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Museum Mile Festival
VIRTUAL MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL
JUNE 9, 2020
Eight New York City museums are joining together to create the first ever day-long virtual Museum Mile Festival on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Throughout the day, each museum will host live and pre-recorded programs, virtual exhibition tours, live musical performances, and activities for families streamed across their respective websites and social media platforms. Culture enthusiasts from around the world will now be able to join New Yorkers, during this unprecedented moment, and enjoy the festival.
The eight institutions participating in this highly successful collaboration are The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Neue Galerie New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; The Jewish Museum; Museum of the City of New York; El Museo del Barrio; and The Africa Center.
The day’s offerings will be listed on each participating museum’s website. In addition, audiences can follow the hashtag #VirtualMuseumMile on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for cultural happenings throughout the day.
VIRTUAL TOUR OF
“MADAME D’ORA”
Dr. Monika Faber, curator of the Neue Galerie’s critically acclaimed “Madame d’Ora” exhibition, welcomes you into the world of this pioneering woman. Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), better known as Madame d’Ora, had a spectacular career as one of the leading photographic portraitists of the early 20th century. This exhibition, the largest museum retrospective on the Austrian photographer to date in the United States, presents the different periods of her life, from her early upbringing as the daughter of Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, to her days as a premier society photographer, through her survival during the Holocaust. While we are unable to welcome you into our galleries now, the Neue Galerie looks forward to reopening in the coming months under the guidance of our local authorities. As part of this plan, we have extended “Madame d’Ora,” which will remain on view through January 4, 2021.
HANDS ON CRAFTING ACTIVITY
WITH DEBRA RAPOPORT
Style icon Debra Rapoport shares the perfect at-home, hands-on activity with you, providing instructions to repurpose and recycle household items to construct fantastic hats! Don't throw it out if you can create something beautiful. We encourage you to look at the high fashion photography by "Madame d'Ora” and use recyclable goods to interpret works by legendary milliners of the mid-20th century. Make yourself a sustainable hat at home, and share your fashion portrait with us!
SOMETHING SWEET —
DO TRY THIS AT HOME
The Neue Galerie’s restaurant, Café Sabarsky, is beloved for its authentic Austrian cuisine. As part of COVID-19 relief efforts, the museum has created a meal delivery program to support medical workers at the nearby Mount Sinai Hospital. Thus, while Café Sabarsky is not open to the public, we hope that you are able to enjoy our famous Linzer Cookie recipe at home.
VIRTUALLY STROLL ALONG MUSEUM MILE
This Museum Mile Festival is a virtual event co-organized with the following partners:
THE AFRICA CENTER
Events include a live streamed conversation at 5PM EST with Jessica B. Harris, curator of African/American: Making the Nation’s Table, and Pierre Thiam, executive chef and co-owner of Teranga, the fast-casual dining concept located inside The Africa Center. Harris and Thiam will discuss their careers as culinary ambassadors, and Harris' new book Vintage Postcards from the African World: In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play. Virtual Museum Mile visitors will also have the opportunity to contribute an African American culinary hero to The Legacy Quilt as part of the upcoming exhibit, organized by the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) in partnership with The Africa Center. Additional programs include a kid-friendly animation workshop led by artist Ezra Wube, including an overview of the artist's installation Project Junction, and insight into his mixed-media practice.
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EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
Honoring its renowned Permanent Collection and its roots in El Barrio (East Harlem), El Museo del Barrio will present The Artists, recorded interviews with a selection of artists who have enriched our Collection; a fun game about La Colección with El Museo Curators Rodrigo Moura, Susanna Temkin, and special guests; and ¡Muevete!, a live DJ set by legendary artists NinaSky on Zoom Live, spinning a unique sound; a fusion of hip hop, r&b, pop and reggae.
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MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
Events include the Museum’s new live-streamed series, Curators from the Couch: Who We Are a discussion with Chief Curator and Deputy Director Sarah Henry, information designer Giorgia Lupi, and artist and computer scientist Brian Foo; and conversations with cartoonist Roz Chast and novelist and Hugo award-winner, N.K. Jemisin – both part of the MCNY Live series.
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THE JEWISH MUSEUM
Events include an interview with artist Rachel Feinstein talking about the exhibition Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone; a discussion with artists Rachel Feinstein and Lisa Yuskavage, filmmaker Tamara Jenkins, and curator Kelly Taxter, about storytelling, gender, and identity-based art making; a performance for families from The Paper Bag Players at Home; and art activities for families.
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COOPER HEWITT,
SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM
Events include a hands-on activity Design at Home: Potato Stamp Pattern Making Inspired by Eva Zeisel; a virtual exhibition tour of Contemporary Muslim Fashions; and the design talk Exploring A.I.: Data Portraits.
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SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
Events include a Virtual Stroller tour/talk for young children at 3 pm; Guggenheim at Large, which offers several ways to engage with the Guggenheim’s iconic art collection and architecture safely from home including the Guggenheim Circular series, where curators share themes of heightened resonance in this unprecedented time; Sketch with Jeff, a hands-on activity for families with Guggenheim teaching artist Jeff Hopkins that explores the museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright building; and a self-directed audio/visual experience via the Guggenheim Digital Audio Guide.
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NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK
Events include a virtual tour of Madame d'Ora with the exhibition curator Dr. Monika Faber; a hands-on arts and crafts activity, Making Hats: Use What You Have, with style icon Deborah Rapoport, who will inspire adults and children alike to repurpose and recycle household items to construct fantastic hats; and Baking Linzer Cookies: A Recipe from Café Sabarsky, a step-by-step guide to follow the famous Linzer Cookie recipe from Café Sabarsky.
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THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Events include virtual exhibition tours of Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara and Gerhard Richter: Painting After All; a pre-recorded interview with artist Wangechi Mutu; design your own puppet and banjo using recycled materials with #MetKids Create videos; flower crown making with @MetTeens (on INSTAGRAM); and streaming a 2019 MetLiveArts dance performance by Silas Farley filmed in Museum galleries.
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ABOUT MUSEUM MILE FESTIVAL
This year, the Festival, which normally occurs on Fifth Avenue between 82nd Street and 110th Street on the second Tuesday evening in June, has been cancelled, due to the ongoing pandemic. Established in 1978 to increase public awareness of its member institutions and promote public support of the arts, the Museum Mile Festival serves as a model for similar events across the country. Virtual Museum Mile Festival is presented in this convivial spirit, with the same goal of increasing public awareness of arts and culture, and bringing communities together in a socially responsible manner.