New York is home to several world renowned art museums and galleries showcasing priceless artifacts and paintings. While traveling in the magnificent city of New York you can enrich your aesthetics and can make your holiday trip most memorable by exploring these incredible museums and stunning galleries.

On internet you will find quite a few authorized sites offering genuine and compact listing of the highly reputed art museums and galleries of the New York City.

New York official website list of city museums

http://www.ny.com/museums/all.museums.html

List of NY art galleries

http://art-collecting.com/galleries_ny.htm

A Few Great Art Museums and Galleries in NY:

The elegantly designed Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1000 Fifth Avenue, 82nd Street, New York: 10028-0198, also known as the Met, offers widest collection of artwork representing various stages of human history. The beautiful artifacts are collected from almost every corner of the globe.

Met Museum of Art, NYC

http://www.metmuseum.org/

The Museum of Modern Art located in 11 West 53rd Street, Btw 5th & 6th Ave. New York: 10019, features over 100,000 wonderful paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and architectural models, a huge collection of films and art books as well.

Museum of Modern Art, New York

http://www.moma.org/

The internationally recognized Folk Art Museum showcases great variety of folk art from various part of the world.

American Folk Art Museum

http://www.folkartmuseum.org/

The beautifully constructed Guggenheim Museum in New York City is an amazing place for enjoying traditional and modern art.

Guggenheim Art Museum, NYC

http://www.guggenheim.org/

In Whitney Museum you can explore some great contemporary art forms and in their website you can create an exclusive collection of your favorite art in digital format.

Whitney Museum of American Art

http://whitney.org/

New York is a city which stages art exhibitions throughout the year.

You would find many places in and around the city, which has ongoing art exhibitions for the art lovers.

What is even more important is the art exhibitions cater to various form of arts.

The best place to find the current information about such shows in New York City is Curator's choice.

The site has a wealth of information about various shows conducted in the city.

You would also find full range of information about the address of the places where art exhibitions are held in the city.

The best place to know about art exhibitions in New York City

http://www.nymuseums.com/

You would also find lots of information about the art exhibitions which is being held in the city at New York City department of arts and exhibitions.

Information about art exhibitions in New York City

http://www.nycgovparks.org/art

You would find many places in New York City, which stages exhibition along with a competition. Check such information on art show, as they have lots of jury art competition cum exhibition information in the city.

exhibition cum art competition in New York

http://www.artshow.com/juriedshows/

Finally, you would get lots of art program schedules at the New York art site.

They have a large collection of places where the art exhibitions are held throughout the year.

Art show schedules at New York art

http://nymag.com/arts/art/

Situated in New York City where art is received quite well by all art enthusiasts, Renwick Gallery presents Appreciative Craft and Decorative Arts. Open since 2006, it has seen many artists showcase their art and craft.

Renwick Gallery - Visit the website

http://www.renwickgallery.com/gallery/

Current the gallery is busy with an exhibition with seven artists showcasing their work under the title of 'A Relative Expanse'. The exhibition started on 27th May and is running a full month till 26th of June. The exhibition has also been review by Britney Salsbury on the website Artforum.com

See the different Artists and their Works

http://www.renwickgallery.com/exhibitions/2010-05-27_a-relative-expanse/

The art at this gallery sees limelight and is named corrective with the word as 'appreciative'. The same sight slighter exhibition was reviewed in the NY times by Roberta Smith and has received rave reviews.

Read the Review article

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/arts/design/14galleries-003.html?ref=design

The nine artists with the gallery each have a huge collection of work which has made this gallery gain popularity and attention. Each with a style and meaning of their own and with different backgrounds, influence their art and craft with all of these.

See the words of all 9 artists and read their biography

http://www.renwickgallery.com/artists/

While each of the years from 2007 to 2010 have seen immense activity all year round, there works are still available to see on their website. The upcoming exhibition to look forward to is 'Held up by Columns' and is open to the public from 8th July to 6th of August 2010.

View the past exhibitions and artists

http://www.renwickgallery.com/past/