The following museums and galleries offer free admission to conference attendees. Please present your CAA conference badge at the admission desk. Please note: additional museums not listed here may also grant free admission to you, so bring your conference badge when you visit them!
American Folk Art Museum
45 West 53rd Street, Manhattan
Exhibition: Martin Ramirez
10% book discount to conference attendees
Hours: Tuesday–Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, 10:30 AM–5:30 PM; Friday, 10:30 AM–7:30 PM; closed Monday
Directions: Subway #V or E line to 53rd Street; or B, D, F, or V line to Rockefeller Center; or N, R, or W line to 59th Street.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue At 68th Street, Manhattan
Exhibition: Paula Trope’s Meninos do Morrinho
15% book discount to conference attendees
Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Directions: Subway #6 line to 68th Street/Hunter College station.
Atlantic Gallery
40 Wooster Street, 4th Floor, Manhattan
Exhibition: Gallery Artists
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12:00 PM–6:00 PM; closed Monday and Tuesday
Directions: Subway to Canal Street or Spring Street station, then short walk to Wooster Street between Grand and Broome Streets, one block east of West Broadway.
Bard Graduate Center Gallery
18 West 86th Street, Manhattan
Exhibition: James “Athenian” Stuart, 1713–1788: The Rediscovery of Antiquity
Hours: Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 11:00 AM–8:00 PM.
Exhibition extended for the CAA conference.
Directions: Subway #1 line to 86th Street, then walk east; or C line to Central Park West.
Blue Mountain Gallery
530 West 25th Street, Manhattan
Exhibition: Margaret Grimes
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11:00 AM–6:00 PM; closed Sunday and Monday
Directions: Subway #1 line to 28th Street, or C or E line to 23rd Street, then walk west; or bus M11 down 9th Avenue to 26th Street, then walk west.
Bowery Gallery
530 West 25th Street, Manhattan
Exhibition: John Goodrich
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11:00 AM–6:00 PM; closed Sunday and Monday
Directions: Subway #1 line to 28th Street, or C or E line to 23rd Street, then walk west; or bus M11 down 9th Avenue to 26th Street, then walk west.
Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor, Manhattan
Exhibitions: Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, organized by Nada Shabout, University of North Texas Art Gallery, presents the work of 17 contemporary Iraqi artists. Dafatir is an Arabic word that translates as “notebooks.”
Exhibition: Red Herring: Printmakers Portfolio Exchange, presenting new prints by 20 printmakers who are faculty at U.S. colleges and universities, as well as two artists from Africa. The prints explore the theme of red herrings. An edition of 25 handmade portfolios will hold the loose prints along with a colophon and a book with a brief biography of each artist and a full description of the theme and details about the portfolio. The exhibition is organized in conjunction with the 2007 Southern Graphics Council Conference.
Hours: Monday–Friday, 10:00 AM–6:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM; closed Sunday.
Directions: Subway #1, R , or W line to west 28th Street; or F to 34th Street.
China Institute Gallery
125 East 65th Street, Manhattan
Exhibition: Reinventing Books in Chinese Contemporary Art
10% off exhibition catalogue
Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10:00 AM–5:00 PM; Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 AM–8:00 PM
Directions: Subway #6 line to 68th Street/Hunter College station.
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006
Made to Scale, Staircase Masterpieces: The Eugene and Clare Thaw Gift
Discounted admission to conference attendees
Hours: Monday–Thursday, 10:00 AM–6:00 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM–9:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM–6:00 PM; Sunday, 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Directions: 4, 5, 6 train to 86th Street or 96th Street; Fifth and Madison Avenue buses
Dia: Beacon
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY
Agness Martin, “AField of Vision: Paintings from the 1980s”
Sol LeWitt, “Drawing Series…”
An-My Lê, “Trap Rock”
50% off regular admission ($5.00)
10% discount in the Gift/Book shop
Hours: Friday–Monday, 11:00 PM–4:00 PM
Directions:
Train/Bus—Dia: Beacon is 60 miles forth of Manhattan (80 minutes travel time). The museum is easily reachable via Metro-North Railroad; the MTA’s Hudson Line station in Beacon is within walking distance of the museum. Schedules are available on the MTA website
Driving—The Museum is reachable by major roadways. Driving directions are available on Dia’s website
Fisher Landau Center for Art
38-27 30th Street at 39th Avenue, Long Island City
Highlights from the Collection
Free admission to conference attendees
Hours: Thursday–Monday, 12:00 PM–5:00 PM
Directions: N, W train to 39th Avenue
Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, Manhattan
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10:00 AM–6:00 PM; Sunday, 11:00 AM–5:00 PM; closed Monday
Directions: Subway #6 line to 68th Street/ Hunter College station; or bus #M1, M2, M3, or M4 on Fifth or Madison Avenue to 70th Street.
