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Dillon Gallery | 555 West 25th Street
Devoted to the representation of international contemporary artists in a variety of mediums, Dillon Gallery exhibits established, mid career, and young emerging artists whose works convey the gallery’s approach to visual content. Formalism and structure carry through the various styles and mediums the gallery presents with an overall interest in the personal content behind the artists’ aesthetics. The gallery has published substantial monographs on several artists it represents in its dedication to expose a new wave of global talent to the Chelsea audience. The gallery’s Asian “Nihonga” program is one approach to highlight artists working within their cultural environments. Be it a young Norwegian artist, an African American photographer, or Chinese and Japanese Nihonga painters, Dillon Gallery continues to act as a forum for regional voices across the artistic landscape. Originating in SOHO in 1994, Dillon Gallery is now located on West 25th Street in New York City, occupying the ground floor space in a converted 19th century warehouse. www.dillongallery.com
Eyebeam Art + Technology Center | 540 West 21st Street
Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its contributions to the community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness: open source, open content and open distribution. www.eyebeam.org
Leo Baeck Institute | 15 West 16th Street
The Leo Baeck Institute is a research library and archive that contains the most significant collection of source material relating to the history of German-speaking Jewry, from its origins to its tragic destruction by the Nazis and continuing to the present day. Dating back almost 2,000 years, when Jews first settled along the Rhine, the Jewish communities of Germany, Austria, and other German-speaking areas of Europe had a history marked by individual as well as collective accomplishments. To appreciate the impact of German-speaking Jewry in modern times, one need only recall such names as Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and Franz Kafka.
Founded in 1955, the LBI was named for the rabbi who was the last leader of the Jewish community in Germany under the Nazis. Rabbi Leo Baeck survived the concentration camp of Theresienstadt to become the first president of the Institute. The Institute was set up with offices in New York, London, and Jerusalem, with New York the site of the LBI library and archives. Since the opening of the Jewish Museum Berlin, LBI NY also maintains a branch of its archives there. www.lbi.org
New York Center for Art and Media Studies | 44 West 28th Street, 7th Floor
NYCAMS, a program of Bethel University, is a faith-based artist and writing residency program that offers students the opportunity to live, create, and interact in the cutting edge cultural capital of the world, New York City. In addition to an art and writing residency, NYCAMS hosts numerous performances, readings, and gallery exhibitions. NYCAMS benefits from being located in the heart of Manhattan, where students can regularly interact with the art world. www.nycams.bethel.edu
Park Avenue Armory | 643 Park Avenue
Park Avenue Armory is a not-for-profit institution whose mission is to revitalize one of America’s historic treasures as a dynamic alternative arts space unlike any other in New York. Part palace, part industrial shed, the Armory is dedicated to the development and presentation of work in the visual and performing arts best realized in a non-traditional setting. In its first four years of presenting arts programming, Park Avenue Armory has collaborated with other cultural institutions and commissioned work directly to provide unforgettable experiences for both artists and audiences. www.armoryonpark.org
Rubin Museum of Art | 150 West 17th Street
The Rubin Museum of Art provides a dynamic environment that stimulates learning, promotes understanding, and inspires personal connections to the ideas, cultures and art of Himalayan Asia. As the Huffington Post observed, the Rubin is presenting audiences with “some of the most original and inspired programs on the arts and consciousness in New York City” since opening its doors in October 2004. The thousands of live programs range from conversations on science, art, culture with the likes of Paul Simon, Ken Burns, Lou Reed, Alice Walker, Amy Tan, Sarah Silverman, David Byrne, and Martin Scorsese, to intimate concert performances by Debbie Harry, Rosanne Cash, Joan Osborne, Steve Martin, Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble and Elvis Costello. Such a heady, energy-laden programming schedule has become a hallmark of the museum. Link to: www.rmanyc.org
