Pollock Krasner House (Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner)
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is regarded as the undisputed leader of the Abstract Expressionist movement. In 1945, he married fellow artist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) and moved from New York City to Long Island's East End. With a loan from art dealer Peggy Guggenheim, they purchased a small homestead on one and a quarter acres overlooking Accabonac Creek in The Springs, near East Hampton.
http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/pkhouse/
The Parrish Art Museum
The Parrish Art Museum, founded in 1898, opened the doors of its new, 34,400-square-foot Herzog & de Meuron-designed, building in November of 2012. The new Parrish includes 12,200 square feet of exhibition space-three times that of the Museum's former home on Jobs Lane in Southampton. Seven sky-lit galleries devoted to the permanent collection showcase the story of America's most enduring and influential artists' colony-Eastern Long Island.
http://parrishart.org/
The Heckscher Museum of Art
The Heckscher Museum of Art
2 Prime Avenue
Huntington, New York 11743-7702
Located in Historic Heckscher Park
http://heckscher.org/
Nassau Museum of Art
See Website for Details
http://nassaumuseum.org/
The Frick Collection
Internationally recognized as a premier museum and research center, the Frick is known for its distinguished Old Master paintings and outstanding examples of European sculpture and decorative arts.
http://www.frick.org/
Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York, NY 10021, (212) 570-3600
http://whitney.org/
The Guggenheim
Completed in 1959, the Guggenheim's Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum is among the 20th century's most important architectural landmarks. The museum's great rotunda has been the site of many celebrated special exhibitions, while its smaller galleries are devoted to the Guggenheim's renowned collection, which ranges from Impressionism through contemporary art.
http://www.guggenheim.org/
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019-5497
(212) 708-9400
http://www.moma.org/
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Open 7 Days a Week
Sunday-Thursday: 10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Friday and Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.
Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25, January 1, and the first Monday in May
1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)
New York, NY 10028
Phone: 212-535-7710 (TTY: 212-650-2921)
http://www.metmuseum.org/
Other places to visit for the Art Lover!
Storm King Art Center
(Photo courtesy of Storm King Facebook)
This open-air museum should be at the top of every arts and culture lover's must-see list. Located in New Windsor, NY, the 50-year-old sculpture park boasts 500 acres of landscaped fields and rolling hills filled with more than 100 artworks from artists like Alexander Calder, Richard Serra, Roy Lichtenstein, Maya Lin and Sol Lewitt.
OMI International Arts Center
(Photo courtesy of OMI International Arts Center Facebook)
Omi International Arts Center is a not-for-profit arts organization with residency programs for visual artists, writers, musicians and dancers. Located in Ghent, NY, the 300-acre property includes the Fields Sculpture Park, home to over 80 contemporary sculptures. Bonus: It's open year-round. Like Storm King, it's an open air museum.
(Photo courtesy of LongHouse Facebook)
This is yet another one of those places that you'd escape to just for the experience of being amongst an awe-inspiring garden and sculpture collection. It just so happens thatLongHouse also has a beautiful selection of ethnographic and handcrafts on view. Nature and art collide in the most tranquil way here.
Dia:Beacon
(Photo courtesy of Dia:Beacon Facebook)
The Dia: Beacon, part of a constellation of art sites under the umbrella of the Dia Art Foundation, sits inside a former Nabisco box printing factory on the banks of the Hudson River. The whopping 300,000-square-foot haven specializes in single-artist presentations, and figures like Dan Flavin and Andy Warhol have graced its property in Beacon, NY.
The Castellani Art Museum
(Photo courtesy of the Castellani Art Museum Facebook)
The Castellani Art Museum is a center for both contemporary and folk art. On view now are exhibitions like "Extraordinary Ordinary People: American Masters of Traditional Arts," a solo show for sculptor Bethany Krull and "Four Decades of Abstraction."
8. Dan Flavin Art Institute
Nine sculptures in flourescent light, 1963-1981. (Photo courtesy of Dia Art Foundation | The Dan Flavin Art Institute | Bridgehampton NY flickr)
Another Dia Art Foundation treasure, the Dan Flavin Art Institute stands as a firehouse-turned-church-turned-gallery that houses a permanent collection of artist Dan Flavin's fluorescent fixtures and tubes. Burning with the electric light, buzzing color and formless beauty Flavin became famous for, this art spot is perfect for a quick trip out to Bridgehampton, NY.
Everson Museum of Art
The I. M. Pei-designed Everson Museum of Art is a spectacular art haven in the middle of New York state that houses an 11,000-piece permanent collection and an array of temporary and traveling exhibitions.
10. Ithaca Art Trail
(Photo courtesy of Ithaca Art Trail Facebook)
The Greater Ithaca Art Trail. It's a chance to see the insides of 47 artist studios and meet the creatives who call them home. Best time to go: the first Saturday of every month.
11. Edward Hopper House Art Center
(Photo courtesy of Edward Hopper House Art Center Facebook)
This is the birthplace and childhood home of Edward Hopper, the great American painter responsible for works like "Nighthawks" and "Office in a Small City." This house museum located in Nyack, NY, offers both Hopper-specific artworks and 20th century works by other artists.
12. Yaddo Artist Community
(Photo courtesy of Yaddo Facebook)
Yaddo is an artists' community in Saratoga Springs that's taken over 400 acres in order to provide painters, sculptors, dancers, musicians and writers with an opportunity to work without interruption in a breathtaking environment. It can only be visited on special occasions by those not already in residence at the facility, but the Yaddo Gardens are open to the public seven days a week.
13. Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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(Photo courtesy of Albright-Knox Art Gallery Facebook)
The AK, as its known, is part of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, which dates back to 1862 and is considered one of the country's oldest public art institutions. The museum places emphasis on "collection, presentation, and interpretation of the artistic expressions of our times," and in the past even hosted an entire exhibition of Albrecht DÏ‹rer works.
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