Grey Art Gallery and the Department of Fine Arts, New York University
100 Washington Square East, Manhattan
Exhibition: Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle
Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 11:00 AM–6:00 PM; Wednesday, 11:00 AM–8:00 PM; Saturday, 11:00 AM–5:00 PM
Directions: Subway #A, B, C, D, E, F, or V line to West 4th Street; or W or R line to 8th Avenue; or 6 line to Astor Place.
Hebrew Union College Museum
1 West 4th Street, Manhattan
Exhibition: Judy Chicago: Jewish Identity
Hours: Monday–Friday, 9:30 AM–5:00 PM
Directions: Subway #A, C, or E line to west 4th Street; or R or W line to west 8th Street; or 6 line to Astor Place; or bus #M5 or M6 on Broadway to 4th Street.
Hogar Collection Gallery
111 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Exhibition: Sue McNally New Paintings
Hours: Thursday–Monday, 12:00 PM–7:00 PM
Directions: Subway #L line to Bedford Avenue station, then walk north to Grand Street and 1 block west.
Lower East Side Printshop
306 West 37th Street At 8th Avenue, 6th Floor, Manhattan
Exhibition: Winter Group Show: New Prints by Sebastiaan Bremer, Ryan McGinness, and Others
Hours: Monday–Sunday, 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
Directions: Subway #1, 2, 3, A, C, E, B, D, F, V, N, Q, R, or W line to 34th Street/Herald Square station; or bus #M10, M16, or M20 down 8th Avenue to 37th Street
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Avenue At 82nd Street, Manhattan
Exhibitions: Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture; Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s; Discovering Tutankhamun: The Photographs of Harry Burton
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 9:30 AM-5:30 PM
Directions: Subway #4, 5, 6 line to 86th Street, then walk west to 5th Avenue; or bus: M1, M2, M3, M4 on Madison or 5th Avenue to 82nd Street.
Montclair Art Museum
3 South Mountain Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey
Exhibitions: Will Barnet: New Work and Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann
10% book discount to conference attendees
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 11:00 AM–5:00 PM
Directions from Manhattan: From Port Authority Bus Station at west 41st Street and 8th Avenue take DeCamp Bus lines #33 bus to Bloomfield Avenue and North Mountain Avenue, Montclair, New Jersey; or from Penn Station at west 34th Street and 7th Avenue, take New Jersey Transit train to Bay Street Station, Montclair.
Museum of American Illustration Society of Illustrators
128 East 63rd Street, Between Park And Lexington Avenues, Manhattan
49th Annual Exhibition: Sequential Category
Hours: Tuesday, 10:00 AM–8:00 PM; Wednesday–Friday, 10:00 PM–5:00 PM; Saturday, 12:00 PM–4:00 PM
Directions: Subway #F line to Lexington Avenue, or 4, 5, or 6 line to 59th Steet, then short walk
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan
Exhibitions: Armando Reverón; OMA in Beijing: China Central Television Headquarters by Ole Scheeren and Rem Koolhaas; Rossellini on Paper
Hours: Saturday–Monday, Wednesday–Thursday, 10:30 AM–5:30 PM; Friday, 10:30 AM–8:00 PM; closed Tuesday
Directions: Subway: #E or V train to 5th Avenue/53rd Street; or B, D, or F to 47th–50th Streets/Rockefeller Center; or bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, or M5 on Madison or 5th Avenue to 53rd Street.
