NYC is a very art culture city. We take our arts very seriously. Not only do we probably have more museums than any other city in the U.S., we also have Broadway theatres for performing arts, the film & TV industry, the Fashion District for fashion designs, Madison Avenue for commercial advertising artists, and various places to study culinary arts.
Many corporate sponsors, like Gulf Western, Met Life, GE, like to buy new art for their buildings & skyrises for their lobby collections, or they set up grants & awards to sponsor various working artist's work that they like.
Unlike the museums in Europe, which are mainly government funded, the American museums rely heavily on funding from private & corporate donations and sponsorship.
Many of NYC's multi-
Billionaires donate the most funding. We
owe our museum collections to these people. They even have wings, whole museums and collections named after them as they donated most of the collections in our museums.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art alone has Vanderbilt Hall, The American Wing which homes the Whitney Collection of American Art, Astor Court for Asian art.
These multi-
Billionaires are:
The Rockefellers
The Getty Family
The Vanderbilts (Anderson Cooper's mom's family)
The Whitneys (Anderson Cooper's cousins)
Estee Lauder's family
The Astor Family
Ron Perelman - owner of Revlon Cosmetics
The Mars family - the candy corporation (The Mars Bar.)
George Soros - owns every other stock that Warren Buffett doesn't.
Donald Trump
The Whitneys also have one or two other museums of different
kinds of art, one called the Whitney Museum.
L.A. is home to the Getty Museum, even though one of their main homes is in NYC.
Here is a list of all the museums in NYC: This does not include private collections, like those art pieces you are talking about.)
Most Popular:
* The Museum of Natural History (largest dinosaur collection in N. America.
* The Metropolitan Museum of Art
* The Guggenheim
* MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) - home to Monet's Water lilies
* The Cloisters - Medieval art
Complete List:
Alice Austen House Museum
American Craft Museum
American Folk Art Museum
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of the Moving Image
American Numismatic Society
Americas Society
Artists Space
Asia Society and Museum
Bronx Museum of the Arts
The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens
The Brooklyn Children's Museum
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
Carnegie Hall/Rose Museum
Central Park Zoo/Wildlife Gallery
The Children's Museum of the Arts
Children's Museum of Manhattan
The Cloisters
Cooper-Hewitt
Dahesh Museum
Dia Center for the Arts
The Drawing Center
Ellis Island Museum
Empire State Building Lobby Gallery
Museum at FIT
Forbes Magazine Galleries
The Frick Collection
Grey Art Gallery
Goethe House
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Guggenheim Museum SoHo
Rose Center
The Hispanic Society of America
International Center of Photography
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Jewish Museum
LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Madame Tussaud's New York
Merchant's House Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Morgan Library
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
Municipal Art Society
El Museo Del Barrio
Museum at Eldridge Street
Museum for African Art
Museum of American Financial History
Museum of Chinese in the Americas
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of the Moving Image
Museum of Television and Radio
National Academy Museum
National Design Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
New Jersey Children's Museum
New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York Botanical Garden
New York City Fire Museum
New York City Police Museum
New York Hall of Science
New York Historical Society
New York Public Library
New York Transit Museum
Nicholas Roerich Museum
PS1 Contemporary Art Center
Pierpont Morgan Library
Queens Historical Society
Queens Museum of Art
Rose Center for Earth and Space
Schomburg Center
Seaman's Church Institute
Snug Harbor Cultural Center
Sony Wonder Technology Lab
South Street Seaport Museum
Staten Island Institute
Studio Museum in Harlem
Taipei Gallery
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
Ukrainian Museum
Wave Hill
Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum/Philip Morris
Like I said, we take our art seriously! Even I didn't know we had that many.
That is CRAZY! But thank you, I really appreciate all of this info! Makes a little more sense now!
