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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Celebrate Mexico’s Bicentennial & Hispanic Heritage Month with the Contemporary Arts Center: JUMEX

September 9, 2010 – 7:15 pmNo Comment

In honor of Mexico’s Bicentennial, and the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is planning a blow-out celebration to coincide with the opening of Where Do We Go From Here? Selections From La Colección Jumex. Based in Mexico City, La Colección Jumex is one of the most important collections of contemporary art in the world and the show marks the first time it has been viewed in the United States.

The CAC and Fundación/Colección Jumex also partnered with the Bass Museum in Miami to bring the project to life. The popular show is traveling from Miami where it opened during Art Basel Miami to critical acclaim and great fanfare. The range of works in the exhibition serves as a snapshot of the entire collection, impressive for the breadth of, and the number of big name works in, its holdings. Visitors will get to see iconic works from such heavy hitters as Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Donald Judd, Jenny Holzer and many more. A new catalogue has been published in celebration of the exhibition (whereisthebook.org) and can be purchased at the CAC Store.

Opening Celebrations: Friday, September 17

8pm – cash bar & DJ; free & open to the public

7pm – Members’ Only Preview

(6pm – Cocktail Reception and Curator’s Panel Discussion; for upper level museum members/by invitation)

Contemporary Arts Center is located in the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art 44 East 6th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio / 513.345.8400

For more information: 513.345.8400 or contemporaryartscenter.org