National Gallery of Art: ‘Degas/Cassatt’ With just 70 works squeezed into four small galleries, this show about the unlikely but long-lasting friendship between Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas is not your typical Impressionist blockbuster. [Through 5 Oct. 2014] Familiar paintings and pastels are outnumbered here by prints and drawings. But that focus ultimately proves to
#6. Hudson Valley NY Hudson Valley towns — Kingston, Hudson, Newburgh, Rosendale, Beacon and more — are experiencing an artistic renaissance. The area is close to New York City, but you'd never know it from the inspiring scenery. [source: PolicyMic] Nestled in rolling hills, towns with industrial pasts (think: Walkway Over the Hudson) are
“Everybody Street” illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. The documentary pays tribute to the spirit of street photography through a cinematic exploration of New York City, and captures the visceral rush, singular perseverance and at times immediate danger customary to
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Shelley Bernstein lives with her computer. Most days she hunkers down in her spartan office at the Brooklyn Museum where, as chief technology officer, she invents ways to keep people visiting the museum and its Web site. [source: New York Times] Every night she bicycles home to the Red Hook section of Brooklyn to be