Great Art
for a Song
Don’t miss this year’s
Museum Mile Festival
Admission to any one of the nine (and soon
10) great museums on Fifth Avenue’s Museum
Mile can cost you a nice chunk of change:
$20 or more. Getting free admission to all of
them—including such great institutions as the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim
and the Museum of the City of New York—
would be incentive enough to visit. But during
the Museum Mile Festival, which goes from
6 to 9 p.m. June 12, there are plenty of other
reasons to visit, too.
Yes, admission to all the museums is free.
In addition, however, Fifth Avenue is closed to
traffic and becomes a veritable pedestrian midway, with street performers, musical groups
and vendors. In front of each museum are
performances and activities, from string quartets and cabaret singers to jugglers and chalk
artists. Plus, of course, there’s the art—the fine
art, that is. You’ll have the chance to see such
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FIVE BOROUGHS
Bike New
York
May 6
It’s like the New York
City Marathon for bicyclists: More than 30,000
of them, hailing from as
far away as Europe and
Asia, do a 42-mile tour
of the five boroughs,
beginning at Battery
Park. bikenewyork.org
WEST SIDE
Ninth Avenue
Food Festival
May 19–20
You can travel the culi-
nary world without ever
leaving New York, but
at this festival, you can
do it all in one day and in
one place: Ninth Avenue
between 42nd and 57th
streets. ninthavenue
foodfestival.com
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great summer exhibits as “Bellini, Titian, and
Lotto: North Italian Paintings from the Acca-demia Carrara, Bergamo” at the Met. The newest addition to Museum Mile, the Museum for
African Art, opens in late 2012.
This year, the festival kicks off at the newly
renovated National Academy Museum, where
the main exhibition is “Altering Perspectives:
Women Artists Then and Now,” a look at the
works of Colleen Browning, May Stevens and
other women, including Evelyn Beatrice Long-man, Nancy Grossman and Louise Bourgeois.
And when you’re all museumed out? There’s
plenty of good people-watching, and that’s
free, too. 212-606-2296; museummilefestival.org.
A Paris Salon,
Here and Now
Every artist who
was anybody in
Paris in the 1920s
made his or her
way to Gertrude
Stein’s salon at
some point. And
Stein, along with
her brothers Leo
and Michael and
and the Parisian
Avant-Garde,” an
exhibit at the Met-
ropolitan Museum
of Art through June
3, includes some
fantastic works.
The exhibit shows
how the Steins’
tastes changed
over the years
and also looks at
the relationships
the family had
with artists such
as Henri Matisse
and Pablo Picasso.
Also on view are
paintings, sculp-
ture and works on
paper by Pierre
Bonnard, Maurice
Denis, Juan Gris,
Marie Laurencin,
Jacques Lipchitz,
Henri Manguin,
André Masson, Elie
Nadelman, Francis
Picabia and others.
metmuseum.org.
WEST SIDE AND HARBOR
Fleet Week
May 23–30
It’s Fleet Week! The
week, which was begun
in 1984 to honor the
U.S. Navy and Marine
Corps, features dem-
onstrations, ship tours,
competitions and a
parade of ships in New
York Harbor. fleetweek
newyork.com
LONG ISLAND
Belmont Stakes
June 9
The third leg of the Triple
Crown is held at Belmont
Park, which, at 1½ miles,
is the longest and most
demanding of the three
tracks. So far, 26 horses
have come into the race
eligible to win the Triple
Crown and only 11 have
succeeded. Will this be
the year it happens again?
belmont-stakes.info
BROOKLYN
Northside
Festival
June 14–17
This festival gives Aus-
tin’s South by Southwest
a run for its money in
the hip department.
Started in 2009 by The
L Magazine, it has added
a film festival, an ideas
panel and free open
studios of local artists.
thelmagazine.com/blogs/
northsidefestivalnews
