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Hidden New York Christmas Trees
New York Public Library’s nature-inspired Christmas tree in Astor Hall on 42nd Street Although Rockefeller Center has New York’s most popular tree, don’t forget to check out two others that are on the...
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Cage’s Zen Den at the Academy
Cage’s New River Watercolor Series I on parchment paper. Courtesy: Mountain Lake Workshop Take one of the most controversial composers of the 20th century, give him some watercolors, drop him at the...
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Virtual Ancestor Cornered in High-Tech Tree by AMNH
Carl Buell’s rendering of the hypothetical placental ancestor, a small insect-eating animal. Source: AMNH Who says dinosaurs get all the attention? One of the big front-page science stories of the last...
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Don’t be Sad, He’s Irish!
Apatosaurus holds court on the Fourth Floor of AMNH. Source: Scott Robert Anselmo There’s no way to count the number of times that people get upset because his actual scientific name is no longer...
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Get Out into the Fresh Air (in Italy and France)
Théodore Caruelle d’Aligny’s Edge of a Wood (1850). Oil on canvas done northeast of Paris. The flattening technique was developed with his hiking companion, Corot. There’s nothing like stepping out...
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Fluffy AMNH Animal Superstars Win Webby
Steve Quinn, diorama master Steve Quinn couldn’t send them to the L’Oreal Paris hair and make-up room like Tim Gunn does on Project Runway. They’re just too big, too famous, and too fragile. We’re...
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NYC Museum Videos Receive 49 Million Views on Social Media
The Japan Society’s popular Japanese language series After reposting so many museum videos here, we wondered how much video museums were producing, what social media they were using, and who had the...
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Interior Design Goes Medieval Avant-Garde at National Gallery
An avant-garde 1890s tapestry by Morris & Co., Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, and John Henry Dearle (designers), The Arming and Departure of the Knights of the Round Table on the Quest for the...
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Philadelphia Museums Reach 2.4M YouTube Views
Since Philadelphia museums, zoos, and gardens began posting videos online in 2008, collective YouTube views have climbed to 2.4 million, as chronicled in our latest report, Philadelphia Museums: 2013...
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Bird Watching Opportunity at The Met
Detail from Flock of Cranes (1767-1784) by Ishida Yutei, a six-panel folding screen An avian free-for-all is happening on the second floor of the Met’s Asian Wing, with a lot of flapping, stalking,...
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Washington, D.C. Museum Videos Reach 14 Million YouTube Views
Since Smithsonian branches and other Washington, D.C. museums, zoos, and gardens began posting videos on line in 2007, collective YouTube views have climbed to 14 million, as chronicled in our latest...
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Brooklyn Museum Reveals Sargent’s Master Strokes
Sargent’s masterful 1908 White Ships that he likely painted in a day. Translucent and opaque watercolor and wax resist with graphite underdrawing, Source: Brooklyn Museum. Back in 1909, John Singer...
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Last Call for Global Kitchen at AMNH
Japanese cube melon. Photo: AMNH/D. Finnin Ever wonder what story is told by the food on your plate? It’s all explained in the show at the American Museum of Natural History, Our Global Kitchen: Food,...
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Unicorn Natural History
Detail from The Unicorn Defends Itself (1495-1505), a large tapestry in the main gallery. Who says unicorns aren’t real? Mr. Rockefeller’s tapestry unicorns have been the celebrity draw for the last 75...
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Anxious, Turbulent Skies in Masterful Landscapes
Frederic Edwin Church’s depiction of the volcanic eruption in Ecuador — Cotopaxi, painted in 1862 and shown the following year. Source: Detroit Institute of Arts. Who expects that gigantic, bold...
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Water, Water Everywhere at the Academy
Tintagel, 1881. Large, masterful watercolor by William Trost Richards depicting castle ruins on the Cornwall coast of England, which Richards associated with the legends of King Arthur. Who needs to...
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Wood Goes Against Grain at MAD
Pablo Reinoso’s whimsical wooden shoes All those years walking up and down the aisles at craft fairs may have you convinced that there’s nothing new in wood art. Get over to the final days of Against...
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Find Lightness of Being at City Hall
Alicja Kwade’s bicycle sculpture, Journey without arrival (Ralegh), 2012/2013 No, it’s not the mayoral race. As long as the nice weather holds up, get down to City Hall Park and poke around among the...
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Rich & Famous at Green-Wood’s 175th Anniversary
Show entrance featuring Green-Wood’s spectacular Gothic architecture. It’s big, green, historic, beautiful, and has more celebrities inside than you could ever imagine possible in an out-of-the-way...
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Go Underground and Outside at Grand Central
Hiroyuki Suzuki’s dramatic black-and-white view of the massive $8.2B project See New York above and below in two unique photography installations at everyone’s favorite train station right now. At the...
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