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Tour Descriptions
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Thursday,
April 15
Tour
1:
9:00 am – 6:00 pm
CIA and
DIA:Beacon
Fee:
$120
Experience lunch at a student-staffed restaurant at the Culinary Institute of
America in
Hyde Park
,
NY
. See the new contemporary art
museum, in Beacon, NY, built for the Dia Art Foundation’s renowned collection
of painting and sculpture from the 1960s to the present.
Each gallery is devoted to a single artist and was designed to fulfill
the particular needs of the works.
www.ciachef.edu,
www.diabeacon.org
Tour
2:
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Medieval
Manhattan
Fee:
$70
Tour St John the Divine, a Gothic and Romanesque cathedral begun in 1892. When
completed it will be the second largest religious edifice in the world. Continue
on to the Cloisters, the branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to art
and architecture of medieval
Europe
.
http://www.stjohndivine.org/,
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=7
Tour
3:
9:00 am –
12:00 pm
Costume Institute
at the Metropolitan Museum
of
Art
Fee:
$25
The world-renowned Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes
exhibition space, a conservation facility and the Irene Lewisohn Costume
Reference Library.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=8
Tour
4:
9:00 am
–
12:00 pm
Modernist Midtown
Fee: $20
This walking tour of the city’s celebrated modernist structures includes the
Lever House and the
Seagram
Building
.
Tour
5:
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Harlem
Fee:
$30
Enjoy this walking tour of a unique and vibrant neighborhood in upper
Manhattan
.
Tour
6:
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Art
Galleries
of
Chelsea
Fee:
$20
Visit art galleries located in this “happening” enclave of contemporary art.
http://westchelseaarts.com/index.php?target=home
Friday,
April 16
Tour
7:
9:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Historic Houses
of the Hudson Valley
Fee:
$90
Two historic estates are included in this tour.
The first is
Lyndhurst
,
America
’s finest Gothic Revival mansion designed in 1838 by Alexander Jackson Davis
and now a National Trust Historic Site. The
second is Boscobel, a neo-classical mansion that features an important
collection of decorative arts from the Federal period.
http://www.lyndhurst.org/,
http://www.boscobel.org/
Tour
8:
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Christie’s
Fee: $20
Take a look behind the scenes at the famous auction house now located in
Rockefeller
Center
.
http://www.christies.com/home_page/home_page.asp
Tour
9:
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Green-Wood
Cemetery
Fee:
$25
Opened in 1840, the cemetery is situated on 478 acres of rolling landscape in
one of the highest points of
Brooklyn
. This walking tour includes the
extraordinary mausoleums and monuments, particularly those in the Egyptian
Revival style.
http://www.green-wood.com/
Tour
10:
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Inside the Century Association and the New York
Yacht Club
Fee:
$25
Visit the interiors of two of
New York City
’s most famous clubs. View one of the finest private collections of American
art in the
U.S.
at the Century Association.
Tour
11:
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Grolier Club
Fee: $25
This private club devoted to the book arts is housed in a 1917 Bertram G.
Goodhue building. The library’s
collection consists of books and manuscripts illustrating printing and related
book arts.
http://www.grolierclub.org/
Tour
12:
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
New York
Botanical Garden
Fee:
$40
The
New York
Botanical Garden
is one of the foremost public gardens and a National Historic Landmark.
The Enid Annenberg Haupt Conservatory and the LuEsther T. Mertz Library
are among the best of their kind in the world.
www.nybg.org
Tuesday,
April 20
Tour
13:
3:30 pm
--
6:30 pm
New York
Harbor
Tour
Fee:
$70
Join historian Andrew Dolkart on an architectural boat tour of the
island
of
Manhattan
.
Wednesday,
April 21
Tour
14:
9:00 am
–
5:00 pm
Princeton University
Fee:
$60
Tour
Princeton
University
’s campus in
Princeton
,
NJ
, visiting the Art Museum, Marquand Art Library, and the Index to Christian Art.
Lunch is on your own in town.
www.princeton.edu
Tour
15:
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Philip
Johnson’s Glass House
Fee:
$120
Built in 1949 in the International Style the Glass House, in
New Canaan
,
CT
, is one of the most famous houses of the twentieth century.
Architect Philip Johnson has added numerous buildings including a guest
house and an art gallery to his estate over time.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Johnson_House.html
Tour
16:
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Battery
Park
City
Fee:
$25
Walk through this 92-acre add-on to
Manhattan
which was created from earthen fill from excavations.
Battery Park City is a mixed-use development containing commercial and
residential areas, parks, gardens, public art, monuments and museums.
http://www.batteryparkcity.org/
Tour
17:
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Art Deco Midtown
Fee: $20
This walking tour of New York’s greatest Deco hits includes the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the beautifully restored General Electric Building, and
Rockefeller Center.
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