New York has a great number of world famous landmarks, most notably the Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building. The city is also known for housing the "crossroads of the world", better known as Times Square, and for bringing a great array of Broadway theatre shows to the community. Additionally, the Bronx Zoo is the largest city zoo in the world, and Central Park boasts the most visits of any park in the country.

ART GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, widely known as The Met, was established in 1870. With a collection of more than two million pieces, it is the largest art museum in the country, and within the top ten in the world. The massive collection is manned by seventeen curatorial departments. Located just outside Central Park, The Met houses everything from classical and Egyptian art and artifacts to American and modern selections.

  An encyclopaedic collection of musical instruments and costumes from around the world also makes its home within the 2,000,000 square foot, Beaux-Arts building. Works by Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Bernini, Picasso, and Pollock are included among the countless Masters.

• Located in midtown Manhattan, the Museum of Modern Art or MoMA has been called the most influential modern art museum in the world. Within its over 150,000 works are examples of architecture, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and prints, as well as film and other electronic media. The museum also houses a library that holds around 300,000 books and catalogs, as well as periodicals and various files. Among the illustrious pieces in the collection are works by Braque, Dali, Monet, Matisse, Lichtenstein, and van Gogh.

• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a highly recognizable modern building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1959. Prior to residing in this building, the museum was housed in a rented building for just over 20 years. The collection is continuously growing from its namesake's original 600-piece donation, and holds a great number of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary artworks. Home to works by Franz Marc, Ernst Kirchner, Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, and many more, the museum is visited by more than one million guests each year.

• Home to a collection of over 1.5 million items pertaining to art and history, the Museum of the City of New York is located near Central Park, and housed in a neo-Georgian style brick building built in 1930. Much of the museum's large collection is made up of objects from the 19th and 20th centuries, including drawings, paintings and more than 3000 Currier and Ives prints. Photographs of the city abound, as well as decorative objects, antique toys and furniture, and costumes; the museum was the first in the country to have a dedicated curatorial department for toys. The museum was founded in 1923.

• The Whitney Museum of American Art, widely known as simply "The Whitney", was founded in 1931 and is home to a collection of more than 20,000 paintings, prints, film, photography, sculpture and other media by American artists. Located for over 40 years on prestigious Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side, the museum recently relocated to the West Village. Among the notable artists in The Whitney's archive are Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Cindy Sherman, and Jackson Pollock.

• The Brooklyn Museum
• Socrates Sculpture Park
• Bronx Museum of the Arts
• Center for Architecture
• Museum of American Illustration
• Studio Museum in Harlem
• Museum of Arts and Design
• Museum for African Art
• New York Tattoo Museum
• Rubin Museum of Art
• Toy Museum of NY
• Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
• American Museum of Natural History
• Frick Collection
• Children's Museum of the Arts

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ARTISTIC INSTITUTIONS

• Established in 1887, Pratt Institute is a private non-profit facility for higher education, located in Brooklyn. The school, considered on of the best in the northeast of the USA, enrols more than 3500 undergraduate and graduate students in engineering, architecture and the arts, and its architecture, interior and industrial design programs are regarded highly throughout the country.

  Those interested in pursuing the fine arts can focus on ceramics, jewelry, drawing, painting, printmaking or sculpture. Photography, digital arts and various associate degrees are also available. Master's degrees are also offered in sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting and drawing.

• Originally established as Chase School in 1896, Parsons The New School for Design is a private institution that offers undergraduate and graduate degrees to more than 4000 students, in the great number of concentrations including fashion design, architecture, art and design history, communication design, fine arts, illustration, urban design, and more. Parsons' encourages collaboration and mentorship within their programs, as well as the challenging of convention and anticipation of artistic trends. Since 1921, the school has also run a second campus in Paris, France.

• At the School of Visual Arts, students can work toward an undergraduate degree in animation, illustration, cartooning, and more. Graduate degrees are also offered for many concentrations including design, curatorial practice, digital photography, and social documentary film. The Manhattan campus enrols more than 6000 students and has graduated artists from 100 countries around the world. Established in 1947 as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, the institution has since opened a museum and theatre, and established international study programs.

