New York Water Tank Project: Koons, Ruscha, Jay-Z and more

This public art season has already seen New York City land its boldest water tower to date, but next spring the sprawling WaterTank Project will up the ante in a big way, with rooftop tanks around the city becoming canvases for artists as diverse as Jeff Koons, Marilyn Minter, E.V. Day, Catherine Opie, Lawrence Weiner, Ed Ruscha, and Jay-Z.

The project, whose all-star curatorial team includes MoMA PS1’s Neville Wakefield and the Pinault Collection’s Alison Gingeras, is being overseen by the non-profit Word Above the Street. The project, which will also include designs by public school students, will unfold across all five borough over the course of 12 weeks next spring. 

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Turning NYC Water Tanks into Works of Art by Jay-Z, Jeff Koons & More

New American Wing at the Met

New American Wing: Galleries for Painting, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts

Mrs. Mayer and Daughter  Ammi Phillips  (1788–1865)

The Metropolitan Museum's collection of American art, one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world, returned to view in expanded, reconceived, and dramatic new galleries on January 16, 2012, when the Museum inaugurated the New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts. The new installation provides visitors with a rich and captivating experience of the history of American art from the eighteenth through the early twentieth century. The suite of elegant new galleries encompasses 30,000 square feet for the display of the Museum's superb collection.

“Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting”

 Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting

Renoir New at the Frick Gallery. From the New York Times

February 7 through May 13, 2012

Impressionism, like fashion, is dedicated to the fleeting sensation: this moment’s light, this season’s dress. Yet the works in the Frick Collection’s fashion-conscious “Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting” don’t at first register as Impressionist. With their traditional portrait format and imposing scale, they seem at odds with the modest plein-air paintings that define the movement.