Fine Arts Museum on Campus!
New York City is well know for its many museums, galleries, and cultural centers located all around the city. But did you know we have all of that right here on campus?? The Grey Art Gallery is located right on Washington Square Park in the Silver Center building. Like most museums and art galleries, the Grey works to collect and preserve fine art. In addition, the Grey:
"...distinguishes itself by emphasizing art's historical, cultural, and social contexts, with experimentation and interpretation as integral parts of programmatic planning. Thus, in addition to being a place to view the objects of material culture, the Gallery serves as a museum-laboratory in which a broader view of an object's environment enriches our understanding of its contribution to civilization."
Free for NYU students!
While you're there, make sure you check out "Radical Presence: Black performance in Contemporary Art" (through December 7th) - "the first exhibition to survey over fifty years of performance art by
visual artists of African descent from the United States and the
Caribbean."
http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/index.html
