New York 03.25.2009

Expose Yourself To Art

Put the ART in barter

We’ve been brokenhearted. Blue since the day we parted. Why, why did we ever let you go?

MoMA Mia! Has your MoMA membership gone M.I.A.? It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay if you had to let your Whitney membership (re)lapse. In a tanking economy the first thing to lose funding is the arts.

Who knew Museums had a Happy Hour?

Friday evenings, the Whitney and the Guggenheim are both “Pay what you wish.” Granted diminutive donations might receive scowling glances from dilettantish docents, but those dowagers should take tips from drunken drag queens if they plan on intimidating cheap chaps like us!

Sure to be a hit with Rice Queens, the Guggenheim currently has an exhibit called The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia. And the Whitney is showcasing Ms. Holzer’s innovative approach to language and non-traditional media. Of course we’d prefer Ms. Houston’s So Emotional exhibit, but buggers can’t be choosers.

Friday evenings at MoMA are fabulously free thanks to Target Free Fridays. Don’t miss Performance 1: Tehching Hsieh. The exhibit showcases set pieces from the innovative performance artist’s yearlong performances, such as a wooden cage where he spent a year of silence. We lasted twenty-seven seconds.

And although the Met has raised its admission to $20, it’s just “suggested.” We “suggest” that it’s surely worth a buck or two to get the gayest erection over New York City’s greatest collection (of art)!

Whitney Museum of American Art
Pay what you wish on Fridays, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
945 Madison Avenue (@ 75th Street), New York
(212) 570-3676
www.whitney.org

Guggenheim Museum
Pay what you wish on Fridays, 5:45 – 8:00 p.m.
1071 5th Avenue (@ 89th Street), New York
(212) 423-3500
www.guggenheim.org

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday – Thursday, 9:30 a.m.– 5:30 p.m.
Friday – Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Sunday, 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
“Suggested” donation: $20
1000 Fifth Avenue (@ 82nd Street), New York
(212) 535-7710
www.metmuseum.org

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