Hello everyone!
How and where to see beautiful and inspiring places in New York city? Stick around and I’ll tell you.
First, let’s talk about how to get there. The American Alliance of Museums is an organization that gives you access to a library and a professional development program. In addition, most museums are able to offer professional courtesy to members. Basically, you don’t have to stand in line or even pay to get into the museums and some will let you in with another person on a pay-what-you-want basis. The subscription price is $90 per year, which is very fair if you consider that getting into the Met in 2023 will be around $30. You can check the list of museums and purchase a membership here: https://www.aam-us.org/ You also have a pay-what-you-want weekday access to museums or with the New York Citypass if you are only visiting the city for a few days.
Secondly, there is a world to discover besides the Met, Moma and American Natural History (which of course you should visit). These are some of the places which I visited and I would definitely recommend:
- The Shed by DS+R in Chelsea
- The Parrish Museum by Herzog & de Meuron in Long Island, New York
- Grace Farms by Sanaa in New Canaan, Connecticut
- DIA Beacon it’s a museum next to Hudson River, you can get there really easy by train
- Noguchi museum in Queens
- The Ford Foundation by Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates in Turtle Bay
- Judd Foundation in Soho
- Paul Rudolph Foundation in Turtle Bay, is open during the Open House every first Friday of the month.
- Seagrams by Mies Van Der Rohe in Turtle Bay
- Columbia Business School by DS+R in West Harlem
- The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University Lenfest Center of the Arts by Renzo Piano in West Harlem
- The Forum by Renzo Piano in West Harlem
- Whitney Museum by Cooper Robertson and Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Meatpacking District
- IAC Building by Frank Gehry in Chelsea
- 8 Spruce Street by Frank Gehry in Financial District
- Amant Foundation by SO-IL in Brooklyn, New York
- Magazzino Italian Art by MQ Architecture next to Cold Spring, New York
- MET Breuer by Marcel Lajos Breuer, Hamilton P. Smith, Richard Glukman and Michael Irving in the Upper East Side
- Neue gallerie. It is a cute little museum next to the Met
- New York Times by Renzo Piano in Midtown South
- 56 Leonard Street by Herzog & de Meuron and The Bean by Anish Kapoor in Tribeca
Lastly, every year there is an event known as «Open House New York» in which many buildings are open to the public for a weekend and several other places, such as botanical gardens and museums, are completely free of charge. This is the website: https://ohny.org/weekend/
In conclusion, there is no excuse not to see an opening, performances or exhibitions. There is so much happening in the city and it is difficult to get to all the art available.
