For the Artsy and Adventurous
Once offlimits to the general public, the Fisher Landau Center for Art is a hidden treasure of contemporary art that includes work by Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and Kiki Smith inside three floors of a revamped industrial building in Long Island City. Convenient to Midtown—seriously—the collection’s home is situated near the entry of the Queensboro Bridge. Scope out the art, and when you’re done, snap up souvenir T-shirts featuring an Andy Warhol image of collector Emily Fisher Landau. If you want to explore more of the area, the Long Island City Cultural Alliance can arrange tours of nearby attractions like the serene Noguchi Museum, the riverside Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Museum of the Moving Image.
For the Style-Conscious
This year the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual big-ticket fashion exhibition (kicked off by its Costume Institute gala) is “AngloMania,” a survey of imaginative British fashions created between 1976 and the present that exemplify the street culture and.phpects of the punk movement. Set within the contrasting environment of the Met’s English period rooms, the show runs through September 4. After the show, take guests to absorb all that style with a drink on the museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, with sweeping views of Central Park.
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Film Society of Lincoln Center
Forget about the megaplex, and soak up some unique offerings you can’t see anywhere else at the society’s Open Roads: New Italian Cinema festival May 31 to June 8. And in July, the society opens its annual celebration of digital media, with the New York Video Festival, which runs from July 26 to 30.
Shakespeare in the Park
The Public Theater’s free performances are a summertime tradition, but come August 8 there’s an even better reason to spend some time in Central Park, as Meryl Streep takes to the stage in Mother Courage, which closes September 3.
Dada at MoMA
Get acquainted with a group of avant-garde artists who challenged the boundaries of art and turned the world upside down with their work at the Museum of Modern Art June 18 to September 11.
—Mark Mavrigian
Posted 05.24.06
Photos: Courtesy of Fisher Landau Center for Art; Maria Valentino/MCV Photo (John Galliano, Spring 1994); Marcel Duchamp "Bicycle Wheel," 1951, the Sidney and Harriet Janis collection, the Museum of Modern Art, © 2006 Artists Rights Society, New York/ADAGP, Paris/Estate of Marcel Duchamp
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Once offlimits to the general public, the Fisher Landau Center for Art is a hidden treasure of contemporary art that includes work by Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and Kiki Smith inside three floors of a revamped industrial building in Long Island City. Convenient to Midtown—seriously—the collection’s home is situated near the entry of the Queensboro Bridge. Scope out the art, and when you’re done, snap up souvenir T-shirts featuring an Andy Warhol image of collector Emily Fisher Landau. If you want to explore more of the area, the Long Island City Cultural Alliance can arrange tours of nearby attractions like the serene Noguchi Museum, the riverside Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Museum of the Moving Image.
For the Style-Conscious
This year the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual big-ticket fashion exhibition (kicked off by its Costume Institute gala) is “AngloMania,” a survey of imaginative British fashions created between 1976 and the present that exemplify the street culture and.phpects of the punk movement. Set within the contrasting environment of the Met’s English period rooms, the show runs through September 4. After the show, take guests to absorb all that style with a drink on the museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, with sweeping views of Central Park.
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Film Society of Lincoln Center
Forget about the megaplex, and soak up some unique offerings you can’t see anywhere else at the society’s Open Roads: New Italian Cinema festival May 31 to June 8. And in July, the society opens its annual celebration of digital media, with the New York Video Festival, which runs from July 26 to 30.
Shakespeare in the Park
The Public Theater’s free performances are a summertime tradition, but come August 8 there’s an even better reason to spend some time in Central Park, as Meryl Streep takes to the stage in Mother Courage, which closes September 3.
Dada at MoMA
Get acquainted with a group of avant-garde artists who challenged the boundaries of art and turned the world upside down with their work at the Museum of Modern Art June 18 to September 11.
—Mark Mavrigian
Posted 05.24.06
Photos: Courtesy of Fisher Landau Center for Art; Maria Valentino/MCV Photo (John Galliano, Spring 1994); Marcel Duchamp "Bicycle Wheel," 1951, the Sidney and Harriet Janis collection, the Museum of Modern Art, © 2006 Artists Rights Society, New York/ADAGP, Paris/Estate of Marcel Duchamp
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The Fisher Landau Center for Art
A John Galliano dress at the Met
Duchamp's "Bicycle Wheel"
