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One of the city’s great cultural treasure chests, the New-York Historical Society was founded to preserve the city’s history…in 1804. It was so long ago, the city was often still spelled with a hyphen and the Hudson River School art that now highlights the permanent collection was still more... more

An international organization headquartered in New York and dedicated to preparing both Americans and Asians for their “shared future,” the Asia Society is one of the city’s most significant philanthropic dump-buckets, an educational and curatorial institution known more for its lavish... more

The Noguchi Museum was opened by Isamu Noguchi in 1985 to display the artist’s works in stone, metal, wood, and clay and models for public projects, gardens, and dance sets. The museum inhabits a converted factory and contains thirteen galleries and a garden with major granite and basalt... more

Like his “Earth Room,” Walter De Maria’s “Broken Kilometer” -- an installation of 500 polished brass rods, each two meters in length, laid out in five columns of one hundred rods each across the floor of a West Broadway loft – performs less as a work of art than a reflective conceptual... more

One of a very few recognizable NoLita landmarks -- and one that does its part to distinguish the neighborhood from busy, bustling nearby SoHo, the East Village, and the Lower East Side -- the Elizabeth Street Gallery and sculpture garden is more well-known as a kind of private park space, like... more

Part school, part museum, part library and research center, part public platform and event space, the International Center of Photography is a diverse cultural institution, richly endowed and deftly steered, which can now lay legitimate claim to the status suggested by its ambitious name. Founded... more