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- NYC Arts Online - culture guide and calendar
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- City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs - represents and serves nonprofit cultural organizations involved in the visual,
literary and performing arts, public-oriented science and humanities institutions including zoos, botanical gardens and historical
and preservation societies, creative artists at all levels who live and work in the City's five boroughs
- Alliance for the Arts (West 42nd Street) - serves the entire NYC cultural community through research and advocacy
- Center for Arts Education (West 34th Street) - committed to restoring, stimulating, and sustaining quality arts education as an
essential part of every child’s education
- CityArts - fosters cultural and economic growth and revitalization in under-served urban areas of New York City
- Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island
- Municipal Art Society (Madison Avenue) - private, non-profit membership organization which promotes a more livable city by
working to enrich the culture, neighborhoods and physical design of New York City
- New York City Arts in Education Roundtable (Times Square) - enables arts organizations providing arts education in the New
York City schools and community to meet and share information about the field
- New York Foundation for the Arts - state-wide service organization for artists that provides this free national information resource
for artists in all disciplines and for those who support them in any way
- Queens Council on the Arts - non-profit arts organization which supports, promotes, and develops the arts in Queens County
- Snug Harbor Cultural Center (Staten Island) - place where history, architecture, the visual and performing arts, and
environmental science all come together to provide a rich and powerful learning experience
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- Organisations
- Art Students League of New York (West 57th Street)
- Asian American Women Artists Alliance (AAWAA) (Brooklyn) - a non-profit women artists collective
- Brooklyn Arts Council - helps artists, arts organizations and community groups promote and sustain the arts
- Bronx Council of the Arts - private, non-profit membership organization that is the official cultural agency of Bronx County
- Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) - independent, non-profit, multicultural art organization
- HERE Arts Center (Sixth Avenue) - supports artists' independence within an interdependent community which provides access,
arts management innovation and non-profit enterprise
- Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning
- New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (West Eighth Street)
- Society of Illustrators (East 63rd Street) - aims to promote and stimulate interest in the art of illustration, and to promote high
ideals in the art by means of exhibitions, lectures, educational programs, and social intercourse
- Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) - aims to develop, foster and promote the arts, cultural and
humanities activities on Staten Island
- Galleries & Spaces
- ExitArt (Tenth Avenue) - gallery that presents the work of under-recognized living artists in innovative ways that expose the
diverse, multi- disciplinary nature of contemporary culture
- Greenwich House Pottery
- Socrates Sculpture Park (Long Island) - open studio, exhibition space, museum and artist residency program
- Art Museums
- American Folk Art Museum (West 53rd Street)
- Brooklyn Museum of Art
- Bronx Museum of the Arts
- Children's Museum of the Arts - hands-on art museum for children
- Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library - paintings, sculpture, works on paper and decorative arts
- Grolier Club of New York - society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts
- Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (Queens)
- Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art (Staten Island)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museum for African Art (Queens)
- Museum of American Illustration (East 63rd Street)
- Museum of Arts and Design (formerly the American Crafts Museum)
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (Queens)
- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (Long Island City) - arts organization solely devoted to contemporary art
- Queens Museum of Art
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- Film Society of Lincoln Center
- Cinemas
- Film Forum - movie house for independent premieres and repertory programming
- Festivals
- Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
- Photography
- International Center of Photography - part museum, part school and part center for photography and photographers
- Museums
- American Museum of the Moving Image - the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media and
their impact on culture and society
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- American Irish Historical Society (Fifth Ave) - focusses on the contemporary Irish experience andcelebrates Irish culture in
lectures, musical recitals, art exhibits and a literary journal
- Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) - urban history center dedicated to the exploration and preservation of documents, artwork
and artifacts representative of Brooklyn's diverse cultures past and present
- Bronx County Historical Society - administers the Museum of Bronx History, the Bronx County archives,a research library, and
Poe Cottage
- New-York Historical Society (West 77th Street) - collects, preserves and interprets a wide array of objects such as paintings,
sculpture, decorative arts, photographs, newspapers and books that document the history of New York and American life
- Museums
- The Alternative Museum - provides international education programming, forums for discussion on various artistic, cultural,
social and ethical issues, contemporary art exhibitions, electronic gallery tours, world music, and publishing
