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235 Years of Veteran History in a High-Tech Park
Open again after the hurricane, best-kept-secret BLDG 92 has opened its doors to honor veteran, industrial, medical, and military history at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center. The stunning displays of over...
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NYC Spider Theater Due to Close
Bronze Spider 1, 1995 by Ms. Bourgeois lurks at the show’s entrance About the best spider theater in town is about to close in a few weeks – the live-animal floor show inside the American Museum of...
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3D Cave Art Revealed at NYU
Left Hand of Maitreya, Buddha of the Future, Holding the Looped End of His Robe Xiangtangshan: Northern Group of Caves, North Cave, south face altar of central pillar, 550-559 ce., limestone. Source:...
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Virtual Ancestor Cornered in High-Tech Tree by AMNH
Carl Buell’s rendering of the hypothetical placental ancestor, a small insect-eating animal. Source: AMNH Who says dinosaurs get all the attention? One of the big front-page science stories of the last...
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Spacewar Ending in Astoria
Replica of the round CRT and game controllers developed at MIT in 1962 to run Spacewar on DEC’s PDP-1, the first commercial interactive computer. Note input-output typewriter. It’s all aliens, flying...
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Don’t be Sad, He’s Irish!
Apatosaurus holds court on the Fourth Floor of AMNH. Source: Scott Robert Anselmo There’s no way to count the number of times that people get upset because his actual scientific name is no longer...
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Fluffy AMNH Animal Superstars Win Webby
Steve Quinn, diorama master Steve Quinn couldn’t send them to the L’Oreal Paris hair and make-up room like Tim Gunn does on Project Runway. They’re just too big, too famous, and too fragile. We’re...
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FIT’s Fashion Tech Timeline
Black velvet evening dress by Charles James (c. 1955) with a 3-ft. zipper inserted along that diagonal seam Once you see the clothes in FIT’s Fashion and Technology exhibition inside a technology...
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NYC Museum Videos Receive 49 Million Views on Social Media
The Japan Society’s popular Japanese language series After reposting so many museum videos here, we wondered how much video museums were producing, what social media they were using, and who had the...
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Philadelphia Museums Reach 2.4M YouTube Views
Since Philadelphia museums, zoos, and gardens began posting videos online in 2008, collective YouTube views have climbed to 2.4 million, as chronicled in our latest report, Philadelphia Museums: 2013...
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Think…Download…Make at New Museum
Open-source vacuum assembled from downloadable instructions, a red thermos, hardware store items, and 3D printed parts If you haven’t been exposed to the DIY (Do It Yourself) movement, drop into the...
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Last Call for Global Kitchen at AMNH
Japanese cube melon. Photo: AMNH/D. Finnin Ever wonder what story is told by the food on your plate? It’s all explained in the show at the American Museum of Natural History, Our Global Kitchen: Food,...
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Unicorn Natural History
Detail from The Unicorn Defends Itself (1495-1505), a large tapestry in the main gallery. Who says unicorns aren’t real? Mr. Rockefeller’s tapestry unicorns have been the celebrity draw for the last 75...
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Anxious, Turbulent Skies in Masterful Landscapes
Frederic Edwin Church’s depiction of the volcanic eruption in Ecuador — Cotopaxi, painted in 1862 and shown the following year. Source: Detroit Institute of Arts. Who expects that gigantic, bold...
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Down-to-Earth Women and Space
Installation view of Pruitt’s 2012 drawing, Diasporic Leaps and Bounds, courtesy of the Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Culver City, CA At the Studio Museum in Harlem’s current show, Robert Pruitt: Women,...
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Science Superwomen at Grolier
Portrait of Louise Bourgeois Boursier in one of her early 17th-c books on obstetrics, medical must-reads for over 100 years Just because the confab is ending, it’s no reason not to acknowledge the...
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When Whales Walked Explained at AMNH
Whales exhibit tells the evolution story. Courtesy: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Right inside the exhibit, Whales: Giants of the Deep, the American Museum of Natural History answers two...
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Must-See Skytop Panorama of NYC Past & Present at The Whitney
The installation view of T. J. Wilcox: In the Air, 2013. Photo: Bill Orcutt If you want to enjoy a beautiful view of Manhattan from the roof, don’t worry about the snow, rain, or cold weather. Go over...
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The Art of ElBulli’s Culinary Genius
Notebooks and menu drawings from ElBulli’s kitchen displayed in front of a mural of Ferran Adrià and staff in Roses, Spain in the most famous kitchen in the world. Courtesy: elBullifoundation, The...
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Poison Packs Punch at AMNH Night at the Museum Adult Sleepover
The sleepover site under the Blue Whale The first-ever adult Night at the Museum sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History last night was a hit, thanks to the enthusiasm and star power of Dr....
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