Two new art exhibits have recently landed on the Upper West Side like a massive cupcake that you can’t eat.
The West Side Arts Coalition is showcasing photos curated by Jack Cesareo, and the arts coalition is holding a poetry reading on Sunday from 2:30 to 3:30 and photo meetup on Sunday from 4 to 5:30 at the Coalition at Broadway Mall Community Center, on Broadway at 96th Street. The show is open until May 19. Gallery hours are Wednesday 6 to 8 pm, and Saturday and Sunday 12 to 6 pm.
The Bard Graduate Center at 18 West 86th street has a big show called Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Focusing on a remarkable but little-known collection that entered the Metropolitan Museum as a gift of J. Pierpont Morgan in the early twentieth century the exhibition features more than 200 objects of primarily medieval art and French eighteenth-century paneling, furniture, metalwork, textiles, paintings, and sculpture, as well as late nineteenth-century art pottery, most of which have rarely been viewed since the 1950s. The fourth in a series of collaborations between The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the BGC, the exhibition provides the first comprehensive examination of Georges Hoentschel—a significant figure in the history of collecting—and illuminates an understudied and critical chapter of the Metropolitan’s history.” Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for students and seniors (Thursday nights after 5 are free). Gallery hours are Tuesday-Sunday 11 am to 5 pm, and Thursday 11 to 8 pm. More here.
