the photo album Frozen Moments in Time: 1990–2010. © Jamel Shabazz

#Brooklyn Museum #brooklyn #museum #art #photography #jamel shabazz #JamelShabazzBkM #ArtOnTheStoop #New York City #nyc #photographer #exhibition #installation #portrait #prospect park

[lovefrenchisbetter]

Franz Kline

White Forms

1955

#franz kline #white forms #painting #abstract expressionism #abstract art #50s #New York City #moma #museum of modern art #modern art #kline

[lionofchaeronea]

Rainy Day on Fifth Avenue, Childe Hassam, 1893

#art #art history #Childe Hassam #genre painting #genre art #cityscape #New York #New York City #Old New York #Gilded Age #rain scene #Impressionism #Impressionist art #American Impressionism #American art #19th century art #oil on canvas #John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art