National Academy Museum/Ici
1083 5th Avenue At 89th Street, Manhattan
Exhibition: High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975, capturing the work, the scene, and the spirit of this crucial but overlooked era in the history of New York City painting.
Hours: Wednesday and Thursday, 12:00 PM–5:00 PM; Friday–Sunday, 11:00 AM–6:00 PM; closed Monday and Tuesday
Directions: Subway #4, 5, 6 line to 86th Street, then walk west to 5th Avenue; or bus: M1, M2, M3, M4 on Madison or 5th Avenue to 89th Street.
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West (at 77th Street), Manhattan
Exhibitions: Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School at the New-York Historical Society; New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War
Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. (open Friday until 8:00 p.m.)
Directions: Subway B from 6th Avenue and 50th Street to 81st Street station.
Pace Digital Gallery, Pace University
163 Williams Street, Manhattan
Group Exhibition
Hours: Monday–Saturday, 12:00 PM–4:00 PM
Directions: Subway: #A or C to Broadway/Nassau Street; or 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, J, M, or Z to Fulton Street; or 4, 5, 6 to City Hall station.
Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University
1 Pace Plaza, Manhattan
Group Exhibition
Prince Street Gallery
530 West 25th Street, Near 10th Avenue, 4th Floor, Manhattan
Exhibition: Tina Olsen
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11:00 AM–6:00 PM; closed Sunday and Monday
Directions: Subway #1 line to 28th Street, or C or E line to 23rd Street, then walk west; or bus M11 down 9th Avenue to 26th Street, then walk west.
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue, Long Island City
Free admission to conference attendees
Hours: Thursday–Monday, 12:00 PM–6:00 PM
Directions: E, V train to 23rd Street/Ely Avenue; G train to 21st Street/Van Alst; 7 train to 45th Rd/Courthouse Square
The Studio Museum in Harlem
144 West 125th Street
Africa Comics
Stan Douglas: Inconsolable Memories
Harlem Postcards
More-in-Store: Harlem Touile de Jouy
StudioSound: AFRIKYA VOLUME 1: A Musical Journey through Africa by Marcus Samuelson & Donna D’Cruz
Free admission to conference attendees
Hours: Wednesday–Friday, and Sunday, 12:00 PM–6:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM–6:00 PM; Monday and Tuesday, closed
Directions: A, B, C, D, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 train to 125th Street; M-2, M-7, M-10, M-100, M-101, M-102, BX-15 bus
Sculpturecenter
44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, Queens
Exhibitions: Monica Bonvicini; In Practice Project Series, featuring Alex Arcadia, Fia Backström, Gardar Eide Einarsson, the Manhattan Group (Ross Cisneros and Garrett Ricciardi), Amy O’Neill, Lucy Raven, Karin Schneider, Karen Yasinsky
10% discount on SculptureCenter publications
Hours: Thursday–Monday, 11:00 AM–6:00 PM; closed Tuesday and Wednesday
Directions: Subway #7 line to 45th Road/Courthouse Square, Queens; or E or V to 23rd/Ely; or G to Courthouse Square (note: the V train does not run on weekends). From all trains, walk north on Jackson Avenue one block past 44th Drive and turn right onto Purves Street.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue At 89th Street, Manhattan
Exhibitions: El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth and History; Highlights from the Permanent Collection; Kandinsky
10% book discount to conference attendees
Hours: Saturday–Wednesday, 10:00 AM–5:45 PM; Friday 10:00 AM–7:45 PM; closed Thursday
Directions: Subway #4, 5, or 6 line to 86th Street, then walk 3 blocks west to 5th Avenue; or M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus on 5th or Madison Avenue to 89th Street.
The Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day; Terence Koh
Hours: Wednesday–Thursday 11 am–6 pm, Friday 1–9 pm (6–9 pm pay-what-you-wish admission), Saturday 11 am–6 pm
Directions: Subway: 6 to 77th Street (walk two blocks west to Madison Avenue)
Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4 to 74th Street