last minute NYC museum rec

Heading to NYC tomorrow. I've been to MoMA (twice), Guggenheim, the Met, and PS1. What else should I see? Doesn't have to be strictly art. Will be in Manhattan, time doesn't allow for other boroughs.

The Frick

THE COOPER HEWITT!!!!

It's the Smithsonian's design museum; I went a few weeks ago and it is awesome.

I hear the New Museum is very nice too but I haven't been.

I'm doing the same thing early next month...the New Museum looks great and they're hosting a Brion Gysin exhibit, and the Whitney have a Christian Marclay retrospective.

WAT?? When's the Marclay retrospective??? Are they screening "Guitar Drag"?????

Not sure of the contents (I'm on my phone and the Whitney's site is pretty Flash-heavy iirc) but I think it's already started and goes until late September.

The answer is:

It's going on now. What RSS feed to I have to subscribe to to find out about things like this???

opinions4u--

• the coolest (& maybe best) museum thing you can do in nyc right now is the big bambu project on top of the met. you gotta do the guided tour, though--tickets go on sale at 9am and 12am but show up early to make sure you get one. theyre free with admission, which is a "recommended donation" anyway. if you dont want to go to the rest of the met, youre right there near the guggenheim, cooper hewitt, and of course

• die neue galerie has an otto dix exhibit that i havent seen but is supposed to be good. neue galerie is a great little museum imo, so i trust that their dix thing is great.

• iirc cooper hewitt is currently showing a big thing about contemporary 'sustainable'/'green'/'progressive' design? its a great exhibit but the museum is expensive and 3/4s of the building is closed for renovations right now, so i might wait till next year when the whole thing is open.

• the morgan library is a very nice little museum in a beautiful building, and theyre doing a durer show right now that i have been meaning to go out and see

• i have defended it before but i dont really like the new museum--the gallery space is very weird and their exhibitions can be v hit or miss. right now theyve got the brion gysin exhibit, which is fun if youre into the beats and gysin-type things (im not really though there is a lot of cool stuff in there) and a brazilian named rivane neuenschweider... her stuff is pretty good/interesting i think (i have a satin dream ribbon from the exhibit around my wrist right now) but the new museum right now wouldnt be my 1st choice

• jr&tb is right that the frick is an awesome place--the current exhibition is kind of meh imo (its like a 75th anniversary thing about the museum itself) but the permanent collection is dope

• im going to the moma tomorrow to check out the matisse exhibit

• anyway the museum of natural history is always hell of fun too

• the museum of america folk art is an overlooked gem with beautiful darger collection and other goodies, plus right next to moma so you could do a twofer

• museum of art and design is not very good imo

• brooklyn museum has a warhol thing that i heard was good but havent seen

if you go to the natural history museum dont bother with the space show, its like 12 minutes long and it sucks

i wanted to go to the silk road exhibit and everyone else wanted to do the space movie and the movie was shitty and the silk road would have been awesome and now it closes in a couple days

I would like to go to NYC again sometime

Otto Dix @ the Neue Gallery is GREAT - closes Aug 30
http://animalnewyork.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/dix1.jpg

Also, if it's sunny, it's best to grab a Time Out New York and meander around Chelsea, where they have like 30 galleries all showing stuff on a five block strip. Stuff will range from meh to mind-blowing.

The Chelsea gallery tour sounds fun. Is going to just look, without the intention of buying anything, encouraged?

"the coolest (& maybe best) museum thing you can do in nyc right now is the big bambu project on top of the met."

tell us more?

Yeah. Are Cheech and Chong involved?

OK, I see.

I ended up going to the Whitney. It was excellent. The Charles Burchfield and Christian Marclay exhibits were both great.

Thanks for all the recs, I have enough places to check out for the next few trips.

So I'm in the city now, doing the museum crawl, and it's going well so far. Marclay at the Whitney was fantastic; I'm just sad I missed out on JG Thirlwell (last Wednesday) and my chances at seeing accompaniment to Bell & Glass (might have the title wrong there) and Manga Scroll. Did see a performance of Screen Plays, which was excellent. And funny, which is there in the unaccompanied work, but a lot easier to appreciate with a man doing strange and possibly illegal things to a trumpet. Also left my note on the chalkboard, which should be there until Monday's cleaning- I STOLE YOUR CHALK (SORRY)

Tomorrow, the New Museum, Guggenheim and (if time permits and it's open) Neue Galerie.