Napoleon On The Nile: Soldiers, Artists and the Rediscovery of Egypt Organized by the Dahesh Museum of Art, Napoleon on the Nile brings together more than 80 large, exquisitely detailed, engraved plate illustrations from the massive, encyclopedic compendium known as Description de l’Egypte (1809-28), long considered the foundational work of modern Egyptology, along with vivid 19thcentury Orientalist paintings that were influenced by them, and a selection of campaign letters and documents, to explore the artistic legacy of General Napoleon Bonaparte’s brief occupation of Egypt, begun in 1798 and ending in 1801. Miya Ando Stanoff: Minimalist Landscapes on Steel Miyo Ando Stanoff utilizes metal finishing techniques on steel panels to create quiet, abstract and meditative environments. Accidental / Coincidental Chance, Occurence and Intention in Contemporary Art. This group exhibition explores the concepts of accidental art which is mostly and purely visual, subject to occurence and the artist is merely a participant; and coincidental art - which becomes something exceptional because of a chance convergence of energies - in this case, the artist completely has no control. The Way We Worked Featuring photographs from the National Archives on the history of work in America: clothing, locales, conditions and conflicts. Imagine working in a coal mine, in a steel mill or at a telephone switchboard. Work and workplaces have gone through big changes between the mid 800's to today. This exhibit offers a chance to view these changes through photographs held by the National Archives and Records Administration. From Sea to Shining Sea: 200 Years of Charting America’s Coasts New York’s Left Bank: Arts and Artists off Washington Square North, 1900-1950 This exhibition will focus on the many buildings in the two blocks north of Washington Square in Greenwhich Village that, in the early 20th century, were converted for use as artists’ studios – at the time most of these buildings were owned by Sailor’s Snug Harbor, and its Board played a pivotal role in promoting and facilitating this conversion. Physical renovations brought about by both landlords and artists and the heterogeneous and friendly yet industrious character of the artists’ community that made its home in this area evoked something of the appearance and atmosphere of the Left Bank of Paris, where many of these artists formerly had lived and studied. The photographs in this exhibition recall the vitality of this once flourishing artistic community, where some of America’s most important artists lived, among them: Philip Martiny, Edward Deming, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Daniel Chester French, Paul Manship, Isamu Noguchi, Alfonso Ossorio, and Edward Hopper.
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