The New-York Historical Society is making way for the first L.G.B.T.Q. history and culture museum in the city. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “museums”
Tenement Museum Makes Room for Black History
By Gotham Rex on June 9, 2021
Reopening after a tumultuous year, this Lower East Side institution is addressing the omissions and erasures in the neighborhood’s history — and its own. Source: New York Times
Lines Never Felt So Good: Crowds Herald New York’s Reopening
By Gotham Rex on May 31, 2021
Museums broke attendance records, movie theaters sold out and jazz fans packed clubs on a Memorial Day weekend that felt far removed from the prior year’s pandemic traumas. Source: New York Times
Brooklyn Museum Employees Take Steps Toward a Union
By Gotham Rex on May 25, 2021
The new union would include curators, conservators, gift shop workers and others, as part of the U.A.W. Source: New York Times
Terence Riley, Architectural Force in the Museum World, Dies at 66
By Gotham Rex on May 21, 2021
He was the chief architectural curator at MoMA, overseeing shows and the museum’s massive redesign, then moving on to the Miami art world. Source: New York Times
Inside the Long-Lost Brickyards That Built N.Y.C.
By Gotham Rex on May 21, 2021
A century ago, brickmaking along the Hudson River was thriving. Then the industry vanished. Source: New York Times
Whitney Museum Workers Forming Union With U.A.W.
By Gotham Rex on May 18, 2021
Like other museums in the city, members of the Whitney staff are organizing with the United Auto Workers. Source: New York Times
An Arts Patron Widens Her Reach With a Brooklyn Museum
By Gotham Rex on May 4, 2021
Lonti Ebers is opening Amant to help artists create and display their work, not to show her own collection. Source: New York Times
Patrick O’Connell, 67, Dies; Raised Awareness of AIDS With Art
By Gotham Rex on May 3, 2021
As the founding director of Visual AIDS, he helped develop campaigns including “Day Without Art” and, most notably, the ubiquitous red ribbon. Source: New York Times
Marie-Josée Kravis to Replace Leon Black as MoMA Chair
By Gotham Rex on April 27, 2021
One month after Black, the embattled investor, said he would not stand for re-election, the museum chose its president emerita to replace him. Source: New York Times
Allon Schoener, 95, Dies; Curator Caught in Furor Over ‘Harlem’ Show
By Gotham Rex on April 23, 2021
His “Harlem on My Mind” exhibit at the Met museum in 1969 drew protests for not including works by Black artists. But since then it’s been reconsidered. Source: New York Times
Looted Objects From Afghanistan Are Returned
By Gotham Rex on April 19, 2021
Thirty-three antiquities were handed over to the Afghan ambassador by the Manhattan district attorney’s office and the Department of Homeland Security. Source: New York Times
Why Closing the Indian Point Nuclear Plant Could Hurt NY's Environment
By Gotham Rex on April 13, 2021
The nuclear power plant at Indian Point will close at the end of the month, but the shutdown could cause a spike in greenhouse gases. Source: New York Times
When Is the Met Gala in 2021?
By Gotham Rex on April 12, 2021
This year’s Met Gala will be in September. The Costume Institute has announced its next big show. The subject: American style. Politics are involved. Source: New York Times
Two Brothers Posed for a Portrait. One Lived to See It in the Met.
By Gotham Rex on April 2, 2021
Alice Neel painted two neighborhood boys in her studio in the 1960s. Fifty years later, the mystery of what happened to the picture has been solved. Source: New York Times