100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture
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Exhibition Announcement
The Museum of the City of New York celebrates its centennial with a serious exhibition that includes over 400 objects, a 16-screen immersive movie, and extra.
The Museum of the City of New York is celebrating its centennial this yr with the exhibition This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture, on view now via July 21, 2024. Explore the many ways in which the metropolis has impressed storytelling in movie and tv, music and poetry, literature, visible and performing arts, and style. The full-floor exhibition is organized round the varieties of city areas the place the tales of New York are instructed, showcasing greater than 400 objects spanning the final 100 years.
See how the metropolis has captured the world’s creativeness and work together with the exhibition via digital experiences. “Songs of New York” permits guests to discover the richness and variety of every borough via music it has impressed, from “Take the ‘A’ Train” to “Jenny from the Block”. “Inside New York”, a digital bookshelf, revisits scenes from iconic TV exhibits and excerpts from literature that animate the distinctive challenges and alternatives of making a house in a metropolis of eight million folks.
A particular gallery devoted to New York on movie options “You Are Here”, a 16-screen immersive movie that includes clips from tons of of films about the metropolis. It additionally consists of the introductory set up “Scenes from the City”, which explores how New York has been used as a film set over the previous century.
Visit the Museum of the City of New York at 1220 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Open Thursdays, 10am–9pm; Mondays–Fridays, 10am–5pm.
To study extra, go to mcny.org.
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