• Sotheby's Institute of Art is a graduate school located in midtown Manhattan, which offers programs in Contemporary Art, American Fine and Decorative Art, and Art Business. The school has campuses in Los Angeles and London as well, where additional degrees in East Asian Art, Photography and Contemporary Design can be achieved. Begun as a small program by the world famous Sotheby's Auction House in 1969, today the school offers certification courses, summer and semester courses, and public programming as well as high quality higher education.

• The best in dance, theatre, and music compete regularly for a spot at the prestigious Juilliard School.

• The American Academy of Dramatic Arts is the oldest acting school in Western world, offering programs in theatre, film and television performance.

• The School of Art at The Cooper Union offers a four year Bachelor of Fine Arts program that melds history with hands on education.

• With graduate degrees in film, theatre, visual arts, and writing, Columbia University School of the Arts is an Ivy League staple.

• At Alfred University, the artistically inclined can study ceramics, drawing, photography, expanded media, or sculpture.

• Study film, acting, or photography at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, founded in 1965 to provide conservatory training to prospective artists.

• At the New York Academy of Art, graduate students receive intensive instruction in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and anatomy.

• Kids can take art classes over Spring or Summer break, and adults can fine tune their oil painting, drawing, and mixed media skills at The Art Studio New York.

• At the Bridgeview School of Fine Art, aspiring artists of all ages can study portrait and figure drawing, still life painting, and portfolio preparation.

NATIVE ARTISTS

There are plenty of artistic people originally from, or currently living in New York City!

• Landscape painter William Bliss Baker (1859-1886) studied at the National Academy of Design and completed more than 130 oil and watercolor paintings during his short life. Posthumously he was called one of America's "most promising artists".

• A frequent cover artist for the New Yorker, Eric Drooker is also a painter and graphic novelist. He designed the animation for the 2010 film Howl, which starred James Franco.

• Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) was a well known artist who painted and sculpted alongside the Pop Art movement. His most famous works are enlarged closeups of classic comic book scenes, though he also reproduced many works by famous modern artists in his own style.

• The creator of the artistic movement Verdadism, Soraida Martinez is known for her abstract expressionist paintings and social commentary.

• The iconic Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) painted images that reflected regular American life. He attended the National Academy of Design and is perhaps most famous for his depiction of the muscle-baring Rosie the Riveter.

• Famous performers born in New York include Vin Diesel, Christopher Walken, Sylvester Stallone, Al Pacino, Walter Matthau, Jennifer Lopez, Olivia Wilde, Sigourney Weaver, Barbra Streisand, Brooke Shields, and Idina Menzel.

ART AND CULTURAL EVENTS

Annual Events

• Held each May since 2012, the Frieze Art Fair includes almost 200 galleries from around the world, and focuses on showcasing contemporary art by living artists. Each year, the fair is held in a temporary "bespoke" space, includes daily lectures, panels and discussions with prominent figures in the art world, as well as audio commissions which are available within listening stations within the fair grounds. The Frame section of the show features galleries less than 8 years old, and offers an opportunity to artists who have yet to exhibit on an international stage. The fair runs for four days.

• The Museum Mile Festival takes place within the span of New York along which nine museums are located. The one-day festival offers free attendance after 6 pm, and closes 23 city blocks to vehicle traffic, to be instead taken over by musicians, street entertainers ,and art activities for children. Begun in 1978, the festival has since seen more than one million visitors, many of whom had never before visited the area.

• Each year in March, the Amory Show takes place on the piers in central Manhattan, and features some of the most significant artworks from the last and current centuries. The three day show is the central event of Armory Arts Week, which highlights the arts organizations and communities around the city, holding events in various neighborhoods and continues to expand each year.

Other Events and Sights to See

• Mingle with artists of the screen at the Tribeca Film Festival, which takes place each spring.

• Hear words that move and engage you at the New York City Poetry Festival, each July.

• New York International Children's Film Festival exposes kids to the wonders of video in February and March.

• In June, see free musical performances and other artistic sights at the River to River Festival.

• Take the stairs to the torch 93 meters up to take in the view from the Statue of Liberty.

• The iconic Empire State Building was constructed in the 1930s and has 102 storeys.

• Light up your night under the massive screens of Times Square.

• Ride the ferris wheel and grab a corndog at Coney Island.

• Visit NYC Go for a comprehensive list of things to see, stuff to do, and where to stay.

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