backstory: Recommendations
Want to know which museums in New York (aside from the Neuberger ... of course) look really great right now?
First is the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) at Columbus Circle. They have several spectacular shows on right now including the incredible, and perhaps shocking to some of you, Queer Maximalism. I highly recommend it. It continues through February 19.
Then, another recommendation… the game changer: Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color at the The Met Fifth Avenue. It’s been up a while (and continues until March 26), but I only just got to spend time with it recently. You HAVE to see it if you haven’t already. HAVE to.
If you’ve spent even a moment thinking about classical sculpture or architecture from Greece, this will change everything you thought you knew about it.
Tracy Fitzpatrick
Director, Neuberger Museum of Art
Find me on Twitter @tracyfitzart
Images:Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle Costumes created by Machine Dazzle for his performance Heliotropism staged within artist Natasha Bowdoin’s immersive installation Sideways to the Sun (2019). Photographed by Jenna Bascom.
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color A recreation of the Met’s Archaic-period Sphinx finial—which once crowned a grave stele in the Museum’s collection—was made specifically for the exhibition by Dr. Brinkmann and his team in collaboration with The Met’s Departments of Greek and Roman Art, Objects Conservation, Scientific Research, and Imaging