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New York, often called New York City [b] or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs , each coextensive with a respective county .
Pages in category "Art museums and galleries in New York City" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The Nicholas Roerich Museum is a museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, dedicated to the works of Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947), a Russian-born cosmopolitan artist. His early accomplishments include devising with Igor Stravinsky the libretto, and creating the sets and costumes for the “ Rite of Spring ” (1913).
The earliest surviving map of the area now known as New York City is the Manatus Map, depicting what is now Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey in the early days of New Amsterdam. [7] The Dutch colony was mapped by cartographers working for the Dutch Republic. New Netherland had a position of surveyor general.
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The Field Building at 23rd Street and Lexington Avenue, the oldest building on the Baruch campus, [31] sits on the former site of the Free Academy (now City College of New York), which was founded in 1847 and was the first institution of free public higher education in the United States. [32]
They met in 1967, just before Sabarsky opened his Serge Sabarsky Gallery at 987 Madison Avenue. The gallery quickly earned a reputation as New York’s leading gallery for Austrian and German Expressionist art, and Lauder was a frequent visitor and client. Over the years, the two men discussed opening a museum to showcase the very best work ...
The Heye Foundation's Museum of the American Indian (founded in 1916) merged into the National Museum of the American Indian, a component of the Smithsonian Institution which opened in 2004 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., with a small permanent gallery remaining in New York City in the Custom House at Bowling Green. [1]