 Theater and opera housesThe
Egg in Albany
The Egg in the city of Albany is a center for the
performing arts. The name The Egg is derived from the
building's unusual construction. The Egg was built from
1966 to 1978 and is located on the Empire State Plaza.
Inside are the two stages Lewis A. Swyer Theater (450
seats) and Kitty Carlisle Hart Theater (982 seats) which
show almost everything from concerts to dance
productions to classic theater productions.
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Empire State Plaza
Albany, New York 12210
www.theegg.org |
Palace Theater in Albany
The Palace Theater in the city of Albany is a historic
cinema from the 1930s. It is kept in the Art Deco style.
Nowadays the Palace Theater is no longer a pure cinema.
It is a performance venue for a wide variety of events.
Visitors can enjoy concerts, comedy, classic films and,
of course, plays here. The Palace Theater has a total of
2,844 seats. The Palace Theater is the venue for the
Albany Symphony Orchestra. The Palace Theater has been
on the list of Historic Places since 1979.
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19 Clinton Avenue
Albany, New York 12207
www.palacealbany.com |
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy
The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in the city of Troy is
the former Troy Savings Bank building from 1870. The
bank had a concert hall set up on the upper floors. The
concert hall is still known and loved today due to its
exceptionally good acoustics and historical organ. Troy
Savings Bank Music Hall has been on the list of Historic
Places since 1989.
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30 2nd Street
Troy, New York 12180 |
Museums and exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
This museum is one of the world's most important museums
for modern art. It was opened on November 7, 1929. The
impulse to set up such a museum came from Abby Aldrich,
the wife of John D. Rockefeller. From 1939 the
collection was housed in a new museum building on 53rd
Street in New York's Manhattan district. The founding
director was the art historian Alfred H. Barr
(1902-1981). From 2002 the museum was completely
redesigned and expanded.
It was ceremoniously reopened on November 20, 2004.
The Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi (* 1937 in
Tokyo) was responsible for the approximately 400 million
euro building. The museum exhibits works by the
following artists: Picasso, van Gogh, Matisse, Degas,
Beckmann, Hopper, Dali, de Chirico, Lichtenstein,
Magritte, Schiele, Miró and Cézanne. During the
renovation (2002 - 2004) selected pieces from the
collection were shown in the Neue Nationalgalerie in
Berlin from February 20 to September 19, 2004. With over
a million visitors, the exhibition exceeded all
expectations.
Guggenheim Museum
Collection of modern and avant-garde art (including
works by Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee) at
1071 Fifth Avenue in New York City; opened in 1959
- Metropolitan Museum of Art on
the eastern edge of New York City's Central Park and
Fifth Avenue; Founded in 1870 and opened on February
20, 1872; presents an extensive collection of art
from all eras; is one of the most important
institutions of its kind in the world
- Whitney Museum of American Art
in New York City; founded in 1931 by Gertrude
Vanderbilt Whitney; comprises one of the most
important collections of contemporary American art
of the 20th century
- Madison Square Garden: one of
the most famous multi-purpose halls in the world;
mainly used for sporting events (boxing, basketball,
ice hockey) and concerts; Arena consists of a
congress center, cinema, theater and sports field
- Carnegie Hall: concert hall in
Manhattan in New York City for classical concerts
and concerts from the area of pop; built 1890 -
1897
- New York University (NYU):
world-famous elite university in New York City;
founded in 1831; largest private university in the
United States with nearly 40,000 students; Campus in
Greenwich Village in Manhattan
- Columbia University in the City of New
York in New York City; founded in 1754 as
King's College under royal decree of King George II;
is considered one of the elite universities in the
United States
- Cornell University in Ithaca;
is considered an elite university; founded in 1865
by Ezra Cornell, a businessman and pioneer in the
telecommunications industry, and scholar Andrew
Dickson White
- Siena College in Loudonville, a
suburb of Albany, capital of the State of New York;
catholic university; founded in 1937 by Franciscan
monks
- Hudson River Valley inland; an
area declared a national heritage site with numerous
historical sites; eg Lyndhurst, a manor house in the
Gothic Revival style from 1838; in Hyde Park the
birthplace of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the
Vanderbilt Museum
New York State Museum in Albany
The New York State Museum in the capital Albany is the
official state museum of the state of New York. With an
area of 140,000 m˛, it is the largest state museum of
all US states. The museum is located directly at the
Empire State Plaza in the Cultural Education Center and
occupies its first 4 floors. This building also houses
the New York State Archives and the New York State
Library. and is dedicated to the areas or topics of
anthropology, archeology, geology, handicrafts and
natural history. The museum was founded in 1836 as the
New York State Geological and Natural History Survey,
making it the oldest of all the state museums in the
United States.
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222 Madison Avenue
Albany, New York 12230 |
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