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Museum Mile

Close-up of red street signs reading “5 Av” and “Museum Mile” mounted on a metal pole, with leafy green trees in the background.

What Not to Miss at This Year’s Museum Mile Festival

For one glorious day each year, a stretch of New York’s Fifth Avenue is closed to cars and open for art lovers.
By Christa Terry and Elisa Carollo

10 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before June 12

From KAWS at the Brooklyn Museum to Philippe Parreno at the Park Avenue Armory.
By Paul Laster
The grand staircase to the second floor of the Frick. (Courtesy The Frick Collection)

The Battle for the Frick: Can Thousands of Garden-Loving Activists Stop a Museum?

On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, I went to meet a man vociferously opposed to the proposed renovations of The Frick Collection, and we met on enemy territory: The Frick Collection. “This is an institution devoted to connoisseurship that represents the best of Western civilization,” said Charles Warren, who goes by Chip, an architect with a pleasant, fussy air about him, complete with pocket square.
By Nate Freeman
People make drawings with chalk on Fifth

Museums on Museum Mile Are Free Tonight for the Museum Mile Festival

By Andrew Russeth

It’s Free to Look: 30 Percent Discount on Museum Mile

By Laura Kusisto
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