- American Family Immigration History Center (Ellis Island)
- American Museum of Natural History (Central Park West)
- Brooklyn Children's Museum
- Children's Museum of Manhattan
- China Institute Gallery (65th Street)
- Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science (Long Island)
- Guggenheim Museum (Fifth Avenue)
- Historic Richmond Town (Staten Island) - living history village and museum complex
- Hudson River Museum (Yonkers)
- The Jewish Museum, New York
- Long Island Children's Museum (Garden City)
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum
- Museum of American Financial History - independent public museum dedicated to celebrating the spirit of entrepreneurship and
the democratic free market tradition
- Museum of the City of New York
- Museum of Chinese in the Americas
- Museum of Jewish Heritage (Battery Park City) - aims to educate people of all ages and backgrounds about the 20th century
Jewish experience before, during, and after the Holocaust
- Museum of Television and Radio
- National Lighthouse Museum (Staten Island)
- New York City Fire Museum
- New York Police Museum
- Queens County Farm Museum - New York City's largest remaining tract of undisturbed farmland and the only working historical
farm in the City
- South Street Seaport Museum (Lower Manhattan) - historic district featuring New York's maritime history
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- Poets House (Spring Street) - literary center and archive of 40,000 poetry volumes
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- Irish Arts Center (West 51st Street) - dance, music, art, history and language
- UJA-Federation of New York - aims to care for those in need, strengthen Jewish peoplehood, and foster Jewish renaissance in
New York, in Israel, and throughout the world
- New York Chinese Cultural Center (Broadway) - non-profit arts organization that nurtures, teaches, and preserves traditional
Chinese performing arts in the United States
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- City Center - performing arts center
- Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
- Carnegie Hall (57th Street and Seventh Avenue)
- Colden Center for the Performing Arts (Queens College)
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- Symphony Space (Broadway) - community-based arts organization which produces and presents free and low-cost programs
that represent the cultures of New York City to a nationwide audience
- Lehman Centre for
the Performing Arts (Bronx)
- Music
- Bloomingdale School of Music (West 108th Street)
- Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) - urban arts center that brings international performing arts and film to Brooklyn
- Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra / Brooklyn Heights Music Society
- Chamber Music Society (Lincoln Center)
- Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center (West 67th Street) - multi-art center comprising the Merke Concert Hall, Lucy Moses School,
and the Special Music School
- Louis Armstrong House & Archives
- Metropolitan Opera (Lincoln Center)
- New York City Opera (Lincoln Center)
- New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players
- New York Philharmonic
- Opera on the Go (Queens) - traveled to theaters and schools, libraries and festivals, to bring high quality American Opera to
children and adults
- Queens Symphony Orchestra
- Radio City Music Hall (Sixth Avenue) - "a palace of the people … to entertain and amuse, but also to elevate and inspire"
- St. Luke's (West 42nd Street) - comprised of the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and St. Luke's
Arts Education Program
- Roulette (West Broadway) - performing space aimed at providing opportunities for innovative composers, musicians, and
interdisciplinary collaborators to present their work in accessible, appropriate, and professional concert productions
- Dance
- Chinese Folk Dance Company
- Dance Theatre of Harlem
- Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) (West 19th Street)
- H.T. Chen & Dancers (Mulberry Street Theater) - modern dance company with an Asian-American expression
- Merce Cunningham Dance
- Movement Research (Broadway) - promotes the exploration of dance, movement and community through classes, workshops,
programs and perfomances
- National Dance Institute (Broadway) - founded in the belief that the arts have a unique power to engage children and motivate
them toward excellence
- New York City Ballet (Lincoln Center)
- Performance Space 122 (East 9th Street) - supports the development of work by individual artists who create live art with an
authentic vision
- Theatre
- Lincoln Center Theater - aims to provide "the arts not for the privileged few, but for the many"
- New York State Theater (Lincoln Center)
- The Public Theater - new plays, musicals, productions of Shakespeare, and other classics
- Pan Asian Reparatory Theater (8th Avenue) - performs and promotes plays which reflect the evolution of Asians in America
- Paper Bag Players (West 99th Street) - company of adults who create and perform original theater for children ages 4 through 9
- Queens Theatre in the Park - presents programs for adults and children by international, national and local-based performing
artists
- Reader's Theatre Workshop (Queens) - not-for-profit arts and education organization which aims to advance literacy among the
young, particularly those living in socially or economically disadvantaged neighborhoods and attending underperforming schools,
and to ensure their equal access to the arts and technology as they continue their education
- Repertorio Español (East 27th Street) - aims to introduce the best of Latin American, Spanish and Hispanic-American theatre in
distinctive, quality productions
- Roundabout Theatre Company (Times Square) - classic theatre and theatrical revivals
- Shadowbox Theatre (Third Avenue) - children's multicultural musical theatre, using puppets, drama and dance
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