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Magical Mystery Art Trip to NYC!
Friday, October 13 - Monday, October 16, 2006 (Fall Study Break Weekend)
New York City
9pm Friday - 11pm Monday
Cost:
$395.00 (for Undergraduate students only)
$435.00 (for Graduate Students, Faculty and Staff)
*Lunches and dinners not included and are at your own expense. Travel to New York City by Private Chartered Bus
Stay 2 nights in the brand new Brooklyn Holiday Inn Express
Trip cost includes round-trip travel, hotel (double occupancy), and tickets to various art museums. (Please see below for details.)

A fun weekend getaway with other art-loving students and friends!

Our itinerary will provide a look at Chelsea, the Meatpacking District, Ground Zero, Greenwich Village, Times Square, Central Park, the Museum Mile, and many other attractions. We will provide detailed maps, suggested attractions, off-the-beaten-path venues, inside guide to NYC nightlife, places for cheap eats, and much more!!!

Open to anyone in the U of M community!! Bring a friend for added FUN! There will be a "suggested itinerary;" however, everyone is free to explore NYC on his or her own.

Sponsored by the Lloyd Hall Scholars Program and Arts at Michigan

ITINERARY

Holiday Inn Express Brooklyn
The Holiday Inn Express Brooklyn is a newly-built, 115-room property located in the historic Park Slope section of Brooklyn, NY. The hotel is a brand new property that opened on August 7, 2006. Hotel features include complimentary deluxe continental breakfast buffet, free wireless high speed Internet access and free local phone calls. Enjoy a unique breakfast experience at our new Express Start Breakfast Bar served every morning, featuring a selection of fruits, juices, cereals, breads/pastries, and even hard boiled eggs. We have also created the world's best tasting cinnamon roll.

The Museum of Modern Art
From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, The Museum of Modern Art's collection has grown to include more than 135,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. MoMA also owns some 14,000 films and four million film stills, as well as 140,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, all part of the Museum's library. Founded in 1929 in order to help people understand and enjoy the visual arts of our time, The Museum of Modern Art in New York City was the world's first museum dedicated to the education and enjoyment of modern art. MoMA's rich and varied collection constitutes one of the most comprehensive and panoramic views into modern art in the world. Aside from the Museum's permanent collection, the Museum also maintains an active schedule of exhibitions highlighting significant recent developments in the modern visual arts and new interpretations of major modern artists and art historical movements.

Featuring special exhibitions:

Projects 83: Monika Sosnowska
Out of Time: A Contemporary View

The Guggenheim
The Guggenheim holds a unique place in the history of New York City's museums. Established some sixty years ago by philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim and artist-advisor Hilla Rebay, it first assumed temporary residence in a former automobile showroom on East 54th Street in New York. The "Museum of Non-Objective Painting," as it was then known, took as its basis the radical new forms of art being developed by such artists as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Piet Mondrian. The insistence of its founders on a wholly new kind of art seen in a wholly new kind of space set the Guggenheim on its path. Throughout its history, it has stood as a groundbreaking institution geared as much toward the promise of the future as the preservation of the past.

Featuring special exhibitions:

Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York
Kadinsky in Paris, 1934 - 1944
Zaha Hadid

Whitney Museum of Art
This world famous center of American Art is perhaps most famous for its Bicential review of American Art. The Whitney Museum's Permanent Collection is housed in a striking granite building designed by Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer. Since the Museum's opening in 1931, the collection has grown to more than 12,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs, representing nearly 2,000 individual artists and providing the most complete overview of twentieth-century American art of any museum in the world. The collection is also recognized for its in-depth commitment to a number of key artists. From the first half of the century, such seminal figures as Edward Hopper, Alexander Calder, Reginald Marsh, and Stuart Davis are richly represented. In the latter half of the century, the Museum has committed considerable resources toward acquiring a large body of works by Louise Nevelson, Agnes Martin, Claes Oldenburg, Alex Katz, Ad Reinhardt, and others. The Museum's recent decision to dedicate two entire floors to the display of the Permanent Collection reaffirms the collection's central role in the Whitney Museum experience.

Featuring special exhibitions:

Picasso and American Art
Mark Grotjahn
Trace
Edward Hopper