Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Fifth Avenue Renovation Plans

February 8, 2012 – 8:17 am |

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has unveiled plans for a comprehensive redesign of the four-block-long outdoor plaza that runs in front of its landmark Fifth Avenue façade, from 80th to 84th Streets in Manhattan. Rendering showing bird’s-eye view of proposed Fifth Avenue plaza redesign (image: OLIN) The plan also calls for the creation of new fountains—to replace the deteriorating ones that have been in use since they were built in the 1970s along with the existing plaza. The fountains will be ... Read More

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RISD Museum Family Open Studio: Picturing Photography

July 26, 2010 – 10:22 amNo Comment

Visit the special exhibition “Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor” at the RISD Museum. Explore how distant lands appear familiar and the familiar becomes unknown in photographs that capture timeless places, sacred sites, and the beauty of light. After visiting the exhibition, make a sun print in the Family Open Studio that represents something sacred to you and enjoy sketching in the exhibition. Admission is free all day. Family Open studio is from 1pm-4pm, Family See + Sketch at 2:30pm. Call 401-454-6674 for more information.

(Last Saturdays of the month are free admission, 10am-5pm)

www.risdmuseum.org